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II GAMBLING THE BRANCH," A MURDER AT MIDNIGHT, iff Iixitlit J'" Daly relates his experiences in Inspector William, Xew York Police, IXjttt "The Sunday World." ri lutes a thrilling story. i lM GAPT. KENNEDY ANSWERED, the world in zuwilawd. Sleamship captains differ with him about STRANGE HOUSES "OLD NEW YORK, $gjtf TAtt gambling on shipboard. with pictures.

I TJ iSISt 1 t.to rrtMr.M A WEEK AS A BOOK AGENT. jiSfii A PAGE OF READING FOR WOMEN. Awond reporter tries hts hand. Jfffifi THE SUNDAY WORLD. IN THE SUNDAYJAJORLDJ KINGSTON, SALVATOR.

TEHHY. A Grand Sweepstakes Between the Three Great Cracks. It Will Be Run on the Monmouth Track for a 930,000 Pot. Arrangements will probably bo con. eluded within a few days for a grand BweepetnVeb raco between Kincston, Sal.

Tator and Tennv. This is news that will make the heart of the racegoer palpitate with joy. It seems I almost too Rood to be true, but neverthe- lees preliminaries were arranged laU night. Thero was a slight hitch as regards the distance to bo run, but it is believed that this will be arranced satisfactorily. Secretary Cricknioro and Mr.

D. D. Withers baTe bad the idea of arranging a meeting between these three cracks ever since the last Salvator-Tennv match, and it was only yesterday that matters were so far arranged as to enable them to let the public have an inkling of what was a going on. D. T.

Fulsiier. owner of Tenny: Phil Dwyer. of Dwyor Brothers, owners of Kingston, and Mr. J. B.

Haggin, the owner of bnlvator, met yesterday in Mr. Crickmore's office Mr. Withers broached the idea of a sweepstakes between tho three horses, and each one of the gentlemen agreed at once. Now as regards distance askod Mr. Withers.

1 prefer a mlio race," said Mr. Phil Dwyer. "That will suit me exactly," echoed Mr. Fulsifer. and matttrs looked rosy until Mr.

Hoggin Eaid decidedly: I will not rare fc'ahator at less than a mile ana an eighth." Fhll Dwver paid be was willing to go an extra eighth, bnt Mr. 1'ulsifer demurred. 1 hey could not agree as to distance just then, bnt it is believed that Mr. PulMfir will finally acquiesce and make the race. The money part of the race was not -4 spoken of, but it is almost certain that it will be made for $5,000 as.de, the Association to add UM5.000.

This will make a 30.000 pot for these three cracks to rare for, and it will be a contest that will draw people from thousands of miles around. Tho match, it is believed, was the out-come of the Dwyer Brothers' assertion that Kingston was the peer of both Tenny 0 and Salvator. There are many good judges, too. who assert that the black colt 5 can easily defeat the brown son of I'riuce Charlie and the little swayback, but that 8 remains to be seen. it The records of all three of these horses are well known.

Last year Kingston was undoubtedly the best horse of the year. aud his record of held good until Salvator smashed it at the bheepshead meeting, i feeveral times Kingston ran mile races in close to record time and always won very easily. In his long races he generally won br a neck or a bead, which was due probably to the grand-stand finishes of Haac Murphy, 1 About the only two available jocks to ride Kingston in this great race are Marty Bergen and Tony Hamilton. It is be. heved that Bergen Is Hamilton's superior this year in uuishing, but he cannot equal tho black boy when it comes to judging or making a pace.

Jj It is probable, however, that Bergen will get the mount. Balvator has started three times this year, once being a walk-over. Twice he defeated Tenny, once lu the Suburban 3 and again in a match race by a nose and after a finish that will never bo forgotten 3 by those who saw it. Tenny has started a number of times i bnt has only suffered defeat at the hands .4 of (-'abator. Those who saw the match race say that Teuisy would have beaten Knlvatonn a lev, more lumps, but no one knows liowmuch reserve force Murphy 4 had in Salvator, All three horse will go to tho pott in the pink of condition, and it will te a hot I race from start to finish.

Indeed, on Monmouth's straight course, tho cracks should come very near making the dis. tance in two minutes. At any rate it will be a grand race, and every one heartily 4 hopes it will be satisfactorily arranced. RACING POINTERS. The following are tne horses that different tirstera thinl tboald win on their merits st Brighton and Ootteuburg U-dav: lUferee, la the bporliw Vurld, makes thete selections; First Uacs-Jar Qu EL Emeti filly.

11 Uses Puzzle. Neburc. tTmrd lUcs-Tsttler, Falcon. Fourth Itice -Iieitte Ulorr. i Fifth Hace-ltepem, Westchester.

bizth Bace-Meadow Lirk, Hover it First Race-Blackthorn, Bomaree. Mcomi Ksce Germanic. Dsve h. ff bird Btce-Bllevut. i'sro ins.

fourth llsce-t-luraber, Souvenir. filth jUie Jiigaier. Anomaly. -A, BixthKaee lklli-t. iilJ From Other Morning Papers.

