The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-05-11
NO AMBULANCEFOR DYING GIRL
BECAUSE BARTENDER WOULDNrT
LET FIREMAN Use PHONE
and, Helped by Others, Heat Him when
an Ambulance Was Got Finally the
YOunE Woman VINO Had Been Taken
from a burning Fiat Was Dead.

an Ambulance Was Got Finally the
NOung Woman VINO Had Been Taken
from a burning nat Was Dead.
Annie Bates. a servant, ~ years old,
was taken out alive from the fiat house at
"a Fast Sixty-ffth street yesterday morn
ing after a fire had swept through II from
cellar to roof. She was burned badly about
the head and arms and was unconscious.
Battalion Chief Howe sent Fireman Dugan
Of Truck ? 10 call an ambulance in a hurry.
The fireman went to Peter Lemons saloon
on the northwest corner Of Third avenue
and sixty-flfth street and found the door
open. He TO Id the bartender that he
wanted TO use the telephone to call an ambu-
lance for a dying woman, 4
The bartender wanted five cents for the
call. Dugan said a rule Of the telephone
company allowed firemen free use of the
telephone in case Of a fire, The bartender
couldn't see it that way and insisted upon
getting the money before the telephone
was used.
IL was more than half an hour before the
fireman got back and reported that he had
been assaulted in the saloon after the door
had been locked 10 keep him in. lie said
that the bartender had pitched Into him
and was helped 10y a dozen men who wore
IN the place, Then they, Opened the door
and threw him out.
An ambulance was finally got from the
Presbyterian Hospital. When il arrived
DR.. Upton said the girl was dead. Chief
Howe said her life might have been saved
If an ambulance had got there sooner.
chief Howe made a com plant at the
East Si~xty-seventh street station and Capt,
Oooney sent Policeman Wilhelm to Lem
mons saloon. The policeman found the
door open and arrested Harry Cummings,
The bartender. There we're fourteen other
men in the place, Howe and Dugan APP
reared In the Yorkville police court when
cummings was arraigned there, The fire.
man said the prisoner was not the bartender
who assaulted him. IL appeared that
cummings had relieved the other bartender,
whose name is Prunty.
Magistrate CorTigan entertained a COM
plaint Of excise violation against Cum
lulngs and issued a warrant for the other
bartender on the tireman's complaint and
ret Wednesday for the examination. Later
IN the day Peter Lennon went TO court to
Tail out Cummings and offered to produce
the other bartender in court il the Magis-
'rate would withdraw the warrant. The
Court stopped the execution Of the warrant.
Annie Bates had been staying with the
family Of Victor Parker, who lives on the
ton floor Of the four story fiat house. There
are two families on each floor. Tn lire
started In the cellar. Neither the hremen
nor the police were able TO explain its origin
after they had hunted about for evidences
Il lnoendiarism.
All OF the persons in the house were
asleep when the flames shot up
The dumbwaiter shaft and the stairs. A
uassinp citizen saw the fire and notified
Policeman William Mussmecher OF the
last SiKty-seventh street station, who
turned in an alarm.
Flames and smoke were going through
the roof when Mussmecher got there.
The tenants began 10 appear at the win
dows. Three women at the second story
windows were shouting for help. One Of
them said she was going to jump.
The policeman entered an empty Nat on
the second floor Of the adjoining house
and went TO the window nearest 10 the one
where the women were. The women were
Mary. Annie and Elizabeth O'Sullvan.
sisters. Annie O'Sulhvan was about to
lump when Mussmeohsr reached her hand
and bracing himself ewing her over 10 his
window and got her inside. Then he
lTuIlsleTItu GhCdDVS ih'ob INV
same way.
The eldest sister, Mary, was bent on
saving some Of her property. She had y
bundle Of clothing that came near causing
trouble. The policeman was losing his
grip while he and the woman were outside
the window, but Policeman Waterhouse
came into the room from the street and got
a grip on Mussmeoher and prevented his
falling. The two policemen saved James
Reilly and Thomas Dyer In the same way.
There had been two other fires in the
roighborhood about that time and this
caused some delay in the arrival Of the
fremen. When they got there they ran
up ladders to the windows and assisted
the people down. John McNieoe, one Of
the tenants, was badly burned on the body
and arm. Policeman James Gleason and
Edward Quinn, other tenants, were also
injured. The three men were later taken
to the Presbyterian Hospital.
It was thought that all had been taken
out OF the building. The Parkers thought
that Annie Bates had been taken down a
ladder. When the hremen were able TO
enter the rooms, however. they found her
Linz In tho front room of the ton fat