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NUMBER 7305. PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING. SEPTKMBER 25, PAGES. ONE CENT. i street, was packed with imports.

The I was hurt and the services of the doctors and their assistants were not called into LOTS OF SPORT BRAVED DEATH requisition. firm's loss will be at least $200,000, which is covered by insurance, at least so far as the firm know. The firm consists losses on Front street are estimated as follows: Charles J. Webb Tacony Chemical Works, Isaac Reifsnyder Company, H. H.

W. Alterwood, $3,000. All are said to be fully insured. As usual in the case of a 6re in the business section of the city, the firemen MVS iioiise on SHOT BY A JEALOUS RIVAL A Yonsf Colored Has Dangerously Bart While Yisitjng His Sweetheart. Special Telegram to The Times.

Wilmington, September 24. Milton Boor, a young colored man, was shot and probably fatally wounded last night at Briderille. At the time of the tragedy he was visiting Caroline Cannon, also col were seriously hampered in their opera 1 TWO CHILD of Charles J. Webb, Harry E. Lincoln and William B.

Toland, and Mr. Webb, who was the only partner on the grounds last evening stated that the matter of in1 surance had always been left in the tions by the trolley and overhead electric light wires. It became necessary to cut ATGLOIXESTER The South Jersey Fair Opens With hands of their manager, J. S. Weldon, who was a careful man and who had un A Heroic Woman Dashes Through Flames to Save Them.

doubtedly protected the firm against loss NOW. FOR DURRANI'S DEFENSE The Prosecution Closet Its Case Yesterday with Several Important Witnesses. Sam Francisco, September 24. The case of the prosecution la the trial of Theodore Durrant closed this afternoon. To-day was spent In putting the finishing touches to the testimony against the accused.

The chief by fire. a Big Attendance. The burned building is owned by the ored. The couple were1 startled by the flash and report of a gun discharged through the open door. Boor fell at the feet of the woman with his body riddled with ahot.

More than fifty grains of shot were removed from his face, while his body contained such a number that It required nearly the entire day to remove them. It Is believed that a Jealous rival of Boor's did the shooting. Boor is dangerously ill. estate of John A. Brown, and is valued at upwards of $100,000.

Frederick Syl some of these wires between Fourth street and the river, and the Chestnut street cars were compelled to take a cutoff down Fourth street It was the overhead wires that the firemen blamed for the feeble and ineffectual service rendered by the water tower, which, up to the present time, has not justified the assertions of its capacity and utility made by those who advocated its purchase by the city. The tower, which arrived on the ground after the fire had been burning for nearly an hour, was wheeled to the end of Letitia street, directly opposite the bnrn- WERE NEARLY SUFFOCATED IN BED vester is the agent, but he could not be Four Calls for Help From a Burning Wool Warehouse. TWO BIG BUILDINGS WRECKED Firemen Face Death in Trying to Prevent an Explosion MANY PACES. BUT NO BETTING point which the prosecution sought to estab lish to-day was that Durrant had said that the last time he hnd seen Miss Larnont was found last evening, so it can only be supposed that the insurance covers the havoc wrought by the flames. The building.

118 Chestnut street was THE WILLIAMS' CREW RESCUED when he parted from her on the morning of April 3, she going to school, he to the Cooper Bookmakers Who Bought Concessions The Boom Was' Filled With Smoke and Flames Were Coming in the Window. Medical College. In all his statements re Got Their Money Back. Six Men and a Woman Reach an Island After Barely Managing to Save Their Lives. garding the disappearance of lflanohe La-moot the defendant stuck to the declaration.

considerably damaged by the fire and its contents were damaged to the extent of several thousand dollars by water. H. B. Hestor dealers in wool; Charles Nolan and James L. Morgan, who Dr.

Francis A. Vogel, a member of the ing Chestnut street building. It required about ten minutes to connect the hose FLYING SPARKS SPREAD THE BLAZE JftTT'iJVt Mmannel Church, stated Durrant had made A MIDWAY AND A BOARD-WALK Manistee, Septemler 24. The crew of the steamer R. It.