IT aBIGHTOK. First Bce-Ladr 1: Vera. Reeond Kacs-Puzzle. 1 Pnnc Edwsrd, S. Jtj Third It Bignstore, f4 Fourth Bacs Batter, li Bsmartn, S.

ti rifthBao-BtUsiue. Leranto, a. i 1 Sixth Bace-Spcncer, li Bover, 2. First Bsce-Emctl filly, 1: Wlsishlckon colt, Hecond Bace Pnrzle, 1: Newbnrg. 2.

Third Bsce Tattler, li Ueudsrme. 2. Fourth hsmsrls, 2. Fifth IUce-Lenanto. Hlnaloacolt.

2. Hlitli Bace-Futurity, Hpeucer, 2. First Bace-Emettle Ally, li Jay.Qn.El. 2j Ban Joso. 3, hecond Bsce Newbure, li Ileruet, Puzzle, Ihlrd Bace-Tattler, li Middlestone, Bronzomarte, 3.

1'onrth Baco-GUroy. li Bessie llsfter, 3. 'Fifth Bsce-Lepanto, li Dahlmsn, Westchester, 3. hlxth IUce-Silleck, li Bover. 2i Lee Cnsty.

a. 'bhomd Ifths start In tall rsr rnj slctlans wlllb blITur, 1, Lapuiio, 2, UsblmSD, 3. AT aCTTESBCRO. Flrtt Bsce Manhattan, li Bomance, 2. Second 1: I)e8.

2. Third Parolins. 2. Fourth ltace Slumber. 1 Souvenir.

2. Fifth Usee Juggler, Gardener, 2. bixth Back-Bela. Vigilant, 2. First Bsce Lancaster, li Manhattan.

2. KecondBsce Carlow. Gprmsnic. 2. llurd Alarming, 2.

Fourth Bace Lonely. 1 Ouihbier, 2. Fifth Itsce Juggler, li Gardner. 2. Sixth Baco-Guarautee, li Vigilant.

2. First Bace Blackthorn, li Lancaster, Manhattan, 3 Second Bace ondermeut. li Dsve 8., 2: Ihird Bace Bellevue, It Alarming, Psrolina, 3. Fourth Bace Souvenir, Equality, Lonely. 3.

Fifth Bace Jugcler. li Gen. Boulanger, Anomal). 3. Sixth Hace-Vigilant, It Little BUI, Bels, 3.

To-Day e.t Brighton. First Rao KIt furlongs traidens. flan Jos. Jar Qa Kl. Grand Inka.

O-miarra. Jstnottovn, Wfs.aaickoo soil, 113 esoh. ballon. lfj.iiii.il flllr. Mall ot RleUIand, BrlUrjr filljr, lOSeacb.LadrM..

Vera, 08 lb. oach. Soondllaco Savsnfurloozs.MllIng' Harrison, 113. Vlndrt. 112.

Pommmrr boo, 110 Prlnoe 110 H.pi.r.iui Oa.u.). Itlr.ard. W.ll.r 1(X aacb O-sa. 101 llcemet. lirtractit Albomarls, U7, Tappabannock, BH P5Ib.

Ihlrd ann an elfbtb. soiling W. Dalr )r 123,1 attior.Ooiidarmc, 114 rach Ilron. somiria 10H, EUtc. JOtl Eatl.laiw tion, lOAiltapino Ca.t each: hif nituro, 105.

Uonanu, 100. MlddiMtuDO, HI, Lo.r, I 76 lb. Toarth Raeo Tbroo-quartors of a mil Dram- tick. hliMdus I. 114oacbi tra'dom.

10(1, Ibnri. I Hired Jar. Olal.oe, 104 ascb Ulorj. 107, Pamaria, 102s Oxen Golden. Sterling, Killer.

I lles.io IiH each; Laat, King UratUo, OJ oaob I ll.ldof (irUani no lb Fittb Usee laroo.qnartersof amllo, bsndleapt lto.ear Lenanto, 11U. Uctagon, 115,. Ilill.rne.ll'J.Slu.lot ch.Uotii.tt.nllj. llHL.cb, I Dablman. 10 Llttls.

Ada 100 racbt Common benM. 08. Hopsnt, Off llannan. roranco holns. I lJj Graoogsldlng.KO 00111 Hrllonall, ttllr.Lad Ciiaow Wetcbflor, DO lb.

oaeb 1 Hlxth llaoo Verdant blakMi slroplocbusroon I Jumpers short coors Troobloaomo. 14 Jolin Molhni. 164 Coek o'tbo Walk. 14.1, hponoor, IfiJt Dr. Ltitie, Maeao lloko of Lom.ler Fntnrttjr, Hlllack rttonewal.

Hslsn McGreiorrod. tVarAboop, Ixo CbrisljaUeadow Latk, Iloier, lUSJb. Outtonburg'a Card. rirst Itaoo Sailing, siz andon-half forlooga. Lancaster, Elgin, klanh.ltin.I.illl.

MIckfr.Blatk. (bom. Mart OiUon. taohi Benodlct, 11H, Komanro, hberwood, bubaltrrn, Jobnoio iL bir lto.lsriok.il7oaeh, and Ksclal 116 lb feonnd Ha" An furlrn.i selling. ltfptoo, 115 I'o-itoi, 112 Cliruain 111, lis, 1CU Mstt 10H.

Uarlow, llil.j I)r Jiktlt. Bias ll.taih 113 1UJ Millie It, 102 Dai 101, Jim tllllb. Third Raee Firo fnrlongs s'l ng Bstleen. Little Frod. llOe.er, Alariolaf, 107, lloitaotlon fill.

