The evening world. Newspaper, April 18, 1911, Page 4

pe nem ROR Sn ee: — we tte ee 4 BOATHOUSES ON ThE HARLEM FLAME SWEPT Homes of the Nassau, Harlem, | Metropolitan and Wyan- oke Clubs Destroyed. 200 SHELLS BURNED.| Blaze Watched by Thousands | —Firemen Rescue Care- takers and Family of One. ———— Gee Masses, the Harlem, the Metre petitan and the Wyanoke boathouses between Macomb's Dam bridge on the the Putnam Bronx side of the Harlem River near Que Hundred and Sixty<irst street were destroyed by © fire that started @t 8 o'clock this morning, entailing & deea of $100,000 and 4) to the @eene thousands of persons from many Parte of the city. The boathouses of the Crescent and the Bohemian were eaved, the fra htly damaged. Four persona, two men, Sereda. ‘The houses were filled with combus- dle material being ued in getting the Doate ready for the annual Spring practive. There were stored in them | Paints, resin, ben: Bishes. The m of the clubs Were about to begin training for the Decoration Day regatta, and every Doat was ready to be “put over.” All the boathouses were in charge of Eadie Graham, who had his sleeping quarters in the Nassau boathouse, and George F. Becker, who with his wife, Anna, and two-year-old daughter lived im the Metropolitan. Each of the boathouses was about WOxT feet, and they were only eight or ten feet apart. Usher saw Eddie Gra- ham ehouling frantically from the @econd story window of the Nassau. Fire surrounded him, and had he Jumped be Would have landed on an tron picket fence skirting the railroad right of way. Battalion Chief Walker was driven up ‘by Paddy Corridan, and prompily sent fa @ second alarm. Aa the fret truck ame up Corridan grabbed a scaling ladder, put it up to the window and pesoued Graha.n. Saved, but Los Clothes. ‘The caretaker was neariy overcome Wy amoke and heat and had discarded every etitch of his clothing. He was Given @ blanket and taken to the quar tere of the Putnam bridge tender to wait for new clothing In @ short time the flames had spread to the Metropolitan boathouse, where Becuer, his wife and child were asieep, ‘They had not heard the commotion out- side and Battalion Chief Gaivin had to break in the front dor, All three were nearly unconscious from smoke. In their nightclothes they owt by firemen, revived, oils and var- wrapped in blankets, and later taken to the High- bridge Station in the patrol wagon to wait for clothes. The fire leaped from one boathouse to another, and ail four were practically destroyed when the fireboat Lawrence arrived, after the third aiarm, from watched them from Central Bri Macombd's Dam Bridke. When the blaze had reached the Cres- cent boathouse Deputy Chief Ahearn concentrated his men on preventing further spread, and the Crescent was only slightly da wifid greatly bh. 4. A northwest apped the firemen. While one detachment was pouring wa- ter on the blaze, the wind suddenly sent the flames directly back into thelr faces, and they had to drop their hose and retreat. Frank Ho an, of En. gine Company 2%, was tryin reclaim the squirming rubber when the nuzzle hit Bim over (he right eye, knocking him unconscious He Was rescued by com ter being revived was sen Many Boats Gurned, tor launo ex, and af. quarters hing pennants and recy anany price Capt. Jon Rowing men Wo aly years, fore the e with pienty the members nee Union an excellent flee ated directly o Division bridge on the| & woman and child! were rescued One fireman was in-| | NEW FIRE MYSTERY STIRS ENGLEWOOD; $60,000 Blaze, Starting Newspaper Office, Second Within Month, in Fire which started early to-day in the office of the Englewood Press, on Kagie street, Englewood, N. J., ened adjoining buildings, and before it Was controlled wiped out the block in which it had its origin, doing damage eatimated at $60,000, MANY HOMELESS) threat. | THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, (Mrs. Wright Barclay, Bride of T ae i} weekly newspaper, wee entirely de- wtroyed, as was the adjoining general @tore of Banta & Miller. Both bulid- ings were three-story frame struc- tures, and above the store and the newspaper offices seventeen families lived, All the tenants escaped without ais floulty, though few of them were able to save Any of their household effects, They stood about scantily clad and