Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1915 — Page 2

BOMB CENTER of the WORLD

m E\V YORK is the healthiOne pen, however. Father Knickerbocker battles against in vain—the bomb planter. While comparative statistics are lacking, it is safe to say that no great metropolis approaches this one in its black record of cease-

less dynainitings, with attendant damage to property and human life. The recent explosion in the basement of Manhattan's palatial police headquarters was a great piece of impudence, but in this respect it scarcely exceeded some other points in bomb history here. Many men have been the victims of several successive bombs, with the police striving to give them protection all the time. There are notorious "bomb blocks’’ in the city, where the inhabitants time and again have been thrown from their beds in the middle of the night and descend ad the fire-escapes in barefoot, nightie-clad, squeaking multitudes. _ Bomb explosions fall naturally Into three major groups: First, blackmailers’ crimes, intended to intimidate obstinate intended victims of extortion. Second, anarchists' crimes, meant to protest against society. Third, deeds of private vengeance. Records of bomb explosions here are not carefully kept and it is probable that many frightened victims of minor explosions never bring the matter to the attention of the police. But it is known that in 1914 there were at least fifty bombs set off, or about one a week. The year preceding, 1913, saw more than four times as many, or about 250 crimes of this character, brought to the attention of the authorities and the newspapers. The drop in bombs following this high tide was largely due to the rounding up of the notorious bomb gang which included Antonio Levantino, “Zump” Piccarelle, and "Burkey.” "Zump” confessed touching off 34 bombs in different parts of New York city. He said the band had received from $25 to $75 when it set off bombs for other persons. They had also murdered a Chinese for $2, and stolen a young girl for SSO. With the rounding up of this gang and the ending of the activities of its "bomb factory,” the police thought bomb planting would cease. But it did not, proving that many single criminals or independent bands were operating with explosives. Undoubtedly the ease with which dynamite and other high explosives can be procured and the widespread knowledge of their use in this city is to a large extent to blame for conditions. Enormous rapid transit projects, employing tens of thousands of workmen, are under way, besides the countless other construction jobs, most of which involve blasting into the solid rock base of Manhattan Island. Italian laborers can easily steal a few sticks of dynamite from a contractor for whom they are working. Probably 90 per cent of bomb crimes are committed by Italians, the victims usually being other Italians. The police have never been able to persuade Italians upon whom the blackmailers of their own race have set their mark to co-operate in thwarting the gangs. When an Italian shopkeeper has prospered he is apt to be preyed upon by men coming from his own town or province in Italy. The "Black Handers’* who attacked him probably leave immigrants from other sections of Italy, and, indeed, all other persons In peace. Until the last two years Italian blackmailing bombs were confined to the foreign sections of the city, but recently prosperous Italians have found that moving their residence to a better district has not saved them. There have been several crimes of

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Yd. Stewards on Great Liner Given Soma [ Target Practice at Kite and Periscope. The first transatlantic gun club that ever bored evanescent holes in tbe western ocean has arrived by the White Star liner Arabic. Captain Pinch said that the club was really hot a serious proposition; that It had been organised chiefly to occupy the minds fid the stewards and able sea-

this character in the Washington Heights residence section. Anarchist bombs are usually more spectacular than those of blackmailers. Churches, courthouses, the residences of men of wealth and position are their targets. A bomb was found at the door of Andrew Carnegie’s fine mansion upon Fifth avenue a few weeks ago. All well-to-do citizens are being forced to employ bodyguards. In the fine districts east of Fifth avenue the dwellers on a block often clubtogether to hire an armed night patrol. This is a protection against burglars, but the growing danger of the ’ bomb crank has caused the guards to increase in number. Only an insignificant percentage of bomb crimes result In arrests and convictions of the perpetrators. Planting a bomb seems about the safest of outrages. The bomb Itself is almost always so shattered that the fragments are useless as clues. Even where the bomb does not explode It is seldom useful as evidence. On the morning of November 14, 1914, the fuse of a bomb sputtering under a bench in the Tombs police court caught the eye of Policeman George L, O’Connor. He started forward and grabbed the bomb, which had only three inches of fuse visible, and started for the doorway. He tried to rub the fuse out, and failing in that, he jerked the insulated fuse from its fastening in the heart of the explosive. The bomb consisted of two pounds of mixed black and smokeless powder and about thirty loaded cartridges. ~— O’Connor’s quickness and pluck probably saved the lives of Magistrate John Campbell, his wife, and many spectators in the courtroom. The placer of the bomb was never detected. • This bomb was connected In the minds of the police with four others of the same year. On February 6an unexploded bomb had been found in the church of St. Mark’s-in-the-Bouwe-rie after the anarchist Frank Tannenbaum and his followers had spent the night there, having been fed and received a comfortable place to sleep. On October 14 a bomb exploded in beautiful St. Patrick’s cathedral, wrecking several pews and breaking i a memorial window. On October 14 the rectory of the Catholic church of St. Alphonsus was damaged by a bomb placed outside. In the church the preceding winter more than 190 of Tannenbaum’s followers had been arrested and later they were sentenced to the workhouse in Magistrate Campbell’s court. On November 11 the fine new Bronx county courthouse was injured by a bomb, apparently meant for County Judge Gibbs. In this connection also should be mentioned the premature explosion of a bomb July 5, 1914, in the nest of anarchists in upper Lexington avenue, which wrecked a tenement, killed two men and a woman high in anarchist councils, and injured several other persons. The anarchists attempted to give a magnificent funeral for these "martyrs,” but were squelched by the police. With this revelation of anarchist

