. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . ructionthis time being the work of incendiaries. The manager was Mr. Burton, his-stage manager Mr. Wemyss. When these gentlemen entered the house aboutfive oclock (it was Saturday), they were met by one of the company, Mr. Okie,who said that he thought he smelt fire. Investigation proved the accuracy ofhis surmise. In the prompters box fire was found in three places, and in thepit ticket office a quantity of spirits of turpentine was discovered t havebeen thrown into a box of lo
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . ructionthis time being the work of incendiaries. The manager was Mr. Burton, his-stage manager Mr. Wemyss. When these gentlemen entered the house aboutfive oclock (it was Saturday), they were met by one of the company, Mr. Okie,who said that he thought he smelt fire. Investigation proved the accuracy ofhis surmise. In the prompters box fire was found in three places, and in thepit ticket office a quantity of spirits of turpentine was discovered t havebeen thrown into a box of loose rubbish, and the office on fire in two bottom of the rear door of the office was also found burning. These werescarcely extinguished when Mr. Russell, the treasurer, and his assistant, found that a fire had been started under the staircase leading fromthe rear of the box-office to the suite of apartments above, occupied by and his family. It was only with the greatest difficulty that this con-tlagration was extinguished. But this was not all. In a room in the second. ASTOR PLACE OPERA HOUSE. 234 olK KIR KM EN. story adjacent to Mr. Russells rooms two other fires were found burning-spirits of turpentine had been strewn over a pile of theater tickets, and inanother pail of the room manuscript music and other papers were on fires having been extinguished a roll of paper thrown from an upperstory window into Leonard Street was found to contain a quantity of frictionmatches. Below was the Turkish Saloon, where a box of matches of a likekind was found. It was clear that an attempt had been made to fire thesaloon also, and that there was more than one incendiary. Notwithstandinghis alarming discovery Mr. Burton decided to let the performance #o on. At the close a thorough search was made of the premises, and nothingsuspicious was found. At 3:30 a. M. Mr. Russell went to bed. He could notsleep, however, and at six oclock arose, went to t
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