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THE BROOKLYN DAILY NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1012. MISCELLANEOUS. MISCELLANEOUS. MISCELLANEOUS. DEPUTY FIRE CHIEF TRUST GO.

PRESIDENT SAWED OUT OF VAULT NATIONAL OF HARTFORD trying one. He was found pinned down by the body of a dead man. Sheehan lapsed Into unconsciousness soon after he was taken out. Before be did be gasped the information that the dead man was William Cantlo, the head captain. Then he fainted.

The fire had been burning long when word spread that three men were reported alive in the vaults of the Mer The same care that is given to filling oculists' cantile Safe Deposit Company. The lire- OF EQUITABLE BLAZE men at once set to work to batter down the heavy steel doors. The falling stone Delaware of PaJ People's National California Concordia German, Pa. Mechanics Traders and block had so warped them that they could not be unlocked. The firemen were hammering energetically at the doors, the William Giblin of Mercantile William Walsh, Brooklyn Man, prescriptions accurately is evident in our selection of stock.

From the smallest opera glass to the greatest telescope, none but the best is offered. Trust Faced an Awful Death in a Cage of Believed to Have Perished in Vaults of Mercantile Lock Deposit Co. LOCKVOOD 134 Broadway, Brooklyn Manager Steel. blows resounding in the street, when a part of the stone coping at the coiner of Broadway and Cedar street fell. The firemen had a narrow escape.

A warning was shouted and they dropped their tools and fled. After the stone had fallen, the firemen returned and grimly resumed their task. It was then reported that the figure of a dead man could be seen within. He appeared to be about 55 years of age. He had a brown mustache and wore a large diamond ring.

Ambulance Surgeons Do Good Work as Rescuers. The rescues were not confined to the firemen. The ambulance surgeons also took a hand in it. Dr. Girdansky of Gouverneur Hospital saw an attache of the Safe Deposit Company, caught a fleeting glimpse of him.

staggering about in the Safe Deposit Comnanv's nlace. THE BRIDGE which we use exclusively, eliminates plates and admits of the production of artificial teeth so natural, beautiful and faultless that your most intimate friends cannot tell them from the teeth grown by Nature, These teeth are firm and strong do not interfere with your speech. But best of all, they permit perfect mastication of food with the same delight that real give. Teeth painlessly extracted and new set ready to wear inside of six hours. Fall Srt of Trrfh ioll t'rotvnN, (old rillinux $1.

Oil ill, Ktlcr KillluKH up New York Dental Parlors, 446 Fulton Street, Over Acker, Trail t'ondlt. Corner Iloyt Street, Brooklyn OPTICIAN TELLS A THRILLING STORY. SEARCHED FOR BY COMRADES, BROOKLYN 25S Livingston St. (Cor. Bond St.) New York Office 100 WILLIAM ST.

Brooklyn Office 152 MONTAGUE ST. I 104 East 23d St MANHATTAN i 125 West 42d St Entered Vault to Get Valuable Pa 650 Madison Ave Minneapolis St. Paul Tendon" Paris Taking a rubber coat and a helmet from But No Trace of Brave Head of Second Division Could Be Found Those With Him Escaped. pers Night Watchman Who Was With Him May Have Perished. NEWS BRIEFS So many rescues were made within so OVER THE OLD BRIDGE cupants of the building, which, it now is declared, was never properly protected against fire.

It was tortunaie, the firemen say, that the fire occurred at night, and when Deputy Chief William Walsh of the Second Division, who lived in Brooklyn and was a Roll of Merit man, was said, at a late hour, to have perished In the Equitable Building fire. Walsh was at short a time and there were so ma ay separate acts of bravery In connection with this morning's fire In the Equitable Building, that It was impossible to fb' npnulH in ihe hllllding. I Th were "m.cn" and fire ex- 5 flrst parted rescued, but after careful follow them all in detail. The Brooklyn men Bhared the honors with the Manhattan firemen in pulling men from what seemed certain death. Time and again Secretaries, heads of departments and other officers of the Young Men's Christian Association, representing all the Brooklyn branches, met at 11:30 o'clock this morning at the Eastern District Y.

M. C- 179 Marey avenue, to confer on the "Men and Religion Forward Movement," and to discuss the part the Young Men's Christian Association Is to take in the work. Herbert B. Brush, executive secretary of the Brooklyn committee, was the principal speaker. Ministers of the First and Eighth districts of Brooklyn will hold dinners tonight at the Hotel St.

