New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-22
SAVES LIFE TO LOSE OWN
CHURCH CADET PERTSHES.
Thrilling Rescues at Boarding
House Fire an Sirty-frSt-st.

IN an attempt yesterday 20 ai6 in the rescue
NJ q number q women who had becorCe hys-
,sriosl AZ a FIRE in the boarding house at No.
~ East Sixty -frst-st-. a young man. supposed
- 10 william Mara. OF No. 34S East Sixty
sac,nd-st lost his life. He was found near a
p4ndow in n room at the rear Of the third Aoor.
HIS head and face and hands were scared and
blisfqres by the heat. Death was due 10 sufo-
ration He wore the military uniform Of the
cadet battalion 81 81. Bartholomew parish and
q bronze medal with the inscription, st. p.
c B.: 100 per cent duty" on the other side
of the medal was scratched with a pin. w
Mara. No poo East Forty -second-st.' That is
the address of ST. Ba~tholomew's parish house.
There e was said that the records were locked
VI and could not be reached.
No 157 East Sixtv-frst-st. IS a four story and
basement brov7,stone house Mrs. Jacob Vein
berg is the proprietor The hoarders had just
finished dinner when fire was discovered in the
dumbwsiter shaft u had started AT the bottom
and burned 10 the top floor before discovery.
Miss ADELE I-tfv discovered flames coming out
% the door Of the shaft on the second foor. She
ran into the street screaming and an alarm was
sent out
The IRE seemed 20 burst out on all floors At
once Most of the hoarders had gone 20 their
rooms and IN minute there was panic through
out the house
When the flames began 20 burst from the win
Cows OF the third and fourth floors. Arthur IT.
Fisher. a manufacture. living AT No. l4f East
SiEty-first-st. and Arthur Wertheimer. Of 30.
145 East Sixty -frst-st-. ran out Of their homes
and 10 the boarding house They broke in the
door Of No 155 and ran to the irst floor. The
houses are but a foot or so apart The two men
smashed through the windows Of the boarding
hon 01f lrrfe ~ha-- .z,
ing there, SO ran TO the second floor and 20 the
rear room. There Fisher leaned out and saw
several women ar the windows IN The boarding
house. Outside each window is a ledge with
Air. Wertheimer holding him, EIr Fisher leaned
Out. and one by one about half a dozen persons
were helped out Of The windows and TO the rear
Toom Of No. 155
On the third floor in one Of the front rooms
lived Miss May Settler and a sister and in an
other back Of that lived their brother Moe
keifer. IRE insurance adjuster SETTER had
placed plank across from the window of his
sisters room to that OF 10. 15q and told them
always TO leave il there. Miss May Setter was
the only one of the family al home. and she
escaped across the plank
Fireman Fails, Of Truck 80. . went through
No. l5S to the third foor year. and saw two
women leaning half way out a window in No
15l, both unconscious. They were Mrs. Prank
iurth and Mrs. Patzek. Fan swung out Of the
window and hitched across until he could swing
over and get into the window out Of which yheir
snert bodies hung. Then Firemeu Fischer sui
4iVan ana o'Conueu. Of Truck No. . brought
laQoer up Through No. 1853. showed IL out OF
tne rear window, ard placed IL Up 10 No 157.
Ahe ,Wo women were then taken down. They
We're attended by Dr. Britteisdor Of No. 7S3
Ae1ington-ave., and did not recover conscious
hess Tor some tine
foiceInen and fremen say that Mara FIRST
elpearea running from Third-ave. lie dashed
.a@uess INTO The house. and IN a few minutes
.talpea1eo carrying with him "a young woman.
men ne ran back. and was rot seen again until
- o'oy was found. IT KiuRshIry, OF The
,l,esoyleTian Hospital, said he had probably
Inhaled ;he flames
me me nreInen q Truck 40. . were going
shoueh the building after the FIRE was out.
soo--,- me a man walking about one of the
- ssn ~ NE second d0or TIe wore a rubber
Tr--,-le ~ tueoer boots. He said he belonged TO
Fi5-,s - . OF course Truck 10. 2s men
f,,i,,,-n-o n-o% MN, 20 he was turned over 10
bs,- = "a ~ brown and locked UP charged with
O.-lig a suspicious person
rt. loeniihcation ~ Mara WAS made by
ts1t. az llson, % ST Bartholomews Bat
-, Lle SAID that Mara was young fellow
Horhec at anything he could get 20 DO
go y -1y nod been drill day AZ the parish house
-'' ana Mara had been there