The evening world. Newspaper, November 2, 1903, Page 4

) | y= ¢ach for forty-eight hours. ) Ieland fall season, determined to create some excitement. "supposed to have had origin. eT NE LT FTP THE WORLD: MONDAY PON OO TR, Maan Prin ~ EVENING, NOVEMBER 2, 1908, PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPH SHOWING THE VAST SWEEP OF CONEY ISLAND’S DISASTROUS FIRE. . ALL THE BUILDINGS THAT OCCUPIED THE VAST SPACE IN THE FOREGROUND, FROM STHBPLECHASE PARK TO HENDERSON'S, WERE COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED. FIREBUGS ARE HELO FOR BONEY ISLAND'S BLAZE “Connolly and Skelley, Accused of Hav- dng Started the Conflagration That Wiped Out Sixteen Blocks of the Fa- «-mous Resort, Arraigned Under Strong . Police Guard. Roe tia! ne aus e | ~ > So threatening is the feeling against Frank Connolly and Peter « Skelléy, wvho are accused of starting the fire that wiped out sixteen sqitre blocks of the heart of Coney Island and caused the loss of one life and $1,500,000 yesterday afternoon that Capt. Dooley had an extra police guard for the men when they were arraigned to-day in the police court. At the request of Fire Marshal Beers they were held in $1,000 bail A man known only as “Blizzard,” who is a yposed'to know something about how the fire started, was also held. * “Blizzard” was so drunk when arraigned that he was incapable of utter- ance. The detectives are looking for a brother of Connolly, who is said to ~~" have been implicated in the starting of the fire. He has not been seen at Cotiey Island since last night. ai ‘eAceording to the information in the hands of the police the two Con- nollys and Skelley, being afflicted with ennui at the mildness of the Coney Bernard Wolf, a saloon-keeper, whose place of business was wiped out in the fire, asserts ; i he heard them talking about starting the blaze as long ago as last Fri- Wolf did not see the men set fire to the hotel in which the blaze is E. B, Carr and Maude Hill, who saw three men running away from the, Albatross Hotel, at Sheepshead walk and the! ¥ sry, a few minutes before thé blaze was discovered, could not identify ey and Connolly as merffbers of the trio to-day. (ATER SUPPLY WAS INADEQUATE. Ey | The inadequacy of the water supply Is responsible for the great prop- erly Joes, Although there were eightecn engines at the fire, most of them were useless. Many could not extract enough water from the mains to keep up steam for their own boilers, Hail it not been for the private fire tion plants of George Tilyou and Thompson & Dundy the entire island would have been fire-swent. In Steeplechase Park and Luna Park there are regularly organized fire nts maintained by the managements. The fire started right across a imarrow walk from the Bowery entrance to Steeplechase Park, In less than two minutes after the alarm was given Mr. Tilyou's men had two | streams on the blaze and in less than five minutes elght streams were pro- ting his and surrounding property. His fire apparatus kep* the flames spreading to the west and north. ‘The force of men employed on the improvements at Thompson & ly’s Park worked like beavers. The great pile of buildings comprising jusement enterprise was directly in the path of the flames. It was eto the efforts of the Luna Park men that the tornado of fire was ‘at Surf avenue and Jones's walk, @ Mr. ‘Tityou pumps his water for fire protection from the ocean direct *and Thompson & Dundy get theirs trom Coney Island Creek, The Steeple- | chase Park fire protection plant includes two steam engines and a chemical \ engine, While Luna Park has a direct pump system, SALT WATI/R A GOOD EXTINGUISHER. The superiority of sait water as a fire extinguishing fluid was demon- , sttated time and again when the city firemen were powerless with their * puny water pressure, while the Coney Island amusement enterprise depart- ments had no difficulty in quenching the flames, The man Skelley, who is accused of causing the fire through a drunken freak, isa Coney Island character, He reached the resort some fifteen years © ago from a city in the interior of the country with a bank roll amounting to $60,000. When Le got throngh onjoying the experiences his $60,000 was one. He did not go home. So far as any ono knows he has not been oft Coney Island since. He worked as a waiter, Connolly is a “barker” for Shows in the summer season. In winter he does the best he can, » What makes the case strong against Skelley and Connolly is the fact thi the Albatrovs Hotel, in which the fire js supposed to have started, ‘Is for the winter.» Wolf says that on Friday last he heard them specify hotel as a good place for the beginning of a conflagration that would up Coney Island. They were drunk at the time and he paid no at- 40 ite When he reported the conversation