FIRE IN A BREWERY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 259, 25 July 1908, Page 15

FIRE IN A BREWERY.

EXCITING INCIDENTS... ' •' • (BT TELEGEAPH.—SrECIAt CORRESPONDENT.) : Auckland, July 21; The, close proximity of the Albert Hotol to. the., Albert. ..Brewery, .caused great. excite-, ment~iii that establishment during the progress ,of the fire last night. One of the men ..- employed in the hotel was closing-'tho'side doors for the night when the ;„watchman. rushed out of tho brewery along 'Albert* tana and into ■ Queen Street, crying out: "Fire I Fire l'\:.,Mr. tho proprietor. •of the hotel,/.ru'shedlitb the 'telephone,; - and a few moments; later, the brigade: were informed of the-outbreak. As the flames were leaping up-ki .well above the. roof of the hotel, and there was ;a possibility., that at-' any moment the hotel itself might catch -alight,- Mr. Delariey'; thought- it wise to wake, those, sleeping in the hote:l.- The girls from the bar.had not retired -their; rooms, • but ithe;'housemaids and .other • servants' .were for the most. part asleep," and : they"showed - the.- greatest .alarm ' when : .they were, awakened and : found-their .rooms illuminated by the glare : of. the: firo rag- . ing within a few tyar'ds\bf thfem. .' Two..of three ■■ of the:girls;seized their,belongings'and'pulled them .downstairs,'- but-' eventually' we're- reassured,. being : '.tbld-;'thnt'-there'' .immediate : danger.'. SevGral of. the visitors staying i.in the hotel had also retired to bed, . ancl ; they;, too .were; told, of the, fir%:s'ahd, re- . ; ::Gh'o:'geiitlenian (Air.'James &'* former Adelaide, was confined to bed with a serious attack of-, gout,-.;aud...had to J)c. carrjed. to a place of safety. About half an hour .iftcr tho outbreak a group, of ; people wero standing in tho hall of the hotel discussing tho fire when tho glass dome in tho : roof,ywhic.hivba.d.:■ cracked,.'-as;.;.:a ;. .result, of -the ..heat•■.and -'descending camo tumbling down, . the - -falling - glass" narrowly missing two or three gentlemen. ..The glass roof of the storeroom was also broken, but Dey'ondvthis,vlittle :damago' was' done to > tho hotel. - i;'--' V.i . ' '