The sun., 1903-12-15
s6O0REWARDFOR DYNAMITERS
,,yAuJTE STICKS, WITH FUSES,
rOI,ND AT ACKER BUILDING.
rnourh, n Exploded. TO Displace Eight
Tons OF Rock-Meinbcrs OF Parkss
Gang Suspected - Buildings to be
cuarded-Dynamit Used on Tabernacle


Gang Suspected - Buildings TO De
cuarded-Dynan,ite Used on Tabernacle
Foouph dynamite, if properly used,
- 1isnlaoe eight or nine tons Of rock and
work a great amount OF damage was iouho
rasterdav morning in a pile OF tiles at
,ha new .cker, Merrall h Condit building
in West Forty-third street, where an ex-
nloson on Sunday morning parity wrecked
hoising engine used by the IRON workers'
Evidence was also discovered that there
had been an explosion IN the broadway
Tabernacle building at Flfty-sixth street
and Broadway. where an attempt had been
made to blow up one OF the main supports
Of the building.
The executive committee OF tho Iron
Ieaeuc met yesterday and offered re-
ward of $500 for the arrest and conviction or
the persons responsible for the exposions.
The police are convinced that the ex-
pIosions were the result of prearranged
plan on the part of some one in the Sam
Parks gang to cripple work on the buildings.
which are being put up by members OF the
Employers Association and, II possible,
throw scare into the members Of the
New York Housesmiths' Union who have
taken the places of the Sam Parks crowd.
At all the buildings being put up by MEM
bers of the Employers Association police
we're stationed yesterday and they will
be kept there at night In the future to pre-
vent any more dynamiting. Private de-
tectives have been employed by the En-
poyers Association and they will be kept
on duty at the new buildings night and day.
Two sticks Of dynamite were found under
pile Of freproof brick tiles In the street
in front of the new Acker. Merrall &
Condit building The sticks were
inches long, 8 inches in diameter and
weighed pound each. They were in the
centre of pile about five feet high and
we're found by two workmen, Tim othy
Minogue and James Sullivan, who had been
carrying the tiles into the building
They saw two fuses sticking up from
between two bricks and at once suspected
dynamite. They carefully removed the
bricks and. after calling the foreman and
the other workmen, lifted out the sticks OF
dynamite.
Policeman Donnelly Of the Tenderloin
station was on duty at the building and
he took the dynamite to the Bureau Of Com
bustibes at Fire Headquarters. He was
afraid to put the sticks in his pocket and
all the way uptown in an Eighth avenue car
carried them in his hands. Two men began
to talk dynamite and some women in the
car were badly frightened until Donnelly
got Of at Fifty-ninth street.
Supt. Murray OF the Bureau Of Combust-
blee found that to each stick Of dynamite
was attached fuse four and a half yards
lonx and Q Illuminating cap. Tho dyna-
mite was frozen, showing ehes II sEet hsen
in the pile of bricks at least over night.
.It's dynamite all dght-the kind used
for blasting purposes said supt Murray.
Each stick contains about 40 per cent. OF
nitroglyoerine. A match touched to the
fuse and there would be terrific explosion.
Supt. Mlward, who Is In charge Of the
work on the Acker, Merrall & Condit build
ing, said that the dynamite couldn't have
been in the pile Of bricks more than two
days. The bricks, he said. were brought
to the building ON Friday and were piled
on the street because there wasn't room
on the floor Of the building for them.
Thave no doubt, he said, shat the dyna-
mite was put there by some member of the
old Sam Parks gang. l have had some
trouble with them, principally because I
wouldn't employ them, as / am a member
Of the Employers Association. I don't
think that the attack was directed against
me personally, but because am member
o. the Employers Association.
1T is evident that the persons who are
doing this don't know much about the use
OF dynamite. For instance, il the dyna
mite had been placed under the boiler of
the hoist engine instead of near 1t, the engine
would have been wrecked. As it was, we
we're able to repair it this morning, and
now we are using it. Several Of the Parks
men we're around here to day and refused
to talk to them. There were some good
men among them, but there are others that
no decent man would employ. I told these
fellows this morning that I would have
nothing to do with them after what hap
pened here yesterday and this morning"
An investigation yesterday morning
nacle building had been at the base Of one
OF the iron columns supporting one of the
towers. Charles A. Cowen, the contractor;
Supt. Allardice, In charge OF the work on
the building, and Capt. Handy, Of the West
Fory-seventh street station declared that
the explosive used could have been moth
ing else than dynamite.
The dynamite had been placed and,
apparently, tied under one OF the cross
beams close to where 1t had been riveted
'V"ho Vi tn6 IIldu upIlSHL COiuiHils hpOut
elk inches Of the flange on the cross beam
was ripped away from where 1t joined the
upright and some terra Gotta was charred
by the explosion. Although the flange
on the cross beam is not very thick, II is
not believed that Illuminating cap would
have been powerful enough to tear of
strip six inches long.
The vicousness Of the person who caused
the explosion" said Mr.. Cowen the con-
trtcor, lis apparent from the fact that it
occurred at the foot of one of the big towers
and mi ght have weakened the whole struct-
ufe The force Of the explosion was slight
because the dynamite was left free in the
open air.
There is no doubt in my mind that this
the work Of some member of Sam Parks's
od union. Some Of them are looking for
night and not for work. Only few nights
ago one Of my foremen, Louis Schmidt,
vas attacked as he was going into his own
nouse and struck on the head with a club,
ne was picked up unconscious and the
Goctors worked over him all night. And
mat is not the only case. During one
strike one Of the engine boilers was filed
with kerosene and II 1t hadn't been dis
covered in time there would have been an
explosion"
Central Office men and precinct detectives
were thick yesterday around the build
ings where the explosions occurred In
spector McClusky said last night that he
mad spyeral cl,,oo I,,,f that ha wa snf prp-