The New York Herald Newspaper, May 23, 1866, Page 3

ts Origin, Discovery, Pro- gress and Limite. Loss Two Millions stimated of Dollars, bar “ Firemen Supposed to Have |) Perished in the Ruins. \WO BODIES RECOVERED. ‘IASUALTIES, SCENES AND INSIDENTS. | STORY GF THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC. te flames that burst forth im lurid splendor from [2 the Academy of Music on Monday died away p jerday at dawn, after destroying two human hyes |} consuming much valuable property. From $ 4g place tw Third avenue, from Fourteenth to Jpenth strcets, the fire king for a time held |), Ginally retreating and leaving as a memento stay charred and crumbling walls where once massive edifices of iron and stone. Spite of the ly breeze that drove the devouring element from ry breath that ever and anon scorehed the faces brave workers—spite of the ommipresence of A masked behind tottering structures, or veiled by of tame, the undaunted firemen worked unceas- |} until, at peril, or rather at sacrifice, of life and and though hindered by lack of mechanical assist- | | |mbered saved, | » fire broke out shortly before mulnight on Monday. || Mroyed the Academy of Music, burying under the | Js of the structure two unfortunates, [crushed the | Prsity Medical College in its embrace, made of h steeples flaming spires and of factories smoulder- uns, At daybreak yesterday its ravages were |), and the tiny pillars of smoke that rose from be- | “) the ereviced walls of the Academy elone explained Jf (at clement the massive structures around bad | & prey. excitement throughont the city was intenee, flocked toward Irving place and Fourteenth } to gaze upon the scene of desolation and comment he supposed causes of the fire, while in the midst arena, amid ascending clouds of ssaoke and steag, dascore of anxious beinys, seeking to recover if Jie mangled corpse of friend or comrade. Hour 1our the assemblage gathered on the sidewalks of enth street increased in number, and neither Ning walls nor falling fragments ef masonry could fp flight the hordes of curious lookers-on, auxious Hhvince themselves how quickly and efieetaally of the destroyer had been done, ‘THE BTORY OF AN BYR WITNESS. curtain had scarcely fallen upon the just set of we on Monday night, the andience had just de and the urtists had only left their dressing when the alarm of fire was given in the Academy ‘The gas was not yet extiaguished in a portion building, The doors on Four.eenti styect were en, There wore a few peopio lingering arcund jemiser, when it became evident thai the Operd was on fire. The first indications of the catastrophe peerved in light wreaths of smoke issuing from |pper windows, immediately under the roof. ‘The ached the engine house in Thirteenth sirect ut wenty minutes before twelve, and instantly the ire engine was on the spot, in front of the stage Fourteenth atrest, Tt took fully ten minutes to engine in working order. Meantime the firemen the hore into the building, and, asfsoon as water supplied, they poured a stream on the portiops house where the fire was visible. The flames, it , Were fret discovered breaking throngh of the pargit, on the Fifteenth strevt side, soction F; but i} Was soon pércelved that ortions of the building were also on fire, and hee the balcony to the right and the upper por e house above the stage. The fact that the tion commenced in three different places at the ne suggests the suspicion that the fre was not 1. ‘The volume of smoke in the auditorium was that it was impossible for the firemen, police ral private citizens who attempted to render a® to accomplish anything. They were driven ain and again into Fourteenth street, haviog jod in gottiag oul a few mirrors and sofas from ’ dressing room and the managor’s office on ti ce corner, In fifteen minutes after the alarin the flames buret forth from tho upper win- his was the first appearance of fire on the exterior i] % ble material on the stage and in the gal- ve took fire, and the whole building was ‘n in an Incredibly short space of time, present- cent appearance. All attempts to subdoc the Acadetny proved futile. Tn vain the en- plied and the firemen, at the rick of their into the burning structure. The flames the woodwork of the balcony, the dress fearful roar through the mass of canvaes By a desperate eftort a portion of the music the firemen, some of whom, we regret to got out of the suffocating smoke which the whole interior of the buildings like ble mantle, A smal portion of the