New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-03-29

police, suspected, but against whom legal proof was
wanting What doubt can there be that part of
the same band are concerned IN this outraged And
who can have forgotten that the Land League and
its chief are accused of connivance (Which they
do not deny) with set Of murders not whit less
bloody or wicked than those of PhGnix Park and
that the connection between the Phoenix Park MUIR
ders and the Land League is all but establishedI
The spot where the explosion occurred Is the very
centre of what may be called the official life of Lon
don and that is perhaps the answer to the question
why the offices Of the Local Government Board
should have been selected for destruction. Sir
Charles Dixie is president of the Local Government
Board, the friend and ally of the Mr.. Chamberlain
whom Mr.. Parnell recently praised for his correct
appreciation of the Irish question. He, surely,
would be of the last men selected for Irish ven
geance. But the Office which the Chelsea Bar
Onet presdes is only one of huge c0ngerles
of departments housed in a great block.
The Colonial Office, the Foreign Office.
the India Office, most Omnously suggestive ot all,
the Home Office, are all here Mr.. Giadsiones OH
cia residence is separated from these buildings by
only the breadth OF Downing st. Tie Houses oil
Parliament are within minutes walk. Reason
enough in all in any one Of these facts Tor the
choice of this site for destructive effort Of the Sort
likely to be the true explanation. The Local
Government Office and The Home Odice adjoin each
other and are under the same roof. The Home Office
fronts Oh Which II, a broad street. The Local
Government Oflcr fronts Char s-st. which is
narrow comparatively little frcquentcd-very little
trodden certainty. at o'clock IN the evening.
The mon who fling dynamite about
tnkc extremely good to secure their own safety
They would be lar more likely to select Charles-s'
than Whitehall ms q base of operations And again,
no hing is more common than Tor people not init
niatly acquainted with the distribution OF TINS
huge building to mistake the L0cal Government Tor
the Home Office A third theory Is that the Treas
ury and Mr. GIadstones house were tho buildings
designated by the men who gave the orders under
which the paid agents of wholesale destruction and
murder were acting. Bat the Treasury and Mr..
Gladstone's house, like the Home Office, nre con-
stantiy and vigilantly guarded. 1t eau he no easy
matter to deposit twenty pounds ct dynanlte-i0r
the experts think "a mach rs that must have been
used-in that vicinity, unperceived. In short they
appear to have made tour OF the building and
finally 10 have flung down their deadly burden
where they could. and so made of.
The cxul sion. say those who were near. could be
heard two or three miles OIL Perhaps; but not every
ocdy within two or three miles heard 1t. III was
quite possible to be driving within that radius and
U"ltlef near ne hDunu nor It.tI any th4hs VI
had happened. That was my case, and strange
notion II gives Ons of tho vast .ess oi London that
such an event could occur In the political heart OF
the metropolis and that company Of men. mostly
political should be 80 to the and yet so
remote /, rs not the vastness Of London only tits
the multiplicity of centres which coniounds one.
To-day the streets near the scene arc thronged.
but all access 10 harlcs-st.. whether from White
hall on one side or St. James, Park on the other is
forbidden. The police have even built blrncade
across the ends OF his narrow ihoronghfare. Look
Ing into IL from Whitehall YOU may see % crowd of
curious faces peernG in from the Park, and the
crowd IN whitehall itself is both curious and eager.
The glass stu lies about in hraps The wind VS. o.
ths house, in Parliameut-st. are utterly wrecked.
A. Charle--st. YOU NAV signs OF what looks like
a small earthquake. The office inside might be IN
the nue OF q typhoon tn such curious eccen.
tricies Of enrgy has the explosion taken its way.
Opposite, in Kng-st., the Post Office seems 10 have
sustained II siege. and the general Illusion 0i coz
io on great scale all alb tut IA not lo-ssued By The
huarjngs which have been put up 20 incioso the
rubbish and the debris 50 that they may be
le.urely examined In the exact state In which they
were leit after tho dynamite had spent IFS force.
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