The evening world. Newspaper, December 10, 1914, Page 11

i ERASMUS ANNEXES CALLED THE WORST OL FIRE TRAP 1200 Lives Imperilled So Long as Rickety Old Buildings Are Used by the Pupils. SAFE, SAYS PRINCIPAL. Agrees Building! Gradually by Next Empty | June. | The jemned as a dangerous fire old frame building known as Brasmus Hall, whieh is | used as an annex for Erasmus Hall | High School in Flatbush Avenue, near Church Avenue, Brooklyn, was Not emptied of its 1,200 pupils to-day’. Dr, Walter B. Gunnison, the prin- cipal, on hearing from Superintend- ent of Schools Maxwell that Fire Commissioner Adamson had orderod the building vacated within twenty. |, four*hours, got into consultation with Borough President Pounds and Mr. Adamson. The Fire Commissioner agreed that as there was no other building to which the pupils coull) he transferred the number housed ‘n the annex should be decreased grad- | ually and the building abandoned at the elose of school sessions in June. Old Erasmus Hall was built 119 years | ago. “Dangerous—positively dangerous, was the verdict of e Chief Kenlon afitr making a careful examination of the premises in company with Chief Joseph Hammitt of the Fire Prevention Bureau and P. J. Carlin, | n Superintendent of Butldings in Brook- lyn, late yesterday afternoon. Ham- mitt was more optimistic. He thought changes could be made within the next few days which, without razing the time-worn structures, would | greatly lesaon the immediate fire peril. ‘The lives of 3,300 pupils, most of them housed in the modern stone, structure, put up from time to time) in the last decade, are endangered by the four flimsy, wooden structures | constituting the annex. Occupying @ space, which the architect intended for an outside court, the dried, tinder- like walls of the annex buildings stand within fifty-feet of the sur- rounding modern structure. Two of the vld annex structures have stood as historic Flatbush landmarks since the Revolution and to-day are crumb- ling with age. Yet the Board of Ed- ucation has permitted them to harbor more than @ thousand children daily for years. MIRACLE MIGHT PREVENT HALOCAUST. “With a wind blowing from the northeast, the high walls ®f the new building would act as a pocket for the flames once the old tinder-box started,” declared a veteran fire- tighter in Chief Kenlon's party, “Only would prevent a halocaust.” Walter B, Gunnison, principal of the high school, does not agree with the verdict of Chief Kenl regard these annex buildings as than any school building In the c! was his surpriaing declaration. in the first place the buildings are only high and the windows of t floor are but a few feet from ‘Ynere are also twenty- ur fire drills, held ontth in cecordance with the twice a State law, te empty the entire school in two and one-half minutes. The annex is fully equipped with fire ex- tinguishers and the fecessury appar- aius to get and blaze under contro! qauchly.” ONE NARROW EXIT FOR THE ANNEX PUPILS. inspection of the schoot atest danger arises in of the four annex to each. other,” explained vention Chicf Hammitt to- he structures are arranged “Our showed the which only pi out of the court is but wide--hardly width enough necommodate the hundreds of iren in the building, “In any event this passageway will have to be widened to at least thirty feet, and that will mean the partial demolition of the nor' th wing nnex, which, 1 understand, houses 300] puplis, This will be one of the sug- gestions introduced at the conference to-day. Of course we have hopes that the structure can be rendered safe without razing the buildings and with little inconvenience to the school au- They the ly ‘of numberless severe most h cases, oat hele False fram the many ve been benefited by their use reat value “ayo Ou carefully taaredly out our trust in any Safe Remedies, atic Remedy eh betes Remedy | the time they had returned to St {head Bay from where they sta |road, was sidewiped by an exgtbound FISHERMAN. DROWNED. Fell Overboard From Boat While Of Rockaway. William Peterson, fifty-five years old, living in the Bronx and employed an an engineer on the New York, New ITCHING BURNING: | PIMPLES ON FACE Haven and Hartford Ratiroad, was|Cametoa Head, Looked a Sight, | drowned this morning from the fish- Came Out on Body. Lost jany Ing boat Whitby, off Seastde, Rock- away Beach, In company with Mrs, | Nights’ Sleep, Used Cuticura Olurd of No. 406 East One Hundred and Forty-seventh Street, Peterson went dut on a fishing excursion. He 10 Ress Piece, Passate, N. J.—"1 always was sitting on a way chain while | aaa 9 clear face tilt all at once I Soap and Ointment. Face Clear, | | the boat king for the ANi-| sejeed pimples coming out little by little, broxe Channel lightship, when the ‘They came te heed aad I chain collapeed and he was thrown had to scrateh on account of into the sea. the ftching and burning Capt. ‘rank Hammar and his which they gave me. Later brother, Caleb, managed to throw a took the form of big life-buoy over .the engineer's | and pull him into the boat, bi Peterson was dead, hate NEWS STEALER MISSING. thing awful. | sleep and was tired of bothering with these | pasty pimples. I lost many @ good night's Bond of Forfelted by Coart. | ‘I went to @ doctor and he told me to | use Cuticura Soap and Ointment. I hed wraph Operator Is Judge Malone in General Sessions to- day forfeited the $1,000 Dail bond of ¢ telegraph operator nd indicted for selling war news furnished by the Ass ed Press to the New York lobe, in_which office Linder was detailed. A bench warrant was issued for Linder’s arrest Linder's bail was originally $5,000, He Appeared before the Grand Jury, how- ever, und gave testimony which not only | reauited in his own Indictment but the indictment of James Rice, manager of | the ticker agency, and A. L. Patton, who had held his position in the Globe office before Linder wna assigned to It ix at Hberty under $5,000 ball, while ‘atton, unable to obtain ball, is in the| Tombs | FAST TRAIN WRECK=D. Samples Free by Mail | Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment do Beautiful Five Tratnmen BUFFALO, Dec. 10.—Five ratiroad men injured, none seriously, when pas- train No. 19, westbound on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Rall- TO RECOVER THE LOST! 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