OH lrlnUB.I. 117 Parolms. 04 lb runrtb llao His furlong, stlllng, Cammack. lh Orsy liown. 116 Lons'z, 112.

Hlninbor. tio Cllflwood. Kqaalllj. ItJOeachi Voluotr, 109 Qnlbbler. loa.bontcnlr, 1C6 Aruona.101, Mario, 1 01 Cupid, Unadsgs, IIS lb.

lirthlUc Helling, eis and a half forlonas Amrni. Jogiler. 110 aarht Larcbmoat. 1UV 100, Usrdnsr, OB. ttrlwood, tierria, Oen Bdaianger, 05 sacb Anomaly.

OJ lb xtb Jtaro One mil. (totrsnUs 120 Billy Ilro.n. 117 Blseult, 117. Uela. 117 UooJIr, 117 Vigilant, jlO Tophawr.r, 107.

Bart, 107. btsrling, 1UA Uule Hi.l. Ui In. Palaces of The Long- Ago. Bomo Explorations by a World" Expedition Among Ruined CItioa of the Eouthweat 'Will Bs De-ecrlbed in Next Sunday's "World." The Outrages by Mussulmans at Erzeroum.

lav raiT to thz razss irzws isiornrtow. Lonioj, July 1H, Despatches from the Eait report that outrages are of constant occn re uce at Erzerosm. The Museulmans threaten to sack the Christian quarters. The garriEon has been doubled, but the disorders continue. A hundred women were recently sbjuete snd several were murdered.

A reign of ter. ror exists. Baseball To-Day. I'egulsrly schedule. games: naurs kaiioxaL zxaarz.

Pm.tutit Neork. rifioitodai i irk CleioUnd ai Urvokljn. Pitt. burg at Brooklyn CbUegoxl Bouon, Lh at I'hiladeluhU. Bulta.o at Philadelphia, Incinoati at Uo.ton.

aTLSkTIC associaTiox Baltlmor at Jere.j Hy JViIml gt'n at We H'ren. aah gun at oioe.l.r Keaaik at Hart ord At the Polo Grounds to-day there will two games, the first beginning at 2 o'clock. Percentages this morning of clubs in the leading Leagues. yiikas. re iinomL re How ZeC Hew Aoel tmt.

Boston. 41 27 flP3 Brooklyn 4tl V(l cut Brooklyn. 42 33 .660 Pblla. 4A 3tt Lbict. 31 45 2V W)ii Ne York.

'17 33 ,620 Cmcinn't 4d 2t tS Pbda Cbicuo. .1) Pittehnrg 485 Vork.tl 41 4 11 Cl.ieauJVU .17 4 IU1Ciiiand20 4H V04 buSa.0 lb 4tS iollFitl.bor17 ii aMxaicax. r-r TliTK-. i lTee. ceel IT.

Zoet re(. Loniari'l41 27 003 Bsera 47 7-J AUielUL it i 000 20 fct Louie JO 31 657 Aeark 30 31 637 Roen.fr 3H 5 64 i Worost'(K 20 8 -U .4 I eyracus .11 Sj 440 Olty 41 llSSUif. 51 ittffil3ffMi 1. IVINS IS TEARING MID. Be Siys He Hasn't Lost Any Fassett Infestation Committed Papers.

The Missing Documents Are Unimportant and Kaslly Replaced, Tho atmosphere in the palatial salts of officer in tho Mills Building, in Broad street, occupio 1 by tho law firm of Tracy, Iioardmau. MacFarland, Inns Piatt took on a deep cerulean hue this morning when Barrister William M. Ivius arrived. He had a morning paper in bis hand, and pointing out an article in it, the first remark ho made to Partner Uoardman tans What the dlcken's does all this trash mean Mr. Boordman vouchsafed no reply, but began reading the following seusa tional storv, while Mr.

bins kept ud a running firo of indignaut snorts and comments The average ititor to the Mills Building in Broad Ktreet yesterday must have thought that tomctbinif extraordinary had taken place Un tho fonrth floor are the nftice; of tne law firm of Iracy. Boardman, MacFarland. Ivins A Piatt. It wmou the fourth floorthatthe excitement pretailed. All the steuonraphers' niinnte- of tl i assett Committee KlttniKB had disappeared from Mr.

Ivuie's office. For several week" there have been petty robberies tn the Wall street en of the Mills Building. The postage stamps from otlce'. sometimes amounting to sis and 25, have been taken, end the management of the building dociJed to employ a new janitress for that wing. It was developed yesterday that the new Jani-tre knew little or nothing about the Famet omniittee and less about Mr.

Ivins, and that in cleaning up the office" of Mr. Ivins'nflrm she bad swept away the Fassett Committee's doinus entire. hese reports were all in type-written and we the pride of Mr. Ivins's liie. With one tell ewoin slie dnraped them into her reftme bag.

and the los wa not discoterod until yesterday, when Mr. CroLer was on hi. way to Enrone. Ihe wildest kindof a time prevailed. The newjanitrees nas rent for.

but she could not give any Information, and then a search wai made in the cellar of the Mills Building for the lost "Ihey were worth $2,000. and all the refuse in the cellar was overturned. Mr. lla givins; his personal supervision tn the search. The documents were not found.

