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AQUEDUCT GUARDED
BY CITY'S SLEUTHS
Seven Auto Loads Rushed to
CrOtOn Watershed After
Threats.

New York city detectives were
placed on guard at the city's aqueduct
and gate houses In wcstchester county
last night. following reports that strikers
at Hastings had threatened to blow up
n section Of the aqueduct between Dobbs
Ferry and Hastings. 1t was said at the
Sherin's Office in White Plains that the
county authorities had not been made
acquainted with the plans OF the New
York police
Fifteen detectives in seven automo-
biles left Police Headquarters in the
afternoon. bound for four points on the
Croton aQueduct. Police Commissioner
Woods said the despatching of the men
was merely part Of the program
which the police started fourteen
months ago to prepare themselves for
any possible emergency He explained
that the men would inspect the auucduci
with view to locating the spots that
would need special protection in case
of necessity.
kefore the departure or the detectives
Second Deputy Commissioner Lord had
a talk with Inspector Faurot and Gray
and with Commissioner Woods, who had
just returned from Albany, where he and
Mstor-Gen. Organ. commanding the
National Guard. planned with Gov,
Whitman on Tuesday night coopera- =
tive measures for the police and the
militia In case OF an emergency.
Mr. Lord said the men had been sent
10 Mt. Kisco. Pocantico. Dunwoodic and
Ardsley. He said the police had hea rd
, of no proposed attack on the water
works and Of no rumor that there might
he such an attack.
The city has special aan-duct
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GOVERNOR GRANTS
BIDDINGER HEARING
Hatfield Coming to Show
Whitman Why West Virginia
Wants Illinois Fugitive.
HOLDS UP EXTRADITION

Word came from Albany las, night
that Gov. Whitman had granted a hear
.ng in an application to have him re-
woke the warrant for the eXtradition of
Guy y Blddinger by the state Of
Illinois
Formal assurance was given TO the
Governor by Thomas &. Townsend Dis
,rict Attorney Of kanawha county. West
Virginia, that Eiadinger is the principal
witness for the prosecute in the case
of \ Leo Well a Pittshurg lawyer and
r.former. who is charged with attempt
ing to brihc two of Wcs; Nirg!na's Pub
lie Service Comm sSioners. When II was
further shown that Mr. Well in his own
statement ssued to the press admitted
that he had uncovered the evidence
which led to the making Of ilfty-onc
charges against Biddinger IN Cook
county. the Governor sc; next Wednes-
daN foi the presentation Of all the facts
FolloWn. this report came another
that COY Hatteld ~ West Virginia
would leave the capital last night to
la, before ,;ov. Whitman all the facts
which led 20 the injection of the third
stat. into what seemed at 'irst TO be
case of ordinary procedure, Nj. We'll
has accused the Governor and Biddinger
Of framing him up In the bribery prose-
cution II was intmated Yesterday that
there may he something said for the
other side. which will r corrobora'ed
hy all the evidence which led to the
action Of the Kanawha Grand Jury.
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WAITE SUSPECTED now
AS DIAMOND SMUGGLER
Questioned in the TOmbs by
Two Customs Inspectors.
Who Take Ring.

Inspectors Williams and Wilson q, the
Eodor., crs,, ...,-
'p"'""e" ia" '"'N
III 'he 'onos Yesterday with Dr. Arthur
Warren Waite. They were In search of
evidence. II WAS said NJ n n,.r an ,,.
n,., -, ,,,, saa, -.
'"' VI ''' "''''' I" s''"ss'e o'amohos
INT" this country from South Africa.
What the prisoner said to his callers
was not repor,sd IN n,s,.,,, A...,,.,
,., N''o'"''
swami a'houeh ne did hear that the
Federal agents had taken moss ession NJ
The sun., 1916-04-20
10000 SAILORS WIN DEMANDS.
Incrcas~d Ray Reported Granted
by Many ship Lines.

