Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-25

walls were ZEN standing, except upon the
Waverly avenue side of the Sunday-School
structure adjoining and forming portion
| of the church, where the wall fell into the
street.
Meanwhile there were scenes OF excite
ment in the spacious Hotel Regent adjoin-
ing. This had ninety feet frontage In Gin
ton avenue, and depth of 200 feet, extend
ing TO Waverly avenue. The fire, which first
communicated to the hotel through the party
well, was extinguished by the fire brigade
formed OF the employees, but when the
Tabernacle was fully afame the hotel caught
in so many places that ii was found that 1t
could not be saved. The suites OF rooms
were occupied by about 100 guests and there
were ninety-three servants. Some OF tho
guests were in their rcoms, but all made
their way down by the elevators or the IRE
escapes.
Mrs. A. Loo mis-, Of Savannah, Ga, was
the ire-escape by William Francis, aAd taken
to aneighboring house. Mr. Francis assisted
two other women to escape.
Miss Keene, the housekeeper, was over
come by smoke in the effort to save some ar
ticles and had to be carried out. George P.
Mccoy went up in the elevator to his rooms
on the seventh floor and secured such of his
personal effects as he could carry and then
made his way down the fire-escape.
One OF the occupants OF the hotel
was Judge Henry A. Moore, but he and his
wife were out Of the building. They lost all
their property, as did the other occupants.
Only the books in the Office OF the hotel were
saved. In the safe was personal property
valued at $50, 900 belonging to tho guests.
The wind carried sparks across Wa~
erly and Green avenues, and set fire to ser
eral houses. 1t Greene and Clinton avenVAs
there was loss of $4,000 on the house OF
Louis Hirsch No 395 Clinton avenue. Adj
joining this, at No. 13S Greene avenue, there
was loss of $4,000 On the house of DR.. Mon
Ter. Az No. 100 the loss to S. w. Reeves
was $1,000. At No. 1872 J. III. Pepper lost
$500 on his store and house above it. The
next block, on the south side OF Greene ave-
nue. is occupied by the Summerdeld metho-
dist Episcopal Church, and this was dam
aged to the extent of about $500. There
were two small houses and stable
burned In Waverlv avenue, opposite tho
Tabernacle, with loss OF about 5000. On
the north side Of Greene avenue, and be
tween Waverly and Washington avenues,
there were five houses, the loss upon which
was about $4,000 each. On the washington
avenue side of this block the house of DR..
Kretzschmar, at No. 400, was damaged $l5,.
900. At No. 404 George Harvey's house SUI
fered damage amounting to S1O,O 0O. AT No:
400 an unoccupied house was damaged
$4,000 At No. 1876 Washington avenue there
vas loss of $1,000 to the house of FreeborD
q. Smith. the aggregate OF these losses was
a little over $50, 900.
The damage tc the Tabernacle was about
$500, 900. The property was valued at S4OO,.
600, and the site Is worth $95, OO0. Inc dept
upon it was about $175, 200, not including
interest of $25, 900 more. There is a mort
gage of $685. 900 held by Russell Sage,
and lien by George Wills, build
er. of $4,000. On the Hotel Regent
the loss was estimated at 100000, without
counting the personal effects OF the guests
which were burned. The site cost 500 200,
araota5 ot ar PVDeDS0
ST $3.50 900. The insurance was S40O, OOO Ii
was furnished in a costly manner.
A meeting of the trustees was held at DR..
ralmage's house at o'clock p. m. After
a prolonged session it was decided to make
an attempt to rebuild. In that event, pro-
yiding the now Tabernacle is free from
debt, DIR. Talmage promised to be the
pastor He yielded to their wishes not to
postpone his trip around the world. round
sum was subscribed on the spot for the new
structure. A committee was appointed to
find place for the temporary accommodation
of the Tabernacle congregation. Within
four hours after the fire offers of dozen
halls and churches gratis had been made.
A trustee said to a reporter: "We almost
feel as If we had q load off our minds.
There seems every prospect of our buil1-
ing new Tabernacle. Before it was
case of helping sinking ship and the pub
lie was slow to assist. Now we start in
anew, with no debts or eL1barrasSmentS
whatever. We believe the public will gen.
erously respond and help build a church for
the greatest of living preachers. We have
RAISED 81 900, 900 in the year past, and we
should be able to raise $500, 900 to build an
other church now. That will be sufficient.
In years time a new Tabernacle may be
erected"
This is the third tmo that DR.. Talmage's
Tabernacle has been burned down. All the
fires have been on Sundays, and the last two
have been on the thirteenth day Of the
month. The first and second Tabernacles
were on Schermerhorn street, and were
burned down on Sunday. December %, 1872,
and Sunday, October 13, 1885, respectively.
The trustees of the church say that this
fire must have been of incendiary origin
There were no electric light wires near
where the fire was first found, and the only
fire in the church was in tho basement. -