It wan then determined to makes tonrof all the jnrk shops in Ann street and The lost document were not found, and Mr. Ivius left for home last night In a great state of mind. It will now be neces'ary for him to get duplicates, and this will necessitate an expense of 2,000. Mr. Ivins was mad.

You could easily ace the wavelets of wrath chasing each cither over his bronzed and now beardless cheeks. In deference to the demands of Phoebus, Mr, Ivins removed bis vaudyke-pointed beard abont a week ago. The beautiful bronze which is laid on so thick on his hairless cheeks, he secured lolling in the saline breezes at Karragan-aett Pier. "This is an infernal fabrication," emphatically remarked tho latter-day in. qulsitortoau Enxivo World reporter, and made up entirely of whole cloth.

We htveu't lost a single paper or document bearing upon the Fassett in vrstlgation. Why look at this pile here" launc his baud pun a Mack of type, written matter a foot thick all that stuff refers to the invei.tigatum. How this sti ry happened to get printed is, I suppose, the result ot some remarks I made in the office a couple of weeks ago. I got on my ear because I couldn't find a bundle of documents that I wanted to lay my hands on just at that tin e. These papers bad nothing to do with the committee's investigation, but still they tere valuable enough to me just hen I needed them at that time, and I was vexed because they had been mislaid 1 iumg ne some reporter wa in the office aud erhaptuvethcurd my rmpbatic remarks and saw a chance to make feu dollars.

He assumed, of course, that the missing papers must have some bearii upon the Fassett Committee'R investigation. I snpiose bis fake wouldn't be of anv value if It related only to ordinary legal documents, and that is why I imagine he made them and to be papers on the investigation. "Are the papers yon lost very valu-ab'e" inquired The Eiimko Would reporter. "All legal papers are valuable to me but the.e I cau ta.i.y duplicate," replied Mr, Ivius. "Tie papers lost," added Mr.

Botrd. man. "are some papers in the suit of the t'ny vs. Ivins to recover fees when Mr Ivius as City Charaberlsiu, They were the summons and complaint and Mr. Iv-ins's brief.

en if they were the Fassett docu-meets could easi enough replac them, tn the stenographers made out manifold copies of them all, and besides be has his notes. To do this wouldn't be verr expensive either, but here we have all those very important Faatett Investigation papers," be, concluded, tapping the big bundle oj tvpewntteu matter lying on a convenient desk. If Mr. Hint was mad. then the only word to pre perly describe Janitor lighe's state of mind is frantic.

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FOREIGN NEWS GABLE. Heavy Storms at London and Paris Floods on tho Danube, Dntfnllon or rirltlsh Grenadier! to be Ilonlshed Kntal. lnrKLArS C1BLK KWS SrtCTSL.1 LotnoK, July 18. After a partial cests-tion of the rain for a few days, the was last evening visited hy tho heaviest downpour of the season. Tbedrain fell in torrents for over two hours and the city was flooded.

The rain was accompanied by constant flashos of lightning, loud claps of thunder and an explosion, the electrical disturbance appearing to be directly over the metropolis. Horses were startled by the reports snd ran away, causing many accidents. The lightning played around the dome of St. Paul's with a remarkable brilliancy, but did no damage. Paris, July 18.

A thunderstorm of universal violence swept over Paris yesterday. The darknes was so great that gas had to lighted. The rain feUln torrents, being driven by a high wind. The lightning was exceptionally vivid, and terrific peals of thunder rent the air Tclegraphio and telephonic communication with Liilo and Belgium wore suspended. ViKrWA.

July 18. Last night the Danube rose ten feet above its normal height and I flooded a large district below the city. A rrcmber of houses and fishermen's huts that were Invaded by the water bare been abandoned. The Cemetery of the Nameless. Winn on the shore of the river, 1 ent.rely submerged, only tho tops of the higher monuments being visible.

Tho inhabitants of that section were obliged to escspe lu boats. Yes, This Rumor la Both Wild and Incredible. rprm-ar cali mw. srveriT.i LosDoic, Jnly 18. There Is a wild rumor afloat here that Augustin Daly proposes to build a theatre In London, in partnership with Clement Scott, the well-known writer on the drama and critlo for the Dally Ttle- graph.

Minnie Baule Coming to Sine; TJa Her Farewell. rocit.Af rasu waws irnit.1 LoifpoK. July 18. Mme. Minnie Hank sails for America is January on a farewell tour.

Bfae will give ten performances at the Metropolitan Opera-Houie tn New York. On her letnrn to Europe she will appear in England and Germany prior to her final retirement from the stsge, A. Battalion of British Grenadiers Bentencsd to Banishment. rny caslk vo tiis fskss msws aisostaTiov Lotnov, July 18. A Court of Inquiry which has been sitting at the Horse Qusrds, inquiring into the refusal of the hecond Battalion of Grenadiers to parade on Mon.

day, July 7, the day of the expected police strike, has decided that the battalion be banished to Natal for two years for serious breach of discipline. Ihe Guards are preparing a remonstrsree asainst the decree and will resist the orders for the remsval of the Qrenadlers, which they denounce as penal trsnspoitatlon to which British soldiers should not submit. Btroug feeling lia. been aroused the army and at the military headquarters. SUICIDE ON WARD'S ISLAND.