George to discuss plans for conducting the movement in their churches. Both gatherings will be addressed by Mr. Brush, who will then go uptown to speak at special services held at the Forest Park Reformed Church, Woodhaven, and the Irving Square Presbyterian Church, Welrfleld street and Hamburg avenue. Supreme Court Justice Kelly today ordered a postponement for thirty days of the annual election of officers of the Third Assembly District Democratic Club at 314 Clinton street, of which Election Commissioner James Kane is the execu- Eleven Engines and Three Water Towers Make Record Run to the Fire in Manhattan. individual firemen or entire companies struggled into the flaming building and a fireman, he ran Into the place and a few seconds later came out with an employe, who gave his.

name as Sheehan. He was taken to the Trinity Building, where he said there was another man still imprisoned in that part of the structure he had been taken from. Other Victims Seen in the Vaults. The doors had not yet given way when the firemen declared that they could see another man In the vaults. He was lying beyond the steel partition in a spot where they could not get to him.

Nevertheless they tried to save this man-Peering in through the bars they could see that he was unconscious. He seemed to be dying. The firemen performed an almost impossible task in cutting through the iron bars and forcing the heavy iron door of the vault. They worked in relays and all the time under the constant risk) of death or injury from falling debris. When the flames were raging their fiercest In the basement of the building the figure of a man- appeared at a win-dow'ln the basement at Cedar street and Broadway.

For a moment he hesitated and then sprang through the sheet of flames. He was dressed only in an undershirt and white duck trousers and was barefooted. He landed safely on the street aud fell forward on his hands. In a minute he regained his feet and ran across the street to the Columbia Trust Company Building, where he was attended by an ambulance surgeon from Gouverneur Hospital. As he lapsed Into unconsciousness he gasped the name "Peterson." It is believed that he will dio.

Firemen made a heroic attempt to Bave three men who jumped from the roof into Cedar street. A crew with scaling ladders, when the men were cut off, scaled the side of the building and got as far when it seemed that they would never reappear they emerged with someone un investigation It was announced that all efforts to reach him had, been fruitless, and he probably has perished. Walsh's home is 1170 Forty-second street, Brooklyn. He had been a fireman since 1892, and on a number of occasions lie had distinguished himself by his bravery in the face of great odds. Two hours after Walsh entered the burning building a blackened fireman, suffering from cold and burns, was half-carried Into the street.

Fireman Larkln of Engine Company No. 20 managed to saw through one of the bars of the Mer- conscious or injured. The scenes which with a despairing cry, he was seen to run on to the next window and following that to successive windows on the same floor. There was no chance of a rescue and the Brooklyn men were obliged to watch helplessly. Tho flames were shooting out across Nassau street from the lower blistering the buildings opposite, and sweeping upward to their top corners.

It seemed only a few moments before the man, trapped on the seventh floor, would leap from tho dizzy height or be engulfed in the furnace. The call from Manhattan was received at the Jay street Are headquarters at 7:60 o'clock. Five alarms had summoned all the engines within the zone of the Are in Manhattan, but more help was needed, and the "borough" call was sounded. It was sent from box No. 24, Manhattan, and transmitted through Box No.

3a in Brooklyn. The call was given to the Manhattan headquarters as "seven-seven," the signal for help from Brooklyn and QueenB, and the "three-three," or third nlarm sent with it. Nine of the eleven Brooklyn engine companies, four truck companies and a water tower on call for a third alarm from Box No. '39 in Brooklyn responded, and went across the bridge. The engines which responded were Nos.

103, 104, 108, 106, 107, 108, 124, 126 and 156. The truck compauits were Nos. 53, 60, 68 and 69 and water tower No. 6. Deputy Chief Lally and four battalion chief were in charge of the borough brigade.

Although this was the first time a general call for help has been sent to Brooklyn by the Manhattan department, the borough department haB been called upon several times to send individu.il companies for special work with the Manhattan department. About a year ago Brooklyn also sent a call for aid -to the Manhattan department during a fire on the Manhattan This was Uue, however, to the fact that the borough firemen were unable to get at the Are from the Brooklyn side, and the Manhattan department was asked to send engines to check the course of the flames toward Manhattan as they were being driven back from the Brooklyn end ot the bridge. 1 took place at the Hotel Windsor and the Hotel Royal fire were re-enacted this In the annals of the Brooklyn Fire Department the Btory of the spectacular morning. One of the most thrilling rescues of the day waB that of William Glbliu. dash of the Brooklyn brigade over the eld bridge and into lower Broadway, to the Kquitable Building blaze, in Manhat president of the Mercantile TruBt Com pany.

