New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-17
THE FIRE RECORD.
rwrDnI HAIL ALBANY BURNED.


ALBANY. Jan. 16.-At 1880 o'clock this morning
boy on opening the music store of Edward McCam-
mon, No. 81 Safest, IN the Tweddle Hall Dulid-
ing, discovered fire in the of the store. and
by the tine he had given the alarm dense volumes
If smoke were pouring ont. The flames spread
quickly to the second floor and darling up the Dack
stairs reached the stage OF the large hall on
the upper floors. The scenery and stage
fixtures burned fercely and the fire
was drawn TO all parts of the structure by the
draughts caused by the large halls and numerous
modern stalrcases which trayersed the building IN
several directions on the second floor A general
alarm wasimmediatey sounded, and the whole Gire
department directed their efforts to save portion
OF the building Adjoining Twedde Hall, in State
ST.. is the residence and private Office Of Erasus
Corning, and in North Pearl-st separated by SIM
gle house. is the Perry Building large structure
containing another hail. BY great exertion on the
part of the firemen the fire was confined to Twedde
Hall, the upper part of which was entirely de-
stroyed and other portions seriously damaged.
Tweddle Hall which stood on the northwest cor
ner of State AID North Pearsts,, In the centre OF
the business portion of the city, was fine four
story freestone building with frontage OF 80
feet in Safest and ZIG feet III North Pearl-st.
The lower stories devoted to stores and offices.
above which was fine hall, 100175 feet, which
DaO one gallery aOu Was CApdple VI sedt,hb
people. The building was erected by the late John
Tweddle aud thrown OPEN to the public on June Is,
1860. The original cost was 500 OOo, and the
property was recently assessed at 100000.
Tle stores were occupied as follows: Thomas
Buckley, art store John A. Diokerman, auctioneer;
McCammon, music store /; the Albany County Bank
II. b. Tuttle, boot and shoe dealer; George j..
Whltehorne furnishing store; l.. Sautter. druggist
James Maher, crockery, and John r. Conor. mer-
chant tailor. The offices on the second floor we're
occupied bv Mattice, Roman g. OBren, lawyers;
Kelley & Mackesy. lawyers; ; L. j. Williams. agent
of the Charter Oak Llfe Insurance Company
Leonard Kip. lawyer; Wood d. Russell, lawyers;
Appeton's Book Agency, and S. j. Davenport, COM
mercia agent. All of the occupants had their prop
erty totally or partially destroyed by the fire ana
water. but it is impossible to obtain the individual
losses. The total loss is estimated az S3OoOoo on
which there is On Insurance of about 100000.
Twedde Hall on account Of It's fine acoustic prop,
critics. was favOrite hall for concerts and political
meetings. 1t was also visited by many OF The lead
lug lights of the stage. Among hose who have APP
poared on its boards are Parepa-Rosa. Ristori,
Albani. Dickens, Forrest Edwin Booth, Kellogg,
Salvini. Scott-Siddons. Maggie MITCHELL Theodore
hOmas. RAYMOND and many others. The Demo
cratic War Convention was held there on January
81, 1861, to consider the impending peril Of DIS
union, and the Democratic stare Conventions were
also held there in 1877 and 1850.