The evening world. Newspaper, December 4, 1911, Page 20

aN GIS N PAN SAVED NSECOND IEREY CT FRE Blaze in the Leo Paper Box Factory Drives Out the 500 Employees to the Street. MEN GUIDE WOMEN OUT | “Wide Stairways and Plenty of Exits Probably Save the THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, President of Bronx Digging First Dirt for Subway Extension Lives of Many. Modern methods of construction with wide stairways and ample fire escapes @aved many of the 60 employees of the James Leo Paper Box Factory in Jersey City from death or injury when the five-story plant of the concern was estroyed by fire shortly after noon fe-day. There was a panic among the ]@mployees, some 2 of whom were Girls, but so many means of escape Were provided that those who kept thelr wits about them were able to @alde the panic stricken to safety. At the time the fire was discovered the Walk of Jersey City’s Fire Department was at the great United States Express arn conflagration in the Pavoni: tom, « mile across the city. This con- @lon Jed to long delay in responding te the alarm, and when tho tired fire- Wen arrived the entire building of the Leo Paper Box Company was in . plant was located at the building, of recent construction, @ block on Golden street and on Leo street. The fire, from of the buliding on the Bright THROUGH ELEVATOR SHAFT. Jt was clove to an elevator shaft and spread through the building by that route. Each floor was filled with paper- bez material of the fliimsiest sort and spread in all directions. 80 advance that the em- rush for their lives, un- fire apparatus. on the lower by way of the stairways. in the rear y that means escapes. Many upper floors and hard uired in handling them. outside assistance was rendered or heeded. The men assisted the girls Gown the ladders ome of the older @mployees remained on the various e@@vancing flames and pick up any strag- @tere that might have been held behind by fright or helplessness. By the time the firemen reached the ecene the roof and four walls of the factory structure had fallen in and vol. unteers were hard at work trying to Prevent the spread of the fire to many + amall two-story dwellings in the vi- einity. The fact that surrounding roofs ‘were covered with snow was all that prevented a great conflagration. FIRE DRILL HELPED TO WOMEN EMPLOYEES. The damage to the Leo plant 4s est!- ‘mated at $600,000. James Leo jr, who eounded the fire-drill when the blaze Was discovered, says that the employees ‘were frequently put through a fire-<drill om aoe of them was in any danger, the fire in the Leo plant was at @ double alarm was turned Morgan and Bay streets, a it midway distant between the Leo wreck of the express of the engines bound for fire were diverted to the Mor- Bay streets blaze. was in the Doremus stables at Morgan street, which ts situated midst of a block of frame ten- 8. Here the snow did great ser- again in preventing the spread of A tow horses in the stable led out when the firemen ar- the blaze was confined to the SAVE at § BORoucH For PRESIDENT MILLER BREAKINGAGROUND, Trim BRON’ ‘siewanxs BRONX SUBMAY DGSING BEGUN WITH RARE TOLS Willcox’s Gold Pick Makes First Dirt Fly, Then Miller Wields Souvenir Spade. The digging of the Bronx branch of to-day in formal fashion, Chatrman William R. Willcox of the Public Ser- vice Commission, J, Harris Jones, Presi- dent of the North Side Board of Trade, and Borough President Cyrus C, Miller using a gold-plated pick and gold and silver plated spades with no Iittle skill, A stand had been erected opposite No. 610 Mott avenue and a section of the Pavement had been taken up to give the distinguished laborers a chance to make the dirt fly. But the cold wind and the snow sweeping through the | stand at the time set for the ceremony speechmaking be done at the rooms of | the Board of Trade, five blocks away, | and then a quick run be made back to the spot to make the initial hole in the! ground. FIVE HUNDRED BRAVE STORM TO SEE IT. Five hundred persons trudged through the snow to the Board of Trade Build Ing. Then the sun came out and the wind died down and Mr, Willcox led the Procession back to Mott av Mr, Willcox made a ttle sy ing that it was a ¢ t day for the Bronx. All the Bronx eded was ade- quate transportation to make it