An Insane Patient Hangs Himself in His CelL A despatch was received by the Com. missioners ot Chanties and Correction this morning stating that Charted Mc. I ean an inmate of the Wsrd's Island lubsne Asylum, had committed suicide l'p to noon particulars regarding the, self-murder had been received beyond the fact that the demented man had banged himself in his cell. His body was shipped to the Morgue in this city where It will await the Coroner' action, McLean as admitted to the asylum on Jnly 16, 1689, He is said to have relatives in this city He was afflicted with suicidal mania, and last night he escaped the vigilance of bis nurse. Fresh Air Easily Obtained.

The people who travel to Coney Island er Long Branch on one of the Iroa Btesmbost I Compsny'e steamers get more then the mosey worth fresh air and recreation. The boats Uav from West Twenty-third street. North Bivsr. and from pier No. 1 North Biver, and there are so many boats In the fleet that thtrs is eomparstmly bills delay.

2 O'CLOCK, MEINTHEAIR I Upper Floors of the Western Union Building Totally Destroyod, Halrbraadth Escapes ot Hen and Women Employees. Flvo Thousand Tolograph Wires Burned Out Losa Nearly a Million. Prompt Measures Talten by the Company to Iteiume Business. "The 'Western Union Building is afire!" A man shouting theso startling words ran down Broadway towards the colossal structure of he great telegraph company at 7 o'clock this morning. Flames were belching forth from the front windows on the sixth floor, twenty feet above tbo brownstone building on tho north.

Men mil women were emerging from the basement doors into Broadway and Dey street, having juit completed their uight's work as operators on the seventh floor of the big building, while other men and women were entering to take up the day's work at the clickers. Dennis Gunn, American District mes. senger boy No. 1,184. was sauntering leisurely down to bis day's work.

No. 1,184 heard the shout. He was quick to act. Ilunning as never messenger-boy rau before, be reached the fire, alarm box at the corner of Maiden lane and Broadway, and quickly sent out tne alarm that brought the engines and trucks from the nearby homes. They were there in six minutes, the horses panting, the engines puffing and snorting.

AS" AFPAlXIXa TASK. It was an appalling job that the plucky firemen had before them. The fire was far up above the roofs of all the surrounding buildings. It would be impossible to reach it from the ground with the most powerful streams whish their engines could throw. The building front shows eight stories and a toner, but it ia as high as an ordinary eleven-story structure, and it was fully forty feet from that roof to the next one below, that of the building occupied by the American District Telegrspb Office, 8 Dey street.

Ilunning to that side, the firemen could see men and women running about wildly, shouting snd screaming. They were operators and others who had been belated in leaving the building and had been trapped on the seventh floor, where the operating-room is located. The corridors snd stairways were filled with smoke and to attempt a passage through them would have resulted in suffocation. Policeman Davis, of the Church street station, heard the cry of fire and saw the tongues of nerce flames coming from those windows so high tip. He, too.

ran to the fire-alarm box at Maiden lane, arrhing just as Messenger 1, lot had sent out the alarm. SKCOKIl AMP TIIIBD ALARMS. The officers sent out another and then another, and in less than half an hour there ero seventeen engines and four trucks at the scene, with Chief Bonner on bund to direct their movements. hosk rnou oiiieu loom. Lines of hose were united lu order to make them long enough to reach, and the firemen carried them up through the nearby building, while auother corps carried ladders up through the American District Telegraph building adjoining the Western Union on Dey street, and by splicing them together nude them long enough to reach the roof where the wild and screaming operators were penned.

Then tho men and women ambered down from their jienlous perch to saftty on the lover roof. The firemen carried lines of hose through the buildings of lbs Mercant le I NatiOLul Bank on the sooth coiner of Broadway and Dey street, and O. lireeley dealers in telegrspb, telephone i and railway supplies, next adjoining on Dey street. THE nag MOCXTiltQ CF. These buildings are five stories high, and from their roofs the firemen succeeded iu throwing streams into the blazing battery and operating rooms, fcr the fire had now gone up to the seventh floor, and was spreading rapidly all through the building on those floors I It was approaching 8 o'olook, and fully 600 men and women, day operators and clerks, whose ork-room is on the seventh floor of tho building, had arrived in the street below, and there thanked God that the fire had broken nut before rntlierthau after they lind birtin flit ilaj's work.

I No lew than S0.00J people thronged Broadway, Fnlton, l)ey, John ami Church streets, and business was for gotten naoADWAv nt'stf ras M.ocKrn. None of the dealers in Broadway between Pulton mil Jnhti MnclH opened their stores, nn I through llrrnd-wnv and the surroundi Mntts must bo mndo through a heat "Shower from the twenty streams that wcto speedily turned npon the fire. Chief Cootiov, of r.ngine 29, tho first fireman to unit on the scene, rati up to the box at the corner of Beekuian and Nassau streets and rung fourth alsrm, which brought out all the reserves from as far up aa Fifth street. When the tiro broko out most of the operators were In the restaurant on tbo seventh floor, though forty of them vi ere still in the operating-room directly over tho battery. room.

sTAMrEDi.ii the orKRATons. fimoko came through the apertures through which the wires pass from the battery-room into the operating-room. It was dense and stilling, and the operators with one accord lift their instruments and rallied pell-mell toth- staircases, not waiting to collect their wearing apparel. The elevators run no higher than the fifth floor, and the stalrwajs were fast filling with smoke, but the operators succeeded in reaching tho fifth floor, where many of them escaped in the two big olovators. ELEVATORS 0M TIRE, The elevators were kept running till the drum operating from a bo re began to smoke and sparks fell from it.

