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OF THS! POLICE,
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He Won’t Make a Complaint Again in a
Hurry—A Hackman Swindled—Mr. Mullens
Feels Sere at Getting the Mitten from His
Cirl-Got Drunk on Lager-His Days as a
Policeman Numbered—Two Burglaries
that Puzzle the Police—A Turkish Bath
Charms Coogan-Entered a Saloon After
Supposed Thieves— Escape of Prisoners
from the StaTiori^CJJ 38 ”’ 07 ® 1 ’ the Fence
Swore False? '
BEFORE COMMISSIONER FRENCIf.
WILLIAM BUNN'S CHARACTER.
Some get up in the morning made unexpectedly
famous. They have a set-to with an officer, get the
prod of his club, and laboring under the belief that
the officer has been guilty of an outrage, they make
complaint to the Police Commissioners, and to
their astonishment they find themselves, like citi
aen William Bunn, the accuser, on trial, not th®
officer. , , ,
Bunn said that in Juno last he was arrested im
properly, and afterward a false charge was made
against him by Officer O'Hara, of the .Fifteenth Pre
cinct. .
Bunn said he drove an express wagon and lived
at No. 60 Sullivan street. June 16, at five in the
morning, the officer, who was sitting on a hydrant
talking to an Italian boy, jumped down and charg
ed him with “nailing” an orange from the boy,
who kept a fruit stand. Bunn said that was a gag,
he had money enough to.pay for all there was on
the stand. The officer said go on about youf busi
ness. He walked to Houston street and stood five
minutes with a friend, when the officer came up
and ordered them on. He went. The officer came
after him cat-like, and hit him across the head, and
he fell against the railing, and when taken in he
bad his head dressed, and he was discharged. Five
flays after he was speaking to a gentleman, when
the officer jumped from behind an oyster stand
and, collaring him, said, “I want you.” He took
him to the station house, but had no charge to
make, he saw him do nothing. He was taken before
the Justice, who fined him $6, but reconsidering
the case, he was discharged.
The officer was sworn and said Mr. Bunn and his
friend came along, and the Italian said they had
stolen some fruit from him and hit him on the jaw.
He asked the boy to make a charge. The boy was
afraid to do it. When they came along he told them
to keep off Houston street. He knew them to be
thieves. They went to another corner and stood,
but he did not get near enough to strike them.
After his vacation he locked Busn up for loitering
on the street; he knew him to be a thief. He had
been arrested in the Eighth, Ninth and Sixteenth
Precincts, and was recorded as a notorious thief.
Officer Leeson was present when he heard the
Italian charge Bunn with robbing him. Bunn ran
and fell. The officer did not strike him. Bunn was
a notorious thief; his likeness was in the gallery.
He was three months in the Tombs on the charge
of burglary.
Officer Armstrong said Bunn served two years
and a half in State Prison. He knew him to have
been a thief since he was a boy.
Captain Brogan said he knew Bunn to be a dis
reputable character. He was arrested and con
victed by Detective Slevin (now captain). Houston
Afreet was the boundary line of the Eighth and
Fifteenth Precincts, and on the dividing line gangs
of thieves and pimps met, and men that worked the
growler, getting drunk out of beer cans, sitting on
carts. The captain said he was in the receipt of
many complaints and the orders oi the officers was
to keep that post clear.
Bunn declined to say if be had an alias, and also
added that he went to Sing Sing by accident for
felonious assault on a woman.
WAUGH SHORT-SIGHTED.
Citizen George Sherwood, a hack driver, charged
Officer Waugh with refusing to arrest a fare that he
law assault him. Sherwood drove the two men
around for two hours, and when one got out he
banded him a quarter for his fare.
The man didn’t seem to know that he had been
in a cab after he got on the sidewalk. He said the 1
Care was two dollars for driving indiscriminately
two hours. The man said he wouldn’t pay a cen’/, I
and assaulted him. The officer saw the assault ? r
was asked to arrest the gentleman and he
make a charge, but refused. When he said to/ttfcja
Officer, “ If you don't arrest that man I’ll take
number,” Waugh eaid, “Jump on your box a /jfd’geL
Off the corner, or I’ll run you in. ”
Two hackmen swore to seeing the assar
knitted, and the Officer was so close he coul- help
seeing it.
The officer said he didn’t see the
ted, and was ndt'paid to collect hackmen'A? -taxes.
JOE'S GAL GOES BACK ON HUff.
Joe P. Mullens, a ticket agent on tlita TEBl&vtted
road, got the mitten from his “ gal,” M Post, acad
as one of hisosonies said, “Joe didn’/t exactly like
the cheese.”
Joe of six feet two in his Sate
ladylove is about five feet two.
After the “ mitten ” from/&i» "gal,” Miss
Post, he met Officer Shelby, who hiad championed
her cause, on Third avenue. Two fr ie&ds were with
him.
Mullens asked him if he knecw the trouble be
tween him and Miss Post. ShelVjr replied : “ That
is none’of your damned business.you are nothing
but a All, that Joe said was,
"Oh!” Officer Shelby then cosatiuued : “ You big
loafer. have you fixed up there,”—at the sta
tion where lie worked.
"What hat* Shelby to do witfc Miss Post ?” asked
the Oommisftioner.
"That's what I want to know,” said Mr. Mullens.
James Brennan was with Mullens w’hen he said
belaid he heard the officer say Mullens was a mis
carriage.
Hugh Drum, another of Joe’s witnesses, got off
excitedly : "He (the officer) says my father was a
murderer, and my brother was in State Prison.
Father's murder was an accident, and my brother
W&s sent to the Catholic Protectory.”
“I wouldn't go into that,” said the Commis
sioner.
The officer took the stand and swore that he
liever made use of the language charged. But he
did say of Joe that he was not fit company for the
young lady; he was the companion of prostitutes.
Two weeks ago he sent young Miss Post>a scandal
ous piece of poetry. They sent for him and it was
agreed that they should go to court and get a war
rant lor Joe’s arrest.
The old lady, however, backed out; she was
•fraid of the publicity that would come of it. He
met Joe Sunday night, and in a fatherly way he
told him to keep away from Mrs. Post’s house.
Joe wanted to know why he shouldn't go there.
He said he had insulted the girl. Ho replied if they
said that they were G— d— liars. He told him that
wasn’t the way to speak of an old lady, and told
him if he caught him in the house making trouble
he would arrest him.
