New-York tribune., 1919-07-04
Every Policeman Ready
Against B O m b Plots,
While $4,000 Militia
Will Await Any Call
Municipal and U. S.
Buildings Watched
Dynamite Found i'm Shed
at Walpole, Mass; Big
Powder Theft Revealed

Independence Day finds armed men
on guard at every vital spot, every
public building. many churches and
many homes of prominent citizens in
New York City.
Thirty-three thousand men, COM
prising the entire police force and
New York Guard, reinforced by Secret
Service agents, will be ready to day to
deal with the threatened outbreaks.
The precautions taken here to fend
against the rumored Red bomb plot
have been duplicated in most of the
other large cities of the nation.
While the Department of Justice at
Washington announced yesterday that
it had no confirmation OF the reported
radical plot, it is known that Secret
Service men have made elaborate plans
to protect the lives of officials there.
Thus far the only definite indica-
tions of the alleged plot have been the
discovery of seventeen bombs hidden
in shed at Walpole, Mass, near Bos-
ton, and warnings sent out by the
Pennsylvania constabulary that there
have been wholesale thefts of pow
der and dynamite in that state in the
last week.
While other cities are guarding
against radical outrages, Chicago has
carried the war into the enemy camp.
The police yesterday rounded up every
person of known Red sympathies in
the city and will keep these jailed
until after the Fourth.
Mooney Strike Dwindles
In New York City every police
man will be on duty. The 10000
guardsmen, although not modified,
will be ready to report at their ar
mories at instant call. The Fire De-
partment is also prepared to use its
engines and hose to cool the ardor of
possible mobs, and the shcriffs of the
various counties have ordered all their
deputies to be ready for service.
Besides the homes of officials and
others who have incurred the wrath of
the radicals, the police are guarding
all powerhouses, bridges, telephone and
telegraph lines, waterworks and mu-
nicipal, state and Federal buildings.
The five-day strike projected as a
demonstration for Mooney has SIM
mered down to small proportions here
Dor declared against it. Not more
than $4,000 workers will go on strike.
Most Of the other cities Of the country
will be affected but little, although
Seattle may be tied up by it.
The police Of the greater city
were assigned yesterday to spc-
cial work for the day, the details
to be in force until Sunday. Special
safeguards are thrown around the
houses IF men prominent in official and
or another might have antagonizcd
radicals of any shade. Strong guards,
too, were placed near Federal and
municipal buildings, public utilities,
churches and synagogues and the en-
frances to all bridges.
Homes along Fifth Avenue will be
given special attention, including those
Of Senator w. A. Clark, Fifth Avenue
and Seventy seventh Street; Henry G.
Frick, Fifth Avenue and Seventeen
Street; Cornelius Vanderbilt, Fifth
Avenue and Fifty-eighth Street; W. X.
Vanderbilt, Fifth Avenue and Fifty
third Street; Andrew Carnegie, Fifth
Avenue and Nineticth Street, and the
Astor residence at $40 Fifth Avenue,
and that Of Mrs. Finley J. Shepard.
Lusk Committee Guarded
A special squad Of policemen and
plninclothes men has been thrown
around the Prince George Hotel, which
is the headquarters of the Lusk COM
mittee investigating Bolshevism in tho
State Of New York Extraordinary pro-
lection is nlso given Mayor Hylan's
house in Brooklyn, az Is also the homes
of other city officials.
Two policemen were stationed at st.
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