The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-06
MARLBOROUGH ROOF AFIRE
FLAMES DIDN'T GET INTO THE
HOTEL AND THERE WAS NO PANIC
Fire Caused by workmen and First Seen
From tho strect-Hotel People Kept
Cool and Made 1t Plain That There Was
No Danper-would-B he Rescuers Arrested

Fire Caused by workmen and First Seen
From tho strect-Hotel People Kept
Cool and Made II Plain That There Was
No Danssr-wouid-B lie Rescuers Arrested
Two alarms were sent out Just after noon
yesterday for a fire on tho top oil the Hotel
Marlborough, at Thirty sixth street and Broad
way. The damage done by the Are was slight.
and though there was great excitement In tho
hotel nobody was hurt.
Plum bers and roo'crs have been at work for
several days on the hotel roof preparing TO add
another floor TO the present seven stories
When tho workmen went below to lunch yes
terday they left behind them three small roof
ers' furnaces in which they had been heating
soldering irons. Twenty minutes later man
on the street saw a cloud Of smoke rolling from
the hotel roof. A policeman sent In an alarm
from the nearest box. and before the first en-
elne arrived had told Clerk Crawford about the
blaze
When the Hremen came the smoke had In
creased and q servant. who had been up to the
roof. said that there was big blaze up there
which had already eaten Its way In several
places to the servants rooms on the top floor.
The flremen tried at first TO get q line OF hose
up to the roof by way OF the elevator shaft. but
they quickly abandoned this plan and ran
several lines up the stairs. Mean
while tho servants went to every
room In the house and told the occupants thnt
there was slight fire on the ROOT. but that
there was no danger II everybody kept cool.
Most OF the NIFTY or, scyenty.nye OCCUPANTS fhn
to the elevators and were carried down &c, the
ground floor. There was no crowding Mrs,
main stairway from her room on the third
floor In her chair. The coolness OF the hotel
servants aulet,cd few % tho women who were
inclined 70 he frightened. .,
None OF the occupants Of tho hotel ran to tho
tla..N ltaA sslir lNsl N 4
Broadway side OF the hotel and smashed In u
window on the second i,oor .,,..
Come hack out Of that shouted police
man, What are you trying to dor
Thought we might savo some llvcs,' an
swered ono Of the men.
A half-doZen policemen swarmed up ladder
to the s West Thirtie,h street stoton aud locked
up M suspicious persons. They said they were
Alexander parln. n walter OF East Eighth
street. ,and Thomas Green. q plumber Of oO4
went TO the jefferson Market police court.
where the men were arraipned later, and test:
fed 70 thei good character and probable good
The iircmen sent In n second alarm ne n
matter OF precaution, and In twenty minutes
soaked the roof and the upper floor with such
tir T' Ieft They said that the blaze had un n.
doubtedly been caused by. sparks from tho
roofers' furnaces. Tn" hotel people estimate
the damage done Mt S2EdD
Frank Hanna, messenger. was run down by
n truck going 10 the nrc IA he was crossing
Forty seventh street on his hlcycle. and one Ot
his legs was crushed. He was taken to ROose-
welt Hospital
Akitchcn ilue In tho Hoffman House and a
chimney IN the Calumet club caught fire yes
tarday and brought out the engines. There IL
an ga saving among nremen That three OK
borough filled In the gap and proved the saying
true yesterday.