ward. got out of the stage eutrance with great ditti- it the large part of it was destroyed, some the of the lessee and some belovging to Mr. Gran, company was playing for the second night won at the Academy, and, ax the fates bart for the fast time. Grau's property was unin- He lost considerabiy in the value of his ward- the score of several operas, The artute more or less of their private property. stage jewels of Madame Noel Guidi were de 8 roof to house roof in search of a fitting food—spite | gho Datch Roformed church, and twining up from || the flames were mastered and dwellings and lives | yisipie, parquet aud the amphitheatre, end surged | nated, but it seems that none of the streams could bear few of the instruments in the orchestra were | strest, and running a tender, stretched in a hydrant UNION SQUARE FOURTH AVE WASHING TON| ifonuMeg piano factory next took fire, then Fraser's restaurant, at the corner of Third avenue, This building was wrapped in fire in an meredibly short space of time. Before one could suppose that the fiery element had fairly mastered it, the walls began to fall; one portion went outward into the street, and another fell back into the buring mass of rains, The speciace ‘at this time was egblime and cannot be adequately d: scribed, From Irving place to Third avenue one sheet of fire swept along. ‘The flames from the burning liquor in Frazer's restaurant ran Yke a stream across Third avenue, Above, the fre anc smoke waved high over the surrounding houses, {luminating the {church steeples in the vicinity and making the wholo scene as light as day. Meantime the fire had worked itself along to Fifteenth street, wrapping around the spire of the roof to the point of the steeplo like & fiery corkscrew, consuming the timber until the frame stood like a piece of wicker work, all aglow, and, crumbling into red ashes, fell over without a sound into the consnming ruins beneath, For miles around the glare of the conflagration was From the farthest part of Staten Island the catastrophe was plainly visible, and was viewed through telescopes by many spectators, In ‘point of effect and magniticonce, apart altogether from its destructive con- sequences, we have not had such « fire in the metropolis for many a year, ORIGIN AND DISCOVERY OF THE FIRE. Ht bas been pretty eleariy proven that the fire broke out among a quantity of empty boxes in the basement, on the north side of the stage, directly under the first tier and adjoining the rubbish room, When and by whom the flame was kindled is still a mystery, The boxes were such as are need by ‘uperatic troupes to carry their wardrobes when travelling, and were about twenty or twenty-five in nomber, Soon after the closing of the house and the extinguishing of the lights Eugene Pelletier, the wardrobe keeper, proceeded, as usual, to look undor the seats with a lantern, A® he returued from his tone of mepection towards the stage he met Mr. Graham, the asrsiant gas man, who asked him “what he was raiging such a dust for?” Mr. Pile tier replied that he was doing nothing of the kind, and had no sooner made the remark when Mr, Graham exclaimed that he smelt smoke, The two men instantly ran to see whence it proceeded, and on going below found the whole place in flames, Mr. Pelletier at ouce ran out into the streetand gave the alarm, while Grabam got the small hose at work, Eivery effort was made to arrest the progress of the fire, but all exertions were unavailing, and the employes were finally compelled to retreat to avoid imperiiting their own hives. Mr, Pelletier suc ceeded, however, in reseuing Mr. Kingsland’s private desk, which contained all his valuable papers and a like ness of Mr. Phaten, the first resident of the Academy of Mowe. ENTER! 9 THE BUILDING. James Toomoney, ex-foreman of Hook and Ladder ny Ne. 2? ong the firat to enter the build Lio erates {hat (be lace was Mlled with dense smoke, ! op opening t= Agarmg on the north side, n 2 shot uptait, fhowing that the on fire, A stream Was then brought * by Engine Company No. 14; bet no headway cc 16 made, and the firemen 2000 had to retreat. iimmoney then descended the stairway leading to the barroom, where, with some nets any ho broke oper 2 doops. ‘The whole cetling was discovered to be ou Gr’, and shdrily after, while Mr. Timmoney was in company with ten or twelve other volunteers, the explogjon took place, Ina second almost the whole house was black with smoke, and it was with the Greatest difficulty that the men escaped