The Labor enquirer., 1885-02-07

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Charles 81 ~ ~ ~ ;Hved
in WillIa,na GiIs ~ peyeEelH cut a the
head md ~. ~ i u. William Bzitton,
q wsitsr, Jams pal4s j Gefk, and Joseph
Lamb, painter Wieze binding Henry's
wounds and III ot teH wese arrested and
remanded. Todsysa Id was arrested,
charged with axpeeI Ineating with dynamits
1t the corner 81 Gslnd and kssex streets,
where he had ssccesded In dIslodging por-
rion Of the horse II track. He could not be
connected with the other explosion.
The bomb or csrtxidege which caused last
nights explosion musf have been placed i'm
mediately underneath the framework OF the
window Of Garry Bgothes' store, and the
wlndow-casing and ~ were entirely demol-
ished. The shock WAS felt several hundred
feet distant and the lamps ON q shelf Of the
EldridgeSheet House, 800 feet away, were
thrown to the fioor, The dishes in the tene-
ment houses in the neighborhood ratified,
and the iron stanchiQns of the elevated rail-
road near the store look as though they had
received violent blows.
There is no evidence that cartridge was
applied to Ridley's store. Had it not been
for the heavy elevated railroad structure
which runs up Allen street between the two
stores, however, the probability is that a
good part Of the west side Of Ridley's build
ing would have suffered. Many Of the Rid
ley's employees came to the spot to guard the
premises The damage to both buildings
will amount to 81 500.
The police are satisfied that the explosion
is the outcome of strike Of Garry Brothers
employees. Burke . former clerk for the
firm. and who CAUSED tie strike, was dis
missed for faiaHs dat, to properly se7
cure the doors Of the establishment.
The dry goods clerks union, of which he
is a member, tried many methods to secure
his reinstatement. They went so far as to
station men in the vicinity of the store, to
ask intending purchasers to boycott the firm.
When the strike was ordered by the union,
the firm was left without a clerk. and nom
union men were subsequently employed.
The firm has been threatened in various
ways, and they also received threatening let
ters Committees from the several trades
unions called upon the firm, but Garry
Brothers answered them that they intended
to run their own business.
The persecution OF the firm became 50 per
sistent that steps for their protection were
taken, and to this end private meeting Of
the dry goods dealers was recently held.
What action was taken was not diyulged, but
it is thought that the organization OF the
dealers made the union more desperate, and
impelIed their use of dynamite.
The union, or Equality Association . was
organized a year ago when the employees of
the Grand street houses endeayored to induce
the proprietors to close at 6 o'clock. Ridley
& Sons were among the houses that refused
to close at that hour, and for some time they
were prosecuted. Last June a huge stone
shattered one of their plate-glass show, win
dows and the perpetrators we're never dis
covered.
Thomas Garry of Garry Brothers said: "Of
course the Equality Association is at the boz
tom of the outrage. What surprises me is
that they have done nothing worse. They
have made threats of all kinds, but we were
inclined to look for their execution upon our
clerks rather than upon our premises.
]. Naughton, delegate to the Equality
Association, denied all knowledge of the
affair, and claimed that the outrage was not
caused by the members of that organization,
although he said it might have been done on
their individual responsibility. He thought
the Garry's own agents caused the explo-
sion.
: The men who were arrested on suspicion
of completely In the explosion stoutly deny
all knowledge of it. Joseph Lamb is a
printer, and works for the American Bank
Note company, where he has been employed
for years. William Britton is a waiter, and
works at No. 135 Broadway. He and James
Daily who is a book-keeper in his uncle's
plumbing establishment, board in the same
house. Britton says when he and Daily were
going home on Saturday morning they saw a
fuse burning, and before they knew it, it had
exploded. "a. :. --...
Police Captain Allaire had long confer
ence with Inspectors Byrne and Murray to-
day, in relation to the affair. Inspector
Byrne refused to talk, but he fntimated that
more arrests would soon follow.