New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-02
FLAMES IN TIE TRIBUNE OFFICE.
THE CITY EDITORS ROOM BURNED OUT.
A rrxRcE LITTLE BL ,zw THAT DEMONSTRATES THE
BUILDINGS TIREPkooF CHARACTER.

THE CITY EDITORS ROOM BURNED OUT
,rrxRcr LITTLE BL .zw THAT DEMONSTRATES THE
puILprNG's TIREPkooF CHARACTER
rne city editors room In tho editorial department
=, THE TRIBUNE. on tho ninth floor Of the building,
vas completely burned out by q FIRE which started
,bortly after 8 o'clock yesterday morning Two
attaining rooms that Of the reporters and tho tele-
graphic news room, were slightly damaged by the heat
and smoke. The flames were confined entirely to tho
mart of the building In which they started, and mainly
10 one noor through tho nreproof character Of the
M,,ding and the quick and efficient work OF The
TR,BUNEs employees and the fromen- Much incon-
euence has been caused through the loss Of valuable
,.cords and memoranda relating to city affairs but all
he news Of the town will DO printed just as before,
vhile the damage to the building and Its furniture
uiu not exceed g., 900. 1t would DO favor to The
TRIBUNE and OF advantage to those interested in meet
,ucs and other set down for the future,
II those having charge Of such matters would send 10
This Office duplicates OF notices, programmes etc.,
recently sent to the city editor
The editorial department had been locked up Tor
The nighl, and everybody had left 1t, when the nre
was discovered by the stereotypers and others who
were sti on the floor above. The flames had already
xaned good Roadway, when Joseph 10 Jeune an eiec-
tricisn and Gus' Winters, steicotyper, broke
through glass door into the editorial rooms VIII
ters, with oommendable presence OF mind, sent out
an alarm from q district messenger call. Then tho
two men got out the hose Of automatic fire appar
ratus in tho building and had stream Of water
playng on the fire, which was eating up the desks,
books "copy" and loose papers In the city EDITORS
room Tho fremen responded promptly to the TWO
alarms sent out and, In spite Of tho grcat dmcu"y
of carrying their up nine stories they got there"
md soon had the flames drenched out The first hose
was CO q cd up by fromen on the elevator at the
'front.' OF the building Others were brought up tho
iron and stone stairway and dropped from tho LOFTY
windows to the street, where connections were madc
with the engines
Tho origin Of tho fire is not definitely known but
livery indication points to the suppositoh that ~
started in q room of the Homer Leo Bank Note COM
pany ON tho eighth floor, directly beneath the city
editors room. In the former apartment there was
slight damage to tho wood and the FURNITURE,
but there such amount OF innammaoie matefiai
there Is on the floor above that comparatively
little heat was generated The marks OF smoke and
fame on the window castings and other WOODWORK
show that the draft and whole course of the flames
were upward and outward, that the fire could not
have eaten It's way downward or Inward from tho
windows After the debris was cleared away In tho
city editors room crack two inches wide was u.s.
covered between the granite In the outer wall OF inc
building and the first of the iron grderS which support
the concrete arches on which the floor Through
this little space the flames ate their way In the WOOD
work which covered the crack above and below once
in the city editors room with its many papers, desks
and hardwood window blinds, the fire had merry
in which brilliant special articles burned with many
hued fame, obituaries were In ashes and letters
TO the editor cracked in the most animated fashion
The loss there in records and valuable papers Is iago'
and 1t will take long time to make it good
The flreproof floors of iron and concrete and tho
concrete partitions of the building served their puI-
pose nobly usual Had 1t not been for these the
whole editorial department would have been swept by
the flames, and would have taken the best efforts OF
tho finest fire department In the world TO keep tho bre
from wreckug the whole building AS 1t was the fierce
flames were kept In the Immediate region oil ther
origin and did extend even through an open door
into the telegraphc room except to scolch tho
door castings and OF the night editors desk,
which stood Just beside the entrance. If the little
crack mentioned before had not done its malicious
work, the fire would have stayed In the room where
It started and would have been easily snuned out
As II was the fact abundantly demonstrated I'M
der adverse circumstances that the building is aoSo-
Homer lie, arrived here from Washington last even
tng He said: "There was nothing of any value
benches, joiner work and betting Everything in
!he nature Of securities or the paper upon an Which
fire proof vaults, usual, when we shut down
%ss KIND fact Of yGH w09 N 0S n'
SATURDAY ' aseSss Hf h ss aa
rags had been sent to Brooklyn when we finished hed
work ee Ss S G pals Of Water every night
In their places to-day. Only week ago ] took
the only suggestion he could make was that we get
some hand grenades. ] ordered four or hve dozen,
which were distributed last Wednesday Fully nj
teen OF these burst by the heat and must have
had considerable effect on the fire."
When asked II the fire would delay the company
In filling IT'S orders he said: No, we are under
contract TO deliver some 81 100000 bonds for the
Philadelphia and Reading and Texas and Pacific Rail-
road Companies and will not miss delivery"
When asked how he thought the fire started, he
said that ii was a mystery to him, as the greatest
nrecautiOns are taken We have both day and night
watchmenn he said, and the latter says he passed
through every on the eighth floor only a SNORT
time before the fire discovered