shivering until the block was a mase of smouldering ruins, and then sought shelter with friends, The cause of the fire te @ mystery, and Englewood oitizens are anxious, since it ts only four weeks ago that the telephone exchange was destroyed @ without any as could be was no evi- yonded promptly to t water pressure was very low and ame buildings eo dry that almost \ing could be done except to protect adjoining property. Trolley traffic in the town was delayed two hours, lines of hose being stretched across the =r SOCETY BEAUTY ' y BECOMES BRIDE OF WRIGHT BARCLAY Widow Who Inherited Millioris From A. Browning Pren- tice Weds Again. CEREMONY IN HER HOME. Will Go to Hot Springs and Then Spend Summer at Bay Shore Home, i wend, rector oe aa Angég waurch. Miss Marguerite K. G Watson, daughter of the late G@. Warren Wat- son, wae the maid of honor and Henry A. Barclay was his brother's best maa. The ushers were G. How- ard Davidson, Carl Boyd, Howard K Coolidge, Ernest Schmoick, J. Ledi'e Iisea and Crosby Thompson. There Were about 20 guests present, prin- cipally relatives and intimate friends. Mr. and Mre, Barclay will leave to- night for Hot Springs, Va., and after @ honeymoon there wil return and @pend the summer at Mrs, Barciay's country home at Bay Shore The Bride's Gown, ‘The bride wore pink charmeuse, Em- Pire style, trimmed with old point de Venise and she carried a bouquet of Cattalyea orchids of a delicate mauve shade, Her hat waa of white straw, faced with pink chiffon and large roses. The maid of honor wore white satin, covered with white net embroidered with pearls, house where to-day’s ceremony took .\entire fortune, The work of looking SENN acta ne APRIL 1 elaborately decorated with emilaz and Garlands of pink and white rosea and banka of iiliee and spring flowers. Mr. Barclay gave his bride a diamond horse shoe. His friends and fellow-| members of the Calumet Club gave him @ ailver punch bow! at his bachelor din. | ner Wednesday night at Deimonico's, Mra, Barclay is the daughter of the late George W. Fowler, of Tarrytown, and @ niece of Mrs, Henry Brevoort. | She has a wid Freputat jon aa @ 0: | clety beauty @& keenly interested | in horses, h frequently exhibited in horse shows. When she and Mr.| Barclay return from rings they will be the honor gu given at Sherry's by which the deco . | Barcay's horse show colors, blue and yellow. Me. Barclay Married Before. . Barciay, an well as his bride, tas been married by ir In July, 1908, he and Mrs, Louise Fontaine Venable, daughter of the Iate Edward Moore Mitchell, of Loulsville, Kentucky, were | married in the Church of the Trans- ‘guration, but hie bride died after 4 month's, honeymoon, Mr. Barclay is a real estate operator and was once rec- retary of the Real Estate Board of | rand Augustus Browning @ married !n June, 1901, at the bridegroom's father, Went Bighty-uret street, the Prentice the hom No. 7 place, Shortly afterward Mr, Pren- tloe’s father died and left his son his efter this large inheritance had such fan effect on Mr. Prentice that he be-| came afflicted with nervous disorders, and It was finally necessary to commit him to Bloomingdale, w! December, 1906 Binoe widow bee managed the large estate unaided. Royal ‘and reception of Samaritan No, 1859 and Ogden Counct! No. 1600, Royal Arcanum, will be held in the Lexington Opera Don Kise est fe secret de sa LOSES IS EAR Contractor Saudia Colobriaso Is At- Tt cost Charles Colobrinso, forty years old, & teaming Hudson avenue, Brooklyn, his left ear to fgnore deman him during the past few weeks i many unsigned letters Two men met Colobriass on Navy street, Brooklyn, about midnight test night, pushed him up againet @ house and one sliced off his left ear with « keon-edged knife and slashed @ cross in his forehead. “Now we will know you again.” thoy anid as they released him. time don’t Ignore letters from the @o- three traine on the Rook Island were carried | The plant of the Englewood Press, a = tracks, tats rs Makes of When the Technola enters your home it brings with it the gift of music. It has the regular keyboard and piano action for hand-playing—yet the superb “player” built into it gives an immediate training. the Technola as a piano. the profoundest masterpiece, $20.down. 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