New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-15
HEBREW SWEAT SHOPS BURN
NARROW ESCAPES OF FIREMEN IN
CHERRY-ST.
GREAT EXCITEMENT PREVAILS IN THE NEIGH
DORHOoD. But THERE Is no LOSS OF
LIFE-THE DAMAGE Is EsTI-
MATED AT 100000.

MATED AT 100000.
A fire Of mysterious origin last evening totally
DESTROYED fvc-story factory occupied mostly by
Jewish sweatshops. and TWO stable buildings al
joining il in Cherry-st No enc was at WORK there
and there was no loss Of life so far as could be
learned bu' the damage will amount altoGether 10
something like 100000 The fire was one OF the
ferccst the East Side has for year or more
and the greatest excitement prevailed. The flames
shot up above the taest buildings in the neigh
borhood and ten minutes after the alarms were
sent out there crowd OF nj least l"Vo peo-
pie beyond the fire lines Impromp'u hucket-bri-
gales were formed AMI there was so much dliilcuity
in keeping street Gordon around the burning build
ings that Inspector Williams. who was In command
Of the police. telephoned for reinfo7cemen's ana
the reserves OF four precincts were dispatched In
a hurry to the scerc
The burned buildings at Nos 3D. 23i ana 20
Cherry-st. The swcatshop building is Nos 23i
and 2SG on the north. along Cherry-st was the
stable OF Lord & Taylors Grand-st. drygoods
stores The Ere started somewhere IN the DaSe-
ment OF the factory building No one knows exactly
how Two slight fires have been eXtinSushed there
during the las; two weeks, and the police think
the circumstances suspicious. Yesterday being
Hebrew half-holiday. the tailors ceased work at
noon. There one except man naned
Cooper the building at o'clock last night Ai'er
closing the outer DOORS he was on MS way up
TO bed when he smelled smoke coming up the air
policeman gave the alarm, but flames had already
rea ched the paper-box mandatory OF Atkins
Brothers e. CO., on the first hoor 81 ths 9u'iu if
By the time the fremen got around the whole Duid-
On the ground floor OF The building were the Eu-
turty stables containing fifteen horses - Inc
flames caught the hay and straw stacked IN ne
rear and the animas were wd VIZ '1 pTo at6cr
ert Gyes. Andy Fraser ana haI' a uo]e' o.ho1
men who live in the neighborhood. however. dasned
into The burning 6nnF ana be %dP ea them out
into the before the flames reached them. IN
where there we're twenty-five families, the people
were in stat Of panic ana we're resFns up ru 1nta
which their owners had left standing in the street
in front Meantime six hremen belonsng to I'm;
from there upon the factory and the stables. The
strong wind drove shower OF sparks tnat len',ea
tenement house. cutting of their outlet. There
was space OF fifteen feet between me mon ahd
the nr-escape and fearing Jest they should
mss ther I0o IN b ronf furihest from the flames
Chief McCill's wagon. who was in the street below
srasRdb the sq hs es esn To- the op 5 and
hung the ladder to the roof-cornice enabling ne
drivers acton and cheered him wildly
Five minutes aftcrwar1 a dozen hremen on ,he
es"ane ON thu, side was a wide two-siory building
occupied as a stable by Lord FAVOR anu ttiy-
hc extent OF the fire was first nc 20 horses
stabbed there had been lei out ana ne Sia DE anan
donel chief Ahcarn. howeyer. anu a COZ n n'enn
drawn from Engine Companies -, II ana :. lao
taken mp their stand on the roof am we're nshtlhg
the fire from that position with great effect SUD
denly cracks appeared In the north wall OF the DaZ
ing factory which ovcrhung the stdoie Chl.l
run for their lives. They made for the ladders on
the further side OF the stable. barely In tune As
the last man disappeared over the edge OF ne roof
tho wall OF the factory spread at the "orn"r front.
ing on Cherryst.. and the Wall. splitting IN two reg
with crash on to the stable smashing in the roof
and setting the debris on FIRE.
nv dint OF the hardest work the enc ncnt-holse
on Tho ono side and the bic building on he otEer
Nank OF the factory were saved. The Aanace TO the
-hor,
iriurv was done 20 the stable AMI It's contents. The
factory and the smaller stables were total wreck
The loss on the building IL estimated it S"~D The
sweaters stock and the wagons and feel destroyed
In the stables are valued at another k""b