to the police they. were because both Connolly and Skelley were among the hardest work- ng property. LW, CONEY ISLAND WILL ARISE, In _ keeping with the march of improvement it is thought that a new land will arise from the ashes. ‘The antiquated board pavement Bowery has been destroyed and the property owners will ask the ue a Atreet of asphalt In its place. Most of the men whase places oh Wed will replace their frame structures with buildings of brick. y all of the owners of the resorts that were destroyed the \loss @oney Island's fire rates are high and few carry insurance. Preeve) Swe ie Island. If a case should not be made out against them the place will be! unhealthy so far as they are concerned. POLICE GUARD THE SAVED PROPERTY. Surf avenue to-day looked like a street bazaar for second-hand furniture,| From’ Jones Walk Seagate the avenue was piled high with furniture, crockery and evéryfhing moveable that the inhabitants of the hotels, mt and concert halls, with the assistance of their friends, could rescue from th buildings in the pathway of the flames. Hundreds of police stood guard over the properiy, Few sucteeded in rescuing over a small fraction of their belongings. The destroyed section ts bounded on the north by Surf avenue, Jones's walk on the east, Tilyou's Steeplechase Park on the west, and the ocean on the south, In that stretch of territory, covering sixteen square blocks, on which were 265 buildings, nothing is standing to-day but the east wall of Henderson's music hall and the south wall of Stauch’s dancing pavilion. All the rest is burning debris. Most of the houses were frame and burned like tinder. A brisk wind was blowing off the sea from the southwest. A picturesque incident of the fire was furnished by Fattrer Bro- phy, pastor of the Catholic Church at the Island. When he reached the scene of the fire he saw that the wind would sweep the flames across the entire isl- and. Kneeling in the street with bared head he prayed for the direction of the wind to change, and hundreds knelt and joined him. By the devout, the fact that the wind suddenly made an about face and blew from the northeast, sending the flames back over the path they had traversed, was regarded ag direct intervention of Providence, FOUR ALARMS TURNED IN, The Fire Department was quickly on the scene and four alarms were turned in, but the fire-fighters were helpless, owing to the poor water pressure, Assistant Chief Murray, of Brooklyn, summoned the fire boats, but they could anchor only at the Iron Pier, and hose had to be re- layed for several hundred yards to reach the burning district. The de- partment did nothing until word reached the pumping stations at Sheeps- head Bay and Flatbush, and the water was diverted to Coney Island. As soon as the plugs Indicated that sufficient pressure was on the de- partment went to work and quitkly stopped the progress of the fire. A Niagara of water was poured ou Stiphen’s Hotel and a liquor store and drug store adjoining, waich were at the eastern end of the burned terrl- tory. Battalion Chief Kilpatrick said that if the flames had reached the liquor store they would have leaped across Surf avenue and probably swept the entire island, The work of rebuilding was inaugurated to-day. Owners of the dance Joseph Ehier's Hotel. LOSSES IN CONEY ISLAND. FIRE. Henderson's Theatre, dancehall, cafe and bathing pavilion Louis Stauch’s dance. hail*find restaurant Nathad Blaitk’s Silver Dollar Hall.... Thompson & Dundy's Darkness aud Dawn Jackman’s Roller Coaster.......+.+0+++ Trip to Mars......... Frank Griffin's Hotel.. Joseph Balzarini, restaurant and concert hall.... Cheyenne Joe's Wild West Tavern.... J. B. Morrisey's spectacle pavilion Peter Woolf's restaurant . Perry's Hotel Escott’s Hotel .. C. T. Davis's Hotel. Joseph White's Hotel ity Club Hotel.... Nathan Koppell’s Hotel Herman Wacko, concert hall and restaurant. Mrs, Woolf's Hotel John J, Flynn, hotel and dance hall Charles, Forbes's Hotel William” London's Hot P. F. Sullivan’s Hotel Inman's Casino, partly damaged Sutherland's Hotel, partly damaged.. Greenwald's Casino, partly damaged. Imperial Music Hall, partly damaged. Max Ballig's Hotel, partly damaged. David Fenton's Hotel, partly damaged. Peter Connolly's hotel and restaurant. 