Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1882-11-04 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

THE BURNING OF A NEW YORK THEATRE.  The New York telegrams give full details of the burning of the Park Theatre on Monday night. The Daily News oorrespondent say,: "The destruction of the Park Theatre is complete. The flames spread with frightful rapidity. Five minutes after the discovery the whole building was a mass of fire, and was virtually destroyed within half an hour. Tne walls, with Mrs. Langtry's name high on the Broadway-side, are still standing, but the interior is gone. It is uneertain how the fire originated, but the workmen were hanging drapery in the proscenium boxes, and it is believed that a curtain blew against a gas jet, and spread thence to the stage, then to the roof and the entire building. Mrs. Langtry was in 'the theatre two hours before, inspecting the scenery, which was being set up for the first act. She sewed the fire from the window of her hotel, only a short distance away. The hotel being at Twenty-fourthstreet and the theatre at twenty-second, she could look across Madison-square straight down Broadway to the leaping flames. The scene was wonderfully picturesque. In the open square under her window was a solid mass of thousands of people watching the fire, and now and again casting sympathetic glances to her window. Over these she looked to the panting engines beyond and to the vast columns of fire in ' the background. From her wardrobe in the theatre site lost nothing. The rest of the company lost all theirs. The loss of the manager, Mr. Abbey, is 100,000dol. The insurance was 10,500d01. Ho clad spent lavishly on the scenes of her dobak One set alone cost 2,000d01. The damages to the neighbouring buildings are about 100,000doL Had the are occurred a few hours later when the house was full not a score of people could have escaped. T e theatre was small, and the exits were few and narrow. It was nearly surrounded by other buildings, and was always considered 01113 of the most dangerous in the city in case of fire." Other telegrams state that one of the persons employed at the theatre was killed and another injured daring the fire. The Standard's correspondent says: "This accident has increased the interest in Mrs. Lang Ly's appearance here. The public have purchased every portrait offered. Her apartments overlooked the scene of the lire. Among many who called upon her while the fire was raging was Oscar Wilde, who remarked, 'lt is a beautiful fire.' Mrs. Langtry's demeanour under this misfortune has been beyond praise. She lost nothing, and apparently her chief anxiety has been about the loss sustained by Mr. Abbey, the manager. It is already arranged that Mrs. Langtry shall displace Joseph Jefferson or Mrs. Florence at the Grand Opera House, begir ling on Monday next. This is now the property of Jay Gould; originally it belonged to Jim Fiske, who produced French opera with great splendour. The building is large and handsome, but poorly situated, and di adapted to the requirements of Mrs. Langtry."  On Wednesday evening the wood-yard of Mr. John Walker, Corporation Street, Sheffield, took fire, and in a short time the premises and their contents were destroyed, and serioua damage done to the Stand Cutlery works, the Britannia Metal establishment, and other property itdjoini.ng. The Chief Constable (Mr. Jackson) was slightly injured by a piece of falling timber. Mr. Justice Day, at the Carlisle Aasizes on Wednesday, sentenced Hugh Grant, labourer, to death for the murder of his young child, at Worthington. The crime was a very brutal one. WR-rBY