grow 10, ch, say- | fi caused Mr, Willcox to suggest that the WALL STREET Trading at the opening of to-day's stock market was confused. Fractional gains and losses were about equally divided, but a declining tendency de- veloped during the first few minutes that carried the Ist almost f point under the closing of last week. Selling pressure was of a professional tenor, and didn’t attract outside liquidation. Toward the end of the first hour prices commenced to recover under the leader- ship of Steel, Reading, Union Pacitic and the Wabash Issues, Subsequent dealings were anomalous with price movements confined to small mits. A special upward movement in the Southern ratiroad shares constituted the fleors to make a last search against the| the new triborough subway was begun) Only feature of the afternoon period. While the remainder of the market was inclined to dullness, these issues rose rapidly on @ sudden buying demand. Louisville & Nashville led with a gain of 3 points, Atlantic ‘Coast followed with a gain of 1% points, whilé South- ern Rallway scored a fractional ad- vance. Am ic in the last few minute higher The day's Nght. rket a siightly finish of business was stocks urday t |as no part of the city had ever grown, QQ MURPHY SAYS HANDS OFF IN KINGS-QUEENS ROWS. Pledges No Interference With Me- Cooey and Cassidy, While Look- ing After $200,000 Patronage. Tammany Leader Charles F. Murphy, ack from his vacation at Hot Springs, appeared at his desk in Tamm Hail to-day, The Wigwam at once ttuok on H tronage in sight worth be handed ou York © » New up-State ar the Sheriff's ompecting Murphy was questioned o in Brooklyn, Queens thee being ground situation Bronx. “IT have not fore Election «nd him,” said Mr. Mu (applies to Joseph reen MoCo! do yey since ot expect to ‘and th Q those interfer among themselve ‘Mr. Murphy Bronx County He will sen. the at Tammany Hall ky. ‘oustitution,) t help bein’ lucky “Why—what's happened now? “Nothing but Earthquake swal Jowed the meane man in town, an when they found him he wu alive an’ well an’ stakin’ off a gold mine!" the and he said. “want to congratulate the Bronx for | winning a 1 great comfort to myself helped," he concluded Adam Dienst of the then presented to Pr gold pick, Mr, Miller sald tha’ could be supplied with every day in Board a new ple he wouldn't mind ie contractors’ forces and do that lui ‘ | je real lab News gave Mr, Jone Jo and a Kold spade to Chat and, amid the ¢ all three struc opened the pavement up an appreciable mound of nmediately afterward the » the Publi a man W dre dre n ¢ y speech Dro: to River Joseph Doll chester a 1 Watson's lane, was walking ove New York, New Ht ven and Hartford drawbridge acro’ Harlem to: when the bridge wh ft Which swings ward into the a an to Drawbridge a tug de ty up ile 4 to danglin) hirty feet P ve wet over th + | draw to safely he lost 1 fell to the river from one 4 ’ the other and the the alr, over a floating pile and he was knocked un. plight pulled him out. to Ford He was taker am Hospital in @ serious con: i errs erm seers ng, hard battle, and I take! khand of West. | river In | de end of the | s balance and | P** Mis shoulder struck | Now | On [stte+ 1 ' Vinh Co) Wabash Watuah pi Advances, ACTIVE SECURITIES. nion Pacific, ve! 24K Devlinee, | mn Vio A Child's Quest | (rom the Boston T | "Pa, do cows have sou | ‘ourse not “Thon What part does the sole leather come from? ‘Dier' » ’ (Translation) | “The mes Cméricaines tast wot i) Kiss comme | fas. Kerkoff, £ of Djer-Kiss a their favorit | perfune,”” » —Kerkolf, Pari Lad mows iain | Extract, Hoilet Water, Suchet, Face and Tekcum Powder 2 At Drug and Departinent p+ + amen |AlirOd He Seth Com 36 We Bled Sty DX, | SSE ER FRR Seer re re Roading, 7.400 n wo- | | men is evidenced | | by their selection $1,000 000BLZE DRIVES HUNDRED FROM THER HOMES U. S. Express Company Build- ing and 400 Horses De- stroyed in Jersey City. EMPLOYEE LOSES LIFE. Records of the Company and 200 of Its Wagons Are Also Burned. | Fire in Jersey City early to-day de- stroyed the building of the United Stat Express Company at Eighth and Hen- derson streets, One man is missing and {a believed to have lost his life, Four hundred horses were burned to deat two hundred wagons and all the cot pany’s records and papers were