New-York tribune., 1910-08-31
EUCLID HALL BLAZE
THIRD SINCE APRIL
In Apartment of Henry Mendel-
son. Where the Others
Were. Too.
SON ASLEEP AT THE TIME
Damage $4,000, He Says,
Though Police Put It at 81, 600
Elevator Boy Sticks
to His Post.

For the third time since April hfe
broke out last night in the apartment of
Henry Mendelson, on the fourth floor Ut
Euclid Hall, at Broadway and soth
street Mrs Jack Strong. who lives
in the apartment just a bove the Mendel-
sons saw smoke coming up through the
floor and telephoned to Thomas Groark'
superintendent of the building lie
rushed to the apartment, and failing 10
get any answer to his knocks at the
door seized the axe kept in the hafi IN
case of fire and broke into the apart
ment.
the young son of the tenant, asleep. ana
in another room Marie the maid. Young
Mendelson when awakened was almost
choked with the thick smoke which IS
sued from the fire in a bedroom next
his own, but yelled Justify to the super
intendent to save his mother. Mr. and
Mrs Mendelson. with their two daugh-
ters. had gone out to the theatre ana
when the fire broke out. at 1880 ?. m'
had not vet returned. but the lad had no
idea of the hour
Groark ran to the window ana halleo
Louis F. Goodyear. a patrolman OF the
West 6Sth street station. who turned IN
an alarm. Bv this time the smoke was
pouring out of the apartment. and the
alarm had spread throughout the house
The negro elevator boy. Alfred Eaton.
ran his car up and down dozen times
and got most of the tenants out. Among
these were ex-senator Martin SAKE and
Charles Presbrey, the advertising man.
who lived on the sixth floor, and lent
valuable aid ir getting out the people
in the house. Young Eaton noticed that
Mr. and Mrs. Ssmuels. who lived on the
sixth floor had not come out, so he ran
his elevator to that floor and succeeded
in arousng them. and they got out
safely.
In trying to fight the fire before the
fremen arrived Grosrl1 had his hands
and face burned and his eyebrows
snged.
When the fremen arrived Mrs Jack
Strong, who had first given the alarm
and Mrs. y. Parker, tenants in the
house. came to the Mendelson apartment
and insisted that q door leading from
the parlor should be opened This was
the third fire in the same apartment in
five months, and they would not stand
for having closed doors. they said. Bat
talon Chief Burns refused to break
down the door. and finally called the po
lice. who elected the complaining women
Young William Mendelson found key
and opened the room. which was found
to contain the wedding presents of his
sister Mrs. Robert Finkelsten. who was
married four months go and intends to
take up housekeeping in the fall There
was no fire in the room.
In the room where the fire started. al
though 1t was a bedroom. were some
valuable bric-a braC, statuary and
paintings and piano. which were dam
aged by the smoke. Young William
Mendelson explained that on account of
the fire which had started in the parlor
on April 81. and in another bedroom on
July 3. the piano and paintings had been
placed in the room where last night S
fire started while the other rooms were
being redecorated and arranged. He es-
1lTndteQ 1ne damages aI SoV,OuU, Dis SolliS
of the paintings and bric-a brac could
never be replaced. The police estimated
the damage at $4,000,
After the fire had been extinguished
Battalion Chief Burns and his men
made a close inspection of the room and
found that the floor about where the
blaze started had been burned almost all
the way through. so that the fire must
have been smouldering throughout the
evening It took considerable time to
get the tenants back into the build
ing. as some of them hesitated to re-
turn after they had been half suffocated
by the smoke in getting out Up to a
late hour this morning many of them
had shown no inclination to retire.
Henry Mendelson. the tenant of the
premises. is a silk importer. with Offices
a Nos % and % Green street.