Williams, which foundered in Green Bay, were brought here to-day hy the yacht Osceola. They had been BADLY BURNED WHILE ESCAPING to htm, the Sunday after the disappearance, are interested in the wool and hair busi the same statement abont the last time he ness, had considerable stock damaged. thin and sickly stream came forth, which, found by the yacht on Btg Sumner Island, had seen Blanche. The prosecution expects to score a strong point by demonstrating to and together their loss will be at least where tbey had been for twenty-four hours An Entire Block on lower Chestnut The First Annual Fair of the South Jersey Agricultural Association Opens at Glouces without food or shelter. $30,000, which is amply covered by the Jury that the prisoner made false statements regarding his movements and the ter Under Favorable Auspices, But the Street in Danger of Destruction.

Before the Williams foundered, on Sunday night, between St. Martin's and Poverty Island, the crew of six men and one woman succeeded In leaving the schooner association with the girl he Is charged with Crowd Which Attends It Runs Up A(ainst having murdered. THE FIRE IN FRONT STREET William Stirling, a gas fitter, explained Some Disappointments No Betting Is Per- the work he performed In putting new tips id a yawi. mey lived out a temnie night and finally reached Big Sumner Island in safety. They were taken off the island this morning.

The creV lost everything. While Irantog ia a Shed In the Bear of 3071 Miller Street Yesterday Rose McNally left the Place for a Moment and When She Returned Was In Flames In Trying to Pat Ont the Fire She Was Burned by an Exploding Gasoline Stove The Flames Communicated With the Rouse, In the Second Story of Which Two Children Were In Bed Dashing Through the Fire She Rescued Them' Just as the Flames Burst Into the Room. THE LOSS WILL fiMOUNT TO $240,000 gradually increasing in volume, finally grew large enough to wash down the walls of the burning building and thoroughly soak the unfortunate firemen who were standing close to it, playing effective streams from the engines. After the trolley wires were cnt and the tower placed within a few feet of the fire it managed to pour a fair volume of water over the roof. But by this time the fire was nearly out and the service was too late to be effective.

The total loss will aggregate about on the gas burners. He said that on April mltted and the Old Gambling Bins; 1 Given Over to a Fruit Show Interesting 2, when he left the church, no gas was es caping. On April 4 he returned to the church and no escaping gas was noticed. HURLED FROM A WAGON Scenes and Incidents of the Day A Talk With Farmer Thompson Abont the Future of Gloucester The Races, Dr. C.

E. Barnnm. demonstrator of anat omy at ('ooper Medical College, testified One Woman Killed and Two Others Seriously mac tne moss piaeeu, nnaer tne oeau oouy of Blanche were laid In the same manner as Bart at a Railroad Crossing. Lono Branch, September 54. A wagon under a subject in a dissecting room.

$240,000, fully covered by insurance. Harry rafridee. a fellow-student of Dur- rant's, swore that about a week after How the fire started is a mystery. It will be investigated by the Fire Marshal Itlanche disappeared Pnrrant told him the containing five colored women and one colored man was struck by a special passenger train on the New Jersey Central Itoad at Fire of Unknown Origin Starts In the Basement of the 'Wool Warehouse of Charles J. Webb at 110 Chestnut Street, and Spreads Through the Block to 112 South Front Street, Which is Occupied hy a Chemical Factory In Fighting the Flames There Was Imminent Danger of an Explosion, Bnt the Firemen Managed to Confine the Conflagration to the Main Building Overhead Wires Greatly Impede Their Work.

gin oaa eitner met wnn xoui piay or aaa been led astray. and the firms concerned to-day. Little Silver at 2 o'clock this morning. Dancer Threatened by an Explosion of ChemicalsFiremen's Brave Efforts Three-quarters of an hour after the flames had been discovered in the Chestnut street place smoke was seen oozinf from cracks between the iron shutters and brick on the fourth floor of the Tacony Chemical Works building, 112 South Front street. The flames began their operations just below the roof and almost thirty feet above where the most dangerous of the chemicals were stored.

The building was inside the fire line, but great crowds were near enough to it to see the smoke that came forth ominously from the top floor, and which seemed the forerunner of a great explosion to nil who knew the dangerous contents of the lower floor. The report of the danger that threatened soon spread, and a hose was speedily directed to the place from which the dense smoke came. Th steady Among those In the vehicle were Mrs. Annie Bell, Miss Banks. Mrs.

Holmes and a cousin Professor Charles Shersrein and Organist George H. King each denied writing his name on a slip of newspaper enclosing Miss Lnmont's rings, which were returned to THE FIRE QUICKLY SPREADS of the latter. Four Alarms Turned In and the Flames Were Mrs. Bell was Instantly killed, and Miss Banks and Mrs. Holmes hnd thtir Early yesterday afternoon Mrs.