185 houses, at $2,000 170 other houses .. Furnishings of 260 houses Total seeeee $1,516,000 $300,000 275,000 30,000 35,000 30,000 25,000 5,000 10,000! Red-Haired Man Resents Public 15,000 20,000 185,000 200,000 hose, recelving severe injury in groin and burns of hands and face, MURRAY, JAMES, steamftter, Metropole Hotel; severed temporal artery and contusion of head, STACK, JOHN, policeman; foot crushed, SLATTERY, CHARLES; fell from roof of Stauch’s Hotel, receiving halls, theatres, hotels, saloons and restaurants, whose places were wiped! severe bruises and cuts, cut of existence, were busy to-day with plans for rebuilding. Frame structures will be abandoned. The new buildings will be bigger, more substantial and far more elaborate, and altogether in keeping with the, Luna and Steeplechase Parks. “ Louis Stauch, owner of the largest dancing pavilion on the Island) had leased the big Sea Beach Palace before the flames had done with his former building. He will have the place ready for business to-day, and will maintain it throughout the winter and until his new dance hall and concert pavilion 1s completed. Fred C. Henderson, whose big theatre, dance hall, restaurant and bathing pavilion stretched frum Surf -avenue to the beach, left Denver, Col., where he !s managing the Orpheum The- atre, on a midnight train, and will be here to-morrow. FATHER ALSO COMES. His father, Henry M- Henderson, left California at 9 o'clock to-day and will join him later in the week, The Messers. Henderson own twice as niuch property as they occupled and were hampered in their desire to make improvements by many small leases. The fire will enable them to rebuild & monster amusement resort in keeping with the new conditions on the island, Dozens of the smaller hotel and concert hall keepers whose leases have been wiped out by the fire will be driven out of the district and the property they occupied will be available for building improvements. The flames attracted thousands of spectators from all over Brooklyn, and three hours after the fire started 75,000 persons were at the island. Two hundred police were brought ‘to the scene to preserve order, The only loss of life reported is that of Lizsle Stein, the nine-year-old daughter of the proprietor of a striking machine, Her father ran to his home when the flames broke out and sent the little one to the home of a friend. far from the scene of the fire, Then he and his wife busied themselves saving their household belongings. Later when the father and mother went to look after the little one it was discovered she had not done as her isther bid her, A search developed the fact that she had been seen run- ning about in the burning district, and it is thought she crept into some Mace for protection and was caught by the flames, Albert Rubin, who is probably fatally injured, was asleep when tho fire reached the hotel where he slept. When he sprang out of bed the smoke overcame him, but fur- tunately he fell against u window and dropped to the walk below, LIST OF INJURED. The others injured are: BURNS, Mrs, LENA, of Buschman’s walk, near the Bowery; severe burns on head and face, DIDTZMAN, JUIGUS, fireman of Engine Company No, 146; struqk on head by hose nozzle and knocked senseless; to Sutherland's Hotel and revived. EDWARDS, WALTER, of Steeplechase walk; burns on face and hands. ERICKSON, PETER, of West Twenty-first street, Coney Island; frac- tured right arm, ‘ FLYNN, J. H., of No, 218 Franklin avenue, Brooklyn, inspector of the Fire Department; hit in chest by hose nozzle and knocked from a platform, receiving cuts on the head and right arm; to the Kings County Hospital, GOREING, GRORGE, a butcher, of Surf avenue; knocked down by fire- urn )whose plice was fMMinated, and who was injured in the seven years, Sheisa character on have cost her $50,000 she announcea at oa mon, receiving cuts on the head and probable concussion f the brain; to Brown's Hotel in a serious condition. GREEN, Mrs. , of the Bowery and Schwickert's walk; cuts om the ead. KELLY, NBIL, fireman of Bhgine Company No. 153; knocked down by Ore of 1896. such catastrophe. than it ever was. sixty feet wide. SMITH, JACOB, of Henderson's walk; fell from window, received con- cussion of brain, but Was able to leave for home. WATSON, GEORGE, , of Steep! new Coney Island, which has been brought into being with the advent of| to the Kings County Hospital, YBAGER, MARY, of Surt avenue, and hysterical. LOSS IS GEAVY. The heaviest logs will be sustained by F. B. Henderson, rePresented an outlay of $300,000, taurant was a $275,0007 plant. lechase walk; cuts on the head and face; near enderson’s walk; frightened whose properties Louis Stauch’s dancing pavilion and res- Among the other heavy losers are Nathan Blank, Silver Dollar Hall, $25,000; Thompson & Dundy's “Darkn Dawn,” $25,000; Jackman's Slide, $30,000; and the Trip to Mars, $25,000. Seventeen hotel proprietors estimate their losses at $10,000 each, but the figuro 1s rather an exaggeration,’ | and GIVES BLOWS FOR {THOUSANDS MOURN HS GIRLS KISSES MS, BOOTH-TUCER Rich and Poor Together Lovinig- ly Pay Their Last Tributes to Dead Leader in Salvation Army Memorial Hall. Embraces of His Too Ardent Sweetheart, Who Also Has Bright Auburn Tresses. ‘The rich and the poor did r>verence tos day to Mrs, Booth-Tucker, whose