New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-17
FIRE IN THE HANOVER.
FTFTH-AvE. APARTMENT HOUSE BADLY
DAMAGED.
GENERAL b. +. TRACY. JUDGE MMAHCN. CHESTER
ALAN ARTHUR AND PROFESSOR c. 4.
DoREMus AMONG THE TENANTS
WHO sUFFEl

|
WHO SUFFER
| Fire destroyed the upper part of tho Hanover
apartment house and family hotel. ut the south
| east corner of Fifth-ave. and Fifteenth-st.,
! yesterday afternoon. The fire started from some
unknown cause and the first that was seen o.
| the flames was when they broke through the
roof William Egar the manager, was IN the
office nj $50 o'clock, when one Of the servants
rushed downstairs and told him that the house
was on fire He ran upstairs. and found that the
servants quarters. on the top floor were IN
flames. Going downstairs again he called a scr
want. who sent in an alarm. Deputy-Chlei f"r-
roy arrived with the first detachment and sent
in a second alarm. Ten minutes later, fearing
that the fire was likely to get beyond his con-
troll. he sent out a third alarm, ana IN a snort
time the building was swarming with firemcn'
They had hard time Of it on the top floor
and on the roof on account Of the dense smoke
but in a short time Deputy Chief Purroy felt as
sured that he could get the fire under control 1t
was difficult one to fight at first, because 1t was
on the top floor of a slx-story building Inc
firemen. however, carried the lines of hose up
the nre-escapes. and UP the stairs, and gained
good vantage points where they could fight the
flames.
The Hanover was one of the first Of the big
arartmcnt-houses that was built In this city.
Ii belongs to the HaiGht estate and was erected
about 1876. About fifty families lived In the
house. Many Of them home when the
fire started. and great excitement prevailed
among them. They all left the hotel with hand
baggage containing their Valuables. Some OF
them went To the rooms of the Young Womens
Christian Association. at No. East Fifteenth
St. and others to the Hotel Kensington, on the
-,
Mrs. Kirkland. who lived on the top floor, was
sick in bed and unable To move She was car
ried out by Fireman Heylos and Policeman Ben
Ming Of the Thrtieth-st station. They assisted
her 20 the kansingtOn. James Reynolds, a par
aytic also carried to the same house.
General Benjamin +. Tracy and his daughter.
Mrs. Wimerdine occupied apartments on the
third floor. on the Fifteenth-st side. Neither Of
them was at home at the time of the fire. Cen
eral Tracy lost his wife and daughter at a
fire in Washington shortly after he entered
President HaIsOn's Cabinet. He took rooms
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last night The fire.
men struggled with the blaze, which they man.
aged to confne to the upper part Of the build.
ing, on the Fifth-ave side. An immense crowd
gathered. and the police. under tho command OF
Captain Sheehan, Of the Nineteenth Precinct,
had hard work to keep them outside the line.
Among other guests Of the house, all Of whom
lost more or less by fire or by water. Ches-
tor Alan Arthur and sister. son and daughter Of
the late President Arthur Judge Martin T Nc
Mahon and his two sisters Mrs. S. S. Blood and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. a. s. Hamersely. Miss
Laura Conkling. niece Of Roscoe Conkling; Pro-
fesgor Charles a. Doremus and Mr.. and Mrs.
David Thompson.
The house is owned by the Haght estate and
is the old Iaight mansion. An addition has been
put to the original building on the Fifteenth-st
side, ard It now has a frontage Of 100 feet In
that street.
The nremen estimate the loss at $4,000 and
believe that the blaze started by care
lessly throwing a lighted match in a closet filled
with clothing. The police estimated the loss at