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THE DISASTER OF 1877.
A Very Similar Ell plosion mud Fire that
Occurred In the Sane BLOCK.

Very Similar Explosion mud Fire that
Occurred In the same Block.
On the afternoon OF Dec. 90. 1877. there was
an EXPLOSION and fire very similar to ycster-
DAYS disaster. which also resulted in the loss
OF many lives. 1t took place in Greenfield &
Sons confectionery factory at GO Barclay street.
The boilers In the cellar exploded with ter
rihc report and tho next moment tho whole
from. wall OF the building fell IN. The build
Ing caught fire after the explosion. Buildings
on both sides OF the candy factory were blown
UP. too. and oil the buildings along Barclay
street between Greenwich street and College
plnce were more or less injured. 1t was an
hour before the fire which followed the ex-
plosion was under control and in that time
1t had burned out half dozen buildings.
fac DRY when the explosion occurred. A dozen
were Killed outright and 2j or 10 were badly
Injured. some Of them died afterward. 1t Is
est mated hat the explosion was tho cause Of
at least 20 deaths. Every hospital below Fifty
ninth street was called upon to attend to the
maimei and the burned. Many of the bodies
OF the dead were not recovered until the fire.
mon Ind spent several days in searching
among tho & eat mass OF ruins.
When the front wall OF the candy factory fell
in alter tho explosion 1t struck and eilled a
horse standing in front Of the building. A
horse was killed yesterday afternoon when the
In fnct the two dis astsrs were almost precisely
similar. Curionsly enough. tho two pnces In
which the explosions occurred we've in the
same block.
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afternoon looking for young Peterson. He
hni arranged on Friday with those young men
10 TO- g anshinx on Saturday to Princes Bay. and
Leonard aud Elm streets at / O'Clock, After
waiting thers an hour knorr and Waters
heard OF the lire and started for Pstersons
re.taurant,
Knorr said last night Mt o'clock that he was
satisfied that Andrew WAS dead.
No ono OF all his friends have heard OF him ("
said he. and l know no would have gone 10
S53 Third avenue had he escaped"
lie did not know where his father was in the
country. and consequently could not send him
word. Mr.. peterson was TO return on Wednes-
day noxt 1t Is probable that the first int Ina
fo.1ny's
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-08-23
D,dn't Want the Little One. to Know.

"Isuppose," said mother. that children
have spelled out words in that way since
words were invented. l know 1 did just tho
same thing when was child"
She stood at the head of the stairs. Two
little children were playing in the hall below:
two older children Ind lust dashed in from the
street. Tho younger OF these. 10y Of 10.
shouted 10 his mother over the heads OF tho
little ones
Well Z" she said. and this is what he said In
reply:
G-o-t- o. n-a-u.d- sn-u-r.s-e Q d. s. e-t-f-i
we .c-e-n-t-s We WA n-t-t
or n n-d gets O. M e.
a. -h-a-v-e.G 2 OFT -y-m- o-n-e-y."
He said 1t letter br letter rapidly and with.
out pause ns though it We're all ono word of
n single syllable. She followed the message
Slossly understood n i perfectly and tossed
had said Go 10 Mauds purse and get 5 cents.
We want to 20 to the store an Il Get some sarsa-
parilln,, the little children would have, said at
once We want to 60. 100 and the older chill
dren didn't want them"
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And Now Maslk has Ienped to Death from
the Sixth Story OF a Tenement.

