New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-06
ARTISTS STUDIOS DAMAGED.
THREE UPPER FLOORS OF THE VAN DYKE
BUILDING RUINED BY FIRE AND WATER
THE ENTIRE LOSS PIT At slooao

THE ENTIRE LOSS PIT At siOo.0o
A fire which broke out in the Van Dyke Studio
Building No 93a 70 No 9i5 Eighth-ave. last
night burned out hall the colony o, artists on
tho three upper n1ors ~ the building. Most OF
them are away on their vacations.
The fire. which broke out in the studio Of Jules
Turcas on the sixth floor, WAS confined TO the
,op II he building Every part q the top floor is
total wreck. while the rest Of the building. In
Guiding the premises of Andrew Testers Sons.
carpet manufacturers and furniture dealers STho
occupy the first three floors. is 80 badly damaged
hy water that thu entire loss will probably reach
500 900 The building is a handsome brick struct
ure with brownstone front. In tho rear are
number Of nathouses in F,fty-sIXth-st.
Tho building was almos, unoccupei when the
fre broke out. Just before o'clock The first in
dicatons we're seen by James y. Gleason.
painter. whose studio is In the rear ~ the sixth
floor He saw smoke coming from Mr. Turcas's
studio and giving the aarm. reized the un-
finished portrait and a few knick-knachs ana
made his escape downstairs with the few tenants
who were in the building In the meanwhile ihe
engineer. Cramer called TO Policeman Barrett
Of the West Forty-sevenih-st. station. and the
latter turned In an alarm. Chief GlcqueI re-
sp7nded \ second and third alarm were sent In
I'm rapid succession. ami ,he fire was confined 10
the top floor. Several times however, the hre-
mon were beaten back by the pungent smoke
which came from the burning canvas and artists
materials and three accidents were soon re-
nort.d George Grahe. member Of Truck No. ,
and the athlete II the Fire Department. was
caught under a falling skylight and received bad
cuts on his arms and face He was taken to
Roosevelt Hospital where his WOUNDS were
l,+ .lx mod "a
Fireman Peter Brennan. Of Hook and Ladder No.
( was badly cut about the left mana py iallihE
debris. JCseph \. Newroth ot the same , rp"i- ~
many was also cut about the hands Thelr
wounds were dressed, ana theN "S" lc'"'"V" ~
work -, d.,
building removed all their property ana camped
ont in the street. At the end of an nour thc IRE
,,as under control When IL became possible 10
obtain some estimate 4 the damage the esu-
mates were widely different. The police placed
the damage L. the building at $5.OOO ana 20 coH-
~ uts nj SIS OOO ON the other hand Mr.. Gleason
said that his own and his colleagues losses IN
finished and unfinished pictures would BRING tne
Dumond who is at present in Europe. was sald
10 have lost in the fire Is picture entitled me
Holy Family" FOR which he received goId
medal In the season Of 1871; picture en.i.eu t.,S
"'rhe Baptism Of Christ by St John for which
ne received honorable mention at the exhiDition
Of the Students Art League OF this CITY All
the artists with studios or the top moor are & &ntat
losers. They are: Mrs. Frederick N. White,
lanes D. Duval. H. V. Tack. Thomas X. Fla
hartv. Frederick Carey. John \. OConor Albert
THOMPSON Roswell ). Hill. Jules Turcas. Frank
Y Dumond James y. Gleason, Lucus W. Hitch
cock Casimlr d. Zukonsha. Henry ;. Iayior,
Nathaniel j. Burche William !. curtis ana
NJ, IIanrv Ware Jones Between twenty and
thirtv artists whose studi s on the fourth ana
nfth floors. were also heavy losers from damage
by yater. The majority Of them are insured;
The owner Of the building Is Mrs. Mary ~.
aster The CARPET company's loss was entirely
bv water II could not be estimated last night