New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-03-20
FREMONT TEMPLE GUTTED.
TIE FAMOUS BOSTON HALL DESTROYED
BY FIRE.
TIE LOSS PLACED At 500. GOETHE PARKER
HOUSE. NEXT DOOR. SUFFERS FROM
wATER BAPTIST RELIGIOUS
SOCIETIES MADE HOMELESS.

I;oston March 9-Fire broke ont about o'clock
this morning in fremont Temple. Trcmontst.,
opposite the fremont House, and before noon
the entire structure WAS eutted. cntailing loss
roughly estimated at 100000. fireman, Pat
rick Dunn of Engine Company No. 20. had leg
broken, and another man. name unknown, is re-
ported To have been seriously injured.
Ihc fire WIS discovered by one Of the guests
the fourth floor of the Parker House. He had
first been aroused by the smoke. and on going TO
his window was startled by seeing flames darting
from the window fronting him. lie thought in
was the hotel, and smashing the glass one Of
alarm. Pedestrians on Trcmont-st. had noticel
the smoke issuing from the upper story of the
Temple, and they sent in an alarm from bon
3j quickly following il with q second.
When the Parker House box number runG,
an cmplOyc of the Parker House sounded the gongs
of the different floors to arouse the guests and
quickly the occupants of the rooms hurried out
i'm great excitement. When il was seen that there
10 immediate danger Of the fire reaching tn"
hotel the guests began TO remove their trunks.
The protective department did much to save the
interior of the house from the water that pourel
down the open stairway
No mishaps are reported to the Parker House
guests Amolg thrm were Don y Dickinson,
Rudolph ArOnsOn anl his wife, of Ncw-( Ork
Henri Martcau, the violinist, and Max Heinrich
Before the fire department W. arrived six
streams were turned on the fire from standppcs
in the Parker House Through open windows
on the upper floors great volumes of smoke
iourcd in from the burning buildin-.
The Tempt" fiery furnac" twenty mll-
utcs after the frs, alarm The blaze poured from
all the upper windows. threatening the Burnlam
l.,,fi al adj
on Trcmont--t.. placing the Parker House AM
the Park Hotel in danger in the rear. aud
alarming H." frcmen lest it should get down
,moug the ronkcric. on Province Court. lhe
iirrm"n ran line. of hose up through the Parker
House and the Park Hotel. ard both buildlNgS
we've damegrd by water
AZ $50 o'clock the fire we'll under COZ
troll tie 900 occupants of the Parker House ana
Park Hotel were returning 20 their rooms anu
the insurance lri-adc were busy covering 200 i
in the drygools store Of Butler CO., guar"-
inc a. much n possible from th" water. that dah'-
scd NOR. or l,ts all the adjoining buildings ana
contents. Tie front of the Temple l. OF quincy
rr..ni,c and - far appears, l. not SERIOUSLY
Affected by the ire.
The lo.. Will bc about 80 PER cent Of the t'tal
valuation. OF 100000; Will" the Parker liouS'
Is believed ;o have been damage by "lt'r
10 the cAtcat ~ 10000.
I,llo. the Union Temple Church. the Kew. Df.
George & Lorimcr. pastor tine following o'cnp'u
office. in the Temple Building Bl>h Schooi oi
o,otnry the American Blptist Missionary Mission
The Home Mission Society, the business ana cdl'
,oriai departments Of The Waterman ana IN"
Iapt,.t social Union, oflco Of Wonan's Voice,
room :: Loyal Women Of America, room lo'
=, SARGENT. room II: the pastors office, room -
Ip.tt'. m I,
bureau. room 3; DIS. Bailey bit'he''er anu
Craltrcc. IN rooms / and q.
40 80 Trcmont-,t under the Temple, was oc-
cup,cd * Fcdcrhcn x Sons. opticians and Mrs
: \. Mcdonnell. gloves This store was pauiy
f,,lcd and the stocks were much damaged. NOS
90 -. 81. % and Trcmontst arc the num-
bors of the building occupied by William , But
rcr. dryeoods. etc His building directly adIolh'
III. Temple and extends TO the corner OF Dos
,yorth-,t This building was not d1mag'd py
fire. though some Of the stock OF william = nul n
l.r vya, damaged by water The Burnlam EHlId-
i,o which T. now controlled by the Parker llou~'
,,-n.,. MAS occupied AT No. Il on the ground
floor bv : 4. Beckarl. mems furnishing goods
and at 80 80 by lubin, trus-"s. Both are dam-
aged by water.
Three largo congregations were prevented from
holding service on account OF th" ilr"-thc mon
rcmpe. the BromGcld Methodist and Kings
Clnprl. on School-st., directly opposite the
Parker House. Union Temple held their service
q, Mt. Vernon Church, in Ashburton Place"
fremont Temple, which has been on" OF the
most conspicuous public buildings ot BOSTON III
the current generation, stood on lrcmon-s'' oppo-
.itc fine fremont House., and adjoining the
Parker Uousr Originally the structure was
widely known as the fremont Theatre, AN old
nnt,r rt1
Isi3 il had been celebrated all over the country
~ thc LARGEST Baptist church in NrwEngland, II
not in America and the local headquarters oi
I hat dcnominat ion.
II had an exceptionally good organ, said to be
ono Of tbe largest and finest in the country,
built bv Mcs~rs Hook n Hastings. IL had
I manual :. 90 registers and 3,4i2 pipes, ana un-
usual mechanical appliances.
The pnrpos,, in taking the building for rclig-
ioua 1lscs was stated in the original appeal I'r
purchasc money to bc TO found free church III
rostou. whore all PERSONS whether rich or poor
without distinction OF color or condition. miIh'
worship The price paid for the place was
so. 600. To which S2j,OpO was adurd LOT i"'-
nishing and rcmodclling.
On December T. lsi3. IN" new house was
dedicated, bat on the night Of March q, 81,
the Temple was burned. ana John ,rn, ,,am G,,il I
zen. was killed. and George Estes, fireman, liah
his bacl broken, and died soon ait"rward: III"
los. was Sl1s.3Gj. insurance Sl3,?4i new
building on the old site wa, compctei: however.
in December. 1853 at cost of $l26,ooo. On
August a. 1879. the building WIS destroyed again
Inv lire. but was promptly rebuilt, and reopcnc
cn October II, 1850 at cost OF more thah
$3.50, 900.
The auditorium was one Of the largest IN me
country. being l22 feet in length, - IN width
and sc feet in height The seating capacity was wa.
for an audience Of 1000 people; Beneath the
great hall was the Mcionaon, with SEATING ca
pacitv of /, 900. and Chapel Hall -, ,,
astrons fires extraordinary pains were taken to
guard against any possible second fire while tlc
department was fighting the Temple bhzr I'm,
m,diatcly after the first alarm from Box 30 and
th. first and second alarms from Box 30 had
struck. District Chief Grady took his station in
the firc-alarm Headquarters in charge of the com
many running board. As the fire increased. one
rrncine after another was called In by teephon,
until a total of more than twenty steamers were
- - L., n4 tl1n Grp In a shnrf time lhirf