Blanche Post, a pretty, but spunky young lady,
took the stand to testify against her late lovtr
Joe. She said she had known him about a year.
Both her mother and herself had requested Joe not
to darken their door. He had insulted her
and her mother; they bid each other goodby, and
she told him he was never to call again. But he
did come back and insult her and her mother. She
had no father or brother to defend her, or he
wouldn’t have done it. He did ask her once to steal
money from her mother.
Joe—Haven't you beeu to the theatre and balls
With me?
Blanche—That has nothing to do with it.
Joe—Why did you go with me ?
I tell you that has nothing to do with
Joe—Why did you go out with me ?
Blanche —Don’t ask me.
Officer—That is the only lady he ever kept com
pany with.
The officer said, to show how little interest he
had in the matter, three months ago, when Mullens
defamed the old lady, he advised him, for his own
good, not to go near the house, and let the young
lady and her mother alone.
FROM A WEDDING TO A CELL.
Gallagher, of the Thirty-fourth Precinct, was
charged with assaulting George King and George
Smith, and arresting them at 149th street and Third
avenue without cause; and that he also made the
false charge of drunk and disorderly.
The officer said, when he arrested them they said
they had been to a wedding and they didn’t know
what they were doing.
They were fined $5 each by Justice Welde.
They said they were fined because they couldn’t
•peak English.
The officer said Judge Welde spoke German and
English. He said the two men were on the avenue
drunk, insulting every woman they met. Ho saw
them knock down a woman that had a child in her
arms. He went up and asked them what was tha
matter. King ran out in the street and picked-up
a stone to fire at him. The officer laid him out.
Smith then caught him by the legs to throw him,
and he placed him by the side of King and took
both to the station-house. In the morning they
Baid they didn’t know what had happened.
WALKED IN OFF POST DRUNK.
"Drunk,” was the charge against Harden, of the
Eighth Precinct.
The officer entered the station-house at twenty
minutes past two, when he should have come in an
hour before that, when relieved. He said he came
in at twenty minutes past one, left his club and
belt, and went out and had dinner.
Sergeant Allen said he did not see him come in
and go out, nor anybody else. When he came in, at
twenty minutes past two, he noticed that he wasn’t
exactly O. K. It was his place to do house duty
with Henzee. Shortly after he came in he came
out to the desk, and asked where Henzee was. The
sergeant then saw that Harden was under the in
fluence of liquor. His gait was unsteady, eyes
blood-shot, and his manner and behavicr showed
intoxication. The speech was thick and incoherent.
The smell of liquor on his breath was strong. The
sergeant ordered him to go up-stairs to bed. He
went in the back room and sat down in a chair and
fell asleep. The men turned out to a fire and came
back, and he slept through the whole of it. He was
unfit t.o do duty.
Roundsman Dougherty said the man was under
the influence of liquor and unfit to do duty. The
walk w.as not steady.
Harden swore that he came in at 1:30 and saluted
the sergeant.
The .sergeant said he didn’t see him and nobody
elee.
" Who.flid you see in the station-house?”
“ Only the sergeant,” said Harden. "I got ex
cited when they accused me of being intoxicated.
I remained in the back room till six o’clock, an
swered roll-call and went to bed. I was just as
sober -then as now. When I came in at 2:20 he
didn’t charge me with being intoxicated. I didn't
take a sup.tijat day. lam not a drinking man, any
way.”
“It is strange that.yap should have gone past
the desk so quietly'that the sergeant did not see
you,” said the Commissioner. "It stands thus:
The sergeant proposes to break you bv a false state
ment or , you are not telling the truth. Sergeant,
when you saw him come in, why didn't you stop
him ?”
"I saw there was something the matter with him.
He had & tree three feet long and a large paper par
cel. There did .not appear to be sufficient the mat
ter with him than to stop him.”
"lam of the opinion you were drunk, and not
the first time, either,” said the Commissioner.
The case was adjourned to give the officer a
chance to prove by the officer that relieved him
and others, that he was sober when he went in the
Station House.
A CLEVER BURGLARY.
June 28th, a burglary was committed at No. 165
Front street, which puzzles the police. The thieves
got out of a door that wasn’t locked from the street
and they did not get in very well by the rear. If
they did it was a squeze.
Mr. Lockwdod said the thieves carried off 17 000
cigars. This was equal to 325 boxes. But it all was
tied up, and the wagon was at the door readv to
2feive them, it would b$ Wo work of a very few
The officer proved that he tried the door at ten
minutes to six, ten minutes after six the relief found
the door open.
The impression of Sergeant Oates was that the
men concealed themselves and were in the place all
• night.
WORK FOR CAPTAIN MoLAUGHLIN.
t ’Hi ere was another successful burglary in Captain
McLanq in 8 precinct, No. 56 Wall street. The
5 th A
1 Officer SnydeVwa. failln ß t 0
i vent, and afterward diggs 7.* r “• ...
; Captain McLaughlin sai4 th£ man wont
he locked tha outside floor. TtU Waß „
with a jimmy. There werd '
meat, A citizen called the attention o! |
to the door half-past seven in the morning.
officer said he had hot Irlea the door.
The officer described the post he had that morn
ing when he went on at six o’clock. It was so long
tint fee did not yeaoh the end of it till twenty min
past seVeH, when a letter carrier said the door
of No. 56 was broken in.
“What was taken, captain?’*
"Neckties, shirts and collars, to the value ot
SI,OOO. I think the burglary was committed after
the man was relieved. The officer had a long post.”
IN A BATHTUB.
Coog&n, of Captain Berghold’s precinct, believes
that cTeanliness is next to godliness. He went down
to the Battery and had a Turkjjsh bftth. g® ojer?
slept himself in the bath tub ana was late at roll
call at 6 P. M.
He said he went to the bath at two o’clock and
was manipulated so nicely that befell fast I&TMp.
"You are a young man,” said the Commissioner,
" but you seem to be a most reckless officer, from
the record you are rolling up. That record in time
will do you harm. The last charge was Bitting down,
I suppose you were tired.”
Ue said it was a hail in his ehoe.
