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THE MORNING HERALD, HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND.5 i|100,000 Fire DestroysedExhibition Hall Sunday j^Kub-n*.*.•1 3* /-•*- '• «. -f„ Ss*ia is*f!your? than •rvey ?[ get j ppiy [!and; ISent I Se' *r4*s» / -v , :vr • 3* s? f|% Tgjg;illLich-:om-iixes. Dint*: e at;;am.— ! **• .'»i* Ov* on| CM-[man Sgatins telept had t Rud the c( he’d ' last lt;3 •‘defic Hal | man, ■who lt;! for 1mis-:first: uc ed or5 Ofin-i in-only '•ate,; in-: per;This drawing shows the Hagerstown exhibition hall as it was inits hey-day.(Continued from Page 1) jFairchild Leased Building| did 1 angle, comm ineidt ThtDuring World War II the exhib- its tj. - _ _ I i/Uli-Ub ** V* ---southeast corner of the building.; j.ion ^ajj was leased by Fairchild Power lines in the area fell, but. jjrcraj.£ aillt;5 used, as one of : thecago will ]first ' race laiion otherixedpernowwiths beDaysrossiresJl.-j n in; that! died; ex-|city light department workmen j corporation’s secondary plants, were quickly on the job and pre-i time the big two-storyvented injury to anyone. j building housed one of the largestDoors Locked ; poultry shows in the country, often _Lloyd Davis, superintendent of j considered second only to thejl0 the fairgrounds, told a Morning j shows held at Madison Square jChiea Herald reporter that the exhibition I Garden in New hork. _ . . jhail doors had been locked and no| The original exhibition hall at, eg 0I one had been in the building, to j the fairgrounds—located up along his knowledge, for several weeks. I the old midway—burned down Davis said about ?25J»00 worth of ■ many years ago. cafeteria equipment belonging to! W. Frank Spahr, local man who the Harrv M. Stevens Company had!was secretary of the poultry ae-been stored in the hall. Thej partment during the supennten-Stevens Company handles food coa--dency of the late John L. Cost, lastearlielievedbeenconvestaff,’Stevens Company handles ioocl coa-;mmcv ul uuc ..cessions at most sporting events!night recalled some of the history Mg throughout the country and had j of the local fairgrounds. The late ■ 111done the catering at the local race!^r- Cost was instrumental in mak-and fair meets. ’ !iaS the Hagerstown poultry showosedj iard j hort i sersi Thej with\ (.000! .'esi-jone of the biggest in the'country-elt;1 s- Spahr said, the exhibition balllledIn addition, some of the from The old grandstand had ^ beeaUhich burned yesterday was “built stored in the exhibition hall. (about 1912” foHowmg the death of Several -firemen stood by with: 2^ Cost. The marble monument hose lines through the night just | greeted ' in • front of the exhibition in case there should be an out-j^n lo the memory ofMr. Cost was break, among the remains of the [about the only thing left standing .building-. . . jby yesterday’s fire. The monumentMeantime. Fire Chief . Max [was bought with, [donations made Hoover said he is investigating the!'by poultry men in the United States,sso-r-iiy-. re-Di-Dr a : for testing.therichcause of the fire, but admitted he had little to go on since apparently no one was near the building when the fire started..D. Eidred Rinehart, (president of the -Hagerstown ’Fair Association,and Canada-Cost. who was a Civil. War veteran, was a* railway mail clerk and also engaged in the hat and shoe business here. The -Biographical: Record of Washington County.said the only possible cause of the I says: “Mr. Cost was a great lover -fire that -he could think of would j of fancy fowls and was known by be bad wiring. He noted that the big! all the leading; fanciers throughout electrical equipment was located in’ the rear: of the hall, where the fireof fih f the f Die they : in thi Mrs.Ros the ei that victirMarkyearspentparerman.first_ broke through the roof. Here'stethe country/’ • /homeOthers who recalled last night decidthe big poultry shows in the desaid the-heating equipment in the!stroyed hallrinclude Elmer Corderr building was not being used/ jruaru w-ho served as superintendent Rinehart estimated that yester-jof the department in later years, day’s -loss will total $100,000 and hejand.W. H. Roane! who was a clerk said it was:';ohiy partially—perhaps \ in this,, department-, when Spahr 50 per cent—covered by insurance, served as: secretary.her P
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Morning Herald
Hagerstown, Maryland, US
Mon, Dec 18, 1950
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