The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-07-03

oocApN Tut found none. HE smoke Wal
following them thiokly and they were
bsoom,ns a BAT frightened They went q
q window wh'noe they could lo0k oui
into an adjoining building whioh 10 10
cupied as sporting goods store. They
men H in the neat ext Suildins dian take shsi,
plight seriously and laughed. OaVs
and Jenkins finally crept out a. best hsy
could, dizzy with the sInOko.
3 Bssbsr. a real estate agent with an
offioe on the tenth door In the Ann stree
wing. said he thought he WIS ono Of the
last persons 10 get out. He want, but
he had a tough time u IL novoTthelsss
lie was sitting AZ his dosk near tho win
dow writing Hls eve caught rod co.
don in his glasses and he turned around
TO SO what 10 was The window frame
was ablAzs and smoke was boiling up
from the courtyard below IN great waves
Beeber didn't wait for anything but hts
hat Ho ducked out aud down tbs back
stairs To tho street
Two sorubwomen at work on the
tenth floor had hard timo Of 10 folio win
beebar They were Mrs Mary Carter OF
Morton street and Mrs. Mary Ouystsd
Of "a Allen street Al the fourth door
they found that the stairs were impassa-
bio. 40 they ran 70 window Capt
sweeney Of Hook and Ladder 10 and
three OF his men --ZlesleT. Morgan and
Carr-ran an extension ladder up TO
where they wvra stranded and lugged
them down To the street After them
came AN ants parade Of men, creeping
gingerly down the ladder There must
have been dozen OF thsm
On the top floor ut the Morton Build
ing w.r,, the o'fiCes Of the special agents
OF the Department of Justice. the men
Si'S ran down CIssss oi triCkery against
the United states. boy employed IA
tho ORC. who had been of on IN orrand
gSt back TO ind hIs huIlding on fire lie
looked up through tn" smoke 10 the top
floor. and there h" made out the heads
oS some Of tho Government agents He
yelled t. the twelve stories that he was
on the ioh and don't b" afraid. and then
ran afts- b., fireman lie found Bully
Beck. driver at Hook and Ladder
Say. boss" aid the boy. there's "a
lot O guys up there ON the top floor and
thsy'r" gnin Ia gIt boInt
The hell 'is'y are said Rock. IN
get en- out IN TseIf So Rock and Jos
Noods of Hook and Ladder / and John
DAILY. driver ol EngIn" :. painted up the
twelve flights Of -tauS to the top hoor
The window tram,s wer" sizzlng. and
they broke out tn" easements as they
went. 80 that they'd have air enough to
come down by
These WEIR ia" Goyernment agents
thew rescued Joseph Baker. Charles +
SpiDel Edward Br"nnan, Charles
S3cuIlV ana Joseph Tucker II was not
work getting hack to ia" street. but
they we're able to do II 10y the stairs
The Ann street wing of the building
was by all odds the worst involved. In
the narrow airshaft at its northern cx-
trennty the flames were shooting from
basement to roof In a window on the
eighth floor twenty feet away from
where the flames were hottest, ilreInen
N the street made out the head and
shoulders Of "a man. His arms were there.
and every little while he would sweep
The sweat OF his for.arm with a free hand
II was plain that he held mighty hot
place
Fireman Jack Lenahan Of Hook and
Ladder | spotted the man and started
after him. He picked up a Hcaling ladder,
trotted 10 the eastern side Of the Ann
street wing. threw the back OF Il into the
lattice Of "A tire escape on a five story
building next the Morton Building and
worked his way up
He followed the fire escape to the nop
OF the little building Then 10 was a
Building floor by floor. Lenahan did It |
for four stories. Then he smashed in a |
window frame and crept IN.
He ran through the offices on the ninth !
floor thinking that u WAS on the Nassau |
street side OF that story that he would |
find the trapped man. lie ran To win |
dow and psered out. Then he saw that |
he had missed count, for there on the |
floor below and one tier Of windows nearer |
Ann street was ths man he meant to res |
cue The man stretched out his arms as |
though he'd be glad To get some help. |
The crowd o. Nassau street beckCned To
HIM to cheer mp. pointing 10 the window |
above where IAsnahan's face showed for |
an instant.
Ienahan ran back the way he had come |
and slipped down the unsteady scaling |
ladder 10 the eighth floor He found his !
man. led hum through the smoke to the |
ladder. and piloted him step hy step tn !
the roof of the red brick building Lena |
han didn't have Ia carry HIM What the |
little man wanted was a boss and some |
confidence. and Lenahan CAV. him both.
He was a tailor. a slender littl" Pole. |
He worked for WeItokamp Bros. had a |
name like Joseph SZoZsrkowskI and |
lived AT IN Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn. |
Before he left hIs shop On the eighth |
floor he had dressed himself IN has black |
coat. and when h. stood IN the street he |
looked as though he had been 10 a party.
One II mis- cpuntrymsu, who chanoed /
70 be on hand asked hun what he had |
meant ~ do when he was stuck away up |
there in the smoke. Il could do nothing |
myself he SAID. 80 ! wait for spme-
BODY 20 do som"thInE for me. So1-
That's all h.. had to say. \ policeman !
saw that h. was all a-trenble ~ he |
piIoted hun through the crowd and set |
him on ms way to Brooklyn
Chief rpk"r was IA the thick or ~.
There was "A narrow CrevICe on the Ann
street side OF ths building through which
you could Sec ~" flame shooting up the
airrhaft. II was the cruz - the fire. and
A was into that that the firenan poured
most Of their water They got four stream
shooting from ia" main part IT TIA.
building. washing the whole II the west
side Of the Ann street wing.
Will lD~nahan wuS doing his CIRCUS
act on the east side "f the wing the tire
men OF Hook and Ladder 10 were working
on the hot side OF the building They |
ran an extension ladder from the roof
Of dairy restaurant N "A direct effort
20 do What l,-nahan did Nv indirsction
II was Ianahan WHO got - the. pole first
but the men Of HoDk and ladder ~
stretched lines 81 hose from inn and
Nassau streets which stopped tons 81
water into the worst part ~ IN. lire
When the fire was about done for a
sp,irt Of flame showed unexpectedly !
Chief Croker didn't like the looks Of II. ~
up a la oder he went IN scramble The
ladder began To- slip -dewise with him,
but he gave II a Jerk which brought II
back into lin" lie shot into an opsn win
dow and somebody got water on that
squirt 81 fam. quick
-Four hr"men N"re cut by glass They
we're Andrew kunk-l Of Engin. ~. John !
McAlahon Of Hook and Ladder =. Fireman
O'Hara of Engine u. and William ATchi-
bald OF Hook and Ladder 10. Archibald
was taken to ~ Gregory Hospital The
other- we're treated IN the street
The Morton Building u about twelve
years old III" building On the site Of a.
also called 'h- Morton Building. was
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