Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1915 — Brooklyn Taxicab Turns in Its Own Fire Alarm [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Brooklyn Taxicab Turns in Its Own Fire Alarm

n ROOICLYN, N. Y.—lt hf a wise auto that knows its own garage is afire; D yet a taxicab owned by Walter P. Pox was so well educated that it attempted to turn in its own fire alarm when its quarters began to blaze.

Mrs. Louis Strauss, wife qf Louis Strauss, residing at 369 Ovington avenue, heard the continuous hooting of an electric auto born in the garage - back of the house. When she stepped to the door to see who was fooling with the car she saw flames shooting from the corner add roof of the structure, a wooden building formerly used us u stable. She turned in sn alarm at oace. The fire, fed by an exploding tank containing Id gallons of gasoline, was

making considerable headway when the fire fighters arrived. The obstruction of the street by. the Fourth avenue subway excavations at this paint made it difficult tor the apparatus to maneuver, and the line es hose hud to be brought over the hack fence from Bar Ridge avenue. . Owing to the danger from exploding gasoline, ne one entered the garage until the fire was extinguished.. During all the time, before the fire was subdued and after the marine had boon dragged pat of m JHHKiBS building, thetaxi-kßpt ttpftr vmurnfnl howl, which was not ntffied until the batteries had cooled and ware disconnected from the horn. >