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A small fire at the clubhouse
The Bend Bulletin · August 19, 1920
In the story: 4. Emblematic measles, 1917–1922.
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A cigarette in a wooden cuspidor burned all night and through the floor. The club’s steward found it at half past five the next day.
Slight damage, and two things worth noticing anyway.
The first is that the club had a steward, J. R. Jones, on the premises and turning in alarms. A club with a paid man in the building is a different kind of institution from the forty-member subscription club of 1913, and this is the archive’s plainest evidence that the reorganised club of 1919 employed somebody.
The second is how slowly it happened. Dropped on Tuesday night, through the cuspidor and through the floor, and not found until half past five the following afternoon — the building was empty for the better part of a day while it burned.
From the source
CIGARETTE STUB CAUSE OF BLAZE
A lighted cigarette dropped in one of the wooden cuspidors in the Emblem club Tuesday night gradually burned its way through the container and then through the floor. J. R. Jones, steward of the club, discovered the fire at 5:30 o’clock yesterday and the Bend volunteer department responded immediately to the alarm which he turned in. The fire was easily controlled, and the damage was reported to be slight.