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Show SPORTSMEN'S SHOW IS DAMAGED BY FIRE ' . ; . ' . NEW YORK, March I. Fire was dissevered dis-severed in Madison Square Garden last night, a short time after the thousands who had been attending the sportsmen's show and the audience in,' the Garden theater had left the building. The fire started In some rubbish In a storeroom In the northeast corner at Fourth avenue and Twenty-seventh street, and worked its way up from the storeroom, where it started,' to the second balcony, on which: were the exhibits of birds and wild animals. The bears- and wild cats and a pair of tame wolves were aroused by the smoke, and -fought madly to escape. One of the bears and a wild cat perished. . i The fire practically destroyed all of the exhibits on the second baioony at the Fourth avenue end of the Garden, beside damaging others by smoke and water. Chief Croker estimated the damage to the building and exhibits at $15,000. |