John Farley left her home, 3971 Miller Btreot, in charge of her neighbor, Rose McNally, 28 years old, who volunteered to finish her friend's ironing and also to take care of her 1-year-old baby, Gertie. Miss Mc-Xally brought with her a neice. Hose McLaughlin, and after depositing the children in bed on the second floor she returned to a small shed in the rear of the house and began ironing. There was a small oil stove in the shed for heating the irons, and as the young woman finished each piece of clothing she hnnc Mrs. Noble, aunt of the dead girl.

Allen Church, a former janitor of Emanuel Church, said Durrant had a key which would unlock alt rooms In the interior of the broken. The other women and the driver Hard to oubdua. As he wended his way up Second street escaped Injury. The horses were ground to church. pieces with the vehicle.

Mrs. Bell owned arge property interests at Bed Bank. shortly after 8 o'clock last evening Po The prosecution then rested and the defense asked continuation until to-morrow. liceman McGlone, of the Third district, Durrani's attorneys will ask a few' questions THE COOL WAVE TOT TO LAST saw smoke issuing from a building in the rear of the woolen warehouse of Charles or several witnesses wno nave aireauy testified, and promise thereafter to proceed with the defense immediately. The opening statement of the defense is J.

Webb 110 Chestnut street. The Westtaer Man Says That To-Day Will be it upon a line almost directly over it He turned in an alarm and almost the shed for a moment in re wanner ana To-Morrow Still Wanner. Local Forecaster Key holds forth but poor stream ot water had no effect, however, nwairen witn interest, uwing to tne rerusui of the Court to admit evidence of the medi-cnl students of Cooper CoHege relative to Durraut's attendance at the lecture on the afternoon of April 8, a number of witnesses sponse to a cry from Mrs. Farley's baby, she returned to find that the line had consolation to those who hoped that the and the smoke steadily increased in volume. So thick did it become as to al summoned to u-stirr were not called.

most overpower the firemen in their fallen down and that the light underwear was already a mass of flames that surged A fire which threatened the destruction of the entire block of buildings on the south side of Chestnut street, between Front and Second streets, all the buildings containing large stores of the most inflammable kinds of materials, broke out last evening in theNvocil warehouse of Charles Webb, 110 Chestnut street. Although the alarm was quickly turned in, followed in rapid succession by three other calls, and the men and engines of the Fire Bureau responded promptly, the flames spread with extraordinary rapidity, and in a few minutes a disastrous conflagration was in progress. Before the firemen could get down to work the entire building in which the fire originated was completely enveloped in flames. From the cellar to the roof it was a roaring furnace, and as the dry wool stored on each floor was ignited it gave renewed fury to the blaze and threw bright and dangerous sparks and blazing particles of wool high in the air, which, RECEIVERS RESIGN cooler weather of yesterday would be permanent. -The governmental dispenser of weather says that to-day will be warmer and to-morrow warmer still, but he promises that the beat will not be aa Intense as heretofore.

At 8 o'clock yesterday morning the thermometer stood at 65 degrees, with 53 per cent, of humidity, giving a sensible temperature, a fall of 15 degrees from the same time the day previous. Those In Charge of the northern Pacific Win Not immediately the fire broke out from all parts of the building, and a second and a third alarm followed the first. On the upper floors iron shutters held the flames in check, but at times they burst through this barrier and their smoky tongues showed themselves on the outside, threatening buildings containing hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of merchandise. Upon the arrival of the fire engines lines of hose were run up to the windows and then the full effect of the fire was felt. Laddormen with their axes broke open the iron shutters to make way for the streams of water, and then the flames belched forth and threatened to engulf be Subject to So Many Tribunals.

Milwaukee, September 24. Hepry efforts to put out the fire. After a few minutes delay truck was wheeled around the corner and a ladder was raised toward the iron-closed windows of the fourth floor. A Fireman's Brave Act. The -first man to climb the ladder, which was placed nearest to the northern window, was Truckman William Smith.

Axe in hand he went as rapidly as possible up the ladder, while his fellow firefighters busied themselves with other preparations, and the thousands of spectators, kept at bay by the police lined C. Payne, Thomas F. Oabes and H. Rouse, receivers of the Northern Pacific FARMER THOMPSON. Railroad, tendered their resignations to Judge Jenkins late this afternoon.

