New-York tribune., 1922-01-30
Five iii Family
Burned Badly
Before Rescue
Unconscious Couple and 3
Children Taken OFF Roof
of Tenement by Police;
IS Others Made Homeless
Two Churches Damaged
Synagogue President Carries
ut Prayer Robes: Janitor
Saves His ST. 600 in Pail

Five persons were burned severely
last night and seventyhve made home
less when fire destroyed tenement
building at Torty-fourth Street and
Fifteenth Avenue, Brooklyn.
OF thirteen families living in the
house all made their way to the street
by using fire escapes with the cxccp-
tion of those occupying tho top floor,
who we're cut off and repeatedly driven
back by smoke when they tried to de-
scend the stairway.
Harry Goldberg, his wife, Rose, and
three children fought through smoke
and flame to the roof, where all five
were found unconscious by Patrolmcn
James Edwards and Robert Ryan, of
the Parkville police station. Special
Deputy Sheriff Abraham Binder aided
in carrying the victims down fire lad
ders. They we're taken to st. Mary's
Maternity Hospital for emergency
treatment and later to the County Hos
pital, where, it was said late at night,
their condition was serious.
Three Children Overcome
The three children, Julius, eleven
years old; Leo, nine, and Solomon, two,
were overcome by smoke while trying
to reach rear windows OF their apart
lUcNl. he ldtHPI ana mOtntT carried
them to the roof, where they. too. col
lapsed. Ten minutes after the Gold
bergs had left the roof if Was a mass
of flame.
The Synagogue Of the Cougrcgat on
of the Growing Glory Of Israel, at i79
Ashford Street, Brooklyn, was dams ged
to the extent of about $1,000 by fire
last night. The front Of the structure
was destroyed.
Samuel Patrick, president of the
Congregation. saved tho holy scroll and
the prayer shawls, assisted by Joseph
Seidman, Of All Ashford Street. The
smoke was SO thick they were over
coined as they reached a window, and
Policeman Linderman, who saw them
sagging across the sill, hauled them
to safety.
JanitOr Saves His $1,000
In the last stages of the fire the jani-
tor Of the sybnagoguc rushed into the
building and emerged carrying a pail,
which he said contained $1,000, his en-
tire savings, which he kept in the
cellar
The parish house and chapel OF
Christ's Protestant Episcopal Church.
Clinton and Harrison streets, Brook
lyn, were wrecked by fire last night.
The church itself, recently rcdecoratcd
by the Alexander Orr family at an
expense Of about slo0,000 was dam
aged only By smoke.
The Rev. Dr.. Walter p. johnson.
rector OF the church, discovered the
fire. ]ic was making a tour nspec-
tion about p. m. and as he opened
door or the south side OF the odifco
leading into the parish house. flames
burst out in his face.
He slammed the door aud ran to the
street to turn in an alarm. Fire on
sines and trucks were almost at the
church already, however. Frank Tritil
letu, lanitor OF an apartment house
on Strong Place in the rear of the
parish house, had seen the flames and
turned II an alarm.
SO Families Driven Out
Thirty-six families were driven from,
their homes at 700 East 16Ist Street
the Bronx, yesterday afternoon bv n
fire which broke out in Morris Good
man grocery store on the ground floor
OF the building,
tltlon into the apartment house hall
when it Was discovered and the stai,..
We'll was thick with smoke. Most ne
the tenants In the building took to the
ire escapes.
The fire spread to Edward pollach's
confectionery, next to the grocery. be.
fore it was cxtinguished. The damage
TO the two stores is estimated at Sa 900
Essex Market police court was com
pelicd TO adjourn suddenly by the dis
coVery of fire in the cellar Of 10
second Street. next door to the court
La" Offices on the first floor of Tho
building were damaged. but the fire.
was confined to the building whcra +,
started