The evening world. Newspaper, November 11, 1920, Page 2

| MYSTERY OF FATAL WALL 2 quarters had been torn off, Only red chips and splinters and twisted lengths of the fron whee! rims, scattered for half a block {n either di rection, remained of the wagon, The first seconds of horrible silence immediately following the shock ended in a terrific tumult of the screams, crash of falling glass, rattle of falling meces of sashweights and the deepening uproar of fear and anger ftom maddened thousands rushing out from all the great buildings. .The first thought of the unconsciously lucky driver over the Volk office shack was for the horse and wagon. What had happened to them while he was away’ It is an unforgivable offense for a driver to have to report damage done to a team which he has left on the street. He ran out of the swarming, hysterical mob, milling about on the street. He worked his way through the settling dust pall ro the Assay Office, and found the mangled carcass and red splinters— all that was left of bis charge DID NOT REALIZE WHAT WAGON CONTAINED. No more than befdre the explosion did he realize that the death and destruction ail about him had radiated from the load on that wagon which he had brought nearly to the appointed spot. He did not realize that those who engaged the wagon and his services meant to let him take his silm chance for life with all the other hundreds who were swarming about in the streets near the contractor and ¢he hated fore- men and the members of the up-start Wreckers’ Union—“Brindell men.” A few momenta later the driver reappeared at the Volk office ehack on the sidewalk shelter. “Let me telephone!" he said, “I would right away telephone the boss: My horse is killed. That is my horse down thore, dead.” Nobody paid much, if any, attention to him. He was not able to reach the telephone. He was half-crying from fright and excitement, due both to the boss and to the explosion, He clamored along on the over-sidewalk structure trying to tell somebody in apparent authority about his troubles. He told them to Raymond Clark, the chief foreman of wreckers, « Brindell lieutenant, in charge of Volk's laborers. Clark was too busy to bother with him. Clark had very serious worries of his own. The death dealing blast meant to him things which the crowds in the street knew nothing about—just as ft did to Volk, the contractor. Pach of them then believed the bomb was meant for himself. They were later to take a broader view of it and include everybody on the whole building project among the intended targets, Agent Walsh of the Travellers’ Insurance Company, which had issued policies protecting Volk from suits for all accident damages, took exception to the number of persons who were using the sidewalk protection staging for a spectators’ stand, He went to Abraham Fleshner, a partner of Volk, and ordered the structure cleared, Cl and his men carried out the order. They did not molest the troubled driver. Fleshner noticed fim. “Put that man off, too,” he'called to Clark, “That poor fellow is all right, boas,” eald Clark, “He loat his horse fn the explosion. It was his horse thet was killed down there. He's Just been telling me about it.” DRIVER OF WAGON NOT MOLESTED. When the driver went away or where he went no man about the spot noted. Nothing at the time seemed of igss importance. For it was not then known, even to Albert, Volk or to his partners, foremen or workers, that the dead horse/and the driver had brought the explosion to Wall Street. The employers had a fairly clear idea as to why it had been brought and what it meant-—feprisal. . The police trafic rule‘whictt delayed tie dhiver of the wagonload of explosives entirely defeated by the delay it imposed the real pur- pose of the perpetrators of the crime, Strangely enough, not only were Volk and his partners, Abraham Fleshner and Michael Sheriff, and the “strong arm” conmmittee of Brindell picked men and the eighty-five members of the made-to-order Local No. 1486 unscratched, but not a single chunk of sash weight landed injuriously on the Stock Exchange Annex site. And yet one piece of the death-dealing {ron was hurled to the deck of a ferryboat in the North River! It is not likely that the driver, once he realized how nearly con- cerned he had been in the terfible business, ever told a soul except his boss of his experience at Broad and Wal! Streets. Some of the investigators believe that if he had talked he would have been done to death as the surest way of stopping his mouth. There are a few who believe he is dead. Certainly those of the contractor's office and working force who were closest to the solution of the plot became first forgetful and then dumb as they began to realize what would happen to those who “talked.” But Clark did not become dumb soon enough. He has been shot by a would-be assassin within