The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-31
Amelia TdrentinO Just
Escapes with Life in
Barber Shop Fire.
FLAMES OF INCENDIARY
ORIGIN, SAY POLICE
Store of Ferdinand PaIOse Des.
trOyed While He Is at Dance.
Other Suspicious Fires.

Strong suspicion of arson, involved in
a fire which early today did $500 dam
age to the barber shop of Ferdinand
Palose, of 80 Fairview avenue. has set
the police of the Fourth Precinct to
work on the case, with prospects Of
an arrest in the near future A num-
Der of odd fires have occurred recently
and full investigation will be made
The fire was discovered this morning
at 12:45 o'clock, and an alarm turned in
from the box at the corner of Lille
and Waverly avenues. A crowd gath
cred in front of the burning shop, and
suddenly someone remembered that a
shoemaker, Amelia Tarentino, who oc-
cupies the other half of the building,
was sleeping in a rear room. The
man was awakened by the shouts and,
smelling smoke, made a hurried exit.
The fire was confined in the main to
the premises of Palose, destroying all
of his new equipment and cutting his
rooms.
1t was learned from the neighbors
that for some time there had existed
strong rivalry between Palose and am
other barber. Palose had told several
OF his friends that his rival had treated
him meanly in several ways, cutting his
corn and abusing him behind his back.
Last night Palose took his family 70
a ball, and in his absence left the
cellar door open, as was his custom
Returning about l o'clock, Palose and
his family went directly to his home,
357 Morris avenue, without stopping at
his shop. neighbor told him, later.
that his place had been burned, that
being the first he knew of il, he says.
The origin of the fire, as far as could
be discovered from the condition of the
building, came from beneath the floor
of the barber shop near the outer wall
Several fires have Of late been dis
covered within a short radius in the
Fourth precinct that have been wor-
rying the police. On the night OF Au-
gust a fire discovered on the prem
ises of Joseph Narun, of 81 Fairview
avenue. directly opposite the barber
shop, was extinguished In time TO Fse~
vent the loss of Narun's grocery store
on the floor above. While no cause for
the fire could be discovered at the time.
1t was thought that a tramp, sleeping
in the cellar. had carelessly let a match
fall In this case, also, the cellar door
was left open.
On August 20 Mrs. Alter Koibia, OF
2l0 waverly avenue, reported that at
O'Clock she had discovered a fire in the
hallway of her house. which she
i, aimed was saturated with kerosene,
but had caught the fire in time to pre-
vent any considerable damage. The
police have in their possession bot
tie. smelling of kerosene, that was
found in the hallway.
At 1852 o'clock last night an alarm
from box PAL brought the engines to
fire at 225 Livingston street, where sew
eral hundred dollars damage was done
to the blacksmith yard located there, 1t
was only by dint of hard work on the
part Of the firemen that the blaze was
prevented from spreading to the house
next door As it was, the roof caught
fire, and Mrs. Theresa R. Gelb is about
SO the loser. At the time there were
sereral people asleep in the home OF
Mrs. Gelb.
Every effort will be made to solve the
chain of fires. which. occurring under 50
eculiar circumstances, give rise to sus-
picions not at all comforting to the
neighborhood.