The evening world. Newspaper, January 21, 1904, Page 3

__ “Bon Ton Music Hail. eor-Admiral - | Sppae Cater of “the SEEN. FIREMEN ARE OVERCOME Bad Blaze in Jersey City Keeps the Whole Department Busy anc Does $150,000 Damage to Property Along River. ONE BATTALION CHIEF “NEARLY LOSES LIFE. For a Time It Looked as If ‘American Line Piers Would Be Destroyed, but Work of Tugs Saves Them. The entire Jersey City Tire Depart- ment wax called out to-day to fight a fire which irted In some old junk shops at the foot of Morris street and spread rapidly to a number of manu- facturing plants in the neighborhood. Although the firemen were thelr work by nine Pennsyl road and one Lehigh they had the greatest difficulty in get ‘When it ting the fire under control. Was put out one large ‘building had deen entirely destroye veral smaller ones we ruins and a number of ‘The ‘total dam- is not known, ar : origin of the lire firemen had to & stable adjoining ¢ machine shops of Brown & Mill Some fifty horses were removed from the stable, but one broke loone from a groom and dashed bick in the perish. When the first engine the scene Brown & J ‘s plant was ft of 1 bu ablaze, and we there was no chance to save it, Everybody who was in the place got out safely: In the rear of this building Is the six. story brick building, three floors of Which are occupied by the Rossiter MeGovern Company. ‘This eaught fire and was badly damaged. A number of other small buildings at the foot of Hudson street were damaged, The firemen had a tough tussle with the fire from the very start, Seven firemen were overcome by vke and had to “De carried out by thelr comrades, Bat- talion Chief Dingler was one of those overcome, and he @ narrow escape, for he was almost overlooked by the er-front. pr ed as thou polit would yed # steady nd they were Valley tug se name ts not ed by the heat pilot-house to the He was re- fell the a deck, injuring his head. moved to the hospital. PORK CHOPS FIR KOSTER & BIAL'S When Workmen Remodelling the Old Place Sought Warmth Nearo‘s Lunch Congealed in :Chimney Made Fine Fuel. from While workmen were making Koster & Bial's famous old music hall, on Twenty-third just off Sixth from fire to-day a the third floor and street, safe avenue, more fire started ‘threatened the destruction of the whole building, Fire Department apparatus respond- 4ng to two aiarms and the smoke and blaze coming from the windows of the old four-story building were sufficient to attract a huge crowd, mostly women shoppers were in the big retail dry-goods district One woman who wanted to see the whole fire w: much distressed when the police refused to permit her coach- man te drive up opposite the burning building, “My husband owns most of this prop- erty around here,” she said to Sergt. Meehan, “and he'll have you discharged for not letting my carriage through." ‘The crowd of women became so great that the reserves from the West Twen- tleth and West Thieth. street police stations stretched fire nes and kept all of them back, And the walks and streets were so slippery with the sleet and ice that many a woman showed her fine lingerie in tumbling, Possibly a nundred young women and girls employed in the cloak and mil- Mnery shops in a ten-story building Just west of the music hall were panicky in their rapid exit down the stairs and elevators) But they. got out all right, although many of them had to scream to do it. °oRowing the Iroquois Theatre horror in Chicago EB, A. Darling, of the Fitth Avenue Hotel, owner of the old bulld- ing, put a score of men to work in the buliding to make it safe. One of these workmen was @ negro, who dally con- cealed his lunch in an'old fire-place on the third floor, . Feeling cold to-day other workmen started a fire in the fire- Dlace and the pork chops in the no- gro's junch le a fine food for the flames. An avalanche of burning soot fell from the chimney and in a second the bullding was on fire. The first floor was vacant. Until a yeur ago it had been operated as the he second and third floors were divided Into lodge rooms, in one of which the Order of Eagles held its meetings. ‘The, fourth floor was occupled by Thompson's gym- nasium. While the fire created much excite- mont and at one time threatened to in= yolve other buildings, the firemen did Buch good work that Acting Chief Kruger estimated the loss at about 95,000, RECEPTION TO REAR-ADMIRAL, A reception will be given at the En- gineers’ Club, No. 374 Fifth avenue, to- I night 9 o'clock, to Naval Construc- |tor Washington Bureau of Nayai on who 3 LES SAED BY THS YELLOW DOG Despite Repeated Blows He Arouses His Master, Who Finds the Room