The evening world. Newspaper, December 26, 1903, Page 1

| ee. i WHATHOR—Cold wave to.ntght; Sunday tatr. JNIGHT i EDITION bs ne m: = PRICE ONE CEN [BER 26, NEW YORK, ATU URDAY, | DE c TWO Ble BULDINES AFIRE AT THE SAME First Blaze Starts in the West Side Seventh Avenue—Root Falls Upon 35 Men, but All Escape. SECOND FIRE DROVE MANY FAMILIES TO THE STREET. dt Was in an Apartment House at 6gth Street and Columus Avenue—-Fire. Apparatus Was in Use Elsewhere. Two big fires raged in the Same tite district in the upper part of the tity this afternoon. While the West Side Lyceum was in flames, en- angering residential and business property for a block around and oc- ‘on Columbus avenue, between Sixty-ninth and Seventieth streets. The firemen rushed all the apparatus they could get to the scene of ‘the new fire, but it was totally inadequate to cope with the situation. Stuirs by way of the smoke-filled halls and calling for ladders. One truck was placed in commission at once and a large number of people were car- fied out amid great excitement betore additional apparatus arrived, BLAZE STARTED IN THE KITCHEN. The West Side Lyceum fire started in the kitchen of the Lyceum &nd spread with great rapidity to the top floor, where theatrical properties were stored. Among other things on this floor were the scenery and costumes of “The Medal and the Maid” company, which {s to open in Buf- falo oh Thursday night. The firemen fought the flames desperately for at that time they believed the entire neighborhood to be in danger. Nearby fs the big Central Automobile station, in which gasolene was stored and it was feared that there might be an explosion. Ninety automobiles, among them the touring cars of O. H. P, Belmont and Howard Gould, were taken “ut of the station and removed to a place of safety. After working for several hours at this fire, the firemen thought they fad it undbr control. Then the blaze broke out afresh and a third alarm ‘was Sent in. This brought Acting Chief Kruger and Commissioner Sturgis to the scene. Chief Kruger turned in the fourth alarm and meanwhile the police turned everybody out of the big tenement house at No. 203 West Fifty-second street, nnd ordered the tenants of the fashionable Strathniore epartment house to be ready to move af a second’s notice. Shortly after 1 o'clock the roof of the ‘Lyceum fell in with a crash.. Thirty firemen, who were working on the fourth floor were believed to be puried in the ruins, but all made their escape. Just before this, however, two firemen had been carried out, overcome by the smoke. An hour later the fire was out. GAVE A TIMELY WARNING. Mrs. Lawrence and her assistants got out at once. Mr. Bimberg and his secretary, William Rosenfeld, who were ia the building, tried to ex- tinguish the flames, but could do nothing. Mr, Rosenfeld’s nands wero badly burned, Mr. Bimberg, remembering that twenty-five women in the emp!oy of the theatrical firm of Fisher & Ryley, were in the store- room working on the costumes of “The Medal,and the Maid” company, ran up to warn them, He managed to lead all the women out to safety be- fore the smoke became too thick as During the height of the excitement caused by the second fire on Colum- ‘bus avenue, a curious accident occurred at Fifty-second street and Seventh evenue, Wngine No. 2, pumping water into the burning Lyceum, had one of her lines of hose crossed by Engine No. 72, on its way to the uptown ‘laze. The hose was cut clean through and a tremendous volume of water spurted out of the crowd assembled nearby. Hundreds of people were drenched and a dozen or more were knocked clean off their feet by the force of the water. © u’ The West Side Lyceum is one of the oldest buildings in that section of the city. Old New Yorkers will remember it better as Adelphi Hall, a name ft bore for a quarter of a century. Its present owner, B. B. K. Bimberg, ohanged the name to West Side Lyceum when he took it some years ago. Yesterday Frank Tilford gave a Christmas dinner to the "Litue Moth- ers” in the Lyceum, To-day Mrs. Lena Lawrence, a caterer, went to the hall to remove the dishes and cooking utensils that were used in the dinner, She and a’ staff of women were at work in the kitchen, where, it is