The evening world. Newspaper, March 19, 1904, Page 3

TEPER W FRCE Furniture Warehouse of R. J. | Horner, in West 24th Street, \ Destroyed, Inmates Jumping from Windows, 1A. TWENTY YOUNG GIRLS ESCAPE BY THE ROOF. Blaze Started from Explosion of Benzine Barrel and Two Men Working on Floor Were Seri- ously Injured. In a fire that completely baffled four- teen engine companies for an hour and compelled the summoning of reservos from five police stations the big seven- vtory warghouse of . J. Horner, the furniture dealer, at Nos. 109 and 11 West Twenty-fourth street, stroyed to-day, wus de- Chief among a succession of exciting | 6 {neldents was the jumping of half a fcore of men from the second-story | windows of the burning warehousé, Vlames were pouring through the win- dows when they jumped and ono man was ablaze when he landed on the pave- ment, Another man had both legs broken, ‘I'wenty young girls narrowly escaped the flames by climbing to the} roof and dropping down to the roof of . THE d WORL 4 w ATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 19, (904. HORNER’S FURNITURE WAREHOUSE DESTROYED BY FIRE, MANY OF THE INMATES BEING FORCED TO HOOSSOOHLEIHLSIEHDELODIPIOSHHHLOIODIONNGTDS $ e 4n adjoining structure, The fire started on the second floor ¢ ot the warehouse by an explosion gt a| > barrel of benzine that sprayed the great | wareroom with blazing fluld, In an in-| stant the ten men working on the floor| 2 were embraced in a furnace of flame | ‘With their clothing afire they rushed to; © the windows and leaped out, One man,! 2 Benjamin J, Sherwood, was covered with burning oll when he jumped and fell unconscious to the sidewalk, George Landen broke both legs, They were carried to a neighboring bullding and @ then taken to the New York Hospital. The damexge done to the Horner wares house 1s estimated at $75,000, Explosions Were Feared, When Chief Binn arrived to take charge of the fire the warehouse was a/ furnace and when he learned that there Was @ great quantity of paint and alco- hol stored In the cellar he ordered the) ¢ men to keep away from the immediate zone of the flames for fear of explo- Hons, There were twenty girls working en | the fifth floor of the building when the | fre started. They were working in the upholstery department, the main room of which surrounds the elevator shaft, When the girls discoyered the smoke they attempted to gnin the stairways. byt before they had got down to the fourth floor flames were rushing up the elevutor shaft and the stairways were cut off. Screaming with fright, t..e girls fled: upstairs, with the rearing iurnace at) their heels, They gained the roof and managed to escape to an adjoining bullding when the blaze burst through the tops of the shaft behind them, The Maillard checolate factory was @lled with young women when the fire beran raging next door, They were all ordered from the building, which they Jeft In a pane of fright, Up to this time the firemen had been completely helniess in their efforts to check the flames and Chief Binn ordered ® fourth alarin sent in. When fire engines Nos, and 18 were rushing to the fire at Sixth ayenue and,Twelfth street they col- Mded at the corner, Driver Brann, ot 72, Jumped and was badly Injured. He} wtuck to his post, however, and went on to the fire, One of the horses of engine 18 was disembowelled in the col- Maton, New horses were put in the shafts and the engine proceeded to the fre, 5 4 ! n 72 No Pressure in Hydrants, | ‘Tha chief reason the firemen were, unable to cope with the spread of the| flames was the lack of pressure in the | hydrants and the eccentric manner in which the pressure was obtajned, This @aused the breaking of the five hose. A water tower that was put up to Play upon the upper stories of the Hor- | ner warehouse caught fire and had to be drawn away and sprayed for five minutes with two hose before it could be used again. Then {i had to he with- drawn from the zone of terrific heat about the burning buildings, Annie Helwig, elghteen years old, of No. 44 West Fifty-third’ street, was alone on the third floor of the Horner Building when the flames burst through the elevator shaft and cut off the stalr- ‘The girl's screams brought Louls Frank Klopf, who were working on the floor above, to her rescue. They carried the girl up to the root before the advancing fire, Escaped by Human Ladder. When they reached the roof the only to the roof of No, 29% Fifth avenue, a drop of twelve feet from the Warehouse roof, Meyer jumped down to the roof and Klopf let himself down #0 that his foet rested on Meyer's shoulders, Then the girl climbed