The sun., 1910-05-29
5000 COOPED CHICKENS BURN
10 PIREMEN OVERCOME TRY.
ING TO SAVE THEN.
Feur F1aors q Toys Beesme Melted TN
-ssSuVerBcar Hospital Has . scare
the Flreboats Finally aaench .
smShy. steamy s0alh street Blaze.

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-;OuVerBcur Hospital Has . scare
the FirebSats Ptnally aaench q
smOkY, Steamy SSath street Blage.
Five thousand chickens and many
geese and ducks were roasted in a FIRE
last night at 80 and S67 south street.
The poultry vas stored in the basement
and on the first floor Of five story brick
building. the four upper hOors of which
contained tin toys. The chickens hs-
lOngsd 70 'FeliG Goddard, who sells them
20 butchers and insures them meanwhile
The tin TOYS came from the mandatory
% Leo Schlessinger al so South street.
The fire was a tough one 70 fight Chief
Croker said it was the worst for smoke he
had seen IN a long time There werr 40
savory odOFs from the broihng fowls
Instead the firemen cOmhaied smoke
20 thick and singing they could not dis
cover the seat Of the nlase which bred IT,
Nolsome gas filled the AIR
sixteen firemen were overcome Mostly
they got back 10 work after a few whifis
q real AR. but two. Jams~ NJ. Savarese and
James Kane. both Of Engine y. had TO 60
/ aR'0NaHNNhsaA lAtARl nan y NANAA ~ ~
Dr.. Archer a volunteer fire surgeon.
who treated SAvarese, said he ~a- suffer
ing from gaS a. much a. from smoke.
The fire seemed to have started In the
hasement, which was divide dimpAFtially
between chickens In metal coops and the
workshop OF Halpin BrO@ coOperN IL
crept straight up to the rOuf
Battalion Chief John Gavin. Just nro-
moted NOM a captnincy On Friday. Was
the fFst 20 get 90 the soene. His SECOND
alarm brought Chief Croker and the chief
rang Ia a third Hall a dozen snEinsS
re@pocded. The ar-s,osts Ahram :
Hewitt and William l.. Strong. which
answered the first alarm. trained their
smashing streAms from the Waterfront
Half the lower East Side came down %
So the hattie, By midnight the firemen
bad sucoeeded IN hattsring down the
front door. SUCH a yolley u steam.
smoke and gas burst forth thai no Oae
could face Il. Chief Croker ordered the
hreboata to play a couple % sfrsaulE into
Hhe opened door II was an hour and
half before thu building could he entered.
Chief Croker found that the burning
building had been used for years befOr.
the advent oi chickens and toys as a
storage place for oil and lard The walls
seemed 70 ba saturated With grsase The
fre burned bFiskly and for an hour spread
faster than it could NJ extInguished
The patients az GOuyrrneur Hospital
close by got rather scared when the fir
engines came Gathering EveL stanCh
old Peter. who acts a. clerk. vas fright
ened. DR. II WOlfer. who WA IN charge.
sounded the fire drill and nurses and
patients Who were abb went o. stations
The windows were shut. and gradually
the excitement sent down
While James MacIAren. a Gouyerneur
ambulance driver. wa- getting the horses
out Of the hospital stable IN the rear n tho
burning building one horse stepped IN his
foot Sprainlng ms ankle Twenty
horses were also got out 0f an adjoining
stable Next 10 the iire on South street
is a stable housing I'D horss> The doors
we're shut and by quick work the h0r-e,
we're kept from stampetinR
A relay of iremen were sept busy until
morning putting out the root ends Of the
ire The tin toys stored on the four upper
nooTs we're oongeal-d masses 0f TN