Judge Jenkins will take the matter under advise RESCUED FROM THE RIGGING Terrible Experience of the Crew oi the Lake Schooner Queen City After She Stranded. Cleveland. Ohio. Sentcmber 24. flant.ln It was a queer show and a queer crowd that went to Gloucester yesterday.

The ment and will decide next Friday. The resignations give a complete history of the appointment of the receivers and occasion was the first annual fair of the the surrounding valuable property, Sout dwell upon subsequent lt.tljatf. ith Jersey Agricultural E' Benhm. of the schooner Queen The opening aay brought three thou- Umk' upward toward the dry woodwork of tho shed. Every moment the fire gained in intensity, and even as she stood for an instant, almost paralyzed with fear, the shed caught fire.

Miss McNally did not hesitate long then. Thinking that Bhe could extinguish the flames, she did not cry for help nor run to save the children, but, going to the hydrant, she got several buckets of water and threw them upon the flames. As she did so tbe little stove exploded, this adding fuel to the already, rapidly increasing blaze. Battled With tbe Flame. She was burned about the face and arms, but bravely continued in her endeavor to extinguish the flames, which had by that time gotten hopelessly beyond her' control.

Neighbors who had heard tho explosion came to her assistance, while someone ran to the station house, half a square away. An alarm was sounded, but owing to the fact that the nearest engines are at Thirty-seventh and Ludlow and Fifty-fourth and Lancaster avenue, there was much delay before they arrived. and Is made to the attack made upon the re annd men and womin of different aorta to the open grounds at the southern end of ceivers by President IVes In the Washington courts. The proceedings are set forth and excerpts made from the oniniona of Across Chestnut street the fiery leaped, and i the rear they brazed out and for a time it seemed as though the whole block would be enveloped in the fiery veil. Streams were run up to every window of ropes, watched with awe-struck wonder momentarily expecting that the brave fellow wonld perish amid the explosion that all expected.

I Step by step he went upward, weighted down by his cumbrous uniform and his the famous sutnmerresort. These grounds tuu ictmci ncui iv prcwif vu nux Island reef last night and that the members of the crew were rescued after a terrible night In the rigging by the life-savers from the Heaver Island Station. The Queen City went on the reef broadsides and will be a total loss. Judges Gilbert and Hanford. The receivers uused to be known as the Gloucester race track, but they are now called the men proceed: "Yonr receivers manifestly cannot' administer the trust with Justice to the parties Interested or themselves If snblcct to the Kiver View Driving Park.

heavy weapon, and finally reached the level of the iron shutters, from which Most people who are interested in Glou the Webb place, and from the roofs of the adjoining buildings lines of hose were run up, and an avalanche of water was poured down on the burning building. All this seemed to have no. effect on the cester went down there during the day without knowing just what the fair orders and instructions as to the general administration from two or more Independent tribunals. We cannot abide, nor can we ask our sureties to abide, the -danger of the differences of opinion between courts, each assuming to be controlling as to the expenditures of the receivership in the general administration In view of the Immensity of A WORLD'S RECORD BROKEN A Special Train en the New Tore Central Runs 148 Miles hi 131 Minutes. Syracuse, N.

New York Central has again broken the record for fast time. This morning a special, consisting of three coaches and drawn by engine No. left Albany at 8 o'clock and arrived here at twelve minutes past 8. thus making the run of 148 miles in 132 minutes. This beats the world's record for this distance.

the sums meant. It had been widely advertised as an agricultural exhibit, with seductive side attractions in the line of running, trotting, pacing and bicycle races. The fact that such well-known farmers as William J. Thompson and Richard V. Ohl were respectively the president and PEARY'S HOME COMING The Intrepid Explorer and Bis Party Will Leave St.

John's To-Right. St. Johns, N. F- September 24. The falling uiwn the roofs of adjacent ings, made the situation one of extreme peril.

Many Buildings Threatened. On cither side of the burning building were warehouses which had in store cotton and woolen goods, and in the rear was a narrow thoroughfare called Inglis street, upon which the backs of the burning buildings were situated. All these buildings were in grave danger, and it was this condition of affairs that caused Fire Chief Baxter and the police authorities to order the sending out of four alarms. The building at 116 Chestnut street was L-sliuped, and, extending back to Knglish street, turned at a right angle into 112 South Front street. The Chestnut street section was storked with bales of wool from the cellar to the top floor, four stories high, and the second and third floors of the Front street annex were loaded down with, the same material.