stroyed, ‘The flames spread to adjot ing blocks, damaged a dozen tenemen and drove hundreds of families, women and children, shivering in their t clothes, into the snowy streets. | ne loss !s estimated at more than | $1,000,000, The man who Js missing and 1s sup- posed to have perished was Frederick | Anckney, in charge of the sick horse de. | partment. He turned in an alarm and was not seen again, employees who saved about 200 horses barely escaped with their lives. Five alarme were rung in, and then a) general alarm, calling out thirty engine | companies—the entire Jersey City de-| partment. One engine, No. 6, stationed | at @ corner of the big building, had to be abandoned. It was a wreck when the firemen were able to return to it. Lieut. John Kelly of Fire Company No. | 10, and William Bergen of Engine No. 3, | were injured when the Provost street | wall fell. They were taken to St. F Hospital. gained consciousness, It is believed he will recover. One of Rergen's legs was broken, Patrolman John Smith fell and injured a kneecap 80 badly he will be laid up for some time. The fire orig. ated in the cellar of the company’s four-story brick building that occupies a half block and in which up- ward of 1,500 men and women are em- ployed. It runs on Henderson from Eighth street to Pavonia avenue, and along Eighth to Provost street. In the cellar, which housed the horse-. shoeing department, and which w: 180 used for the storage of hay and feed, were the manure pits, where the refuse was burned‘every night. Detatis of how the blaze originated are still unobtain- able, but re’. bors declare that smaii fires in connectior with the burning of the refuse were frequent and that they had Jong expected + serious blaze. 400 HORSES PERISH, 200 WAGONS BURNED. The first alarm was sent in a few min- utes after 2 o'clock by Michael Ol-vell, an employee, ‘vho also rushed to the office to telephone to Assistant Supt. Bartholomew Kiernan, at his home in Jersey City. He says he saw Anckney running through the building, putting up windows to ' t the smoke out. Aficr telephoning, Olwell was caught in a cloud of dense smoke, was almost over- come, and was burely able to drag him- self to the street, where he collapmed. A panic soon reigned in the neighbor- hood. On Pavonia avenue, opposite, a string of fifteen tenements, occupied by nearly 100 families. These were all ” For Your Children Give them all they want of delicious Lindt Chocolate. It's good for them and they like it. Tis superiority is conceded at home and This is the time to consider a useful holiday gift. Why not Hosiery? A practical holiday gift that will last beyond the that will reflect credit tt the giver. ie have a s | of time. For Men, Children Ask your Retailer. RUBENS & MEYER New Yess, ie s fp meene scan SR pCR ees Neennnes holiday times, and a gifo CONQUEROR Hosiery, in all quali- ties and all prices, reputation that stands the test Women and | Griven out into the snow, scarcely a per- [eon with anything on except night clothes. Later tue fire jumped into the | block bounded by Henderson, Provost and Seventh streets, and drove out 300 families who occupied thirty tenements there. The flames spread through the ex- Dress company’s building with almost inconceivable rapidity, the opened win- dows aiding in its spread. Two hun- dred wagons w on the street floor, AN these were burned. As the smoke began to penetrate to the second floor, | frengy seized the* six hundred horses | abled there. | The third and fourth floors of the | building were used as offices, with an e@uditing department on the fourth floor. | Here were all the company's records and books and papers, all of which were consumed. | FIREMEN WORKED HARD, BUT WITH LITTLE EFFECT. Scores of streams of water were soon turned into the building, but seemingly with little effect, Chief Conway saw the building was doomed. and began to! devote his efforts to prevent the Names from spreading, while the police re- | serves tried to restore something like order among the shrieking tenement dwellers driven into the snow. Many children were among those thus exposed, The Henderson street walls fell in at! 2.4% o'clock, and a little later those on Provost street, where Kelly and Ber- gen, with a number of other flremen, were at work. Bergen