New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-24
THE MUNRO BUILDING FIRE.
LOSSES LESS THAN AT FIRST REPORTED.
OCCUPANTS OF THE BUILDING MAKING NvESTo-
RIFa


Two engines stood in Vaudewater.st. all day yes,
tarday bnsily engaged IN pumping the water out OF
the cellars OF the Munro Building; The street IN
front Of the building was Impossible as tn1Ioug ar
in the roadway. and on either hand two streams OF
water we're thrown out by the gDe and formed small
rivers In which the children of the grammar scnooi
near by disported themselves The building did
not except in the matter of broken windows. show
much signs of the fire. The damage had been done
ut too Neat height to be noticeable unless one
craned his neck back aud looked up. The business
men who had their factories and offices In the Duiu
ing were on ths ground 1t an early hour ,n sno
morning making an inventory OF their losses
These in the majority of instances could only DC
guessed at, the marks of smoke and the s9per IRA
bundance Of dripping water every whero uo VIC
havoc appear greater than 1t may actually " aScoi-
Looking from the back windows of the sixth floor
of the Rosest. building into the va os a.csr
tanned The reproof walls OF the Rose-s1. Duiiuine
Ike pt the flames entirely confined to the oiaer struo
were totally Quilted and the NTH story was almost
DESTROYED ON the eighth floor Mr.. Munro had ten
catalogue presses, four Seaside Library pressses'
two folding.rnachines and one cutting nacn nld
Ali these we're totally destroyed. but being oiu'
were not worth than $4,000 they we're nn-
insured On the same floor the hao ruui nS snT
I,omnanv lost stock worth $4,000 insured Ior
Sl56OO. TIE loss to Mr.. Munro III stock on inc
seventh floor was $4,000 uninsured; TO tne Cia ~
Novelty Company tns si ,tb floor IN machine
shcp and foundry was $35. 000 insured ior @loo
On the fifth floor. Anderson. Prn.eft Loses I.%.
sIrv Company loses Jl2,000-insurance not known.
On the fourth floor John Medole. printer sloses
ga 600. chiefly damaged by wator-unlnsuTea; the
Sew-York Screw Top Company loses $lc ,o0O, oo On
The third floor f. c. Tomhnson loses $4,000.
II IL Daw,vn. printer $1,000, and n.
Cneroney. $1,000 On the first floor c. A. Lieb,
machinist, loses 5000 and The FITNESS 5000, IN
surcd. The damage to the building itsel1 is est,
mated at something near $4,000, when Is Sovereu
by Insurance. In The Rose-st. building the damage
was entirely through water and smoke ana cannos
yet be ascertalned. The heaviest losers, george
Nunro and Ioveioy, Son IL Company ootn expect
70 resume work this week in the Rose st. building
The damage to the building Will not reach niuch
amounts make the total loss $173 800, of which at
least 1913 900 is not covered by Insurance..
IL il said that such q cOntiagralon could not pos
siby have occurred any day but sunday as tneIe Is
a ire drill corps among the employees anu apPn0o'
available in case OF lire. ,n.
This building which fronts on Rose-st. was Dulit
in 1880 and is lreprOOt structure. ne DticX
walls are abou' two ieet ,ok ,ne mo1rs arc aud
filled in with coneret to and all the wlndow-sas
and staircases are of The 1oors were OF heavy
ash and lined IN both sides ~lth l-io men ron ron
Through the doors opening into the hall the fire.
men forced an entrance by cutting away section
OF the angle-iron frame and chipping out section
of the brick wall large enough to carry away tne
fasteniags of the lock bolts. The work was laDorl-
Gus and by the time the tremen succeeded IN get
ting inside the rooms the fire raging too hercelv
to permit effective work TO be done tIom she neIlor
The fire entered the building on the sixth moor
only and then through a door between ,the od anu
new buildings which had been opened by the nre-
men for the purpose of bringing hCso 10 play mo
the burning rooms On the floor above the ash hil-
ing of the doors was charred 10 clnder ana the
iron was bent but the door proved TO oe an encct-
nal barrier to tue flames The contents oil the room
oosistnd OF printed matter piled on board sh ives
a norton of this was burued and all OF 1t damaged
by smoke. but the floor was unhurt anu inc puilu-
ing itself received merely trltlinG damage.