Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-27
Flames SLCeep Block
in Pittsburgh Heart
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Grand Theatre. owned by Harry Davis
Enterprise Company, S2bO,OOO
Davis restaurant, adjoining Grand Thea
tire. $40, 600.
Lyric Theatre. adjoining the Grand,
10000
White Palace restaurant, 100000.
Crescent Jewelry Company, loss not es-
tmated.
Gazettc-Times central office. slight
Kirby Shoe Company building jno ten
anD. $4,000
600
McCrory nve-and-ten-cent store, sl25,-
600
Hilton Clothing Company, s5O,ooo
Two motion picture theatres $4,000
each, losses ranging from few hundred
dollars to $25OO
White Dental Parlors. $4,000
Kaufman department store twtndows
and goods aud fixtures in wiudows). Sl2.3uN
Plate glass windows in kaufmann's de-
partmcut store the Park Building. Chiid
Restaurants Solomon's department store. the
Harris Theatre and the Schmidt Building.
other stores were severely damaged by
IRE and water.
The block was one OF the oldest in cen
county FIRE Marshal Thomas Pfarr said
this morning.
"I condemned these buildings following
investigation two years ago and recorn-
WATERMAN DISCOVERS BLAZE
NJ 1 rrontp a priyote Waterman. patrol
ing the blucl, bounded by wood street tjtth
avenue. Smithheld and Diamond street, us
| covered the re when Walter Endicott. rrIN'
| ate watchman IN the McIrory HuudinE.
overcome by smoke staggered out t1"m
| door Of the huIding ana felt INTO lur ailuS
/ ur Crouin
/ As the hanes gained headway feeding on
/ tiudrg- like stocks and finding but slight
I resistance ia wallis OF the old buildings
/ 100 the block, second third and foutth alarms
/ were sounded calling out every available
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3 h,rpb t,v.u tb.sa win ihc combined ef-
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u,,,er rurI control ak hours rotrr
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DELAY PROVES r,pSrIy
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HT -" ''e rl'l'N ''"er SUI SUR r.
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\ftrr ihry mad Lasn In tha astnlIisrr1,,,t
fan, several ,,i,,,t.. il ,,.,. ,it,c,,,o,.,d ,t,
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NI,t,rn,.,, basement If was a rn,,r,r,, VOL
cano
First the NIcCrory store went; then the
F'rauk x Seder establishments Franl, &
Seder's walls fell in. as did McCrury's The