three weekn. Clark talked idtle enough, even then. He repeated to three re- porters the story of the appearance of the driver on the shelter bridge and his plaint about the dead horse. He described the man, said he was obviously a Pole or a German, spoke with a halting acc was not apparently very intelligent and was dressed in shabby working clothing. Within a week Clark had “gone dumb,” as they say in the hohse- wrecking trade. He denied he had ever seen a man who sald he was the driver of the explosive-carrying wagon. He denied having seen the reporters. He was called before the Fire Marshal and the Dis- trict Attorney. In each place he insisted to reporters his denial of the whole incident. So strongly did he inaist on the falsity of the earlier interview with reporters that one of them left his employment because of a charge of carelessness in accepting an unverified inter. view from another reporter. HEARD CLARK TELL OF WAGON DRIVER. But Clark had nevertheless told the story to an experienced mem- ver of The Evening World staff. Within the present week The Even- ing World has found two business men of high standing to whom Clark told it the afternoon of the explosion, and to whom he men- tioned it again when explaining to them the attempt to assassinate him three weeks ago. And so certain are these two business men of the justification for Clark's frightened silence that they would not talk to The Evening World's investigator at all until they had a promise cusranteed by higher authority than that of the reporter that their names would not be published. On the Volk & Company payroll a subordinate foreman with Clark 1s James Reilly of Huron and Manhattan Avenues, Long Island City. Reilly {s a protege of Robert P. Brindell of the Bullding Trades Council. Reilly lost ¢hree fingers in an acoldent while working as a dockworker. Brindell was at that time the leader of the union of dockworkers and some months since helped Retlly get compensation in the sum of $5,000, Brindell also got Reilly employment under Volk as @ foreman on the Stock Exchange Annex contract and Reilly be- came, therefore, a member of the Inspection and Entertainment Com. mittee chargéd with responsibility for driving all members of the old Housewregkers' Union out of the trade. Part of the $5,000 compensation which Brindell secured for Reilly was apent for an automobile. Raymond Clark and Rellly were constant companions outside of working hours joy-riding in this car. The two in this automobile arrived at Reilly's Long Island City home after 1 o'clock the morning of Oct. 17 last. ‘They put the car In the garage. As they were coming out of the garage they were con- fronted by three men. In the dark neither Clark nor Reilly could see these men’s faces. CLARK IS SHOT FOR TALKIN “Which one of you is Rellly?” asked one of the three strangers, “T'm Reilly,” said the assistant foreman. , “Then you are Clark?" said the man, turning to the chief foreman “I'm Clark," answered Raymond Clark. Instantly there were three pistol shots. One of them was fired by the man wh6 had asked the questions. He held the muzzle of his revolver so close to Clark's coat that the cloth was singed. The re- volver was pointed at Clark's heart. There was a heavy, old fash- foned gold watch in Clark's left hand waistcoat pocket. It stopped the dullet, though the shock stunned Clank and the impact left a superficial wound on the flesh over the ribs, Another shot creased NT eg ar EE THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11 STREE LOOKING TOWARD THE STOCK EXCHANGE ANNEX —_ee EXPLOSION IS SOLVE Clark's left shoulder. The third missed. None were fired at Reilly. Neither Clark nor Reilly knows whether all three shots were fired by one mar or by more than one, The three strangera ran away. Reilly called for hetp, Pollceman Kenny came and took Clark to thé Greenpoint Avenue Police Station. Thence he was sent to the Greenpoint Hospital in charge of Dr. Presky, an ambulance surgeon A few hours later he was put under arrest as a material witness as to the shooting of Danfel Mulligan‘of No, 301 First Avenue, Long Is!- and City. This was merely in accordance with the police custom of arresting or detaining all persons applying at hospitals for treatment for unexplained gunshot wounds after a shooting affray, Clark proved he know nothing of Mulligan’s shooting and was released by Magis- trate Dale Oct. 19, He went first to his home at No. 276 Winthrop Avenue and then (hack to his job at Broad ata Wall Streot, He reported his absence was due to his being “shot by fellows who had been trying to get him out of the way evagéince the big ex- plosion, when he said he conkd identify that drive: He gave no ex- planation of his shooting to the police. Meanwhile the Detective Bureau of the City Police and the De- Dartment of Justice and the Burns Agency