Joseph Mask n Bohemian with the double
trade OF glass blowing and fresco painting.
Killed himself ye. .erday morning by jumping
from the fire escaps on the sixth floor Of 266
Avenue b. whore he boarded with Mrs. Annie
Laub.
He drank hard. and had Authorizations. He
talked to hims elf us II no were conyersing with
his father, and mo her. and he said he, saw an;
G s AN" thu his old h r. ne had "a
u convent. he said, because the priest would
not let her marry n drunkard. That was why
Mask came to this country, He lived In New
Jersey ut first on u farm: with HIS father. until
his father hanged himself ono day.
Mr. McSorley. who lives on tho top floor OF
the house. heard some one in his room early
yesteruay morning, and getting IN discovered
Mask. who was stranger TO him. Mask
Beside the head OF the stairs on every floor
OF the house is an open door that leads to q
on the one near McSotley's door.
&c, a pc iceman." McSoEley said there's
q strange man In tho house."
'Oh. no. YOU needn't, Mask answered. and
sprang into the air. He was dead whom he
was picked up.
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LOCAL FOREARt
INV Your CRY. Aug. j.. 1901.
Local forecast for Twenty. four hours till 3 p NJ
Sunday; Fair: cooler; westerly winds. Fair. cooler
Monday and Tuesday,
T. u. Drss, Local Forecast ofHcial
wAsHrsGros FORECAST Till p. NJ. SUNDAY
Tho zore o; low pressure extending from tho mouth
Of the st. Lawrence to Texas Friday night has
sumed long but shallow ped area bounded
by the isobsre OF 1890 nches. oyeryn< the country
from the 81, Lawrence Valley southwest Mississippi
Local rains have fallen within their and In ocai
ties they hav, been very heavy especially in southeast
Texas Mississippi Alabama North Carolina and In the
Ohio Valley heavy rain ccurIsd Maine
These showery conditions should pass away before the
cooler northwest winds. which have progressed from
tho northwest nearly TO tho AcshnnieS Tho high tenn
peraurs saturday south west of line joining Buff
fals and San Antonio resulted from the nearly uu.
changed position OF the low area, with sutry
southery winds The cool wave is northwest
OF this line, ard will cross the Aieghanies
SUNDAY and also reach tho Gulf coast
Tho maSimpm temperature area OF 8o' aud
above is southeast OF u line drawn through VIII
mington Raleigh. Atlanta, VcksburE and Galveston.
That of so is southeast of Buffalo Columbus Memphs
and Shreveport, The cool wave has been noteworthy
from northern Texas TO Michigan. the fall in temper
aure being from 10 to 3os tho Intervening States
fros,s viii he Rey in posed localities over wscon-
sin and Michigan on Sunday night Cool and generally
fair weather will prevail in most sections sunday
ard Monday. and these conditions should continue IN
tho Atlantic States until Tuesday Tho temperature
has begun "a rise in Montana, and this increase will
slowly spread eastward.
For the District of Columbia, Maryland New jersey
eastern rennsyivania Delaware and eqser,, NeD Fovl
cooler and mir sunday and uOadly. ioinds shTing 10
northTcst-ry
For western New York, western Pennsylvania West
virginia and Ohio generally fair and cooler SUNDAY
AMI Monday northsrly winds.
For Maine New Hampshire. Vermont Massachusstta
Rhode Island, and Connecticut generally fair Sunday:
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M. H. brown Rescue. Three Men.

NJ. H. Brown OF 2l7 West Sixteenth street.
who ia boss carman in the employ of o. s.
Gage. on Barclay street. with the help OF
another man. who refused to give his name.
rescued three men from tho burning debris.
Brown takes his luncheon between IL and
o'clock. but on Saturdays he devo,es this time
to marketing. He was at the corner Of Barclay
end Greenwich streets yesterday when he
heard the crash Of the falling structure.
BY tho time he had reached the scene
fire. At glance Brown saw a man in the
already attire. With the help OF the unknown
be lifted tho end Of the beam AMI the man
crawled out.
The man was bruised about the hack and
chest. After releasing the first man Brown
and his COMPANION dragged ,wo, others from
tho ruins. They were both badly injured. 1t Is
supposed. but they refused to give their
names. and in the confusion they got away.
The Fire Department had arrived in the
truck. ran into tho hallway OF the corner build
ing and chopped a, hoe about three feet
square through the flooring. AS the severed
piece fell. Brown was $. nearly overcome BY the
covering himself. howe, or. he ran back. He
says he distinctly saw at least five persons in
rrStAuEHut.
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WHIPPED FOR WIFE BEAT TING.

A Government Pensloner tho Recipient of
Attention from IL Band or White Caps.
LOUISVILLE. Aug. GA band Of White CAPS
entered the house OF Charles Neith. a German
shoemaker. at Highland Park. las, night, took
him out. logged him. aud ducked him in u els
tern. Neith WAS accused OF cruelty whipping
his vito.
for Injuries received in the war and il is al
legged that upon tho receipt OF each check from
tho Government he and his wife quarrel
q cheek arrived and the trouble was renewed.
1t terminated In II whipping
AS soou as the result OF tho alteration be-
came known = party OF twenty citizens visited
Neith,s house. Two of the band piled the
used cstern near by and dncked several times
Then he was warned never to whip his wife
again,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-08-23
Mr.. Lee Says the stock wa. His.

