New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-15
MR.. AND MRS J. W. VROOMAN'S ESCAPE.
THEY HAD HARD WORK IN GETTING OFT OF THE

MR. AND MRS. j. W. VROOMAN'S ESCAPE
THEY HAD HARD WORK IN GETTING OFT OF THE
REGENT-MUCH or THEIR PROPERTY LOST
Mr. and Mrs John ". Vrooman narrowly escaped
a horrible death i'm the Tabernacle and Hotel
Regent fire Sunday. They occupied sixth floor
apartments the south side Of the hotel overlook
ing the Tabernacle. The organ in which the fire
started was also that side of " Tabernacle
The fire broke through the ventila ,rs over the
organ. and the wind carried the iaze directly
against the win lows the fifth and sixth floors
OF the south side of the hotel.
Mrs. Nrooman yesterday gave the following
graphic account of the narrow escape of Mr.. Nroo-
and herself:
1--WE attended the morning service in the Taber-
nacle and Immediately after the service we went to
the hotel Within five minutes after we left the
Tabernacle we were in our rooms. had just taken
off my wraps and stepped TO the open window
when great sheet of flame came swrnhs up We
side wall OF the hotel, filling our room with SMOKE
Vroolnan the Tabernacle burning, and urging
him to save some of our things, at the same time
them up in the Counterpart of the bed -.
Wen get right out Of here ana neyer ililnG , ,e
things SAID Mr. NrOOman, and taxing the counter
pane under his arm he boted for the hail when zen
elevator shafts a few steps from Our apartments
and the fire was streaming up them GropInS p pl
way with the greatest difficulty we finally reached
the fourth floor by going down the stairs. and then
we were safe. the fre was burning only from me
were the first to take fire. 1t makes me shudder
when | think of how nearly we were cut OH: i1uu
sto O anything else we would hardly
have ESCAPED. ! almost sufiOcated in going through
rha smoke and heat. l DO not understand now Inc
fire got such Roadway in five or six minutes. Inc
Tabernacle burned like q Undertook
Mrs Vrooman lost nearly all her jewels, clothng,
tric-a-brac etc. and Mr.. Nrooman large quantity
Of books and private papers some OF WAich 10 MN
were priceless One of the few things they saved
was the beautifully engrossed, bound parchment
certificate Of honorary membership in Crescent Ma
sonic Iodge. presented him while he was Worthy
Master. by the merest chance the large diamond
In the ring presented him by the state senate after
his long term clerk Of that body was not IN lts
setting Mrs Nrooman had ii in her pocketbook.
The ring was destroyed with other jewelry but Mrs
Vrooman has the diamond Among Mrs. Nroomans
other effects was wedding gown, made ex-
pressy for coming wedding.
Nothing can dash for long the eQuanimity of Mr..
Nrooman. When at the Mutual Reserve Fund
Building yesterday he was happy that things were
worse.
Until have time get of things from
cur Herkimer house" said Mr.. Frooman, Il shall
feel If extremely eligible for membership
in CoXeys army.
Mrs. VroomaE is the guest Of her long-tim friend.
the wife Of Ex-Governor Lounsbury, at No. 1871 West
Seventy-second-st. in this city. and will accompany
the latter to her summer home at Ridgefeld Mrs.
Nroonan, though not In the best OF health does not
suffer from the exciting experience Of Sunday.