New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-26
FATHER SAVES SON.
FeUer Patient, Maddened by FIRE,
Tries to .Jun1D.

Fire early yesterday wrecked the six-story
manufacturing building at No 534 West 5Sth-
Est. causing a loss of $4,000. The 1remen
worked against the most adverse conditions,
such as poor water pressure; but they kept the
flames from spreading to the main works Of the
Consolidated Gas Company, only a stones throw
away. For long time the fire threatened the
big tenement houses to the east and south.
One fireman was injured, and William Con-
molly. twenty years old. of No. 532 West 5Sth-
ST., who was recovering from an attack Of
typhoid fever, became deIirious and made at
tempt to jump from a second story window. He
was caught just in time by his father. Patrick
J. Connolly
The fire was extremely spectacular, and its
brightness alarmed the patients of Roosevelt
Hospital.
One drawback against which the fremen had
to contend a compressed air fire truck
which refused to be budged by air anything
else. AS a consequence a second alarm followed
shortly after the first, and later third
sent in.
A citizen passing the building shortly before
3 o'clock yesterday morning discovered flames
on the second floor. When Battalion Chief
Binns arrived the fire had burned out several
staircases.
The street floor of the burned building was oc-
pany; the second floor by Nathaniel sauer,
manufacturer of organ reeds. and the third,
fourth fifth and sixth floors by the Baumeister
Piano Manufacturing Company.
Deputy Chief Binns tried at first to get his
fremen to the top of the burning building, with
a view to fighting the fire from the roof and
forcing the flames back and down. Fire Truck
No. 4, one of the compressed air type was
placed in front of the piano factory and efforts
were made to get the Hayes extension ladders
up by means of the compressed air system which
operates the ladders. This effort failed utterly.
The police aided the firemen and the reserves
from the West 6Sth, West 47th and West S7th
st. stations We're hurried to the scene by third
alarm.
When the fire was at its height the crowd
which standing in front of the blazing fac
tory and just outside the fire lines was startled
TO see young man scantiIy clad appear at a
window on the second floor of No $50 West
5Sth-st- raise the window and step out onto
the window ledge Men shouted and women
screamed, while the police and fremen rushed
to theaseene and efforts were directed toward
keeping the man from killing himself.
While a group of f1remen huddled together
under this window with a blanket the first
article that could be caught up, another man
appeared at the window and extending an
waist and gently but firmly drew the young
inside.
The police later announced that in this house
William Connolly, aged twenty, had for many
weeks been lying i'll from typhoid fever He
was recovering and had expected = DE up and
about to-day. His father Patrick J. Connolly,
a gashtter had been sitting up late and had
gone TO a rear window to watch the work OF
the flames. when he suddenly recalled that his
son was in bed in another room. cloud of
smoke had swept through the tenement house,
which wakened young Connolly. He had
started 10 jump from the front window when
his father, going from the to the front
of the house him and caught him in time
TO prevent the fall.
The younger Connolly was hurried in an
bulance TO Roosevelt Hospital and later trans
ferred 20 Bellevue Hospital.
Chief Croker expressed himself early as be-
ing disappointed with the water pressure. and.
falling TO obtain results from separate fire
gtnes he coupled the engines together. two by
two, and sent water into the burning factory
In this nanDsz.