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Show SENATORS EXCITED BY APARTMENT FIRE WASHINGTON. May 2. Fire m c n o 1 B e n ator McKellar of Tennessee, at the Portland, an apartment hutc-i at Fourteenth Four-teenth street and Thomas Circle, Northwest, Monday resulted In the turning in of four alarms, a great deal o J excitement, a general exodus of guests, but little damage, except that! caused by water.. Several member of congress", including in-cluding Senator .McKellar. Dllllng- Iham of Vermont, Cuirimlna of Iowa, j and Townaend of ftllchixan, make, their homo at the Portland, together with several members f the lupjin-ese lupjin-ese embassy sttAff Miss Margaret Cummlnfl, sister of the Iowa senator, who was confined to her bed by 111- ' i nes was brought down to tne lower , 1 floor t'onfuslon resulting from the fire. 1 Caused several firemen and newspa- par man to dadi headlong into a large i mirror, 20 feet wide, by 40 feet long. 'thinking It was an entrance Into the; I cafe of tho hotel. |