and other professional and volunteer detectives caught at the first and most popular way of at- tracting attention and making their work popular, There was just one generally acceptable explanation for a bomb explosion between the office of J. P. Morgan & Co. and the U. 8. Sub Treasury, in the heart of the district which Farmer and Labor Candidate Christiansen had been denouncing as the “cesspool of Un-Amerioantsm.” “Anarchists! Bol- sheviki! The Third International There was one bit of evidence (or rather several bits) to support this plan of investigation. These were torn scraps of paper on which were printed with separate rubber type incoherent threats of the “Anarchist Fighters.” They resembled certain more neatly printed circulars used by the miscreants who sent out the postal bombs and planted the set bombs all over the country more than a year ago. These papers were found in the mail collected by a postman on Broadway near Cedfr Street, Just before or just after tho explosion, The Evening World's investigation has brought nothing to light re garding these pieces of paper. It may be that they were put in the mall box by the same mis- --— n> ee — LONDON MOB BEATS PANKHURST’S GIRLS Employees of Communist Paper Refused to Observe Armis- tice Ceremony. LONDON, Nov. 11.—The girl em- ployees in the office of Sylvia Pank- hurst's Communist paper, The Workers’ Dreadnought, in Fleet Street, were be n and the officgs upset just after 11 o'clock to-day by an angry crowd. the The leadera of the rafders alleged DVERTISING we that during the two minutes ¢f eolemn minor silence In honor of the fallen dead, as P . 4 provided for in the Armistice Day pro- Ge mestricons Lingala th ramme, some of the women in. the fice “were singing, dancing and bang- Ing tin cana: the construction and qu are p imple, but di- rect, and absolutely truth- ful, Comparisons of our goods and prices are all we ask, A mob of men and women, sald to have been led by workmen, invaded the | Dreadnought offices. Papers were strown about the place, and then the men stood aside while the women in- |vnders gave the gina In the oMces a sound trouncing, ‘This continued unt!) the police arrived. CHOCOLATE COV TURE Nougat. fe o ‘al eroleaalne medley Unoxcelied, fragra ay. English, Walnut, ing feature to thie \ 7 WE GUARANTEE OUR MATTRESSES TO_BE FILLED WITH CURLED HORSEHAIR. THERE ISNO SUBSTITUTE AS GOOD CHOCOLATE, LA AND MA’ and FRANK A. HALL & SONS Menvinciorers ot Nets ond Besaing ay make the first sale, but it will NEVER make the second, unless the merchandise is backed up by the Quality which every purchi has a right to expect. ra world will fall flat if the merchandiser fails to deliver foods, We cannot help but think at times of the he famous Showman, P. The clevere: “there is one born every minut: ‘you cannot fool all the people all of ime.” LOFT advertising is the simplest form of publicity— merely the plain statement of unvarnished truths, without polish or brass band blare. Our printed descriptions conform absolutely to y of our goods. Our Big Daily Special For Friday and Saturday, Nov. 12th and 13t he same family, These are Ral, cenerously spangled with a aa TTD heart ofthis which Is buried Miss ring of ar famous Chocointe {tn ‘the + mneterplece. on , Fitzabeth, For exact location see telephone directory. The specified weight includes the container. It Makes Little Difference What You Need— A World “Wont” Ad, Will Go and Find It creants who sent the poor fool driver of the dynamite wagon on his errand; {t may well be that Anarchista wandering Sicie in the neigh- borhood of the explosion disturbance thought it opportune to put the printed warnings where they would fall into the hands of a man who would be sure to transmit’ them to the Federal authorities and thus give the Red Radicals “credit” for the upheaval. But nobody undertook to look for an explanation as simple as @ reckless, murderous assault for revenge and terror by individuals who knew themselves to be the helpless vietims of unrighteous tyranny by corrupt and corrupting union “leaders.” The reverberations of the ex plosion went all over the work, Some cause bigger than a grudge against those guilty of a grievance against an inconspicuous and help-! less union of foreign-born laborers had seemingly to be sct up as a motive to get any credence at all. FAIL TO FIND MAN WHO SHOD THE HORSE. The city detectives set out on a hunt for horseshoes and horse's ear tags. There was a praiseworthy, conscientious effort by shop-to- shop visits to blacksmiths to find out who owned the horse and“wagon through an identification of the shoes torn from the feet of the dead horse. The city was plastered with posters bearing photographic fac- similes of the horse's shoes and hoofs. “Experts in explosives” were consulted for wise opinions based on what eye witnesses thought the