New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-01-24
MANY SUSPICIOUS FIRES.
EVIDENCES OF INCENDIARY ORIGIN.
A GANG OF FIREBUGs SUPPOSED TO BE oPER-
ATING on TIE EAST sIDE-THEY ARE

, GANG OF FIREBI'Gs SUPPOSED TO BE OPER-
ATING on TIE EAST sIDE-THEY ARE
AFTER INSURANCE
Fire Marshal Mitchell and his assistants were at
work yesterday investigating four suspicious hres
u,h,cb had occurred in the city early in the morn
ing Two OF the fires were the east side OF the
CITY, and the other two IN Harlem Occu-
pants of the rear tenement-house NO. AVehu"
were driven out Of their rooms at 1;5o a. H. ""eii
a fire was discovered on the ground floor IN the
rooms Of Friebel Lottenburg. a i'sh-peder Lo''eh-
burg had locked up his rooms, ana had gone away
shortly before the fire broke out His furniture, 1t
IL said was Insured. The flremen e1tnguished the
flames so quickly that the damage was slight
BEFORE 7 a. m a basket full Of paper was found
ablaze IN the hallway OF the hve-story tenement
house No 2i5 Second-ave Occupants OF the house
put the fire out, and the damage was slight
Earlier in the morning fire was discovered III
Charles Funks stable No. 2i3 East one-huhdreu-
and-nfteenth-st and twenty-eght horses were res
cued from the stable The damage there was said
10 be about 5000. No person had been near the
stable for several hours before the fire was discoV
cred In H.
The noise OF the fire engines going 10 the staDie
fire awakened A. GuillOrenzo. an Italian Dahk'r' Nv
ing at No S3S East One-hundred -and-nfieenth-st'
and he smclled smoke in the house He made an
investigation and discovered a fire which somebody
had kindled under the rear stoop OF the house Inc
flames there were extnguished after the house had
been damaged to the extent OF about SOD
Another fire of supposed ncendiary origin oc-
Cured in the tailor shop OF Samuel LEVIN on inc
first floor OF the four-story brick tcne nent 40 ~
Delancev-st at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. Men
I'm an adjoining shop said they heard Levin singing
I'm his shop az a. m. The nremea burst open the
door and put out the blaze before 1t mad gained
much Roadway. They found that the floor under
maf!iel had been saturated In kerosene OIL ana on
the mantcl Itself WAS lot Of paper soaked IN on
\ heap Of PAPER and waste material near the ndni'l
had also been drenchol with oil, ana on me moor
was a can from which the OIL had D"tn taken
Levin nowhere to b. found.
II said that the first Of the recent Hf"S ana
explosions on the East Side occurred az 80 81
East Twelfth 81. December u. This information
Leaked OUT AT Headquarters yesterday. This IRE ana
explosion were followed four days later by ulaHe III
No Jn East Twefth-st where there was also an
explosion. The third explosion occurred on Jahuaiy
10 AT 40 e Avenue u. where Plncus CAM = HI'p'
shop WAS blown ny Six days later the tenement
house so lS2 Avenue partly wrecked
80 81 East Twrlfth-st.. wher" the iirchuSs b's'1
hv man named Schneider. About the lst Of sep
tcmher a Mrs Ldebcrman. widow, moved INTO
rooms In the top floor back. ~" sald sHr WIS "
lr.s.mnker she had b)arler named Butie:iaSS'
who she said Was her brother. Across the nail on
IN. sam. floor lived Mrs William Eski About l
o'clock on the afternoon Of December Is Mira. Eski
heard some leaving Mrs. ld'hernhh aplI',,
nents Ten minutes later an explosion occurred
which shook the house. Mrs. lIeberlnan WaH n
sur-l for 500 She seen some tline dlt'I the
explosion, and IN" n"lghbors "'cuH'i "'i VI '"''"n
- the house airr.
There was another mysterious blaze al 80 'lo
East Thlrteenth-st. December a. II occhri''i III
tie rooms ~ Mrs. Buttcrman. ON tho second moor