The Brooklyn Citizen from Brooklyn, New York • 1

"mi. T0. i. i. jtT INDICATIONS, Showers to-night and to-inorrowf southerly winds.

LAST EDITION FOUR O'CLOCK. (Entered ul llic I'uat Offlco at Hrooklyn, N. Oct! 4. 1SSC, aa aecond-claaa mall matter, under Act of March J. 179.) -i I VOL.

XLII-NO. 28. HKOOKLYN, MONDAY, JULY 29, 1907. PRICK ONE CENT A Le 1 aTCfm gSSe in Tiinnmei rnnn -mini 19 DEAD IN TENEMENT HOLOCAUST Black Hand Sets Fire to Doubledecker. 11H1H Appalling Record of Flames in New York During 3) Hours Lives Lost, but Nearly All of the 600 Guests Lose Their Belongings.

DAM AGE IS ESTIMATED AT $1,500,000 A. B. Chapman's Cottage, a Churcfi and a L. I. R.

R. Train Also Prey of the Flames. EXPLOSION OF ALCOHOL LAMP ON 4th FLOOR, STARTED FIRE? Guests Have Fortunate Escape from Peril and Flee to the Sea in Night GarmentsProminent Brooklynites Aid in Brave Rescues. there were still more than 100 peopta who had lost their belongings in the fire, wandering around the ruins ill clothing borrowed from the cottage. Many daring rescues were effected while the terror was at its height and Senators McCarren and Reynolds.

Judge Dllteiihoeffer ami "Dan" O'Reilly gave all the aid they could to the stricken guests. The hundreds forced from the hotel took refuge near the sea and looked on in their night garments at the destruction of their properly. Some of the women found themselves hemmed 1n on the hotel floors hy the fire and smoke and appeared at the windows. Tilyou Won't (Rebuild Steeplechase. SUSPECT BLACK HAN Two People Kay Be Dead in SI, 400,000 Blaze.

35 ACRES FLAME SWEPT Plan Extending Fire Limits to Island-Start Clearing Away Ruins This Morning. Will tia police" and fire marshal are to-dajr Investigating rumors of incendiarism in connection with yesterday's fire at Coney Island, the islanders themselves, with enterprise characteristic of the world-famed resort, are making plans for rebuilding the 35 acres of the tinsel city thatvtvas swept by the flames. Yesterday, while the embers were still hissing, the showmen whose business had been wiped out, were retrieving their fallen fortune! by charging admission to the burned district. To-day they are charing away the ruins. To-morrow the work of rebuilding will commence.

One exception may be made, however. George Tilyou, proprietor of Steeplechase Park, in whose place the blaze started that put 300 people out of business, in jurad 11 two perhaps mortally and. as the police helievc, killed two, may not rebuild. His lose was heavy. He thinks it was brought about by men who had sent him blackmailing letters, and is discouraged.

While the flames were still raging, he said be was done with Coney. To-day he echoed, that 'Jt There will be no more tinsel structures at Coney if Fire Marshal Beers' and Deputy Fire Chief Lally have their way. They plan to urge the extension of the Are limits to include Coney Island. If successful, this will mean that hereafter nothing but substantial structures can be erected. It jvould provide safely against fnture conflagrations.

In the meantime. Fire Marshal Beers, aided' by the Coney Island police, is endeavoring to solve the mystery of the fire's origin. Twice before the flames, starting in the Cave of the Winds in Steeplechase, leaped into life at 4 o'clock Sunday morning, smaller blazes are said to have 'been found and stamped out in the same place. Five times during the last few months, Tilyou has received Black Hand letters. The police know of these letters, for all of the missives 1 were turned over to them.

Witnesses are i to-day being subpenaed by the Fire Mar shal, who will searchingly probe the dis. aster. i Never before has the true spirit of i Coney and it cosmospolitan people seen so trnly shown as yesterday, while it waa staggering from the effects of the fourth big fire that has devastated the gay city of white and gold. Undaunted by misfortune, the showmen made the most of their new and unexpected attrao-, tion. Men who had seen their savings swept away In a moment, who were then clad in fantastic garb picked up where they might, who" had barely baffled death, made a.

new attraction ont of the ruins. To amuse is Coney's religion and Coney'i people, tn that line, are devotees. "Here's wher the. crowds used to go. Come in Dow and aee the ruins.

