Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-24

BURNS RESORT
TARRYToWN DESTROYED IN THE
EARLY MORNING
VAUDEVILLE HOUSE AND STORES
GUTTED
Blaze Occurs on Eve of Reopening
After Close of Four Months for
Extensive Improves
ments
Long Beach ORicsu
% Locust avenue
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Phone-Home $50.
LONG BEACH, Dec 2S-Fire, supposed
to have been caused by an incendiary,
destroyed Tarrytown-o -the-Pike, vaud-
eville house shortly after o'clock this
morning, and half dozen small stores
and shops In the same building were
Quilted by the flames or damaged by
water. The entire loss amounted to
nearly $4,000. There was no Insurance.
Tarrytown had been closed for several
months for extensive improvements which
had just been completed. The reopening
was to have taken place tonight.
At noon today the directors made ar
rangements to put on their bill at the
Long Beach theater tonight. Whether
Tarrytown will be rebuilt is as yet uncer-
tain. The vaudeville house was built last
summer by a corporation OF local men
and Attorney Simons of Los Angeles. e.
e. w. Moore is president of the company
A. NJ Goodhue, DIR. l.. A. Perce and Ralph
Chandler are the heaviest stockholders.
The origin of the fire Is a mystery.
James Pierce, comedian who Is en-
ployed as stage manager and watchman,
was awakened this morning by an alarm
given by q. H. Blundin, who has living
room on the west side of the stage. AT
that time fire was blazing In the north
west corner of the stage. 1t spread WIFI
rapidity among the scenery and dry TIM
bers Blundin telephoned to the fire de-
partment, but when the apparatus arrived
the roof was ablaze. Two lines or hose
were stretched from the hydrant at Ocean
and Pacific avenues and water was played
,lpon the building from $3.50 until nearly
o'clock.
The building was of such construction
that it burned rapidly.
Firemen Endangered
Firemen Fullager, Middough, Parkinson,
Jewell and Meecham, who carried line
of hose into the building underneath the
blazing roof, narrowly escaped being
caught beneath broad section of the
roof which fell in. Chief Shrewsbury
directed the men to save surrounding
property. and in this they were sue
cessful.
In a statement to the directors Of the
company this afternoon Pierce said:
.'When I awoke this morning l noticed
at once that two doors leading to the
stage were open. They were closed when
I retired. There were no electric wires
in that part of the theater where the ire
was first seen, and / do not think spon-
taneous combustion in waste could have
been responsible, as there was nothing on
the stage which did not belong there
Merchant Police Lawson left the building
at 1890 o'clock, at which time everything
seemed to be in perfect order"
The other losses sustained were; +. L.
Holmes & Son, tobacconists, $500; H. F.
Sloan, proprietor. of Palace OF Pictures.
$500; n A. Lawson, moving picture ap-
rarat,is, $225; G. G. Duffy, photographer,
SIZE; Booth and Gordon, trick bicycle
riders. $3.50; L. Green, barber $500
Holmes tobacco and cigar stock was
valued at $4,000. That the loss was not
heavier was due to the prompt work OF
men who carried out the goods. A guam
tity of cigars, as well as lot of Green's $
barber tools, were stolen
Arthur Spicer was one of the heroes OF
the occasion. He entered the burning
building and pulled out four tool chests
belonging to local carpenters who he
knew could i'll afford to lose the contents,
valued at several hundred dollars. The
last one dragged out was blazing hercely.
and Spicer's hands were painfully burned.
The directors of the Tarrytown company
estimate their loss at $4,000. The Inn
provements just completed, consisting Of
a roof, sloping floor and other work. cost
$4,000.