The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-26
PAIR OF HARLEM EXPLOSIONS
EXCITEMENT AND WRgCk.tGE
~ WEST rf6TH STREET.

Police surmisc Bsmbs were set 01 BY
Ono Faction of social club Rivals
-glimax to Period af Unrest Fellow
ing Commissioner Drsseeils Visits.
The unrest IN Harlem. which has become
acute since recent visits made by First
Deputy Police Commissioner Driscoll
reached climax early yesterday morning
when two bombs were exploded within a
few minutes 81 each other in front 81
houses in West 10th street. The first
exploded at ,:i0 O'Clock. in the areaway
Of house at lOs A big hole was opened
in the concrete floor. and windows. pic
lures and brio -a-brac in the neighborhood
was shattered
The house at ios IL unoccUpied. but the
police say that Judging from the furniture
they found inside II was soon TO bloom
as a social club The house next to 1t
on the east is the home Of the new Corn
well Social Club. All the clubs windows
were broken. and several men VIII" were
in the billiard room made "A hasty exit
The old establishment Of the Cornwel
club was on the opposite side OF the
street. Commissioner Driscoll went to
sees the Cornwell Social Club u few weeks
ago. but was not admitted.
The explosion at 100 broke up n dance
OF the Wilmer Working League in the
Ienox Casino. at iO2 West 10th street.
The New Harlem Casino. a restaurant at
los West ll8th street. also disgorgcd late
diners hurriedly. The explosion ratified
windows A. far as Seventh a avenue. and for
few minutes the telephone operators in
nearby aparsm houses were kept busy
answering inside calls.
The reserves from the West i25th street
sta ton were called TO the scene. Police
men Thomson and Rochelli were at 10th
street and Seventh avenue when tn. eN-
piosion occurred. They said that just
before they heard 1t taNicab whlzzed
past them going west. A man inside was
himmering on the window. and seemed
Ia be- urging the chauffeur TO go still faster.
Members Of the Cornwel club told the
police that they were sure the explosion
was not directed at them.
The glass had hardly stopped rafting
after the first explosion when the second
came IL was in rho vest ibule OF build
ing AZ 23s West ilS-h street The first
floor is occupied by fh. Internal ional Cor
r~spondence school and ths IresC ent
81 orage and Van Company On ths
second floor IL n billiard parIor operated
by Joseph McDonough OF 3ao East Twenty
third ~ reset.
The explosion took the floor Of the YES
tibuls into the cellar and stacked II np
neatly with the kIndling wood The
inner doors were blown 70 pieces and
splinter- driven int the walls P!as; sr
was ripped of and many windows broken
A big clock IN tine oiic. Of he correspond
ence school was found in fragments Oh
the floor Raymond Little, proprietor
of the storag" company. said he though !
hrs loss would b.. nearly s. 600
Fifteen or twenty men who were in the
billiard room started for the street They
were met by clouds Of plaster. dust and
smoke. and went bact Mrs McDonough.
the " ife of the proprietor tainted
The police questioned everybody they
could find on IN. promises Thes" were.
for the mos, part. men who had bcen in
tn. billiard parlor rh.v were sure that
the oomh had not been intended for them.
One hazaris.d the suggestion that some
festive aluinnus Of the CORRESPONDING
school had planned the fireworks in honor
OF his alma mater The police consider
this suggestion iiippant ErdesNd. the man
came WITHIN an noe 81 being lock - up
"a suspicious larson
The police say that there are two fac
tion- among IN. leaders Of various Harlem
were set OF nv men OF on" faction near
places wh"r" they belle. ad members Of
the other faction nuld b. gathered Soy
eral months ago bomb was exploded ON
the roof nj rhe Hesper cub. Second ave-
nue. The members were a. Mortified and
mystified "a weT. tn Hiriemites inter
view sd by the pDlice vestsrGaE