The New York Herald Newspaper, May 23, 1866, Page 5

ull Account of Conflagratien. the Great ‘8 Origin, Discovery, Pro- gress and ‘istimated Loss Two Millions of Dollars, ar Firemen Supposed to Have Perished in the Ruins. (WO BODIES RECOVERED. ASUALTIES, SCENES AND INGIDENTS. ORY GF THE ACADEMY OF MUSIC. te flames that burst forth in lurid splendor from in the Academy of Music on Monday died away day at dawn, after dostroying two human hives consuning much valuable 16 place to Third avenue, the fire king for a finally retreating und leaving as a memento stay charred and crumbling walls where once massive edifices of iron and stone. breeze that drove the devouring @lement from 9 roof to house roof in search of a fittiag food—spite /fe fiery breath that ever and anon scorehed the faces e brave workers—spite of the ommipresence of A masked behind tottering structures, of veiled by | frame stood like a piece of wicker work, all aglow, and, of flame, the undaunted firemen worked unceas- until, at peril, or rather at sacrifice, of life and and though hindered by lack of mechanical assist- the flames were mastered and dwellings and lives mbered saved. ip fire broke out shortly before midnight on Monday. ‘troyed the Academy of Music, burying under the 4 of the structure two unfortunates, in its embrace, from Fourteenth to It crushed the sity Medical College h steeples flaming spires and of factories smonider- uns, At daybreak yesterday its ravages were Ul, and the tiny pillars of smoke that rose from be- ced Walls of the Academy alone explained lat clement the massive structures around had excitement throughout the city was intense. Is flocked toward Irving place ond Fourteenth | 4 carry to gaze upon the scene of desolation and comment the supposed causes of the fire, while in the midst »arena, amid ascending clouds of siaoke and steam, dascore of anxious beinys, seeking to recover if 1e mangled corpse of (riend or comrade, 1our the assemblage gathered on the sidewalks of yonth street in ling walls nor falling fragments of masonry could flight the hordes of curious lookers-on, anxious kby and efiecteally selves how qui 1k of the destroyer had been done, THE STORY OF AN EYE WITNESS. curtain had scarcely fallen upon the just set of Ave on Monday night, the andience had just de and the nrtists had only left ther drgssing when the alarm of fire was given in the Academy ‘The gas was not yet extinguished in a portic building, The doors on Four. were a few peopie lingering arcund emises, when it Became evident tha the Opers was on fire. The first indications of the served in light wreaths of smoke sss per windows, immediately under the roof. eachod the engine house in ‘'Thirteonth sirect wt wenty minutes before twelve, and instantly the ire engine was op the spot, in front of the ‘ Fourtéenth street. It took fully ten minutes to engine in working order, Me: the hoee into the building, and, asfsoon as water ¢ supplied, they poured a st house where the fire was visible, The flames, it discovered breaking be of the parquBt, on the Fifteenth street Side, , a ee “ section F; bat it Was jortions of tbe building were also on fire, and these the balcony to the right and the upper por. the house above the stage. -ation commenced in three different places at me suggests the suspicion that the fire was ‘The volume of smoke in the auditorium bo that it was impossible for the firemen, pc ‘eral private citizens who attempted to render to accomplish anything. gain and again into Fourteenth street, haviag od in gottiag oul a few mirrors and sofas from ‘es’ dressing room and the managor’s office on tlie In fifteen minutes after the alsrin en the flames burst forth from the upper win- is was the Grst appearance of fire on the exterior jiiding, but it soon worked its way down. The ible material on the stage and in the gal- we took fire, and the whole building was im an Meredibly short space of time, present. nt appearance, All attempts to subdue 1m the Acadetny proved futile. In vain the en- re plied and the fireme: wshed into the burning structure, The flames along the woodwork of the balcony, tho dress he parquet aod the amphitheatre, ond surged fearful roar through the mass of By a desperate effort a portion of the music few of the instruments in the orchestra were vy the firemen, some of whom, we regret to wer got out of the suffocating smoke which 1 the whole interior of the buildings like | occurrence; but the force of water from the street hy- drant being insufficient, they could accomplish little or