1 Mr. Webb, who arrived on the ground shortly after the fire started, stated that the value of his stock in the Chestnut street part of his establishment would aggregate at least $200,00. On the Front street side about $00,000 worth was stored. The $200,000 worth of stock is a total loss, and about one-third of the material in the annex went up in smoke and fiery sparks. Mr.

Webb's loss, however, is entirely covered by insurance. An Explosion Narrowly Averted. An element of extreme danger was black smoke was pouring with great force. Blow after blow he struck upon the resisting hinges, with no effect, and then, leaning as far to the northward as the position of the ladder would permit, he placed the sharp edge of the axe between the two For an instant it seemed as if his valiant efforts would be unrewarded, and that he would fall to the ground overcome by the heavy smoke that surged upon him. Suddenly the shutters sprung apart in response to the working of the axe and revealed a veritable fiery furnace that seemed destined to envelop the brave fire-fighter and to do more destruction than had been done in the previous hour.

Smith, having accomplished his work, descended after knocking down the window frame so as to permit of a freer entrance of the water. The stream of the secretary of the South Jersey Agricultural Association, did more to impress the event upon the public mind than the many elaborate lithographs which were flames, for tluRr spread among the wool stored in the building despite the efforts of the firemen, and the sparks flew high, falling upon other roofs and making it necessary for the Fire Department to detail a certain number of men to extinguish any flames which might arise on the tops of other buildings. Police Boats' Good Work. Then the police tugs Stuart and Stok-ley added their streams to the torrent of water which was pouring down on the burning building. The fire tugs had considerable difficulty in getting their connections with the hose playing upon the fire because of a feeling of jealousy which exists between the firemen a nd the employes of the police boats.

When at last the gtuart got two streams and the Stok- Meanwhile the flames had almost consumed the shed and had set Are to the house, a two-story brick building, at tho corner of a long row of similar ones. Despite1 the efforts of the amateur firefighters the flames wont onward with surprising rapidity. When she saw the house take fire Miss McNally, who was suffering intensely from her burns, ran' up-stuirs and found the flames entering the little room in which the babies lay, choking with tbe smoke that surrounded them. Bravea Death for tbe Children. As she grasped them jn the arms already severely burned flames leapt in the open window, and for an instant it seemed as if she would fall to the floor with her little struggling burdens.

The Teary expedition and its doings continue to provide a fertile source of gossip. The newspapers give extended accounts of the journey made to the Ice cap, the sufferings of the party and other 'particulars. Most persons here think that Lieutenant Peary was very Imprudent In undertaking such a Journey at all after he found his food caches were lost. Professor Salisbury, one the relief posted about the streets. Between fifteen hundred and two thousand people from this city responded to Farmer Thompson's invitation, and most of them reached Gloucester at noon.

They brought a good deal of money along Thought to be tbe Body of a Pbiladelpaian. Special Telegram to The Times. 1'ottstown, September 24. The mangled body of a young man was found on the Reading Railroad tracks near Linfleld this morning and brought to Pottstown. The man had evidently been killed by a train.

A pawn ticket issned In Philadelphia for a silver ring was found In his pocket. The ticket bore the name of Dubbs. A dispatch was received to-uight from Mrs. Victor Dubbs, of Taylor street, Philadelphia. wim tnem to wager on the various snort ing contests that they hnd read about in the advertisements of the fair, and water from the big hose already in opera tion was then directed toward the blazing party, startcn lor nome yesterdnv, via Nvd-ney.

C. B. He was given passage bv the cable steamer Mlnia. The others of the party go by tho steamer Sylvia, leaving tomorrow at midnight. The steamer Kite has been visited by thousands of people during the past three days.

stating that the man might be her son. She Is expected to come to 1'ottstown to-morrow to Identify the body. 1 large majority of them had picked all the winners before their boat reached the ley one turned on the flaming structure they did good work and each of their streams was at least equivalent to two window. At nrst the water sank as in dock. What tne Show Was Like.

After they landed there was a brisk scramble for the fair, grounds, and the from a lire plug. With the fourth alarm came the water tower. Director Beitler's pet scheme. Everybody expected great work after its arrival and when it barked up in Letitia street facing the blazing Chestnut street gate-keepers were kept very busy from 12 Suffering for tbe Want of Water. Special Telegram to The Times.

