Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1913-11-03
ANOTHERFIREI IN
CROWDED FLAT
Blaze in Tenement on Madl-
son Ave. Routs Out Sleep
ers In kightcIothss.
CAUSE AGAIN UNKNOWN
Manisco, In Whose Apart
mant the Fire Started, a
Brother of CarmeIo.

AhotHci uTS threatened u le06-
| ment house full of sleeping people
| yesterday morning, when three of
the five rooms OF the apartments of
Zinc Manesco, at 337 Madison ave-
nue.. We're gutted about o'clock yes
terday morning. Last Wednesday the
I apartments of his brother, Manisealo
Carmelo, were ravaged by flames
about midnight in the same manner.
Though there is a difference in the
spelling of the names, it has been
learned that the two are brothers.
| Though Mrs. Manesco when seen by
a NEWS man declared that her name
| is spelled Manesco, she also ac-
| knowledged that Carmelo, whose
apartments were burned last We'd
! nesday night, is her brother-in-law.
Both parties carried insurance
amounting to $1,000 on their furni-
ture. Mrs. 2. Cohen, of 335 Madi-
son avenue, told a reporter that the
fire seemed queer" and that it is
the first since the house was erected.
The building is a four-family, two
story structure belonging to her hus-
band
But little satisfaction could be
gained as to the manner in which
the fire originated, as was the case in
the fire in the apartments of Car
| melo at the tenement house at Divf-
sion and Broad streets. The dam
age is estimated at $500 to the
| building. and s309 to the furniture
covered by insurance.
According to Mrs Manesca, her
husband, child and herself were
O 1nn Yiylor IN,
front room, in which apartment the
hre originated. The baby began
| choking and commenced struggling
and coughing This awakened the
sleepers and they found, according to
Mrs. Manesco the room afre. Some
clothing near a table on which had
been lighted lamp, said to have
been kept burning because of the
baby being sick, was afire. Jump
ing out of bed the mother seized the
baby, closely followed by her hus-
band.
They called for help, and Mrs.
Cphen, in the next apartment, being
awakened by. the. noise. and hearing
the cry of fire." telephoned the po-
lice. The alarm was turned in at
box 36, at New Brunswick avenue
and New street. The firemen were
soon on the scene and arrived as
the other three families occupying
the tenement, were rushing from
their rooms in their night clothes.
When the firemen began to put
water on the fire the flames had
completely swept the bedroom and
were eating out the heart of the
front room, and leaping from the
side of the building ON which is To-
Gated the three-story tenement of
j. Kramer. Many of the occupants
OF this house rushed from their
rooms in the excitement with scanty
attire, but finding that the house had
not actually caught went back and
dressed to await developments.
The firemen did efficient work
when they prevented the flames
from spreading to other rooms of the
house. Fire Chief O'Hara had water
played on the Kramer tenement to
keep that house from igniting. Be-
fore the flames were extinguished
they had demolished practically all
the furniture in three rooms, and
caused some damage In the other
of the five rooms of the apartments
Manesco, Or Carmelo, is an employe
of the Atlantic Terra Gotta Company.
and had been living in the apart
ments just about two months.