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Show NEW YORK BALI PARKJ ASHES NEW YORK, April 11. The Kreat double de,ck grandstand and the right field bleachers at the National League Baseball park were destroyed by firo early this mornlnc, causing a loss estimated esti-mated at from $75,000 to $100,000 The club house and the center and left field bleachers wero saved and the fire, which started at 12:30 a. ra., was under control two hours later. Manager McGraw of tho Now York team, said that with tho permission of the building department, today's game with Philadelphia would bo held as scheduled. If this course 1b not pursued, pur-sued, the American league park will ho used. McGraw believes the blaze 'originated 'originat-ed In the thick layer of peanut shells In the bleachers The park seats forty thousand per-' sons and had just been renovated for the 1911 baseball season, which opened Tuesday. The park has been the home of tho New York National league club for years and is one of the most beaitlful In the cou n try The grandstand was a double deck steel and wood affair and the field is surrounded by a perfect arapltheater of bleachers At 2 o'clock this morning only tho bleachers rtt the east ond were standing stand-ing Becauso of the depression In which the grounds are situated under a bluff and at the terminus of tho elevated railroad, the fire was exceedingly exceed-ingly hard to reach and had an almost uninterrupted sweep before firemen could get adequate streams of water into play Five hundred empty cars of tho elevated ele-vated railway were standing on tracks adjoining the park, and many of them caught fire. With tho grandstands, which were destroyed, the new club house and the dressing rooms, enta'nlng in all a loss estimated at about $75,000. |