New-York tribune., 1872-12-13

q, gasets which might easily be arranged that with
prooer Caution their contact with nfsmmable substan
ces would be impossible me syysns asnpd soSsant
watchfuness In place where soyera nnhoreu seryapS
are employcd there should be most thorough ample
and systematic police arrangements After all in rea-
sonaby weli-construced buiidings the main necessary
y for constant vigilance ano, man Sapn @ ,t
be ayerted.
THE FIRE MARsHAL's INVESTIGATION.
Fire Marshal Mcspedon continued his investigation OF
the origin OF the Fifth Avenue Hotel fire. yesterday at
Police Headquarters.
Fifth Avenue Hotel have lived in the hotel about our
years occupied room No. 500. the landng Of tho
fOor above on tho night OF the fire went to bed at
O:3O O'Clock aroused by the fire in my ROOM no,
body called me there was oo DzS ~ ran S ont there
WIS no fire the landing outside; went oown INC INC
sergsnts stairway 10 the laundry saw 10 de 0n @ ,n
room, on each OF which R1rls sIeep' cl'eqI
them as went down 10 the laundry; n Tnen men. !
got there saw three or four men putting Oh the nDsS
passed through the laundry aud went up Ine
on the Twentyol r;h%t sdo; rue men were s tks out
the hose In the direction ~ the servants stalIcase
suppose 1t was about II O'Clock when was arOuseu W
the fire. OF the girls whom woke Is naaea Catnu no
rine Mclaughlin; do not know who was on uuy III .no
main hallway opposite my room at the ume Oh tne
fire; did not leave tie gas burning IN my room "Den
Josep6 p Morgan testified: am watchman on the
second floor OF the Fifth Avenue HOte was ON duty az
the time OF the fire; about 1862 p n was OD sne
landing on the Twentythirdst side walked around to
the Twenty fOurths stairs when got there
bell on the Twenty side strike twice. hasteneo
around there and saw two three persons sandng az
the head Of the stairs; sneed nle' ana one VI h %
chamberIuaids said: Oh, there Is hreP opeheu toe
door leading to the main hall to the servants starr
way and saw fro coming up from @ inc "a isnnIne a
the Gas man ana some one else took the pipe; then
turned the water don't think that IL was more 'aa
Ave minutes after we put the water before tne lre
Dassed us and we went up TO the floor above; there
found that somebody had already got the nose ou up
n ayoffip aut %
down 70 door called f teS Gse sas s9s
and 70 turn the engines below saw MT Srs"Un.u n
come up the Broadway stars ana Pass bsore heard
the alarm bell don't think 1t was more 1nah eigns
minutes after left the T"entythruS'' nu"S 00'O''
l heard the alarm bell
GUESTS STATEMENT.
Samuel Ten Eyck testified am a resident OF Salt
Lake City and a guest Of the Fifth Avenue HOTEL at
the time of the fire my No %, ON the twenty
third-st side Of the hotel; came from the theater
about II o'clock was near the foot OF the stairs lead
went up stairs go to my roo and on getting 20 the
parlor floor smoke issuing from me creVces 0 lne
door lust west Of the starcase; girl and inyse H.
stanty burst open the door; saw the fire burning IN
small room there was gasJet burning mere ana
quantity OF newspapers lying on the moor were mass
OF burning cnders the flames drove me out; tne alarm
was given once; went TO my room ana LOOKING OUT
OF the window two streams OF water ing upon
the FIRE; it only very few minutes atier the hre
discovered that the water was put on an certain @
no alarm had been given at the time first saw the re
Felix McGinty testified: am watchman IN the tlith
Avenue Hotel was on duty on the ohiee noor at te
time OF the fire was In the yard near Twentyfourth
st., when heard Of the fire saw the steward run past
and directly afterward waiter tod me tnat tneIe
was fire on the other side Of the hOuse went through
the laundry to the servants staoase there was no Eose
stretched in the laundry at the time, nor dld see any
person there found that they had got water on from
aboye it was pouring down the staircase went up the
servants stairway to the main hOOr theh up tne man
stairway TO the second floor; L helped get
out the hose; the fire was then burning
between the paror floor and the floor abOye the wGtc
man on duty in the upper floor was Michael Crukshank
t Is his that tue girls are all III bed and
that the lights out be goes up there at 1910 Tor tha
purpose