New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-14
EXPLOSION LAID TO PARKS MEN
NO HARM DONE TO NEW BROADWAY TABERNACLE
ENGINE DAMAGED At OTHER BUILDING.
Strikers Had Fought Iron Contractor
Injure Workers-Bombs Used tbs Thought

The belief was general throughout the city
yesterday that the explosions early yesterday,
supposedly of dynamite, at the new Broadway
tabernacle Building, at Fffty-siXth-st and
broadway, and the storehouse in course of erec-
uon for Acker Merrall & Condit at No. 40
west Fortythird-st., were the climax Of the
defiant lawlessness which has marked the ef-
1orts of Sam Parks's union Housesmiths' No.
= to stop building operations in Manhattan un-
I'll their demands should be granted. That fail
ing by threats. intimidation and armed assaults
to drive the members of the Housesmiths'
Union from structures being reared by MEM
bers of the Iron League, the Parks faction of
Local No. 3 with their leader and two of
his lieutenant walking delegates harmless in
convlcts stripes, and with the union practically
disrupted, thanks to Iner control of its affairs,
mad in a transport of rage and desire for re-
venge tried to demolish the two buildings reck-
ing not how many lives they sacrificed. was
the opinion expressed by contractors and iron
workers who have had dealings with the Parks
entertainment committee.
MillikeE Brothers members OF the Iron
League are the contractors for the iron work
at both buildings, and had trouble last week
with members of Local No. at both places,
and policemen were detailed from the West
Forty-seventh-st. station to protect workers of
the new Housesmiths' Union from assaults by
members of Local No. ,. The work the
Acker, Merrall & Condit structure is at the
stage where hosting engines are necessary for
its continuance. There are two such engines
there, owned by the Millikens This engine
was damaged by the explosion. The other was
not harmed. The lever and throttle apparatus
that controls the drum of the MiIliken engine
was blown clear away. the steel castings
fractured, and big wrought steel bolts bent or
broken short off.
BOMB PLACED ON ENGINE
F. d. Mward superintendent of construction
for Milliken Brothers. who lives at the Cadillac
Hotel, first heard of the explosions from a
porter. After hearing the story of Policeman
Kelly and the watchman and examining the
damaged engine, Mr. Milward made the follow
ing statement:
This is a dastardly attempt the part of the
Farks union to stop our work this building. You
see now II happened Some in here and
placed a dynamite bomb this engine. where it
Wouid 90 the most damage. OF course, we do not
know who the man 1t a bad. wet night
ana the Watchman did what most of probably
would do-for a moment two go into the shanty.
While he was there the criminal act done
This fellow might have been in the building for
nourS, hldlng behind pillar and watching his
chance to place the bomb on the engine
the watchman'S back turned The fact that
soon after the explosion neither the police nor the
watchman could find anybody the premises
shows that some one familiar with structural work
of this kind must have been the miscreant. You or
coming an Acre in the dark might nrCak ntJs ueeks
before reaching The engine.
There is doubt in my mind that il a
slow fuse bomb which was used probably an hours
duration in time. That would give him ample time