The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-02-03
Pressure So Low That Blaze
Got a Long Start in Piano
Factory District.
CHIEF CROKER ANGRY.
Flames, Which Started at the
Newly s. Evans Factory,
Finally Subdued.

La1t Of water pressure for the Are
nssn gave long start to q piano factory
blaze In the Bronx to-day, and for .
time the are threatened . square bloos
Of factories. fats and lumber yards
Chief Croker, IN personal charge Of the
hrsmen. sent In four alarms and his
language over the shortage Of water
was almost As picturesque and smoky a.
Tia IRE ITSELF
There Is Q big collection Of plano fac.
tories around Ono Hundred and Thirty.
nth street and Southern Boulevard
Among them Is the nve-story building at
No. 7os and los East One Hundred and
Thirty sixth street. occupied by the
Nswby & Evans Company. The oon-
Germ. however, utilizes but two noors
and employs thirty men.
AdJolns Lumber Yard.
10 tho eastward Of the building V 3
lumber yard filled with seasoned lumber,
and adjoining the lumber yard the
three-story frame piano factory OF Lud.
wig & Co. Adjoining this factory to tho
east are two five-story lighthouses, shel.
tering forty families.
There 10 vacant lot west Of tho
Newly * Evans factory, and next to
the lot. on the corner Of Southern
Boulevard, q hve-story brick hat-house.
Directly in the rear Of the Newly
Evans plant and facing Ono Hundred
and Thirty-ffth street. 10 the big I'VE
story plano factory OF Decker & Co.
Mr. Alfred A. Newly, head Of the
Newly & Evans Company. left his
private office, on the ground floor OF
the factory. at ll.so o'clock to make Z
tour of the workrooms. closing the door
behind him. When he returned. two
minutes later, and opened the door he
was met by a rush OF hot smoke that
almost knocked him of his feet.
Entire Office In Flames.
As soon as the door was opened the
whole interior OF Mr.. Nswbys efIics
burst into flames, An alarm was sound.
ed from the private box In tho factory,
but nv the time tho two engines re-
spending reached the scene the olazo
had spread up the elevator SHAH to tho
roof.
scrGt Malcolm Ray on lis way homo
to lunch Jumped to a box and pulled a
second alarm when he saw tho size OF
the blaze. Then he summoned the po-
lice reserves. Deputy Chief Ahearn, re-
sponding to the second alarm. turned in
third. TO which Chisf Croker respond.
ID. and he sounded a fourth. a. soon as
he arrived from his headquarters In
East S!Sty-seventh street.
For ten minutes after the first detail
Of fremen reached ths scene only a
trickle OF muddy water could be forced
from tho hose. Without any opposition
whatever tho nre snveloped the whole
Newly & Evans factory and. horne by
strong wind, Tapped the surrounding
buildings.
Fortunately ths Newly d Evans
plant, being open on four sides was
fair mark for the fremen. When the
water pressure finally died arrive there
was sufficient FIRE fighting force on
the ground to utilize all OF 1t, and this
real fire was confined TO the factory In
which II started.
Other Factories Damaged.
Ludwig & Co.'S frame factory was
badly scorchsd. This rear OF the Decker
factory was blutered and part Of tho
building was flooded. Sixty families
we're driven by the police from the
fiat houses IN TUG endangered section.
At One Hundred and Thlrty-ffth street
and Cypress avenue Is Public School
No. z, one Of tho largest IN the Bronx.
When tne uelglbornOod filled up with
FIRE engines a rumOr spread that the
school N4s,on FIRE, ana the streets were
soon overlooking with barshsad.d.
screaming mothers whom tho police had
diihcuIy IN handling.
Considering tho time the Ere lasted
ana the damage dons, thsre were sur
prisiUgly lew accidents Nicholas Ems
ley gH employee OF the Newly d Evans
Company, was seized with an epllaptio
Mt While running from tho building and
fell ~ the lower hallway, Ills absence
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