DRANK TO GET " MUGS.”
was found iq jiqfiov galddfi In Jack
son street. It was true. Two flights before a bur
glary had been committed; he had a description of
the men, Two men answering the description en
tered the saloon. To get a better look at them ho
entered and had a glass of ginger ale.
“ Did you arrest them ?”
“ No; they were not the parties.”
“ How far was the bar from the door ?”
" Five feet.”
" Is your eyesight good ?”
" Yes, sir.”
“ Can t you tell how a man looks five feet away/>
Can you see the lieaments in my countenance ?”/
The officer was a little puzzled. French
that left eye of his a peculiar wink.
Biit the officer mustered up courage to
Sergeant O’Brien said it was lager, not
that the officer drank.
•• I never drink,” said the officer,
jgyc yasrxS-STS
TOO LONG ON THE „
„ th9 Ni ? eteeQttl . S»seinat,' flowed >
E r ‘®°‘ 8 8Bca ? 8 ,- „ i ’ Br e ßa «’.f Shoiaenaaid Officer
taJih/hta £ , h ‘ .? 4 H aa ’ WWsted tho man and
ta lent for
, WB ™A° oolify the complainant to come to -
gone?’ WhBU 116 retur “ ®>r his prisoner, he was
Borman, and said a nnm
n ■ iQ * room playtag dominos. Ho
nnt when n. m would “>• eheek to TOllt
° u 2 ’ hß “ h ’ Bnt -«»*“ ‘0 ‘be water-closet.
Commissioner ' noi; tho loros a year?” said tho
" p - B * r ;” T m the reply.
A year ‘oo^i oagi >. Was thooejoinder.
AN® YET ANOTHER.
w2°i°n llu U o£ the Twenty-first Precinct.
w?» (net box. A boy named John Murphy
the cAii for larceny. After he had been in
® ifttle while he began to moan, then to
,‘-bonto grunt and cry, -Oh, By belly I oh,
fellow, anC unlocked th® cell door, and
A a doorman's diagnosis of the case. McNally
a . : him where he was worst pained. Murphy
♦hA ’ “guts.” McNally ran cp stairs and got
l y^* f -ihole r a mfxture tbat is administered for almost
& A’ diseases. WheE he came down, the youngster
When McNally made to run after him,
nf's cost caught ir. the cell door, and Master Murphy
. "How old w&a the boy?” -asked the Commis
sion 3r.
, “Ten.”
BOTH JUMPED THE FENCE.
McDonaldxmd Ryan, of the Twenty-seventh Pre
’Chict, were treed in the liquor saloon 1,927 Third
: ’avenue. Sergeant Ryan had gone over the post of
1 ene officer several times, and Roundsman Vail the
other. From information they knew tho officers
’ were ill Ifeis closed liquor saloon.
! Sergeant Ryan and Roundsman Vail treed the
house as stated, and in time out came McDonald
through tho hallway of a tenement house two doors
from the liquor saloon.
after, Officer Ryan came out of the
same Railway. The officers were timed in the place
an hour and three-quarters.
McDonald said ho was in the rear. He heard the
cry of “ Murder.” He scaled the fence to get in.
It was a man and wife, and she would make no
, complaint.
Ryan said he heard the cry of " Murder” and got
over the fence. He saw a woman at the window,
and asked what the halloing was about. She didn’t
know. All was quiet. He didn’t know McDonald
had been there. It was one of those singular coin
cidences that couldn't be accounted for.
IN A LIQUOR SALOON.
Maguire swore he was not in the liquor saloon at
No. 49 Carmine street. Roundsman Orr swore he
was.
The officer swore he only put his head in at the
screen door to ask the time.
The roundsman said the officer went in at the
front and came out of the side door. He didn’t get
up in time to catch him in the place.
OUR FIRS DRmriHT.
A LARGE BATCH OF TRIALS—
FORAGE—SICK FIREMEN, ETC.,
ETC., ETC.
The Board of Fire Commissioners met, as usual,
on Wednesday morning last, and transacted the
following business:
FORAGE.
Proposals were opened for furnishing the Depart
ment with 400,000ibs. of hay, 70 OOOibs. of rye straw,
3,500 bags of white oats, and 2,100 bags of bran, and
the contract was awarded to John Noonan, at
$8,955.00.
Notwithstanding the intense heat, the Board lis
tened in the most attentive manner to the follow
ing round dozen trials of delinquents :
ABSENCES WITHOUT LEAVE.
Fireman John Stinson, of Engine Company No. 1,
was absent without leave for nine days, seventeen
hours and forty-five minutes.
When the trial came on he did not appear to an
swer, and Captain Croker said :
“1 served the charges upon his wife, at his resi
dence, as I could not find him.”
He was then dismissed from the Department.
Fireman Eugene F. Martin, of Hook and Ladder
Company No. 1, was absent for thirty-six hours
between July 3d and 4tb. He pleaded guilty and
said : "I got sick at a fire, and the captain excused
me until the next morning. I was then worse than
I had been, and I sent my brother-in-law to the
truck-house to ask for another leave of absence.
He camo back and said it was all right, but after
ward I found out that the apparatus was out to a
fire, and nobody being there, he had left the mes
sage on the desk. ” Ho was fined one day s pay and
ordered to De reprimanded.
Fireman Edward Gibbens, of Engine Company
No. 27, was absent without leave for eight hours
and twenty:two minutes between July 4th and sth,
and also one hour and forty-seven minutes addi
tional on July sth. He pleaded guilty and said : “I
was doing messenger duty on account of having
got hurt at a fire July 3d. The doctor told me to do
light duty. While in the house my wounda got to
bleeding, and I wont to Dr. Devlin and he made an
examination of my wounds and he re-dressed them,
and this all took time.”
He was then fined ten days' pay, five days on
each charge.
Fireman Michael P. Crowley, of Engine Company
No. 27, was away from his company for fourteen
hours and| twenty-two minutes, between July 4th
and sth. He pleaded guilty and Baid: “I had had
my dinner and was going back to quarters when I
was taken with a fit, which was followed by other
ones. When I came to I sent word to the engine
house. An officer, who is here, took me home.
Police Officer Foster said: “I was on post, and
seeing a big crowd I rushed in and saw this fireman
(pointing to Crowley) lying on the ground in a fit,
and when he came to he asked to be taken to his
home.”
The case was then dismissed.
Engineer George C. Rand, of Engine Company No.
