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The rarliament gs at Ottawa, first occupied in 1906 by the old Parliament of Canada for its last session were. with the exception of the library and- west wlni, totally destroyed by fire on February 3rd. 1916, with a loss of seven lives. and property valued at between five and six million dollars. Had the New York state attorney- general notified the Dominion government that a report had msced him from authentic sources of a possible attempt by German emissaries to bum down the build- ings, it is possible that the disaster would not have occurred.

I was sitting in the press gallery that fateful evening, chatting with one of my former colleagues-I had gone into the public service the year previous but still had the run of the gallery. Atlantic fisheries were under discussion and, as the subject was of little interest to Ontario and the West, most of the newspaper boys on duty were having an easy time. Two or three minutes before nine o'clock the doors facing the Speaker's chair were opened, and in dashed Cfharlie Stewart, the 5:51. wart chief dcorkeeper, who hailed from stellarton, N. S. Charlie was too excited to stand on ceremony. From the bar. lust within the en- trance, he called out in stsntorian tones. "There's a big fire in the reading room; everybody get out quickly?’ It was as if Charlie had quoted Lady Macbeatlvs words "Stand not upon the order of your 801118. but go at once." No one wanted a second admonitihi; mem- bers and newspaper men and spec- tators in the galleries promptly ade for the exit-s.

when the reporters descended the narrow stairway from their gallery they found the lobbies already full of dense smoke. The glare of flames was visible along the north lobby. It was a. case of "sauve qui peut." Hats and coats were hastily seized, but many members of the House whose lockers were in the lobbies on the north and east sides of the chamber continuous to the read- ing room. had to go out into‘ the cold winter's night hatiess, ‘and without their overcoats.

Although the division bells were set ringing the alarm did not pene- trate to all parts of the building. Several persons, as stated ,lost their livw and next day their charred remains were found in the ruins. They were:

B. B. Law, M.P. for Yarmouth, N. S.

Madame Morin and Madam Bray, guests of Mr. speaker and Madame Sevigny.

J. R. R. Laplante, assistant clerk of the House.

Robert Fanning of the Post Office Department.

And two. Alphonse Dcsjardins, one a Dominion policeman; the other "a plumber .orl the, chief mechanic's staff. . The two ladies had left the speaker's quarters when the alarm was first sounded, and thinking they had time to secure their wraps, went back but were blinded by the

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the foremen, were buried under tons of debris, when the lower fell. was the fire started deliberately or was it‘ due to accidental causes? Knowing the building as well as I did after thirty years in the press gallery. I shared the opinion of many that the fire was the work of an incendiary, probably an alien enemy. Next day a royal commis- sion, consisting of Mr. R. A Jlringle, KC, of Cornwall, a former mem- ber of the House of Commons, and Judge D. B. MacTavish of Ottawa. " ‘ into

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the foregoing statement, the com- missioners rather contradict them- selves by expressing the opinion that there was nothing in the evi- dence to justify them in finding that the fire was maliciously t. Well. if lncendlarism was the c , surely than: must have been malice on the part of some individual.

‘the Providence. R. 1., Journal, of which Mr. J. R. Rathom was man- aging editor. announced the day after the fire that three weeks be- fore it had “notified the Depart- ment of Justice at Ottawa that it had received information from an employs in the German embassy at Washington. that the Ottawa Par- liament Buildings, Rideau Hall, the home of the GOVQIIJOI-GQIICIB-l, and large munition plants in Ontario were to be the next objects of Ger- man attack on this v ntinent," No trace of such a letter from Mr. Rathom having reached Ottawa was ever found. The Journal said that it hnd also transmitted the news of the intended German at- tack on Canada to Mr. H. S. Mar- shall, U. S. district attorney of New York, but that gentleman seems to have though lightly of it, as he failed to communicate with anyone at the Dominion capital.

Those acquainted with the old Parliament Buildings will remember that them were three entrances; one by the tower front (known as the main entrance); one at the east for the use of senators, and one in the west wing for members of the House of Commons. The main door led into a large hall, an the right of which was a flight oi about ten steps leading to the Senate lobby, while on the left there was a, cor- responding entrance to the Com- mons lobby. The post offices of the two Houses were located on the front of the building, facing into the main lobbies in each wing.

