The New York herald., 1872-12-13
THE EOTEL DISASTER.
Visit Of the Coroner's Jury to the
Scene Of the Fire.
REPAIRING THE RUINS.
Views of the Superintendent of
Buildings.
Other Hotels as Faulty as the
Fifth Avenue.
Testimony Before the Fire
Marshal.
The Tale of Two Watch
PLEA OF THE PROPRIETORS.
Scenes at the Morgue---AnOther
Body Identified.
PLEA OF THE PROPRIETORS.
Scenes at the Morgue---AnOther
Body Identified.
Contributions Among Our Citizens and the
Guests of the Hotel for the Funeral
Expenses of the Dead.

The Fifth Avenue Hotel Is being rehabilit tated as
rapidly as carpenters, brick masons and ready
workmen can do it. The corridors and rooms on
the upper stories Of the building, which had been
torn up by the lremen's axes, defaced by the hose
and inundated with water on Tuesday night are
already assuming an appearance of that soft luxu-
Fiance peculiar to the Fifth Avenue corridors and
rooms in their ordinary days, and even the low,
dlngy cages at the head of the deadly fire 1ues
where the doomed women were Gagged on that fatal
night, are taking ON again the dngy appearance as
of old The stairs and elevator rapidly taking
their old shapes, and everything indicates that
~ the traps are to be set" again.
THE PRoPREToRs
yesterday were cordially communicative In their
pleasant way they deprecated the severe structures
(which the newspapers had indicted upon them,
and regretted that so heavy and unjust an
accusation as that of carelessness in regard
to the safety of the servant women should have
been made against them, and did not doubt
that very few words OF explanation would
set the matter right. The screens had to be put at
the windows for the girls peace and safety. They
were liable to disturbance from various quarters II
their windows could be entered without trouble,
and in summer they would have greatly lacked air
and ventilation had not these screens permitted
them to open their windows without fear Of mo-
pestation. The partition in the corridor
6ary to separate the men and women servants, and
As to the spiral staircase and elevator, it was
customary in large hotels to have separate STAIR
case Tor the servants and small elevator for the
convenience OF the laundry. 1t was not within
human foresight to comprehend the danger which
these nues had finally wrought, and it was a mere
chance that they did finally work so great q
catastrophe. AS to the future, improvements, Of
COURSE would be made; Just what they are at
present is not so clear. AS to
7 THE REMOVAL OF THE BODIES
10 the Morsue. Ii was impossible to identify them
torted by the fire that the girls who had escaped
could not identify them, and the proprietors cer-
Eanly did not know where their homes had been.
Many OF them mad no other homes in the
city, and being, in the fullest OF the
hyord, unknown dead they were taken at once to
fhe Morguc, where the bodies could be the better
cared Tor and where people would naturally go to
find them. The injured were carried at once to
fhe hospital in amoulances, by order OF the police,
as the most comfortable place for them. such Is
the explanation OF the propnetors, who will, they
Say, delray the expenses OF the funerals, and who
now express profound regret at the late OF their
employees.
THE SCENES
around the hotel were OF an ordinary character
yesterday. Nobody seemed much further inter-
ested in view OF the scene OF catastrophe, and the
carpenters and repairers were undisturbed.
CoRoNER's JURY
was empanclled during the day by Coroner Schir.
mer and visited the scene. The following is the
william Johnston, merchant, Washington
Heights.
Edward R. Jones, broker, q West Twenty-third
street.
George n. Sanders, broker 22l East Seventeenth
street.
John Gibson, clerk, a2s West Twenty-seventh
street.
E. G. Johnson, storage, IL West Forty-sixth street.
ID. ID. Vail, broker, 20S Fifth avenue.
b. w. Gibbs, stock, 33s West Thirty-thrd street.
+. b. Spinola, lawyer, II West Twenty-seventh
street.
George Green, -, 315 West Forty-eighth street.
ii. H. Martin broker 80 East Thirty ninth street.
A. G. Allen secretary 151 West Forty fifth street.
s. p. Nichols, stables sl7 West twenty first street.
Norman Andrews, merchant, 444 West twenty
sixth street.
II. Gardner, lawyer, st. Denis Hotel.
The jurors Inspected the rooms and the fre-trapS
for about an hour, appearing determined to probe
the matter OF careessness to the bottom, and then
adjourned.
SUBSCRIPTION.
Some OF the guests at the hotel have already
started subscription for the unfortunate suf
1erers, and Earl and Countess Caithness are among
those who are taking lively interest in the chari-
table undertaking.