[Newspaper]
Publication: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn, NY, United States
vol. 55, no. 153, p. 7, col. 3
Lindenhurst's Vulcanite Factory
Destroyed by Fire.
A DAMPER ON THE CELEBRATION
The Flames Interrupted the Pfingst
Sunday Celebrations of the Village's
Silver Jubilee, and the Firemen,
Instead of Parading, Manned Their
Machines — Help From Babylon — 300
Hands Out of Work — Loss $100,000
Lindenhurst, L. I., June 3 — To use the words of one of Lindenhurst's oldest citizens, "It's a funeral instead of a wedding for our town to-day." The destruction of the great three story brick building of the Vulcanite Manufacturing company by fire yesterday put a complete damper on the great Pfingst Monday celebration that was to have taken place here to-day on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the birth of the village.
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...business of making horn buttons and lately had large orders for electric insulators, which they also made. They had a large stock of manufactured goods on hand, ten thousand gross of buttons and were so rushed with orders that a day gang and a night gang, working from 9 P. M., to 3 A. M., were constantly employed. The stockholders of the company are mostly residents of New York. The president of the company is Thomas W. Peter, and the New York office of the company is at 17 Thomas street.
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