The morning call., 1894-10-17

the main supports of the building and as
soon as the flames got little headway
the tire building would have collapsed
southwark on the side where its support
was thus weakened. There would have
followed big bonfire. and all evidence of
lncendiarism would have been destroy ed.
The building is now in such shaky
condition from The severing Of twelve of
the studs that, according to The Fire
Marshal, ii a strong wind were TO spring
up It would cause it to iopple over.
They also discovered that there were
TOUR layers of twisted newspapers and
hneiy cut klndling- wood, saturated with
oil, built from tie floor of the cellar up
ward, instead of one layer, as at first sup
posed. A platform had been built about
six inches from the floor around the walls
OF the cellar. Ga this platform there was
a layer OF twisted newspapers, bound with
a hayr0pe. On top was a layer of flnely
cut klndiing-wood. and on top of this was
a pile OF blocks of indling-wood. Three
times had this been repeated, till the top
most layer reached the shelving on which
the cribs were built The cribs, as pre-
Vlously explained. were built in a TRAN
gular form, the tors appearing through
the holes made with au AK in the toOr
above.
But this was not all. In the capboard
next the ground in the south wall of the
cellar they discovered hole about eighteen
inches long and an inch wide made with
an ak. This. the Fire Marshal explained
last night. was for the purpose OF causing
force draught of air from the alleyway
TO ian the tames, ana was conceived by
man possessed of Intimate knowledge of
such things as force draughts. But with
all bis knowledge he forgot to make Il
similar hole on the other side of the build
ing to create a counter draught, which
nuliied the effect of his ingenuity.
They have not vet concluded their inves-
tigatlon of the cellar, and feel satisfied
that they VIII light upon some more i'm
portant discoveries to-day.
Nv Q are highly rlated at our success to-
day." said the Fire Marshal last night
''Ihere are other things that we have dis
covered, which from policy we must at
present keep to ourselves. 1t will all be
made public in due time. AS we SAID be-
fore we Will leave no stone unturned tn
fix the blame upOn the guilty party, but
we have DO desire to act hastily. AS soon
as we are in position to act we will act
promptly"
'Wnat do you think of DE Winters S
lEsinuation against the old man, Peter
Haire?"
THAT is ali nonsense. We have salts
fed ourselves that there is not the slizhtest
foundation for suspicion being thrown
upon old Pete. On the contrary, if he had
not been working so late and thereby dis
covered the IRE and given the alarm to
engine Is. The building would have been
totally destroyed, as the flames were just
beginning TO make headWay when the
fremen arrived.
1T is not likely that man who would
take 80 much time and pains to perfect a
plan for destroying building by fire
would put himself 10 the trouble of giving
an alarm after setting it Do fire.
Engine Company Is is deserving Of the
n fg6o in
responding to the alarm and extinguisbing
the flames. 1t was most creditable piece
of work.
"The more | study the whole thing the
more L am surprised that such really
sklllful and artistic plan should have
failed. l am now convinced that the in
cendiary must have worked hard to perfect
it for nearly two weeks. Al first thought
a couple Of days, but [ am not far wron g
in now saying couple of weeks.
eve saw De Winton to-day, and he, of
course, persists in denying all knowledge
of the affair. Yes, read his statement in
the papers. will have something to say
about that later On. There will be in ter
eSting developments very soon"