Most OF the sailors and marine fire.
men who have submitted demands for
Increased pay have won without a
strike. according to Augustus H. Brown.
business agent Of the sailors Eastern
and Gulf Association. who said yester-
day that the employers of only 10 per
cent. OF the total number of these men
employed in the Gulf. Transatlantic.
Atlantic Coast and Great Lakes service
have refused the demands OF the unions
Brown said 10000 men have won
their demands. and this leaves 10000
more, including n few thousand sailors
and marine firemen, to go on strike May
! according to the avowed plan OF the
union. The balance of the 10000 in
cludes marine engineers. cooks. stew
ards and walters Brown said the
Morgan. Mallory. Clyde and Ward lines
have refused to grant the demands of
the union.
The sailors are demanding s45 a
month. and the firemen the same. Forty
sailors on the Caracas OF the Red ID
Line went on strike yesterday. but their
demands we're quickly granted Sixty
men on the MORO Castle Of the Ward
Line also went Oh strike and are still
out.
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Adolph Blaha Sergeant Yuugc, in
charge Of the work, gave "A brief out
line If the process,
1--WE bridge in" he said, "on TWO wires
il We want 10 listen. We connect n
headpicce to one Of the wires. place IT
on our heads and listen. There is no
way We can interrupt or talk In on the
wire. All We can do IL listen,
1--WE are not stenographcrs. We make
small notes of the conversations we hear
on a slate or a piece of scrap paper
though "A pencil moves over slate more
casily-and then transcrbe the notes
afterward The transcriptions we type
write later, though not always right
away simctimes an hour later"
ON March II, testified Sergeant Sunge
he had received orders to tap the wire Of
Dr. Potter from Commissioner Woods
and on March - and 20 similar orders
relating to Dean Potter and Father Far
rell respectively had been given by d.
putty Commissioner Scull His suual /
had overheard conversations ou the three
lines until March rs, when eavesdrop-
ping had been stopped on all Of them
Nunge said that most Of the typewrit-
ten records Of the talks had been turned
over to Deputy Commissioner Scull. and
copies of All Of them to Commiss iOner
Woods lie produced the Commissioners =
transcripts. but John NJ. Bowers, coun-
sci Tor the State Board Of Charities.
protested against their introduction in
evidence lie quoted the law against
wrctapping
betectiy" Blaha took the stand to read
his notes of "A conversation which he
heard made AT 1910 y, NJ on March
1 Is between Flatbush 9iS. pr. Potter's
telephone number. to ';ramorcy G26i. the
! Hotel Irving, the home Of Robert w.
| II"hberd. The transcript denoted the
I takers by the telephone numbers. who
addressed each other ~ "Dr, Potter
and "Iebberd" II said In part:
S2Gi | think you had better stay
| away for "A short time,
?iS-bh, I will; I'm staying away
| from the office and ! will not show
| NJ Monday either
| G2Gi-Il II be over to see YOU to-mor-
row, hut you must not leave anybody
| IN the house.
a,s oh no; there viii he nobody
| come in
! Mr. flowers renewed his objections o.
| vigorously that Commissioner Strong. h
order to determine how many of the
| other transcripts he would admit into
the record. adjourned the hearing until
10 o'clock this morning
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-Four companies Of Militia.
Each Armed With $50 Car
tridGes. on Scene.
WILL SHOOT. MEN HEAR

against German activities. fred n yolley
or two into the air and stopped the
rush There were few shots from
the strikers. but none of the guards were
injured
The situation looked ominous when
President Psrot notified the village au-
thorities that the situation was out OF
his control. and he would hold the viii
lage responsible FOR any damage done
to the plant 10y the strikers Village
President Goodwin straightaway called
upon Sheriff Weisendanger who rushed
here with forty armed deputies The
deputies tried TO drive the strikers back
from the streets leading to the plant.
but only got themselves into trouble.
One deputy was knocked around bit
and his revolver taken away from him
another tried to scare the strikers into
giving way by firing his revolver into
the air, and was saved from injury by
the other deputies.
The Sheriff immediately relieved this
man OF his duties. as he said his in
structions were that no deputy was to
Are unless his life was actually in dan
ger. Such an action might cause serious
trouble. said tho Sheriff Il was then
that the National Guard was called upon.
When the troops de,rained about 5000
people, strikers. women. men and chill
dren Of the vicinity, were at ii" station
to see them, but there was no disorder.
The troops were marched directly tn the
plant. and there they made arrangements
t. camp in one Of the buildings. Later
In the evening a commissary train. COM
posed Of two horse trucks and "A motor
truck. arrived. by this time the troopers
we're nearly fsmished many Of them
had not had anything to eat since break
fast
There was a meeting ~ strikers to-
night N which Village President Good
win talked to the men.
'Wiil the militia shoot n We start
anything" he was asked.
you bet they will he answered.
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NO TINE FOR MILLINERY FIRE
Pre-Easter RIaze Costs sixth Ave-
nue. Firms 100000,

