New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-02-05
LOSSES AT THE JERSEY CITY FIRE.


LOSSES AT THE JERSEY CITY FIRE.
The ruins of the fire on Saturday night IN New W..
ark-ave., Jersey City, were visited YESTERDAY uS
thousands of people, who stood around all day anu
gazed upon the charred and blackened tlmorITi on
squad of policemen guarded the premises ana ktpV
the crowd back. Four buildings IN NeWark n.y.
Nos. 46 TO 50, destroyed. Three other pu,ld L.
ings Nos 40 to AZ were partially Of ~ Me- 40 none
of them can be repaired. The seven Duiliinss "o,
occupied by nine firms, and except III one
or two cases their stock IS n tnai
loss While regret is felt for the sufferers by the nTe
there is general feeling of satisfaction that tno
bull iings are destroyed as they were ola rooKees
ana an eyesOTe 10 the community lhey weIe III w
business centre of the city, and as they brought
high rents their owners found 1t more prohlane o
keep them in some sort OF repair than 10 Tepiia!co
them with more expensive structures. me ITO
Commissioners who have charge of such matters,
will not permit wooden buildings TO be again erect
cd on the sites. . ooo -.
will not ex coed that figure The insurance amounts
to about 500, 900, divided between about twenty
different companies, uOne OF which had very lareo
risks the buildings being rated as extra-hazard0us
One large double tenement building aud two smaller
ones i'll RailToad-ave. were completely guttcd;
There were twenty families in the three houses anu tl
some of them narrowly escaped being caught IN the
burning buildings, but there Is 10 foundation lor
the rumOr that any lives were lost
As nearly as could be ascertained the losses ana
assurances were as follows: Charles j. Friend dry
goods loss on stock, IS ,000 insurance. 81 ,0O0'
Kate Scott. on building, So 900; fully insured "
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surance 81 800. Jacob Rinec, on building, $4,000;
insurance $1,000. Charles Peoer coniectloneri
on stock, $1,000; partially.insured. II. strahl
& Son, clCthiers on stock, $1,000 insurance
So $50. A. Buston 81 Co.. fancy goods, on Stoc r.
81, 600; fully injured. Francis Gallery, on build
ing, $4,000; insurance $1,000 Hugh C as naS
groceries, on stock, So 900; insurance about $o,oOV
Peter Hoffman, on building, $1,000; fully o ns n0o
Cowan & Maxley, dry goods, on stock, %ZO,ooo;
insurance, $4,000. James McLaughhn, loss %, on
building $1,000 insurance $4,000 900 GeoTS Gr w.
$4,000 T. C. Brown. on building, $1,000; IN
surance $4,000 A. Zabnski millinery and fancy 1Iy
goods on stock. $500; in urance. $1,000 vii
lam Roach, on building $4,000; Insurance. ., o9o.
Charles Furst fancy goods, on stock, 5000 fuIiy
Insured. Martha lluyler. on building, $1,000 fully
insured The companies having risks are the M H
of Hartford the Rutgers, German A nercan west
chester and Continental, of New-York the sprng-
field, of Springfield Mass. The Fireman's and Ann Ann
lea. of Newark n. j.: the Greenwich, London
Assurance Guardian, Fire Assurance, Liverpool and
London and Globe PhGnIx. Commercial ana tlneeH;
of London: the Firemens Fund, OF California, ana
the PhenX of Brooklyn.
The tenement houses III RallToad-avc. were owned
by Mrs French, and of little value IAe
losses of the tenants could not be asccriained.