Where Chil- dren Are Sleeping Is Blazing. LITTLE ONES RESCUED, BUT CANINE GUARDIAN PERISHES All the Tenants of Tenement Es- cape—Elevator Boy Provesa Hero—Fire Apparatus De- layed by Snow in Streets. A small yellow dog that was the means of saving the lives of the many persons in the big five-story tenement- house at No, 639 East Eighty-third street was burned in the fire which destroyed the building early to-day. The charred body was found in the ruins when the flames were put out and carried to the street as tenderly as though it were that of a human being. Realizing that he owed his life and the lives of his family and neighbors to the little ani- mal, Abram Eisen, its owner, wept bit- erly Elsen, his wife and four children Mved on the first floor of the building In the rooms sehind his small candy and sta- dlonery store. He was awakened by the which leaped on the bed and ed and tugged at the bedelothing, 1 cuffed the little animal on the head and knocked It to the floor, think- ing it wanted to be taken into bed he dog wis persistent, It jumped buck beside its master and sniffed in pawing frantically at the bed- Mrs, Bisen was awakened by mmotion and scolded tie animal for disturbing them, 1t was several jules beture either smelled smoke Parents Save Their Four Children, Bisen then leaped out of bed and found that the room where his four children were sleeping was ablaze, Bach parent snatched two children in’ their arms and ran frum the house, ‘They did ot have time to dress, in going to tne hall the door closed before the dog) got out, and in the excitement it was for- aotien, Mrs. Eisen ran to the next floor and cwuxened Fred Schnelle, the janitor, who with his wife ran through the uvuse, pounding on the doors and sound- ing a warning to the tenants, Fright- sned men and women ran from their Homes into the narrow halls and rushed None Wok ume to dreds, ana Ciey stv0d An suivering groups on (eu pavement until wey were er by) menguon Hen aii were saieiy Out of the burn- DUdIng ours. 1usen LuoUgit of the Ws. Her uusvand had not sven it, nor aad ay of Che neighbors. Hisen started into Ue burning buuding in the hope litle pet, which had He inade his way a oL rescuing the ed their lives, snore distance down the hall toward the door ot his home, but was forced by the smoke and the heat to return to the street. Snow Deluys Fire Apparatus, ‘fwo policemen turned in an alarm und hurried to the house. ‘Whey started in the door, but we: reed back by the smoke and flames. ‘hey went to the rout of the adjoining building and ried Lo go down through the skylight, ut the fire had already gone up through the entire house, making it im- possible to enter, Tt was long before the fire apparatus arrived. The damage ts estimated at $15,000. MANY OVERCOME BY LEAKING GAS Fully a Dozen Persons Are Near to Death from Asphyxiation in One House in East Twenty- second Street. A dozen persons in the boarding- house at No, 3) East Twenty-second street were overcome by gas early to- day. Two ambulance surgeons worked over the vietims and restored all to consciousness except Mrs. James Mis, the wife of the proprietor, who was taken to the New York Hospital. She is in a serious condition, but the doc- tors believe she will live, ‘The house 1s four stories and base- ment and there are twenty boarders. Mr. and Mrs, Mills and a servant have their rooms in the basement. They re- tired early, but the boarders, coming in at all hours, did not notice a smell of gas. Mrs. Mills awoke with a sense of suf- focation, She saw that her husband was almost unconscious, and stagger- ing from the bed into the adjoining room she found the servant overcome. | With a great effort she aroused her husband and succeeded in getting him out of bed. Slipping on a pair of slip- pers he went from the house clad only) in his pajamas to the Hotel Bartholdt, | at Broadway and Twenty-third street, | to ask for help, There was a telephone | but in the house on the floor above, he was so dazed that he forgot it, | The clork telephoned to the police and gave Mr. Mills an overcoat, Mills ‘returned to the house and, by this time somewhat revived by the fresh atr, carried his wife and the servant into the hall, Two policemen came ftrom| the Tenderloin station and entering} many of the rooms found the Ee] overcome with the deadly gas, ‘They opened the windows and sent tor an ambulance and two doctors, For an hour the physicians “worked over the victims until all but Mrs, Mills haa She was carried to the heen. revived. \ hospital. ‘The leak was found in the kitchen. Word_wax sent to the New Amsterdam Gas Company, but {t wag an hour bes fore a man was