New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-22
The FTRE DEPART NEWT A LII AT SEA.
A LoyG-DRAwN COMEDY OF ERRORS.

ALARMS THAT WOULD NOT WORK, EN6INhs ina
cor LOST AND HORSES THAT RAN AWAY.
Extra ordinary delay and confusion In sending aiAris
mad, Oh fire reported Ia ycstei days IrDune' III 'i
piano factor, Of KTakauer brothers, at Nos 'ViI o
and 7Os Irstsve., exceedingly Troublesome Iheo
WIS a delay in discovering the flames, because f'I
ave, ne r For,iehst. Is dak and not much tra'o''u
at night. Policeman Brady. who Oh post IN Fast
Forty-secOnl-s, the flames NJ 10 D H., anu '"o
factory was well ablslc by that time
He ran to the signal box No. 4s7, at Frst-ave' shu
Forty first St. and tried u send an alarm bnt uo o
didn't work He raped for assistance and Pohcen,a"
Inv tried the box at Frst-ave. and Thirty-ish'n
ST II at Lux wa OIL. of euler toe. II was not unth
a quarter OF al hour had elapsed, and policeman
had opened the box First ave. and Thirty iourtns'
that the frst alarm went out In their haS'c '"'
police had Forgotten that Engine Company NO Il was
In FOrtietl ST., only block and half away rom no
fire The frcmen OF that company werr sound asic"p
I'M they were reused by the alarm They did ho'
ne to 90 down To Thirty fourhsr., a he haros 10
the factory then gated up the whole neIghborhood'
other companies the blaze also and did not 7'oP
al Thriy-fourh ST., knowing well enough that iheN
had bcel mistake
Tie flames had burst through the roof of the factory
a. wle attacking the rear walls OF the houses ~
Pros &c ace. heavy wall In the rear Of the buiiu-
ins w. part OF Inc PIuspcc; place terrace, and the
houses overlooking F1rst-sve. close to that
wall that the factory roof was the back yau OF 'no
h,nses. The house 40. Pr spect place was vacant
but from Nos. / and 5 the families Oi Nose Hcinah'
Mos,- Hcgs aid Patrick II. McDouough fcd In terror
Assistant Foreman Charles MargisOn Of Engine NO
81. went to box First and Forty Irsi Il,
open ii tie inn compartment and rang COM alarm
on the Moro key. He ha- since declared tha NJ Wis
sOuer and cool. and that he tapIou ten tihtS III
: On 4 flr : cond alarm. and followed u ~ DN .ho
nufnucr OF the number OF the box. 471 Inc ol'Iu'ul
at lie IIca quarters. in East Sixty soventh-s', nas
ard that he received the signal a. ron hoN ~"
A., at -cvcn-ave and Thirty nnth-st az IN aa'lh
was transmit ID 10 the engine houses " that Wy,
Vile Ia taOn Oh ef Fisher who had cobhaIH oI
tie iremcn tie buring factOr', wa wOnl'fihe WY
the extra cOmpan did not POND dozen COMPANIES
flon the side Of tn CIT were racing ahou III
search II a fire In seventh ave. F1sher KNOW az
length that blunder had BEEN comlhItleu anu Il,
M Thrill alarm which perry received ana
h anSirtfed. Some Of the cOmpanlf- al on me utu
al irhi wee still the hunt for th' -n'ps h III
Scvepti-ave.. and there wa s'lon- LAY before 'cS
G tn # -ht call and went to the factcry mr. II
When Ch lef ~.ay GOT The fire ard fOnnd thh az
the Grcmcn had been half hour lat h" was a, na
a. 2 man could he He declared that th'ra would lie
nromrt lnve-f at on blundcs. and ina me pr
n who responsible for The dc.a' Will 70 70
fred" Engine Company NJ. 10, In W"s' IWnN-
ff ST I'D not ~ T. the fire The confusion that was
aIro d f. t. dcpaitli A. the TIM Oh" MIRO an
wes sounded seemed 70 extend 10 tho engine huiSe-
and thcv "a. he'd ont OF th" house WI hour Wahe ~ u
hffchcd the encin'. Iunning away 70 an mag haN
fir, the no. could not he cancht uni -lN p"uis
later when they found " III police OF the SIX
re nth Precinct mile from tho engine house
Tn, thee story PIANO factory and jos ph Qninn's
Iiauo orr on he frat floor. Quilted by thc IRE:
n tn rrar Tho loss 20 Krakaucr BiotherS was abom
81 600 and they said they id not have enough In
surance 10 cover II. The damage 70 the building;
owed bv the Cutting estate, wa ahor' ~-OoO ana
g.. 600. Tn damage thc Prospect place honses
prob blv did not exceed $1,000.