33, was absent for five hours and twenty-three min
utes, on July 4th.
Ho pleaded guilty and said: "I went to my sup
per, but found no one at home, as nay family had
all gone to Brooklyn. I was very tired and sat
down on a chair and fell asleep and slept all the
time I was.away.”
He was fined five days’ pay.
Fireman Patrick J. McMahon, of Hook and Ladder
Company No. 2, was absent for two hours and forty
five minutes on July 2. He pleaded guilty and said
—" I was going home to dinner, and the captain
gave me a short leave of absence to attend to some
business, but I unintentionally overstayed my
time.”
He was fined three day's pay.
DID NOT REPORT FOR DUTY.
Fireman David Webb, of Hook and Ladder Com
pany No. 2, failed to report for duty on the ap
paratus floor, and to go with tha apparatus to a fire
on July 5. He pleaded guilty and said—“ On the
Fourth of July we bad a great many fires, and I was
very tired. When the alarm came in, I got out
slow and upset my boots, but I went to the fire,
and came back with the company.”
Ho was fined three day's pay.
Fireman Thomas J. O'Neil, of Hook and Ladder
Company No. 15. was similarly charged, the offences
having been committed on July 2. He pleaded
guilty and said—" I went up on tha top floor to get
some oil for the lamps, and I did not hear the alarm
come in, and when I got down stairs the apparatus
was gone. I ran after it, but I could not catch up
with it.”
He was ordered to be reprimanded.
UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF LIQUOR.
Engineer Wm. H. Tuite, of Engine Co. No. 7, was
charged with being under the influence of liquor
on July 3.
He pleaded not guilty.
Assistant Foreman Murphy said—"On the night
in question he reported to me that the engine was
out of service. I noticed that he was under the
influence of liquor, and called the attention of the
house watchman to that fact. His walk was un
steady and his breath smelled of liquor. He weut
up stairs to bed and remained there eight hours.
No alarms came in, however, in the meantime.”
Fireman Del. Armitage said—" When Tuite came
back to quarters tho assistant foreman called my
attention to his condition, and he asked me if I
thought the accused was under the influence of
liquor, and I told him I did, and the assistant fore
man then ordered me to put it on the Journal,
which I did.”
Tuite, in his own behalf, said: "I had been hard
to work at a fire, and was very tired. I took two
drinks, and they went to my head, but they did not
affect me so but what I could do any duty which
might have been given to me to perform.’
He was then fined ten days’ pay and ordered to
be reprimanded.
Fireman John J. Sweeney, Jr., of Engine Com
pany No. 31, was under the influence of iiquor on
July 2d and July 9th«, and failing to discover, while
he was on house-jyatch, who destroyed the “Jour
nal,” and tore out of jt several pages.
Bs did not appoar. Enginscr Walker testifled
NEW YORK DISPATCH, JULY 17. 1887.
that he served the notice of trial on Sweeney’s
mother, as he could not find him. Sweeney was
then dismissed i/om the department.
SLANDBR.
Firemafl Lynch, of Hook and
No. 15, was cu*?«efl ®ri(4> jiaving accused Firemafi
Patrick O’Brien,“of the With stealing but
tons off his coat and callingVm a' ?2? <af g, a J iu £
he could prove it. He pleaded not guilty.
Assistant Foreman Martin said : •« I heard some
words between the men, and I told them to stop.
O Brien said Lynch had called him a thief.”
Lynch, in his own behalf, said : " When I came
ome, I missed a button off my coat; and when I
hack from my vacation I missed two more,
and I said to myself, I would leave it there and see
how soon they would take off the whole coat. I
saw G-Br-ie*: W T w nd .ll a 1 1<nlf9
in ths other, and . ’‘Med him • button thief.”
fie was fined the loss o. . tlreß days pay,
DID NOT PAY UP.
Fireman William T. Lear, of Hook and Ladder
Company No. 4, was charged with failing to pay a
claim of $127, which he agreed to pay in sums of
$ 0 per month until the whole indebtedness was
wiped out.
He pleaded not guilty and said: "I have kept
that agreement, and last month I paid ten dollars
on account, but he wanted me to pay fifteen dol
lars. So f«A | have paid twenty dollars, I am, BQW
18 * 9f trpflbl® ajifl nwfl all
J. Curran testified;
?hB Wb, ' : ‘ 1 aia
“ e could do.”
was fined two days’ pay.
SICK FIREMEN.
The medical officers reported that J were
’ iol£ anii iDjurßa offlcerß ai, .i men on their
The Commissioners, or Pri( i S y promoted Fire
men Wm. A. Brom oj; Englne 4^ pany no. 6, to
be an engineer, and, <* B j glie d hi m f or duty to En
gine Company 29. arrd Jx)hn ciinton, of Engine
c-o. no. foTjg ftn engineer of that company.
GOBSIP.
A large nimter of the mem'bei's having joined
the new tTderDf American Firemen-, a council will
soon be call*d for the purpose of ’organizing the
brethren and Installing the officers.
The Hou. John Martin, having been one of the
hardest working members of tbe Legislature, in
advocating the continuance of the two per cent,
taxiing paid into the treasury of the Benevolent
Fund of the widows and orphans of the Exempt
■Firemen, is to ba tendered the compliment of a
dinner, next Monday evening, at the Hotel Hun
gray, in Uulon Square.
The dinner will be given by Mr. Louis F. Hallen,
the treasurer of the Volunteer Firemen’s Associa
tion of this city. Mr. Hallen is about making a
trip to Europe, and has invited many of the old
firemen to meet with him on the above occasion
and bid them good by. Bon voyage, Louis.
The figure of Justice, on the City Hall, was taken
down last Friday at 3P. M. The scales were lost at
the time of the fire in the building some years ago,
which, perhaps, accounts for the uneven manner
that justice has been administered for many years
past in this city, A new figure will replace the old
one, and, with new pair of scales, the old lady
will take a fresh start.
The election for officers of the members who are
to take in the parade at Troy, took place last night,
too late for hrsertion in to-day’s paper.
A Great Fire.
A STORAGE COMPANY’S WAREHOUSE ENTIRE
LY DESTROYED—LOSS OF OV®R HALF A
MILLION DOLLARS—A NUMBER OF FIRE
MEN BADLY INJURED—THE EIRE, AFTER
FIERCE FIGHTING, UNDER CONTROL.
