Articles on a fire at the Olympic Theater

“Soon after noon yesterday, smoke was discovered issuing from one of the upper windows of John Wildey’s Mutual Club rooms in the Olympic Theater building…The announcement that the Olympic Theater was on fire soon drew to the vicinity an immense crowd of persons. The rehearsal of ‘Humpty Dumpty’ was in progress at the time. The theater employés [sic] very sensibly locked the front doors leading into the theater, and kept out the immese throng that had already congregated in front of the building. In the mean time pails of water were carried to the upper story and dashed upon the fire…The Fire Department was soon upon the ground…and the fire was soon extinguished; not, however, before it had made its way through the roof and seriously endangered the entire building. [Calculates losses.] The theater proper was unharmed. Among the the interested spectators were…a crowd of other theatrical characters, including some of the female representatives of the ‘Forty Thieves.’ [They] were posted on the opposite side of the street, watching the proceedings under Maillard’s sheltering awning…”

“The fire that was reported to have occurred in the Olympic Theatre on the afternoon of April 23d was in another building, and not the theatre at all. It took place in one of the upper bed rooms [sic] of the hotel in front of the theatre and burnt through the roof. The hotel building is apart from the theatre building, and ntohign to do with the Olympic, excepting that the main entrance is through it.”