The big gest show of its kind in the world. Come in; bring the wife and the kids," yelled the barkers, who that morning had been proprietors. "Only a dollar to aee the big fire," was the cry from sea-going hack drivers as i tha island-bound crowd disembarked at the railroad terminals. They made a golden harvest, for from all over the metropolitan district thousands came to aid In Coney's wake. Those of the summer population whose placet bad escaped disaster mate more sneney than ever before except on a big bliday N'or did they keep it all.

Many a man who would have had little to eat yesterday for all that he had saved from tha fire ate in Henderson's as usual, for liis more fortunate mates came freely to the rescue with loani or gifts. It waa only a shift in wind that saved the whole island from destruction yesterday morning that and the high-pressure salt water mains that were Installed after the big fire in '03. The cresceot-thaped bite that went down the raven-mi maw of the fire demon would have teen a rectangular, one that would have icluded the territory between Steeple-Chase and the Ocean boulevard had not a land breeze sprung thnt drove the flying embers saaward wasting their menace en the salt surf. As it wss nearly svery building from the Bowery seaward, and from Stanch' to Steeplechase was leveled to the sand. Beside Tilyou, whose loss is approximately $1,000,000.

with no insurance, these are the other sufferers, scarcely one of whom had insurance, the rates being far to high for thewf William ft. rrrl. hotal, Bowary and Kenametoa Walk 3M0 X.oala Stauch, Seaatda Walk and or.an 11,001) Mnly F-ucht. "Dip tha Dip." Bowary and (Vaanlc Walk tl.IDD Arkanan Brother, hotal and bath- III INSTANTLY KILLED Wm. McKee, of I.

City, Meets Death Near Hammels. HURLED OFF BY PASSENGER, Witnesses Say He Used Insulting; Language Toward Women on L. I. R. R.

Train. William P. McKoe. an nmaleur ath-lete mid president of the Williimi P. Molv'e Association of Long Island Cily, was thrown from Ihe pin I form of a I Island Railroad train lining ill the rate of forty miles an hour last niglil and killed iuplatitly.

He boarded Ihe crowded train of nine cars coming from Rockawav I'ark at Hammer station, and iinnwdialcly, it is asserted, begun, using insulting language toward Ihe women passengers. He was boisterous and abusive, il is claimed, and several men warned him to cease. He wauled (o light them. Mrs. (i.

F. Bailey and her brother, A. D. Whiteside, who were aboard ihe train, said that one of the men who was seated with his wife and two children sprang from his seat after repeatedly warning McKee to stop his abuse niid dealt him hard blow in the face. Then he ceized McKee and dragging him to the platform flung him from the moving train.

His body fell beside the track was seen lv the passengers, several of whom pulled the hell cord. No attention was paid to tlie signals to slop, nnd the con ductor. John l'oley, was appealed to, The train did not stop until the next sta tion was reached. The body was found at Rainblesville near the trestle, a short distance from Hammels. It was taken lo the ltn-ii nioiiil Hill police station, where it was identified bv William lieinpsey.

no nan accompanied McKee, but took no part the disturbance. I Dempsey tried to leave the train before it reached Lone Island City, but the conductor, Foley, insisted Ulain his remaining as a -Witness. In the dead man's pockets was found a check for Si and announcement of the outing of his association which was to lie given next month. McKee was a member of the Star Athletic Club and his home' was in Eighth street, near JiU'ksou avenue, lnig Island City. 'S TH ID SISTERS Three Deaths Expected in Huntington's Family.

VERSAILLES, France, July 29. Three deaths may result from the murderous attack on his brothers and sinters yesterday by Henry Huntuigton, son of Douglas St. George Huntington Two of the victims of the shooting. Alonzo and Edith Huntington, are ire- ported to-day at the point of death Major Huntington, the father, stunned by the shock of the attack, has sunk into a state of coma which, physicians say, Tenders his death only a question of hours. Summoned home for a reconciliation with his father when the latter waa be lieved to be dying, Henry's attack on his relatives came without warning.

