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Show FIRE IS DISCOVERED IN CENTRAL HOTEL Early Discovery of the Blaze Prevents a Big Conflagration. Confla-gration. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN. Nov. 20 At S o'clock thU morning the fire department was called to the. Central hotel, on Twc-ntv-nfth Street, cn a telephone alarm. The strur-ture strur-ture Is a three-story frame hulhllngr and Is used s a roomlnff-houne. A fire liad broken out In one of the partitions and was workinp its way through the studding stud-ding and flooring It was extinguished by the chemical, with a loss estimated at 5150. all covered by Insurance. The house is run by Martin J. Cleary and Mrs. Olenkamp. If the alarm had been five minutes later the building would have been a total loss and one of the worst conflagrations In Ogden would have been recorded. Tho building Is In the thick ot a congested district, many of the structure struc-ture being frame, and. once started, the fire would have spread At S.20 this morning the department responded to a telephone alarm from Qulncy avenue, between Twenn -third and Twent -fourth streets. A Are had broken .-nit in ii dwelling, caused by a stovepipe being too close to the wall. It was extinguished, ex-tinguished, with only u nominal lop? |