The New York herald., 1879-02-14

ing commiseration. well, 1t was soon over. any
how" said one man. muiiied up to his ears !,
in parti-colored wcollen scarf. who sighed
as he turned his back the burning
building. ''rhe poor animals it's bad as If they
along the opposite side OF Forty second street All
agreed to the mpossibility of helping the animals ;,
with the terror of impending death.
DAMAGED BUILpING.
The building in which the fire occurred is two
story structure OF brick situated the northwest
corner OF Forty-second street and seventh avenue
1t extends about one hundred and nifty feet along
the former thoroughfare and about hun
dred ON the latter. The angle of the lower
floor was fitted up q store and occupied by Lon
don Hawkins. dealer in ladies and gentlemens shoes
of business, on seventh avenue was the office OF
C. ID. House. a VETERINARY surgeon. On fortysecona
the stables, adjoined Hawkins store A large gate
just west Of 1t gave entrance to carriages Next 10
this the saddle and harness shop OF John u.
Ryer. who said to HERALD reporter that MS loss
would be entirely from water and probably not very
heavy. He succeeded in removing considerable
amount of his stock. The remainder of the Forty
second street front used manure pit. There
also on the ground door six box stalls and
storage room for number OF carriages, most OF
which taken ont and few OF which are Thought
to have been injured.
THE UPPER FLOOR.
In the eastern part of the second story, just by
Seventh avenue, the hay loft from the skyllght
and three windows of which the flames were hrst
seen to issue An employs or Mr bsgs sored
therein, fifteen of which had been delivered during
the day. The billiard room was in the angle over
Hawkins store The rest of this floor was divided
follows Three aises ran east and west abuttig
on others running north and south. Along these
sisles were ranged 14O stalls.
CAUSED THE FIRE?
No theory has yet been suggested as TO the origin
of the fire. The Office had been closed tor the night,
but there. were several men in the building
engaged in various occupations. Among the number
were the watchmau. sullivan by names Patrick
Kearney, a hostler; j. Chambers, McNichol and
coored man in the billiard room. As far as could be
learned no indication of fire was discovered until
McNichol opened the door leading to the stalls.
The building was not entirely wrecked, the flames
portion the roof fell in but the entire extent of
the second hoor swept by the flames The office.
Hawkins store and Ryer's shop were badly injured
by the water.
In the southwestern part of the building on the
second oor were stored seighs. $50 sets of har
ness and bells. 40 bales Of hay 4o' bales of
straw. 200 bushels of oats and loo bags
of bran. They all destroyed. The
sleighs range in value from $40 to $400
apiece and the harness at $50 set. The loss on the
above property is estimated at about $4,000 The
other losses are estimated follows:-W. w.
Briggs. building and stock. $4,000; John p.
Rycr No. East Forty-second street, saddles and
harness, $1,000; Lund Il Hawkins, shoe dealers,
$1,000.
THE HORSES.
The following is list furnished by Mr.. Cooley to
HERALD reporter of the horses supposed last night
to be lost Mr. Cooley said he could not at the time
say for certain whether all those namel had been
burned but he believed they were. The values he
estimated them ut he said were about correct. The
most important, it will be seen. were Hipners bay
mare Twilight, Stewards mare, Eph Simmons Girley
and the Norwegian ponies. pair Of black stations
owned by Mr.. Havemcyer, and said to be the only
ones Of their kind in the country.