no good. Soon afier Engine Compeny No. 3 came on in on the rear, while Engine Companies Nos. T3 and 14 were on duty at the front or ined ond ® number of firemen and employes of the building busied themselves In removing such articles as they could lay bande upon, Several pd the score of several operas, The artists | of the firemea forved their way into tho base. ment or lower floor, many of them sbsequently narrowly escaping death, The pipe of Engine Company No, 13 was stretched nearly to the middie of the parquet and In twenty minutes | was manned by Jobn F. Denin and Hugh Ktitson, privates, Who were about retreating with the pipe when the gas exploded, Kittson wae thrown off his feet nod nth street were time the fireme am on the portiops ‘The fact that They were driven at the riek of their metrable mantle, A smal portion of the ward. scot out of the stage outrance with great ditti- out the large part of it was destroyed, some the y of the lesaee and some dolovg! company wes playing for the second night senson at the Academy, and, as the fates had 1, for the fast time. Grau’s property was unin. He lost cousiderabiy in the value of his ward- let more or less of their private property. stage jewels of Madame Noel Guidi were de. ity with which the fire spread the buildir Jp as amazing 0 fire dirpiayed itself the whole house, from the lo the roof, was a mass of fame. Conspicuous v¢ amoke and fire stood the flagstaff, on the Four street front, and seemed to brave the sery ele at Heked it around from the base to the golden was a source the spectators toppled over and With a crash apon the balcony, carrying sway the hich were still burning with a sickly glare, amid 1 flames now bursting out from & ce Of saving the Academy was now gone. hifestly condemned to destruction. was certain death; to throw water upon it was of Inbor; consequently the firemen directed their to saving the adjoining butidings, #0 far as pos in this they were successful to a certain exieu!. ‘all and the houses on the west side of Irving jcaped. The Church of the Redemption, on Four |, Was in constant peril; but although the of the church took fire three times, in the burning frarses were driven out into |, aod by this precaution, as well as by the con © of water poured over the building, the edifice ‘The baildings between the Academy and enue, however, did not fare #0 well, The wind flames to the roof of the Medical College, monosd to burn fleresly, They spread down to floor, and in a quarter of an hour the | me out There can be Hite doubt as to the tad fate of ) ys ® proms of Sams, Ib ne & fou's © tho weknows UNION SQUARE FOURTH AVE WASHINGTON MONUMENT THE GREAT CONFLAGRATION. PLACE STUYVESANT RUTHERFORG THIRD AV nie REED OWELLING HOUSE ACA DEMVven cau! # ESTA musIC piano factory next took fire; then Fraser’s restaurant, at the corner of Third avenue. This building was wrapped in fre in an iweredibly short space of time. Before one could suppose that the flery element had fairly mastered it, the walls began to fall; one portion went outward into the street, and another fell back into the kuring mass of rpins, The spectac’e at this time was e@blime and cannot be adequately de- scribed, From Irving place to Third avenue one sheet of tire swept along. ‘The flames from the burning liquor in Frazer's restaurant ran Uke a stream across Third avenue, Above, the fre anc smoke waved high over the surrounding houses, illuminating the {church steeples in the vicinity and making the wholo scene as light as day. Meantimo the fire had worked itself along to Fifteenth street, wrapping around the spire of tho Duteh Reformed church, and twining up from the roof to the point of the steeple like @ fiery corkscrew, consuming the timber until the crumbling into red ashes, fell over without a sound into the consnming ruins beneath. For miles around the glure of the conflagration was visible. 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 magnificence, apart altogether Crom its destructive con- sequences, we have not had such a fire in the metropolis for many a year, ORIGIN AND DISCOVERY OF THE FIRE. It bas been pretty cleariy 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 fame was kindled is still a mystery. The boxes were such ws are need by ‘peratic troupes their wardrobes when travelling, and were about twenty or twenty-five in number, Soon after the closing of the house and the extinguishing of the lights Engene Pelletier, the wardrobe keeper, proceeded, as usnal, to look under the seats with a lantern, As he returued from his tonr of mepection towards the stage he mot Mr. Graham, the assistant gas man, who asked bim “what he was raising such a dust for?” Mr. Pelle. tier replied that he wax 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 Mr. Pelletier at once ran out into wetend gave the alarm, while Grabam got the hoge at work, Every 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 lives. Mr. Pelletier suc voeded, however, in rescuing Mr, King#lavd’s private desk, which contained all his valuable papers and a like- ness of Mr. Phaten, the first President of the Academy of Music. ENTER! 