Homer Lee OF the Homer Lee Bank Note
Company who had Newton Squire, the sus-
pended chief clerk OF the New York Clearing
House. twice arrested last week on charges OF
larceny. den ied yesterday Sources statements.
from which it appeared that stock given to
Mr.. Lee says the stock was and still is his
personal property. All the treasury stock OF
the Bank Note Company. lie says. is in the
treasury.
Mr.. Slui,s's statement about the stock. sig.
natures. and AL being in one hnndwritinR:'
said Mr.. Leo is entirely devoid OF truth.
All the cer:'flcatos We're regularly issued by
the Secretary. and regularly executed by the
officers under direction OF The Board OF d.
rhCtNrSV
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Dispossessed Tenant I.IeGre Arrested
After the House was Found to he Adre.
Lewis Lieere. "a years old. an expressman OF
145 West Twenty-fourth at eet. was arrested
last night by Detectives Kemp and HAYES Of
the Thirtieth street station on churge of
ars on preferred bv !. W. Hazard. a real estate
agent Of $50 West Twentty-riehth street.
street until Aug. 6. when he was disposs essed.
Yesterday afternoon about 3 O'Clock lie went
into the house and down into tho collar
few minutes n fire was discovered in the cellar.
Several men were called In and put out the
fire. Soon afterward Liegre wn. arrested on
snsricon If having set fire to the house to get
even with the landlord. The damage caused
by the fire was slight.
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WILL RESTRAIN GLEASON.


An order from Justice Bartlett was yesterday
served on Mayor Gleason and the Long Island
City Water Board by a committee OF taxpay-
ers. directing them to show cause why an In
junction should not be issued restraining them
from laying water mains hy lnbor by tho day.
The city charter provides that oil OK
penditures OF tho city exceeding 500 must BIO
given out by contract 70 the lowest bidder. 1t
IL nearing the fail cctions. and Mayor Gleas on
is credited with re-! Using the charter 10 suit the
situation. Accordingly the Water Board Of
which he is the head, began laying wnter
mains in different wards of tho city by labor
By tho day.
1t is said that between 200 and 800 laborers
are employed in the work. They receive 81 a
day from the city for niue hours work. 1t is
further asserie cd that only work enough to last
over election hns been lail out.
Last week tity Treasurer Blcekwenn paid
out more than 1000 to these lnborers on war
rants issued by the Water Board. Then tho
taXpavers protested.
Should the Injunction be granted. criminal
proceedings will DO instituted against those
respons ible for tho work. 1t Is felony for an
official 10 violate the city charter.
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Team. or Unto. Hin shooters.

The two leading teams OF the Union HILL N. j.. Gun
Club held interesting live bird shoot yesterday after
Each man shot at 10 birds. The rsssl, was as
follows
First Team-John Waller, .; Louis woemington. q:
John WooimlnRton 5: George woomtngton. :: Joseph
Hughea u. Total. 20.
second Team-1ohn Collins. 7: Charles woolmngton
LANCE 5 Total. -.
= The result OF tho second sweepstakes was:
First Team erman LANCE 4: George Woolmingt0n,
Z: u. unterrcner u: Capt John II. Wooimington, 6;
Second Team-Patsy Sullivan, !; Charles Woolming-
ton. 4 John collins 4 Louis woolminstsn 8: Colds
berg. g. Total ~.
The next shoot of the club will take place wednes
dny SAM.
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y. y. schmitt'. E.caps.

J. J. Schmitt, a bookkeeper for Liebler &
Maass. escaped from the third floor of the
building by means OF the Are escape on the
corner building, lie says that Como Smith CT
l0Sth street was tho only man who escaped from
the press room Of tho concern. and he has not
been able to Ind u single one OF the forty
printers who were employsd on the floor
III owe. He believes that they went down with
the building and were killed.
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Enr,and's Champion Walker Arrives.

Among tho passengers that disembarkoi from the
City of Chicago yesterday morning were Eddie Lange.
the Manhattan Athletic Clubs Europei hectand, toe
representative aud H. Curnss. the English champion
walker and record holder. Lange was tanned q beau.
nj u shade. and the trip has EVIDENT beneniei him
The most noticeable things about INN were hand
some diamond ring. q neat gold watch aud chain aud
n cOckney dialect The rst two part and parcel OF
the trophies he gathered abroad The latter lie pick
up N London
urtiss is ne manly look fellow test II inches
tail and sturdiy built lilo will become Amer
citi7 on. II Ito IiE les ths country.
Alter visit 10 the VI. A. ., club house Lanxs and
Curtrs went to Yonkers where Mrs Langs has be en-
living with her parents during Chnz's absence Tie
Two TO have put In an Appearance at the
club house during the evening but failed to show up
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-08-23
Rail to the French OfYicers.

PORTSMOUTH. Aug. 22.-The ball given last
night by the English naval officers at tho
TownHall here TO the officers OF theFrench fleet
was the most brilliant display ever witnessed
Mt Portsmouth, and did not end until o'clock
this morning. When the officers finally sepa-
ra ed n, d returned on board their respective
Queen. and the British officers sang Tho
Mnrseillaise." Over two thousand people
were present at this entertainment. and by
special arrangement the French officers wero
able o secure partners who spoke the French
LANGUAGE.
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David AMierson's idea or the Cause.


