[The Motion Picture News, 4 April 1914, page 34 : Fire at Eclair Not Serious / The fire in the plant of the Eclair Moving Picture Company, at Fort Lee, N.J., on the afternoon of March 19th, did little damage, the loss being between $6,000 and $7,000. Reports are first has it that the flames had destroyed upwards of $250,000 worth of property. / The fire broke out in the joining room, where ninety-five girls were at work. As the spark from a measuring machine that ignited a pile of film burst into flame, Irene Whipple, one of the employees, sped away to give the alarm to the other occupants of the building. The rest of the girls seized what reels they could lay their hands upon and made for the open. / The factory was speedily engulfed in the flames before the volunteer firemen arrived, and when they did the lack of high pressure made their presence of little use. / Alive to their business even in an hour of such excitement, the photographers of the company, under the direction of Henry Maire, manager of the plant, trained their cameras on the conflagration and took 900 feet of film depicting the progress of the fire. / Only two persons were injured in the disater. Doubler, who tried to reach the negative vault, was overcome by smoke. Robert Klein, a factory boy, had one of his hands crushed by a falling timber.