The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-31
AFIRE BUGS BOLD WORK
A BURNING MISSILE THROWN
THROUGH A WINDOW.

a BD INNING MISSILE IdRO W n
THROUGH A WINDOW.
The Second Attempt to Fire the Har-
dee Bunding-A Bag OF Burning Cot
ton Aimed at a Pile of Excelsior and
Moss in the Second Story of the
Building over the Strauss Printing
Company's Office Officers Hunting
the Incendiary- The Councils Pro-
posed Action.
a bold attempt TO burn the building No.
G Whitaker street, occupied by the Strauss
Printing Company, and by the mattress
aud carpet storage department Of Lindsay
& Morgan, was made early yesterday morn
ing.
A tobacco bag filed with ignited cotton
and weighted with a cobble stone was
thrown through window opening on Bay
lane into the second story Of tie building
where a quantity of excelsior and dry
moss and other inAammsble material
used in the manufacture Of
mattresses was piled. The missile
after crashing through the window FOIL
about two-thirds of the way across
Tue ilOOT III tliAI hiaCt DtAl ecu TIC pms
OF moss and excelsior and after burning
awhile went out without doing any dam
age.
DISCOVERY or THE ATTEMPT
OF course nothing was known OF the at
tempt TO burn the place until yesterday
morning when the wOrkmeu went to work.
The building is diagona,ly across Whitaker
street from the MORNING NEWS building,
and about ] o'clock yesterday morning
some of the editors heard the smashing OF
glass and one Of them looked out
and seeing a man come out of the lane
asked what the noise was. The stranger,
who was white man, answered that it
was a window somewhere up the lane,
and walked Off toward the Bay. Nothing
further was thought of the matter until
the discovery yesterday that an incendiary
attempt had been made.
Mayor SchwsrZ was Mt once notified and
with Chief Of Police Green and Detective
Basch made an inspection OF the premises.
Chief Fireman Puder also made a careful
examination Of the surroundings, and sew
eral members of the board of aldermen took
look at the fire bugs work.
TO HUNT DOWN THE FIREBUG.
Mayor SchwaaZ was unwilling to express
an opinion as to what will be done to dis
cover the iucendiaries, but he said that an
inquiry viii I've made into such fires as are
reasonably to be set down as the act of in
cendiarles.
Detective Basch was put in possession of
oil the facts obtainabe, and, with descrip-
ton Of the Iarty who was seen from the
MORNING News building coming out of the
lane, began hunt for the lncendiary
There Is little doubt in the
officers minds that the party who
lett the lane moment aftor the crash of
the window was heard is the one they are
after. He was a short thickset aud stout
built man, aud wore dark suit of clothes,
and ii Is believed black derby hat. The
officers had several suspects under shadow
last night.
THE SECOND ATTEMPT.
The attempt yesterday morning is the
second that has been made to burn the same
building ia the last three days. That of
last Saturday nj ut was described in Sun
DAYS MORNING NEWS.
There is little doubt that there are incen-
diaries at work in the city who set fire to
places with a view to plumber They had
taste OF what was TO be made during the
big fire, aud they doubtless want more
The neighbOrhoOd in which the iucendiarV
attempt has been made twice within
three days is occupied by printing
offices, paint stores, bacon and butter mer-
chants, and fire once started would very
likely bura over large area.
Mr.. Morgan of Lindsay 81 Morgan was
seen i'll regard to the fire, and he said that
he could not account for it in any
way. The firm has over 800
carpets stored on the second floor of the
building, but besides that their stock of ma
terial AMI furniture is small The foreman
i'll charge of the mattress department. said
that but one person except the employees was
i'll the place on Monday, and that was a
customer known to the firm. The stone
and cotton must have been thrown by
some one thoroughly familiar with the in
terror OF the room, as it was thr wn through
the window over pile of the most IN
tlammable material.
The frequency Of iucendiary fires has re-
Gently become alarming, and Alderman
Cam will introduce at the next meeting of
council a resolution authorizing the mayor
10 offer $3.50 reward for the arrest and
necessary proof to convict anyone who
may have set fire to any house or other
building in the city.