and Kelly wer> from the debris by their com- ms and rushed to the hospital Several other men sustained lesser cuts and wounds from the flying bricks and timbers. The blaze was within two blocks of the Erle Railroad station, and for some time threatened to become a conflagra- tion, A change of wind, however, at 4 o'clock, greatly aided the firemen in checking it. The snow added tmmeasurably to the task of the department. The snow beat down the emoke until it spread in gense Went to rescue some of the horses. He! clouds through the streets, making tt, Mismy. Several other| qimost impossible for the firemen to | to tak see what they were doing. PRIESTS AND SALVATION ARMY AID HOMELESS. The Rev. Fathers Ter Woert, Sheridan and Martin of St. Mary's Roman Cath- olic Church went through the panie- stricken people trying to calm them and sending many to places of temporary shelter. A hundred families found refuge in the Salvation Army barracks at Erle and Seventesnth street, and others were cared for in the neighborhood ‘As the fire apparatus continued to be bursting and added to the difficulty of the situation. The fire continued ‘to spread along Pavonia avenue, but by S$ o'clock it was under control. Supt. James Hill and Assistant Super- intendent James Keenan of the Express company made arrangements as soon o11.* ae they aw the extent of the loss to carry on to-day's business. Sen reer stables and garages, trucks, Wi and automobiles of ali kinds were and ordered to report at The Mbdien platform, wiore the business will be carried on for the present. Mr. Hill de- clared there would be no tle-up to, the service. ‘ The 250 girls and 160. men od in the auditing and bookkeeping art. ments on the second floor of the blehed building found prospects of a. lean Christmas when they showed up for work to-day. It will probably be a couple of weeks before sufficient accom- modation can be obtaine’. > + * A gas main at the northwest qétrer of the ruins of the express. compatiy’s building blew up at 11.02 o'clock A. M. and threw bricks and other debris ‘in eyery direction. The gas burnéd‘briekly luntil shut off further down thé atreet. age was done, but the noise care {n the icinity. MAGISTRATE..HOUSE .. RETORTS ON THE JUDGES. Cases Sent to Tombs Weakened. by Vanishing Witnesses, Not by Flimsy Evidence. In’ disposing of ‘the case of Josephine Lenox of No. 1 ‘Twenty-eecond street, a waitress charged with.theft, Magistrate House in Yorkville Court t day answered several General Sessions Judges who recently have blamed City Magistrates for crowding the Tombs When Assistant District-Attorney Dickinson insisted that the Lenox wo- man should be held on. the unsupported tion of J. J. Murphy of Brew- sters, N. Y¥., that ehe had taken $80 from him, Magistrate House sald: | “The evidence is not |r want right here to tak the statement of General judges regarding the action of City \ Magistrates in. sending people, to the Tombs against whom the évidence Is For my part T am always ready 6 the responsibility of turning @ court when I do not think ‘The fact case out of the Grand Jury will indict. is that many cases are weakened after | they go down town by the disappearance of witnesse! Fire Badly Scares New | a small fire in the flat of Mr: |Get» at No. 217 East Ninety-eighth street to-day filled the house with | smoke, Mrs. Lena Effus, in Bed across ‘the hall from the Gellb rooms with \a four-days-old baby, was frightened land screamed for help. Benjamin Ideut, Kelly later re-| put to the unusual strain the hose began! Goldberg and Nathan Friedman ‘tan up from a butcher shop on ‘the street floor and carried her and the bal downstairs. A temporary couch Wi ‘made for her on the counter -of ¢! ! shop, but she was #0 scared that ‘ambulance was called to take her to Harlem Hospital. 