The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-24
BLAZE IN IMPERIAL ANNEX.
MAID WITH A CURLING IRON ~
A HOTEL ROOM THE CAUSE.
Md Little Damage. Except TO the kelioggs'
Quarters. hut stirred Up Broadway
Bulldog Under Bed Through
II Altman Hurt by Falling Glass.

The French maid OF Mrs. J. r. kellogg z
the wife OF broker who occupies a suite
Of five rooms on the sixth floor Of the Hotel
Imperial Annex. at Broadway aud Thirty
first street Was heating a curling iron over
an alcohol lamp last night. when lace
curtain blew against the lamp In jiry
the curtain and the heavy winter draperes
were ablaze. The maid dropped the curl.
Ing iron and ran screaming from the room
Folks on the street saw the flaming cur
tain and logan to yell Fire" and several
Of them ran into the annex TO warn the
tenants. The maids screams had already
warned the hotel mana cement. and Mana
ger Ross and Chief Clerk Virgins hurried
10 the sixth floor
They picked up dozen hotel employees
on the way and soon had a good working
amateur fire corps. Tho hose on the sixth
floor was run into the kelloggs' rooms
and water was pouring into the blazing
room when the firemen came They had
line Of hose in the building FIVE minutes
after the alarm sounded They had 70
Va" but little water to quench the fire,
but tore ont the woodwork in the room and
knocked in all the windows.
Broken glass fell into Thirty-first street
III n NlloNtT AM CUT stN PTdI DtIS MS pilt
man. who was peerlng up al the burning
room, received n severe scalp wound He
said he was Charles Smith of East Ninety
seventh street, HE head was dressed
" a nearby drug store and then lie went
home. Three other persons were slightly
cut by glass
The Wells Of Fire" from the Broadway
watchers brought Policemen Hannify,
Perigo and Road Of the Tenderoin station
They rushed To the top floor Of the annex
10 arouse any one who might be on that
floor They found several rooms locked.
and suspecting that the occupants might
he sleeping they burst in the doors. There
WASH a soul on this floor. one tenant
lugged big trunk all the way from the
sixth 10 the ground floor single-handed
When the fire started no one was in the
Kelloggs' rooms except the maid and a bull
dog MIR and Mrs. Kellogg were down
stairs az dinner. When they learned Of
the, fire Mr. Kellogg started for the dog
and found him hiding under ted un-
hurt
The annex. which was formerly the San
Ca 10 apartment house, is an L-shaped
building on the northeast corner Of Broad
way and Thlrty-first street II is not con-
neCted with the hotel except on the ground
floor Most Of those who room there were
al dinner when the fire started, and there
was so little excitement in the hotel that
many Of them did not know Of the fire until
II WIS all over.
Manager Ross said that he didn't think
the loes would be more than 81 900. II wa.
at first report cd that Mr.. kellogg's personal
loss would reach $50, 100, including an eS-
pensive Russian sable coat which was
ruined and some valuable jewelrv which
vas missing. Mr.. Kellogg said later that the
coat wasn't much ruined and that no jewelrv
of any great value WAS missing Frank
Sanger. the theatrical manager. lived
under the kelloggs and some of his prop.
erty was damaged by water