Show FIRE CAUSES LOSS OF 1000 IN AUDITORIUM Prompt work worle on the tho part of or the tho lire department prevented what might have been a n disastrous conflagration when flames C discovered cred In the time auditorium on n Richards street nt at 9 o'clock la last t night Before tho the blaze could be he extinguished damage o to the he amount of or 1000 wa was caLise Fire Chief W V. V. V II H. Glore who responded with the first alarm Is of ot the opinion pinion time the fire originated from spon- spon combustion In the basement of oC tho the auditorium was wasa a lot of refuse and material through which the flames spread rapidly When hen tho ho alarm sounded considerable head headway way had laid he been en made mado by tho ho flames flame hut but after some thirty minutes s of or hard work on the part of oC the the th danger anger was eliminated and amid tho the fire was extinguished Firo Chief Glove Glore directed the ho fighting from one side of tho the buildIng build build- Ing ng and At AI Assistant Chief Chic Fitzgerald ald from the he other side so o that lint tho the adjoining buildings were at no time limo In any dan danger r. r I |