The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-05
ALWYN COURT hit BY FIRE
yOP EIOORN OF NEW tPaRT-
HFNr HOI ~ IRE REGkFB
auItaIaE Lost al.S10. aspa cheapest
Rent 60 400, Highest s77.OOo one
Prr>sn Huri Damage aIOo.Ooo
INewlre Near Repairs PvehaIsIe ause

nreG' house on ihe southeast corner ~
f'ftv.eSghth stree, and seventh avenue
'aSt might The res, ~ 'he building was
foc.ied with water and the Furnishings
we're ruined The h'nldinE had hc~n hut
recently completed and contained bu'
siN fsm,he- The loss was estimated at
not more thsR siOoWO
A'RNu 'cur. vas op~uei toT inepeC
ion LIST OctoH~- and tenants began NOV
rE ~ earlN ~ Ibe winter The adver-
''semenis e this million and a half dol
g. building called U the finest r~siden-
',.l NTlding ~ the world
n. construction vas sa,d - hc hre.
Ero1i, according ~ the latest idsss ~
bu'devs The HsddN1 Construction
"mranv put va he h'nd,ng The build
rC ~ Owned ~ the fiGty-eighth Street
md Se~su'h N,rnrs Corporation ~
~hich are Interested charles r Hcddsn
AiNyn Rsll. Jr Frank Hughes MllRm
Mckenzie and Amos L. Prescott
There are NJ su,all apartments N n"
Guiding 10 suites range from four
'-en rooms and i've ha'ns - thirty -four
-uohs and nlnr baths The yearly rem
tAls ~ these apartments are FROM IR.JnO
- 03Ooo
The Are was ciScov"-ed ~ about ~
y clock by a rass~rhv Who saw Haunes
shooting from vindoS IN the Fifty
-eVer'h street side Vt the ninth Moor
Ne notified Pstric', NcNiahor ne night
norman. NcNanCn shouted ~ Edward
Ming ~no sFs o. the telephone switch
h>ard ard another employees. Robert
C.Ason Tho three of them started up IN
the elevator
The aUsrtn-out "a Which Tie hre started
vas rented Nv JPcoh Nsrth~im prrs-
cent Of ths nUrd tiGa~ Narg'qr' ur~--.
Mr. W~fthe'n y 4 found MS FPartmenr
IN The ela a1'n -, tn snail for his
PURPOSES ard haa tzkpl the sps rtrr~ntS
immediately b.loV ~ own and ~ The
same size IN me trnth end the ninth
foors Morku~n bad rc~n engaged Tor
the last Two or three Ns~>- conneCrinG
these apartments iHto a sort ~ th-e-
stored house within the ne apa -,ment
building
II = supposed .sfi th--- worh men
eft bare - live electro wire ~ tho ninth 4
fOor and thai 49, Vie used ne h.-.s ,
The building cpcrl Ions ~ .rsse two
over apartments OF ~ W@v'nc.m
eft enough inHp In,rsh,e naterisi Sor.- =
- give the Are a good start white the ,
openings which had been made b@tween ,
'..e hoors furnished TO the tire an OPP ,
portunity 90 run lp ~ the ele, enth aoor b
sithout oh~tructi N.
MT. Wertheim wss oIt a. 'us time ne
sre Wa discovered. IN has apart m@nt
we're only . nurse and rhs 'wo Verrh~im .
babies aged : and year.
Mcmahon, King ADD tasSon stopped
their elevator a. the eleventh foor and F,
Kicked At the door OF the Nerrhsir VI war,
unsnt to sound . warning they found
rse nurse with the children N ner arms
making for the doc fhruugn haze Of
smoke
She was hurried 10 the -, ,tor and 4
nth the two children was dropped 10 the
Srsi door and taken across me street TO
'hs Central PARK apartment. where
friends Of the Vert heiins took charge ~
her and the babies. No one ~ the three /
suffered from the experience
While Mcmahon va, tlk az .au. 81 .
me nurse and children tls-nn aud k.ug
ran an elevator up 10 the tN"If'h hD1r
from which a stairway leads ., the SCI
AhA~ tAiAhHNNl~ W. fNF tfifFNFrhNu ath
Top hpoT There we're about twelve
srrvan,-, -n~n and wouieu pn has Moor
hsv nsd alread.. begun running - r-u .
me stairs and u took some tim 20 Ioclt.
them all, p!ck them n the various fnur. .
arf make certain that none 1sd straw!
INTO dang.
~ iSr aS could D.. l'srr-d rur.. - ru.
nsnis nd 90 th- DuIlting vr o. IA. nr. .
- "A Il
~ th-atr.
The fr- did most Of IT, ia mag uu tn, .
upper thre. Hoors with more or .ss on
Ne ninth and tenth " DID not 90 below
~" ninth floor hut 10 much water was
poured into ~. lower apartms nts when
~" engines got TO worA that thew we're
rsndsrsd unlnhabi'ab
Battalion chief 1erpeny was tho frs
fireman on the job There }, an engine
company within a block IN West Fifty
eighth street, and Ierpeny got a water
tower gong within a few minutes He
also made Use ~ the stan dpipe 81 the
building The FIRE zigzag9ed upward Co
lie TOP floor spreading itself over each
-rOr. bat staying within the limits ~ tho
building until u reached the eleventh aoor
there ~ mush roomsd out u the win
do~s On the Fifty sighth street side and
licked IN son1s ~ the corn,ces These
cAunSs NJ stone dropped 70 the stree,
ana spattsred among the crowd The
police did not fnd that any body was hit
The only person hurt vas Alice NuEent
a servant rho fell down = hight ~ stairs
and spraIned her ankle She vas taken
~ Flower Hospital
'r1ong the other tenants m the buld-
i7E '~"s Nrs Henry ! Braker The wIdow
~ Morse former pa william
Cfis1en-n her son Walter Gelsasnen.
and - Two daughters MAdeletne and r
6oriHr@ felshsnsn Their spArtn~nts
zee "T ne twelfth fo0r bat none of
'nsra ~as a. home ~ th~ time NJ rho
fls " Iahial Part1iv. P-e-,dspt
VI he Wilcox \ Gi5hs sewing Machine
COMPANY. d. Henry Cassebeer Nv
frank Hopkins ana Dr. George
Gro -se IN" other tenants Their