9 THE BUILDING. omoney, exforeman of Hook and Ladder yng the firat to enter the build lace was Mied with dense smoke, foormg on the north side, nese the stay», shot uptens’, showing that the whole place below © on fire, A stream Was then brought to bear on the pr * by Engine Company No. 14; but no headway co 16 made, and the fremen 2000 had to retreat, ‘immouey then descended the stairway leading to the barroom, where, with some aewants, he broke open ‘2 doors. ‘The whole ceiling was discovered tbe ou ara, 8 § sifrrly 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 smok nd it was with the greatest difficulty that the men escaped by passing up the #tairway, Ae they were leaving they could hear the!s comrades eall for assistance, Mr. Timmony, being familer with the butiding, told them to break through | the windows at the front, and as soon as he reached the | ereet io procured an axe and broke away the iron stoop. By this prompt action many valuable lives were saved. RSCAPY OF THE JANITOR'S FAMILY. Meanwhile the flames were making rayid headway, and Mr. Rallman’s family were sleeping in a portion of the building. They were at once roused from sleep— just in time to fave them frora an awful death, Half dressed they were carredffrom their rooms, which were | filled with fire and emoke soon after they reached the street. FIRST RFFORTS. When the fire first broke out it was tuppoend that it could be extinguished by the hydrant streams within the building. ‘The smal! hose was accordingly attached to the water pipes end no less than throe lines were | —= promptly extended to the point whereat the fire origt- nated, but |t seems that none of the streams could bear upon the flames, On the arrival of the firemen Hook ‘and Ladder Company No. 3, lying in East Thirteenth street, and running a tender, stretched in a hydrant stream, under direction of Engineer Sullivan, who was in the immediate acighborhood at the time of the the ground and got a lin main enteance, At this tine the fire had trifling headway, Wurled against one of the columns, but regaining his bal ance, he caught bold of the hose, and, crawling upon his hands and knees, succeeded in reaching the front of the bollding. At the time of ‘he explosion the fire burst through the flooring, separating the fugitives from the main entranos, and Kittson was compelled to cut bis way through the flames to escape, Denin, who 4 ap- on thrown npon his hack, but, jumping to his fect, amid the excitement tan for the jmatn doorway, when a sheet of flame rose before him and drove him back Into the baxes. Seeing his perilous position he eame e, and literally sprang through | the fire. His face and hands were burned to such an extent that the unfortunate man had to be at one | conveyed to the New York Hospital for surgical treat- the poor fellow, pears, was more goriously injured by the explosion, to a desperate reso! ment, Previous to thin, however, after escaping from the building, bad near the doorway had for a long and heard him say, ‘For God's sake, 'y all day. They had three streams on the rui dusk had sueceedod In finally, extinguishing the PROGRESS OF THE FIRR. , After the fire bad broken out in the Academy the flames speedily communicated to the Medical Coll bullding, the piano manufactory of Ibne & Son, and the restaurant of Mr. Fraser, which buildings occupied the block 1rom Irving place to Third avenue, They were entirely destroyed. The fire was at this point most ob- stinately combatted by the firemen to prevent it crossing to the east side of Third avenue. Metropolitan Engine No, 16, which stood at the corner, was snr- rounded by flames, and tho members were com- pelled to abosdon it for a time. ‘and ladder c:mpany cat the hose from the fire plug with an axe, but was severely injured in doing so, his hair being burned from his head. The engine was finally secured by means of ropes, but it was badly injured. The fire burned on the west side