New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-07
BIG EAST SIDE BLAZE.
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The burning building. four women fed with
pieces Of bedding and other articles led by
Ahoe Werner Some Of them tripped on the
second floor. carrying all the rest TO the bottom
in a heap Mrs Werner was underneath. She
got angry
What's the use Of such a fuss for fire" said
she, Indignantly. Go back to your rooms 7
won't stand any more of this"
she was dominant that the other women
obeyed her. Just then the frenen entered and
chased them all out.
Dennis Sweeney, Of No 175 East Eighty
ninth-st. remembering he had friends in the
houses in Eighty-seventh-st. near the fire went
into one Of them. policeman ordered him out
and when he tried TO explain he says the police
man dubbed him and knocked him downstairs
His head was laid open for three inches
The body Of sam" Parks. the labor leader
who died in Sing Sing had been brought to his
home, at M. 211 East Eighty-seventh-st close
20 inc &c. Men and women were passing in
and out of the house looking at the body when
the fire started. An through the fire visitors to
view the body Of Parks were going and coming
By the orders of Deputy Chief Langford the
people were put out Of the tenement houses at
Nos 2lo, 2l2 and pa East Eighty-eighth-st
Nos POI Pos 205. 2o7 and 2o9 East Eeighty-
-=veuth-st.. No. I.J57 To .JG5 Third-ave. and
NJ -f"' 10 In ESiSi LIS llN -t'lS llLl-St-
The elevated trains We're stopped and the
bower shut off by command of Chief Croker be
Cause the fromen had TO work on the structure.
telephone wires, Of which there were n num-
.er over Eighty-e ighth-sJ, cote white hot and
fsL They scattered the fremen.
Water ran down the hill 70 Second-ave and
down that avenue 20 Ninety-frst-st at one
time being two feet deep and stopping the Sec
ond-ave. surface cars.
II was charged that twelve men and several
women were entering houses near the fire. Mrs
Annie Liensdorf Of No. 219 East Eighty-sev-
enth-st-. said she had PUT two women who were
ransacking her bureau. out Of her home
Al midnight the east wall Of the warehouse
bslied out ana dropped against the adjoining
hathouse- As the entire front Of the building
threatened TO fall. the wreckng crew Of the
Buildings Department was sent for soon after
o'clock and as soon as the fire was sufficiently
under control the tearing down OF the wall was
begun.
= hundred members Of the Ladies' Auxiliary
II Clahn Post. Grand Army OF the Republic who
were holding social and entertainment on the
third floor of the theatre building were chased
out. They reached the street safely. although
much iUrried by their sudden expulsion. Gus
toners In ice cream saloon on the ground
hoor were also driven out.
Bicycle Policeman Ajax Whitman tried 10
ne a fire department in himself before the
regulars got well at work. He gained the
top fioor by the fire escape on the west side Of
the building and had uncoiled the hose from
the tank on the roof when the iremen reached
him.
Acting Deputy Chief Callahan and Deputy
Chief Ahearn led the fremen. Inspector Ebert
o. Smith and Captain McNally commanded the
police reserves.
Manager Bruneil, and all others OF the theatre
force, as wei as many IN the audience We're
loud in their praises Of the cool way I'm which
the police managed the exit OF the crowd without
excitement or harm TO any one. Manager
Bruneil said the destruction of so much OF the
parap hernalia OF the various Proctor theatres
would be q serious loss in many ways. but would
not interfere with any Of the productions either
in the Harlem other houses.
The theatre built twelve years ago ny
Oscar HammerStein, what then ideas
embodyiug the most modern type OF constrCc-
ton An asbestos curtain has long been IN Us.
there. and since the IToquois Theatre disaster
4 device has been adopted which adds To the t.=-
menr Of safety. This, as explained last night
by Stage Manager CUIlinEton, consists Of iron
the stage, along the entire height Of the curtain.
Thus the heavy asbestos cloth wall is kept from
neIlying, and II j. almost impossible for flames
10 penetrate on either side Of the curtain.
There Two large skyliEhts on the roof of
the theatre. but these We're closed by heavy steel
lids at the first alarm.
None OF the actors in the cast presenting 4" 4
Rose o. Plymouth Town, lost any Of their cloth
ing or personal effects.