down the human ladder formed by the bodies | on the two men, Fourteen engine companies fought the for an hour before the flames gould be restricted to the two buildings The heat was so great in the furr that raged throughout the warehe that the cement cornices on the facade + the pallens melted and fell in| showera to the street, adding to the ber Of the tremen. ee Ul re attracted a great crowd to the scene and the resorves of the West Twentieth, Hast Twenty-second, West Thirtleth, East Thirty-ffth and West Thirty-seventh street stations were coahed to the scene to handle the throng ai give aasistance to the scores of yong girls who worked In buildings ad- Joining the warehouse, Paals li Mililnery shop. Bixveen young girls wero working in the millinery establishment of Mime. Frances, at No, 897 Sixth avenue. The Workshop ja in a rear room’ extension, Mghted by a glass skylight. While they were preparing to Jeave the place an ex- iH occurred, which hurled down a quantity, of brick pon the skylight, showering the workers with glass and filling them with wiid panic. All. but one girl, Miss Josis Baumann, fled from tha store and ran screaming into. the 1, She remained behind, calmly stoping away hats and feathers, when | 90 | ht. Aiiss Baumann wan literally fuged with water before she made her | 1903, Tho issue price Is 8, The list the necessary appliances for raising the ee was trained over the broken | in two and three-quarter per cent, stock, 3 ® o 3 3 $9-400006.40606> oy | | ax NONE SURVIVE ThE SUBMARINE WRECK Crew of Eleven Men on British Diving Boat Were Suffocated! When Steamer Hit Craft that) Was Under Water. PORTSMOUTH, March 19.-The Brit- ish submarine boat No, Al, which was run down by the Donald Currie line steamer Berwick Castle near the Nab | Lightship, off the east coast of tho Isle of Wight, still Jles under a hundred feet of water, off the lightship. boat are on the spot, but the divers have not reached her yet, and as the boat is In a bad position the naval authorities have little hopes of raising her, From the first there was no hope that any members of her crew might The crew of the submarine boat con- sisted of Lieut. Loftus C. Mansergh, | the senior officer engaged in submarine work, and ten non-commissioned offt- engineers and seamen. The crew! were battened down and must have met their terrible fate from suffocation In the absence of air and owlng to the fumes of gusoline, \t bejng presumed that the Berwick Castle in striking her upset the trim of the submarine boat und spilled the geroline in her tanks rendering her helpless, The boat was one of the newest of the fleet of submarine vessels and was bullt from the latest models; but she had always been a bad diver, She was inspected recently by both King Ha- ward and the Prince of Wales. oe ore ACTRESS DROPPED BABY. Mabel Barrison Borrowed Infant) for “Babes in Toyland.” | “The Babes in Toyland” at the Ma- jestic had their last matinee to-d For a novelty Mabel Harrison broug a live bi on the stage during the sec: ond act, The baby cried, Mabel got) seared and dropped the child on the stage, Its mother, sitting in one of the boxes, jumped over the railing and shouted; "Give me back me chee-i-! id.’’ She picked up the Infant, returned to hew. place In the box and saw the rest of the snow undisturbed, Mr. Sullivan of the house staff said hatter the house quieted down: | “The baby belonged to a Mrs, O'Con-| of Ruiherfuid, N. he is ay | hows N friend of Miss Barrison, whom she visi: | ted back of the scenes, Miss Bairison wanted to take the baby on tho stage with her and Mrs, O'Rrien consented if | she promised to hatdie it well, The child” cried, and Miss Barrison got} frightened and dropped it. That's all." aby wasn't hurt. ~————— IRISH» LAND STOCK ISSUE. LONDON, March 19,+The Government to-day announced the issue of $25,000,000 created winder the Irish Land Act of EOOOS CHICAGO POLICE A LI HS PE Former Deputy Commissioner Here Finds Them Drinking in Saloons Instead of Protecting ‘Citizens—Wide-Open Gaming, CHICAGO, March 19.—"'There 1s prac- tleally no discipline, and the force could hardly be !n ‘a worse state.’ With these words to-day Capt, Alexander Ross Piper, formerly Deputy Commis- All |sioner of the New York Police Depart- Aren at No. 14 ment, who has been In Chieago for seve weeks ‘investigating the Chicago police force, storred the members of the City Club. He was making a report of his inves- tigation which was begun at instance of the club as a result of the alleged undue prevalence of crime in Chieago. According to Capt, Piper's report the Chicago police Is In a disgraceful con- dition of demoralization and inefficiency, Instead of protecting citizens from criminals the members of the force are drinking in saloons, playing slot ma- chines or gossiping on the streets, Patrolmen were accused of taking to their ‘holes’? at overy opportunity, in- stead of walking beats. Old and in- capacitated men were found fn “soft snaps” robbing the department of ac- tive men solely needed. Wide open gambling was found by Capt. Piper, hand books running prec- tleally all over the clty, Some of the police station-houses were asserted to be unfit for use and a disgrace to the city. The administ Capt. Piper expressed sympathy for 0 police force and Chief O'Neill iy “an honest sd man, doing the best he ea with the tools at bis command,” Police inspectors and sergennis come in for rough handling sn the report a FAIR TO RAISE $60,000, Charch Mission ¢o Build Structure to Cost £200,000, Members of the Christ Church mission of the Brick Presbyterian Church have fitted up a German village inside their edifice at No, 28 West Thirty-fitth street, and are holdinga fair to raisa 000 heeded to erect a new chureh mission. The proposed structure is to ont $200,000, and $110,000 of this sum ale teady has heen raise ing the novelties displayed there was a ’'Parsifal bag,’ which sold oes ranging from. $2 (0 $20, Tt is 4 the head of the Chie: declares Ls i tised in carry uncheons to "'Paralfal performances. Architect, Henry F, Hornbostel, who closes on or before March $5. arranged the houses of the German vil- lage, has completed a typical tower like those along the Rhine, tion of the criminal laws at the Harrl- son Street Police Court Police Station | wis found to be “more like mob law than order,” and is intended to be, JUM. P FROM WINDOWS. 908000 WED FROM JAIL ; FOR WI 5 SME — Benjamin R. Danks, Bookkeeper Charged with Robbing Silk: ; Merchant of $15,000, Is Re-| leased from Custody. Impressed with the grief of a wretch ed wi and her two small children, | Louls Krause, a silk merchant of No, 608 Broadway, begyed Magistrate Whit man {n the Centre Street Court to-day to discharge from custody his trusted; bookkeeper who had robbed him of | more than 15,000 in money and stock during the past year, The bookkeener, Benjamin R. Danks, lived with his wife and the two chile Lexington avenue, Mr. Krause had taken him into his employ when Danks wis a small boy and grad- ually promoted him wnatil he made him bookkeener, It was chen that Danks, according to his own confession, began (to steal, At first it a trifle, then the thefts increased, ‘The stealings at | last grew so enormous that it attract- ed attention and an expert found that Danks's books were wrong. Had False Keys avide to Store, Mr. Krause discharged Danks, but because of his pleading re-employed him in a minor position, Danks, howe ever, kept up his stealings, purloining from the stock. He had a false set of keys of the store made and visited the wtore Sundays and helped lijmaelf to H laces and silks, which te gold to a re- ceiver, Detectives caught Danks and yeaters day he was Arraigned charged with burglary. Danks was to-day arralgn- ed again before Magistrate Whitman, after ending the wight In the Tombs, Mr. Krause was there to prosecute him. “T helped this: young maa," Mr, Krause told the Magistrate, "I was | like a father to him and he rewarded }me by stealing from me, But L fore jwive him for that because of his wife nd childrer | Sea that-woman there.” Mr. Wracise | |weeplig woman holdin jinfant, with another ehild tugging at |her dress, “that's his wife, If he tx | wen they will starve. She hasn't ja fri In Uyis country, and rather jthan see her and the ehildren suffer 1 want you to discharge him, Merchant Refuses to Pro Some can and some cannot USE COFFEE without dangerous harm to the body, Quit for 10 days to prove for yoursel, Meantime use aid to the Magiatrate, pointing out a { ) in her arms an} the him “T can't dis- refuse point Magistrate, Unless you ecuie Hin i vint blank to do so, rehant, Walking out of returned the ti court, fs Magistrate Whitman said to hi think your stars you have calling Danis 8 With a considerate man Ingrattude Js an awfa) sin and you deserve Imprisonment for a long term, But ax your employer refuses to pros- ecute you tt $ Outside tracted r ihrew her arms ab neck, God Wilh forget you.” she sald, “L think T understand it all Danks sneaked away without as much as say h you to the man who t from Sing Sing prison, ee “MICHAE ; Caoght Cold Here and In Threat. L DAVITT IS ILL. ened with Pneumont: OAKLAND. 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