The evening world., 1911-12-11
Bomb Blows Up at Door of
Blumenthal, Who Refused
to Pay $500 Blackmail.
TENANTS IN DARKNESS.
Flee by Fire Escapes to Stair
ways, Many of Them Cut
tl by Flying Debris.

Marble steps and ~buriapped walls and
this morning on the east side when a
bomb was exploded outside the loot OF
the apartment OF Louis B%lumenthai In
. ths six-story tenement house at Nos. 200
~ Henry street.
The east side isn't all squaior. This
apartments are all of four and six room.
with private halls, and It boasts tiled
nesrs, gas and electricity. II Is the
aristocratic building Of the section.
Diumenthai refused to give up $500 TO
giant OF starkas, the v~srnacular for a
certain brand Of strong-arm men. when
they wrote him letters TO his horseshoe
ing and trucking place at No. 65 Rutsers
slip he threw the misEves away. When
they t~elephoned him ne hung up the re-
ceiver. Last Wednesday night two men
came to his door and knocked. One
came inside while the other stayed on
guard.
The man on he inside explained TO
Blumenthal that he had come for the
200. II Blumenthal made an cutlery he
wosld be sorry to Ill him full OF holes.
and II he told the police he would nnd
himself suddenly dead some morning.
Blumenthai listened and kept stiIl-but
he did not give up the $500.
The bomb was a jewel of Its kind. II
was In the shape of a metal ball, about
ten inches In diameter and with sides
three.eighths Of an inch thick. II was
filled with giant powder and an assort-
ment Of siugs. nails. bolt heads and
fragments Of Iron.
Twenty-Five families. consisting of
about Two hundred people. live in the
house. and four families live on Biumen-
that's floor. Besides Biumenthal. his
wife, Mary. his sister. Lena, and three
boarders. all In one apartment, there ara
Abraham kamansky. his wife, Sarah;
six children and boarders In Q second
apartment: Samuel Bsthill. his wife and
children and boardsrs In q third, and
MAJ Bigatsky. his wife and boardsrs
Ia . fourth. A man 10 not considered
thrifty On me sast sds unless no mako,
enough from tis boardsrs to pay the
rent. Biumenthai's boarders are Abra-
ham Levy. Joseph warshawsky and
Fanny Bauerschmidt.
~ "sas "oSv ~ tOt9I 0orkn0D when
the bomb went OF. all the gas having
been turned OF by the nocturnal visitor.
The result Of the explosion was aston
fishing. All four doors that open to the
private halls were blown on and
smashed. They are wooden doors "a.
inforced with metal. Two marble steps
were blown out. The tiled floor was
shattered. The plaster came dow IN
the main and private halls.
6lugs and fragments Of the bomb
~sicocheted down BlumenthaTs hall. Two
pieces weighing a quarter OF a pound
each new twenty feet and struck the
we'll. Another flying fragment tore
through the six-inch wall. sailed over
Warshawsky'S bed n buried Itself IN
che opposite wall. 4 half dozen tran
CONS camS crashing. and Miss Bauer
Ochmidt's door fell In and landed or top
Of her ~ she slept. Che became 60
hysterical that a physician wa called.
Bethiii was the only one on the moor
20 retain any presence Of mind. He
Ond his wife climbed over the debris
end Bethiii turned on the electric lights
and yelled IRE. Inmates OF n house
swept out. some by the stairs. others by
the fire escape The Fire Department
came on the run with the police. Every
fourth ioor tenant showed cut and
bleeding feet from trampling on the
fallen plaster. Jagged pieces Of meta
and carpet of broken glass. The dam
Z 10 the house IN about $500.