sent to op it, —— To Cure Grip in Two Days. th) i Carer eAaI Uh eror a oe ‘kitchen range. “THE WORLD NANI JL AS ANSON THE Detectives Arrest Helmuth Van Bolden, an Electrician, but He Stoutly Denies that He Is Guilty of the Crime. WITNESSES SAY HE WAS SEEN ABOUT HOTEL. Suspected Man Is a Brother-in- Law of Maid Who Left Mrs. Hochster’s Employ Soon After Robbery Was Committed. ffl Helmuth Van Bolden, an electrician, with a small shop at Columbus avenue and One Hundred and Eighth street, was arrested to-day by Detectives Boyle and Charlton, of the Central Office, charged with the theft of the diamonds which were stolen last Sunday night from the apartment of William R. Hochster i the fashionable Ansonia Apartments, at Broadway and Seventy- fourth stres Van Bolden ts a brother- in-law of lciberth Becker, who was a mald for Mrs. Hochster, but who left her employ shortly after the robbery. Van Bolden declares that his arrest is an outrage and was made simply be- cause the detectives, having failed to place the crime on any one else, decided to make a victim of him. But the de- tectives*ure fortified wfth the evidence of several servants and tenants in the a, Who claim to have seen Van loitering about the place last Much Jewelry Wi The Hoe! Stolen, ter apartment was robbed last Sunday night while the family was at dinner. About $4,000 worth of Jeweiry vas stolen, and the maid, Miss Becker, aimed thut even her room was looted and her watch and $20 in money taken, here was absolutely no clue to the thief, although the detectives were in- clined to place it on some of the bell boys. Yesterday Miss Lucretia Baker, tele- phone girl in the hotel, told the detec- Uves that on the afternoon of the rob- bery she saw a man on one of the up- per floors who looked very much like & man who had once called on Mrs. Hochater's maid. Inquiries revealed the fact that others had also seen this man, The detectives learned that Van Bolden had often called on Miss Baker, and they arrested him at once. He was taken before Mis Baker and she de- clared he was the man sho saw in the halls, ‘an Bolden was arraigned before Magi: rate Baker in the West Side Court to-day. He demanded that he be discharged as there was no evidence against him. Detective Boyle . then made this statement to the Court: Detectives Tell’ Their Stories. “We have witnesses who will be pro- duced at.the proper time who will tes- tify that this man was loitering about the upper floors of the hotel at the time of the robbery. At 7 o'clock in the evening he was seen on the fifteenth floor, He went down to the fourteenth floor, where Miss Baker saw him. He next made his way to the thirteenth floor by the Seventy-fourth street stairway. After the robbery he went back to the fourteenth floor, and then made his way to the street by the main stairway, We have witnesses to every one of these maves.” Magistrate Baker held Van Bolden for examination. The man has only been in this country a short time. His wife keeps a millinery store at No. 471 Central Park West, and the couple have been living In a room In the rear of this Shop. The Jewels have not been recov- ered. Miss Becker, the maid, was hysterical after the robbery, and said she was go- ing to leave. She packed up some things last night and hasn't been seen since. TINY BREAD TOASTER S BADLY BURNED Four-Year-Old Lena Rothlow Takes the Lid Off the Kitchen Range and Her Dress Catches Fire. Joseph Rothjow, a, furniture dealer, of No, 1183 Second avenue, went out to see a customer to-day and called his wife from thelr apartments upstairs to take charge of the store while he wai away. Mrs, Rothlow went down into the store, leaving her two children, Lena, aged four years, and Edith, two years, alone in the kitctien, After the children had played to- gether for a while Lena decided to make some toast. So she cut two slices of bread and lifted the Ma off the Some live coals fell out and In a second the child's clothing was in flames, . ‘The little girl ran screaming into the hallway and Mrs, Rothlow ran up to see what was the matter. When she saw her little girl In flames she was so horrified that she tsood perfectly tsill, unable to raise a hand. ‘The child would have burned to death before her eyes, but for the timely ar- rival of Mrs, Mary Baker, who also lives in the house. Mrs. Baker threw a. shawl around the child and succeeded in smothering the flames. ena was very badly burned. An ambulance sur- geon took her to the Presbyterian Hos- piu, It was said she may not re- cover, tla BABY SHOOTS HIMSELF. a Plays Father's volver and Breaks a Finger. 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