One of the most disastrous fires that has
occurred in the uptown district-of the city for many
years, and one which at any other time of the day
would probably have caused great loss of life, began
at three o’clock yesterday morning in the Metropoli
tan Storage Warehouse, at Nos. 117, 119 and 121
West Thirty-eighth street. Nearly $500,000 worth of
property was destroyed, and many brave firemen
were seriously maimed—cue, it is thought, may
die of his injuries.
The Goelet estate, in the Autumn of 1885, finished
the big, five story brick 'building at Nos. 117, 119
and 121 West Thirty-eighth street, with the under
standing that Mr. Solon Winterbottom, who had
been so successful in Introducing the furniture
van as a feature of household moving, would take a
long lease of the premises as a storage warehouse.
The plans of the building were drawn by Mr.
Goelet’s architect, Mr. Johns, and were approved
by the fire department. How worthy of approval
those plans were will be seen.
At the same time that work was progressing on the
storage warehouse the estate was engaged in build
ing two-story brick structures at Nos. 1392, 1394,
1396, 1398 and 1400 Broadway. These buildings
joined the Casino on the north; across the way
from them was the Hotel Normandie, filled with
guests. Mr. Winterbottom, who is the manager of
the Metropolitan Storage Company, succeeded in
obtaining what was considered among his rivals in
business an excellent patronage. He soon filled
the big building with furniture and other valua
bles. He made a specialty, however, of storing
trunks and small parcels, which contained the most
valuable kinds of propjrty. He took every pre
caution against fire, having three big fire alarms in
the building, watchmen, clocks and the most re
cent inventions for the prevention of flames that he
could secure.
With these precautions he did not think it neces.
sary to take out many insurance policies, and so his
loss will be almost complete. When the building
was erected, however, he took the precaution to
have the rear wall built solid, without windows or
openings of any sort. The side walls, which towered
over the adjoining buildings, were likewise built
solid. The front of the structure had about as many
windows as the architect could get within the space,
and these were unobscured by shutters of any de
scription. Mr. Winterbottom employed an honest
Scotchman named Angus McDonald, who had been
in his employ for many years and in whom he
placed implicit confidence.
HOW IT ORIGINATED.
Friday night the building was carefully inspected
as usual by the employees of the company, and at
nine o’clock the big doors on the lower floor were
closed and Angus McDonald was left in charge.
He made his tour of the building immediately and
found everything safe. Those tours he kept up at
intervals of an hour, visiting all parts of tho struc
ture between the hour strokes. At three o’clock he
was in the upper part of the building, where the
furniture is stored. While coming down stairs he
smelled a faint odor, as of burning pitch or some
other resinous substance. He rushed to the place
whence the odor seemed the strongest. This was
in the middle of the second floor. All about him
were furniture and packing cases. Many of these
were blazing furiously. The flames seemed to
spread with as much rapidity as though the wood
they were consumg had been soaked in oil.
One of the flames. McDonald noticed, burned
blue, another almost vivid red. With a dash be
was oat in the street and tugging away at the fire
alarm on the corner of Broadway. When McDon
ald sent the alarm he ran back to the building, and
discovered that in his haste to send the alarm he
had left the big door at the foot of the stairway
open, and that this made a draught for the flames
to burn downward. The.fire had made use of this
opportunity with a vengeance, for McDonald saw
the great tongues of flame shooting out of the door
way, and licking the front of .the building with a
fervor which meant total destruction if the firemen
did not hurry.
WATER FEEDS THE FLAMES.
Although it was less than two minutes since he
sent the alarm, McDonald thought it was an hour
before Engine Company No. came dashing into
Thirty-eighth street and the hose was fitted. As
soon as this stream began playing, with no effect
whatever, other companies came dashing to the
scene, but all the water they could throw upon the
building seemed to be entirely Ineffectual. The wa
ter seemed merely to feed the flames, for they roar
ed with greater vehemence where th©firemen work
ed the hardest. At the front of the building the
hook and ladder companies had placed their lad
ders, and Chief Shay sent them up to the higher
floors with hose to play upon the flames through
the windows, as there was no access to the rear ow
ing to the peculiar construction of the buildiug.
They were hard at work fighting the flames
within when those on the street beard a low and
sinister muttering in the lower part of the build
ing. There was no mistaking that sound, so thought
Chief Shay, and as loudly as he could shout he
summoned the hook and ladder men back.
“Come down,” he cried; “come down, or you
will be killed !”
FIREMEN CLINGING TO LADDERS.
The words had scarcely left his lips before there
was a terrible roar and great masses of fire leaped
from the windows of the building, carrying with
them showers of sparks and half-burned debris of
all kinds. The fearful outburst was more than the
unfortunate tiremen{could withstand. They clung
to the rounds of the ladder as tightly as they could,
but scarcely had the smoke and flame of the first
explosion passed than it was succeeded by three
other explosions, which flung the firemen from
their hold, and tossed them into the street as
though they were but feathers before a fierce blast.
These were the last of the explosions, but the
sounds which followed them were far more dread
ful. Shrieks and groans of agony filled the street,
and even above the roar of the flames and puffing
of the engines could be heard the summons of the
uninjured firemen for help for their comrades. Au
ambulance call was sent out by the police, and it
was promptly responded to by the New York,
Bellevue and St. Vincent’s hospitals. Then the
surgeons got to work and soon the good news went
to the great crowd, which had assembled about the
burning building, that none of the firemen were
dead. There were fully eighteen men lying on the
pavements, but most of them were only stunned by
the fall Irom the ladders. Only six oi them were
sufficiently hurt to require their removal to the
hospital. These were:
Fireman Patrick Breen, of Engine No. 34, burned
about the head, hands and face; severely injured
internally by his fall.
Fireman John Douglas, Engine Company No. 1,
burned about the hands and face..
Fireman James Delaney, same company, burned
about the face and having a severe scalp wound.
Fireman Edward Carley, Engine Company No.
26, burned on the head and face; badly hurt.
Fireman Peter Veter, Jr., of the same company,
burned on the hands and face.
Fireman John Conway, Engine No. 1, hands and
face badly hurt.
Fireman Thomas McCallum, of Hook and Ladder
Company No. 3, badly cut about the face and hands.