Air. uiDiin was imprisoned In a deposit company and the Uve member. The election was scheduled severed length of steel was pulled aside for this evening at the clubhouse, and with ropes. It was at first thought that 'a stay was asked for by John J. Cleary, the rescued man was Walsh It nroveilia director of the club, and leader of the tan, will live long.

It was the flrst time in the history of Brooklyn that it has safe deposit vault. To get him out the V.nn Jnvalnnii ocratrtat against firemen, working in terrific heat, were opposition that has developed LU ue ot the handful of men who went with him, and who escaped only after facing great peril. obliged with infinite toil, to saw through the Iron bars of the vault. While thy Michael J. Cummings, who is a candidate for re-election as president of the club for the fifteenth consecutive time.

labored they kept shouting words of en perts say that this is dangerous to large buildings. The stairways should be enclosed, so that in the event of the structure being fire-swept there would be chance for the inmates to get out without being scorched. If the building was unsafe from the standpoint of the firemen it was sturdy of construction, and even when the flames were at their hottest there seemed to be no Indication that the thick stone wells, reinforced ou the inside with brick, would give way. Some of the heavy stones in the coping fell, as has beer, stated, but the lower walls were not even chipped by the intense heat, and the firemen, when daylight came and they could see what they were doing, worked without fear or hesitation. The streets were sluiceways of water, which became suowy and slushy under the freezing temperature, and in parts of Broadway where It flower away the pavements were sheeted with Ice.

This made the work of the firemen dangerous. The ladders were ice-coated, the hose was heavy with the icy sheeting, and the spray froze into now as it fell on the men. Full Force of Men Kept on Duty Until Noon. The full force of the firemen were kept on the ground until noon. This included the details from Brooklyn, but at noon the Brooklyn men were sent back to quarters, for at that hour the fire was subdued to such an extent that there was no further danger of its spread.

The fight of the department men had been to prevent the flames reaching other buildings, and this fight was won. At 1 o'clock the building resembled a pit. a subsiding crateer, with spasmodic outburst that were not either menacing or in themselves dangerous. The fact that there were bodies In the ruins was the saddening feature, but on this point, there was little, known as a matter of fact. According to Gus Petersen and Lee Delt, who were employed in are watchmen still "hiissing, sfx night laen and two day men.

Their Jiamds could not be' learned At the cene bf the fire. An employe of the Trinity Building, nearby, declared this after Truck No. 61 the First at the Fire, The Rev. Nelson R. Boss, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, Schenck ave- been called upon to lend its aid to the Manhattan department In fighting a fire.

Only once before was "borough" call rung that being at the Vernon Blank Book Company Are, on the morning of December 23. On that occasion the "seven-seven" alarm was sent from Brooklyn, and twelve engine companies, four truck companies and a water tower from Manhattan responded and aided the couragement to the caged man. Mr. Glb-Hn was taken out breathing but appar Truck No. 61 was the first company to i nue.

East New York, the prominent reach the fire. Chief Walsh, Captain church of the Twenty-sixth Ward, is ently seriously hurt. as the fourth floor, when the men jumped. The three men, their forms outlined against the glare of the flames, were i seen to kneel and pray, and then as the FIRES IN AND AROUND NEW YORK WITH GREAT LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY Fire Commissioner Johnson Discovers. Imperiled Trust Company Head.

It was Fire Commissioner Johnson who discovered Glblln's peril. He was pass-, tug along the line of his men when he caught sight of a white face pressed close against the bars in the vault of tho Mercantile Safe Deposit Company, which is at the corner of Cedar street and ONE OF MANY WATER TOWERS DISABLED BY FROZEN WATER. FIRE CHIEF LALLY'S VIEW SIMILAR TO CROKER'S. 'The result of the Equitable building fire only justifies the opinion held by firemen for twenty years," said. Deputy Chief Lally, who was in charge of the Brooklyn brigade at the Are, when he returned to his office at; lire headquar.

ters at noon today. "It has been the1 belief of those who make tire flghtlirj their business that the Equitable build; December HI. I.s.'in Fire destroyed i29 stores and 41 other buildings, south of Wull street, New York. '-') insurance com-Itauies. with a total eapiializutiiui of more than 12,000,000.