men, who needed diversion when there were so few passengers aboard. Nevertheless,' things happened as the Arabic was going down the Mersey and into the German war zone around the British I ales that inspired the ordinary neutral passenger to irifer that the Arabic was preparing to protect herself against the attacks of German submarines. Passengers noted that sand bags had been piled high around the steering gear to protect it from possible shall injury. Passengers also re-

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activities the police made elaborate preparations to trap the malcontents. On March 2 of this year they seized two young anarchists, Frank Ablano and Charles Carbone, in the act of setting off a second bomb In St. Patrick s cathedral. The capture was most dramatic, being r'ade in the midst of a church service. The police had been stationed all over the interior of the edifice, some disguised as scrubwomen and others as ushers. A young detective who had wormed his way into the anarchists’ confidence was there obviously as their confederate, and the bomb planters were allowed actually to light their . fuse before they were arrested and the fuse stamped upon. Among the numerous unexplained mysteries is the bomb received through the mails by Judge Otto Rosalsky In his home on Riverside drive MarcH-J6, 1912. It was meant to explode on opening, but something went wrong in the mechanism and the judge was not injured. The famous bomb expert of the police department, Owen Egan, was summoned to take charge of the bomb, and while he was examining It in the Judge’s library It went off, badly injured Egan’s hands and shattering much of the furniture in the room. Another sad and mysterious case was the death of Ida Anusewitz, a stenographer who was killed December 12, 1913, by the explosion of an infernal machine she received in the mail of her employer, the president of a bottling company. On February 2, 1913, Mrs. Madeline Herrera was killed In her home in the Bronx by the explosion of a bomb which her husband had picked up in the vestibule. On February 3, 1912, Mrs. Helen Taylor was almost instantly killed by a bomb contained in a large cigarette box which she received from a uniformed messenger in her home at No. 103 West Seventy-sev-enth street. An attempt was made to explain the Rosalsky bomb and the Herrera and Taylor murders by the activities of Henry J. Klotz, a city draftsman. Attention was directed to him when he was fatally injured while experimenting with explosives in his home, but these three mysteries remain unsolved. Gamblers’ wars were a fruitful source of bombs before the murder of Herman Rosenthal by Charles Becker and his accomplices, but of late the gentlemen of chance have been less active.

So Departed the Colossus.

The remains of the Colossus of Rhodes have been dispersed beyond possibility of recovery, or even of tracing. It stood for little more than half a century, and then, In 224 B. C., was overthrown by an earthquake. The Rhodians raised from imnevolent outsiders large sums of money for its restoration, but divided the fund among themselves, asserting that the oracle of Delphi had forbidden them to set it up again. So theu the ruin lay until 672 A. D., when the Saracens sold it to a Jewish merchant, who loaded 900 camels and went away—literally —with the brass.

marked that as the Arabic steamed down the Mersey she towed a raft on which there was an upright, resembling a periscope, and that the gun club, made up of about twenty men, took turns at blazing away with LeeMet ford rifles, good but long out of date, -at the upright. The lounge steward made a record shooting at the upright. After the liner got Into the open she flew a' kite from the stern, and the rifle club had some aerial practice.— New York Sun.

HIDDEN IMPURITY

"If American women knew how much of our Coffee lies on the ground for days, before the berries are finally swept up and harvested, greater care would be exercised in purchasing this food. For this CJpffee is impure. But its moldy color is lost in the roasting, and the partial decay is concealed until it comes up harsh and bitter in the cup. This fact is not generally known to importers, for few of them have studied conditions existing prior to the arrival of their ships in port.” 8o writes F. C. Harwood. And Mr. Harwood knows. His long experience in the tropical coffee growing countries, his deep intimacy with plantar tion owners, his close study of their customs, their methods and the “Tricks of their Trade” has acquired for him a fund of knowledge which places him far in the leadership of coffee connoisseurs, both here and abroad. Denison’s Coffees are selected by F. C. Harwood, personally, and it is here that his power in the Coffee Industry manifests itself to the qualification of Denison’s Brands. His wisdom and critical discrimination is appreciated by Coffee Growers the world over, and their respect gives him first choice of the world’s finest crops. Thus, only pure, hand-picked berries find their way into Denison Coffees. His care is your safeguard against impurity. Try Denison’s and realize your ideal Coffee put up in Cans, Cartons or Bags. Ask your grocer or write Denison Coffee Co., Chicago, for the name of the nearest dealer. —Adv.

