Show PINGREE BUILDING HAS ANAR A NAR ROW ESCAPE blaze in time to I 1 avert a great disaster from tuesdays standard A deliberate attempt was made hii morning to destroy the school by fire and but for the prompt action of principal thomas and the tact hat the blaze was started in a place where there was but hatle draft ogden would have witnessed one of the greatest misfortunes in the history of the city shortly after school began principal thomas detected smoke and thinking that it was from the furnace aaker bupt supt allison to have a furnace man sent to the school to repair it the smoke increased to such an extent that mr thomas was forced to ask for permission from mr allison to dismiss school which was granted after school had been dismissed mr thomas and the janitor started an investigation and discovered beneath the main entrance among a quantity of old paper and desks a lively blaze that would have in time spread to the flooring aboe and gutted the entire building one glance at the alre showed it to be of incendiary origin and to have been carefully planned in an attempt to destroy the school had the alre gotten well under way in the opinion of those who are familiar with the school U would have surely resulted in loss of life as the entrance under which the alre was started with the exception of a small basement entrance la the only exit that the affords and anere are no fire escapes on the building this noon mr thomas started an investigation he found after interviewing ter one of the girl pupils of the school that stra had been stopped on her way home from school by two boys who asked it she had heard of the alre she told them that she had not whereupon they laughed and said that they knew all about it this information set mr thomas thinking and he remembered that one of tho boys had not been promoted recently with bis class and had been in a sullen mood prom the boys teacher it ww learned that he had been in the basement but a short urns previous to the alre and as further evidence a pouch of tobacco was found near the place of the blaze As the boy is known to be a smoker this Is considered corroborative evidence this afternoon detective fender and sergeant are investigating the alre and the boy under suspicion la being questioned |