of Third avenue a cigar store, a lager beer saloon and a butcher shop, besides partially burning the roofs of one or two adjacent build- igs, These houses were occupied by families and their loss of furniture and wearing apparel was large. the high wind, the from the ‘on gration one of the finest educational profession and the jooment of the con): IN SEARCH OF THE DEAD. Between seven and eight o'clock yesterday morning hodes, who were loft in charge of the premises, brought the members of Hook and and 3 om the ground. to search for the bodies late members of Engine From the fact that they were last seen upon the stage of the Academy, it was pre- sumed that their bodies could not lie far below the ras of rubbish which indicated where the orchestra boxes ‘The men worked with untiring zeal, ment made tt ering, and continued until about ur efforts were rewarded with wuc- ing graduates—was entirely ; nothing but the stout side walls standing, a brick and a few pieces of eiaborate coping work in the street, in front, serving to mark the spo! the fine builiing stood. While the ruinsof the Academy and other adjacent buildings smoked and occasionally burst forth into @ blazo throughout the early hours yesterday, the dead pile between the we gave forth no smoke or steam to mark it from a ruin twelve months old or ore. destruction of the building, together with a valuable brary and a large and irreplaceable collection of anato- mical and pathological specimens, was most complete. Graduates from the college visited Fourteenth street in large numbers yesterday, and mourned over the loss FOUNDATION AND GROWTH OF THE COLLEGE. The University Medical College 1840, upon @ charter Engineers Sullivan and Ladder Companice Co 5 of the morni ae a. walls of the co were once located heodless of the annou the building were half-past ten, when t A member of a hook PRTER H. WALSH. The body of Peter H. Walsh, private’ of Engine Com. ny No. 5, was discovered abont Dall pas ten o'clock Jow the central portion of the stage, ‘The way recovered, the legs having been burned off, and put asmnall portion of the head being attached, The eorpae ‘and was only identified by ite covering, a rubber cape, the lining of which was at once reconized by one of the comrades of the deceased. The trunk was covered with bricks and partially crushed It was carefully taken ont, placed {na box and conveyed to the Kighteenth ward siation house, |. WATRRS. ters, Foreinan of Engine half-past two o'clock was founded from sexsion, and opened its first lectures in the winter of 1840 and 1841. start the institution the faculty purchased at © the Stuyvesant Institute, and for several jectures were continued at roll at that tirne comprised the names of cen. Uemen then, as now, famous in the anpals.of surgery and medical practice both in this country and thy Old World. = Thero were Dr. but just returned from rope, Asia and Africa; Jobn Revere, Martyn Pa! ning 5, Bedford. Wi was burned to a cris} About two o'clock, under a beam. Valentine Mott, the extensive travel in Ki: Drs. Granville Sharpe Pattison, ¢, Jonn W. Draper and Gan- this origin the college opened its first session with the extraordinary number of one hun dred and sixty-four students; and its sucoess thereafter, up to the disaster of night before last, har been remark Tt was not long after the opening term before the institution had inseribed upon its catalogue the names of four hundred and fifty students, the majority of whom came from South of the Potomac river. Nor was this un- checked in the least till the com. te war for the Union, which di- minished the Southern members of its classes. in consequence of the increase of the classes the faculiy necessary to increase and accordingly purchased « site Fourteenth street, adjoining whereon they erected ata cost of & cent building which was destroyed thom falling among the lamber stored in the yard of Worcester’s piano factory, situated at the northeast corner of Third avenue and Fourteenth street, soon in flames, and the fire communicated to the factory itgelf, but fortunately was con Med to the upper stories, From this point the fire crossed to the southern end of tho 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 save the contents of the building. The edifice, which was of stone, burned very rapidly, and the wooden seeple soon alter took fire. ‘The steeple toppled over into the build- ing with aloud crash, but no one was injured. The fire was confined to these limits, At first it seemed almost impossible to prevent