The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-14
FIRE DARKENED BROADWAY.
DESTROYED STANFORD WHITES
COLLECTION OF ANTIQUES.
s.san Just Before the Maunees Near BY.
Kept Fourteen Engines Busy Flooding
a Biz Factory building. Filled the
streets Win sim More Slush and Ice.

Stanford Nhte, designer OF the WISH
,ngton Arch, lost an extremely valuable
collection Of art and antique objects yester-
dsv bv a fire which Quilted tho six story
from and brick building at IA TO 100 West
rbirtieth street Mr. White was 30 cut up
shout his loss that he refused 10 discuss it
.rceut with his personal friends, but said
NAT nc valued il at fully 500, 600 in money.
There j. not nearly that much insurance
onr lie VIII make an examination to-day
NJ the wreckage TO see If anything is worth
sayng
Mr.. White is Il buyer al important art
,aes and probably does not know the exact
number Of objects in his collection.
The collection was stored on the top floor.
Douglas Robinson, brother-in-law of Presi-
dent Roosevelt is the agent of the building,
and Mr. White hired the premises from him
come months ago. A good deal Of the coll
lection came from Mr. Whites old homo
In Washington Square. At present Mr..
White makes his home with his business
rartner. Charles Mckim. Mt East Thirty
ffb street He heard of the fire, looked
nj the building. and then went to the Brook
rh,b Thomas b Clarke said Of Mr..
Whites collection:
collection Of pottery, carved wood. bric-a-
brao and tapestry. all of the fifteenth,
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 1t
,akes a great deal Of research, great deal
# time and much money to make genuine
collection Of this kind and | am sure the
loss will he heavy The tapestries were
OF Italian and Spanish workmanship, and
in addition there was considerable stat
uary wouldn't attempt TO put none
tary yaluo on the collection, for II has taken
years 10 gather.
Besides the loss suffered by Mr.. White,
tho fire did 500 600 damage TO the building
and the possessions of other tenants. Four
teen engines pumped water into the build
irg for TWO hours. The south and cast
walls we're so weakened that they were
ordered down.
iuckman discovered the fire about
o'clock and. rang the alarm himself
Battalion Chief Binns came with the first
three engines. Smoke and flame was
then pouring out Of the front windows
on tho fourth floor. The big building
Is on the south side Of Thirtieth street, and
adjoining II on the west il Public School %.
which was empty because Of the holiday.
To tho east are two tenement houses oc-
cupied by negroes Half way down tho
block. on the other side Of the street is the
Tenderloin police station.
i was IN the Office Of W j. Kenworthy,
q printer. on the fourth floor that the fire
started Ten or twelve men at work there
got ont safely A half dozen men at work
on the ground floor also got out Several
hundred men and women would have been
IN the place on a business day.
Thir;ieth street from Sixth 10 Seventh
avenue has big piles of snow on either side
80 no n
could get TO the fire was Sixth avenue
Chief Croker said that the condition Of the
street was shameful and that the snowpiles
kept the engines from getting near the by
dTants on the block. He ran the water
tower in front Of the burning building and
two fire engines 10 Sixth avenue supplied
II with water.
When Croker got there the rear OF the big
building had broken out in flames. The
eparks al nd the smoke drove tte women ont
II several disorderiy houses IN Twenty
ninth street and the firemen ordered the re-
spectdtie tenants cf other houses back OF
the burning building out for safety. Fifty
policemen were called to maintain the fire
lines They didn't do IT, and when hose
burst whole bunch Of spectators in Twenty
ninth street got frosty drenching that they
had no real title to.
Something in the building threw out
a mighty black smoke which with the smoke
from the engines settled down TO the street
and Fifth avenue from Iwepty-iifth street
10 Thll'v-iourth that IL was almost like
night Tie wind blew the smoke cast
ward and every few minutes the streets
cleared. Then they suddenly darAened
again 10 lla idrhensi territory the fire
engines t..'t a- lf they were AZ a mig Int
job Ilsp We're matinee At all the theatres
NeStenlar .I' tA' fire was gong before
tho shows began so that the play
goers knew there wa- fire before
they wont Joe lLr theatres near the burn
ing building closed heir doors and windows
against Tie dense smoke, but not quickly
enough ~uluo cl-cs. ProctorS Fiith
Avenue and Neler- Music Han wore
smoky. lut fln pelp.e knew whore the
smoke came from Iuasmuch "a the
audience az thc Proctor house was changing
continually several announcements were
made from the -lIge a. 20 tho progress
OF the FIRE and just whore it wis.
When l. looked a- il the fire might spread
IN me two ienamcnt- on the east the police
entered the houses TO bundle the people
out So much water had been poured
into the hulI ling hy this time that II was
iaiing from floors and tairways Ike
fre-h"t The street was ankle deep in
water and -.u7h, and the spray from the
many lines of hose didn't add to the comfort
al any one who hHd to be near. The police
lad some difficulty to get tho negroes to
leave the two tenements. They had TO
GU feT 81 tho ob4treperou- ones to get
thcm out A white man and big yellow
haired women were found in one negro
apartment The man insisted that there
was no danger and that he would not leave
He was carried ont and dumped in the
snow Amid tho ienr5 of the crowd the
yellow haired woman ran out of the house
AMI never topped running until she turned
the corner Of Sixth avenue.
Two hours and a half after he arrived
hef Croker was able 10 get into the build
ing 10 look at the inside. He found that
TIE sixth and ffth floors had dropped to
the fourth and discovered pieces OF statu-
bTy and other unlocked foT articles mixed
up with pile Of stereotype plates and bent
and broken printing presses. Croker
wondered then what statuarv was doing
IN such building and il wasn't until some
Time later that he found out.
ono result Of the fire will be that the
Ihfoire Maya inc will probably lose this
months edition. kenworthy was print
Ing II when the fire started Kenworthy
saT' be carries $4,000 insurance and that
Ms loss viii be fully that amount The
second and third floors are occupied by
ne Rooney and Often Company, printers,
carnage mostly by water The fifth floor.
occupied by the Hopkins Company, litho-
Efaphes. was burned out. The SchlenoG
wagon building Company occupied one
nan Of the ground floor and the Newman
an Company the rest Of the floor. The
Io9s oil the Inter concern will be large, for
NMaler soaked all the picture material.