New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-04-26
BATHERS FLEE FLAMES
EscaDe IN Turkish To1efls and Other
Things-Theatre Emptied, Too.

About twenty patrons of the wolpin Bath COM
pany.. in the building at Nos. 70 and 81 rorsytn
street. were greatly alarmed last night ~heh hie
broke out the second floor, which is part OF a
shirt trimmings factory operated by berko"i'1
Brothers. The blaze spread with such rapidlty 10
the upper and lower floors that the building was d
mass of flames the inside when the last oatner
finally got of the building
AT the first alarm the grabbed what clothing
they could and got into the street. attired in any
thing but the latest styles. The police rushed IN.
ruthlessy shaking them from the after slunloers
of Turkish bath and telling them to- seek cooler
and safer places. They did so-an but one. This
stopped to argue with the clerk about the
money which had been left in the latter's keep
ing. Clothing matter OF little consequence
it seemed, although the only armor he had was
Turkish towel 1t took force and persuasion to
get him out of the burning building
Two alarms were sent in, and by the time the
first engine companies arrived smoke rolled out OF
the windows of the upper floors and down on the
streets in thick pail that hampered the work of
the fremen The light material on the upper floors
and the apparent fmsy construction on the inside
of the building easy food for the flames and
caused of the worst fires in the neigh
borhood for long time There was nobody on
the upper floors at the time the fire started. and
after all the people in the baths were turned out
the iremen directed their attention to keeping the
flames confined to the building The sparks
shot up in the air and fell the adjoining tene-
ments and buildings in Forsyth and Chrystie
house on Chrystie street. in the rear of the burn
ing building ordered out by Chief Croker
Lines of hose up through the tenements
to the roofs and the fire fought from these
places of vantage and the street.
In the Grand Lyceum. at Nos SO and s. Forsyth
street, are two Hebrew synagogues. in which were
about fifty worshppers. who to the roof.
They discovered by the policemen and hur-
ried TO the street The Grand Theatre, at Grand
and Chrystie streets. doing no business last
night. and this prevented possible panic The
sparks from the burning building flying over
the roof of the theatre and started small blaze
there. The engineer then got the pumps working,
keeping the tank the roof overlooked
There almost two hundred persons in the
Unique Theatre. at No. 2S5 Grand street when the
fire it's height A Juggling act going
on, and the manager gave orders to prolong it. AT
its end he announced that it would finish the per-
to go out the Grand entrance instead of the
usual exit in Forsyth street. which near the
fire. By that time the smoke creeping into
the building
Deputy Police Commissioner Bugher appeared
on the scene and discovered that there
officer in command of the reserves near the fire.
and none appeared quick enough to suit him He
took the numbers of few policemen. and said he
would make complaints against nine Of them,
lieutenant and captain
The building owned by the Berkowitz
Brothers, and their loss estimated at 10000.
II was destroyed