Morning journal and courier., 1885-10-10
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE FLOOD ROCK BLAST. Everything Ready For The
 Event. CARDINAL McCL0SKEY DEAD. The Burgess Corps In Prov
 idence. .A NEW HAVEN .1YACHT SOLD. The Dauntless Goes on
 The Rocks.

THE EXPLOSION AT FLOOD ROCK. Everything Ready For The Most
 TremendoU, Blast In The History of
 Eng1nee. g..
 NEW YORK, Oct. 9.-The preparations for blowing up Flood rock at Hell Gate, which is officially announced to occur at il a. m. tomorrow, are nearly completed. General Newton spent the greater part of to-day at the works personally experimenting the finishing touches. At Ii o'clock this morn ing the two syphons designed to flood the mine were placed ill position, one over the main shaft and the other over the lesser one. These were formed respectively of sixteen and twelve inch pipes and drawing water on either side from the river poured it in g ceaseless stream into the mine below. Prior to the placing of the syphons the pumping ceased forever and men began tear ing out the boilers and demolishing the buildings over the shaft. The police ar engagements in the city will include the dis tribution of 450 policemen at or about the scene of the explosion exclusive of those on board the police boat. Three hundred of these will be stationed along the East river front, one hundred on B!ackwells Island and if ty on Wards Island. The As toria police, one hundred strong, will guard the opposite side of the river, The buildings on Wards Island will be temporari- ly cleared of their occupants and the in mates of the workhouse, the almshouses and the insane asylum will be massed on the lawn at safe distance from the buildings. In the penitentiary on BlackwelPs all the prisoners will be gathered in the halls and 8 cordon of police will surround the building to prevent any attempt to escape. It is thought the explosion will send frag ments of rocks two hundred feet or more into the air, but it is believed they will fall back into the water at the point of ascension. Although 2S0, 900 pounds of the most powerful explosives known (six times more than was used to blow up Hallett's Point) will be set off, it is of life or property. Ample precaution against accident has been taken, however, and no person or vessel will be permitted to approach within a radius of one thousand feet of the explosion. General Newton's sug gestion that all large halls in the neighbor- hood be vacated at the time of the explosion will il is thought be generally observed and IL 16 o6Glm6l0u Lud1 hb 1ccSb ho1l O l1ilA4iOA will witness the most tremendous explosion in the history of engineering.
 THE PAN-ELECTRIC TELEPHONE. Attorney Garland Explains His Com
 nection With the Company.
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.-Some correspond ence between Attorney General Garland, the President and Solicitor General Goode re- specting the Attorney Generals connection with the Pan-Electric Telephone company and the action of the solicitor general in au thorizing the suit to test the validity of the Bell telephone patent was given to the press tonight. Attorney General Garland in a letter to the President dated October s, after alluding to the fact that he had brought the matter to the attention of the President and his Cabinet yesterday, submits @ state ment explaining his connection with the tel sphone company from the day of its organi- zation up to tLe present time. Mr. Garland in his letter says: About three years ago 1 with some six or seven other gentlemen en- tered into an organization known as the Pan Electric Telephone company based upon what was called the Rogers invention. We formed that company in good ith and started it in it's operations and have gone on from time to time with it as companies have generally been conducted. In selecting the officers of the company I was made it's attorney. The organization was legitimate and legal one and one into which each one of it's mem bers had perfect right to enter, and form ed at time when there was not any particu- lar probability that I would ever be called upon to fill the office of Attorney General of the United States. Sometime last summer T do not recollect the date-several gentle nsn approached me stating that they desired to make application in the name of this company of which I was 8 stockholder and attorney for the use of the name of the United States to test the validity of the Bell telephone patents in the courts. Those gentlemen were MT. Casey Young, Colonel George W. Garrett, Mir. VanBenthuysen and one other gentleman whose name I do not recollect. I told the gentleman that I could not consider the matter, and being asked by one of them why: I stated that WAS disabled because of being stock AOloCA oLAO eAS oetoAACy AoA oAO SOi4APohJ AAA whose name it was intended to make the ap- plication. Several questions were propound- ed to me as to the manner and mode of pro- ceeding in such matters, which I declined to answer, stating that I was disabled from considering the subject matter at all. could not answer these questions and this response seemed to be satisfactory to the gentlemen present. They retired from my office and never made any further effort to- wards making an application to me and I would state that in the interview alluded to they did not exhibit any application to me or say that they were then ready to make it, but that they decided to make it. Whether they wis shed to make it then or at some future time, do not know. heard no more of the mat ter in any shape. left here on August 27th for visit of recreation to my home in Ar kansas without ever speaking to the solic- itor general or anyone else in the office about the matter, and the next thing upon the sub- jeot that came to my attention was tele- gram kindly sent me by the Times Demo- crat, of New Orleans, before referred to, to which I replied from Little Rock that did not know the use of the name of the United States had been granted and that had not granted any such use. This is all of my
 
 or omission. After the interview with the gentlemen already spoken of supposed that
 they would come to me with an application
 after the statement I had made to
 either refer the matter to the solicitor gen
 eral or to present it to you as the legal head
 of the executive department of the govern
 msnt for your consfderation. Such was not
 done, but sn application was made to the so-
 licitor general and he granted the request Upon this stats of facts there is great deal of nisapprehension existing as to my true and proper relation as Attorney General te this whole subject and think l can correct that. The solicitor general, under the law creating that office, is not the deputy o, agent of the Attorney General. He is the officer of the law and acts as such by the virtue of a commission from the people through the President, and not under the authority of the Attorney Gen eral, in those matters that come before him in the absence or in the case o