All these men, with the exception of Conway, who
desired to be taken home, were sent for treatment
to the New York Hospital. The main corridor of
the Hotel Normandie was used for a time as a sort
ot hospital for the binding up of the bruises of the
less seriously injured men, who, no sooner than
they were bandaged, started out again to resume
their struggles for the preservation of the property.
The explosions were a mysterious feature of the
fire. They did much to weaken tha already totter
ing walls, and as there came a burst of flames from
the lower floors, the big wall at the rear of the
building trembled as though it could not possibly
balance itself a moment longer. Soon the big iron
cornice on the front of the building came rattling
dow r n into the street.
There was a thundering crash and a great shower
of sparks. Then came a cry from the roofs of the
adjoining houses:
" Look out below—the west wall is going I”
THE FALL OF THE WALL.
The daylight was just beginning to make the
street gray, and by means of it the lofty pile of
brick could be seen swaying from side to side, as
though uncertain which way it would fall. Then
with a graceful bend the top of the wall hung over
the Broadway houses, and with the sound as of
field artillery the entire wall went over, down on
the roofs of the five two-story structures below.
There was no stopping that great weight of
Down it went, through roof and flooring, until it
found its resting place in the cellars of the build
ings, which up to this time had not been affected
by the fire. But the fall of the wall had wrecked
the little buildings completely. The rear parts were
crushed as thoroughly as though they had never
i existed. Within five seconds, the tumbling wall
i had done about $26,000 worth of damage. There
was an immediate rush by the multitude in the
streets, but it was swept back by the police to a
place of safety in less than a minute.
lhere were many valuables in th® stores and
£here was an excellent .chance for thieves to do their
WOfk, th® storekojopers say that they have lost
nothing b y tbe failing of the wall. The wreck
-14 buildipgs occupied as follows:
No. 1.3 U hrT,** 1 ” 10 ° n Oa 6tr66t
° Mr d8IU “- fa t&o base-
a fntni ‘“ re ,
No. 1,394, J. & h. Van Rensennen, a meat market
stone floor and basement, $2,500.
No. 1,396, Wilkens’s bird cage company, floor and
baaetoent, SI,OOO.
No. 1,398, A. Menkent, shoe dealer; lost ssoo,'and
Pusey & Co., printers, S2OO.
ry N sl S(X? 0 ' Acme Lauudr y» damage to machine-
The second floor of all these buildings was occu
pied by L. Lindenthal, upholstery trimmings, who
lost, about $3,000. According to the estimate of Goe
leta architect, the damage to the buildings could
be repaired for about $15,000. Thus the total dam
age caused by the wall was as nearly as oau be osi’.
mated about $26,200, . ' .X- ■*>
By tbis time the fire wm practically under con
trol. The rear, eastern and front walls were sUll
standing, but the building had been completely
gutted. The other walls were tottering, however,
and ho one knew how soon the great frQKit wall
might not fall out into the street and crash through
into the houses on the opposite side 6f the way.
There were some handsome rosidencefe and the big
hotel there which had to be secured from damage.
So great efforts were made to tumble the front wail
into tho interior of tho ruin, and after nearly two
hours of work, or at about seven o’clock, the fire
men partly succeeded, for a great part of the brick
work fell tha desired way. Several tons tumbled
outward, however, and sent clouds of sparks sailing
upward over the roofs of the adjoining houses.
This crash did not do much damage, and after
this tumble tho fire was practically uneventful. A
corner of the front remained standing, and at nine
o’clock the firemen succeeded in pushing it over in
the ruins, thus leaving what was last night an ap
parently excellent building a total wreck.
THE BUILDING.
The coat of the building was $40,000, and it was
built by contract. There was, as shown by the fire
this morning, too effort made by the builders to
make the structure fireproof, or even ordinarily
durable, for the walls were extraordinarily thin.
The front wall above the adjoining buildings,
against which the greatest part of the strain would
come, was built eight inches thick.
The bricks parted with such ease when the fire
men got at them, that to several builders who
stood about the place during the fire, it seemed as
though not the very best quality of cement had
been used in the mortar. The solidity of the rear
wall, while it prevented fire from without, made it
exceedingly difficult for the firemen to get at the
flames, and so retarded their work. These factors
made the total destruction of the building a neces
sity.
THE EXPLOSION.
The mysterious explosion, which endangered the
lives of so many persons, was due to what may be
deemed carelessness on the part of the persons who
accepted goods for storage in behalf of the Metro
politan company.
About two weeks ago a gentleman named Mitch
ell, whose house is near Harry Sill’s country
place, at Flushing, Long Island, sent several pack
ing cases to various storehouses in th® vicinity of
the Metropolitan, to obtain storage accommoda
tions lor them. These cases were refused by each
of these houses, on the plea that they contained
explosives. Finally they were taken to the Metro,
politan, where they were accepted, it is said, and
placed with some others on the first floor of the
building. It was supposed that these cases, with
their contents, caused the explosion. What
kind of explosives was in them, or anything about
their consignment to the storehouses, could not be
ascertained. It is declared Mr. Mitchell, the owner
of them, is out of the country.
Another theory of the explosion is that the heat
had engendered a great quantity of gases in the
tightly closed cellar, and that the increasing heat,
as the fire burned down, had so expanded them that
the explosion followed.
The flames did slight damage to the roof garden
of the Casino, but : these damages can be repaired
very soon, and will not interfere with the enjoy
ment of Mr. Aronson’s patrons. The empty house,
owned by H. G. Lathrop, at No. 115 West Thirty
eighth street, adjoining the burned building, on the
east, was slightly damaged by water. Captain
Williams had command of the police about the
scene of the fire until eight o’clock, when Inspector
Steers took charge and retained it until no further
danger wae feared from the walls.
The Foor Children.
FIRE AND PANIC IN ST. JOSEPH S ASYLUM
FOR CHILD HEN—ONE CHILD BADLY BURNED
—RESCUES BY FIREMEN AND POLICEMEN.
An hour before daybreak, when the fire in the
Broadway storage warehouse was burning fiercely,
an alarm for engines was sent out from St. Joseph’s
Asylum, at Eighty .ninth street and Avenue A. The
main building was on fire, and the colony of chil
dren within in an uproar. The outbreak had oc
curred in the basement.
