The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-09-06
TWO ARRESTS NEAR IIADsTT.
Prisoners Held on Technical Charge of
IntONicatiOn.

! Lieut. Atwell and Dete ctive Clancy
/ Of the Mount Vernon police and pe-
tcu'iye Stein Of Manhattan last night
! arrested two mon on the technical charge
Of intoxication while being in tho vicinity
of the viaduct of the New York. West
, chester and Boston Railway Company
| near Columbus avenue. whore pier and
some girders were destroyed with nitro
! glvcerine on Sunday night
Lieut.. Atwell said that the men were
! found lying in tho grass and they were
talking about the blowing up of the
viaduct He saws he heard one Of them
say Why didn't they blow her up
nearer the New Haven tracks" The
viaduct spans the New Haven four track
system about a thousand feet from the
scene of tho explosion.
The prisoners said they we're James
johnson. 80 years old. of Highland. y y.
and Frank Walker a. years of age. a
brakeman. Of 237 West ls9th street, Man
haitian. Both denied that they knew
| anything about the explosion johnson
said he went to Mount Vernon yesterday
morning to get job on the viaduct
He took two glasses Of beer, he said,
was uNiNSs ne SdIu nt ulUIl I
know the name of the other prisoner.
who told the police. they say; Every
town that we have landed in it seems
there has been bridge blown up"
There was excitement around the via
duct late on Monday night wnen several
revolver shots were heard and posse
of police and others rushed to the scene
Of the explosion High up on the trest le
d number of men were heard shouting:
Hey don't shoot. We are going to work
up here"
The watchman had mistaken lot of
rivetters with hand car and rivettlng
machine for another gang with nitro
glycerine The workmen were so fright
ened by the shooting in The air that they
gave up working for the night
Commissioner Walter Drew Of the
National Erectors Association said yes
terday that in company with experts he
| had gone over the ground where tho
| dynamiting of part Of the steel work of
! the ylad,.ct for the transit system from
| Nest Farms to Whha Plains and New
| Rochelle at Mount Vernon. which is being
! erected. took place on Sunday night II"
| was of the opinion, he said. that this
| dynamite outrage was more to let the
association know that the element of the
| structural iron workers which is charged
! with similar and more serious outra ces
/ is still on deck than TO wreck the viaduct
| The damage would bs covered by $500,
! he said. hut the work would he DELAYED
as a consequence of the dynamiting To
( wreck the vladuol, he said. would h. a
big loh.
( 1T may ho coincidence, ha contln-
u"d. that this outrage occurred on the
eve of l.aOur Day and shortly before the
annual convention nf the International
Association Of Bridge and Structural
, ironworkers. which takes plaC. this
month bG Cours" the association will
try to find who tho perpetrators are. in
dependant Of the Efforts of the police. as
( the ASSOCIATION naturally takes an interest
/ in its members"
{ h" would not say whether or not the
association had "A clu" To the guilty party
or parties III" American Bridge Com
panv. which has the contract for the steel
worn of IN. viaduct j. one Of The first
members of the National Ernctors As
! soCiation, TIA" contracts Of many Of
whose members haEo been dvnamitei
sine" it declared for the open shop in the
structural ironworhers trade over seven
wears ago.