New Britain herald., 1917-02-10
Damage at the LenoX, in Boston,
 Estimated at $6O,Q00
BLANKETS USED AS ROPES
Several Swing to Safety by Bc,l ' COthcS-Nursc Wheels Patient to ' Safety Through Smoke-Promncnt
 Actresses Lose Effects.

Boston, Feb. 10.-The Hotel Lenox at Exeter and Boylston streets in the Back Bay district, was damaged by fire early today. All of the 25O , guests and the employees were able to get olt, but several sustained minor Injuries. The elevator wells were filled with smoke soon after the guests were aroused and most of them came down the stairways of the history structure. A few were taken down ladders by firemen.
 Edwin c. Few of New York. H. Cheshire Mitchell of Seattle, Wash ington, and Mrs. Mitchell were taken [ to a hospital. MT. Few and Mrs. Mitchell were slightly burned about the face and hands and Mrs. Mitchell was affected from shock. MT. Mitch ell and his wife were taken down a ladder by firemen from their room on the eighth floor. Frank T. Fisk of Boston was treated by physician for snurns. The loss was estimated by the de- partment of public safety at $60,00O
 Improvised Blanket Ropes.
 Joseph Collins of Revere, whose room on the tenth floor was cut off from the stairway by smoke and flames, improvised ladder from blankets and sheets and lowered himself from his window to the seventh floor, whence he was able to make his way to the street. Similar means were used by Leonard Vieth of New York and c. M. Foster of Maiden to get down from the eighth floor to the fourth.
 Edward M. Horton of New York, in whose room on the second floor the fire started, was badly burned trying to quench the flames before he gave the alarm. He was taken to a. hos pital. Horton said that he had been smoking. He went to the bath room and on his return found a brisk fire in his room. After nasty attempt to put it out he notified the telephone switchboard operator, William Con- ion, of the fire and escaped.
 Conlon rang the hotel fire alarm and sshen ran from floor to floor pounding on doors to awaken the guests. All were quickly aroused, but the flames, reaching the elevator wells, spread SC rapidly that it was impossible for all to get to the street unassisted.
 A large part of the city apparatus was called to the fire and the firemen had hard fight in the biting cold and the high wind to subdue the flames. The fire was cratic in it's course burn ing out many rooms and leaving oth- CTS untouched.
 Former Governor David Walsh oc- tupied room on the second floor. He assisted in awakening other guests be- fore he left the hotel.
 Joseph Graham of Holyoke jumped from Q window of his room on the fifth floor to the roof of a two story building at the rear of the hotel. Both his wrists were fractured, one leg was injured and he was badly bruised He was taken to a hospital.
 Nurse Rescues Aged Patient.
 Former Mayor Samuel Green of Boston, who is eighty-seven years old and very feeble, was rescued from his room on the seventh floor by his nurse, Miss Mabel T. Warren, Of Worcester, who threw a robe over him and wheeled him through the smoke filled corridor, where he was picked up by firemen and carried to the street. He obtained shelter in a building nearby. Z. Several actresses appearing at To- cal theaters, including Vallie valli, Margot Kelly, Charlotte Ives, Mabel ,Acker and Elizabeth Murray, escaped without injury but lost their personal belongings. Miss valli was on the tenth floor and reached the street in her night clothes and a heavy coat, with pet dog in her arms.
 ' Manager Prior of the hotel said the damage to tho building and furnish ings would exceed $60,000, much of which was caused by water.