said, there was a lighted range. No one has been found who can tell just how the fire started, but all agree that it started in the kitchen. ANOTHER DANGEROUS FIRE RAGE ON COLUMBUS AVENUE, a blaze started in the double flat building at Nos. 211 and 213 Columbus avenue, between Sixty-ninth and Seventieth streets, further downtown this fire made good headway, and it was a half hour be- +fore any considerable number of firemen arrived, Policemen went through the burning building and took out the fright- ‘ened tenants. in the rear so that neighbors and policemen carried a number of persons pow the rear fire-escapes. STEAMBOAT MEN MISSING, | Sites | Rockt left their vessels, which are lying at Nyack, on Christmas Eve to go In a small boat to Tarrytown, The rowboat has been found, but noth. ing has been heard of the meh, and it is feared both have been drowned. gr Left Nynok to Row to Tarrytown—| ‘Thought to Have Been Divwned. | Inaac Osterhaut,: the mate of the ¥ Legato tt nah, and Christopher uel, ed a Maas acl TIME ON WEST SIDE Lyceum, at Fifty-Second Street and cupying the entire fire fighting force of the section, a second fire started | Women and children were in every window, afraid to venture down! ‘}lem. ‘Pwitted about his girl on several ! While the big fire was raging at Pifty-second street and Seventh avenue | pee | the names re {dashers, No. 34 Spabina aven Because of the absence of fire-fighting apparatus which was at the fire! | fommed by the Coroner, ine nre seemeu to ve 1m Une ceHLer OL tHe vuLMiNg, CULUUg UA LHUse| » engineer of the steamer} lying at LEAPS ra a TOP OF Ge SKYSURAPER George Green Plunges to Death from Meth- odist Book Concern. LONG D&AD WAEN FOUND.’ ‘Ended tife Because He Was Unwilling to Tell Fiancee | He'Deceived Another. ‘SWEETHEART NOT FOUND.’ men Were Hampered Because the, The Man Reported for Work To-Day, but Finally Decided to Leap 120 Feet to Death. Unwilling to face the woman to whom he was engaged and admit that while courting her he had wronged another girl who was pressing him to make her his wife, George F. Green committed suicide to-day by jumping. from the roof of the Methodist Book Concern at Fifth avenue and Twentteth | street, to a court-yard In the rear. Green, who was employed in the place as a composftor, worked in the top floor He appeared for work to-day at the usual hour, took off his coat and picked up his stick preparing to go to work at the case. A minute later he changed his mind and sald he did not think he would go to work. ! Instead of going from the place he} went up a fight of stairs and to the) — roof. ‘The building is eight stories high, but the cellings are high and the distance from the roof to the ground is more than 120 feet, At the time that Green went to the roof nothing was thought about it. Sent to Hunt for Man. The men were busy going to work and a “sub” was put on as he re- quested. It was hours after that some one mentioned the fact that he had not | come down, and Joseph Cassidy, the! foreman of the composing-room, sent| Martin Moore, a boy, to see what oad] become of him. The Moore boy looked about the roat and then approached the edge and cau- tlously looked over and down Into the court. At the bottom he saw a body lying. With a cry the boy rushed back to tell of the discovery. Men were at once sent to the courtyard. A doctor was called, who said Green had been dead for some time. How long Green lived after his leap to death ts not known, He may have been almost Inatantly or may have lain dying at the bottom for an hour. Annoyed by a Woman, Netectives Rayyand Dockstader were placed on the cate, and so soon after say they learned that the Green had been annoyed by a woman who wished him to marry her, and that he also was engaged to another girl. The woman he had wronged, they say, only a few days ago thPeatened to seek out his financee and Inform her of his true character, ‘This they say so preyed upon he mind of Green that for the past couple of days he had acted like a man in a trance. They say he lived for the past week in fear that every day he would hear that the woman who had promised to be tis wife had had her heart broken by the story the other threatened to tell, Green, who was about