Parliament had met on January 12th, and the Senate having sat for five or six days and cleared its order paper, had adjourned on the 21st until February 8th. It was therefore not in session on the day of the fire.

From the main lobby of the Upper House, there was a, corridor running north to the Commons’ reading room with the parliamen- tary library. With no one on duty, except a Senate messenger near the post office, any person could enter without question by the Senate, pass along to the reading room, spread chemicals on the shelves containing the files an in a few minutes the newspapers wouidbeln flames. Strangers had been seen about the Parliament Buildings that evening, as testified by Mr. Speaker Sevigny, Mr. W. B. Northrup, M. P., and Mr. E. A. McDonald, M. P., but no one had actually seen an out- sider in the reading roorn about that time. As a. matter of fact the only person in the room when the fire broke out was Mr. Frank Glass, M. P. for East Middlesex. Mr. Northrup had been there two or three minutes earlier, but had left before the fire was discovered.

Before the royal commission Mr. Edgar Btansfieid, chemist in the Fuel Testing division of the Depart- ment of Mines. demonstrated how quickly a small quantity of liquid chemical placed upon a newspaper would set it on firs. He mentioned that there were a number of organic liquids which ignite immediately they come in contact with the air. That such chemical was deposited on one of the lower shelves of the reading stand whqe the fire origin- ated was the opinion of many of those who gave testimony. Mr. Ernest Icsueur, a well-known chemical engineer of Ottawa, testi- fied that chemicals, in either dry or liquid form. applied to paper, would cause it to ignite. He mentioned, for instance, pyrrphorlc. a dry pow-. der, which has no smell. and which catches fire immediately it is ex- posed to the air. The view held by many was that the fire was started in- some such manner in the most vunerable room in the building.

The reading room had been used firstas the Supreme Court room and as a library, until the present library building was completed. It

was then converted into the House of Commons reading room, Prac- tically the whole of the interior was of white pine, oiled and painted, and if a fire got 9. 800d start it was impossibi to overtake it even with the best of appliances. Although the commissioners rornisedafuller report, with addit onal evidence, none was submitted; m further re- port was forthcoming.

On the morning after the fire the [once stately building was a deplor- able sight. Thc west wing, a fire- proof structure, built a few years before, was in fairly good condition. The xvalls of the building were in- tact, but in the rebuilding all were demolished. and an entirely new structure erected. The fin“ national library was saved largely through the foresight of Mr.‘ M. C. MacCor- mac, then and now a valued mem- ber of the library staff. Every even- ing during the session the library is kept open until the House rises. lifr. MacConnac was in charge that night and s5 soon as the cry of “fire" rang out, noticing the flames ln the reading room from his posi. tion in the library, he directed his messenger to rush to the iron door and shut off the library from one thirty-foot corridor beyond which the fire was raging. The entire Ottawa fire dcpatrincnt, in the meantime, had been summoned lo the Hill, and learning what Mr. MacCormac had done. once it was realized that the main building was doomed, the fire chief detailed a portion.cf his brigade to play on the connecting walls of the library and prevent the flames from reach- ing into it. This precaution was effective and the library was saved. Owing to the lack of stock room in the library proper, an upper gallery with built-in shelves, lmrl been constnicted, years before, round the reading room. All the books stored thcré were destroyed, these according to the report of the librarians, including an extensive collection of rare editions of the Bible; a large collection of British publications, reviews, magazines and periodicals in bound form, such in Punch (a complete set of 120 vols.),the Edinburgh Review, Block- woods and other magazines going back for two 0r three score years; a splendid collection of British pamphlets; a valuable accumulation of law and eccicslaticai literature; scientific encylopedias and dic- tionaries in the French language; donation from the Imperial govern- ment such as the Rolls series, and a fine set of the records of the Ameri- can Bar Association.

Sympathetic messages to Canada in her great less came from all parts of the world, one oi the first of such messages received being from l-fis Majesty the King. But better still were the gifts of valuable books

was appointed to ... _, the causes of the catastrophe. In their report, after taking the evi- dence of two score witnesses. they stated that there were many cir- cumstances that led to a strong sus- picion of ‘ urn, , ' lly in view of the fact that no one was smoking in the reading room for some time previous to the outbreak of fire. and also that defective elec- trical wiring could not have been

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