December llrooklyu Theater fire, in which -SJ5 persons perished. October L'T. Destruction of Ansoiiia clock factory at Gowimus; loss. $1,000,000. i May 111.

-Talinane Tabernacle, Clinton avenue, destroyed. March 17, IS'J!) Windsor Hotel lire, Manhattan r0 lives lost. 11100 North German dock lire, Hoboken 250 lives lost; November lW-i Brooklyn Academy of Music, destroyed. 11. of the General Sloeum 1.2H lives lost.

August 7, 1 WoDelaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad terminals, lloboken; loss, January 11, lOOIS I'arker Building. Nineteenth street and Fourth avenue. Manhattan; lives lost aud $2.0410.000 damage. July 28, 1IHI7 Park, Coney Island, destroyed; loss, $1,000,000. l-'ebrtiary 28.

UK'S New York City Hailway Company car barns, Ninety-sixth street and Second avenue; loss more than If 1,000,000. 23. 101 1 Triangle Shirtwaist Company, Asch Huilding, 23 Washington place. Manhattan; 147 lives lost. April 14, liill I'olo Grounds, Manhattan, partially destroyed; loss, noon that there were six persons on the i roof of the Equitable when the three I rere seen there by the other- people in the street.

But the full list of fatalities could not be secured at a late hour this afternoon, for no general roundup of the men who had been in the building could then be made. IRE MARSHAL INVESTIGATES. Broadway. The man could be plainly seen from the street. He was unable to move his legs; they were pinned down by a mass of debris wliicta ajl aHeq, frpm above.

In low tones he ttllejlt ior hafp, and held out his hands piteously to th3 With, axes ana bafajthe (firemen savagely attacked the h'eavy stel doors in the effort to get to Glblln. While they were doing this the Rev. Father McGeaa, one of the chaplains of the Fire Department, took up his station In the Btreet, close to the Iron cage, and administered the last rites of the church to the prisoner. Some time after Commissioner Johnson's discovery, word went about that the Imprisoned man was Mr. Giblin; that he had arrived at the building after the fire had gained headway and had gone in with the purpose of taking some books and papers from the place.

Firemen Saw Through Two-Inch Steel Bars to Beach Man. A number of firemen took part in the rescue of Giblin. They were obliged to saw through a barrier of steel bars two inches thick. There were eight of these bars which had to be severed. Before they were reached the firemen backed and rammed from Us, hinges one of the ponderous doors of the safe deposit vault.

Then they attacked the bars. It was a long time before they reached Giblin ages it seemed to the nervous crowd in the street but at length there was a great cheer as several firemen were seen, bearing between them a semi-conscious figure. It -was Giblin. He was carried across to an office building, where several surgeons set to work to restore him. There some doubt as to whether he wouU''live and word was sent to his home' In the Chatswood Hotel, at Seven-tyy-Second1 street and Riverside drive.

The Trinity Building was the one into which Mr. Giblin was carried. There he was laid down in the boiler room and The Fire Marshal was at the scene of the tire early and was investigating a ru May 27. Hill Dreamland. Coney Island; loss, $3,000,000.

mor to the effect that the chief engineer tne building had resented outside Do-ember 22. 101 1 Vernon Bookbinding Company; loss, iviLii-iiif. lurie wua aiso a rumor current, which he was investigating, that the Cafe Savarin had been bankrupt. The llamrs started on the cafe side of Die structure. ing would meet its fate in just this way if a big Are ever started there.

"it was undoubtedly the most difficult Are to fight that has occurred In New York or Brooklyn in the past ten years. The Vernon blank book factory Are was a fiercer blaze, but the Equitable building Are was a stubborn one. That was due entirely to the construction of the building. The building had but one set of stairways, and all of these led from the central rotunda, where the elevator shafts were also located. When the Are went through the elevator shafts.

It struck the Btairways at the same time, and made it impossible for (he firemen to gat to the upper part of the building after the flames had gained headway. For that reason we were compelled to fight the flames from the outside. If men could have gotten into the buildlus' while the fire was raging we could have made greater progress. "Even under the difficulties we did face, men took their lives in their handi by climbing up the elevator cables to gain access to the upper floors, but had to retreat before every means of escape was cut off. "The Brooklyn men did great credit for this branch of the department.