body les In the Memorial Hall of the Salva~ tion Army Headquarters on Fourteenth street. From neighboring cities, and even from distant States, her admirers flocked into the hall to take a last look at the Woman who meant so much to them in life, ‘When the doors were opened at 9.30 to-day © great crowd had gathered on tho street. Several thousand entered the headquarters of the Army, many in tears, all with sorrow stamped upon. their faces. The middle and the poorer Red was the predominating color tn Yorkyille Court to-day, although it took the ¢ombined ingenuity of Judge Om- men and the coterie of officoals to pre- vent the atmosphere from assuming a blug tendency. The case was that of Joe Harrison and Madeline Maude Harrison, who were arrested at Third avenue and Four- teenth street last night, owing to the reckless manner in which the young woman threw her arms aronnd Jne's neck and bestowed Kisses upon his un- responsive lips, and Joe's handing her three of his best right-hand punches ip the face. When the prisoners presented ,them- selves before the ar of justice the gloom of the Yorkville Court was flood- ed with a-transfulgent light? Judge Ommen looked, half dazzled, from one prisoner to the other. Both offending parties had hair of a hue that would moke even Mrs. Lesile Carter sit’ up and take notice. Madeline's hair was very, very red, as were her eyes, but her language after her dismiesal from court was not. Jo's hair was certainly) Titian, and- the-effoct upon the court of justice was overpowering. Magistrate Warns Madeline. Booth-Tucker’s work was among the lowly, and they had not forgotten het in death. ri The crowd was so densa at one time tpat dofore the doors were open fifteen pieked men ware sent from the Charles strnet police station in the fear that some accident or-panic might result. The police, however, found little difticulty in keeping order, and the confusion of the monient disappeared as soon as the peo- ple wore allowed to enter, ‘the body of the woman who "lived to Me for others" lay in u beautiful casket entirely surrounded by superb floral pieces,’the tributes of frieads in and out, of the army. Passing in a steady stream, the thou- sands who viewed the remains looked upon the departed leader as one whom most had known on account of some charity done them or thelr friends, Save for the dull sound of shuffling feet and an ogcasional sob all was deeply silent, A guard of honor composed of: mem- bers of the army in charge of Staff Capt, Wright, Brigadier Atkinson and Adjutant Campbell, stood about the cas- After listening a few minutes in bllnk- ing indecision at the testimony, Judge Ommen discharged the prisoners, after warning Madeline, of the rosy tresses, that #f she ever bothered Joe, of the ruby locks, that ‘he would have her lock- ed up. ‘Tho case of the rosy-haired Harrisons started through the energetic efforts of Madeline to bring Joe's recalcitrant @f- fections baok to her home circle. = Paasers by at Third avenue and Four- ket. A large American fing draped the teenth street last night were startled by | Coffin, and on tie. wall In the rear was @ woman's screams and were amazed to/the In: “She lved to die for this was the portrait of see a pretty young woman clinging to a Gen. Booti, chief of the army ie reluctant man. floral pieces’ were princlpaily crosses and “Don't leave me, Joe! I love you. janchi Don't leave me!" she kept crying. Corps of Honor Guarda Casket, Joe endeavored to escape and his at-} The body will le in state until 10.89 Using the aggregate losses of the larger hotel and dance hall pro- prietors, the police figure out the remaining’ losses in this manner: One hundred and eighty bulldings south of the bowery at $2,000 each, $362,000; 7% buildings north of the Bowery at $2,000, $150,000; average loss of $1,000 on furnishings in 226 buildings, $226,000; making a round total for the en- tire district of $1,500,000, Luna Park and all the costly amusement enterprises north of Surf buildings, as the rate was exoossive, about fourteen per cent. of its valuation: territory destroyed yesterday is identical with that. wiped out in the big Stauch was the heaviest loser by that fire, and it was said that he then declared he would blow his brains out if visited by another Yesterday, when he saw that things looked hopeless, he locked his safe and went out to hire another building, FIRE A BLESSING IN DISGUISE. President Swanstrom, of the Borough of Kings, declared to-day that the fire was a blessing in disguise and that great good would result from it. “Of course, it is a hardship on the property owners,” he said, “but I believe that it will be the means of making the island many times better I mean to make a public highway of the old Bowery, I have talked with several of the