The evening world., 1894-01-23
ARSON TRIED 4 TIMES
Firebugs Apply the Torch in
Many Sections Of the City.
Two Horses Burned in a Harlem
Stable and Building Quilted.
East Side Tenants Driven Out,
Panic Stricken, by Flames.

Four fires, which the Fire MA rshal is
Inclined to believe were ~incendiary,
broke out this morning. Two Of them
were close together in Harlem. The
other two were on the east side.
The first fire was discovered Just after
l o'clock In the one-story brick stable 24l
and 243 East One Hundred and Fifteenth
street, which is conducted by Charles
Funck, and In which thirty horses were
stabbed.
The %neighing OF the animals first at
tracted the attention of a policeman,
who turned in an alarm. When the fire
men arrived the fire had already gained
considerable Roadway. AS the door was
broken open, a horse, belonging to g.
+. Roberts, a baker. at 1883 Third ave-
nue., fell In the passsgeway. It's back
wa &c 30 badly burned ned that the animal
their attention at first to getting the
horses out. Blankets were put over their
heads. and twenty-eight were led out In
death before the men could get to him.
This horse belonged to r. Rosenberg. a
grocer Of One Hundred md Fifteenth
street. and Lexington avenue.
caused a ds mage OF 81 900, started In the
very centre NJ the stable In the stall OF
one of the horses. As there was no.
body in the building at the time, and as
hours previously, the Fire Marshars sus-
picions have been aroused.
The next fire was discovered one hour
an Italian banker, at sas East One Hun.
dred and Fifteenth street. Tn latter
was awakened by the noise Of the en-
gines going to the stable fire: He arose
was burning. When he got back to his
home. he smelled smoke, On inyestiga-
tion he found that the lock on his eel
broken. On entering he found the cellar
filled with smoke and a brisk blaze un
der the cellar steps,
The names were extinguished, with lit.
tie trouble after the iiremen had beer
summonei. Tbs latter said that hat
house would have been Quilted.
the four-story double tenement. 5 Ave
nue. n. At $40 O'Clock this mornint
Frieb,l L~ottenburg, a n~sh-peddler, whC
lives In rooms on the ground floor in tn,
an hour later y man named SChwart;
rushed out of the place and told the pc
liceman on post that the house wa.
af'rn.
by the time the lremen arrived th'
tenants were panic stricken. Men, wo
men and children, all rushing from theil
rooms in terror at the cry OF fire; hnt
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Some stood on the window stills AM
threatened to jump. II required tn,
united efforts Of the ilremcn TO restrain
them.
The fire was out before the people wer,
quleted.
The fire was traced to the apartment
Of the L|ottenburg family. After tn,
blaze had been e~NtinguIshed Mrs. Lotten
burg, who, II is said. had not been HON,
all night, rushed into the area and ac
cused somebody Of stealing her watch
before she had got into the building /
see whether Il was there or not.
The rooms of lottenburg are poorl.
furnished. They were insured,
At 7 o'clock there was u fire in tn
hallway of the nve-story brick tenemen
Mt 25 Second avenue. Joseph Leght
who lives OF the third floor, when leav
Ing the building to 10 to work. found
waste paper basket In the second stor,
hallway In flames. 1t was in n corner o
the, hall; near a room occupied by Mrs
Jorkin Spero.
Leght tried to stamp out the flames
> but they had caught the woodwork o
the moor. He called for assistance, an
two men on the second floor helped hir
e~xtlngulsh the blaze. An alarm ha
been turned In by some unknown person
! The damage Is SIC.