New-York tribune., 1879-09-11
A FURNITURE FACTORY BURNED.

JOSEPH II. HAMBURGER THE PROPRIETOR. RsrI-
MATES THE LOSS IN HEsrER-sT. AT $oC.OOO-
VALUE OF THE BUILDING, $4,000.
The furniture mandatory of Joseph III.
Hamburger at Nos. 146 14S and $50 Hester-st, was
nearly destroyed fire. with ts contents last night
Patrolman Wilson. OF the Fourteenth Precinct, saw
smoke issuing from the third story windows OF the
building about $50 o'clock. and gave the first alarm.
Two other alarms sent OUT Bringing eleven fire.
engines and five hook ladder companies to che spot
The buildn. was SIX stories high and OF brick, with
walls 28 inches thick IL filed with lumber and
OF paror furniture AS soon as the front windows
broken IN the interior seen TO be nued with
the flames, and tho prospect OF saving the building
seemed 10 be slight.
Adjoining the mandatory on Hester-st.. was a row
Of tenements. the nearest, No 14i being five stories
high and containing about eighteen families. Against
the southern wall OF the structure was built the large
furniture manufactOry OF 6ilsbce q Mohr. ~ Nos
4S. so, 52 ana 81 Elizabeth-st The hrcmen
worked rapidly in the hope OF keeping the
m,ne' ,nr Ladders Were set up against tho walls
ON Hester ana Ellzabeth-sts. and streams OF water
were poured the interior OF the building through the
windows Some OF the hremen engaged in this work
were almost surrounded by the flames at times. 80
upon tue roofs of the adjoining buildings. soon after
O'Clock the flames had worked their way 20 the roof OF
the aud burst out quickly, lighting up the
negnborhood aud attracting ths gaze OF many th3u-
sands OF who had been called to the place Dy tho
saving the buildings adjoining seemed lost but the fire
fought the flames desperately ana Al length got
them under control. The Police IN Tue meantime were
keeplng order among The inmates o. the negAb0rinE
trneme nts who much frightened and were trying
| TO ave their household goods.
By 10 O'Clock the fire under control. having been
kent within the limits or the nanuidcioTy building The
walls o The building remained standing. bh the inferior
wa burned above the second story, and the con-
,nts of the two so badly damaged by
water that they OF H;ie value. Mr.. hamburger,
WHO was summoned To the building while it was stll
burning said his stock might be considered as n
| total loss The building, which was erected only
eighteen months agO, owned by Meyer u Mack OF
| White and Church-st. Ii valued al $4,000 AMI
WAS July Insured II had been constructed with great
| rapdlty in about ninee weeks time after the
| foundations were prepated. There plast'ring
about the BUILDING and the starways were al open
| Mr. Hamburger SAID that he had kept about 2JO men
| em poyed during The Summer, and he had on hand a
large II comp oted parlOr furniture He
| tinaied the vaue OF his stock aud machinery at
| $4,000 HIS Insurance amounted 10 $4,000 lie was
at loss he said, account for the hic. Tie building
had been closed $3.50 y. IN, when all the thmen
had eft the place. No light fire of any KIND had been
used ~ the budding during the summer, aud strict
order had been force against smoking MI Ham
burger Was burned out In Attorneys two years lg0.
Zoe oulrc loss by tho Ire was estimated by MI ram
burger Al OOO The police estimated the ioss.s az
10000 on tue building and $4,000 Oh Mr. Ham
burgers stock ana machinery.