the destruction of the entire block vounded by Irving place, Third avenue and Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets. The roofs in all directions were crowded with spectators, and those on Fifteenth and Fourteonth streets bad an improvised fire department brushing off the sparks and throwing water upon them. ‘This tended, in a great measure, to prevent the spread Several houses took fire in the copings, but hod, in most cases, without the aid ‘The remains of David B. No. 5, were found about in tho afternoon, 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 th fore supposed that the body of the former could not lic far distant from that of Walsh, Be: ant Foreman of Engine Company No. 25, beng present, had occasion to cross the debris over the right band fur: nace, when he observed a portion of what appeared to him Wo bea fragment of a human body. On removing a portion of the rubbish that co keeper discovered the mortal remains of poor Watery coudition as that of his late hower, being but little In one of his pockets was fond the key of the ine house and also his penknite, which was at o tifled. Axmall box was soon f several of his | conveyed to the station bow of the Coroner THE DECKASED FIREMEN. David B, Waters, foreman of Engine Company No. f pove company since ky artment, and up to the » was between twonty-eigt apamin « exampled prosperit mencement of the red the remains, the His body was in associate, the lower extrem) the Academy of Music, ire in the earl e comrades the body was ine has wrought Granville Sharpe tine Mott have for several years, Pattison, Jonn Revere been among the dead thelr names and works have survived, expecially with the army of finished med cal students who have gone out from the college on Guaning 8. Bedford re has been in co orgamization und tim of his dees Fourteenth street, professorship in sequence of his large and ties, to perform the duties of bis chair. Dr. Swott wav elected to euppl. by the death ef Dr. Revere. Dr. Anatomy, vacated by she death of Dr, Pattivon, ‘and sub they were exting of the steam en; THE UNIVERSITY MEDICAT, COLLEGE. While the firemen were yet fighting the fire at the Academy, flames curled over and avenue, and licked up the atone time wa was uninarricd, tary of the company. He an agod mother to Moles bn Hie friends epeak of him ia the higher beneyolent ms the chair vacated ‘an Buren, that of 1s fell toward Thin versity Medical College, THE STAGE AND AUDITORIUM OF THE ACADEMY. | | | made to-day fo Departinent will turn on ed againsy 3 hae (GINATEO sum of one th with the other member presented with a polig Acadental Insuran riment, having re STORE RCO: iE THE | ceive the above amount from the Acodent Company, Mr. Mullen, of Hook and Taw berned about while © members were comp he fire in frow of Thne & Academy of M About the head ad aru A boy named Stevens attempted tt after the fireme Michael McElroy 3, while at work romaine of Walsh abrick that feil fro L0F OENING a @Y EXPLOSION 3 7 \ ware rns A02¥ OF WELSH was fOCAD HALL a asa rowly ew sped aul TIN ~" a PLACE —— Pines 5 70 TH AUOITORIUA® ‘The follwing 18 @ partiad list of the lowes convequent ‘on the contiacrat ‘Academy of Mosic sured ax follows aaa —=— Lowe on building, $129,000. In MAIN ENTRAM. IRVING Fire Trust Fre Fond kere & New Frankim Hofinan Home Iw Albany € Norwieh . Guardian Nortu western. St. Nichola hes the museum of the Jate Dr. Mott, an ler collections of Dra. Bedford, Van Buren, Paine, Goulay and Finpell. tus of Dr. Draper is destroyed, with the exception Dr. Henry Draper meats with the an noying loss of a telescopic mirror which had cost months of labor, Bot perhaps the greatest loas for the interests of science, was the total destru: Of the vast collection of the wardrobes and properties, $90,000 Lome ow seonery Dr. Metcalfe to that of Dr. Swett, apon that Professor's death. Buta few weeks since Dra Van Buren iF professorships, iad not been filled when Dr, Mott presented his valuable several years ago. THE GURATEST SUPRRMER. lower i# Mr. Grau, who had convered well as the sinall 2 both understand their chairs bi aster took place. The late anatomical museum to the college nificent collection, containing specimens of ie most brilliant surgical achievements, them that of tying the arteria in aominata, ex section the clavicle, and others ne serve to pase his name to posterity as one of the greatest surgeons or the age. Feudes the Mott collection, the emalier collections of Drs. Bedford, Draper's wonderful “netual los x Wkely A the property