San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-04-19
MORE INCENDIARISM.
TWO ATTEMPTS MADE LAST
NIGHT.
The City Aroused-PubIic Steps
Taken Three Hundred Guards
Appointed and More If
Necessary.


The pages of the daily prints were
filled with Saturdays fire yesterday
and filled all our citizens with q rest
essness and i'll ease that was not
pleasant. Our homes are not safe
Every man clipgs closer to his neigh
Dor for mutual protection. The in
cendiarism OF the past month was ths
one topic of discussion.
r commentators as to what steps
the citizens should take for the pre-
venticn of the destruction of their
property were many and diverse and
while somewhere sensible and quite
feasible, others were quite ridiculous
and yet others were too rabid for q
law abiding city like San Antonio.
The city was aroused and at fever
heat.
The meetings held in the morning
were fraught with results. The
mayor signed some 500 commissions
for special patrolmen and the job
kept him busy during the afternoon.
The citizens committee and their
patrolmen were active last night.
The city was measurably we'll pro.
tected. But at least double the num-
per of patroimen are needed to shift
with the others.
The police were more than usually
active, some parts of their beats be-
ing visited to which they were COM
parative strangers.
Notwithstanding all this precau-
ton, however, the fire fiend was not
sleeping, aud made two more at.
tempts at his dirty work. Both were
unsuccessful, and he, or they, will
have to 90 slower and surer tonight,
to be successful.
Last night at about $50 o'clock Of
ficer Andy Battle discovered a fire
in his clubhouse, at 3l3 avenue G, and
extinguished 1t after q considerable
amount of trouble. The fire was
about to communicate with Mr.. Ed
Kotula's stable when discovered.
A still alarm was turned in and
number2 hose cart was soon on the
spot. The fire was clearly incendiary
as bottle of coal oil was picked up
and some saw dust was found TO be
saturated with kerosene.
The same hose cart was later
called out to the Soledad street ruins
to extinguish blaze that had started
there.
The second attempt was made in
an entirely different locality from
the first, and must have been started
about II o'clock last night. Atabout
that hour, Mrs. A. Kahn, who lives
corner of Marshall and Jack
son streets. noticed light
at the residence of Henry
Hecke, opposite. Thinking the
family was up yet, she paid little
attention, but looked again soon and
then awakened her brother, Noah
Josey A small blaze near the
ground at the front of the house. was
seen and Mr.. Josey TOOK his revolver
and ran across to awaken the oc
cupants. He could not see anybody
in the yard, but found the evidence
of the tiend's terrible intention. The
surbase surrounding the foundation
posts had been saturated at two of
the ventilation holes, with kerosene,
and in one OF these fire had been put
through under the house and had
burned the boards for several feet.
Search was made and q small foot
print in the flower beds was found.
A quart can. formerly containing
Masury's brown stain paint, was
found and in this about
gill of coal oil yet remained. The
coal oil had stained the new paint on
the boards and showed plainly.
jackson aud Marshall streets have
all nNNfa Errk Re T. H. n,
some place exactly fitted for the pur.
poses of the mysterious common
enemy.
Freeman Tucker and Lon Rivers,
two suspicious fellows, who could
give no account of themselves, were
fined 500 by Recorder Devine this
morning. Tucker was caught trying
10 break into the rear of Major Rear.
ney's residence last night. Rivers
was out wandering around among the
cars at the 1. & G. n. depot.
NOTES.
A prominent churchman charges
the incendiarism is probably due to q
gang of mischievious, idle boys. The
report OF Superintendent Smith, of
the city public schools, shows that
san Antonio needs 20 more school
rooms. There may be hint in this.
Let the city build more schools, use
up that idle school fund OF $50, 900 and
put all the idle boys in school. Then
it will be time to blame the boys.
The Alamo Insurance company Or
ly held between 81 $40 to So, 600 on all
the Saturday night fires. The others
quoted as the Alamo were in locals
represented by Mr.. Scudcer.
A man offers bull dogs Tor sale for
protection.