The evening world., 1911-04-03
LIBERTY STATUE
IN DANGER FROM
DYNAMITE BOATS
immigration Station Also Near
Enough TO Be Blown Of .
the Island.
So TONS IN HULKS.
Prosecutor Garven VIII Con-
fer With Whitman in Effort
to Have Them Removed.
So TONS IN HULKS.

Seven. long. low, black hulks lie In
the waters OF the Upper Bay, and from
each floats an omlnous signal. Shipping
gives these hulks n vide berth. ard no
siippor OF a lumber schooner or tug
plot making for BLACK Tom" over ths
Jersey shore but keeps lear OF them.
Nor Is there a skipper or mate
or haroor policeman vho docs no, fear
that one day these hunks viii spou.
death and destruction for ali who hap
Pen TO be whiting range when the dyna.
mite and black powder with which they
srs loaded. SO that they lie low tn the
SHALLOW waters between Robbins Reef
snd Bedloe's Island. lets go.
Over on Bedloe's Island from these
BACK huiks With their red Rags warm
!nS ali shipping away, there Is an
yer-prcscnt dread OF what mag happen
boomer or later.
Some day I expect to see tic Old lady
lifted right off her pcrch,' said a griz.
re- old soldier. who was pacing back
ana forth In front of the Quarter
masters once. as he looked affection
ately and with some concern q, tho
Statue Of Liberty.
lnIrty-SlS IONS OF Dynamite.
There is no eNaggeration IN the old
soldiers suggestion OF the menace OF
destruction hanging over the historic
statue. Pierre i. Garven. Jersey City's
County Prosecutor. Who has Just con-
eludsd sn Investigation OK the amour:
OF explosives stored in New York Bag,
has expressed similar fears. 1t was only
Q day or two ago that he made the pub
lie announcement that there have bees,
a. times as much as th!rty-s!x tons o.
dynamite stored within TIC anchorage
permitted by powder boats by tae UnItec
States Government bctween Bcj,ocs
Island and Robbins Reef.
The destruction tina; would he caused
BY the explosion OF ~ much dynamite,
q danger within the range % nossib!li-
ties. would stagger humanity. SoTe
idea OF the eataclysmic force that would
be let loose can he gathered from tae
fact that not more than nine tons OF
dynamite, which exploded at Commune
paw several weeks ago, wrecked tUe
Central Railroad Of New Jersey Depot,
blew two ships ont OF existence, hurled
locomotives through the air as thcus'
they were paper toys, and SPREADING
across the bay to Sew York Cry, =
distance of TWO miles. shattered niles
OF plate glass all The way TO Twer;y
third street. and shook Harlem g..
though the earth had quakei.
immigration Station Near,
The powder boats are anchored Wit %
81 t~hrec-quar;erS OF a mile from Bal
ioe's island, com NJ as "!o." 20 :a3
statue as the law permits. Two thou.
nc feet from Bedloc's Island * the
great immigration station on Ellis !,
and. When the carful Of dynamite OK
i'odcd al C~oWmu.ipaw every pane o.
pass IN tho immigration station
rcarlv two miles away, was smasac.
t. smithereens.
II the cargo OF any one OF ~" scve'
powder boats in tn" anchorage shou.a
blow up, there probably would b" littl,
1cf, OF the Immigration station, an;
r"-haps not a soul Left 20 tcll what had
trppcncd.
The startling testimony given Il
"%Osorutor. Garvon's !Iycstigatiou IA.
flied him with alarm. One Of the VII
l.sscs, 4 guard of a dynamite boat
. stilcd that the average load ot H.,
craft was iNo,ooN pounds OF. dynamite
E"0'Se- Witness. who guards a black
rnwder boat, said that he was in Charg
of sfrpm 10000 20 lj0.O1 pounds Of a
explosive second only in power ,
Dynamite.
The Prosecutor advocates tho abolition
% the anchorage and the rcmOyal y
to powder boats 20 some remote pDir
down the Lower Bay, whore they woui
not he such a menaco to tho shiDpina
Ifc intends 10 haye a conference short!
with District Attorney Whitman o. Me-
York and wi'h the War Department
TIE police control Of the Hudson Rive
ana tho Bay Is within Mr., Whitman
jurisdiction. except for the anchorage
sellmited by tho United states, Nread
there IL n regulation which prohibit
to loading on board vessels moorcd :
docks.
Favors Sheepshead Bay Anchorage,
Tho present method OF handling III
explosives which are shipped from tn
Delaware and the New Jersey factorie
Is TO send them by lighter from IN
freight terminals at Jersey City. Cor
: rlunlpaw and WcehawkeH 10 the pow
der boats whence they ARE lightered 2
q point of, S~heepShead, where they ar
loaded on board the ships that carr
tiem to foreign ports. Mr.. Garvcn
a. the opinion that the anchoras
tlould be moved to the same point
The main channel is three niles aTa'
But IN the event o. au explosion, Waic
would spread from ono boating mine !
annther, so that all Sorcn might go Of
thc herbor would he swept clean g.