They iaced dangers and endured the hardship without flinching. We have cause for great thanks that none of our men were even injured. "It was entirely an interior Are. 'At no time did the heat become unbearable on the street outside of the building, as usually happens at big Ares. There wen? tons of paper records in the upper floor of the building and in my belief it whs due to that that the Are gained such great headway and got beyond control.

The men were unable to get near cnougii to the burning mass of paper and that formed a center of flame which could not be extinguished." corner of the building on which they were Bass of the truck company and Fireman Joseph Brown, who got Captain Bass out, entered the building. As Brown told the story the three men 'made their way to the third floor and entered a room in front. The chief was several yards in advance of the others. Suddenly the floor cracked and gave. Brown shouted a warning.

He was partly in the hall at the time. Seizing Captain Bass, who was badly hurt by the fall of a stone arch. Btandlng fell, they jumped to the street. The firemen on the scaling ladders then made their way back to the street with difficulty. Two men were rescued from the base ment of the building, under the Mercan tile Safe Deposit Company, when the side walk in front of the place caved in.

The men were Frank Beck and Gus Peterson, both porters in the safe deposit company. Both were Injured and were removed to the Hudson Street They said that there were Others in the basement, and the firemen are looking for them. very 111 at his residence, at 29 Schenck avenue. He is under the care of two physicians. Dr.

Sayboldt, the family doe-tor, and Dr. Funs, the specialist. Mr. Boss' complaint Is diagnosed as gastric ulceration. He has been so very weak that he fainted at times and is now iu just the slightest sort of improved condition.

His physicians have commanded that he shall have absolute rest. He will go away and recuperate if his strength permits. Although very weak, Mr. Boss Insists that he must get to church and preach, and he is hoping to fill his pulpit every recurring Sunday. At one time he was so low that fears were entertained for his recovery.

Dock Commissioner Calvin Tomkimv in a supplemental report to Mayor Gaynor regarding the development ot the South Brooklyn waterfront, outlines a plan to carry out the commercial side ot it. Mr. Tomklns suggests the formation ot a quasi-publi-j corporation to be known as a freight terminal company which will probably consist of the Bush Terminal Company, the New York Dock Company aud tbJ various Erie Basin enterprises. At the annual meeting of the Flushing Business Men's Association last night George W. Pope was re-elected president over A.

C. Sluiter. This will be the eieht- TRANSFER TAX VALID. he led him back toward the street. Then Brown returned tor the chief.

All whs silent on the third floor as Brown got back there. The spot where the chief had stood was littered with debris aud smoke arose from it In billowing clou Is. Brown cried out several times, but heard nothing except the crackling of burning wood and the fall of dislodged stone. After culling out many times with a like result, he retreated lo the street and reported that he believed Walsh had died. There were other men working on the same floor with Brown, Buss and Walsh.

When thj stone and brick crashed down thev fuught their way to a window from W. E. ATKINS DIES IN TAXICAB -EQUITABLE'S REAL LOSS SLIGHT TARBELL SAYS. According to Cage F. Tarbell, one of he directors of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, the destruction of the iiome office of the society will cause comparatively little loss.

The loss, according to Mr. Tarbell, will not exceed between $00,000 and $250,000, sustained through the destruction of office, furniture, fixtures, plus the cost ot clcrl-eal hire, which will be necessary to copy from duplicate records now Intact in the -Hazen Building those records which were destroyed by fire in the home office building. The complete destruction of the old litiflding at 120 Broadway in reality (auses practically no loss to the society, except for the destruction of furniture and cost of clerical hire, ere. Owing to tne immense value of the land on which the old building stood, the parcel of land is- worth about more to the with. the building off than it was with the old structure intact, because it would cost almost that, sum to raze it, --Tile society arried no insurance on lie property with any insurance companies, but whatever loss that may have been incurred will be cared for by a contingency fund which has been in existence for many years past for just such purposes.

Instead of insuring in the ordinary way, the society set aside annually a sum of money us a contingency fund, and in tliia way the society has been carrying its own insuraii. PRESIDENT DAY ISSUES STATEMENT FOR EQUITABLE. "President W. A. Day of the Equitable Life Assurance Society has issued the following statement: The turning of the home office building at 120 Broadway will cause but I temporary inconvenience in I lie transac- iion of our business.