Tbiu the lift was abandoned and the rest of the operators took to tho stairs, which were clear of smoke below the fifth floor. The last to leavo the operating room were Night Mauager Tobin and Chief Operator James Bobmson. Tobin and Bobiuson remained behind a few minutos to look for the llames They found that the fire was located directly under the "distributing ring," which contains the numerous pneumatic tubes of the Assotlated Press and West, era Union Company. Bobiuson seized a llsbcock fire-ox. tinguisber and played a stream of the chemicals upon the flames, while Tobin threw several hand grenades.

These efforts seemed to hsvc no effect on tbo fire, and a final effort made with a fire hose coiled on this floor succeeded no bettor, and after a few minutes sal f-preser. ration, the first lsw of nature, caused the men to abandon the work, and seek safety by the smoke filled Iron-bound staircases, LIKE A HAOINO rriLXACE. Bv this time the battery-room was a raging furnace, and the big room on the floor above wa filled with smoke from corner to corner. The coiling of tho bntterr-room is literally a ttebof wires and csbles, some of the latter being of immense size and oon. taiuing many wires, and covered with in-sulatiug material made of very inflammable stuff.

The half dozen women who had fled to the roof stood directly over the battery-room, snd presently tongues of flame shot up along the wall of the building and into tbe air directly before them. Then it was that panic seized them and the wildest scenes resulted. A SCENE Or TZRB0B. The women swayed backward and forward. One of them clambered up on the iron railing that skins tbe roof and peered over towards Fulton street.

There was forty feet of space between her and the roof of the next building below, and beyond that yawned a vacant lot that extended out to Fulton street. HonniriED spectators. A crowd of UK) people iu Fulfon street saw her. They thought that she was about to trust herself iu a leap down to tbe roof below, and with one accord they yelled to her Don't jumpl fetop there! They are coming fcihe was a colored woman, a cook In the restaurant, r-he clambered downtotLe stone roof again, and wruug her hands in on agony of fear. HELP WAS COMING.

Then, peering over the railing on the west side of the roof, the imprisoned women could see the Life-Saying Corps and the firemen etruggling with a ladder which they were raising from Dey street. Slowly tbe ladder was raised to the roof of Dey street and then, with difficulty, it was raised through tho labyrinth of wires that cross th open spsce from the eUrn I'niou Mnlding to tho poles beyond. It wss finally placed against the burning building, and then It was found that it was far too short to reach the people, on the roof, BaEO BT THE I4FE UKES. Life line were carried up to the top of the ladder and shot from time up onto the roof. Tbeu the women were lowered, one by one.

to the roof beneath, while shout after ahi ut went up in encourageaent from the excited crowd below. The tbrougs in the streets surged to and fro. aud 100 policemen from the Church street. Old slip aud Oak street stjuad had their hands lull in keening the people out of tbe way of the Cremen, while a tbiu-sand heals were thrust out of the windows in all the buildings in the neighbor, hood. C1CITEUES.T IX TBE ASTOE HOCSE.

The south front of the Aster House, on Vesey street, presented a remarkab'e aspect The nets in the streets had awakened every guest, and st each window there was a nlghtcapped head. As far away as the Brooklyn Bridge there ware crowds of people thronging i tbe span over midstream, for fiom there the big blaze could be seen plainly. nAlrl.FD BV THE IttlOltT. Tbo ettrctuo helrht of the blazing building mndo the work of the Art men I exceedingly dlfllctilf, i A stream from tho top of tho wilor I lower, eiteiided to lis fiill length. Vnrelv1 reached tho InUnws of the burning floor on tho Broadway side, whilo there wa much waste of wnler in crnsluj Dev street from the roofs of tho buildings posito to tho sceuo ol the fire.

t'Nurn coNir.ot, in two Horns. There were two hours of fierce fighting before the flames wire gotten tinder control, and even then Hits remit was more for tho tcnson that the firo bad burned out all Ihe inflammable mate, rial at hand. what was iicnsrn. '1 ho three upper floors of tho buildiug were completely destroyed. This includes tbo operating-room, buttery-room, tho gallery, the dressing-rooms, the main office of the Associated Press In the top ot tho building and the restauraut adjoining it.

All the lower floors were literally flooded with water. Among tho offices that wero ruined by water were those of Jay Gould, Htissefl Sage, Sidney Dillon, Dillon Hnajne's law offices and tho Commercial News Department of tho Western I'niou Telegraoh service. WIBE BEBVICE CBirrLEB. Every wire iu the buildiug is either burned out or melted. Tbo Isrge cables are destroyed, down to the third floor, and It will take ajeng time to test them all out, even if the building was iu readi.

nas to run the wires to tbe instruments. Tbe officials held an impromptu meeting in the main hall of the building, ankle deep In water, where Bnpts. Hum-stone and Brown, Manager Dealy, Wire-Chief Baldwin and others wero already getting their large forces of linemen at work. OETTPIf. EEtDT to wore.

