New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-06-03
BURNING OF THE BIG CooPERAGE.
L. NJ. PALMER ESTIMATES THE LOSS AT LESS
THAN 100000.

L. NJ PALMER ESTIMATES THE LOSS Al LESS
THAN 100000.
An that remains OF the Brooklyn Cooperaec VIM"
was burned Yesterday morning is three lligh eh"''
and small portions OF the walls. The rest OF inc So
plant Is a mass Of smoking ashes ana crumoro" o
The burned structures were bounded pS f>o"' :,
North Sixth and North seventh sts. ano inc h,9'
River covering almost the entire block MHe" ~,
fire broke out Special Officer Packard was talking WIFI
IN. night watchman of the buildings The flames "eie
on the ground floor of the kins or drying rooms OH U
North sixthst. side, and the river trout. fdoNru
ran 10 the building, and saw that the m'erioi W.
one mass OF flames. He then gave the alarh' anu W
fore tho fire department had reached the scene ""o
flames had eaten their to the upper floors ana
through the roof.
All the available fire engines in the city were SUM-
moned IN hattie with the flames. Adjoining the bag
c1nr factory was building one story In height "hero
the bags were washed and repaired, While the elii
building adjolned this, and six stories In he's"t
covering an area 200 by 200 feet Despite the vigorous
fight made by the fremen 10 check the flames they
gained rapid headway and licked up everything that
came in their way. Before the flames were seen
in the main building, however, terrific explosion
occurred CARRYING away the roof and breaking inc
windows into fragments. Many people were thrown
10 the sidewalk by the conclusion ana were s6h'lJ
injured Hardly had the noise Of the explosion SUP
sided when the building was roaring mass OF napies
Illuminating the heavens for miles around Inc heA'
buildings TO take FIRE were three two-story lTdh'c
dwellings from which the occupants had much
difficulty in escaping When the flames had crosseu
North seventh-st they communicated with the ruins
OF Dick C Meyer sugar refinery, which was uesto9eo
by fire a year ago, but leaving enough ma'erlai U
feed the flames for some hours. Several sn1aii Hao
tenement houses North Sixth and Seventh ss were
partially burned before the flames could be checked
All day yesterday a dozen more streams OF wafer
tho r1in
Ign Cooperage Company incorporated about hVe
years ago with Lowell NJ. Palmer president ana
Henry Palmer, general superintendent. l.. NJ. Palmer
roughly estimates the loss at from S4oooOo 10 q'o
600. The company has three, cooperage, one .l IN
Jersey CITY, one IN S0 II Standing de and Mr.
Palmer said that the 600 hands who had been thrown
out Of work by y DAYS IT t %eur a; o'H
and some people believe that Il had an incenoiaTy
North Fifth-st was set fire by two brothers named
Johnson, who are now serving fourteen years each In
Sing sing At that fire James Dreery' watchha' loSt
his life.
APPOINTMENTS FOR COLoRED MINISTERS.
The New-York Annual Conference of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church closed at the Union Bethel
Church yesterday. Bishop Turner announced the fol
lowing appointments:
Long Island District Israel Derrics presiding elder
Bridge Street Church, Brooklyn, J. S. Brown; Union
Bethel Church, Brooklyn. J. G. Fry; St. John Church
Brooklyn, G.. T. Waters Jamaica, W. A. Heath Flush
Ing J. J. Moore; Roslyn circuit J. NJ. Proctor; Glen
Cove. Thomas Taggart Amityville, Wilson Peterson; ;
Babylon, A. L. Bouldin; Bayshore, r. II. Coleman;
Huntington and North Port, J. F. Anderson; setauket
Port jefferson and smithtown r. r. Prather Maspeth
and Little Neck, w. F. Townsend
New-York District r. II. Shirley, presiding elder
sullivan street Church. New-York Theodore Gould;
Buffalo, Horace Talbert; Albany F. F. Giles; Elmra,
II. c. Ashley Lockport, W. r. Davis Binghamton'
G. W. Cohen: Owcgo L. b. Langford; Coxsoekie ana
Catskil Charles n. Gibbons Mddletown, j. c. Dufin;
Kingston, Thomas j. Jackson; Kinderhook ana
Chatham, j. IL. Russell; Albion and Medina, b.. X.
Jackson Oswego and Canandaigua, W. b. G. Coster;
Passaic John A. L. Porter.
The following were appointed missionaries: 7. Z.
Franklin z. e. Miles, p V. n. Ten Eycke and g. ii.
Nichols L. ". Beckett transferred to the Michigan
conference, G.. G. Townsend transferred 10 the
Arkansas conference Augustus Roos was transferred
to the New England conference and n. W. Berry Was
transferred TO the New-Jersey conference