Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company
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The Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company was part of the famed American Tobacco Company
and housed in a row of New York City
Buildings 200 feet long and 100 feet deep and 4 stories high from 515 to 525 West 22nd Street. At the 513 address was a salesroom and at 529 was a 5-story building of the packing department. The building was built by Kinney Brothers in 1888 after moving from West Broadway. Kinney Brothers was known to be able to manufacture 18,000,000 cigarettes weekly.
On October 6, 1892, the entire building was gutted by a five-alarm fire. It was supposed that the fire started around 5:30 a.m. in the basement storage area of address 521 by a gas leak that was ignited by the lighting system (gasaliers). An estimated 40,000,000 cigarettes were destroyed by flame and/or water damage. The estimated losses to American Tobacco was estimated at $350,000. Due to the earliness of the fire, no one was injured.
American Tobacco Company
The American Tobacco Company was a tobacco company founded in 1890 by J. B. Duke through a merger between a number of U.S. tobacco manufacturers including Allen and Ginter and Goodwin & Company...
and housed in a row of New York City
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Buildings 200 feet long and 100 feet deep and 4 stories high from 515 to 525 West 22nd Street. At the 513 address was a salesroom and at 529 was a 5-story building of the packing department. The building was built by Kinney Brothers in 1888 after moving from West Broadway. Kinney Brothers was known to be able to manufacture 18,000,000 cigarettes weekly.
On October 6, 1892, the entire building was gutted by a five-alarm fire. It was supposed that the fire started around 5:30 a.m. in the basement storage area of address 521 by a gas leak that was ignited by the lighting system (gasaliers). An estimated 40,000,000 cigarettes were destroyed by flame and/or water damage. The estimated losses to American Tobacco was estimated at $350,000. Due to the earliness of the fire, no one was injured.