New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-07
TENEMENT-HOUSES FIRED.
ATTEMPTS MADE TO BURN TWO BUILD
INGS
LIVES OF MANY PEOPLE IN DANGER-PI,Ns
CAREFULLY LAID TO GET THE INSURANCE
ON a 'SAI.OON"-ONE OF THE FIRES
DTCEnNEp Eb

CAREFULLY LAID TO GET THE INSURANCE
ON ''sAI.ooN"-oNE OF THE FIRES
DISCOVERED BY A CHILD
The simple announcement. Fire at 5:25 a. m. on
first floor Of fve-story tenement o63 Broom st.
occupied by Elias Ganse liquor store. damage
$50; not covered by Insurance: cause unknown"
was telegrsphed to Police Headquarters early yes
terday morning No knew until later in the
day. when Fire Marshal Frce at the request of
Acting Chief OHearn made an Investigation Of
the cause of the fire. that OF the most cold
biooded attempts record had been made to burn
hve-story tenement house. ana. incidentally.
nearly 100 sleeping people for the sake $500 in
surance money
No. 2GS Broono-st is a fve-story brick tenement
house Of the usual type. Its starcases Of much
pine wood ard joined to It at the back is a
similar structure. accommodating In its small rooms
five six families Altogether about leo persons.
nearly all poor Germans and Hebrews, sleep in the
two buildings and their chances of escaping alive
should a fire In the iumblc-down structure
would be small indeed. The ground floor Of the
tenement Is occupied by saloon" and 1t was
rented six weeks ago by Hebrew who gave the
name of Elias Ganse.
Policeman Nell. Of the Eldr!dge-st. station. while
patrolling Broome-stx saw smoke oozing from the
cracks underneath the saloon" door. He turned
In alarm. The hremen broke into the place. ana
met by thick binding smoke. Investigation
revealed four small fires smodcr!ng in various
parts of the and several more in the cellar
below 1t. only the thick smoke ana confinement
from the air prevented the whole place from break
ing into flames. which in Il w minutes wou1 pave
wrapped the tenement IN b,aZe which woud nav
been Impossible TO srhdue without serious loss OF
life Trails Of burning paper ran from one part
OF the pace to another. and every; hinS had eV-
IDENTIFY been prepared for a fire which should leave
no traces. 49,
The IRE was pu, out IN few minutes and Chief E,1i.
70 investigate the re as navns ofsuIreG Hg Sun
ec cSs the Fact that CANE the a.
though he had denied TO the police mat hs pace
upon his place and stock The s,ock excep, for
large number Of empty bottles conslste' Only OF
the spot in the flooring fired by the kerosene-soaked
70 the Fire Marshal Came denied all knowledge
OF fire. bu; the ev.den~ aGains, him IS 50 strong
that the POLICE will arrest HIM on Syn When ne
Fire Marshal's report is received. IL was not 10
be found lag. night.
The hve-story brick ;enemcnt-house NJ. 2il East
Eghtleth-st. containing altogether eighteen FAINT
Hes was discovered 10 be fire early yesterday
morning The outbreak started in the cellar among
the woodbns and the tenants say 1t the work
Of an ncendiary To prove their statement they
show a half-gallon kerosene can. which they found
enp;iei OF It's contents IN the cellar. The fire was
discovered. and. perhaps, tragedy averiei by nine
year-old Julia Kohler. the daughter OF Mrs. Anna
Kohler who IS ianitor OF the tenement house and
occupies rooms on the ground floor. AZ 3 o'clock
the child awoke TO find the room fun Of thick; Dind
ing smoke. She reused her mother ana 'l,te n,1,'
Johnnie without screaming or alarming anEbo'l'
else. and partially dressed herself. whe MIS- Ih'r.
opened the window and pu; johnnie ihrNhEh -
into the street telling him TO ask somebody 10 s'id
in an alarm. Then Mrs Kohlcr went into ne hali
vav where the smoke by this time rendered II al
mos, impossible breathe. and yelled Fire. with
all her might. -, -.
filled railways and by the stairs. the hrc-escapes
that when the irernen arrived there was no, one
left In The building
THE fire having started In the cellar hai ma -
rs vay m the airshaft before tn" nrom"n con- !
checl, rs progress and damage TO the extent 81
$3.50 done. =, ., 49,.
The coa,bus in the cellar were all burned away
and the only thing discovered which might explain
the origin OF the fire nm empty kerosene can
No one in the building owned H.