23rd Street NECKWEAR DEP’TS. Macrame, Venise, Various New Styles. Cascade Jabots, elty lace. RIBBONS. and black or white. | Choice Domestic Novelties Dressing Table. Gifts. Gold Decorated Scrap Baskets JEWELRY DEPTS, im 14 Karat Gold P Pins, Cuff Buttons, Earrings. Seed Pearl Nec 23rd Street een oa Re mgm reRMermanP in Both Stores, ‘ ART NEEDLEWORK DEP'TS. 1m Both Stare collection Sewing Boxes and Baskets. ... Embroidered Boxes.. An unusually attractive stock-.of Jews elry, suitable for Holiday Gifts. Brooches and Earrings. Real Coral Pendants and Necklaces. Rhinestone Hair Ornaments, Bar Piss and Pearl Collarettes with Rhinestone base, JAMES McGREERY & CO. JAMES McGREERY & CO. 34th Street On Tuesday, December the 5th In Both Stores, Showing of Lace Neckwear, including Filet and Irish laces. with full ruffle of nov- , 50C, 95C, 1.25 and 1.75 : ——_———— 614 inch Moire Taffeta and 7 3-8 inch Satin’ Taffeta Ribbon in an assortment of colors 23c and 33c per yatd . values 30c and Soc Ribbons suitable for Holiday use itt a’ variety of widths, colors and weaves. and and of Im for the Bi Appropriate for Holiday’: < | 75C, 1.00, 1.25. Pin Bagkets.. ; 1,00, 1.35 and '2.00 75¢, 85¢, 1.75 and 3-50: , -85c, ¥.25 and'2,00 and 378 ead Both Stores, endants, Bar Pins, Scarf Vest Buttons, C! pi Lorgnettes, Bags, Purses, Vanity Cases klaces, Pendant ' KSHER LE WFRE TO SAVE ~—HERPETCANARY _ Fire which etarted in the basement of the four-story tenement at Nos. 54 Bainbridge street, Brooklyn, thia afternoon, drove the tenants from the building and rendered two persons unconscious from the effects of smoke. Mrs. Mary Howe, a pedridden invalid, was carried from the building by her son through flames that scorched ‘her hair. . When the blaze was discovered;swir- Ung up the airwhaft the only o¢cu- pants of the house with the exception of AbrahamHowe, the twenty-year-oldt @oh of Mrs. Howe, were women. Their ecreams attracted men from all direc- tions, who engaged in the work of res- was carrying his Mother down the stairs from the second floor, wher both were enveloped in a burat of flame frfom a window. Mrs. Howe's hair was singed and the blanket in. which she was wrapped was e001 iHer son was staggering when he “the ground floor, where he was met by outsiders, who to. the etreet with his burden, | Mise Matilda Dowd, living on the thira | foot, was half way out of the building, wheh she thought of her canary bird nd @ rou BE money she had hidden ip went bi after the bird and the money and was found uncon- scious on the floor, a few minutes later, by Lieut. Barrett and Fireman John Me- Cauley, Who carried her down to safety sted him 23rd Street Sterling Silver Jéwel Cases. “ “ Cushions............ CORSET DEP’TS. La Vida Size 20 to 36. figures. MAIDS’ DRESSES. Extensive stock styles. Aprons with Colognes... ..10.0 Combination Jewel W. B. models for slight and medium on a ladder. The bird was dead. Wiliam Conway, a member of the sale vage corps, Was overcome by smok@® while at work on the third floor and wee cesoued by firemen. ‘The tenants were 10 resume occupancy of their apa; hen ined, ATERSON, NJ. WOMAN MAKES STARTLING STATEMENT Says Resinol Is Worth Its Weight in Gold No telling what this woman has used Resinol for. Whatever it is, it has proven most efficacious to call forth such ‘an unequivocal statement as this: i Ie ’ “Resinol Ointment is marvelous. ‘ects almost-instantly and is worth its wane in 7 “MRS. C. E.GILMAN, Paterson, N. 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Novelties _ comprising Toilet Sets, Frames, Vases, Colognes and Deposit Silver Salt Bottles. ..1.35 to 10.00 “ 8.75 Cases and Pin eeeeeeees e125 tO 15.00 Bouquet Holders...........1.50 “ 10.00 Photograph Frames.. Deposit Silver Vases........1.50 “ 10.09 ee i In Both Stores. Corsets Models for every type of figure. Made of Coutil, Batiste and Broche. 4.00, 5.00, 6.00 to 12.50 W. B. Reduso Corsets for stout figures. 3.00 and 5.00 1.00, 1.50 and 2.00 In Both Stores, Second Floor, Twenty-third Street Fifth Floor, Thirty-fourth Street of Nurses’ and Maids’ Dresses, Caps and Aprons in all the new or without bib. Also Sewing and Afternoon Tea Aprons. Maids’ and Nurses’ Dresses of fancy etripe percale. Size 34 to 42. : 1) Fine Lawn Aprons in a variety of de- i ss signs. With or without bib. gsc and 1.2g 45¢, 65c and 95¢ FEATHER NECKWEAR. mm Both Stores, * 6 strands. 7 strands snecccceeewe 8.strands.. Natural or Black Natural or Black Marabout Stoles. A eeerecvcs ARB ARnE. 1.0) ree sre a eerie eooesce * . value 6.79 ! cowosvewwescwowoases ses + sOyS0 value 9.50 Pee aus 330 Natural or Black Marabout Stoles with ends. 5.50 value 7.50 se Mauffs to {match.. of Natural or Black Marabout Cay _ with : Muff ‘to- match | AMES’ HoGREERY & co: aq ee eee 34th Street }