New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-03

The gentle art of dynamiting, the increasihe
,unoher of bombs political and bombs personal
arc nhases of current life of more than passihs
,ronortance Alfonso of Spain, the sultan Oh
turkey and less recently and more disastrousiS'
tho Grand Duke Sergius have all WITHIN yea
..-,,ad as targets for the internal machlne' Even
NY York has had three Internal machlhes
hoea recently sent by mail to JACOB H. semi
- other prominent fnanciers. Moreover as IL
:. .,,nbasize local dynamite activity announcer
~ real explosive qualities. was discharged
r.;nst the house of wealthy Harlem Itahah DIS
.,,,, &C last Wednesday night This latter
o,,+-see-probably the work of miscreahts oe
,orriny n the Black ~Hand"-was much more
-so-,s ,r its consequences. for the explosion
,,5 the house threw the owner from MS
- I'D narrowly missed killing several OF 'he
.,,-ar+s Of the building. Revenge, prompteo
.----.e,,sai N nav a 50 600 blacknan fee was
the motive of this crime.
1su+ after all. the New-York brand o. uSiia
mite plaything is, as rule, hardy "o' NY -
oor,narison with the European missile f0N.
h,n6ra5 times a year the nervous ciizeN "
Gotham discovers hideous invention Hl'eiiueN'
81 his excited fancy conceives. to destroy hi'N'
IN. the calm official whose duty II Is 10 ulo'
these horrid engines resolves oSo INTO Vi 14'-0-
meat cans bicycle lamps storage batteries 'HN
other commonplace articles OF conlilieiSe anu "
sustrv. as innocent of explosive poleli
g babv's rattle Even the imposing ooiii'
. o,,,,s1 ,oyder fuses usually turns out 10 DC
- ro-e eeriors than a crank's effort to at
tract notoriety by soaring few men anu ii'''0
,,.o,-,,r and children well nigh 10 death
-rho RAT dvnaraite bomb of Russian chardc-
-ris-ice is a year long wonder in TINS city
Wiz, foreign dispatches are replete with de'ails
90 I,rronean outrages as a the present nloIileii'
when peoples minds are charged Win INC -
curostances attending the preclplta'e eIe' 80,
of officials of rank already nigh then the gene,
crank fashions him some harmless Out MOI iit
bomb and New York shivers until II learns 'ii'''
the bomb was only q cruel hoax
The Russian dynamiter : diffefenl oIuel u
,or For The. snea1ing method OF anonymous
dynamite nlissves sent by mail he mas piopet
,o,+.r,nt When he goes hunting with Internal
machines he seeks no covers Of secrecy; MS III -
oneration is to advertise The police official,
The royal grand duke or the representative OF
e,,-ocrac,. whom he decides TO elevate with eX-
rrosiy-es is promptly informed that he is to be
eliminated On public bulletin boards the I'M
harny official reads the announcement that MS
fate has been decided upon. This method mas
several advantages. In the first place IL Is car
culated to terrify the proposed victim long II
advance of his actual murder. In the secoilu
# reduces his associates materially IN NUMBER
The society of q man whose path IS neset p9
ritro-glvcerine machines is anything put al
tractive. When he boards a streetcar all the
other passengers VINO recognize him decide tha'
they have ridden long enough and they get ou
and walk When he goes into barber S1op 'he
other patrons go out. In the shadow OF oylla-
mite the BARRIERS customers DO not wait lor 'he
Next" that announces their turn When the
prescribed victim attempts to hire a carriage
the "cabbies" are all engaged. They don't want
a fare whose carriage ride is likely to END IN
the shattered debris resulting from the explosion
of an internal machine.
Moreover. the Russian bomb thrower having
announced his intention, keeps his business
agreement. Sooner or later the prescribed VIC
tim together with large share Of the sur
rounding scenery. is promoted into space ana
his fate is nearly always shared by one or more
of the innocent and the inoffensive. whose only
offence is that of proximity. The Car Alex
ander II. his son. the Grand Duke Sergius. the
hated Minister NJ. de Plehve and a number OF
other Russian autocrats and their representa-
tiy4s have thus died by dynamite. and with
them have persisted a score of soldiers and
civilians.