by passing up the etairway As they were leaving they could hear their comirades call for sssistance. Mr. Timmony, being familiar with the building, told them to break through the windows at the front, and as soon as he reached the street he procured an axe and broke away the iron stoop. By this prompt action many valuable lives were saved. ESCAPE OF THE JANITOR'S FAMILY. Meanwhile the flames were making rapid headway, and Mr. Rullman’s family were sleeping in a portion of the building, They were at once roused from rleep— just In time to rave them frora an awful death, Halt the stage, a jetof flor whole place below to bear on the pr puilding, but itsoon worked its way down. The | dressed they were carredgfrom their rooms, which were | filled with fire and emoke soon after they reached the street. PIRST RFFORTS. | When the fire first broke oot it wae tuppormd that it could be extinguished by the hydrant streams within the building. ‘The «mal! hose was accordingly attached -REAT CONFLAGRATION. Diagram of the Locality, Showing the Progress of the Fire PROGKES? OF THE FIRE. After the Ore had broken out im the Academy the flames speedily com: cated to the Me@cal College bullding, the plano manufactory of Ibme & Son, apd the re tauravt of Mr Fraser, which ba ldings oeapied the block trom Irving place to Third avenws, They were entirely destroyed The fre Gas at this point most ob stinately combatted by the firemen to prevent i crossing to the east side of Third avepue. Metropolitan Engine No, 16, which stood at the corner, wax enn rounded by flames, and the members were com pelled to abondon it for « time, A towber of « heck and ladder © mpany cut the hose from the Gre plug with an axe, but @as severcly injured in doing #0, his hair being burned from his head The engine wae finally secured by means of ropes, bat 1 wae badly mjured. The fire burned og the west side of Third avenee a cigar store, a lagor beer saloon and a butcher shop, bewdes partially burving the roofs of one or two adjacent build ing. These houses were occupied by families and their loss of furniture and wearing apparel was large About two o'clock, owing to the high wind, the sparks were driven im all directions, some of them falling among the lumber stored in the yard of Worcester’s piano factory, situated at the sortheast corner of Third a je and Fourteenth street. Ths war soon in flames, and the fire communicated to the factory Itself, but fortunately was conned to the upper stories, From this point the fire cross-d to the southern end of the Lutheran Church, situated on Fifteenth street, be- tween Rutherford place and Third avenue The roof was in flames, but the police made every effort to sare the contents of the building. The edifice, whieh war of stone, burned very rapidly, and the wooden seeple soon after took fire, The steeple toppled over into the build ing with a loud crash, but no one was injured. The Gre was confined to these limite, At first It seemed almost impossible to prevent the destroction of the entire blork vounded by Irving place, Third avenue and Fourteeuth and Fifteenth streeta, The roof* in all directions were crowded with spectators, and those on Fifteenth and Fourteenth streets had an improvised fire department brushing off the sparks and throwing Water upon them ‘This tended, in a great measure, to prevent the sprend ot the fire. ' Several houses took fire in the copingr, but they were extinguished, in most cases, without the wid of ihe stoam engines. THE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL. COLLROR. While the firemen were yet fighting the fre at the Academy, flames curled over and coals fel! toward Then! avenue, and licked up the University Medical College, TH <= st Q & ~ Rs Te w wiweot, Ina it of the confia- gration one of the finest educational at the ce =. expecially of the medical Prvfewon amd the ‘of rising graduates—was entirely ! : = if and Vaiewtine Mot: teen among the dead for several years their tames and works awe ParVived caper the army of Onshed med | cal tedemte whe fone Cub [rom the colons on | Feureonth street etme & Redford renguet bie professersity 8, being Gnabie, mm Fon mequence of hie large comsbantiy /eremmne to perform the duties of his char The Jo Dr sareth wer ebvcted to mupety the, chan versed By the death of fe Revere Dr. Vau Haren, tha of Anatomy, vacate,» eho death of DY Patten ami sh THE STAGE AND AUDITORIUM OF THE ACADEMY. "ON OF OENING ; \) PEACE ‘S TU THE FALL é. Mui. — J DITOR Lae ve —— Pines ry —~ ri MAIN ENTRAY IRVING to the water pipes end no less than throe lines were | —- Hy extended to the point whereat the fire > tly Dr. Metcalfe to that of Dr. Swett, npon that pou seeds ae oa Protensor's doath Bata few weeks since Drs. Van Baren aad Metcalfe both rest; their profersorshipe, and we upon the flames, On the arrival of the firemen Hook and Ladder Company No. 3, lying in Eavt Thirtesnth stream, under direction of Engineer Sullivan, who was in the immediate aeighborhood at the time of the cecurrence; but the force of water from the street hy- drant deing insufficient, they could accomplish Mitle or no good. Soon afier Engine Compeny No. 3 came on the cround and gota line in on the rear, while Engine Compantes Not. T3 and 14 were on duty at the front or toain ontrance, At this Ume the fire had gained trifiing headway, and a number of firemen and employes of the building busied themselves In removing such articles az they could lay hande upon. Several of the firemen forved their way into tho base- ‘ment or lower floor, many of them subsequently oarrowly escaping death. The pipe of Engine Company No. 13 ‘The rapidity with which the fire spread was stretched nearly to the middie of the parquet and the buildir dp as anvaning the roof, was » mass of Same, Conspicuous | smoke and fire stood the flagstaff, on the Four- front, and seamed to brave the tery ele- Weked it arownd from the base to the golien the top, It was a source of astonixh- the spectators that it held its piece ' ; but finally it toppled over and came a.crash upon the balcony, carrying away the hich were still burning with a sickly glare, amid flames now bursting out from every window of saving the Academy was now gone It condemned to destruction, To emer the was certain death; to throw water upon it was lof labor; consequently the firemer directed (heir to saving the adjoining buildings, so far as pow in this they were successful to a certain exieu! Il and the houses on the west side of Irvin The Chureh of the Redemption, on Four ‘Was i constant peril; but although ihe of the church took fire three timer, in o the burning frames were driven out into ‘and by this precaution, as well as by the eon of water poured over the building, the edifice ‘The buildings between the Academy and however, did not fare fo well, The wind flames to the roof of the Medical College, to floor, and in @ querter of an hour the yet & pram of fame, Ine & fouy In twenty minutes | was manned by John F. Denin and Hugh Kiitson, fire dirplayed itself the whole house, from the | privates, who were about retreating with the pipe when the gas exploded, Kittson was thrown off his feet and Wurled against one of the columns, bat regaining his bal ance, he caught hold of the hose, and, crawling upon his ands and knees, succeeded in reaching the front of the batlding. At the time of ‘he explosion the fire burst | throngh the flooring, separating the fugitives from the i main cntrance, and Kitison was compelled to cut hiv way through the flames to escape, Denin, who Ht ap- | pears, was more goriously injured by the explosion, was thrown upon his back, but, jumping to his feet, amd the excitement tan for the jmatn doorway, when a sheet of fame rose before him and drove him beck nto the bares. Seeing his perilous position he eame to a desperate resolve, and literally sprang through the fire. His face and hands were burned to such an extent that the unfortunate man had to be at once | conveyed to the New York Hospital for surgical treat ment. Previous to thia, however, the poor fellow, ‘after escaping from the building, bad wandered down Fourth avenue, and was fvally picked up by some strangers who guided him tathe engine house, Here bis appearance was gladly bailed, for the finding of bis hat neat the doorway had for a long time ¢' bis friends to suppose that he had perished in the flames, Kittson states that as be passed ont of the building be naw a | man's hands clinging to an opening in (bo floor below, ‘and heard him say, ‘For God's anke, bring # axe and cat | me out” There can be Hitile doubt as to the sad fate of * th Wpknows , iven, Anew, fid.ag will doubtions zned understand their chairs had not been filled when the dis- ‘aster took place, The late Dr. Mott presented his valuable anatomical museum to the ae ae years ago. This magnificent collection, ing specimens of many of his most brilliant surgical achievements, — them that of tying the arteria in meminala, ex section the clavicle, others whieh | wul