For years he had been estranged from his family. He begged his fathers forgiveness yesterday, but when nsked to seek nardon of his mother he refused. When his brother, Douglas, ordered him to leave the room he responded by bring on all the party except Major Huntington. Alonzo fell, the victim of an attempt to save his brother and sisters. He waa shot in the stomach and head while trying to wreat the revolver from Henry.

There is slight hope for his recovery. Elizabeth was also -wounded in an effort to save her sister, but the sacrifice was in vain. As Henry nimed at Edith, Elizabeth rushed forward to throw her body in front of her sister. The bullet grated the young heroine's arm, but found ji lodging place in Edith'e breast. She will probably die.

Douglas, also received a flesh wound in the head, but is in no danger. Alnnio Huntington is a painter of note, having been honored with a medal by the Salon. Edith, who is strikingly beautiful, was a favorite in I'aria society. Douglas, has won some fame as a novelist. TO DISBAND COREAN ARMY.

Japaneaa at Ckimnam Pnt to Sea to Avoid Violence of Mob. SEOUL. Corea, July strong hand of the Japanese military forces has finally put an end to rioting in Seoul, after hard fighting on Saturday nitfht. There is still uneasiness, which will probably not be allayed until the promised reinforcements awive from Japan. Outside Seoul it is rumored there has been serious disturbances, put inadequate means of coinmnnicnlion have nmde it impossible to secure deliuite information.

At hiiiiliam the resident were compelled to take loaCTliid pnt to sea to ecape violence st the mob's band. As a means of restoring nrdar the Cam arsj to be AUbaa'H at not, WILL ATTEMPTTO FEPOOO His and Pettibonc's Fate; in the Balance. haywood is jubilant! Result of Trial May Have Serious Political Consequences in Idaho and Colorado. BOISK. Idaho.

V. 1 1 1 ii. ul. nf ihe Western Federal 'on nf Miners, a free man I In- tight is already on for the release nf Charles Mnyer ami (Jooree I'eltilmnc. accused wilh Haywood of eoiuplirity in the assassiicitioii of former (lovernnr Frank of Idaho.

The Federation's lawyers appealed lo Wood to-day lo ro'lnil Mover and Pettibnne to bail, arguing thai the proseriiiiou proved ilsclf so in llie liaywnnd trial that it would lc unjust lo Mnyer and I'ettib lo hold ilieiii longer in custody. The prnse-uiioii will right this motion to the last ditch as its representatives say the two prisoners arc to lie brought to trial in October, ami that the Stale has no disposition to relax its efforts to secure conviction against I hem. Haywood, whose iron nerve gave way after jest Tiiay morning's verdict of acquittal, quickly regained his self-control and Is quill himself In-diiv. Haywood is certainly the happiest man in Boise, but his lawyers and the other laltor leaders in the city are not far behind hiin in llieir expressions nf rejoicing. What, perhaiw.

adds to the defense's delight is the fict that the worst was feared until the mi meat that the clerk read the verdict. Haywood, indeed, was outwardly calm when the jurors filed into the courtrooms, but Harrow was so nervous that he could hardly sit Mill in his chair while Richardson was gloomy and morose. As the verdict was read Harrow jumped from his chair and embraced Haywood, while tears sprang from the eyes of both attorneys ami their client. Haywood first called his wife and da lighter on the telephone to tell thvji he was free. So sure was he of conviction thnt he had asked them not to he present when the jury nqsirted.

Having let his family know nf his in-qui'ti'l. he hurried lo his mother who collapsed in the courtroom Saturday, and was in a hospital suffering from nervous prostration. From his mother, Haywood hurried to sen John Murphy, the Denver lawyer who so long acted as Haywood' friend and legal ndviser. and now dying with consumption in the Idaho city. The jurors say that they did not believe Orchard, that they were satisfied that his testimony was uncorroborated, and saw no way under the court's instructions to find Haywood guilty.

The first ballot was eight for acquittal, three for conviction and one not voting. Thoee who favored conviction were Samuel D. Gillman. ranehmHli and former militiaman: Thomas B. Gens, insurance and real estate, and George Powell, ranchman.

A. P. Burns, once a member of the Carpenter's Union, was the juror who refused to vote. As the progressed, the men who supported convict iou, ca me over one by one until yesterday morning the verdict was reached. James A.

