Morning journal and courier., 1884-08-23
rHr moReAN nroNUmENT.

Fire i'm the Cedar H1ll Cemetery, Harts ford-An Incendfary's DastardIy Work The Monument Ruined one Man Ruined by the Fire. The Morgan memorial monument which has been in process of erection in Cedar Hill
 cemetery four miles from Hartford, for the past three years and which is valued at $60,- 900, was ruined by fire Thursday night. It
 has been covered by shed fifty feet high to protect the workmen and keep the memorial from public sight, This shed was set on fire at 11:15 o'clock, it is thought by tramp, and there being no means to stop the fire the elegant memorial was crumbled beyond all repair It is of Italian marble and had three elaborately carved female figures, modelled after original and costly designs. There was no watchman in the cemetery at the time and the fire was not discovered until the shed was enveloped in flames. The contractor is Albert Entrees, of Hartford, upon whom | will fall the loss, and he says he is ruined by l it. The werkmen engaged on it were from New York, Philadelphia and Jersey City. The bodies of Governor E. D. Morgan of New York, his wife and son are in the vault beneath the destroyed memorial, but were ' unharmed. The suspicion that it is the work of ghouls prevails among the people living near the cemetery, but it is more like ly the spite of men nearer than those en- gagged in working on the memorial The work was to have been completed by Decem- \ Der.
 MT. Abel Allyn, who lives 300 feetsouth of | the fire, says he knew nothing about the fire \ until yesterday morning. He cannot account ! for it's origin except on the grounds of incen- diarism.
 M,a CLiDDar xybo o,,ToorS fo baua boau < the first person to discern the fire, says that the fire, in her judgment, was set. In an swer to inquiries as to whether any strangers had been noticed about the cemetery Thurs [ day she said there were. One in particular, whom she regarded as a tramp, stopped at her house between 6 and o'clock that night and wanted something to eat He was given something and asked for matches, which were also furnished him. Mrs. Skinner did not notice which way he went after leaving ! the house, but her son did, and says he went toward the city. Mrs. Skinner describes the man as being about thirty-fve years old very decently dressed, dark complexioned dark hair and whiskers. She says it is noth ' ing uncommon for tramps to walk through the cemetery and apply to the house fol food.
 Inquiry among those who lived near and { who are acquainted with the cemetery elicit \ ed the same opinion as to the cause of the \ uI0, NlZ, 1uceuu1dFJ AuOuS GAo ucUIR \ was small stove, but it is agreed by al | concerned that there was no fire in the stove ' Thursday, nor has there been any since colo \ weather.
 Mr. Entrees and MT. Scr1bner cannot ac \ count for the cause of the fire, but they in sist that there was no fire in the stove. They ! advance no theory as to the cause. Ther' was no insurance on any part of the property \ Tools to the value of $500 were destroyed
 \ About $200 of this will fall on the workmen \ A tool chest which stood on the floor of tn west side of the shed was burned and tn
 iron tools laid in heap on the roof of tn
 vault.