terve to pase his name to posterity as one of the greatest surgeons ot the age. Besides the Mott he emalier collections of a Van Gouriay, Paine were destroyed. : De which cost jections of the i Dr. Draper's wonderful telescopic mirror, many months of labor, and Lyceum of Natural History, which money can never restore. estimated in money at from $75,000 to $80,000; insu for $45,000 in Long Island, Jefferson, United Bates North American ana New York companies. PREPARATIONS POR THE FUTCRE. The borning of the colleg: grievous lons to medi cal science, expecially as its halls w rebel lion is over, soon be crowded a . the Southern section of our country, with whom it was « a tavor.te. The energy which characterized the original faculty, and wich has characterized the managemrnt, is sleepless, however, and it ts believed by several of ite members that a new froproof building will be erected hefore the time for the opening of next sersion arrives. It ds already announced that, notwithstanding the disas- trous conflagration, there will be no interruption in the tumal course of lectures and chniques, Before the flamrs had finished their destructive work arrangements were made to hold the clinique under Dr, Gonriag at the rege tar hoar in the warde of Bellevue Hospital. Dr, Draper, President of the Faculty, has issued the fol lowing eireular :— UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLFOR. To THF EDITOR OF THE HERALD ‘The Medical Faculty of the University of New York notwithstanding tbe destruction of their building to-day by dire, will continae their lectures and cliniques without integraption. For we present thes exercives will be held ie the Cniversity building, Washington. square The graduates and students of t that ample provision will be made for of mnstraction, and that the lectures wiil go op in all re. spects as heretofom. Letters may be addremed to Dr Draper, President of the Medical Faculty, University building, Washington square, New York. May 22, JOHN W. DRAPER, MD. e winter conre® TO THA EDITOR OF THR HERALD. Notwithetanding will be no interruption in the usual and cliniques. Before the famen had iF ry of college are informed The eubjoined communication has alto been reosived —~ the late disastrous confiagration, there #s fi sEFE a g the engines. till we of the Fire DUTCH REFD CHURCH and the Property Destroyed. RUTHERFORD PLACE STUYVESANT SQUARE Ss £ c OND AVE. OWELLING HOUSE DAMAGED geen ore) ~~ WATERE, SQM So Pes aiiday. They had three streams on the ruins, and before dusk had sucosedod in finally extinguishing the institutions | flames. IN SEARCH OF THE DEAD. Between seven and vight o'clock yesterday morning Engineers Sullivan and Rhodes, who were left in charge of the premises, brought the members of Hook and Ladder Companice Nos 2f and 3 om the gronud and immediately proceeded to search for the bodies of Waters and Walst, late members of Engin Company No. 5. From the fact that they wo last seen upon the stage of the Academy, it waa pi sumed that their bodies could not lie far below the mast of rubbish which indicated where the ore 8 were once located. The men worked with untiring zeal, heedless of the announcement made that the wally of the building were tottering, and continued until about half-past ton, when their efforts were rewarded with uac- coe, RTER W. WALSH. ‘The body of Peter H. Walsb, private? of Eugine Com ny No. 3, wae discovered about half past ten o'clock low t! ntral portion of the stage. was recovered, the legs having been burned off, and but asmall portion of the head being attached. The eorpse was burned to a crisp, and only identified by its covering, a rubber cape, the lining of which was at once recognized by one of the comrades of the deceased. The trunk was covered with bricks and partially crushod ender a beam, [twas carefully taken ont, placed tna box and conveyed to the Eighteenth ward station house. DAVID B, WATHRS. ‘The remains of David B. Wal Foreman of Engi No. 5, were found about half-past two o von, lying over one of the heaters near the stage entrance. ‘When last seen Waters and Wats were together on the north side of the stage, and it was ther fore sappored that the body of tho former could not lic far distant from that of Walsh, Beujamin Geguol, Avsist- ant Foreman of Engine Company No. 25, being present, bad occasion to cross the debris over the right band fur- face, when be observed a portion of what appeared to him to be a fragment of a human body, On removing & portion of the