New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-06
FIRE WAKES HOTEL GUESTS
PEOPLE IN FOUR HosTLERIEs WATCH A
BROADWAY BLAZE.
TWO OF THE BUILDINGS SLIGHTLY DAMAGED BY
FLAMEs-THREE SMALL STRUCTURES

TWO OF THE BUILDINGS SLIGHTLY pAMAuhD d
FLAMrs-rHREE SMALL STRUCTURES
COMPLETELY DESTROYED.
The guests OF four Broadway hotels suffered a
Ere scare yesterday morning. From the windows
Of two hotels they looked on as calmly as the
memory OF the late horror of the Windsor Hotel
would permit in the third they dressed hurrleuN
and waited tor word TO get ont, ana from inc
fourth they ran as fast they could so. The
FIRE started in the little of frame buildings IN
Broadway. between the ST. Cloud Hotel. at Forty
second-st. and the Stuart House which is at the
Forty-frst-st. corner.
There were four Of these houses. Three Of them
were only a story high and OF wood and the fourth
two stories high and built Of brick. one of them
was occupied by the restaurant known as me
Original Oyster Bay" This was OF the we'll
known old time resorts Of New-York. II formerly
stood Just above Delmonico's Twenty -siNth-st'
place in Broadway. and was popular with cluo-
men of the Union and other adjacent clubs VINO
found II convenient when the bars and the res
tsurants in the clrbhouses closed
The fire started SO early In the morning that
only few persons in the neghborhood were up.
and the engines came with such clatter that they
woke up not only the guests of the ST Cloud ana
the Stuart House which were on either side OF the
fire but also the guests at the Metropoe, across
the street. ard the Vendome which is on the other
corner of Forty -frst-st.. below the Stuart House
The fire started in No. 1850, a onc-story frame
building, adjoining the ST. Cloud Hotel and occu-
Died by The Original oyster Bay" II was dis
covered by Patrick Healy. telegraph messenger
bow in the Office OF the Postai-Telegraph Com
pany at No. 145s Broadway. Healy smeled
smoke and found flames coming from the win
dows OF the Kitchen in the rear OF the restaurant
He called the manager OF his Office. who sent In
an alarm from the freboX az Forty second-st ana
Broadway and then removed the more valuable
Instruments from the company's Office. brisk
north wind famed the flames and blew them from
the ST Cloud along the of the small buildings
on Broadway. all Of which were soon on ire
Battalion Chief Blnns sounded second alarm and
for a time 1t looked though additional rein
forcements would have 20 he called
In the Stuart House the guests were alarmed by
the ringing Of the fire gongs- in the various halls.
Many Of them. soon as they could get their
clothing on. grabbed up some of their goods and
hurried downstairs 10 the office The hre, spread
from No l. $50 Broadway TO the telegraph Office also
one-story building. and 10 similar o9ildinS AZ
No. 1855 Broadway occupied by me Stacn n,
cigar store and J. NasteL ralroad ,uckst onces.
From these buildings 1t communicate TO No i,fo99
was OCCUPIED by Charles Fobert as a barber shop
and the second floor by the Metropolitan tailoring
Between this building and the Stuart House there
was an open space Of three or four ieet when was
This oT.~t.g acted rs a 1ue for the flames. and
they licked tie side wall Of the hotel. damaSing
leaned across the space between the rear of the
buildings and the Il" Of the hotel; running toward
Forty-sccond-sl.. and damaged this portion OF the
hosiery.
The bremen fought the flames AZ close range.
The crew OF Engine Company No 81 carried n line
OF hose into the Stuart House and poured stream
on the burning buildings from one Of the WINDOWS
Of an upper Lines of hose were also carried
through the ST. Cloud Hotel. , .
The Ere was prevented from gaining any toothoid
in the Stuart House by The sharp work Of the ire
men bur II consumed all except one OF the small
buildings on Broadway. TIL" telegraph office at NO.
AS was only partially destroyed.
Mr. Sire proprietor Of the stuart House, said ne
could not tell what his loss would be me ponce
estimated II AT s. 0C0 bv fire and The loss TO
the ST Cloud Hotel Is wholly by water and Will not
Fifteen Thousand dollars II IS believed. will cover
ire losses on the small buildings and their contents
II Is not known in what manner the fire started