The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-05
Timely Discovery Prevents De-
StructiOn Customs Office.
Port Collector Also Finds One
on His Doorstep.
NAVAL MILITIA CALLED OUT
War Activities Everywhere APP
parent in Largest U. 5. City.
SearchIights Play Turnout
Night on Piers and Bridges.

New York. Feb. 5.-Tenseness
about the New York customs house
was increased today with the discovery
that destruction of part of the build
ing was narrowly averted Saturday
when two employees found a lighted
bomb in room directly under Port
Collector Malone's private office.
The building has been under the
strictest guard since indications of a
break with Germany became appar-
ent. Secret service men declared they
knew of no stranger who had entered
the building.
1t is the first time within the MEM
DRY of the younger generation that
New Workers have been challenged by
armed soldiers along their own high
ways Now they are told to move
fast as they pass over the huge spans
connecting Brooklyn with Manhattan
island. Lettering in Battery park is
also prohibited.
The driving snow today made APP
proach to bridge piers easier and for
that reason even greater precaution
was taken than yes erday.
See Flash of Bayonets.
The naval militia, which was the
Spanish-American war, is holding
rear guard over all public property,
the bridges and water front. Blue
clad youths from offices and stores
are patroIling these places. Any one
who stops is asked to move on. Cues
lions are met with a flash of bayonet
and little more suggestion. Street
cars are kept moving. Motormen and
conductors have been warned that
while crossing the bridges they must
keep their car windows and doors
closed and keep the power turned on.
Automobiles are met with the same
orders.
Underneath the structures. search
lights swung on the piers and up and
down the stream all night long are
bridges. Important looking artillery
pieces frowned grimly toward the nv
er where a constant vigil was kept by
men aboard naval tugs. Tugs were
warned not to approach closer than
fifty feet to any of the piers and
barSes We're especially wantched, lest
one of them, laden with explosives,
should bump into the masonry
Flags UnfurIed Everywhere.
New Workers hurried and fought
their way to work today with just as
much brusqueness as usual. The
the office and store buildings at the
usual time, so far as could be done
IN the face of a blizzard.
American flags tapped in the wind
IN the canyon of Broad and Wall
streets. the financial district Huge
strips of the tri-colored emblem met
across the narrow street. The flag
epidemic continued on uptown, into
busy Fifth avenue and Broadway.
More flags are flying in New York to-
day than for years.
Guard Grain Elevators, Too.
Galveston. Feb. 5.-Precautionary
measures taken here as to the result
of the break between Germany and
the United States include the placing
of extra guards at all grain elevators
at the landing of the Mexican cable
and along the water front. Leave for
the members of the two companies OF
coast artillery stationed here has been
temporarily suspended and the bat
teries at Forts Crockett, San Jacinto
and Travis are being carefully guard
ed.
Found Bomb at Home, Too.
Washington, Feb. 5.-Custom Col
lector Malone at New York. reported
TO the treasury department today that
he had found a bomb under the steps
of his home.
New York, Feb. 5.-Prior to the re-
ceipt of the dispatch from Washing
ton that a bomb had been found un-
der the steps of Mr. Malone's home,
the report was current here that a
bomb had been found in the customs
house in Mr.. Malone's office.
A report was current that the Incl
dent reported by Mr.. Malone occurred
today and that he had snuffed the
fuse of the bomb with his fingers af-
ter finding it on the steps of his home.
Readers of the State Journal
knew all about the break with
Germany and read nine-tenthS of