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Show BLAZE IN A ! SKYSCRAPER I; New York Business Dis- I ,r trict Has Another"' I 'I Fire Scare , . New York, Jan. 17. A stubborn fire 1 V on the ground floor of the 22-story 1 office building owned by the Knlck- ffl t' erhocker Trust company at -the cor- M l ner of Broadway and. Exchange Place II gave the financial district some mo- I . ments of trepidation early todav. I The blaze was within a few" hun- I dred feet of tho stock exchango but ; I was got under control before It could. I t spread beyond tho building where tit I f started. The loss will J not exceed. : $100,000. , I J The blaze started in the cutting ' rooms of a tailoring and furnishing ','' goods firm, which has a room and ' ' ' f store at the rear corner of tho build- ,- 'jf Ing Just behind the vaults of the i 1 Trust company By the time the fire- f men arrived tho flames had worked I I i their way beneath these vaults ind . for a tlmo the situation looked seri- ; ; ous, particularly in view that practi- M I cally all the first-class apparatus from the lower part of the city had been t ! sent four miles uptown to assist In ! f 1 fighting a five--alarm fire in the dry ' H goods warehouse on the North river - water front. ) J , The Knickerbocker company's t building Is a more modern structue I than the ruined Equitable building ' which was located only a block to tho I , V. north on Broadway and the steel I ' ' ' walls and concrete floors held the fire I ! f until a flood of water and chemicals ' ! 1 i gradually gained the mastery. ' , I ' I It was an hour after the first alarm Jf ! i : was turned In before Assistant Chief ' r Binns was willing to say thattho I i flames were under control." The dam- i ' age was confined to tho store whero ' ) the fire Btarted. j is 1 I |