The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-04-11
TWO FIRES LIGHT
LOWER BROADWAY
Dry Goods Building 1T 81
Damaged $4,000 When
second starts.
JOHN ST. ALLEY BLAZE
Six story Building Burns for
Third Time in n Year-Firc-
man .JaycOx Hurt.

Two lively blaZes kept Chief kenon
and his fire fighters scootlng up ana
down broadway after . o'clock last
night. The hotter fire ate its way from
cellar to roof of n five story dry goods
house at 371 Broadway, between Frank
lin and White streets.
While they were pouring water into
this one Kenlons men were told OF an
other fire at the rear Of 10 John street
As the chief climbed into his machine
he could sec the flames from this sec
ond fire which, shooting high in air
shone through the drizzle above the
financial district. They had this fire
under control. however. as the chiet =
ma chine rocked around the corner from
Broadway into John.
The broadway blaze began near an
electric meter in the elevator shaft in
the rear of five story brick building.
the ground floor Of which is occupied
by the shaw Walker Company, manu-
facturer of desks. The flames made
quick hcadway up the rear OF the
building, facing on narrow Franklin
place. into the store occupied by Duke
Macmahon 4 CO.. on the second floor.
BY the tim" the extra water towers
called for by second alarm had lum-
bercd mp the whole building was ablaze
and IL looked as If the flames would
-, rra,,LIi,, ,I,ca a,,d attack .he av.
s,or,, h,,uainy ,ccv,i.d hv tho linen firm
ns C.nrea D,.,s g. 70 an Franklin
street.
M,, os l.nyipo ,.,mnanies Il - and
10 howevsr cho,sed nr tn. snr,adinv
t,,n.. iron, tho roof ar tho Riggs com.
n,pv huiIdipp Th.r. was lots of smoke
md /, vas foo hot for th, iiremen TO
cliub tho escspes behind -he burning
hu,ldirr Edward Jaycox of Engine
Compeny % had his head cut in the
shower OF falling glass and was taken
:, tho uous. az Relief 20 be Matched up
The Are spread To the top floors. which
are occupie,i by the Henry Heininger Com
pany. manufacturers of Christmas cards
and novelties and the infiammable ma
,erial there made a blaze that could be
seen away I'D and down broadway
Surface cars on Broadway were blocked
/ for more than an hour. The damage
will be $4,000.
| Commissioner johnson arrived just in
! time 10 see the glow in the sky further
down town. lie and Chief kenlon sped
| away to the second fire.
/ This blaze was the semi-annual one
! in the six story building at the end of
the little alley between 10 and II John
! street. Chief Kenlon says that when
ever he hears Of n fire on John street
he instinctively directs the driver of
his automobile to hasten TO Dennison
alley. Nine times out OF ten his guess
/ Is good II worked again last night.
TWO alarms We're sent in and the f-e
went out almost as quickly as It had
started. though not until $40. 900 damage
had been done to some highly indam-
maOe stuff IN q couple Of dozen manu-
factories in the building. This is the
third fire within a year in the building
II is owned by oscar V"lknning of 1890
Madison avenue.
| Three tenants and seven firemen wero
overcome by smoke and gas in base
ment lire in fathouse AZ 2isS Eight,
avcnue. between l3sth and l39th streets
, last night Mrs. Charles Conahan. wifi.
( of a policeman attached to III. We,
.2Jth street station. who lives ON The
I top floor noticed the smoke about :
O'Clock ANA found the hall already FLIED
with smoke She wak.ned hey huy.
band and at his direction ran 10 ia.
roof and across 10 another huIldlnr