robbish that covered the remains, the Kenper discovered the mortal remains of poor Watery His body was in the fame coudition as that of his late arnoclate, the lower extremities, howor, being but little burned. "In one of bia pockets was found the key of the engine houne and also his penknife, which was at once identified. A small box was soon procured, and with the aid of several of bin late comrade the body wax fomveyed to the station tour, to await théaction of the Coroner THE PECKASED FIREMEN, David B. Waters, foreman of Engine Company No, f has been in command of the above company since tt orgomention under the vew department, and up to the trank only ten” Of hin decease, Me was bet qeen twenty-eight and thirty years of age, and a printer by t He wav formerly a member of Engine Company No. 23, of teh Fire Commissioner Lirown was aino a member, and et ope time wa ed weeretary of the company, Ho was uninarried, but leaves an aged mother to mou te bw fronds epead of him sa the baghost (rps ae Aiud, gent " ty three yrare of age department he felow Bremen Dh tans fiends mate to day for « Deparment wil H y fore The deceased were insured aguinay accidents f sum of one themand dollare each, they with the ather members of the Degrtment, b | cently bron persented with a polig in the D | pcudental Insurance Oumpauy the Board of Fir | Underwrner The fam tye men w ‘ move the above simount fram ive Accdeut Company, | kana tL Company No. 3, wae end avoring | 4 Mevens attempd tt enter the i i MeRirey, of Hook and Ladder Company No. | a work yertertay my digvina for the j Walsh and Waters w kon the head by i te “ veyed to the - a pant not dar The fat or tne f the le req aent con the contin rats ‘acadeeny of Moxe—Lose on building, $120,000 In sured w follow ' Mer haus $2,400 20 Pa) 509 Albany City Norwich Guardian © tmp & Traders Western & Bettalo Nortuwemern to exceed $40 CD aod the te replaced fon Qo ne oy ety Gestroved ro: CTMER Lots ae tow O60 tered Mr ary their agent My HOR my theoet 08. eorth tthe tow “Yat Cask Fourtennth ineored for $28 ano are and were troet on apted by Thre & romengpanity og ae om tewre shen, of 890.00 We the Meese ae Fr nd, G1 Beet row S20 pe one oomiped by J co ew to oped by Mr Jubason fut) covered by immer . ee hurch im Bast Pierath which Br. Weimckindt is pastot, » damaged to the 0F $30,000. The loas is Sully evrerd by meoranee, adjoining buildiog, No. 109, coeupind by Robert Munem ay a dwelling, was to the extent of $500. The insurance on Tur miiure amounted to $800 DEVERNI PERYORM AQ EH Owing to the cccurrence of the fire @any at the Academ@, demantet that were to ement ; The imprearo, bs the wabjoin fento dh Ae fadoined @anifento tor the GBAU'S ITALIAN OFIRRAS AN pe * fue Bones ov roe Mein. rons havi purchared theke! represen fation of Marthe at the Bente aye eae sat Ee ene at Brooklyn (which representa' ens cannot plage fr gral of ee tro prey teh yy Rt be Of Music, New York), can have their apuney' ees spblication to the breech Uches omiect tees temeemome bert Authony & Co., and the Brosklya Music, iy Gnab 4 The great billiard match, to hago boon plaped thle evening ut the now destroyed Louse, amet a oo ded elsewhere, ah History of the Academy of M The ruined building, completed in @ie fal accordance with the pl@ns and under tie d rect Aloxander Saeltzer, the architect who bay just built the new Freneh theatre, Was inaugurate 1 October 2, 1804 by tho representation of Bellint's Nerma, Grint and Mario snstainod the leading’ parts, aveleted by Sicnortns Donovanul and Signor Susini. The great success which had attended Grist aml Mario ta Overy’ part of the world where their names wero known bespoke a brillians opening’ for tho new house, Hilt tywlve years ago tes general pablic seemed to tako little Interest im operntic performances, and by aome fault or other in carrying out the designs of the archigect the house, which wad intend- od to soat{four thousand five hundred persons, could scarcely comfuriably aceommodate apd seat one-half that nuinber. Tho party @f geuticmen who advanced the to erect the building also stipulated that two cholce sents for every perfor e during the 1 not only # lifelong and ree 1 nie transferable to any part oF portion of their family, to their friends and to the ae- quaintances of their friends, voint which has been strictly adhered to up to the present tine, On October 2, 1854, Mr, Hackett betog the manager o@ the Academy of Musit, the audienes amounted to about one thousand persous.’ The first and second Gera were nearly empty. The i@aagoration proved o fillure, and the subsequent performances were marked by shoilar foatures for a cou In its number of ‘Oflaber B, 1854, the New Yorn Irn avp had the following! . Hearing in mind that the house Ie expected to wnat betwee four thou ad four t and five b red persons, the attendan ight te Ky any cusses fF the Bisa ye sigued, “The price of seats ix too high. Our Inputs, of whatever characcer, mast rely support; If they look fall.” We want o ible AmURe the marcen for pay. Taking the Hieato's ad prices of admission, but the holders stood in ‘the way, and have stood in the way It was given out axa aig of the times, that and Grist troupe played rome forty nights under the managergent of Messrs. N. H. Payne and Hackett, and the management lost money, Ole Rull in his speculative t at manarement lost money. nmaittes of Management “with crowded hoanan’? lost money —it was @aid about $24,000 The Lagrange operatic company, of ther proprictors and managers, during « very short feason, were said to have lort about $12,000, The operations of about seven months’ man- Ageluent produced Mis eloquent result; and, an it was uphill work for those who sucereded, it would be tedious to follow them in their adveataroue task ‘The work of rebullding the Acutemy will probably be commenced within toe nxt two or three Werks, and it r anew and inore imporing baiiding will nder the present ruin within lees than six It t thooght that te am fe nt Une edifice will not fall stockholders and manage, however, D the exigenelen os ‘wt mand pabiia yout rprises of ie day would pve & te nocersary to consult the epecta- the refined taste ofha in fo the rights of ayfy eith tonal progres, What te oO mune a fleet few et and vr itreatert fort, but a nawenal lustitate je gre fection im art will delight amt refine thgsteatet mum ir of our fellow eitizer Opera He Theatres Museu bear 1 tied 4 Tho following i tiet uf placey® amurcmnery ae stroyed by fire in the United States Ae ‘he yore if Fedora a atre, Hoxton wAtiacy 2, ¢TV8, noary 16, 1s0e. emt iia, Apeib 20, 1820. Daniol Lor theatre y tent New theatre, National theatre, New National thea i. Ov Aimer can Old Ameri an theatre, Cinen State street theatre, Mobi) " Idence Uratre, Provideyoo, Uoiober ine Westinetan, M wee ew York, Aprtt 26, 1se York, september IF, 146, pber 16,1845 Vebranry 14, be, be is, ye July Us. i851 a, Cal, ypee 2, Ca, Janey 30, 184. y 15, boot ‘ual Uneatr, ily 15, 1st Piacide's Vai ang, November chi's Museum, Sew Organs, May 6 olitan theatre, Man Freer Lyceum, San Francisco, Cal 18s re, Hacrament ville theatre, Mary® - ” Harn wo, New ¥ Powery theatre, mt. Lauty October 6, 1860. », Cingnnath, Maret 24 1868 ie, New York, May 22, 1806 Pike's Over Academy of Me A Nownurt Aqeave Sans Yesterday, on the lake in the Park, Mr. Hoblenberg, « Dane, residing tm tha city, exhibited for private gratifiontion to « a let few the ivtroduction in America of @ cenous apparates for aquatic exereiven, aed ou the lakes end rivers im Netti. ore Rorope, bat never before, it te mit, wen in the United Staten The nome of thie machine we aot enge rately defined ge. yom © Mh» Ba Lk 3 onet. This machine i ve Inchon Vestn, and nrhes epart, bond gether side by side by & plank, from the hetuard of woe to the surtoard of the vther, upon whieh there ek chat mate fat ime the enure lus Weighing oly thirty in Cite in wkater " cite, bis face feonting (he direstion he intends 19 move, and pel ree feet | Lod Veathered of at each ond like an ear, be holds i eith both hands in the centre of the shaft, and the (eather right and left, he glides awey om Pay ful © ty and reguletes his epeed by the sow Kos wae piles the paccie There @ sike ip forme yo «ean enjoy © eo ree Rewcor at Kitt st—Comemem a Leet 1 Goon Wonma a novel core ay wok place yertertay morning st Mt Lake's Fpueepat charch, Hudson street, Bishop Potter comes rieter boos, nwt covers! of the meqbers, etitted te pubes cimilar to ek the Hernan Catoole Mintern of Charity, cocupied pews naar the sitar Bishop Potter war seveted in the omnes by even other ynen Commanion being edeuinistered, the indy was te the etter, and | there solemnly Comteersted t religions services, The cherch as Crowded upon Ue ocematon Tee ere 2 New Port Ovew® The commitire eo potnted te grlart 0 mite for the new Most offer met yeater enn rare ont ot the bs gg og omy aS for We @ lemon —Mayor He man, Jarteam & Robaite, “emer! 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