Rojiertson; the oldest man on the 'jury, and for years a close friend of Sleniienherg, voted from first to last for acquittal. The result may materially' affect Idaho rolitics, and the alleged kidnapping nf Iaywood and bis associates places the administrations of both Governors Gooding, of Idaho, and McDonald, Colorado, in an awkward position. "The verdict is a surprise to me." said Governor Gooding, "hut I have done my duly. I do not regret any action I have taken and ill continue a vigorous prosecution of Moyer and Pcttibone, besides doing my utmost to secure the apprehension bf Adams and Simpkins." HAYWOOD VERDICT IS CONDEMNED IN ENGLAND. LONDON.

July 29 Xear-anarchy. This is the expressive, term applied lsrge-ly bv English newspapers to the Haywood verdict at Boise. Conditions in Idaho are severely criticized by conservative journals and all of the United States courts come in for a hard scolding. Some of the papers find in the rerdict a theme to caution the British Government against the growth of socialism, saving Encland is threatened similarly. 'The Western State ara aa near anarchy as any community is likely to get." is the comment of tha "Star," It adds: "It Is clear huge chunks of the united States are still weltering in raw tmde-velicd chaos.

It cannot digest itself." "The Evening News" thinks the verdict makes for lawlessness and violence received a tremendous The same opinion is voiced by the "Globe." It warns the British Govern: meat that it is threatened by similar resorts to violence through the growth of violence. FIGHT FOR 95 CENTS. A free-for-all fight occurred last night on aN-rowdcd trolley ear running through Rockaway avenue, East New York, when the conductor forgot the owner of ninety-fire cents change and handed it to the wrong man. The man was slipping it quietly into his pocket when the rightful owner tried tn get fseasiini of it. The conductor got it back.

Almost every man in the car claimed it. In the Ssht that followed the conductor lost four men their liberty and several had to have surgical aid LONO BEACH HOTEL DEMTROYEI). Four mm and woman were bndly hurt In tire which burned the npw bolfl at Ina; Beach, L. 1., and aev-enil adjoining ruttafee. PAKK ft TII.FORI) BMW.

dl'TTM). Vlre In Ihe Park ft Tllford Kulldlns, Fifth avenue and i'orly-aeoond atrert, Manhnttan, drKtrojed the office, of S. II. Tell ft J. M.

llarhe ft Howard IHilry ft K. Potter ft Co. and Frnncke, Thoinpaon ft Kubo, all brokera. FIRK IN CONEV IHI.AM). Twenly-Hve acrea burned over, Kterplerhaae Park" and ninny aniall ahoiv plareit, boteta and coitus; destroyed.

Damacea aeveral prrnona reported mlaalng. FIRK AT NO. KM CHRTSTIE ST. Nineteen believed to be dead, 30 nre Injured, and aoma of theae may die. The Are la.

attributed to the "Black Hand." Bf SCUDDER'S DECISION Must Have Evidence When Arresting Pickpockets. CANNOT LODGE COMPLAINT. Only Charge Elperin Will Receive Against John Steiner la "Vagrancy." 1 I'nder a decision of Justice Scuddcr. of the Supreme Court, the Detectives of Captain McCauley's staff will not be permitted in the future to lodge complaints against pickpockets when they detect. them.

their "hands ou perse in crowded cars. The justice, in a decision handed, down on Friday, decided that there-must be additional evidence besides a detective's to cause 'trie arrest and conviction of a piekpoeket. This morning, Detective Reynolds tried to have a complaint entered against John Steiner, alias Costello. The prisoner was arrested yesterday afternoon on" a Myrtle avenue car. Reynolds claims to have seen the man place his hand close to the pocket of one of the fiassengers.

and lie says he immediately took hiin into custody. He presented the case to Clerk Elperin. The latter told him that under the decision the only complaint thnt could be received wag that of vagrancy. "I do not bring' this" man here for the purpose of making a record," said Rey nolds. arrested him to give proteow tion to citizens whom he tried to rob.

"I do not question the honesty of your action, but the clerks of the courts must be guided by the decisions of Supreme Court justices," replied the clerk. "Well, I will ask for a complaint under Section No. 1447 of the laws of 1888 to hold this man. Magistrate O'Reilly has already held aeveral pickpockets for the Court of Special Sessions under this section." Reynolds' argument did not prevail. Steiner was charged with being a vagrant, and later waa held for examination liy Magistrate Tighe.