Altoona, Septemlier 24. The people of this city are now facing a water famine. The reservoir at Kittannlng Point contains less than a day's supply and In order to Insure protection against fire the water was shut off from the city this evening. An ice company is doing a land oitiee business in the sale of distilled water, which is secured from another stream and long disused wells. 11 o'clock until after 3.

The same old high board fence that inclosed the race track two years ago surrounded the mnch-talked-abont agricultural exhibit, and the faces of the men who took up tickets were room was filled with smoke, and during her efforts to escape both children were burned upon the arms, while little Gertie, who wus nearest to the flames, had her face scorched. Miss McNally descended as rapidly aa possible, and escaped from the burning building none too soon, for it was not fivu minutes later before the entire interior was a mass of flames. When the fire engines arrived all they could do was to save the house from complete destruction and tho rest of the row from catching fire. The contents of the Farleys' house were completely destroyed and the walls inside were ruined. effectually uiwn tije fiery mass as does sand uiion the ocean, but after a few moments its working became more and more noticeable.

Two more ladders had meanwhile been erected against the building, and upon each a fireman ascended to the level of the fourth floor. Iu rapid sucession the shutters of the two remaining windows on this floor were broken open by the fire-fighters, and from each sprang a burning mass, even brighter than that which greeted "Truckman Smith. By this time the blaze coming from the first window had been almost subdued and the stream was turned upon the others. For a few minutes it seemed as if the flames would be allowed to get disastrous head QUAY WORKERS MUST GO The Combine Bsc ins Be Work by Discharging Number of Crow Adherents. The Combine has begun Its campaign of revenge against the men who opposed it iu the recent big fight which culminated in the success of the Quay forces.

Yesterday the following adherents of Alexander Crow were dropped from the pay-rolls of the Department of Public Works. All hail from the Fifteenth ward and all did effective work in the fight against the Combiner Robert Whitehead, James Anderson, William Kerr, Alexander Ewlng and John Brooks. All these were employes of the Water Bureau and worked as laborers. more than familiar to the crowd that passed in. This fnct raised the spirits of front everyone looked for the speedy extinguishment of the fire.

Their hopes were, however, doomed' to disappointment, for when the tower poured forth its stream it only reached the second story of the bnilding. Disgust was pictured on the faces of the firemen and policemen who looked for a heavy stream over the roof to the rear of the burning building, but who found instead that the hose from the fireboats threw a stream much stronger added to the conflagration by the fact that the first floor of the premises 112 South Front street is occupied by Charles Lennig Son, known as the 'Tacony Chemical Company. On this floor are stored many chemicals of an explosive character, and had the flames reached them the result would have been disastrous in the extreme. Chief Baxter was quickly informed of this perilous feature and he lost no time in laying out his lines to avert the threatened catastrophe. Some of the chemicals were in vats, uncovered, and a single falling spark might have caused an explosion that would have occasioned fearful havoc in Crew of a Schooner Saved.

Chicaoo, September 24. The captain of the steamer MeWUIlams wired to-day that he had picked up the crew of the wrecked schooner Comstock, of Algona, in Lake Superior. The Comstock foundered the visitors a great deal. On the inside the crowd saw the level, freshly-watered race track stretch away in the distance in front of a crowded grand stand. To the left a board-walk ran for throe hundred yards to the stables.

AT RAMSDELL'S off Stanlnrd's Rock, Lake Superior, in the late, storm. The barge was new and was valued at $51,000. She hnd a cargo of bnshels of wheat from Dulutb. The heads of the following also dropped in the banket. Thev were emuhivpR In th way, owing to a sudden decrease in the supply of water coming from the hose on and much further.

Gas Bureau: Samuel Neff, William Connghy. Charles Jackson. Matthew Hcajrbiter and George Chardleigh. Then all was excitement, firemen were climbing ladders and the orders of the district engineers rang high above the THE WEBER PIANOS THE IVERS POND THE NORMS HYDE THE MALCOLM-LOVE THE OPERA THE ELLSWORTH Banralns! Wnirner New Upright. 7 per month.

Chickeriug.orStelnway, 2l0, (6 per month! Koabtf, to per montu. 1111 CHESTNUT ST. account of a sudden break, from which the water ascended, gevser-like, thirty feet. The Fire Under Control. This was soon remedied, however, and Forecast for Wednesday.

ForKastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey, generally fair; winds shifting to southerly; no change in temperature. YXTRDAT8 TKMPERATUBE. and on one side of this were a score of fakirs in active possession of as many hastily-constructed booths. There mere rifle ranges, muscle testers, Turkish theatres, Punch and Judy shows. Coney Island sandwich stands, tents in which agile colored men posed as targets for base balls, and the usual lot of cheap amusements that follow in the track of all country fairs.

In the stables at the end of this boardwalk were housed as fine a lot of thoroughbred cnttle as ever gathered beneath one roof in New Jersey. Every farmer in Gloucester, Burlington, Camden, Sa another hose was brought into operation at this point, so that it was not many LAKE STEAMER OVERDUE The Canadian Pacific Beat Alberta is Hissing, and Much Anxiety is Felt. Sauit Ste. Marie, September 24. idvices from Fort William say that the Canadian passenger steamer Alberta had not reached there yet.

She passed through here StmdnyJ morning at 10 o'clock and is overdue thirty-two hours at. Port Arthur. A dispntch from Owen 5 I Highest SO 73 63 8 A. P. PIANOS TO RENT wrecking surounding property, as well as loss of life.

The firemen in fighting this branch of the fire literally took their lives in their hands. They were fully awure of the danger they were facing, bnt never a man of them flinched, and it is to their brave efforts that the danger was overcome and a most serious calamity prevented. The chemical comiMiny's loss is estimated at about $25,000, which is also fully covered by insurance. That the city authorities fully appreciated the grave danger which menaced the lower portion of Chestnut street and the adjacent thoroughfares was evident flahoffany Walnut STYLE IS Special EVENTS OF TO-DAY roar of the flames. Back through the Webb building the flames spread across an and through an archway to Front street, where over K.

Lennig store thousands of dollars worth of goods were stored. Ladders were run up on the rear street and the windows of the blazing store house were broken open. Each time the shutters swung back In response to the blows of aiuaxe a fiery cloud filled the street and threatened to set fire to the clothing of the firemen, who stood bravely below at their posts. Burning brands dropped upon their heads, but they never minutes hefore the fiery mass was reduced to a cloud of smoke of an even darker hue than before. It was soon seen that the flames had been driven downward amid the bales of cotton, and were creeping nearer and nearer toward the chemicals on the first floor.

In exactly Fair at Gratz. Fair at Gloucester. Sound says that the agents of the line steam DECKER BROTHERS DIac Win. O. FISCHER'S I Jill I 1221 CHESTNUT ST.

ers mere nave nearu mmimg from tne Ai-lierta since she passed the Soo Sunday morn- lem and Cumberland counties seemed to have sent his finest stock to compete for the prizes offered by the association and the same manner as the iron shutters of- the exhibit as a whole was more than tuts Engineer Meets a Terrible Death. While Engineer Hobert Williams, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, was on his shifting engine alone during the temporary absence commendable. A Fine Lot of Live Slock. the fourth floor had been opened those of the third floor were now parted, and inside of each was a burning mass of cotton. Had the fire-fighters been of a less sturdy quality they would surely- have been discouraged by this determination of flinched, and as fast as the plug connections could be made the streams were GRLYVICKS' SWITCHBACK EXCURSION To-morrow, Thursday, September 26.

Special trains leave Reading Terminal and Third and Berks Streets at 7.30 A. M. TlcketB, 2.50. of his flremrfh yesterday morning, he slowed Irish convention In Chicago. Reception at St.

Elizabeth's Institute. Cumberland county fair at Carlisle. Firemen's State Relief Association, at Bloomneld, N. J. Committee of surveys, 2 V.

at Broad Street Station. Reunion Pennsylvania Cavalry Veterans' Association, at Berwick. Forty-second convention Central Pennsylvania Lutheran Synod, at Mlniintown. Meetlna of committee on Improvements of harbor, Board of Port Wardens, 12.30. Meetlnir of the Board of Education nt Near the stables a long line of wooden Ieus had been constructed, and in these a hundred or more of the fattot pigs in South Jersey were imprisoned.