The week before Easter Is no time for
n milliner 70 have n fire: nevertheless
Steinperg Co, wholesale and retail
millners at the southwest corner Of
SIKH avenue and Eighteenth street
under the elevated station. had a f,re
thrust upon them yesterday afternoon
which wilted their hats, tied up the ele.
waited and surface cars from shortly
after o'clock until 2 p NJ, and made
thousands OF shoppers sidestep TO Fifth
and Seventh avenues to get around the
commotion
The firm occupies the first. second and
part OF the third floor OF the northern
half OF the building. The W. A. Grant
twenty-five Cent Department Store"
has 0r had. the street floor and the
floor above at the southern end Of the
Ave story building. Above these stores
were clothing manufacturing firms.
Owing to the Jewish holidays there
were not SO many employees as usual
at work. Fully $50 workers. mostly
girls. oil GOT to the street without suf-
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Our boys Easter suits
have all hatched out and not
one ugly duckling.
The Junior" Norfolks fo.
little fellows in light wool
The wash Norfolks
The Sport" suits in bril-
liant blazer" stripes
mother of boys
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WHEELER ESCAPES ARREST
Provided H~ Gives $4,000 Bond tn
Remain IN state,

The application by Albert Gallatin
Wheeler Jr.. broker. to vacate the
order OF arrest obtained by his wife,
Mrs. Claudia &. Wheeler. because she he
lieved he would leave tho State to
avoid being served " proceeding ia
collect $4,000 overdue alinRny, was
granted Yesterday by Supreme Court
Justice Delehanty.
The courts ruling was conditional on
the Ming by Wheeler of a $1,000 bond
n insure his presence within the juris-
diction Of the court.
The sun., 1916-04-20

William j. Burns. smarting under
what he considered to he an unjust
iusinuaton against his detective agency.
said he was ready to go anywhere and
give testimony OF his relation with Mr.
Wen.
Il want II understood and | want II
established as fact" he said, that this
agency has never done nor has II ever
verritt"d any person connected with II
to do anything that could be construed
as disloyalty to client or as a viola
tion of the law.
"Mr. Well called me by telephone from
Pittsburg and asked me to come over
and install a detectaphone and I sent
Bdd'nger. know he offered Bddnger
S2500 extra II he would do the work
wanted. What he wanted done is some.
thing that must he decided later. We
told him repeatedly that We were doing
work for Gov, Hatfield lie understood
that and said the two things need not
interfere"
Attorneys yesterday were Of the opin-
ion that the action of tho Governor will
cause postponcmcnt OF the writ of
habeas corpus hearing scheduled to he
heiA before Justice Blur In the Su-
preme Court tomorrow afternoon.
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aIOO.OOO for Nanhel D~p"Sitors

With the approval ~ the f,dsr
coui' State Superintendent ~ Htua,
Eugene Lamb Richards has ARRAYS g.
for an additional > per cent. diSid,ud :.
dcpositors OF Adolph Mandel's bank
which was closed in August. 1914 IN
payment will mean that nearly sloo,uo
will he dishursed among approximate
500 depoSitors.
The sun., 1916-04-20

