Show 10 FIRE AT N J fart of tom a bins of ruin factories A great alre swept tl i ough patterson N J sunday and in its desolate deb wake are the embers and ashes of property valued at it burned its way through the business section of the city and claimed as its own a major ty of the finer structures devoted to corn al civic edu rational cat ional and religious use as well aa scores 0 houses there was but a small tribute of life and injury to the conflagration but hundreds were left homeless and thou sands without employment A relief movement for the care of those unsheltered and for was at once organized and mayor john hinchcliffe said sunday night that patterson would be able to care for her own without appealing to the charity of other communities aril state the great manufacturing plants of the place are safe and the community temporarily dazed by the calamity has already commenced the work of re organization and restoration the fire came at midnight and was only checked after a desperate fight that lasted until late sunday afternoon every city and town within reach of patterson sent firemen and apparatus to the aid of the city and it took the united efforts of them all to win the battle i |