to exceed $40,000 be replaced for $0,000 Lyceum of Natural History Raliman also lost $1,600 in money ‘The Buysiey tronpe, through their agent Mr ALT. | fege jong and feathered off at each ond pved to the Academy about $8,000 ch wore devtroyed, # urance ye tal ve that the firemen worked uncens. in their power to arrest mer. Thongh limited they labored ontil dawn and sought to save the t the vicinity. There was certainly her of engines on the ground, and the fact that engine erm manned at large fires by additiopal steamers and more men on hand the ravages of the fire king leas destructive. sioner Brown was present during the conf and with Engineer Kingsland continually words of encouragement to theit exbausted subordinates To Messrs, Wiliam Stnith and Harry Winans, of the Irving place, and the proprietors of the Cariton House the firemen would retorn many thanks received at their bands Engine No, 36, of Harlem, of which Rebert Brown ty Preserve Brewster # piano far tory Ite but juet to ingly, and did proper tained be ng ¢ work rapicent wan Medical University Colles the ire har fully demonstrat panies cannot be successfully Had there been jaral History, altogether entailing a lows The loss is variously in the following ¢ som, United States, North American aud New York very valuable anatomical mu which money can never restore. estimated in money at from $75,000 to $80,000; insured for $45,000 in Long Island, Jefferson, United States, North American ana New York companies, PREPARATIONS POR THK ‘The burning of the coll cal scionce, especially as its hall lion is over, soon be crowded Southern section of our country, with whom it was ever afavorite, The energy which nd winch bas characterized the management, is sleepless, however, and it is believed by several of ite new fireproof build In the baliding wae 4 feum, presented thousand dollars ‘upon whieh there . jabie collection, wogether with d and Payne, the latter all of whch were valued e if a grievous lone to medi- would, now the rebel- jenta from the Dra Port, Van rized the original twenty thousand insured for Wm thousand, a Will be ween by the fol MXR AND #ON'R F TO THR RETOR © will be orected ning of Next session arrives It da already announced that, notwithstanding the disas- trous conflagration, there will be no tual course of lectures and chniques, had finished their destructive work arrangements were made to hold the clinique under Dr, Gonrlay at the roga- lar hour in the wards of Bellevue Hospital Dr. Draper, President of the Faculty, bas issued the fol lowing cireular UNIVERSITY wh To THe EDITOR ‘The Medica! Facuity of the | notwithstanding ¢ by fire, will cont members that FORTR PACTORY before the time for the o 3 : tie) New Yous, May 22, #06 Below please find some partieniare whieh will ona of the lowes ovcasioned Wy t in the Academy lest gight and extend 4 completely destroying preimises No. 111 bast nd 12) Third avenue, terruption in the Before the flames | pinaiiy, the terrible conflagration that burst forth at midnight was stayed at dawn, thanks to the unremit The bare walls of the any loomed up through an ever-rising curtain of smoke, while from the mars of dabria within arose here ‘The streets were crowded, the engines, still at work, flooded the sidewalks, tut the nee of the Fire King was dimmed and bis work you to give & statemen inatis ‘ertions of the firemen toris tha oer th street and Now 2) pianoforte manufert n badly damage tiny Jet of flame AL COLLKOR. tion of their build SCRNEX YESTERDAY, Throughout the day no lest than ten thousand persons ruins, there being ber of ladies, wbo viewed the scone Several of the fair sex insisted upon to the main entrance on Ir Compuny f Bampéen, 61,090, Alber “ «he present these exercives will be puilding, Washington square tadents of the college are informed n will be made for the winter course 0 ob in all re 7 be addressed to Dr. Draper, President of the Medical Faculty, University x JOUN W, DRAPER, M.D. ation has alto been received England, $1,000 $1,000, Grocery, $2,000 them a large nom held im the f ita!, $10,000 The Grit foorof Inne & Third avenne, Non. 1. Praner a> & get aperts as heretot precaution, extending alowg the Fourtoont street side, a rope bad been stretched from one lamp building, Washi (now in Europe.) aver No. 122 Third avenue, 0 ndered | down Fourth avenue, and was finally picked up by some strangers who guided him ta the engine house, Here bie was gladly hailed, for the Onding of bis bat scope wen his friends to suppose that he had perished in