Steiner is the same person who robbed Inspeolor Flood a few years ago on a Third avenue elevated station. He abstracted $32 from the Inspector's pocket and was caught with the money in his hand. A Manhattan magistrate sent Steiner to Sing Sing for eighteen mouths on a charge of grand larceny. John Linder, another professional pickpocket, was arrested last Bight on Ocean Walk. Coney Island, by Detective Barry.

He was acting in a suspicious manner in a large crowd. Alter being placed under arrest he tried to escape, KAIZEH PALACE HIT BY MAKE-BELIEVE BOMB German War Balloon Scores In Maneuvers. BERLIN, July William's palace was destroyed figuratively today by a bomb dropped from, the sky. A similar fate befell many of the magnificent business blocks and mansions lining the famous Inter den Linden. The military airship, capable of carrying quick-firing guns, a crew of tlx men, and operated irrespective of any wind that according to the claims made for it, was the instrument of "destruction." Doubting Berlin cltisens be have been skeptical about real newer of the aerial warship were given proof of its abilities in a striking way.

The airship sailed into the city, circled the Kaiser's city palace, then sailed the full length of Later den Linden and over the Brandenburg gate, A Turner bomb dropped into the palace, theoretically destroyed it. Similar bombs wrecked the L'nter den-IJudeii mansions. After performing numerous evolutions to the cheers of thousands, the aerial warship sailed away from the city. Colonel Wagner wants the nation', he-fore aerial navlgnlora assume unlawful rights, to soak provisions, for the EXPLOSION BY BOMB Terrific Panic Adds to Horrors of Midnight Conflagration. THE BUILDING WAS A FIRE TRAP Investigation Now in Progress-Cowardly Italians Let Women and Children Perish.

The Hlack Hand responsible for 11 tenement Iciiit- tire early to-day in which nineteen i lost live and about thirty were mure nr less seri-5vdy injured. The ti in a six-story tenement at br'stie street. Manhattan. It is pn'hle i liar the list of dead may pxeed iiincifcii. tic police fearing that more Indies may bo found ill the ruins, and nf the thirty injured Severn', ill probably e.

The blaze was characterized 1 a teriilic panic, in which men. maddened with fear, trampled 011 women and children, ami pushed several from laddcrsl and fire-escapes in their own efforts to reach safety. The tiro, starting with an explosion ill the basement, swept from top to bottom of the six-story Ntructure so quickly that the tenants had no opportunity to escape down the slairwas, but were driven to the fire-escapes. The flames bursting through the windows swept even these plnces of refuge, forcing the occupants either to dash back into the burning house or drop to death to the pavement below. Fearing the, vengeance nf.Jhj: Black Hand, few neighbors' would raise a hand to aid those in the burning Imildiug.

was a tMay. too, in turning in nu alarm and the panic made it almost impossible for the police and firemen to do effective work. It wiia necessary to knock down several men who persisted in their endeavors to rush down the ladders, leaving the women and children 4o their fate. One mother, certain that her children had jierished. preferred death to rescue and leaned from' a sin-story tire escape with the firemen only a few feet away.

She was dashed to ilea III. William Bramlt. who gave the firsl alarm, was passing; through t'hrytie street in front of the tenement when a terrific explosion, supposedly of a bomb. (Continued on Page Ten.) MAN IN POLICE CELL; Mss. Mendleson Arrested Last Night in Her Home.

Rose Meudleson, 36 years old, of Xo. 2(iti Stanton street, Manhattan, spent last night in a cell the Adams sjreet station, (where she: was held on a charge of bigamy. To-day. when arraigned before Magistrate she pleaded not guilty, and was held for an examination on Friday morning. Rose is accused of having married Louis Mendleson while her lawful husband, Louis' cousin, is Max Mendleson, a prosperous tailor, of No.

22 Ludlow street, Manhattan. The case hat attracted con siderable attention, and at one time Dis trict Attorney Clarke was appealed to by the first husband to present the case to the Grand Jury. About a month ago the first husband called upon Magistrate O'Reilly and secured a warrant for his wife' arrest He claimed to have been legally married to her in 18S9 by a rabbi in Russia. The warrant was issued. When tha case came up for a hearing the complainant did not arrive at the court until alter tne magistrate had called the case.

