New-York tribune., 1885-02-22
DRIVEN INTO THE wINTRY NIGHT.

THE CHAPpAouA MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE BURNED
TWO WOMEN TAKEN FOX GHOSTS.
A few people in Chappaqua who got up early
yesterday saw great light In the west An hour "'c
sunrise It was told in told in the town tha the Chappa
oua Maintain Institute two miles away, had been
burned The Purchase Quarterly Meeting VI tho oocie'
OF Friends OF westchester County buit the schoo III
1870 for $50 600 Both boys and girls went there the
larger number being boaiders On Friday many OF them
went home to stay Saturday ana sunday leaving
tweutythree girls and nine boys III the Dudhg' pes"c
six women servants IN servant the Supefih'e"u
ept C. NJ. Robinson principal, sc collins; teachers
7 T. Thompson Mrs. L. X. Trivett, aud Mrs. Heieh
cag,r6 .nd the superintendent's family Of wife, son
and daughter .
rhe houso was b1ilt OF concrete had basement three
storics and an attic was 100 feet long by hurwihe
The girls slept on the second floor the boys on the thir
the servants in the attic the superintendent ana ia'ny
OF the first. and the hired man In the basement AL
went TO bed a. Q o'clock Friday night.
Mas Incr.tia Robinson. prcceptrcss and daughter oil
bo superntendent smellcd fire yesterday at $3.50 H. III
she silent on the with the girls. and got mp "a
see what the trouble was. When sue oP hel .n1 ""m ~
room door she saw flames Shutting the door tght 81,
r nvyn Stairs aud walked her father then fHlci phcA
a',d rnnr the big hell and cried " FIRE.! Mr. k"pih
ran to the bathroom, aud one look c3nHnce" nun mn S @
No., was no chance of saving the building. The Slht
Sing Fire Department was elght mleS AWAY no , "l ~
Mi Kisco five miles There was u hiy-phIel .t!h W "
wa,er on the roof, bnt thtIG wa" ~ - tha cidrcn
he let the names go on and looked at,r inc rhurm ~
,t..ap
in ,ood order all except two or them taking most o
their clohcs with them IA they went out py VIC ccusi
stairs Nellie Lipscomb. age iOulleoh' was ne'''' sun"
Gated and had to be carried lit, a., ,. aud
Wr C,us slept on the third floor with the boys anU
when he realized what was gong on ne got w
and with an axe which he always kept Nv
bis he'd went up and down the hal
s,, ching in doors at "A single blow. Every blow WOKE
how and they got out wiha Few c"lhcS some VIII"
l., nj, q, oir,voy g
IA the attic amt got tue srcvant sirs ont IN te mex o
lime Alfred Farragut, nephew of the Admiral VIM, W.
zantingrr nephew of Mrs. Farrdglt. aud Eddie Pohu"
ran back to their rooms Tor some ,, cl",n,
luJ fine flames cut on thcir retreat
Tbev found an old rope which the bows uSiu
to noy arks with and lowered trunk out OF Wlnn"N
Then the three sid down the rope rs ar as u Wh hu
drnnucd the resi- OF Ia the icr-coYrred gr"hi
Yonur Farragut climbed BACK mp me rope 10 III
Mrs Tr,vetf who had not been seen. But he con On
Sind her ana there was horTlhlc rear n.' a
shr was lost. But she not lost IN ne Hr'
She and Mrs. Stafford got ont safe ana SOM.
in their nishidresas and started oi thr"u@h me 'on
over the lee aud snow IN arch uf holr an" 1t. ~
Al two places they were taken Tor Gl"ts ana 'u'''
away Nr col ins, q noighhnr. nnaiy took thch ~
iatus .orurntcr who live-clo hF, COO ne FrN III
ami of + g fr.rlins ni,ht air. The boy OF W Il Sh
man Of the Rare Ofcr had 10 borrow co hr@ - hh
annthrr boy and two girls fhe ihr'ry wS saved ,lo
ali the suVernicndcnts account books aud pap Ia
fntr outer an two pirti ION walls tn" hh lint .f'
standng-nnthng else ROMANS. II was nsuri lor 9i''
OOO i'm fnur companies the furniture for @loDD.
The building occupcl beautiful III" near 'hhPP"l'
Cemetery 4 school I'm winter. W helped 10 pay ,Np'n
y turning boarding house IN Sumncr several n"H- "a
their hand, ana faces burned aLd Mr. Robinson lost III
al,c teeth.