Mr. Humstone said they would start temorary offices all over the building just as as possible. They liuvo established the- main office temporarily at 16 Broad street in tho Stock Exchango building, where they have a large force of men an 1 room enough to handle a large amount of tho business. All tho brokers wireB, fltock Exchange aud other Exchange wires have been destroyed Iu the operating room there were about 3,000 instruments, which are valued at from t35 to 4t0 each. MBS.

ADA US' CLOSE CALL. Bin. Adams bad a narrow escape. She was working the Albany quad" at the time the fire broke out and sho grabbed a handful of night mexsages which she bad been sending and ran down the stairs, snd the messages she ssved are all that were taken from the building. THE ASSOCIATED TBEHS CLEANED OCT.

Above tho operating-room is the lunchroom and Associated Press office. The Associated Presa will bo a heavy loser, as its rooms are completely gutted and all of their records, libraries, valuable scrap books, are burned. EXaiXEES CLABX'S ESCArE. Bnllding Engineer Clark was asleep at the time tbe Are broke out and hia escape was marvellous, although there was one man, Mr Paul Gheehau, the all-night Chief, left after hlra, it ho slid down a wire to a ladder which was put out on the Dey stieet side. SAVED Till PAT-BOLL.

William bookkeeper and clerk, succeeded iu securing over nine hundred vouchers, which were ill mado out and signed, ready to pay off the large forco on Faturday. Theie were forty-five men and thirty women in the building at the time the fire broke out. They lost everything except the office coau they bad ou, as their cloak-rooms were beyond their reach on the floor below. All of the "time books" were destroyed, and the Company will have no little trouble in figuring out the extra "split trick" and other charges of the operators. Had the fire occurred an honr later there would bate been between eight hundred and out) thousand people iu the building, with at least five hundred in tbe operutic; wm alone, aud the panto which would have surelv occurred would doubtless have resulted in the loss of many lives.

mPEQCATE flBE-rsCAFEg. The exits from tbe operating-room are entirely madtquate to let out so large a force of people in a short time. Tbe stairways used by the male operators are about four feet wide, and bleak of) at Intervals of four or five steps, so that It almost spiral. That down, which the operators leave the room, which Is tn the nar of tne buildiug, is likewise danger, ous in of a rush. WHAT CAl'SID THE riEE.

Wire Ch ef Baldwin says that tbe fire was caused on old amgle wire, not properly insulated, haing got crossed with a wire hraiily charged. This is nut the first fire which ha been started in the building. Lea than a year ago there a fire broke out in the storeroom un the ninth floor, bat It was put out with only $600 lo-s. The origin of that lire has never yet been known. TUB pOXI-AXr KSCBXD ITsXir.

Tbe Company earns its own insurance, tbe amount of which could not be aacer. tuned from tbe officials at tbe building. ELOODED WITU WATXB. All of the building is flooded with water. In the cashier's, receiving and messenger departments the men ate trying to straighten thing oat while carrying urn.

brellaj spreai over their heads and standing in water up to their shoe top. BEmcirr or tbe xzw code. Chief Bonner new fire code worked to perfectne. Ait sr thraa alarms had been vm scut out it wbrfcpn that Hie fire would be ettromety dangerous to surrounding property nnd fourth atnrm was ordered. '-M This is the first time that fourth alarm 11 has beou sent sinco the new code went vwM iuto effect.

sH t'mler tho old syslcm after three alarms had been rent It would be neces- ''j eary to rend a number of special calls in 1H order td summon the required number of engines without retorting to the three jjll sixit, which would call out more than 4 wero needed. xafl The fourth nlnrm sent out this morning SiB not only Raved great deal of trouble but isfaH ccouoiul7ed on time nsjnelL, PH Tim NEW AUUEPCCT HELPED. ilH Tho water presuro was greatly in- fljl crrnaed by tho opining of the new aque. lM duct, mid in this war the firemen were greatly r.idod in their work. 11 bile tome were preparing the Depart- hbH in cut pipes othots rushod into the butld- "iH li and got to work with the Q'e boso be- longing to the Western Union Company.

4H aud in this way did much to retard tho prosiets of the flame- The hose distributid through the build- DlV Ing arc 2-luch pi pen, snd tbe water pre- IfsH sure was so grtat tint the firemen ezpe- 1ial neuro 1 some difficulty in directing ihe SbH strenms of water. It is also said that souiu of the couplings cracked. -H THE ENGINE ENUAOED. 4 The fire apparatus called to the scene afl covered Broadway as far onth aa Wall 3 street, and above the Post-Ofilco on the SH north, and extended below Nassau and Church streets on tho cast and west. Tho pipe running from the engine near J.H all street threw strong stream of 'aH water, and thtre was no let-np in the -W'l pressure until long after o'clock, when HaH thousands of gallons of water bad been drawn from the mains nnd the building JB waa flooded.

'HilH HOW THE FIEF. WAS D18COVEBXD. Jl Mnrtln Dovle. of Trinity place, was at work in the operating-room on the wH seventh floor when the lire broke out. and vH waa the first to give an alarm.

Sa'aH It wss about 6 S3 o'clock when the vi'aH first traces of the fire were discovered. Night Manager Tolnn was in charge ''ubLb! and there were about twenly operators on jf-'IbbbI the floor. I smelled fire, and in a moment a little cloud of smoke ascended from the 'Ussl ring in tho centre of the room. "Mr. Tobin and several others lifted a 'Kasssl trap door and big cloud of smoke eaino ''-s'H up.

