New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-04
=. Hundred Jersey City
% uolice in Vain Search
for Explosives.
,,uROADS WILL
MAKE LEGAL FIGHT
i, stop Shipments Now but
viii Seek TO Recover
Damages.

n .,NtfrleN ss'ft r..
80 Jersey City yesterday after
and las, night. in enforcing the
~. Of the Board Of Commission
@,, no more explosives shall enter
o. .;,v Conductors manifests were
90 ears inspected by the patrol
- the trains were allowed to pro-
- % their destination after 1t was
- hat they bore no explosives or
Is.n, The police had instructions
- Frank Hague, Commissioner o.
Ip'sa, Safety, to order all such ears
:. ., the trains and side'raeSed QUIZ
| y. the city limits.
Tat the railroads intend to make
,,,L feh, against the order OF the
Ss~,issioners is indicated by state
49,. made at a conference between
80 CITY officials and railroad heads
..-s.v morning. Although all OF
=. loads agreed not to ship any ex-
| 80. into the town, John L. Seaser,
-, for the Delaware, Lackawanna
a wss,srn Railroad, said that so far
~, ~osS was concerned the agree
rert was only temporary
sVo nave 6 right TO carry explosives
,be regulations of the Interstate
I'M Sl'-.,rce Commission said Mr.. Sea-
49, No will test the matter IN
~. Ne will sop the shipment OF
'-~ios;,es NJ this time because we 90
60, want anv shooting by the police or
~ Srb.inc. By this order you are
violating q law OF the Interstate 'A
merce Commission.
Jersey City officials Firm.
4wo are here to break every law on
.bs statute books 70 prevent the snip,
-ent Of explosives into Jersey CITY,
,nlied Commissioner Hague. Inc
,sonle Of this city will not stand lor
isving il made a warehouse for hlgh
wniosives. We will consent 20 the
shipment Ct nothing but SINAI! arms
and ammunition -
The conference was attended by rep
,ssenta.ives Of all the railroads except
The Central Of New Jersey. mat roao
.srt 10 Mayor Mark N. Pagan and
Commissioner Hague a notification thht
the city and each member OF the boSro
Of Commissioners would be held liable
for all damage. losses, fines and eX-
pense that the road may suffer by rea-
son Of the passage and enforcement or
ATTEMPTED enforcement Of the mandate
Of the commission. The nOtincatlon
was signed by 7. B. Coons, viee-presl-
dent OF the Central.
Bearing their red flags, the one hun
'dred policemen who enforced the oraer
were lined m in the City Hall by Chief
Of Police MOnahan and sent TO their
stations 40 o'clock yesterday after
noon Details were sent TO the Central
Railroad approach at the Morris Canal
between Bayonne and Jersey City, the
Iackawanna yards at Secaucus, the
Bergen yards of the Erie, the Penn
sylvania approach at the GreenVllle
meadows, on the Hackensack, and the
West Shore Terminal.
Thirty-one Policemen Stop Train.
The first train was stopped in the
Sscaucus Yards, and was allowed 10 pro
,sed when the conductors manifest
showed no explosive aboard. Expect
rg trouble with the crews OF the Cen,
rs. Chief of Police MOnahan ana
lanes F. Norton, Deputy Commissioner
q Public Safety, went to the YARDS 81
Tat road I'm an automobile shortly be-
fore 5 o'clock. They detailed Patrol
zen Henry Walsh and George Grabley'
10Th former Central brakemen, to wave
he red flags, and lined thirty-one pa.
rolnen alongside the tracks.
The first Central train stopped I'M,
rsiiatelv VI sight Of tho red flag, and
Egipeer John McCOuchie swung HIM
nt out Of the cab and STROBE indlg-
rn,ly toward the group Of policemen
AWhy don't you guys learn to swing a
red flag right if you want TO stop
trains % he protested.
Conductor William Hile turned MS
nanifests over 20 the police for lnspec
ton They showed twenty-eight cars
in ii. train. and were examined with
out comment until Inspector Phlhp
. leonard came across the word 'caseln'
what does this word mean :! ne
eied, greatly excited.
"Aw. that's a cheese product, e1-
claimed Hile. 8,
The train was permitted TO proceed
Iiier being delayed seventeen minutes
four other trains on the Central were
Stopped, but on none OF them were any
explosives discovered. Three Of them
proved 70 be loaded with cattle, genef 81
Merchandise and miscellaneous freight,
AID fourth was a work train. Wlth
he exception Of the Central, the rail-
roads sent brakemen and switchmen
70 aid the police in tagging the trains
ard going through the manltests.
+ Renewal Of the agitation against
munitions ships being permitted TO
iotd ammunition and explosives IN
G'svesend Bay, brought a denial yes
~rday from Captain Francis VI. Dun
, woody Division Commander Of the
United States Coast Guard Service and
Supervisor Of Anchorages, that the
presence Of the ships constitutes
menace 10 New York.
An explosion on one Of the vessels,
sad Captain Dunwoody, would do
10 harm on shore, except that it might
perhaps break a few windows"
Grayesend Bay has been an anchor
.ge Tor vessels bearing explosives for
Ie past eight or ten years. 1t was
designated, together with two other
shchorages. by the Harbor Line Board
sao approved by the War Department
SSaaer authority transferred from the
pV.pariment Of Commerce and Labor
v congress about a year ago.
var Department rules and regula-
.Vhs relating to the anchorage of yes
,''s IN The port Of New York have this
To-
ives:
-, vessels carrying explosives shall
'1 ssSr only as follows.
tNsi On the shoal ground to the
,sssN,srd Of Rkers' Island, from one
Si s'h y 10 hve-eighths Of a mile from
!. second. On the New Jersey fats
iM se.n a line drawn parallel to and
Sos~ ieet TO the south of the Black
ps,.,' pteaged channel and line drawn
c.s.lel TO and 1900 feet north Of the
vsst, asllie dredged channel. and 10 the
and .Sfl Of a line from Bedloe's Isl