New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-13
LOSSES ~ THE N4SSAU-ST. FIRE
A SECOND BLAZE CAUSED BY A sPARK-A
LYING REPORT ABOUT THE ATLANTA
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The police estimate Of the losses entailed by the
great fire Of Friday night in Nassau-st is still In
complete but In general terms they estimated the
total damage yesterday AZ from $4,000 20 800
or Chief Bonners estimate on Friday night was
$1,000. but most Of the fremen and fire insurance
adusters believe that the total loss will be nearer
the mlion-dollar mark
The Nassau Chambers building the police say.
was damaged 10 the extent Of 10000 and they est
mate the loss tenants follows: Herald Bicycle
Company 5000; william II Murray. ststoner.
800; Derby Desk Company, 5000 Henry P. Pep
pino 600: the Richards cigar Company. $50:
United States Revenue Collectors Office Second
District. $1,000. John Smith CANTOR. $500:
ants on the fourth fifth and sixth floors. $4,000.
At Nos 10 and l12 Nassau-st, Maduro Brothers.
clothiers estimate their loss al $1,000 while Espen
scheid. the keeper OF hat store. the
first floor OF the building AT No 1S Nassau
81. is credited with a loss OF 5000 Cohen
& Co.. at Ann and Nassau SITS. think they suffered
a loss OF about S9oo. The damage to the Vanderbilt
Building at No. 49, Nassau-st.. which partially
wrecked IS said 10 be $1,000. the tenants the
three upper floors having suffered to the extent OF
$500 Henry Miller. bookseller at No. 10 Nassau
81. IL thought to have lost $500 At the ATLANTA
Casino fire the damage Is now said 10 be only
about $500
The call-on had been sounded on the fire and
most Of the iremen had gone home. when new
blaze was discovered in the neighborhood OF the
great IRE yesterday morning, Wnlch lot rev mo-
ments threatened 70 give the hremen another hard
battle. When Paul Churin. the jantor Of the six
story building at No . Park Row, retired at mid
night he was sure that he had extingulshed all
the blazing embers that had foated 20 the roof
from the blazing furnace which had threatened
the surrounding property for so long. Churtn had
not only succeeded In preventing fire on the roof
OF the building OF which he is janitor, but he had
extinguished lively blaze the hf.l floor OF the
new syndicate Building A. No Park Row
About a. m. however Mrs. Churin awoke and
found her apartments, on the fifth floor nlled with
smoke. Al the same time she heard the cracking
Of blazing wood on the floor above and saw
tongue OF flame shooting around the sides % the
big airshaft between the nfth and sixth nooTs
She shouted 10 her husband ana aroused her nice
who was asleep IN an adjoining room. ChurIn
rushed the street Ia his night clothes and called
This brought speedy response from three ire
When The hromen returned the ofiee Of William
Offices Of The Caterer hotel and restaurant
Germs suffered the extent Of s?yp before the fire
extinguish,d: the property OF cnprin was dam
building was set at $3.50 Churin said the fire in
through A broken windOw-pane In the arshaft and
gnited the woodwork This spark smouldered all
Few stairways were clear in the water-hooded
crowd 81 spectators behina The police lines in Mas
sau-st was treated 70 the sight Of stad business
their Offices In some OF the buildings the entire
Interior had been destroyed and little was LETT but
tho walls IN others the nremen had Hooded every
f5or and little was burned The damage done was
either complete or almost Insignificant. In each
building either one side or the other had been a
complete conqueror.
As TO the question Of insurance. the surprising
stsfemeut was made by well-known insurance
man that the fire would cost the Insurance COM
panies not more than $4,000.
In connection with the Atlanta Casino fire. many
exnressious OF disgust heard with the mis-
5iracted enterprise which Friday night Imposed
on The people OF the city fraudulent extra" an
,,uncing fhat number Of people had been buried
In the blazing ruins at hundred and-hity-
s,urfh-st and Eighth-ave. Newsboys selling this |
sr rushed an over the city. alarming every one
taP,,a announcement OF an absolute falsehoOd |
unfch must have been issued with the full knowl- |
sdce of rs untruthfulness