The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-02-04
BAREFOOT GIRLS
IN FIRE PANIC At
HOTEL ALBANY
Stage Beauties Swarm From
All Floors, Some With
Dogs, All With Jewels.
SNOW NlPS PINK FEET.
Fourth Fire in s Months De-
stroyS Adjoining Building
Hotel Escapes Damage.

| Every fire alarm in the Hotel Albany,
Forty-first street and Broadway, began
changing at O'Clock this morning and
at the same moment the two hundred
guests in the hotel were ordered by
telephone to hurry TO the office.
Almost Immediately fire, which had
started next door In the four-story
building at No. ii46 Broadway, spurted
up through the roof, and when the
flames shot over against the brick wall
OF the hotel, some one in the larger
building yelled Fire"
None OF the guests in the hotel took
time to dress Such an exodus OF I'M
dressed chorus girls Broadway has
never seen. They came from the nine
floors IN swarms, screaming as they
came. Some carried dogs all carried
bags, which they said contained their
jewels.
WI ThCo w G'SHk IVoHkNs.
The house at No. l46 Broadway has
been on fire four times In the last egh;
months. These fires have always been OF
sufficient danger to empty TIC Hotel Al
hany. The first floor of the building is
occupied by q saloon run by George
Horn, who recently came here from Chi
cago The three upper floors are occu-
pied by Rigoletto's restaurant.
Charles Warren, bartender In
Horns employ. discovered the fire after
It had gained some Roadway. The blaze
had started from defective insulation
under the stairway on the second floor
There were six cooks, or assistant
cooks and assistant assistant cooks on
the fourth floor but Warren forgot all
about them. He hotfooted It TO Forty
second street in front Of the Metropole
Hotel and sounded the alarm. Then he
ran back and began yelling.
The fire ate through the stairs and
then cracked the windows looking out
on the Albany before the cooks and
their assistants were aroused. The
Kitchen workers started down the stairs
They didn't wear pajamas. They were
in too big a hurry to select the proper
shades Of color. so they just came In
hurry, only TO be driven back BY the
flaming stairs.
Escape Down the Ladders.
Only men used TO hot stoves could
Rave stood the heat and smoke that
came up into the fourth floor when the
cooks. ct al. poked their heads out o.
the fourth story window and began to
yell
When the firemen came they raised
ladders and the fat cocks and helpers
scampered down the ladders
James \. Casey night clerk In the
Albany, was the real hero In the hotel.
MIR. Casey heard the cry next door, and
he looked out along Broadway. Then he
got busy. With an umbrella he smashed
the fre.alarm box, which notified Chief
Croker that the Hotel Albany was baz.
.rg, and sent in q second alarm for the
.remen.
Displayed Pink "Cinderelas"
Among the guests in the Albany
whose pink feet were ntpped and who
were rescued from death or worse
missing the fire and excitement-were
the chorus girls in the stubborn Gin.
derella" company, now playing at the
Broadway Theatre. These girls weren't
stubborn that any one could notice this
morning, and every one OF them man.
aged to display pink Cinderella" from
beneath her night gown or pajama,
whichever she happened to wear.
I The fire was at its height when. some
Of the Old Guard fresh from late sup
per at the Old Guard ball, came along
| Broadway, their brass buttons shining,
their sabres clanking and sweet young
things clinging TO their arms.
Get back" ordered Lieut.. Noble, who
was in charge of the police about the
| fire lines.
| "Ih a soldier" yentured one "Old
| Guard" and he reached for his sabre.
| ..e didn't draw it. lie didn't have time.
/ \ policeman poked him with a night
/ sick, and the Old Guard was routed.
/ For two hours the tiremen fought the
blaze. The building at No. lis6 was prac.
.!ca!y Gea royed. The Albany didn't
life. a cents damage, but the guests
Cd a mos: thrilling eXperence-so did
tne dosa.