Show KOPP ESTIMATES w v M m m m m LOSS AT H II I I Costly Furniture Destroyed by Night Blaze on West Fifth South FAMILY CAT IS ISI LIONIZED RESIDENCE WAS ONCE EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE EXCLUSIVE SIVE GAMBLING PLACE i Phillip Philip Kopp whose house at West Fifth South street was damaged by fire early yesterday morning esti estimates estimates mates his loss at The is fully by insurance The cat whose restless movements t I in Mrs Kopps Kopp bedroom as the house filled with smoke saved the lives of the five members of the family was the hero of the neighborhood yester yesterday yesterday day lay Children from hundreds of sur surrounding surrounding surrounding rounding homes gathered in the Kopp yard rard to catch a glimpse of the won wonderful wonderful Tabby Mrs Kopp wash was so grateful to the cat that she kept it in indoors Indoors doors doom The heroic pussy bears the plaudits with becoming modesty The Kopp house Is a double building I It 11 was formerly owned by Sam Reggel The eastern portion was sumptuously sumptuous furnished Glittering prisms hung from the chandeliers and rich carpets and rugs covered the floor The furniture was of rare woods and richly upholstered upholstered st red The western portion of the building had been furnished at consid considerably considerably less expense Once a Gambling Establishment Both the building and the furniture wre purchased from Reggel by Kopp opp about five months ago The contrast c in the interiors of the eastern and western sides was ex explained explained by neighbors as due to an ar arrangement arrangement made by Reggel when he was owner by which the palatial east cast eastern ern em side was used by gamblers several year ago while the western side was occupied as a dwelling Persons living in Jn the vicinity of the house declare that It was at one time the resort of wealthy men whenever they desired to spend a night at roulette or faro When the building passed into the hands of Kopp K pp the eastern side was Vas used by the Kopp family and the oth other other other er side was rented to another family famil Started In Furnace Room Yesterday mornings fire started in inthe inthe Inthe the furnace room in the basement on the eastern side All of the rooms on that side with the exception of the parlor were ruined by the flames One tilde Bide of the parlor was vas burned and the costly furnishings were ruined by tho th water used by the fire fighters On the western side some of the rooms were reached by the fire but the chief loss was due to smoke and water A peculiar thing about the blaze was its starting up for a second time after the tle firemen had apparently apparent stamped stam ed It out When the firemen responded to the first alarm they worked for sev several eral cral ral hours and then departed in the belief that the fire was out A little later a young man in the neighborhood discovered a blaze eating its way up upward upward ward ard in the hallway He Ho sent In an alarm and the firemen returned After a second and harder struggle the fire was put out During Durl g the time between the first and second outbreak of flames Mr Kopp was able to recover the money which Mrs Kopp haij haJ left behind her In ju her hor bedroom when she was compelled to tr t flee to a place v |