The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-10-07
BLASTS DAMAGE
FINE MANSIONS
ON FIFTH AVENUE
lnjuryDone in Homes of Josiah
ThaW, Countess Leary
and Lloyd Warren.
TROUBLE IN HARLEM.
Rocks Fly Into Apartment
Houses When Careless Work
ers Set Off Charge.
IN HARLEM.

The east side and the west side of
ing to-day. and extensive damage was
done. The blasts went off at about the
same time. one at Eighty fifth street
and Fifth avenue, and the other on
One Hundred and Thirteenth street.
near Broadway.
The Fifth avenue blast shattered the
windows of half a dozen apartment
houses and fine mansions on the ave-
nue.. and shook down and destroyed
valuable bric-a-brac and ceramics in
the homes of Lloyd Warren, at No.
1870 Fifth avenue; Josiah Thaw. at No.
iO4G, and Countess Annie Leary. at No.
lOG6.
The blast hurled tons of rock out of
the excavation. some huge blocks Of
slone crossing the street and demolish-
ing the iron railing about the apart
ment house at Nos. and East
Eighty-hfth street. The stanchions OF
this railing were driven into the stone
work OF the house
Tenants in a Panic.
In the big apartment-house AT NO.
1898 Fifth avenue every window on the
Eighty-ffth street side was cracked and
the house shaken. Although no one
was injured, the tenants were badly
frightened and rushed out into the
street Half dozen passersby had
narrow escapes from flying stones and
several laborers We're slightly cut by
the debris that poured down upon
them.
Patrolnan Mccormick arrested Jo-
seph Russano. of No. 1923, the fore
man III charge OF the excavation work
He was charged with reckless blasting
and later arraigned In the Harlem
Court, where he gave bail
At No 505 West One Hundred and
Thirteenth street. where Ernest Trim
hlehorn intends 10 put mp big apart
mcnt hou&, workmen have been busy
FOR weeks blasting out the cellar exca-
vations.
This morning about o'clock the dyn-
amiters touched OFF the biggest charge
Yet With a roar that could be heard
for half mile several tons OF Harlen's
stony backbone shot into the air, just
as most OF the people in the vicinity
were sitting down to breakfast
Rocks Flew in the Windows.
Across tne way at Nos. 5O6-5Os stand
twin apartment houses called the stan
ford and the Arlington, each occupied
by twcnty-four families. Nearly every
window in these buildings was shat
tered and their fronts We're dented ana
Scared in hundred places by whizzing
boulders, Two residents OF the Airing
ton. Mrs. Porter, on the third floor, and
Mrs. Hager. on the fifth. had narrow
escapes. Lumps of rock sailed into their
front windows and passed right by their
heads.
A boulder that could not have
weighed less than 200 pounds was lifted
high into the air. In Its fall II struck
the cornice of the clubhouse of one of
the Greek societies of Columbia at No
81 and crumpled 1t up.
The front elevation of Engine House
No A., few doors away, also suffered,
Lieut.. Deal, in Charge Of the company,
telephoned TO The Bureau of Combusti-
bles and Battalion Chief Root came I'm
and arrested Frank LaIly, OF No. 800
Pleasant avenue, the foreman in charge
of the work. and Frank Argar of No
497 East one Hundred and Fourteenth
street the laboTeT who tamped in the
big blast. Lally had a wounded SCALP
where n stone had grazed his skull.