All hands then got hand-grenades 'lljassi aud tried to overcome tbe fire, but a mo- mont later they saw a blaze. tXbbbbI I wok then rushed off to send an 2bbbbi alarm, and ran to tbe corner of Maiden tfjl lano and Broadway, where the messenger oUiH hoy bad slrendy rung twice. Several Sbbbb. others camn up at the ntuin time, as by 'SjH this time tho smoke could be seen from 'xiH tbe sidewalk. jrvsafl crosann wieis to blame, MbbbI The firo probably started by the 4 11 crossing of wires, for when we lifted up jQI the trap the smoke smelled as though it KBtfl came from rubber-covered wires.

3B Alter sending the alarm I'went back, jH but er body bad come downstairs. oH "The lire blazed tery rapidly, and hy the time I got back the entire floor waa Oassi envelope! in smoke." -fSBSsi A. G. Wicken. a clerk at II Dey street, also summoned the engines.

S-H He was stmding on the street at 7.05 "sssi o'clock when he saw rmoke issuing from 31 the Windows on tbe seventh floor. He bssb! ran around to the engine-house in Church street and notified the firemen. jll HALF A MILLION LOS. tf)B At 9 o'clock Thomas Brennsn. assistant L'sssi manager of the Western Union Telegraph Comiuiuy.

said that he could not state ssssl positively what would be the loss on in- '2bbbbi sfruments, wires, bsttery. Aa, but llil bought it wonld foot up to. if not exceed, MM 500.000. '-sbb1 Mr. Brennsn marshalled his day force Wbbbb.

together at the Telegraphers' Club room. whence he is sending them in squad to "Ibbbbi Jersey City, Hoboken, Harlem. Brook- Itn und every point in fact where bbbbI their wires euter the city, and all outside business will be received at these points and delivered throughout the city by HB It will take some time before tbe city TH lines can lie replaced, and put in working order again. isssB. Tbe first wires that will be gotten in i bbssi working order will be the long circuits.

fH AS IRBEPABABLE LOSS, 1b Mr. William Henry Smith, general fwH manager of tbe Assoo.sled Presa, said: "I suppose we shall have to resign Wsbbbs ourselves to ottr fate. Our gTeat loss la -H in tbe drctructiou of reference books, ssbbI contracts and letter books, that held the aB entire history of the Associated Press SIH from UtJ down to the present day. -Bafl The loss is irreparable. The records aH cau never he replaced.

bI "Mr. Williams; and myself suffer a great prirste loss in papers and books of bbbb rare historical value, which we gathered -'U in Europe. ''bbH The pecuniary loss ot the Associated Press is comparatively slight. It wild probabl) amount to 15. 000." iB The Associated Press has opened offices already lu Jerey City, and will receive fi'H and tend desoatches there to day.

To- JsbH morrow they II be at 413 Broadway, th old B. and 0. office. -H those who Hurrrn damaoes. ssssl Following is a complete list of all the 3afl offices iu the Western Union building.

SwaB None of the tenants in the bnllding suffers sny loss from fire, but more or less dam. 1 Hj age is done by water everywhere; 3bI Tbe Insurance Patrol covered all prop- IVafl erty in every tory from the sixth down fsBBBi with heavy tarpaulins, and it is believed -H that the damage has been reduced to a minimum by this precaution, iH Basement Western Union receiving and 'iwH de'ivery rooms. afaTa first Floor Treasurer Western Unioa fBSBjj Telegrspb Company; Phamix. Insuranee CVcouJ' Floor-Jay OonldtlWabatb, St Louis and Pacific llailroad Company; Texas and Pacific Kailroad Company: ht, Louis. 4bbbi Iroa Mountain and tiouthern lUdroads In- lasssl ternationsl and Oreat Northern Badrpadt l.old and htock Telegraph Company! Iroa J4H Mountain Car Trust; Missouri Fscins Ball.

jaH Floor-Executiie office v7Mt iH Cmou, Journal of the Talesrapb. ssssl Four Hoor-Dilloa A Bwayns. aleetrf- can' office. James Bsmblst, tun ssrvte, kafsBBi Brown A Wells. Superintendent First Diw.

tH sion Western Union. bTH Fifth Floor-Cable department rTestara Union; auditor' department. JH blxth Honr -Battery room. RetunthFloor-flsnerU orrUBgMas. iafsal EiiJhth Prey; Book- 4sbss1 keening Department, New York; loath -H "Ninth Floor Kltcbsa and bdroom fe jH 'euth Floor-Storeroom for datpatessW I $100,000 loss ob tub tIIbbbI Expect insurance men who were on th jdiwH spot estimated that tb building bad baea bb damaged at Isaat 3100,000.

IB It is impossible a yet to asrtsla th 3aH amount of loss br water is the floors be- faaH low those on which the fire raged, mi I HM equally imposaibls to state yet FH amount of Insurance. 4 'Hibbbbi OBIT BOOM TIAPLBO TO-HAT. BiLsinelipr6odcJUysBipiata(f SkH Stock, ctroUaxa and OobssIMaU.I change, only "reoa tradxag -JM Indulged Ln. bIbbbB Jbbsssssi.