Nearly two hundred children, the fall comple
ment of the institution, were asleep within its
walls. The sisters in charge, who, throughout the
scene ©f terror and confusion that followed, strug
gled with great heroism to preserve order and facili
tate the work of rescue, aroused the sleepers
promptly, and sped them on their way t© the street.
The tfcick smoke and the unknown terrors that be.
set their way threw them into a panic, however,
and tho sisters maintained their hold upon them
with difficulty.
Roundsman Weise, of the Twenty-seventh Pre
cinct. had answered the alarm call ahead-of the en
gines, and joined in the work of rescue. With his
aid the building was cleared in the shortest possible
time, and the children directed to the police station
in Eighty-eighth street, where they were marshall
ed by the sisters. None were missing. One, Leon
Bates, aged nine, a German orphan, was severely
burned in escaping. His clothes caught fire, and
his face and arms were badly scorched. The asylum
physician took care of him.
FEMALE ATTENDANTS IN DANGER.
Hook and Ladder Co. No. 13 reached the asylum
as the last of the children were emerging on the
street. Shrieks were heard from an upper story,
and three female attendants were found to be im
prisoned on the third floor. They had not dared to
follow the children down stairs. Ladders were
thrown up to the windows and Capt. Joseph Shaw
and Roundsman Weise carried them down. The
girls were.Christlna White, Elizabeth Hamischmake
and Josephine Dieferbach. They were overcome
with terror, but uninjured.
®The firemen made short work of the fire. It dam
aged the building $2,500. How it broke out is not
understood. A few weeks ago the asylum had a
fire scare in the early morning. A lot of clothes in
the cupola on the roof caught fire in some unknown
manner, and one of the sisters had her hand burned
in an attempt to put out the flames. The splendid
discipline ot the children in danger saved them
from the consequences of a disastrous panic.
St. Joseph a Asylum is in charge oi the Sisters of
Notre Dame. It supports, educates and employs
orphans and homeless and neglected children, es
pecially of German birth, until the age of sixteen,
when they are set to work to take care of them
selves.
LATER DETAILS.
A second survey and closer estimate of the loss
yesterday, placed it at The flames broke out
in a pantry room adjoining the basement kitchen,
and swept up the stairs to.the boys' dormitories on
the lourth floor. These were two in number and
sixty boys slept in them in charge of two sisters.
Tho escape of the inmates was narrow. John
Schieklin, the watchman .on duty in the asylum,
conveyed the fitst warning soon after three o’clock.
He smelled smoke on his rounds, and made a tour
of the building without discovering the cause until
he found hot smoke coming through the floor be
hind the chapel, on the main floor of the west end
of the main building.
Satisfied then that the danger was imminent, he
hurried up to the dormitories, where the smoke
was already thick, and aroused the sleepers. The
sisters marshaled the frightened and half-stupefiwd
boys, half clad or entirely without clothes, and hur
ried them over a bridge ifito a now and yet unoccu
pied west wing, where they were safe. The iron
discipline maintained iu the asylum prevailed
against the terror of the roughly awakened ’ads.
and only ono, the boy Lebn Bates, got away. In
his fright he ran into the main hali and was met by
the flames that were burning up the stairs. He
was dragged back with his clothing ablaze and
was forced over the bridge with the rest.
Watchman Schieklm had sent out the special
building call for the firemen as soon as the presence
of Roundsman Weise relieved him and insured the
safety of the sisters and their charges. The stairs
were already then ablaze. The rescu? of the three
attendants, who are all women, was tho most exciting
epiaode of the fire. One of ti em, Lisette Homisch
niacher, afraid to wait her turn, dropped from the
ladder fifteen or twenty feet, bhe tell on one o: the
firemen, but did not injure him. Beside these at
tendants, there were 28 sisters and 150 children in
the asylum, all of whom are congratulat.ng them
selves to-day on their happy escape.
Hurrah for Xincola.
AN ECHO FROM THE SIXTIES.
A minister in this State, says the Boston Traveler,
was talking with his little five or six year old daugh
ter. He said; "What would you do if Jesus should
come right in here ?” She said: “We would all take
hold of hands and march around him and say: j
‘Thank you, thank you, thank you.’ ”
The same minister’s boy, of eight or ten, at the ,
time of the canvass for Mr. Lincoln, as President,
one evening in the sitting-room, for ned his sister ]
into a company, and with sticks bearing paper ban- I
ners, marched around tho room. The father told 1
him that tho people always had a speech on such
occasions, and as the procession came round past
him, said:
“ Halt 1 Now for the speech.”
When the little captain said:
“ ‘Our Father who art in heaven; hallowed be
Thy name; Thy kingdom come.’ Hurrah .or
Abraham Lincoln.”
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The lessees of piers about the city are greatly ex
cited over an edict of the Department of Docks for
bidding them to place advertising signs on the
property. The board claims that the piers are load
ed down with various advertisements, and that a
number of the lessees receive pay for the privilege.
The lessees admit that they are being paid a rental
for some of the signs, but claim that as they n turn
pay the Dock Department for the entire use or the
wharves, that body has no authority to dictate the
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Eats Feas With His ELnife.
SERIOUS ACCUSATION IN A LONDON NEWS
PAPER Regarding col. wm. cody.
All the Mrs. Lion Hunters, says London Society,
ee*en; to have gone clean stark raving mad over the
burly ch»x\ m 8 the American circus-man. Nothing
is too good for l' im ’ from box-seat of Charley
Beresford’s coach to J? Beat at tbe supper table of
any fad-mongering hostes» wbo is fortunate enough
a mutual advertisemtnn securing the
Buffalo pera?.”’’J > , r8B8 ” 88 .»‘ d i lnl!8 I ; ' ,, a
Now, against Bu. himself we havo u».
word to say. As a shoSmats he is a distinct suc
cess, and the very fact, which we deplore, of his get
ting himself asked to London drawing-rooms,
proves that he is not only a circus manager, but an
“advance agaCt’’—that is the correct Americanism
—of more than m? mmon enterprise. But it does
seem passing strange ladlßß • h< ” lld out of
‘heir way to ask to their ?°,” 8 » 8 n w , b ° P rß '
fsases not only to have inam K ? d ot ll -g f
cleanly outrage of skinning the h- ’ dß f “’ a ' lß °
foes, but to have treasured the relics fiUCU naß *y
surgery. . z
Apart from this, Bill is said to carry bls flrffi
lief in the knife into the supper rooms of his new
friends, giving preference to that implement ove'r
his fork for the purpose of “trailing” round his
plate, and finally conveying to his mouth the new
peas and other luxuries with which he is ■nppHOjL
his manouvres being watched with open-eyed ad
miration,by the other privileged guests. Scalps and
Buffalo Bill reign in the very same rooms that a
year or two ago were the temples of the sunflower
and Oscar Wilde. After all, Buffalo Bill for choice.