the flames. Kitson | states that as be passed ont of the building be saws man’s hands clinging to on opening in tbe Soor below, bring & axe aed cat | to another to prevent proach ing the iiding. A strong lores ; pollca was also in = were only permitted to pass on the oppo- Wo cariy hour hone, roster The entjoined comm: ’ Notwithstanding the late disastrous conflagration, there will be no interruption In the usual course of lectures the flames had finished their de ‘ta were made to hold the eli- lar hoor, in the wards and pedestrians wile wide of the street. ‘inwured for $1000. | | | / | structive work ee Hospital. Te hee set moment this commupication porary location i to be where the remainder of the course will be given. A new, and it is to be hoped, balld.ag will doubtioss soon sre cy Oped ir oped by Willan Alerander ) © ercepes tw Mr ol | 3 ae The Jumber yard rear of Now. 117, 119, [2% ‘ ‘Third avenue, owned by H.W wan about $10,000; insured for $12,000 in the Puctfio, jie and City Inserance Coin panies, The building is dam- aged $2,000; insured for $6,000 in tho Bowery “ x tu sient ie ye: Insurance Company. 4 yet The Lu church in Bast Pifeenth ot am of the Locality, Showing the Progress of the Fire and the Property Destroyed. {1/350 1i: iow hy co'ei'iy'w trace tue es avid as im ad if H ee a, i. adjoining building, No, 109, cecupied by Rob naa ae a dwelling, was damaged to the extent of $600. insurance ou furniture amounted to $800. DEPERKRED PERVORM AC Owing to the cecurrence of the fire Qany performances that were to take place at tho A domandod post- ment, Matha was to ba ven in Now York t night by Mr. Grau’a art Juive was to have beon rendeged at the br ¥ thix even tog. Tho. impr e wubjoined Panifesio wt et s for the GBAU'S ITALIAN OF REAL An perrond pats EuNee ov tHE Mxgat.b perrons having putchaced thekel oaen tatlon of Marthe at the Bead or Naake oat et at Brooklyn (which representations eaauot take plac account of the disastrous con tingratian ak; the: Acadouny of Music, New Yerk), can havo their money returned on application to the brooch ticket offices, Beer & Sebirmer, Robert Authony & Co., and the Brceklyn Academy of Music, J, GRAU. The ‘great billiard match, to haeo toon playod thle evening at tho n0® destroyed touse, tigst aloo be decided elsewhere, SQUARE SECOND AVE. 4 - ; History of the Academy of Music. ‘The ruined bullding, confpleted in @ho fall of 1854, in accordance with the plens and under tie d roction of My, Alexander Sacltzer, tha atehitect who bas just built the new French theatre, Was imaugurate 1 October 2, 1854 by tho roprosentation of Bollint's Nerma, Grist and Mario snetainod the leading” parts, apaleted by Sixnortna Donovavul and Signor Busia). , The @raat success which had attended Grist afl Mario ta every: part of the world where their pauses were known bespoke a brilliant opening’ for tho new house, Hut twelve years ago Uee general public seemed to take little Interest in operatic performances, and by ayme fault or ofher in carrying out the designs of the archifect the house, which wad intend- od to seatifour thousand five hondred persons, could scarcely comforiably angominodate and seat one-half hat number, The party ef geuticimen who advanced the means to t the building also stipulated that two hundred choice sents y performance during the whole year should be ly 4 lifelong ead res ansferable to any part or it to their frlunda and to tho we of thelr frends, m point which has been strictly adhered to up to the present tine. On Os 1864, Bir. Hackott being the manager o@ the Acaden audienes amounted to about ‘one thou first and ex Mayor it tbe wally of features for Ta its nuent Lp had the hundred persons, 4 4s an inaumpieo: trank only Pr | Af they 100K elsewhere are morally certain to fall. We waut one an@ all of us, to see all that IX going on, wwe wari ty take ou families with ns, and to-enablerus to ab thia managers 1 be content wih a price that conveniently pay. Taking the Hiaro's advice, Mr. Hackett lowered bin prices of admisston, bat the two hundred privileged wnat holders stood in ‘tha way, and have stood in the way ever since, It was given out ara Kign of the times, that the Mario and Grist troupe played some forty nighte under (be managergent of Messrs. N. H. Payne and . $ Hackett, and the maragement last money, Ole Bull in his specalative attesapt at manayement lost money. geiment “with crowded hounes’? id about $24,000. The Lagrange ther can . rgiiel, Avsint- ope proprietors and during « very $12,000, The ¢ agement prod uphill