handiwork exceedingly director duplicated culture UNIVERSITY ENGINEERS® SHOP BURNS Heavy Loss as Costly Tools Are Heated in Sunday Morning Blaze OILY WASTE IS BLAMED Firemen Hampered by Dense Smoke from Basement as Flames Are Checked Damage estimated by University of Rochester officials as being close to $20,000 was done to the basement machine shop in Carnegie Hall, engineering course building on the university 7 o'clock yesterday University Avemorn- ing, when fire, caused by spontaneous combustion, started in the shop and spread through the large room. Because of the early hour Sunday morning and the fact that there was nobody in the building at the time, the fire gained sood, headway before being discovered by pedestrians, who sent in a box alarm. Reconstruction Needed Raymond L. Thompson, assistant treasurer of the university, who inspected the building with cOntractors following the fire, said that the walls of the room were badly charred, as well as the beams supporting the first floor flooring, and would have to be entirely renewed. Mr. Thompson explained that the equipment in the room con• sisted of precision machine tools used in shop work classes in the mechanical engineering course and could be very easily damaged. He said that some of the machines might have to be sent back to the factory to determine the exact damage. Shop classes in the engineering course will have to be discontinued for the time, he declared. Firemen Have Hard Fight Fire officials, however, were wide with the university men in their estimate of the damage. Battalion Chief George Moran, whose companies fought the blaze, stated that his estimate of damage to the building alone amounted to $500. He placed no estimate on the damage to the machines. Chief Moran said the blaze originated among some oily rags and papers in 8 drawer under a work bench. It required a water line and large chemical line to confine the stubborn blaze to the cellar, firemen being handicapped by dense smoke.
