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The Daily Dispatch: February 24, 1864., [Electronic resource], Two hundred dollars reward. (search)
Destruction by fire of the Confederate Coffee factory. --About one o'clock yesterday morning the large brick building situated on Baker's alley, between 17th and 18th, and Main and Cary streets, took fire, and was entirely destroyed. The building, which was a very large one, fronting on Cary street and running back the entire depth to the alley, was occupied by Mr. David Baker, Jr., for the manufacture of what is commonly known as "Confederate Coffee." One part of it was also used by Mr. B. as a broom factory. In this building was a large amount of corn, from which the compound was principally made, and the machinery which was employed in its grindi they are. Mr. George Johnson, the clerk of the establishment, was asleep at the time the fire broke out, and had barely time to make his escape alive. Mr. Baker's loss will not fall far short of $60,000, on which there was no insurance. --The building was owned by Franklin Stearns, Esq., and his loss will probably amount