The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-02-20
ONE OF MES. srEyENs,s ROOMS.

Julius Spets. an elevator boy, was making a
| trip up. The elevator is IN the middle of the
house AT tho third floor hc smelled smoke.
He left tn" elevator and with Mary Peck. a
servant. found the fire in the dumb waiter
shaft and the wooden back stairway. Spets
and the girl shouted and screamed that the
house was on fire. Then Spets jumped into
the car and went up to tho top floor. The halls
there were full of smoke. but he succeeded in
alarming all the people. He took somc Of them
down in the car and others ran down the stone
stairs, which wind around the iron elevator
shaft. Those who did not escape in this way
climbed down the fire escapes
The Percivnl was we'll fitted with fire es-
capes Broad iron balconies extended across
the front at each floor. They could be reached
from every apartment. Ladders run from the
ground to both ends of the series of balconies
This arrangement was duplicated in the rear
of the building.
Edward Pannaci. the proprietor. lives on the
first floor He heard the shouts upstairs and
ran out into the street to give the alarm. Tho
flremen were there almost as soon as he got
back.
The iremcn ran up their ladders and began
helping out the people from the third and
fourth floors. On the top floor lived Frank
b. Blanchard and his Wife, Mrs. Blanchard
was very much frightened and tainted. She
had been ill for some time. Mr.. Blanchard
took her in his arms and carried her to the
rear fire escape and down the slender ladder to
oarh oor Mrs Kah qa HI and on unabe
tie help herself. She was brought down the
front fire escape by Mr.. Pannuci and Police
I'D Edwin Stevens. the Casino comedian has
apartments on the tor floor He has been out
ol IN" Guy i"r stne e weeks VIII r ING road
She came down the fire ESCAPE unassisted and
t'1 'f al NeE
pq%rary refuge. oo,,no v.nnn, c,a, -. =.
eam Mrs apTn the F@k s OF ne ny
the third floor She wore a big sealskin REFER
w on toe one p" on Ths
The re maae stubborn gh o was inn
tme ana it ran down tho dum1, waiter shaft
na CSs nary w !" mn thew lad
y"ntiatinE holes; Chief bonner sent out a
iohrtn alarm am twenty ensines hpt tf water
co WI .ha Ch;of mat, 49, ;nros.io,.;on b
found tina: the iIro had originated in Tie attic:
among some old lhp.fs ana some moss. II
Quilted ne -, httlc ana me toP Two ilonrs ana
Water completed me damage, II soaked
every room in the building and ullthe frescoed
;, n. Perciva! was butt twenty years ngo:
lnti! about zen years ago " was the college or
-. Louis, AZ thht time II was bought by
IerclVal W. tlcmcnt,a marble cuttor OF nut
land. VINO rebuilt IT Tor IN APARTMENT house.
Edward tannacl leased the building and fur
nishrd It,; Four ioors were used for apart
mcnts. The top oor was On attic and trunk
room. MecE ngo Nri II. i hiakn. whose VIE
Is tho tcli l.;.iS o! inc Blle jeans com,
panv was in the auto ana saw lot OF old
papers ana som" q, hrir ,;i mos" st th"rr;
Among thosc VINO llVttl NJ inc icrrlVhl were
Lawyer George W. SclgmaHn, Clinton j. Ed
gerry q tho MASSACHUSETTS, Mutual Life. Mrs.
G -. Williamson and three children. Mr.. and
Mrs. Edwin stevens; NJ. 4: knight MIR. and
Mrs: Sshollold., an! Miss Evansi Their ncIcr:
; W Bretzlleid agent q the pni ". Palace
Gar Company: kor"Eo Iakallra the Japanese
Cnnsul-t'"n"ral and HIS vile: Miss T. savage
Mss \. Long, llrs. =. " Morrls' l. L. unison,
Mr.. and Mrs. J.. H. kahl. Mr.. D. II; Alpuontc.
Mr.: and Mrs; v. t. Law. u. >. HlaEc and his
wife. Celia Ellis; julius Meyer; VI. >. Da Costa.
Mr.; ,and Mrs. Frank Is; l'lanchnrd. Augustus
T. Woodruff M. and Mrs. vi, i; Bouchelle.
Mr.. and Mrs trancls DRAKE. W. ]. Pomeroy:
and Mrs. n. i. Thomas There were In al t'j
lo1gers most OF whom were In the building
when the ire broke our. ABOUT twenty-five
employees were also there. ,,
Those VINO lived on inc top l0ors had no on,
portunity to hyeahythlnE. Ihnso who lived
below the third moor managed TO save some