Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-24
A DYNAMITE SCARE.
The Allentown Turn Hall Authori-
ties Get a Hint to Clear Out.
AN ATTEMPT TO BURN THE HOUSE.
Followed by Threats of Destruction tC
Everyone Who Enters 1t.
PERHAPS A VERY ROUGH KIND OF JOKE.

A very considerable degree of astonish-
ment and no little excitement was exhibited
by an assemblage of the Allentown Turn Hall
authorities last night when a DISPATCH re-
porter confded to them, with manner grave
and secretive, the contents of the following
postal card received at this Office yesterday
morning:
WARNIEGHl
All persons are forbidden under penalty of
death of ever entering the Allentown Turn
Hall again. That building will not stand week
longer. On Saturday night last a sufficiently
| large enough bomb was concealed in that hall.
1t will explode some time this week. Look out
for your lives. Be prepared to see something
Remember the fire. DYNAMITERs.
This blood-curdling and terrible intima-
tion would. perhaps, have been ordinarily
set down as the work of some inane
practical joker, were it not that an attempt
to burn down the building was made on
Wednesday night of last week, as already
reported in The DISPATCH, and which fact
impaired more or less of importance to the
above. The worthy trustees of the gym
nastical society were sorely puzzled what
to make of it, and by no manner of means
could they determine at whose door to lay
the insidious attempt against their building
and themselves. An exhaustive effort on
the part of the reporter to get at inside facts
concerning the state of affairs as between
the members OF the Turn Hall Society, met
with little success, and the true meaning of
the above interesting production is still a
matter of conjecture.
SOME TROUBLE IN THE RANKS.
1t seems, however, that all is not well
within the ranks of the athletes, and that
an element of discord has been introduced
into the usually pleasant social relations of
the members over the question of the pur-
chase, some two months ago, of new
turning" appliances. Some $500 was ex-
pended for this purpose, and because proper
authority was not given for the purchase,
and also for the reason that some of the
material was bought in Chicago, a very
vigorous kick has been made by section
of the society against the powers that be.
Again, too, there is the usual split among
the $50 members of the society, following
the example of peoples the world over; those
out of power desiring to get in, while those
in are striving to remain there. But sug-
gestion that any of the members was of
nature SO villainous as to contemplate such
trick as threatened on the card, was
secuted by the bewildered trustees, and it
was agreed that the iniscreant should be
looked for elsewhere.
Then after an interval of deep thinking
and much head shaking one of the number
came out with the startling statement that
he thought it must be woman! Ochabail
ROUGH ON THE WOMEN.
For, he continued, only a woman would
think of attempting to set fire to a
building at 10 o'clock at night when the
hall was full of people, and, beside, he had
reason to think that there was a certain
young woman who was very much incensed
that a certain young man should spend so /
much of his time in turning" when he
might be so much more pro6tably occupied,
Next in order came the suggestion that
there were some members of the community
at large who were antagonistic to the uprising
of the friendly tankard and the conviviality
consequent thereon, and who, perhaps, had
hit on this scheme with the hope of dispers-
ing the nightly social gatherings.
1t was agreed there might be something
in this, but the discussion ended with as
much enlightenment as when it began, and
the only measure that it was conceded could
be Immediately taken was that ofconvening
the ruling authorities in solemn conclave
and laying the matter in all its deep signif-
canoe before them. Meanwhile the Hall
Is there, and last night number of young
men were exercising On the various ma
chimes, and seemed still to have a long hold
on life.