The sun., 1900-10-17


out-Ihcy Returned Under Umbrellas.
For the third tmo since Il was erected, the
,,u yo-trl Telegraph Building at Broadway
and NIurr1, street was VESTED Uy fire last light
oga the cl.,f loser by the flames, wat'r and
smoke was tl' Hardware Club which had
is second experience Of th" Kind In
The building In addition to tie di-
rect los by fro and water, the tclc-
graph business was seriously interIcrcd Will,
more than $50 wires Leading TO all
parts Of the country being rendered use
e,- iii tie fire was ont Many Of these were
leased wires to newspapers but big muss Of
unseft te.esr1ms to private persons was held
up Even wael the nre wls out and the opcr-
ators returned 90 Their soaked quarters on the
twelfth and thirteenth floors Of the building
fcw of the wires could uo used Immediately
and it was several hours before the system
was working at all satisfactorily
Tie ire started inst after O'Clock in the
super-trICrlrc OF ono -tor on tho Nc.tern and
Of the bulIdrg. I.S -ller-truc'ure = m l.
shar ed affair. . .yjUN?o feet. and l. DIRECTLY over
the biz kitchen uf the Hardware club. whose
rooms extend ..ctr aero- the top lloor Of the
building Tie ..."r,irunHra was used a. n
storage house tor tie ,"oyi-iou,, wine. linen
and -..yeIwarc Of the club When the Gre start
ed there vcr, a few mcIuher- Of the c.Ub in the
library and real ng rooms. Tie, heard one Of
r,,,.,.,... l. an, ,I,.-,,. an tho IF,t.to, ard
n, ran m Is fN''o 'o o. "Ia' wa tho matter
When tAry luul b.Jt the slIoT-t trlctura was
abllte Icy attempted 80 f-.t to names
tur...e.yr- witt uluu ATcullr- and small
fire r,t.uyuI,uarS Pals OF water from tie
Kitchen HCIo also tur'Wn uu tue flames, Dat
sft"r ten m.nuic1 work TIE members and
the employee saw that the lire was spreading
rapu.ly amt was getting Dey Oud their control
Ihen one Oi the employees was sen. - the
ers , ana yrned .o ~ mar an "lar a. n"r nG
In sending IN the uldrm that gave the hre
start AMI made 10 -uol hard On" TO hEnt
Fpur engines and water tower responded
to the ir~t alarm The water tower Was use
less, "a tlte tire was too high to be reached 10y
it Thorru.on tl. tr,.leu carried ines of nose
hose was then dto,lei doNn houth the e.e-
g. thc nS5l.c Of IN. iour-inch -,antii,e Win
which tho building is surp.ied. Two other
lines o. hose we're I1I't' 70 tne roof and were
couDed to the stand re t4sre ,s,r I6' made
We're downing out the fire
- tn. tine, however; tne dame had .7rre1d
Bic s, 5-,5 wee bong. .olr,1d +" the l.Eh
wind ear acro.s CITY Hal Park. tut the wind
had driven ever bod ., nd 'r, who wa-i't
urtpUu Watching th" Br an celebration and
ON a few Lcr-un- 1s-cu hled there 10 % a."
hluT" ln.ide TIE nrlldnE the smoke and
water began TO pour into the i1rgr or Grating
r1o, oi llr Po-ta! leeSra! p COZ ,T.E on tie
double h,9r Ia I' LweIi1 and thirteenth
sture~. tL'ro were ~ o' cTN"f- IN me room
under the direction Of Night Manager j.
Mha IN. The suose beDIIe 50 thick that
'.e mon began TO cough, blt not one -tirrod
unHl Mr.. Ntlou, who had gone to make a.
inv" tgrion. returned Then aclIns under
hI, dire. ton. N" non nut a tlg blqu."t over
lie $1,000 -vIa hb,trd tu ko.i tbc water OF
t. Then tho returned 20 thor work
The water cam" In m such enormous Ouanti-
tIe-. however, that Mr. nalen saw that the
water would short circuit the $50 wires and he
ordered tho current shut on. This was done
ant the minute the DYNAMO stopped and the
uscfulne-s OF the operators was at an end
fpr the lIla be ng, Mr. WIalen ordered each
20 gather M his un-ouf copy md 10 take that
and the typewl1ters down 10 the first floor. The
men started out In an ordNgIv manner, but the
nrcmpu came In and hustled them down the
stair, as /. was feared that the elevators mig t
geJ out OF order on account ~ the water. The
electric lights lad gone out and It was an awk-
ward descent but all got down 10 the ground
floor In ~1ietv,
The firemen closed tho iron shutters on all of
the windows. This SHIT out the wind. which
was blowing seventy miles an hour then, and
after that II was not long before Chief Croker
sent word down that the FIRE was not gaining
on him and he thought he could conlne h 10
the kitchen and the suUcrstTuCture. The men
of the FIRE patrol all this time were hard At work
covering The handsome and cyren,ive fur
nishincs NJ the Hardware Club with tarpaulins,
and ia this wav most Of the club pronertv was
saved from destruction but many of tho clubs
valuable pictures were seriously damaged bv
are valued at more than $1,000
The ure wa .fl.ially dr,larad mt al II
O'clock By This time the water wa- ruuui.s
a. g.rVHFa .ln h. In d