The Bonnie Conductor Lassie.

Edinburgh, Scotland, has two dozen women street car conductors who are a thorough success in the new line of work. Other tramways are already recruiting girls and training them to be conductors. It Is said that girls working in the English cartridge factories are so fired with patriotism that* some of them work thirty hours in a stretch without any rest. Miss Elizabeth Lister has been appointed a statlonmaster in South Wales, the first woman to act in that capacity. In the north of England and In Scotland and Wales the men workers are being supplanted in the fields by women, who can be seen following the barrow or digging and hoeing.

Books and Bangs.

John Kendrick Bangs, author of "A Houseboat on the Styx,” and “Coffee and Repartee,” who is spending the summer at his camp in Maine, said in an interview last week: “People should own and read books Just as they should seek friendships, and try to understand their friends. A book that one has come to know, and to love, is one of the truest of friends. In my library In Maine are not many books, but none the less Lincoln walks there with me; Emerson is my friend; Balzac and Dumas are permanent dwellers at my side; I frolic with Mark Twain there; I travel with O. Henry, and I play boyish tricks with Aldrich and Penrod; I fence with Montaigne, and the great spirits of “The Spectator."

Stationary Post.

Victims of cabinet changes in Europe are coming to favor the New York idea of a “stationary post.”—Boston Advertiser.

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GOLD’S SIREN LURE FOR MEN

Hardship and Death Dared by Thousands That They May Gain Riches Quiokly. It was in 1898 that the rush of gold seekers to the Klondike reached its flood. The ninety-eighters probably never will know the fame of the fortyniners, but they have a place in the long history of the gold hunters, the men of all nations, ancient, medieval and modern. The book has a hundred chapters telling of failure and of death to every one lightened with the story of success. H. M. Cadell recently visited the Klondike, and there made a study of presentjjonditions. He describes them and adds an interesting account of the early day rush to the Northwest territory. The Smithsonian institution has put Mi*. Cadell’s report into print. It is an interesting document Some of the happenings in the Klondike were duplicates of like happenings in California and Australia during the first years of the surface washing in those fields. These duplications, show that human nature is unchanging. Men went to the Klondike daring hardship and death that they might get rich quicks Some of the gold seekers were quickly successful. A large percentage of the successful ones almost literally threw their money away. Easy come, easy go. This sort of thing has marked gold miring in all ages! The Klondike is not what it was, but human nature stays the same. The discovery of gold at the North pole would start a northern migration that would take no account of the insuperable obstacles of distance and cold. The lure is irresistible. —Chicago Post.

Baby’s Eyes.

Do sound a warning to mothers about letting tiny babies lie flat, gazing straight at the sky. Unless a baby is sitting up in its carriage, the top should always be over its face. If a young man has money to burn it is easy to induce some girl to strike a match.

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DESERT AUTO IS NO CAMEL

These Men Forget to Provide Water for Their Desert Ride and Ones Dies. Failure to think about evaporation in an automobile radiator brought death to one man and frightful tortures to two others, who arrived in Los Angeles from the desert and told of their sufferings. The trio —James S. Roche and John H. Welsh, attorneys, and James G. Clarke, a real estate dealer —left here Sunday in an automobile for El Centro, in the imperial valley. Monday morning the car stopped in the sand. The radiator was empty and they had no water. Roche and Welsh started after a mirage which they believed was the Salton sea. Clarke waited a day, and then, believing them dead, made his way to Mineral Springs, where he was resuscitated after falling himself in a faint and organized a rescue party. They found Roche unconscious and Welsh dead. Roche said they drank lubricating oiL —Philadelphia Record.

Orchids.

The exportation of orchids from the Philippine islands is interesting. In March, 1914, 10,000 plants were consigned to a San Francisco firm and arrived in excellent condition. During May 5,000 plants were shipped to the sapae flrm - The consignments Included four varieties Sollerians, Amabiles, Studianas and Sanderians.

A Matter of Surprise.

"Don’t you think women ought to vote?" asked Mr. Meekton's wife. “Well, Henrietta, there’s no doubt in my mind t' at you ought to vote. But if your opinion of some of the other women is correct, I don’t see why you should want to intrust them with such a responsibility.” When you meet a self-made man he always wants to tell you all about the Job. The best throw one can make with dice is to throw them away.