work for those who su: , ruin within montis It te thought that t@ amount rebuilding the edifics will not fall short of $400, The fulare stockholders and manage, however, have to sub ta the exiger of the times wet regard to public opinion and (13 patronage, witsout ViCW tbe Trealost enterprises Of Lue day would pyve & failur it will be ary to conwalt the egeeta- tions of the esinoated elawwes, the 4 taste off ine procured, and with yo await thé action telligent poople keenly alive to the rights of ey#¥ eit a zon at the banquet of national progres, What te ¢ | wanted now ix nots temple of music for a Aiset fow 41 who can pay the hicheat prices and rocure YP greatent comfort, but a na\wnal iuetitation where Ae greatest perfect art will delight aud refine thystoateet mum. ir of our fellow citizens Opera Moases, Theatres Rurned im the U The following is m Het strayed by fire in (he Ut January 16, Ls0%, ' ia, Ape 20, 1820. mber 16, Is2t ideut fe N. " 1s. they t cite then re, New # thentr n tue New York the Board of Fire men will each re Mobile the Mowery (heat New theatre, Charle National theatre, Ne Now National theatre, Yew York, May ra Orient’, Mare 13, 1642 St. Charles theatre, Amer can theatre, New Otenns, July 2% Unt Old American theatre, Ciognnat’, Septet tre, Mobile, November 13. 18+ fe, Provideyes. Veiober 2p 1844 , Weelingtan, March 6, W646. New York, April 2, 18 York, Hopteabor Lf, 1846. amber 16, 184% Vevraary 14, le i Mechanir $2,500 New Amaterdam 200 2000 Metropolitan theatre, Sao Frat 00) Lyceum, San Prancmen, Cal Forrest theatre, Racramenty (a joke Maryeville theatre, Maryrviff, ¢ 43, 186 Barnum cum, New Wore, Bowery theatre, Bt. Lauiy Cetuber 6, 1863, en Opera Hoage, Cingnnatl, March 22, 1866 my of Music, New York, May 22, 1806 City Mtelligence. A Nowrurr Aqeawe Sank ewterday, on the lake in the Park, Mr, Hobleuterg. & Dane, vexing in thie city, exbibited for private gratifioation to 4 prlet few the intrduction in America of @ carious apparatas for aquatic exercises, ased ov the lakes end rivers in Nertti- ern Burope, bat never berore, it te mid, wren in the maching m not aren. vhete” for plying. bot om jee, bot pom water od bears tnelf buoy antty and grace ity liquid clement, Thin machine i noting than twin bowls an the Pamene each eleven foes loog by chet apart, boutd to intrard of United States The nai rately defined, Ht i bie arrival frot He or as alvo some ed could wot Cramewors of ee cha on 5,000 Inwwred Mr. | hate the Goon ting Ce Cireetion which he istends to move, Tih | ie with both bands in tie centre of te ping the feather right left, he glides Ot Kast Fourtaenth Wand regulates ble woced ‘ wp gy apd motion with whieh be piles the p at oieretn | fopid motion with which be piles 8 Jreine Long Isiand, Jefer | tion, aud in addition to the erntral plank ob wbieh the « firmly fixed, the stem and stern of cork ore sees togetiner ath itun rote by whirh they are secured froma nparats > wm ice shim ore oo enarp ond the ‘eso einall hat the man in the og Uke the bona ereak of and gracefally on the ear: » yoy od at Ofiven peered pied by Thne & on wt or 9 Gosm yeuertay morning st Lake's toh, Hudson street, Bishop Potter comm Laly to good works, giving her the name 1 Agnes A somety han been ioe chores ander the ttle of Mary 1 aud vera’ of the mewbers, ettired te robes eimitar te of the Roman Cathe pint I ed oy weven yon Commmanion sdminisered, the indy wan led to the olter, ond there monly comteertied W relig<ioun tervice, The cherch as Crowded pun the common, ‘ Toe Mere rom a New Poot Ovrw® The commnttine #0 THY (all | a intad to select w mite for the wew Post often met yentor efecto’ te day, and after orgenizing edtjoormed at the onli of ihe alr, The commiiten in comprmed of the 2 5 wutiemen —Mayur Heinen, Joram & Behalte, rhe L Courtney, Munee Tayior, A, Wureed, A & lew and James Key Panaom oF tan Tersrrm Recumest —The Twelfth regh ment of infantry, National wuart Colonel Ward com manding, wnembied yesterday for puree ot balfyat ow THXE & SON. Aboot sever (howsend corde of grversment wend were ty covered by lanut | one o ciee beat three husdred mag mememe ° prevented a creditable epe-rence were Hed in part by BA Bust, pa Cn west to Gaur wotferms. AR the is to the Doarth Ungate wave brew owt by cooupie’ by Kritze ar & lager beer saloon, Gen ‘Aspinwall, (or en a Nee York, t» morrow, at wwelve o cook, 190 oceuperd om the first foor by J. H Green, rc yas temtiion ‘ee te all Government Weed Bernd. belo Aapawemis, VE, May 1 1N8 weet | vorned lant orening The fre © mom x