New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-11
NEW YORK FIGHTS FIRE BELL RINGS
INTERPOLATION STAMLER'S KNELL
Brooklyn Disaster Causes
Condemnation of Girls
Deep Sea- Home.

Four bells. and all's over with the
good ship JACOB A. stamler.
They gave up hope last night, the
forty girls who live in the floating
hotel nj the foot OF East Twenty third
Street. when for the fourth time IN
four years they were ordered 70 leave
their "Geep sea" home. In times past,
when the danger signal sounded they
held mass meetings, they wrote letters
10 Miss Anne Morgan. they sent dele
cations Of pale. pathetic little girls 70
plead with the Arbucklc heirs, who own
the old boat. begging that their nome
be kept open The last alarm was 10.
August. when the guests were notlhel
the last meal scrged would be dinner
on August p. The pleas and letter,
served 20 keep the old boat Ghoat pht.i
now but now u the end.
Tn. Fire Prevention Bureau - d.
rectfv resnons.b!e this time. he noai-
ING hotel was condemned a. a hreifhp
orce before. and al the devices pos
,ible were installed. but now, warned
~ the tragedy in Williamsburg las,
Saturday. the department has or1ei'4
the'place closed.
Lat night the BOYS from the Giiana.
the StnmI.r's brother ship neat tooi'
came over as usual 20 serenlde iheii
Prom the moouli, deck sounded %
guitar aud II chorus OF mo1rnf ID young
tenors. but music was wasted @" o"
empty ladies' cabin. -,
ON the stairway leading 80 me h'i.4
a solitary couple we're bidding ea,1
other farewell The girl was COINS Cd
the Trowmart Inn 60 live. the boy
where DO lonely boys 1--we Well III y
would never end another place VIE +
there were moonlit decks ana a % .ft.
cabin and big-hcartcd Mother Sh'e-
lcy 20 chapcron family Of SIXTY boys
and girls
Down in Che narrow white cabins 'ne
girls were packing disoonsolatei'
~ have been .n This New York three
weeks. and already pact my rtn.
four times" sighed big German e'fl
"Thcy tell mo this is home. and ! come
here 20 stay forever. and nov . must
20 60 soon
Yes. ! go 20 Trowmart INN. 'ui
there II ia very expensive One mus
pav &C. for board. and here De- onil 8 ~
Six dollars be too much Tor poor gltl'
Many 81 The girla. not being shl" 20
pay tho four. Eve and aiN dollars
week which is charged in most ~ ihe
homes for working girls. arc planning
20 do light excepting
Three Of ma are going TO- taxi
nat" said ono rill I'VE can huy Sec
ond hand furniture aud hN II mp ~ N
won't be quite 40 mourniul ~ thc7'
boarding house rooms We can turni Die
the whole house Tor 81 apiece No. st,
no iustalmcnt plans for rs. We pa,
cash on First Avenue.
The belle Of the boat was giving away
her pink alippcrs.
"ifcrc. jamie. YOU can have these.
she cried THE place where I'm gong
they make you come IN AZ 10 O'Clock
40 more dances for yours truly
The problem OF finances will not trou-
bic the girls for four weeks, thanks TO
the generosity of the Arbucklc heirs
They will pay all the girls expenses
above $3.50 for four weeks. An cN-
press company has arranged 70 trans
port their. trunks for % cents each
captain" Shelley was busy last night
tightening trunk straps, selling out his
stock of Jacob a. Stamler postcards
and comforting his small daughter
NeIhd, WIN ului want W "
dollies out of their own particular cor
ner IN the ladies' cabin.
81 don't know why we're going. but
there's no use complaining any more,
he said, between trunk checks. ITS
goodby 10 the old boat for sure this
time. She doesn't pay-thats the whole
lruth-and the end has been inevitable
suppose she'll end her days in the
Brooklyn ship yards. She's no good for
anything else"