The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-15
HAVE SPENT MUCH MONEY.
THE EFFORTS TO APPREHEND THE
COTTON INCENDIARIEs.

Subscribers to the Cotton Exchange
Fund Called on for Half Their sub
scrIptiOns, the Total of which Was
About S5,4OO-AbOut S1,sOO Has
Been spent From the Amount APP
prOpriated by the Cffy-NO Practi-
cal Results SO Far, But the work,
Appears, Is Stiu Going On.
Considerable money has been spent. II
is understood in efforts to apprehend the
parties who were responsible for the in
cendiary fires which occurred on board
nine Of the cotton ships in port the night
OF Nov. 5, 1894, and whatever information
may have been obtained. II appears from
reports that no practical results have
been arrived at.
The reasons why nothing definite has
ever been done are known only 10 the
committee from the cotton exchange,
which has had in charge the matter Of
employing detectives. ana such others as
may have been associated with them in
looking after the matter.
The confidential committee from the
cotton exchange, 1t is understood, recently
made a report to the board of directors.
which report, however, did not go into
details, nor have the details of the COM
mittee's workings been given to anyone
outside not even TO other members of the
exchange. The members of the committee
stated. It is understood, that they had
information with regard to the guilty par
ties or some of them at least, but they
were without sufficient proof to convict,
should any arrests be made.
That the committee has been diligently
at work. however, is evidenced from the
fact that subscribers to the fund raised
among members Of the cotton exchange,
for the apprehension of the guilty parties
have just been called on for the payment
OF half their subscription. The total
amount of subscriptions to this
fund was about. $500, and Of
collected for the expenses the committee
has incurred in the employment of de-
tectives and otherwise. In addition TO
this about 81 800 of the city's apprOpria-
ton of 5000 has been expended, and reads
in the treasurer's report under incident
ais, "to account special services render
ed" OF this amount something like
$3.50 was spent in the latter part of 1894
showing that the matter was taken in
hand at once, and the additional eXpendi-
lures make il appear that work has been
kept up regularly ever since.
It seems that about $500 or something
like that amount, has been expended in
the work in the last fifteen months, If in
deed, the amount just collected from the
cotton exchange subscriptions has all
been expended. There has been considera-
bic curiosity to know what has been done,
If anything, and the varied reports that
have been current with regard to the
matter have led to much discussion here
and there.
At any rate, the determined efforts made
from the outset to apprehend the guilty
parties have silenced them, and from that
day to this no further trouble has been
feared. The detectives employed, who
ever they were, may have had considera-
BILE difficulty in getting at the information
they needed Those interested in the mat
ter refuse to talk. but from all that can
be learned there is little doubt that they
are still working on the matter and hope
to reach some practical results at a not
very distant day.