thirty-five years olud, roomed at No, 619 Lexington avenue, with a Mrs. Walters. There luittle was known f hm except that he had been Jn the city for a year or more and trequently spoke of his girl in Har- ocasions, he said he was engaged to be married No Letter to Identify Her. When tae Coroner vised the house and took charge of his e1 there was | no latter or ploture to Identify the ghl| to whom he was engage} ten fron ‘oronto on par eGregor & ronto,’ The person at the address was in- ——— SEAMEN PERHAPS LOST. ‘Two Men Left Veaseln Of Nyack; Empty Bout Found, Isaac Osterhaut, the mate of the steamer Chrysteneh, and Christopher Blokenger, engin of the steamer Rockland easels, which are yack, on Christmas eve to go. in a small boat to Tarrytown, ‘The rowboat has beenfound, but noth- ing has been heard of the men and it is feared both have been drowned, | —_————_; —— For @ Stubborn Cold Fether John's Medicine. THE COL UMBUS AV ‘ENU JE (Specially Photographed for World.) SPECIAL EXTRA. ws gt GIRL FALLS UPONA RED-HOT STOVE nue, fell upon a red-hot stove late this afternoon and wa .. one and her nine-year-old brother Joe wi ‘aying. He was her saddle-horse, prancing about the floor o| hands and knees. ne reared and basked into the kitchen, Jike a bronchi “Je Marie was salted off and fell unon the stove. An ambu Fahnestock, took her to the J. Hood Wrigh Her legs were horribly burned. LATE RESULTS aT NEW ORLEANS. Fourth Race—Big Ben 1, Capt. Arnold 2, Ascension 3. Fifth Race—Bondage 1, Footlight Favorite 2, Montebank’3. BISHOP POTTER BETTER. At his home this afternoon, it was reported that Bisho} Potter’s condition was greatly improved, but ew be -unal to offiolat officiate at any services to-morrow, CLYDE STEAMER SUNK IN COLLISION DURING STORM --————« $¢e-__-_—____ farce. with Dr. yon Ordeane civiajga at’ hls rack Kiowa, with Thirty Persons Aboard, Hit by the Coaster Admiral Dewey and Sent to the Bottom While a Tug'* Rescues Ail Those in Peril. (Spectal to The Evening World) red to be near at hand steamer Kiowa was ‘unk off Boston Light this afternoon in collision with the United Fruit Company steanier Ad- miral' Dewey. The crew and passenge of the Kiowa, numbering thirty persons wore rescued by the tug Cormora: Admiral Dewey, bound out, was off Gos ton Light in the height of the (Continued on Second Page.) AP: ARTME NT-HOU FAVORITES WIN AT NEW ORLEANS |Begone Captures the Opening Event, and the Second Is Taken from Tower and, Chan- ley by Harmakis. THE WINNERS, 1, Class Leader (9 to 1) 2. Russel- ton 3. 10) 1, Tower (5 to 1) 2, Chanley 3. | Josette (6 to 5) Eva Russell, 3. ia fa&t ay he can find buyers, | nett pald $2,500 for Mii tharlos Ellison gave $3,00) tc tion, and to-day W. P. Reed, the owner of Bud Embry, dought Hanrs Alcross for $1,500, The weather was clear and cold to- day and the track was heavy and slow through his tela A taking ommand at the stretch turn | came away as he pleased and w gullop, The next four fought It out ail the last furlong for second place, Tower Foved the Kamest tnd. bust. managed / Wier SEN a FIRST RACE—Begone (13 to 20) | Pedestrinns Swept Of ‘Their Feet. tall it was impossible for pedestrians Seven-year-old Marie Friclic. of No. 1451 Amsterdam ave] geconp RAcE—Harmakle (11 to|{? Se more than a few feet ahead of | SA Were steatched by the Goku Moe them, Women and men were carried off | At ihe sight of the tiood streiming their feet at exposed points and traf- ee he was almost at a complete stand- THIRD RACE-—Tioga (12 to 1), 1} | still so \ ; Flatiron Buiiding. He fell on his head] ferryooat#® on the T Mr. Jacob Mets, of No. 602 Lenox ave- te was broken, and she recetved internal | bulance surgeon she w nin alafternoon alongside the twe building of the Hamilton Stora: house, at One Hundred and long enough to stall off Hiawatha, fifth stroft and Park avenue. He was. blizzard, FAD WAVE HERE ACCOMPANIED BY A HOWLING GALE ‘Snow Flurry of the Morning Is Followed in the Afternoon by a Suddén Drop in the Temperature, Which Accompanies a Rip- Roaring Wind that Lifts People Off Their Feet, ‘MANY PEDESTRIANS ARE INJURED BY THE VIOLENCE OF THE WIND, ‘Remarkable Condition of Darkness During the Snowstorm, Which Necessitated Light- ing Up Buildings Throughout the City at 9 A. M.