Further on, under an old shed, there were rows up ana starteu to warns tne tender to replenish the supply of con I. As he was stepping from the engine to the tender one of hi fPt Blipped and he fell upon the track. The right flames, but nothing daunted, they set to work, with a will to vanquish their common enemy. They were finally victo wueeis or tne tenner passea over his legs near the hips. The injured engineer was picked up and taken to St.

Agnes' Hospital, where lie died an hour later. Williams, who was In the employ of the railroad for several years, was 35 years old and lived at 3610 Pairinotmt avenue. h4 P. M. to take action in regard to the death "ONE PEELS AT HOME AT ERR Y'S "The (talesmen are interested In fitting and suiting yout" "You can look as much as you want to, and needn't buy unless you want to!" you buy and afterwnrds want your money barb, It's given to you as cheerfully as it was tuken!" Just now, the stork of Kail Overcoats.

Pall Suits, is something far beyond tbe ordinary in bulk us well as in quality, because we prepared for Our Enlarged Store, and haven't got rrom tne tan tnat tour police captains, Brown, Malin, Quirk and Thompson! were on the ground.with Lieutenants Mc-Coach, Gillingham.Wolf, Mitchell, Burk, Latimer, Usilton and Wilkins, all of whom commanded squads of patrolmen from their respective districts. Superintendent of Police Linden was nlso on the ground before the flames were subdued and Director of Public Safety Beitler visited the scene during the exciting progress of the fire. The Water Tower Wouldn't Work. In anticipation of possible accidents, the Emergency Hospital Corps, under the supervision of Police Surgeon Andrews, was on hand with all appliances for attending the injured and they were reinforced by the ambulances with accompanying phy8iciansfrom the Pennsylvania, German, Jefferson, Hahnemann and other hospitals, also all the police patrol wagons from the lower and central district of the tity; Fortnnately no one or A. H.

JC11KS. Woman's Suffrage Society of the County of Philadelphia, monthly meeting. Hall of the Mercantile Library, 3 P. M. OCEAN STEAMERS pointed through' the windows into the fiery furnace within.

The wool seemed to burn like tinder. From bale to bale sprang until the whole interior of the warehouse was enveloped in a cloud of flames. A Niagara of water poured through the windows and down from the roof, but until after half an hour's hard work no progress seemed, to be made against the flames. Then the fiery tongues lost their energy and little by littledied down, leaving a pyramid of glowing cinders to mark the siwt where they had raged but a few minutes before. Losses Covered by Insurance.

Webb Co. is the largest wool importing firm in this country. The building at 116 Chestnut street was not only filled with wool, but th second and third floors over Lennig store, on Front on rows of cages, in which chickens, ducks, geese, pigeons, turkeys and fowls of all sorts fluttered and cackled. Beneath them were scores of rabbits, guinea pigs and small four-footed beasts of different specjes, each one labeled and classified with remarkable precision. All this the crowd saw and wondered at.

Then they trooped into the big auditorium under the grand stand, where, iu the days when everything went, there had been half a hundred bookmakers' stands, each one doing a business that would have gladdened the heart of any national bank president in town. They rious after twenty minutes more of arduous work. The contents of the third and fourth floors was entirely destroyed by fire, however, and the walls were nearly in ruins. The contents of the second floor also occupied by Webb Co. were nearly destroyed by water, while many of the chemicals of the Tacony Chemical Works, on the first floor, were also damaged by-water.

The building of Isaac Reifsnyder wool merchants, 110 South Front street, was slightly damaged by water Sailed for New Auranta, from. LIv- MIXED SCOTCH CHEVIOTS Go to make some of tbe icost popular of (his fall's milts. We've got an Inexhaustible variety Passed the Lizard Spree, New York for of patterns here from some of the most famous mills. Aod their price Is not high. One of the handsomest lots of silk-lined Pall possession yet.

We've i a Bargain Price on Every Garment because we must sell faster than we ever sold before PERRY 1520 Cheitmtt Street Note Our Custom Department is giving great satisfaction. ilreuien. Passed Prawle Point Persia, New York for Hamburg. Sailed from New York Havel, for Bremen; Servia, for Liverpool. Arrived at New York Obdam.

from Rotterdam: Washington, from Loudon Noord-land, from Antwerp. Overcoats you can fitid anywhere lower prices than you'll find in most places. Your money back if we don't fit you. expected to see here at least something and fire, as was also the building of H. II.

W. Alterwood, wholesale whisky dealers, 114 South. Front street The Continued on. Third Page, I. U.

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