David Anderson. who left A. W. Lindsay, for
whom he had been foreman three years. only
two weeks ago. advanced this theory OF the
disaster:
Tho machinery was too heavy for floors
resting on T-shaped timbers supporting
their own weight There were about
twenty-five presses in the building. those
on Liebler & MASS floor weighing
at east nifty tons. Tho presses all
worked the same way and with the same
movement. They all pointed toward the
street. The regular steady rolling Jared the
floors from the supports, weakened by the
weight and bent the street edge down
ward. At last Jar more :, severe
in tho number Of revolutions the machine was
floor OF the main cross, heam. and the shock
sent the wall outward with presses rolling
after it. When tho ruins arc cleared away
the presses will ls found resting on the I'M
broken floors. The floors have not broken.
They have simply been torn from the supports
fastened to the walls.
The loss OF life would not have been so
heavy on any other day: All the firms bore OH
serve Saturday as a half h olilay. and The hands
work un II II 80 or O'Clock. That Is why so
MANY were in the building. On any other day
At thai tin everybody. but a few ioremen AMI
the bos.es perhaps, would have been out at
lunch or trying to get Q breath OF fresh air"
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She May Live to Try It Again.

Kate Higgins. the young woman who took an
ounce OF laudanum at the Grand Union Hotel
on Friday night. will get well. Belle Vincent.
her chum. say s Kate didn't want to die.
Kate was known TO Mrs Rogers of lag West
Fifty-fourth street as Miss Raymond. She was
sa!eswoman fl a New Orleans dry goods
store. Sho married a carpenter named sand
erberg.
she went wrong. assuming tho name OF
New Orleans.
She had besn drinking on Friday and had
6 o'clock and went straight to tho Grand
Union. where she register oil rs Miss Raymond.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-08-23
Walter Greenwn,d Says Fifteen People
We're Let In tho Restnurunt.

JOSEPH Greenwald one o. the walters in
Peterson's restaurant. was ut work when the
disaster came. He said last night: There
were twenty-one people in the restaurant in
GLIDING the cook and dishwasher. There were
six Of those and they oil escaped. don't think
That anv OF tho fifteen customers cot out with
their livos.
The first knew OF any trouble was a low
rumbng that seemed to be over my head.
Then some plaster fell and saw some bricks
fail into the street. Tho noise was louder in
Instant, md | grabbed my coat aud ran.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-08-23
No Re-r for India an Territory.

WASHINGTON. Aug. 22.-Sccretary Noble has
instructed the Commissioner OF Indian Al
fairs to direct Agent Bennett OF the Union
Indian Agency, in the Indian Territory. to seize
all packages OF beer that may be shipped into
the Indian country and turn them over to the
United State. Marshal, TO be lboled as pro-
This action was taken upon Information that
. car load Of beer was about to be shipped to
decision by Judge Bryant for the Eastern Ju-
di"ial district OF Texas that malt ltuuor may be
lawfully introduced and sold In tho Indian
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-08-23
The Pres,deu, In Saratoga.

SARATOGA. Aug. 22.-The President rose carly
this morning aud breakfasted quietly in his
room with Russell Harrison. Private Secretary
Halford. and Howard Cole. At 10 80. accom-
panied by Postmaster Richie and Secretary
Halford. TO left the Grand MON Hotel in an
open landau for II drive to Woojlnwn.
correspondence and received y few callers.
At 81. p. NJ. Col Woo!worth of the Grand
Union took the President in a two. horse buggy
for drive to the lake. The President will
rest quietly until Tuesday morning. when he
will leave for Vermont.
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Frauds In Chinese Immigration.

