The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-31
FIRE AGAIN IN EUCLID HALL
STARTS ron THIRD TIVE N
MENDELSON APARTMENT.
Mrs. Pauline stronG Discovers %. as she
Did Others superintendent Saves
suk Merchants ssn Many Tenants
Routed Out m TheIr NIghtcIothe..

The third fire within three months
occurred just before 10 o clock last night
in the apartment of Henry Mendelson
on the fourth floor % the Euclid Hall
apartment honse az Eighty-fifth street.
and Broadway Mendelson, who - an
importer. and his wife were NJ the theatr"
at the time. and only his son. william.
and q maid were IN the apartment
Mrs Pauline Strung. who lives in the
apartment above the Mendelsons and
discovered the two other fires. smelled
smoke as she was gong To he'd last night
and at once tslephonad tn tn" superin-
tendent of the building. Thomas Groark
Groark got up 10 the fourth hoor as
quickly a. he could and raped violently
Oh the door of the MendslSon apartment
Without losing any time h" grabbed down
the axe which was hanging IA the hall
and broke open the door
The fire was ia "a small bedroom AZ the
end Of the hall and was blazing along
the walls pouring out sufiocating smok"
when GroArk got there. William M.nd"l-
son who MAS sleeping IN a distant room
~a- awakened by the noise the sup-rin-
t-ndeni made breaking oI-n the hall
door and Was calling ont for help. He WAS
b-wildersd bv the smoke and d,da I
know quite how TO get out
Groark called Ia him Ia follow the sound
81 his voice. The Young man grop.d his
wAy along the hall until he reached the
door. The maid vas directed 10 safety
In the same manner William told Groark
that his mother aud father v"r. asleep
ia one OF IN. back bedrooms Ne wanted
10 60 back to them GroArk SAID he would
help them out.
Planes were 10y this time eating Cu'
from the bedroom into the hallway and -
was n ticklish Job TO got by. The suT"T-
intendent cra~ lcd along on his hands and
knees in the hallway past the door 20 the
rear 81 the apartment n. wa- unable
90 find any one. In getting back "a the
outer hallway again his hair was badly
sineed and his face and hands ~-r"
srorched
Ia the meantime the oe.,hoy- had been
called and formed a bucket brigade 90
fgh, the FIRE Groark tslephoned for
the operator az the switchboard 60 send
IN fire alarm lie realized that only
one engine would come in Response TO u
80 he burned down 60 the street and rang
in an alarm from the box az Eighty
fourth street and Broadway
The giests on the upper floors - the
apartment house. most OF whom wer.
asleep. were awakened by the noise % the
apparatus coming through the streets
and some OF them became thoroughly
alarmed and left their apartments The
elevator hoy. Albert Eaton. stuck 70 his
job and carried most ~ them down in the
car One woman wanted To take a trunk
down with her Another woman went
down the stairway with a bird cage in her
hand ABOUT one hundred guests con
gregated in the hallway 81 thu apartment
house on the first floor most Of them in
night clothing The fire was put ont with
about a.0oo damage 70 the Mendelson
apartment Three rooms were burned
out
The apartment % Richard Sarrslly
on the fourth floor was partly ruined by
water MIR. Strong's apartment on the
Nth was damaged by smoke
In the courpe % the fire Mr. Mendelson
and his wife returned from the theatre
He said that the fire was caused by de-
fective insulation. but the SUPP rintendent.
Groark. said that h had started evidently
in the furnitur. 81 the bedroom and not