The securities and I made as comfortable as possible. Ambulance surgeons from the New York and Hudson Street hospitals, and Dr. Archer of the Fire Department, did what they could for him. Later on Mr. Giblin had so far recovered that he was able to make a statement.

He said: Banker Tells Thrilling Story. "I waB sitting up with my wife, last night. She had been very ill. An employe of the Hotel Breslin came to me and told me that the trust company was on fire. I at once left.

When I reached the building there were as yet no flames to be seen, but great clouds of smoke were pouring forth from the lower floors. My first thought was of the valuable papers in the vaults, and I hurried in to get them. One of the night watchmen followed. I don't know who he was. The vault has a spring lock.

I left my keys outside. We got the papers together and turned to leavo. But the door swung eenth year that Mr. Pope has been at the Estate of Mrs. Keeney of Brooklyn Figured in Test Case.

Washington, January 9 Advocates of the taxation of inheritance won a long fight today in the Supreme Court, when that tribunal decided that the New York "Transfer Tax on a life interest, retained in property transferred during life, was constitutional. The constitutionality of the law arose over the taxation of a portion ot the estate of Mrs. Susan A. Keeney of Brooklyn. The suit grew out of the voluutary trust established by Mrs.

Keeney duriug her lifetime. The income was to go to Mrs. Keeney during her lifetime and upon her death the fund was to be divided into thirds, one of which was to go to a relative iu Brooklyn and the other two-thirds to relatives iu Cermany and in The contention was that the State could head of the association. He won last night by a big majority. Mr.

Sluiter was elected vice president, Leon S. Caso secretary and D. H. Van Do Water treasurer. Mr.

Van De Water will also serve his eighteenth term in that office. The plan of Postmaster Voorhles to extend the Postal Savings Bank system in Brooklyn so as to eventually take in all the carrier stations continues to meet with the approval of Postmaster General Hitchcock. Mr. Voorhies today received word from Washington that the Postmaster General approves the postmaster's recent recommendation to include Stations C. G.

which they were rescued by means of a life line thrown to them by firemen who made their way to a window on another floor. They did not know that the chief was not among the rescued until they had all gained the street. Men of Chiefs Command Search in Vain for Him. As soon as it became noised about that the chief was missing a number of volunteers stepped forward and clamored for a rhance to go back and look for him. A searching party was told off and they started to work from Cedar street to Broadway.

The little squad just escaped biing wiped out by a mass of debris which fell at their very feet. Under cover of the water several firemen started to tear off the iron bars of the windows on the ground floor. While William E. Atkins, who closed on December 1 his twenty-fifth year as treasurer of the Marcy Avenue Baptist Church, of which the Rev. Dr.

W. C. V. Rhoades Is pastor, died in a taxicab last night. He had been to a dinner of the Marine Society in Manhattan with the secretary, Mr.

Tucker. Mr. Atkins" wife, who was prominent in the Marcy Avenue Church and in mission work, died June 17, 1910. They joined the church together January 2, 1874. Tho body of Mr.

At- kins was taken to his home at '313 Jefferson avenue this morning. Mr. Atkins was 70 years old and had been for thirty years in business with Mr. Durbrow in Manhattan. The funeral services will be held in the Marey Avenue Church tomorrow night.

The Rev. Dr. Rhoades will officiate. BODY IN" THE DEBRIS. The body of a man was dug out from under a lot of debris in Cedar Btreet, Manhattan, this afternoon.

The man hud been cut about the head and face and was frozen stiff. It was removed to St. Gregory's Hospital in Gold street, where he was pronounced dead. From cards found in the pockets it is tit lieved that he was Massini Frattl, prob Brooklyn firemen in battling with the bcok company flames. When the great pillar of flame assumed its most ominous proportions, and fears were felt that it would leap beyond the lines wherein the firemen were striving bard to hold it, a fifth alarm was rung in.

This was accompanied by special calls. Every engine company which could be spared from the Manhattan precincts was on the ground, but more were needed, so Brooklyn was asked to send what it could. Eleven Engines end Three Water Towers in Spectacular Dash Across Bridge. In response to the summons, Deputy Chief Lally, in command of the borough department, got under way with eleven engines and three water towers. Word was sent on ahead, so that the apparatus might have a clear road in its run across.

