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Show INCENDIARY FIRES WOODEN TENEMENT i N NEW YORK, Msy 24). A painSUk-ing painSUk-ing inoeadiary gained entrance early this mornihg to a six-story tenement on WUlis svenue, the Bronx, and saturated sat-urated the wooden floors of every hafi front eellsr to roof with kerosene. On the fourth floor he broke into vacant " apartments and stsrted his fire, escaping escap-ing in tha confusion which followed. Fifteen families spent the early hours of the dsy in the street while firemen eir;hered the blaze. Tbe oil soaked floor aad staircases kin already burned 'out, and until repel re-pel m nre made the tenants will hava to find their way to the front doors by means of ladders. |