SAN Francisco. Aug. 22.-Colector Phelps
has discovered that some one has been issuing
notary certificates Of prior residence to Chi
nese who are not entitled to landing papers
being neither merchants nor professional
certificates have been forwarded to addresses
in China. and later have made their appear
ance here. the Chinese proving to be common
emigrants. In most cases these frauds have
been detected. Collector Phelps thinks he has
clew to the forger. and says thut he will have
him in Jail within fortnight.
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Jennie Morse and Kate Strivey. who were
committed hy Police Justice Hogan ON Aug. 10
to the workhouse for sixty days as Migrants.
we're brought before Judge O'Bren In Supreme
Court. Chambers. yesterday and discharged
on technically. This makes five women Of
Capt. Brogan's precinct who were each COM
mitted for sixty days who have been set at lib
The women were arrested in the house at 1873
Ma"dougal street. Judge OHrien said there
was evidence before Justice ,I Hogan on which
not as yQgrAutS.
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LYNN. Mass. Aug. 22.-The will of the late
John B. Tolman. the veteran printer. contains
the following public beauests: Lynn Hospital
$1,000. one half to BIO added to the principal OF
the 1olmar Fund for Printers and the other
hall free from all corditions: Massachusetts
Society for Prevention OF Cruelty to Children,
$1,000; Massachusetts, Society for the Preyen-
tion VI Cruelty to Animals $1,000: Little Wan
OF educating colored people In the South. ST.
600: Christian Church. Silsbee street, Lynn.
AZ 600.
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Undertaken. Quarrel Over the BODIES.

On the outskirts OF tho crowd outside OF the
police line last night there were number Of
undertakers looking for bodies. They had
not been sent for my one. but were simply
there on speculation There was a good deal
OF rivalry.
The men from down town thought the up-
town mon had no business there. An uptown
man did got two bodies In the aft eric DON. aud
better stay In his own district. This belongs
to mo down here.
I'm onto him. He told tho police he was GO
ing TO take the bodies TO tho Morgue. and then
hO hauled them or to his own shop"
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John Nohie,. Marrow Escape.

NJ i. Conway, manufacturer OF stamps at
2 College place said the explosion sounded
like a lot OF coal falling through m iron
chute This was followed by o succession OF
short. sharp reports.
John Noble. Mr. tonway's messenger boy.
had narrow ESCAPE from death. lie had jnst
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-08-23
Cost. FIFTY Cents to Throw Dough.

This notice was posted yesterday in the
Produce Exchange:
These exchange rooms are designed ex-
clusively for private transaction OF business.
and all loud and boisterous conversation is
prohibited. Throwing OF dough. corn. or
other articles Is strictly prohibited. aud
any member who shall violate this
and subject to fine OF 80 cents. No smoking
will he allowed before 2:15 o'clock. under u
penalty OF 30 cents Members caught going
out Of the windows OF the Exchange or walk
ing on tho cornices will DO fined $lO.'
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-08-23
HIiIlars's Truck Empty,

Among the Inquiries ut Gouverneur Hos
pital was one for John Hillars of rs Gouver-
nsur street. Hillars has been truckman In
the service OF William II. Geary. 3s Park
place. for several years. About noon he went
10 Petersen's restaurant for his dinner. He
has not been seen since. His truck was re-
turned to the stable late In the afternoon by
the police. Hillarss family consists OF a wife
and eight children: the youngest 2 months,
the Oldest IA years old. They are destitute.
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woULDN'r TAKE HIM ON TIE UMBRIA.

Thornton IL Sent from the Steamship Pier
to n Hospital and Die. There.
George Thornton. 81 years old. OF Rock Falls.
Ill.,. died at ST. Nincent's Hospital Mt o'clock
last evening Of consumption. Att o'clock yes
ter!ay. morning he was brought from the
Cunard pier TO the hospital
He had engaged passage for himself and
family on the Cmbria and would have sailed.
hut the officers OF tho ship would not allow
him to do 30. Tho Coroner was notified. The
body 10 at tho hos pital.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-08-23
Doesn't Want Her Pictures Sold on tho
Street.

Mrs. De Forrest n blond actress. % years
old. OF go West Twelfth street. had dozen
pictures taken at photograph gallery at
Sixth avenue and Fourteenth street. two
months ago.
She found ont that duplicates of her photo
graphs were being sold on tho streets for 10
at Jefferson Market yesterday and obtained a
summons tor tue proprietor ot the photograph
OallArv
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-08-23
OIL In the Rockies.

OTTAWA. Ont. Aug. 22.-Dr. Selwyn. director
OF tho Geological Survey. has returned from
tho Rocky Mountains. While there he inves-
tIgated the alleged find OF netroleum in Crows
Nest and other dist ricts. He says that the re-
port was ully verified. that the oil is OF tho
rocks. He will report to the Government the
result OF his nvestigatiOns.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-08-23

A game Of tag and skylight unprotected by
a railing combined to cause the death Of g.
year-old William Cannon at As South Wash
ington square. Willie and his brother George
and George Dietlrch were on the roof on FRI
day af;e rnoon flying kites: They tired OF that
sport and began n game Of tag.
Diedrich was chasing Willie. Tho chase was
hot. and 10 escape Willie jumped Tor the roof
reaching to the ground. He fell short landed
on the glass, crashed tn rough and fell to tho
nRyad court h.loM