a Hudson

. messenger About $50 men had beer
assembled IN Yonkers by late afternoon.
and under comand Of col J r Klein
they detrained here at s,l5.
The companies are of Flushing. Capt.
y J Dooley " of Mount Vernon. Capt.
Charles Canheld l. OF White Plains.
Capt. r. ". Cobb. and e of Yonkers,
capt. H. T. Bosert Those members Of
the companies who were not notified IN
time the, IN the arinory ~ Company u
and will be brou,ht here In the morning
THE National Conduit and Gable Com
pauy occupies "A plant with half mile
frontage on the Hudson and IL one Of
the largest single plants in the country
engaged IN making munitions Tor the
Allies The conS'any makes rifle and
artillery shells. hut does not handle the
explosives put in them.
The company employed 1000 men. Of
whom 1000 are foreigners. hired for the
lowest grade OF labor. About half Of
these foreigners went on strike last Sat
urday. demanding a Atty hour Week In
, stead Of ffty-four hours. five cents an
hour increase in pay and time and a
half for overtime Tine company. dur
ing negotiations In which President r.
:. perot. FOR The company, and 4. j.
Goodwin. President OF the village and
chief Of police took hand. offered TO
raise the pay two and a half cents. and
IN the lowest grades only one cent. The
strikers have repeatedly rejected this
offer since saturday.
Little violence was manifested until
! this morning Then. az the men who
/ had not struck were on their way to
| work. they were confronted by mobs Of
! strikers and chased away from the plant
| The strikers hurled sticks, stones and
| bottles, bu apparently without intend
ing to njure any one seriously. for the
| polio" have not been able 10 learn that
| any one was badly hurt.
| The strikers easily accomplished their
purpose Of closing the plant, for none
~ the workers was hardy enough TO
| fight his way through the mob Re-
! tween the times when they were chas-
ing other workers from the approaches
/ to the plant the strikers occupied them
selves. hurting stones through windows
II the plant. and even at trains on the
| New York Central.
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fering any greater damage than shat.
tered nerves and disarranged hair
Battalion Chief Geor - l.. Ross. WI
had taken one flash At the fire early ara
thereupon decided to turn iu a q y.
alarm, estimated the loss slightly roN
than 100000.
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Nj ToWnsends statement and Mr..
Wells prompt reply, which were pub
hshed IN THE Sun yesterday, brought
tie case OF Biddinger. who has been
saved thus far from extradition by a
wit of hahras corpus to crisis.
Moses II. GrosSman, Robert T.. Can't
well. who has just returned from chi
cago William $. Butler. Hyman Tur-
chin and Mr. Townsend. all took the
morning train for the capital. where
they saw the Governor at o'clock,
Mir Townsend. II is understood, in
formed Gov. Whitman that West Nir-
ginia does not want to interfere in any
matters between New York and Illinois.
The only thing wanted was delay in the
execution Of the processes SO that the
man might have time to go to Charles
ton and appear as witness Ito was
feared that If he were taken to Chicago
and held In bail of 100000 or more he
might he prevented from appearing
against Mr. Well
Mr.. Cantwe1 informed the Governor
that efforts to have Biddingor indicted
by the Cook county Grand Jury had
failed and that there was nothing
against the man except the afiidavits
of self-coufessed lawbreakcrs. The
Grand Jury. It was said, had declined
10 consider cases where the charges
were more than three years old. and in
Biddingers case they run from five and
n half years to eleven years.
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Not knowing what damage had been
done. the aviator coolly shut of his mo-
tor and tested his controls. They were
In order. so he decided TO go on with
his aighi He set the engine going
lighted two magnesium flares and
started the headlong dive which begins
loop the loop. After dropping about
.000 feet. ne turned upward and over.
As he did 80. great splinters from the
cockpit blown out by the bomb. were
thrown into his face,
."I saw then that II was too risky
looping" he said when he landed. so |
Just ade three loops and started back.
dropped tho four other bombs on the
way. two OF them OH the whitehall
Building. The things could have done
to little Old Broadway II those bombs
had been real. or II I'd had a rapid fire
gun mounted The whole city was help
less Rut I sure thought for a minute.
when those spl!nters were raining about
my head. that somebody had turned an
anti-aircraft gun on me and | was under
fire.
Thonpson's machine was taken apart
to he sent To the next point OF attack.
Some Western city II will he. though the
city will not know II until the lombard
mept starts, and the date is set for
either tomorrow or sunday night.
Thompson is being financed by wealthy
New Workers Interested in aerial de-
fence. who want to show the vulnerahil-
lty of a large city from the sky. The
attacks are duplicates Of the air raids
of the Germans on England and of the
hombardments Of cities near the battle
fronts OF Europe. About twenty at
tacks are To he made. that OF last night
on New York being the second.
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Filler MAKES NIGHT
RAID ON NEW YORK
Thompson Drops 26 Bombs,
and One ExplOdes in Ma
chine. Damaging Wing.
PROVES CITY IN PERIL