Mendleson's attorney, upon learning that the complaint hud been dismissed, asked to have a new warrant issned, whereupon Magistrate O'Reilly said that the, charge wo a humbug and that he did not propose to have anything: more to do with it. Mendleson and nt lawyer were milisr- nant at the stand taken by the Magis trate nnd applied to Justice Scndder. of the Supreme Court, for a writ of mandamus. In the meantime the lawyer saw District Attorney Clarke and. upon explaining the case to him.

nsked that the matter be prevented io the grand jury. Mr. Clarke toid Mendleson representa tive that it would be Impossible for him to take aujf such action, as the Urand Jurv did not meet until September. The District Attorney' win disturbed and re ferred the oat.e Clerk tlperln of the Adams Street Co-frl. A new complaint was drawn up.

-and the warrant was given to iMectivjea tiomnteringer and O'Connor, ai 1'olifc Headquarter. Mrs. Mendleson vs arrested last night at her home. Mendleson claims that his wife was married ito his cousin by the S. 1 reibent of 'Jll Ksst Ninety-eighth strejt.

Manhattan. Mr. Mendleiosi's roaict-n natee was Rose Kevaler. She i sild to an come of a (SPECIAL TO THE LONG BEACH. L.

July I Long Beach Hotel, one of the largest hotels ill the United Stales, was totally destroyed by tire this morning. Owing to extended fire drill an I bravery of the employees no lives were lost and the personal injuries were slight. Nearly all of the litHI guests, however, lost their clothing and jewelry, and many escaped in their night clothes. It is thought that the loss aggregates The hotel nuildioi; cost Hat. ami all that was left of it at noon to-day was a mass of smoking ruins ami a chimney UCW feet high.

A cottage adjoining the hotel, occupied by A. B. Chapman; the former BrooC.ni dry goods man. was also destroyed, as was a church at the back of the hotel. A Long Island railroad passenger train, consisting of locomotive and five cars, canigbt fire and wns a loss.

The valuables of the guests are thought to be sufficient to bring the loss up as very little was saved. Prominent Brooklynites in Hotel at Time of the Fire. Many prominent Brooklynites were in the hotel at the time. Senator Patrick H. McCarren.

who is associated with Former Senator William IL Reyuolds in the ownership of the hotel, was awakened by the shouts of the servants and had to run for his life. Senator Reyuolds was also in the building, as were William F. Hurley, and ex-Judge A. J. Ditteuhoeffer.

The fire started at 3:20 o'clock in room No. 5S4. ou the fourth floor. It was occupied by R. F.

Ay res. a Manhattan advertising man, and his family. At 5 o'clock Mr. Ay res arose, and started to heat, some milk over an alcohol lamp. In some way.

the lump set fire to the room, and in a minute the room was blazing fiercely. Mr, Ayres ran through the i-orridor shouting the alarm, ami son the servants were busy arousing all the guests. Mr. Ayres left I.ong Beach on one of the early trains this morning, without giving an explanation of how the trouble started. Fire, Started by Alcohol lamp, Spreads Rapidly.

The hotel was- of frame construction, and burned rapidly. The negro porters dragged out a few trunks, and the guests threw many trunks from the windows, but most of them were destroyed by the flsmcs. The fire originated in the west end of the building, and the breexe "swept the flames through the structure to the east end. where there is a row of cottages. Mr.

Chapman's cottage was quickly destroyed, and the flames jumped to the second cottage, occupied by Miss May Buckley, the. actress. Lawyer Daniel J. O'Reilly, who occupies the twelfth cottage in the row, organised a bucket brigade and fought the flames with water brought from the ocean, a few feat away.sjust then, fortunately, the wind 'shifted and the row of cottages wera saved. Four employees were injured.

A woman jumped from a window and broke her leg. Frank Smith, a porter, fell from the roof and broke two ribs and dislocated his collar bone. Two other porters were injured by trunks thrown Ikam the windows. There is no fire doamataaent at' Long Beach, aud it was imHKsible to do anything to check the flames. Volunteer companies from neighboring towns started early In the morning for the scene of the fire, and reached Long Beach at about 7:30.

