New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-19


have to be carried out as she was an Invalid
and unable to walk. My mother was taken
across the street to a barber shop. From there
she went to Mr. segmans. where she remained
over night This morning brought her up here
What Is very remarkable is that my mo'pe'
had not been away from her room Mt that hour
hefora during the wear nor go far she re-
members has she even been dressed READY 10
90 ont AT that hour | do not see how she could
possiblv have escaped had she been In her own
room on the sixth floor owing TO her helpless
ness due to advanced age. All her personal
effects including manuscripts. letters from emil
ncnt people and relics collected during all these
years. were lost One of the manuscripts was
an almost completed book. much on the style
Of her recent writings to which believe, she
had not yet given name. She feels their loss
deeply but we are all thankful she escaped
MY three children had gone down to visit
their grandmother. but the elevator man told
the nurse it was useless to go up as she WASH
there SO she took them to the balcony on the
second floor over the entrance. and 1t was only
with difficulty that they escaped even from
there"
THE RESCUE OF MRS. HOWARD
Joseph Howard IT, whose wife was hero
i-aIiy rescued from the fourth floor of the Wind
sor by Firemen Ford and Clark. OF Hook ana
Ladder No = said last evening to TriD-
une reporter Just before the fire started
had called my wife up on the telephone from
nv Office to tell her OF the safe arrival OF our
daughter at Havana. She got up from SICK
bed to talk with me, and had proceeded 10 'i'l
up our daughter in Lakewood. TO tell her ol
her sisters safe arrival when the maid opeheu
the hall door and in poured n surocating volume
OF smoke NJ wife put on a wrapper ana
skirt, and with a slipper on one FOOT hasteheu
with the maid for the hall to gain the hre-
escape which was in the hallway window next
our own on the Forty-seventh- side. The
smoke and heat drove them back They ran
TO the window. where they were seen end res
cued by the fremen.
THE Fire Department is a magnificent insti-
tuition but the action Of the police In stopping
persons like myself. who had friends ana re'a-
tlves in the building. was outrageous hu'-
ried uptown and when l got to the police
lines was told | could not go through toid
the policeman I had a wife in the hotel IL
made no difference. had no fire badge anu
| could not go through. 1t was not uni"
found A sergeant who knew me that WAS
narrnittad 70 90 through the lines. 1t is out
raeeous Inst because | was known TO ponce
sergoo,t 7 was permitted 70 enter the lines
Was I any better than Tommy Jones or any
body else among those whose friends were III
the fire? Not a bit
Il lost everything except the clothes nave
on our piano. some fine pictures we had
scrapbook for which | would not nave take"
ST 900 are all lost But my wife had marVel-
lous escape. and l am thankful she Is sun
suffering from the shock, but Is much I'M
proved"
Roth Mr. and Mrs Howard are now at the
home Of their daughter, Mrs Edward H. Nhle'
No. 3l6 West seventy-sixth-st
DIR SIMON SEEKS HIS PATIENTS.
Dr Carleton Simon who had several patients
~ tho Windsor and was himself at the fire and
actively engaged IN trying to rescue the victims
was seen at the Hotel Manhattan YESTERDAY
He said that Mrs A. NJ Fuller. of Pittsburg
an invalid w1o was rescued from window
was resting quietly although still suffering from
the shock Mr. Fuller. his son George, ana MISS
roane BRADLEY. who was with the party. are all
safe Mrs Nancy Bradley and Miss Marguerite
FuIler are still missing, however. and II Is
fenred that they persisted in the names Ut
Simon said that he learned Of the fire almost as
soon az ii started.
81 left nv home. No. ia East Fifty-sixth-st'
at once" he said, and took Madlson-aVe
car reaching the Windsor just twelve minutes
after the fire broke out saw right away that
my first duty was to try to save my patients
These were Mrs Fuller. Mrs Bradley Miss
Fuller and six 9th RS Mrs. Fuller and her
nurse. Mrs Cone. occupied rooms on the fourth
floor on the F1rty-seventh-st side. Mrs. Fuller
had been so sick that for three weeks she hau
been hanging between life and death she was
i'm bed and knew that she was too sick and
weak to help herself Mrs Bradley occupied
rooms on the sixth floor. directly above those
OF Mrs Fuller. and she was also Ill, although
not sick enough to be in bed. Miss Fuller oc-
cupied rooms opposite those Of Mrs. Bradley
and was sick in bed You can imagine how
anxious I was. and I saw that my work cut
out for me. I rushed into the building at once
and started for Mrs. Fullers rooms.
Il had got no further than the second floor
when a sheet Of fame and smoke burst out on
me and barred the passage completely. IL
would have been suicide TO try 10 go further, so
| turned around and made for the door.
hadn't gone two feet before ] saw that my re-
treat was also cut of. 1t was simply phe-
nomenal the way that fire spread. In few
seconds the stairs which ] had just mounted
with ease were a mass of flames, and every
minute the fire was spreading ana growing by
enormous jumps. | lost no time In looking for
another exit and even after had found one
and gained the street | could hardly believe
what / had been through.
MRS FULLER SAVED BY HER SON.
After some minutes | learned of Mrs Full
ler's rescue. Her son George. who occupied
rooms opposite those Of his mother had been
downstairs with his father when the fire broke
out They both made rush for the stairs. but
at the second floor the father was beaten back
and had to run for his life To the street. His
son got to the third floor, and was met there by
a solid wall Of flame. Then ne ran to the fire.
escape end clambered up TO his mothers room
He wrapped her in blanket, and was
aLle IN carrN her snfelY out OF the window and