property owners and they agree with me that the building laws should be so @mended as to prevent the building of frame etructures, except when they are detached. “Iam golng before the Board of Aldermen at its next meeting to try to have this amendment put through. When this is done I will begin at once on the plan for the highway that will take the place of the old Bowery,” Deputy State Attorney-General Dillon announced to-day that those who were deprived of their homes through the fire had a»perfect right to vote to-morrow, He said that as long as the men voted in the Assembly districts in which they registered and were able to show that they had some kind of a Habitation, even if it were only a tent, at the place from which they reg- istered, they could vote. OLD PILOT PASSES AWAY. ‘Sta Island Home, ‘Capt. Joseph Nelson, one of the oldent Sandy Hook, pilots, 4 in fatlin avenue, Staplete ‘dorn in Nova ¢ogtiaval at ‘his. home avenue escaped injury, No insurance was carried on any of the destroyed Mr. Stauch had his place insured to He recalled the fact that the ego. He went to sea when young and became captain of a Nova. Scotian bark. He afterward came to X Sat His |and after-having served an apprentice-\ ship of three years, op June’ 2%, 1873, was made a He wotea yw York, Palcebap ely ebnepetor him t Vernon M. Davis in the Criminal Branch tempt to push the girl from him led the| o'clock to-night, Then the hali will be crowd to direct angry remarks against} Closed. the casket being guarded by @ tim, As Mrs. Booth-Tucker's friends num- The police say, Harrison slapped the| der in the thousands, it 1s expected that girl three times in the face, and on this | the stream of men and women passing charge the pair were locked up in the before the coffin which contains the re- mains of the great women Salvationise East Twenty-second street police sta- ton, will eepunve, up to the closing hour of Clings to Joé Like a Vine. vil the Hh. Farewell services will be held at 11.80 to-morrow morning. Oniy members of To an Evening World reporter this morning the girl said that in spite of the Army and the relatives of thi leader will attend. . The hody will be oy Joo's red hair she loved him devotedly. “His name is Joe Harrison ¢ad he 1s a moved to Woodlawn Cemetery, the cor- real estate dealer at No. 216 Kast Twen- tege Jeaving on the 145. P. the Grand Central Depot, ty-fifth stre crazy with dope, or he would never try to leave me.” rely ewe For two hours the distracted women| Commander Eva Boothea sistent rtd stood outside Yorkvilte Court awaiting | Booth-Tucker, payed Joe's appearance, but the police. fearing | 7 a scene, had led him out by another| services, door. No Re: Immediately after the case was dls- i Reconciliation Likely It 18 very unlikely now that the difter- minsed the woman pleaded #0 hard tolences existing between the Mri talk to Harrison that a meeting wes|Tucker and Ball Reems he acter et granted. She flew at the man and clung i v" er R to him so hysterically that the combined | ,Qyj0°" Gen jeatuineton Booth lett Car. negie Hall ‘yesterday sorte of the omcers could not tear her Pating in thé obsequies ho attempt was Harrison, said he met the woman two] ang hung ap made tO set matters Ago land that he wishes to vour/ And bring bout a union of famil ‘The girl, who is well dressed On ut later a letter was indit protests that though an. Bollington Booth by Col. i, she shamefully treated, she | fis. of the Salvation Army, will win back her red-haired lover in wrote Mrs, Hooth-Tuckor’ 1 * wished to view the re Delng arrested for loving maging of his sister privately he would see fey rc ful as having | that t phic would "se "each S AS Mes teleavemes she sald, “but i| the “lying in etal Oded troca Jeave Cant help loving tm, Just the same." | W! seth ——_—_ ary for the TIM M’CARTHY IN COURT, in it he says: Sam Parka’s Co-Agitator Will Be “Attor tlie inconsiderate ent way in whtoh Gen, Ballingtom Megte Placed on ‘Trial Next Monday. ‘Tim McCarthy, co-ngitator and™siusl- wan treated yesterday at Carnegie Fait ness agent with Sam. Parks of the Dt it would not’ be wise for hi himself. to. further misunderstant Hodsesmiths and Bridgemen's Unton,! a3 also Mr, 3 ng. will be placed on trial before Justiog, eyiet for 9 family gas fectly ural to “any, brother—simply to wi the members of the famil time around the coffin, e orief Bnomtetally. y dia Mra i Boo int My also aia Mr. and ever t this Donal Staff Band will parth mark the burial service. Pe to acced. Mrs, Herbert aoe family gather: urt- next Monday, MeCarthy’ was ih coart this morning, when Assistant District-Attorney Rapd) ‘cane. for trial. rh rey h, rabli geplgrabte xhiot On ah to classes predominated, for most of Mrs.g During the three-quarter ey he wilted thore te would Mave ben, et a