New York wns bombarded from the
sky last night. although those who wit
messed the attack were few. In theory.
before the clock on Trinity's tower had
struck . the building had been denol-
ished by bomb dropped from height
OF abou, 1000 feet from an invisible
aeropiane and the woolworth. Equitable
and Whitehall buildings had ceased to
he landmarks on Manhattan Island.
Although the bombardment was only
theoretical and there was no danger
10 the objectives of the attack, the man
who dropped the explosives was in real
peril and for a time Il seemed likely that
he would not return safely to his hangar
on Governors Island This was DE
Lloyd Thompson. the brdman who bom-
ington last Saturday night One OF his
bombs failed to leave the machine after
II had been ignited and instead exploded
on the wing OF his machine. tea ring
the wing covering and fuselage and
spiintering the frail wooden ribs of the
'o'NpU where ne SAT, FoTtu'lnteIN the
wing supports were not broken. or the
aeroplane and is pilot might have
dropped To the sidewalk below
Thompsons High, was unannounced
Its purpose was not one of publicity
bu, a demonstration Of what an air fleet
might do to New York on sudden
night raid after leaving An enemy fleet
ont in the ocean. Yesterday afternoon
his machine was taken to the hangar on
Governors lsland-a sturdy little Day
tractor biplane with 90 horsepower
seven cylinder Gyro motor capable OF
sending II through the air at eighty
one miles an hour 1t was assembled In
two hours and by ni.htfall was ready
for the raid over the city.
Carries Twenty-sevcn Bomb..
The explosives consisted OF eight bomb
saluies. such as are fred from mortars
on Fourth OF July celebrations one
searchlght bomb with a parachute at
'ached. such as are used on the French
front for Illuminating night attacks and
known as star shells and eghts, n
electric showers for Illuminating the
path OF the aeropane through the sky,
4 The start was made AT S:1. O'Clock
from the open space adjoining the sea-
NaII ~ the island. Practically all ths
/ officers of the Eastern division head.
quarters were gathered about the hangar
Charles II. Day. designer of the machine
was there The biplane rose into tn,
! air after short run OF about 100 feet
on the level turf and then was invisibl,
( IN the sky. undiscoverable save for tn,
gatlngiike crackle Of its motor.
| Thompson made two circles for att
tude and then shot across the Manhattan
shore at South Ferry. dropping tw,
bombs and his star shell" as he went
Further on. when he saw the illuminate,
tower OF the Woolworth Building under
meath. he pressed the button which elec
trcally released and fired two NOR
bombs.
Tne mechanism proved faulty. 70,
while one ~ the bombs fell free an
detonatcd ! 500 fee, below him. tn
other sizzled on the lower wing Of nj
machine. few feet from where h. sa
For a minute he watched II. hclples.
and then IL went on ripping the thi
cloth covering Of the wings and fuse
lage.
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stones Hurled at Windows and
Trains and Some shots
Fired in Air.
FEW HURT IN RlOTING

HASTINGS. y V. April lo.--Followinc
disorder and riot.rc this morning AZ the
plant OF the National Conduit and Gable
Company. this usually quiet village is
under martial law tonight
Four companies OF militia. each man
carrying $50 rounds of ammunition and
rations for three days. are encamped
in the plant Of the cable company six
huge searchlightS on top of the com
panys buildings are making the vicinity
Of the plant as light as day, and a
safety zone extending loo feet from
the plant has been established.
strike. have been spending the eve-
ming on the approaches TO the plant. az
close q. the mlitiamen would permit
them. uttct.ng foreign curses against
the company which refuses to grant
them a." working conditions they de-
maud. hut since the arrival Of the 250
soldiers there has been no real hint OF
Forthcoming violence.
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Few were injured IN tho riots and
stone throwing this morning. but the bad
temper Of the men was 80 obvious that
the town authorities. who have only five
policemen I" r"iy upon. turned the situa-
tiou over tn the Sheriff After one look
AZ the 600 men paradiug though the
streets the sheriff decided that his forty
deputies. even with the backing Of the
companN's forty men. would be unable
to cope with the strikers If the latter
really got started 30 under a recently
enacted law which authorizes Sheriff
to call out the militia IN his county
under threatening conditions he called
upon the stat" troops
This was hefor" noon. Major Ralph
Glover of the Second Battalion ~ the
Tenth Infantry, y. q ~ ". to whom
Sheriff Wc;ssndlnger made his appeal,
called out four companies. sumnoning
the men by telephone. telegraph and
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PHONE CASES
May BE SENT
T0GRAND JURY
Charity Witnesses Will Try
to Force Mitchell and
Woods on Stand.
POLICE EXPLAIN HOW
WIRES WERE TAPPED

Alfred J. Talley. representing the Rev,
William r. Farrell. Or. Daniel G. Potter
and Dean Potter. announced yesterday
that ne would bend his efforts in the
next few days toward having Mayor
Mitchell and Police Commissioner Woods
appear before the Grand Jury to explain
their attitude on the tapping Of the
wires Of the three witnesses ~ the
charities inquiry. which work. the Mayor
said. WAS performed for the detection
Of crime.
Mr.. Tal,ey did not confer with DIS
trict Attorney Swami on the matter.
but he appeared In the Criminal Courts
Building and announced his intention
Of continuing to demand Grand Jury
Inquiry.
~ am going to ask" he said. that
the Mayor and Comm ission.r Woods
BE- summoned before the Grand jury
In order to ascertain the basis of their
charge that the wires of my clients were
being used In the commission of a crime
II the charge should be found to be
untrue We want to find out who is re-
oponoible for IL and we're ready to pro-
coed against him both criminalv and
eivilly.
The Mayor said" continued the At.
torney. that the listening was begun
on information from Commissioner
kingsbury. We are in the positon Of
being charged with having allowed a
crime 10 be committed over our tele-
phone wires. Comin ssioner Woods SAWS
that Father Farrell and the two Potter.
were not personally involved in this
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