Some sharp telephoning was done and the police on the Brooklyn Bridge hustled to get the north roadway clear ot traffic. The trucks which dotted that side of the structure were hurried off and no more allowed to follow. Half of the trolley cars were also switched off on the Brooklyn side so that the roadway was open and no obstacle was in the path of the apparatus. Down Fulton street raced the fourteen companies and out upon tho bridge they clattered with a grea't crowd watching and cheering their progress. The structure swayed and trembled somewhat beneath the rush, but every engl'ie and water tower reached Manhattan without mishap and the crowds stared in wonder at the unusual sight of the Brooklyn chief and a good part of his force dashing down Broadway.

The Brooklyn men got into action very swiftly without a momeut's loss of time. They were assigned to the task of trying to Bave the building at Cedar and Nassau streets, occupied on the ground floor by W. A. Read bankers. The structure was In the space formed by the of the Equitable Building.

Chief Lally aud His Forces Did Effective Work. Chief Lally didn't need to be told where to station his companies once he got the word which angle of the Are to attack. Within a very few secondB the nose was attached to hydrants and three or four lines siamesed into each water tvwer. The manner in which Brooklyn then got into the Aght greatly heartened the Manhattan men. Twenty-one streams were directed against the Nassau street tide.

In the first stages of the batllo th-wind interfered considerably with the Brooklyn men. It blew back the streams so that a good deal of the effect was lost because little of the water reached the building. Just as the Brooklyn apparatus rolled around Into Nassau street the figurfi of a man. as yet unidentified, was soon outlined at a wlndolv on the floor of thc burning building Jifst below the top. Tho man stood silhouetted in window bict.

an Inetast Tiie.i and in the Federal banking system. Mr. Voorhies announces accordingly that banks will be established at these sta tions on February J. Station Is at Fifth avenue. Station Is at Slit) Manhattan avenue.

Station is at 1262-I2t4 Broadwav. Sta snut ana we were imprisoned. "I will never forget that experience. The smoke was awful. I could not get1 my breath.

Both of us were In agony. To think of being burned alive In that trap was terrible beyond description. When the smoke would let us we screamed and shouted, but it seemed as if we were both doomed. I don't know what became of the other poor fellow. He screamed with me, but at length his cries were silenced.

"Up to half an hour ago the other man was alive. Just, before the flre-ncn reached hi he fainted, and now, 1 guess, he is dead." Mr. Giblin was then placed in aTi ambulance and taken to the Hudson Street Hospital. He was very weak, but the surgeons thought that he was in no immediate danger. I'iremen Prove Themselves Heroes.

Firemen Brown and Smith of Hook and Ladder Company No. 1 were two of the many who distinguished them not lax the inheritances when they came from a voluntary trust established during the lifetime of the person so establishing it. Judge Cullen of the Court of Appeals decided that the State could impose a tax, and this decision has been affirmed by the United States Supremo Court, as above stated In. a Washington dispatch. H0TCHK1SS LEAVES ALBANY tion is at Broadway and South Ninth street.

The annual meeting of the Park Slope they were at it several tons ot deDris cascaded down from the upper part of the structure and the watchers in the street saw the firemen, through the smoke, fighting to get clear of the mass. Some were injured and others went to "their aid. One effort after another was made to reach Walsh, but they were all fruitless. Nothing was left undone to locate him. Walsh was appointed to the Fire Department on May 1.

1 S2. On August 10, 1SM5, he was made an engineer, and on July II. was promoted to assistant foreman. He became a foreman Decem ungrcgauonai i nurcn. cigntn avenue and Second street, was held last evening.

ably a porter. In spite of the very inclement weather It also was reported during tne afternoon that Conrad Siebert, another por- ter, was missing and probably dead. the attendance was large. The pastor, the Rev. Dr.

Robert W. Laughiin, presided. The reports presented bv the records are protected by fireproof vaults, which are intact. Most of the office force and records were removed tome, time ago to the society's new building in Albany street. Ti'ie executive offices of the society and 'tile cashiers department have been established in the City Investment Build-ipg, Broadway.

