Morning journal and courier., 1891-01-03
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 FIRE IN NEW YORK. Several Theaters and Other
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BIG FIRE IN NEW YORK.

Destructive Blaze Starts in the
 Finh Avenue Theater-The Flames
 Rapidly Spread to Herrman,s
 Theater and Adjoining Buildings-
 The Loss Large-Fanny Daven-
 ports Scenery and Costumes Burn
 ed-S1x Explosions in Crooks
 Sporting Goods Emporium. =
 NEW YORK, Jan. 3.-The audience had left the Fifth Avenue theater, Broadway and Twenty-ei eighth street, at 11:20 last night. Harry 0. Miner, the proprietor of the theater, was the last person in the place. He said he had foreboding that something was going to happen and took a look through the premises. Then he also went away. About midnight the theater was discovered to be on fire, apparently in the back part near the stage. Three alarms were turned in and fremen swarm ed to the place and broke into the building by the various entrances. The fire had too much headway and soon broke through the roof, the whole interior being in flames. Fanny Davenport's scenery and costumes used in the presentation of Cleopatra, made positively their last ap- pearance and disappeared in lurid trans formation spectacle. Then the fire spread to neighboriHg buildings. Hermann's the ater, where the master of the black art has been giving exhibitions, being one of them. Crooks sporting goods emporium was soon blazing, and six distinct explosions heard in the interior caused stampede in the crowd that had gathered. By o'clock it looked as if the whole block might be swept away, and, the Fifth avenue theater being apparently doomed, the efforts of the fremen were devoted to saving ad- ditional property. A breeze famed the flames, and at 1:3O o'clock the Gilsey building was threatened.
 1:30 a. m.-Harry Miner places his loss on the Fifth Avenue theater at $125, ,000. Magician Herman says it cost him $65, 900 to refit Doekstader's theater into the pres ent Herrman's theater. Besides losing all this he lost $25, ,000 worth of theatrical effects and costumes which he was unable to remove from the doomed structure. At ten minutes of o'clock @ flaming brand bore on the strong northwest breeze, fell on the roof of the Sturtevant house across Broadway, setting that hotel on fire. The guests were hustled out amid great excite ment and hurriedly conveyed to numerous nearby hotels. The fremen put their hardest work on trying to save the hotel.
 The latest report is that Fanny Daven- ports loss is about $50, 900.
 At 2i15 a. m. the fire in the Sturtevant house is reported to be under control. The upper portion of the hotel is, however, pretty badly damaged. It appears that the roof had been burning for fully fifteen minutes before it was discovered. The estimate of the total loss as near as can be learned tonight is over $500, 1000.
 Manager Miner was early on the scene, as was also Professor Hermann. While the former saved nothing from the wreck, the professor and his wife worked like beav- CTS.
 Mrs. Hermann saved her four pet doves, but her husband sorrowfully said that his favorite trick apparatus, worth $2O, 900, was lost to him forever.
 The occupants of the stores on the west side of Broadway, from Twenty eighth to Twenty ninth streets (the burned district) number from 1185 to 1908, and were as fol- lows;
 Mo- 11s5, J.J. slattery, shoes; No. 11s7, side entrance to the Fifth Avenue theater; No. 1189, the Cash Register company; No. 1191, J. B. Crook & Co.,, sporting goods; rance to Herrmann's theater; No. 1197, A. E. Kirch, florist; No. 1199, J. B. White, jeweler; No. 1901, Weissman, florist, and No. 1908, Hannah & Son, shoes.
 The goods in the stores are badly dam aged by water and should the walls topple in the salvage will be very small.
 The series of explosions came from the Fifth Avenue theater, it seems, and were caused dprobably by bursting gas tanks. The first one came near doing serious injury to fremen and several reporters who were in the building. Several firemen on the roofs of the burning buildings also had narrow escapes during the fire,
 There was some lively soenes in the Bow CT house, but there was no panic. At 5 o'clock the fire was still burning. The Fifth Avenue theater was 8 complete wreck and Herrmann's was not much bet