A Fire At Dr Wood-allen's

A FIRE AT DR WOOD-ALLEN'S

What might have been a serious fire but for the prompt use of a chemical extinguisher occurred at the home of Dr. Mary Wood-Allen at 10 o'clock Wednesday night.

Miss Pomeroy, a high school teacher, who is making her home with the doctor this winter, accidentally overturned a piano lamp by which she was reading. The oil from the lamp immediately caught fire, flowing under the door into a hall, and under a folding bed, setting on fire the curtains of the bed and the woodwork of the bed and door. 

Miss Pomeroy did not lose her presence of mind, for instead of yelling "fire," as the majority would do, she called for Mr. Wood-Allen, who was in an adjoining room.  By the prompt use of a chemical extinguisher the fire was put out before it had gained any headway. Had it not been for the extinguisher the fire would have soon attained such violence that the house would have been badly damaged if not entirely destroyed before the fire department could have arrived. As it is the loss is slight and is fully covered by insurance, and the fire department were not called out on the coldest night we have had this winter.