Three companies came from Rockville Centre, one from Oceau Side, and one They could do almost noltiiiig. and contentedi themselves with turnina their hoses on the still biasing rus to preveUt further spread of the fi Guests Beach Brooklyn Cla. la Night Garments. At noon, however, the boardwalks were still blazing in all directions, sad little attention was paid to them Five trains left Long Beach for the city 111 the forenoon. All of them carried crowds of people in all sorts of strange attire.

Many passengers went clear to the Fbttbtish avenue station of 1 Island City, dressed only in night gowns or pajamas, while others left the trains at intermediate points to obtain clothing At noort ready tn jump. It was at this point that Senators McCarreii and Reynolds rushed among them and the smoke-tilled corridors and" stairways to safety. Former Judge Dittenlioefer also aided in the work of rescue. He and bin wife had been stopping at the hotel and narrowly escaped being hemmed in. Bucket Brigade Organized by Hotel Electrician.

George Champion, electrician of the hotel, organised a bucket brigade among the employees aud gueift'soon after the tire was discovered. It was found, how- ever that this effort had no effect linon the flames, and every one scampered to save what clothing, and valuables they could. There were, perhaps, fifty trunks drugged to the Long Island Railroad Company this morning, and a few pieces of furniture stood on the beach. The Long Beach telephone exchange was in the hotel and was put out of business al- 1 ,1 1 MmMnv IIU llir.li" UI IHG did remarkable' work. Before the flamea had eaten their way into the cellar, telephone men were on their way to Long Brack.

They found a spare- switchboard in a nearby town, and set it np ia the Ism? Beach postofhee. Wircmen were busy all morning connecting this switchboard, and refora noon it was possible to communicate with other lines. Mrs, Ayres Denies Story of Fin's V. 'The story of the origin of the fire that it started in the Ayres room, was given out by the hotel management. This was stoutly denied hy Mrs.

Ayres, who stated that it started' in a laundry adjoining her mom. and that her husband heard the crackling of the flames and gave the alarm. Armed guards are patrolling the rum to-Iuy. They were placed there by Sheriff M. A.

Doxsey. of Queens County. Tha hotel safe, containing the register and valuable, belonging to the guests to tha extent of some $70,000, was intact in tha ruins, and the Sheriff placed the guard to protect it and other articles that might not be destroyed. Five Italians and a Greek were arrested in the forenoon, wha were prowling through the charred timber Thev were taken into ensrodr nn. der the suspicion of being looters.

Judga K. 'Wallace held court tn the vl-ong Beach lun and held the suspects for amination. Two guests were injured in the fira. They were a Mr. Devanney, an importer, who jumped from a window and broke his arm and sustained internal injuries.

He waa taken to the city for treatment. Sophie Kimball, a nurse, broke both legs in jumping from a win- uow. Mrs. Jennie Miller, of Brooklyn, a sister of Deputy Fire Commissioner Wise, occupied a room on the fiaarth floor with her daughter Elinor. They ere aroused and fled without waiting to get their belongings.

Then Miss Miller met Senator McCarren in the crowd, and told him of the danger of the loss of their belongings. The Senator went back to the burning building aud brought out the women's trunks. Deputy Commissioner Wise, who was on duty all day yesterday at Coney Island, made quick trip to Long Bench by automobile, when he beard of his sitter's predienmeut. He found the family at the home of Lawyer Dan O'Reilly. Mrs.

Miller spoke enthusiastically of Senator bravery. Among the recent arrivals at the TVng Beach Hotel from Brooklynv and Manhattan were: From Brooklyn Kruest George. Millar F. Prince, I.eslie H. Prince.

Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hamilton.

O. H. Story, G. B. Maun.

A. H. Harlan. F. a.

Ollendorff. J. F. Cavansgh. Miss Emma Woodcock, Mr.

and Mrs, John Bliss, Miss Bliss, Miss Ruth Bli. E. Jenns. S. K.

Stevens, John Gross. Mr. and Mr. F. L.

Grant, Mr. and Mrs. James Cav. anagh, Mr, annd Mrs. Henry Kelly, Jr.f (Continued on Page T4 rich family, of Itaia.