The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-10-11
MADE HOMELESS BY FLAMES.
MORE THAN THTRTr room FAMILIES
DRIJEN INTO 1HE STREET.


Twelve Buiiding.. one Of which wns % Large
Tnctory. Burned Many Employees Thrown
Ont OF Work-What n hoy was Seen DO
Fire started in a small wooden stable on
III" west side of First avenue. about midway be-
tween Sixty first and Sixty second streets. soon
after L. NJ. yesterday. 1t quickly spread to
adjoining buildings. destroying IL. W. Myers's
chair factory. in Sixty-nrst street five houses In
SiNy-secOud street. and two large buildings
and three smaller ones In First avenue. About
thirty families were made homeless. Nifty or
more persons thrown out of employment. and
the damage was $4,000 to $4,000. about $4,000
Of which is covered by insurance. There was
no loss OF life. although several narrow escapes
were experienced The fire WAS discovered by
Officers Smith and Salmon as they were passing
the stables at ,223 First avenue on the way to
their posts. A small bunch " straw against the
south side Of the stable. where there is vacant
lot, was sondinR up n feeble flame An instant
before. n small boy had been seen to touch q
lighted match to the straw and disappear. The
police officers kicked the blazing material over
| the ground and thou yht that they had put out
! the fire. whom they saw between the boards OF
/ the stable brisk flame climbing to the loft.
| whore hay was stored. They burst the doors
1 open. and the flames mounted 10 the hayloft
! and spread with great rapidity. One Of tho
/ men ran to sound the alarm. while the other
| hastily warned the occupants Of adjoining ten
ements. \ horse was removed from the front
! part of the stable and two others from the rear
! The flames ran along the shed extending back
/ from First avenue. and quickly communicated
on the upper side with largo four-story
| brick building. owned by Henry II. Under
hill Of Croton Landing. and with the five
| three-story brick houses In SiXty-second
street. nearest First avenue. and at the
same time SET fire 20 Myers's chair
factory fronting Sixty-firs street and small
frame building in First avenue The chair fac
! tory was n fvc-story brick building having a
/ frontage OF forty feet In Sxty-nrst street. and
| extending in the form Of an l. around toward
First avenue. The workmen in the factory had
just resumed work ior the afternoon when the
fire broke out An errand boy named David
| O'Keefc saw the flames coming through the
second story. and. instead OF raising an alarm.
he quietly informed the foreman that the build
! lng was on nre. anu nearly every one IN the
time. The progress II the flames must have
been very rupd; Tor the alarm that was raised
in the avenue. did not. reach the men in the
through the foreman. Tho interior Of the
build ng was as dry as tinder and In q short
time tho flames entirely occupied i. Two or
three persons who chanced 10 be In the topmost
story were hardly able 70 escape, by means Of
ropes down the outs ide OF the building.
l shot up to great height and tho fire assumed
n most threatening aspect Extra alarms were
| sounded. and retnforccmentS OF engines were
soon on tho ground but the nre had already
ent"red the row Of buildings on the north and
brick building on the corner Of Sixty-frst
street and the avenue: The first wall 70 fall was
the SiNty-nrst street 'front.' of the chair factory.
This fell in with great crash. and tho crowd
which had gathered thought that one Of the
and soon the tops Of the other walls crumblcd
on and the tall chimney only was standing.
part Of the factory when the flames went
through into the building. The machinery WIS
valuable and was driven by a 75-horse power
engine. tcd by two boilers. each about So feet
long. The machinery. without the engiT, and
iall lar short ~ $40 900, of which t24 900 is
covered by insurance. While the ruins were
vt sendng ~ clouds - smoke and steam Mr..
Myers WAS making arrangements with con
tractors for the immediate replacing Of the
building. He hopes to have the new building
completed within six weeks.
The families occupying the tenements at 352.
354 3jG 3jS. and 800 sixty second street were
quickly driven from their homes by the flames
sror,hirg tn castings and entering the rear
wind The house al 352 was occupied by
two families. and that at 1854 by three families.
damaged about $4,000 each, and il is UNDER
stood that the amount is fully covered by insur-
an'e. The houses NJ 35g, 1888 and 500 were
owned 10y L. \ STYLES The damage 10 them y
not quite covered by insurance. The house 1t
$50 was occupied by two families. that at 35s by
There were three stores In the ground story of
the building at Sixty second street and First
avenue. the one nearest the corner being Occu-
pied by G.. Marlenhof as grocery the next by
the same man IA feed store. and the other by
Scaped by Srs 3 sry sETSs S%
aged. The stock and furniture OF Mrs. Brady
were entirely destroyed. The loss will fall very
Died BY eish, families Some oi the furniture
estimated at about 81 600 and the property is
on the south side OF the stable whore the fire
started is vacant lot. and next 70 that was
small frame building, occupied by William Cor
ley rs barroom; The entire property was de-
stroyed. Corley had no insurance. In another
small frame building Just below Charles
Proescher kept Bologna sausage shop and
had his entire stock III trade DESTROYED. The
building AT First avenue and sixty-hrst streets
was owned 10y Mrs. Alexander Jordan widow.
The walls are standing but Il is almost "A total
loss. Il was live:story brick building and
was built three or four years ago at cost of
about $4,000. Mrs. Jordan had an insurance
policy OF $1,000 or thersahouts, The ground
story was occupied hy Leren2 Iittenneacher
His loss is about $500; fully insured Two
iam les We're In each Of the four stories above
The loss Of these tenants was not heavy. but 1t
swallowed pp nearly a OF their possessions,
and Will fall very heavily upon them. In Sixty
first street the small frame house Of Patrick
Dugon. separated from tho chair factory 10y a
more exposed gable
The Insurance on the burned property was
| ncarlv all with companies represented by Wit
book 4 Genung. 157 Broadway
~ me was Injured. In addition to the I,ar-
row ESCAPE of some of the workmen in the clair
factory three hremen on a ladder on the south
| side Of the building on SlNty-frst stree; and
First avenue came near being injured by the
falling OF huge piece oi cornice which crashed
down, almost brushing their hats. A young
wOmnn. sick with consumption, was taken from
an upper story OF the same building.
The Failure of Lumber King.
]. c. Cameron ~ Co.. lumber dealers, at New
York and Towaudu, and at TGwas CITY. Mich, have
failed and made assignment Mr. Cameron made pa.
rate sgnment lie lives a. Spuyten puyNel where he
owns property valued ~ $1,000 He WAS an extensive
operator and he hud slN5uu invested the business
He WH., rereutly estimated 10 be worth s2huVo Two
years he owned 1000 uf land in Miclis %,
with mills &c, valued NJ S2inon two.thris Of which
he traded for other property In Philadelphia, North
Carolina, and Kentucky The paper Of The hu went to
protest last month, their embarrassment being caused by
the want OF ready money