SOAP FACTORY FIRE THREATENED TO SPREAD IN WATERTOWN, MASS.
Departments from Nearby Cities Helped to Extinguish Blaze—Oil Tank in Danger of Advancing Flames
WARREN'S SOAP WORKS in Watertown, Mass., was destroyed recently in a spectacular fire that threatened to spread to the car-barns of the Boston Elevated Railway adjoining on the west and to the plant of the Boston Consolidated Gas Company on the east. A closely built up section of frame residences was also menaced by the flames and a conflagration was prevented only by exceptionally efficient work on the part of Chief John W. O’Hearn, of the Watertown fire department who was assisted by apparatus from Newton, Belmont, and Waltham; Cambridge sent an engine which covered in at the Watertown central station.
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