The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-26
DAMAGE l TONEW FRAT HOME achem Hall, Opened Last June, Visited by
 Early Morning
 Fire. HACKING PIPES
 AROUSE JANITOR loor Just Prepared For I Return Of Students Next Month Badly I Wrecked.

None of the unkindest pranks that fire s played in this city in a long time hs the partial destruction of the ndsome new home of Epsilon Chap of the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity the Sheffield Scientific school which Rs damaged to the extent of about ,OOO by the combined action of fire d water early yesterday morning lis new building, erected through the orts of the Epsilon association on hat Is known as Prospect place, near opposite tho new Hammond meta rglcal laboratory, was only completed Is summer and was used for the first he at reception and dance given members of the society during com encement week last June. The build ! g was just being placed in condition #E the coming back of the students ls fall when the dormitory rooms ! bre to be used for the first time. IA culiar thing about the fire was that #e rooms which had been place in Badness for the first students expect back, were the ones that suffered 1 ost from the flames.
 The fire broke out in the early hours the morning, near some electric Eht wires that ran inside pipe be- f -een the second and third floors and lar a light shaft that gave light for Eatories. The flames are believed to we been under way for nearly an UT before they were discovered. The ly occupants of the building at this l son of the year were Jokr. T. will bre and his family. MT, Wilmore is e janitor of the building. The first H7ication he had that there was any : ing wrong was when he was awak- ed about 8 o'clock by a sharp metal 4 cracking like the cooking of re- lver He sat up in bed listening and htes that his first thought was that rglars were attempting to get in the ndows on the first floor. The jani- Is apartment are on the basement Or. There was silence for a time q while he sat in bed pondering as what he should do he heard the : und again. Still thinking that il oceeded from burglars Wilmort ered cautiously out of the window q then saw that the sky was lighted with the glow of big fire. Jump 5|*g out of bed he hurried out of the 2 Hiding in his night clothes 10 turn in alarm, crying "Fire" at the same : he. Patrolman Deslxin of the Dix Ell avenue station heard the cry and n to the box, giving the alarm from ation 54, while Wilmore returned tc building to see that his family got t in safety and to do what he could saving things in the building.
 By this time the flames were shoot out of the structure in great ape, the roof being entirely in mes. Upon the arrival of the fire pn a second alarm was speedily sent and the f1remen prepared for a enuous fight. They had it and it s five hours before the fire was un- control The flames completely 
 her with about $2,000 worth of fur ure which was stored there and the nth side of the third floor with a 1ple of sleeping and study rooms re badly burned There was more - er large loss from the deluge o1 ter which was required to subdue
 fire.
 When the f1remen retired the place bked like wreck. AS soon as the had been discovered and the fire. n called Wilmore telephoned to Dr
 S. Barnes, a graduate member ot iety who. with William H. Hackett
 Latin instructor In the high school ve had charge of the building fol
 Epsilon association, which bull : and he notified lEr. Hackett. The hastened to the scene and joined the work of saving property, to her with Wilmore and others whC unteered. Among the first of tht wage corps to arrive on the spot wa. of Warren of the academic French ulty.
 large part of the furniture on tht nd floor was badly damaged by tn, ter and the ceilings and walls burn or soaked. Mastering has fallen il ny parts of the ceiling, windows light globes were Broken and tn, ne had the general appearance O eck
 Mir. Barnes said yesterday afternoon t he was utterly unable to accoun
 the fire He said that he was tolc t it might possibly occur from tn, ctric light wires even though the, re encased in metal tubing througl
 formation of a short circuit ere had been no fires m the build
 and no one but the janitor wa Ire, the rooms being entirely unoc pied at this time of year
 The building, which is popularl :, own as Sachem hall, was erected a ost of $40,000. It was built to talk
 place of the old hall which stooc few feet away from the new on
 which was torn down only thi her as tn eother building was read,