---Wave of Freezing Weather Has Come to Us from the West. The zero weather and snow which have prevailed in the West for — the past two days arrived here, accompanied by a howling gale, this after- noon. Between 8 A. M. and 3 P. M. there was a fall in temperature of 24 degrees, the thermometer at the latter hour registering 19 degrees above zero, while at 8 o'clock it was 34. The wind blew as fast as 50 miles an hour at one time, and many persons caught in vagrant puffs were tossed about and injured. There was a heavy snowfall for half an hour during the morning, and the skies were so black about 9 o'clock that downtown office buildings and stores had to be lighted. ' Weather Forecaster Emery said this afternoon that the ind‘cations were for more snow to-night and a further fall in the temperature. He ex: pects it to be as low as 8 above zero to-morrow morning. ‘The hourly change in the temperature eee eee during the day 1s shown by the follow- Ing table: WEATHER FORECAST. Forecast for the thirty-six hours ending at 8 P. M. Surday for New York City and vicinity: Fair to- night; colder, with cold wave; Sunday fair; high to brisk north- west to west winds, ompanied by his sister, Mrs. Lillian f No. 47 Bast One Hundred and and Ales "Lida Diate-ghiss dow ‘above their heads was dislodged the wind and own dowa Upon them. (Mr. Pear: all's head as badly cu: and the wome During the morning gale and snow- frem the head of Mr, Pearsall the wom n from Harlem — wounds after ‘he homerof 3 George T. Anderson, fifty-eight years ld, of No Bowery, was lterally own Into. th ridge. ing the dark eoell phe pilote of alt while rounding tne | river crafgbad a ha . One of the and hack, receiving serious injuries, He | /RE #08 lost and put | wns tnken to the New York Hospital. | pitors of mauy. fecryboats. kept thelr Mary Hanlon, a servant employed by | craf: in midstream until things cltared ing to make a landng. nue, left the ‘houve this afternoon, when ! she was caught by a powerful gust and | MERCURY AWAY BELOW blown to the street, Her collar-bone | ZERO IN THE WEST. njuries. Bhe was taken to the Harlem | «CHICAGO, Dec. 2—With a minimum Hospital | of elght degrees below zero the crest of © moving eastward struck et Whelan, sixty years old, of a cold wi ‘Oe. mile Manes elon: is invescyeareaide (os orris street, was blown down in| Chicago to-day, Tritins In many Jn anda }front of No, 188 Broadway and so se-! stances were unable to maintain sched Ntarter,weightiockey. suninrin, RUM: |Nerely Injured that she had te taken |.ute time. 0 on 2 1-4[to the Hudson Street Hospital | ‘Temperatures close to zero were re: s Ueln 8 fi S| Unless all the signa change Now York | the West and Northwes! Minders ported in 5 ant 1g] is in for a dose of what they have veer | Xe n Indl ‘oried ¢lahit. buluve Stase Me 1) getting in the West for a coupe of) Sc Paul sixteen below and” Winnipeg te BOM idays, In St. Louis) they had) zero! thirty below 7 Se ty 15] weather on Christmas and a wind that ee ia Hiving, [Worked havoc at the exposition grounds, BLIZZARD SWEEPS Jolowing duwn the side of the new «mil rc rt 1 set Hon-doliar Buckingham Hotel among UP-STATE CITIES. } ne ! ! ra, fother th In ch they had 7¢ %.—The temperat nd passed w rr t ite feral heavy weather all atong the tine Rancher ul eve « w way “ at ob Rovky Mu tains and very i No serio a 1 whl wird acn . T= Tnenate nh ; Doane oeeenttcchenth strest and) TEMPERATURE DROPS 37 PhinKatenue, WER vIoNMcrEM Ane!) DEGREES! INIGEORCIAG form to the street, Her back was In | of 7 degrees tn the list t Juseph Scurry, of No. sol West Fours jf teenth strect, while crossing the street [ours An additional fall In temp futur Y poasted for tonight, the cold Wave ng, te One) Hundred wand? Bixteenth atress ping to the South Atiantie and Guy nue, was blown in front of His hip was fractured and Sah es et internat Iniuriee. tie wee| BLIZZARD DROVE !NTO | raer to the Harlem Hospital BOSTON FROM THE SEA. lrvirg Pearsall, of Deer Park, L. 1 ont tection from the wind this| BOSTON. Dec. 26—A heavy northeast snowstorm began here during this for tory noon, ‘The wind, driving, tn. th03 vara, (Sem at the rate of twenty iniles Twenty-'oontrfvuted to conditions Pescara ee et