The society will occupy the second, third and fourth floors of that building. This will, for the time being, be the homo office of the society, where all -business with the public will be transacted, the receipt of premium payments. trustees and officers of other organiza- ber 17, 1903. and a chief on 10, toil (Special to The Eagle.) Albany, January 9 State Superintendent of Insurance Hotchklss left Albany for New York this afternoon to take per INDEX He was born in New York City on Octo- tions In the church showed that the year had been one of unusual progress. The treasurer, Edward W.

Dufft. reported To Classified Advertisements in Today's Eagle. selves oy rescues at, great personal risk. They were in the forefront of a squad of fifty firemen who worked for two hours on the ground floor. Then thev managed to force an entrance and carried to the street William Sheehan, a special night watchman, who had been locked in the building all night.

Sheehan'B position was a particularly Classification. Amusements ber 29. 18ti7. On two occasions his name was placed on the roll of merit. A 82,000 BLAZE.

An early morning fire at 1281 Thirty-ninth street today turned two families out into the icy streets and did damage to the extent of The fire, start that had been paid during the year on the church debt, in addition to this had been received for church maintenance. The Income had more than equaled the outgo, leaving a bnlanci with which to begin the new year. The pew rentals showed a large Increase, the largest in the history of the church. sonal 'charge of his entire staff which has been offered to the Equitable Life Insurance Company to help the company's staff out of its trouble. The State Superintendent is informed that the entire actuarial department of the company was destroyed In the lire.

Ho says that this cannot easily be replaced, but the State Department will assist in reconstructing AUGUST BELMONT HELD UP ON HIS WAY TO HIS OFFICE. ing frnm Rome unknown cause. hrnk nut I Following the reports came the eleo- in the liquor store of Samuel Landau on I Hon of officers I nree trustees were Classification. I'ae. Hotels Instruction 11) L-gal Notices.

7.1-19-1) Ixist oinl Kouwl '4 Minn. Afnunements. i well aneou L'-i-" Musical Instruction tVeun fcteanmhipa I'atrnts lit Ttailrouils It. K. at Auction 1i Sits Wanted 1S KpeciHl Ad vis -A Special Notices lit htcamboats 1'' Storage.

1 1 To J-et-For Snip 1S-10 Travel Wanted 18 the first floor at 3 a.m. It rapidly spread elected for a term of three years find Ail'-twn Sales -4 XotU'es -0 iJoaniiiiu JH Hui-'iness 4 HusmrsH CoJist lw Stemn- whips -0 orp Not, 1-liO-Jt--4 iH'Hth Notic.cH 1M OoiitlNtry 11 I-'icctinn Kumpcftn Hesorfs. Kinnnclal 2j--- lOxchunge Kur. KnoiiiH tit'lp Wanted JN Horses, CarriaKes, kmc. vi WN'T OPERATE FOR PILES Don't undergo an operation.

DpeVHtions ire rarely a and ofteii lead to Icrrllile consequences, Pyramid Pile Jemedy reduces nil inflammation, makes 'oncstioTi, irritation, itching, sores and ilcers disappear and the piles simply ouit. August B'-'lmont, the banker and traction magnate, appeared on the scene about 9 o'clock and tried to go into his 81ce at the' corner of Cedar and Nassau streets, which is in the corner of the formed by the Equitable Building, vie bad gotten' half way across the street wher a policem.in pushed him back. He ied to explain; but the- policeman would r.nl p-'inVt him tu pass. In addition, the superintendent was in- formed by his subordinates over the long- i distance telephone from New York that ail the policyholders original appliea- tions for insurance were destroyed. In the opinion of life Insurance men.

this is abeolutely irreparable in tlSi'. du- i pertinent nf tile company, 1 iu inu nv.ui, ui i uy rianjjwere: i neooore u. nomas. George Pepper and family, and then to the third Harrison and Howard O. Lente.

Two dVa-floor of the three-story brick dwelling, con3 were elected for a term of three where Max Rubin and bis family were years, and were: H. P. Smith and H. P. Sears.

Three members of the Firemen aroused them and got them committee were elected far one year, and out safety. The building, owned byjw.re: John A. Tnndv (). H. Ahels-Guld It' ally was in-I and F.

H. Martin. A'sh 'aj cl.rk'ftir oti" ye.ir. George E. V.Vsaor.

For sale at all drug: stores a cents i ifn.vnu want to try it firsi, pend Vir freft trial package to the I'vraniid -hint- 418 PvrHiriiil Xfa'rVliatt..

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