The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-11-26

| te"'u uPah' next uOoT. upon lhc Nopr oe ng
ulohgn oP, ,n, lhe room Wts iouna empty the
ov.np'Ll hlaN'py Eole, IeA'lnS 'cN sa.'nel
WIN "o'ue u phosphorus oenhl'
THE sr. NICHOLAS.
Al five minutes of nine the 81. NiChO'ls Hotel
| was ulrCuNyryd ON fife u rooms l8N, l59 and
liO, situated i'm The middIg building Of the tIrae
ON thc upper floor. About the same tm' fire
| broke ont in bedroom Ia, iu the front Oui dug
OF the hgte'. Tn both places the strong smell
phosi rus ami an abundance of matches n The
bcn CLONES siguiu.d the fire 20 have been he
worn OF an in"uudlry.
The g., ms were burned completely out but
the hre department Ofths hotel, uudtr supciu-
/ tend,ucc n the proprietor, Mr.. Htwks, sugvCO led
m conhning the fine 90 these apartments. III sd it
not been for the admirable arrangements for
taking care of fires a. q is h u.c, it would have
been entirely burned down, ThcjamSge done is
| itmtpH.! oy water ana VIII probably amount
| ~ uoout WIge tnuusanu uoll1rs, Nlyered Oy
w. my BUSINESS oI 'e mouse VIII by u'
| "u! way "c l4'e.llyt.u' 'i, p'rl'a, ulAing-
@ aooi' % w. ""' having o'en u"''- .N any ""'t-
| ''''' -
'"h LAI AR"''
| AT twenty minutes pas O'Clock he T. tWEc
! House was dtseuycrc TO DE on ire in one UI rue
/ bed J, oms on the upper h))r the bed b2,ug, as
/ IN the other places saturated with phosphorus,
/ ana matches ly Ing about in all directions. The
| damage was slight, but, naturally enough, tue
/ guests were thrown into panic, believing that
! lIle Nuoe structure wou.d Dc ured lhe ulm's
] a nl t,, a.
! was li,roye,o,l ,,,s tIl oTI', , Nr . 4Ip NJ ~
/ .or of ~ ,,,dcr NJ - -, - - ~ - Va,
/ room AT tb,' tirns of The 6r' " -
/ -
hh4RofoLlIAN HOTEL
/ AZ about 10 O'Clock lire was discovered in q
| 'front.' room IN the upper floor OF Lhe 'trDp).i-
! tah hute, but II was speedily eNuugushcd by
| the servants OF the house. An alarm was given,
| but before the hremen arrived at the hJtel tue
danger had been passed. The damage here is
SatHhaItu ~ one thousand nNc hundred dollars.
! found nm em1,v bottye Ubith bad ,,,t,i,ni
! phospborus. n n9ir oF be3vv honts ANIL , y'iiyc
| These artiries and ,be h,,ia ,,cr. 81, 80
! sion of Inv F,rc. .W,rsbai II T., ~, Lii,
! were found n mir Of pTebciIa gsj.ors No b,tg,
| was of doscTin,inn t,{riiT,r >, tb,s ga " .h
| otLcT hotels, "' ''''
r,,,r,1, ii,r1s~ferr .-
! ,..,, ~ .
Almost simultaneonsly With the discovery Of
! t%iio % nIc az tuc beIhoul lotel the OeA ana hGd-
! Hlug, Win IHrhturc, oil room on tue third h)or
rom, were louhd 20 De IN names. Dlrng he
G,t,ih a. hoou man, Whp registered him5et MS &c
@ r., @luuISo' Vi hotnesIeT arrived a. the hp.e, an
uHsHbvu tuc room IN "neh Tue Irc was usco-
,SlOu' uc "as uot seen uuflhs the evening, ana
% TIs NOV uetn cen since inc occurrence ei the hrc
iHy mag Is nov very great, ana was 'uuned
W lI,o IuIulIuIC anu OeuulhS OF lhe room. lHe
naHuMtlt.ug ot the man referred TO re'e nbles
SUM sun" u1'' 'a.S OF me person VINO eng aged the
Ioou Hieu NJ lhe d. NlchoIA' hotel'
BELMONT HOTEL
I hS ~. z uNlN was ul'CpNtItA III u btu-EObM on
/ the third Hoor, which had been engaged ty Il
| man Tegstern & himself as Lieutenant Lewis,
/ u ,. A. Sn oke h' ing seen to issue from this
ro' m, q strong odor OF phosphorus being at the
,ame me perIept bic, the door was immed le.y
| DuTst OF en-, ana IN very lew seconds the flames
were completely eN ngu&hed. The bed IN this
room mad the appearance OF having been oceu-
ped; lhe man Lewis has not been seen since
the di'cov'ry of the fire AZ this place six bottles
OF / no phOIus were found IN acm pet.Oag.
LovEJoY's HOTEL.
The first occurred n little before baifpast 10
O'clock, at which time a fire was disco yered in n
| he'd. room ON The fourth floor of the rortbe tst
wing of The hotel The bed. clothes and m lttrcsses
were nj ed in the centre of the floor and wore en-
! yrlopt d I'm flam when flund. THO fire was cv
| tinguI, he'd without damage 10 other po-tiUns of
| the bu lding
The second attempt was made at about y
o'clock, 0nd the alarm was given simultaneously
! with tha Of the fires at the Belmont H)tel aud t
Taumary This time the incendilry had per-
form cd his work in the southeas. wing of the
bu ding on the fourth floor Attention was OK
cited by smell Of smoke and q search deyeloped
the fact thar in the room referred % a carpet nag
had leen placed inside the bod within w1ich
c rpct bag was a bottle of phOsphOrus Here
also the fire WIS ex'inguished without grcltcr
loss than that of the furniture and bedding OF the
ROOM
BAREUMs MUSEUM
last nicbt abort O o,cIocI, sonc rorson or
per.ons NH novn nroceeded tn Tho iiftb stSrv or
ibe Nnscnn, I'm tbr re,r 1f Tho e,IIar nj ,hs i,g
t,rero1y, al ,bro,,, LOU, -, % 80 a. -,
n staircase a hottie of nbosnGorrs ubicb
ignited AMI sSt STs ~ the rryondor,,,rrl, l.; tba
Toi"LborbnaJ Tbo on, az r, ,1S - ;, ~ ~
diaIely raised. and an intense eSrltement 90 ~ at