Couldn’t Fool Her.
EVEN IF HER MARRIAGE LICENSE WAS TORN
UP, SHE PRESERVED THE FRAME.
"I was very much amused,” said a lady last even
ing to a Philadelphia Call reporter, "at some re
marks made by my washer-woman. For about a
year her husband has been bed-ridden with rheu
matism, and during all that time she has tended
him faithfully and toiled hard to support him. Of
late he has greatly improved and is able to take
short walks. On Monday the woman came as
usual, and I was surprised to see her face badly
bruised. I naturally asked her how it happened,
and she replied that her husband had demanded
money of her, and because she bad to refuse it he
became angry and showed his gratitude for her
many months of self-sacrificing care by beating her.
" ‘But that wasn’t all,’ said she, ‘for that ornery
nigger took our marriage ’tificate off the wall and
tore it up and burned it.’
"Of course,” said the lady, "I was shocked to
hear of such cruel behavior on his part to the wo
man who had almost gone barefooted during the
Winter on his account. My feeling of contempt
was changed to surprise, however, for the woman
commenced to laugh heartily.
“ ‘Golly, but I has to laugh!’ said she.
"•Why ?’ asked I.
‘“Because I got the best of him, anyhow,’she
replied.
" ‘How did you do it ?’ I inquired.
" ‘Well,’ said she, ‘he took the 'tificate and burned
it, and now it’s gone, but I’ve got the frame, and
I’ve got it yit, and you bet I’m gwine to keep it,
and he’ll never get no chance to burn dat up.’ ”
OBITUARY.
DEATH OF JAMES MADISON CONNER.
Many hearts were sore when the announcement
of the death of James Madison Conner, the type
founder, was made in the morning papers of last
Friday. We have known no man more beloved
than “Jim ” Conner among those who knew him
and he was not so generally known as his abilities
should have made him. He was a peculiarly retir
ing and modest man, and it was only to his inti
mates that he unbosomed himself and uninten
tionally exhibited the noble qualities which he pos
sessed—those of generosity, kindliness and tender
mercy. Though he despised a mean man or trick
ster, he had still a word of forgiveness for the fail
ings of his erring fellows. He was n© anchorite, no
goody-goody man, no censurer of his fellows ; but
one of the loyalest, truest, simplest, and most un
affected gentlemen iu the world. One of nature’s
uoblemen.
When a boy, James M. Conner went to work In
his father's type foundry, then on the corner of
Nassau and Ann streets. He rapidly learned the
trade, and before he had reached manhood’s years
was the acknowledged head of that important de
partment of his father’s establishment. His heart
was in his work, and he invented improvement
after improvement in'the foundry until he was de
clared by his rivals to be unsurpassed in his pro
fession. The late James Lindsey, partner of that
eminent typefounder, David Bruce, said to the
writer of these lines: "As a rival typefounder I
don’t like to saylt/bdt Jim Conner is the best type
founder I ©ver knew, ”
Mr. Conner was a man who did good by stealth.
On the very day he died he heard of a poor negro,
whom he had been acquainted with, having died in
the poor house. He gave money to a friend and
said, "Don’t let him be buried in Potter’s field.”
We could tell hundreds of cases of his benevolence
which we have‘learned of him, but not from him.
We believe he died without an enemy, not through
any lack of .posltiveness on his part when a princi
ple was at stake, but because of his uprightness,
and genuine goodness of heart. He was an honest,
manly man all the way through. His death will
bring sorrow to many a heart, and distress to those
whom he has fed and clothed—they not knowing
the source of the benefaction. He fought the good
fight of iftfe loyally, and his friends can well say,
"Hall ! And farewell.”
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V> Evenings at 8. Matinee Saturday at 3
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“SUCCESS GREATER THAN EVER »
THE SABSiIJG COMIC OPEjJA,
• 2 it m: i iy i e .
“ Received with Roars of Laughter.”
ROOF garden promenade concert after opera
Admission 5.0 c., Includin'g Both Entertainments.
A WONDROUS SUMMERNIGHT’S AT
_£l TRACTION.
reatest Success ot Modern Times.
dr T a h ma“nl“ST h : Pe<:UclUar - his,Mi » 4l aßd Siblical
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Every even ug at 8;30 ( excep t Sunday).
*• rATRONS HOME BY 10.
Under the personal direction of IMRE KIRALFY.
No performance in stormy weather.
CHARMING EXCURSIONS WITHOUT OVERCROWDING
Palatial three decked steamers GR’aND REPUBLIC
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Staten Island Ferry boats every 15 minutes,, from the
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Steamer CANONICUS, from 31st., st., E. R., 6:45; Kent
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Admission, 50 cts. Grand Stand. 25 cts. extra. Boxes,
$6. Tickets at the gates and at Brentano’s, No. 5 Union
• square. An elegant restaurant on the grounds.
Tony pastor’s theatre.
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" GRAND SUMMERNIGHT’S FESTIVAL
AND CONCERT OF
EDWIN I>. MORSAN POST, (
No. 307. Department of New York, G. A R.,
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1887. at 7 P. M.,
At the LEXINGTON AVENUE OPERA HOUSE AND .
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TICKETS, FIFTY CENTS.
Can be obtained from any member of the Post or at the
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MADISON SQUARE THEATRE. 8:30.
Mr. A. M. PALMER Sole Manager
Air. RICHARD MANSFIELD
in his new sketch, MONSIEUR.
An instant success. Cooled by iced air.
WALLACK’S. B’way and 30th st.
Terns erature controlled by Cooling Machines.
MCCAULL OPERA COMPANY.
LAST WEEK I MONDAY, JULY 25,
of Millocker’s Opera, the
INDIANA. | BEGGAR STUDENT.
Admission, 50 cents. Matinee Saturday, at 2
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ALHAMBRA COURT AND MUSIC HALL,
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