smoke and dust cloud had looked like at a time when no two pairs of eyes saw any one thing In the same way, The Federal detectives devoted themselves to a winnowing over of all information regarding Red radicals which had been collected by the extraordinary efforts of the service during the war. Not the least bit of evidence was gathered that any political revolutionary workers of violence or ad¥ocates of violence had been preparing for a demonstration in Wall Street or even in New York before the explo- sion. The publicity bureaus were full of promises of such information to come “at the proper time.” The promises were allowed to die out and bé forgotten. ‘The private detectives led by, Burns talked mysteriously and im- portantly of the “Third Internationale,” the worldwide terrorist branch of the commune as already established in Soviet Russia. They were all groping. Not one of the Governmental or private Fran Prace- aan ° ‘and the saying of Our announcements tafe if you like caramels 4 blanketed with our FOUND BOX candy by POUND BOX MILK CHOCOLATE D MARASONL NO EXCHANGES * — - —— TE ma a a es RR MRR EIR klin Simon 8 Co, A Store of Individual Shops | FIFTH, AVENUE—37th and 38th Streets Will Close Out TO-MORROW, FRIDAY At Reductions of $21." © °4.7." MISSES’ WINTER SUITS Regular Price $59, to 195,00 Smart, youthful models, fur trimmed or without fur, of duvet de laine, suede velour or rayonner velour, in the sea- son’s wanted colors. ' MISSES’ SUIT SHOP—Secoud Floor agencies had an explanation satisf. ury to tue intelligent men in charg of their own work, In the mean time the building trades, ctaployers and workers alike, knew where there was a suffictent motive to explain the crime, The bullding trades, employers and workers allke, had no desire for any sort of an upheaval of public interest or curiosity about the conditions prevailing in‘their business and employment, The prospect of a general lifting of the lid im the building business was not much less fearful to them than the prospect of another bomb, to be employed in the Bullding Trades Employers Building in 83d Street, or the Building Trades Counctl Building to ‘St. Mark's Place, g ‘Tt was not until the Lockwood Committee exposed some of these criminally unrighteous Building Trade conditions that the city and Federal and private detectives began to gather some of the material which had aiseadyheen collected by The Kivening World. To-day the detectives under Capt. Busby and Acting Sergt. Gegan of the Poltee Headquarters Bomb Squad, Chief William Flynn's Federal men and the , private detectives are all of them busy looking through the member- ship rolls of Housewreckers’ Union No. 95 to find men who might have been so faise to Modern labor union principits and the teachings of Gompers and Frayne and their own ontspoken advocate of law and or- der, William Zaranka, as to blacken their organization's good name by a crime of private vengeance as horrible and wicked as the Wall Street explosion, The information is in the hands of the counsel of the Lock- wood Committee and ‘s considered in framing questions to witnesses in public hearings and before the Grand Jury. 1 MAKE-UP OF LOCAL NO. 95. Housewreckers Union of New York, Local No, $5 of New York City, has a membership of 1800, It is chartered by the American Federation of Labor, It is made up of men who have made their living by laboring at razing buildings on New York streets for twenty years, The work is dangerous; it Involves the use of dynamite; the overturn- ing of heavy walls; the sundering of steel welded girders. The mem- bers of the Housewreckers Union have a clearly established reputa- tion for skill and swiftness and for preventing accidents, The union had also an enviable reputation for faithfulness to the interests of the employers with which it makes contracts, In the testimony of William Waixel of the Garden City Wrecking Company of Long Island City; L, J. Cohen, Charles H. Wallas of the Gowanus Wrecking Association and Albert Volk himself there are repeated tributes to the excellence of the work of the men of this union. Waixel swore that he collected . $37,000 from the Fuller Construction Company after the Fuller people had forced him to discharge the workers of Local No, 95 and atbe stitute workers of the rival Brindel] union No. 1486, and that the sum, represented the added cost to him of doing work which he could have done at an expenditure of $12,000 bad he been allowed to use workmen from Local No. 95. The President of the fnion now {s William Zaranko, It Is some times known as “Zaranko's Union.” For many years it was known as the “Polish Union” because about three-quarters of thé members have always been Polish born. The rest are Italians, Finns, Russians and Scandinavians. When Zaranko first organized them they were working for thirty-five cents on hour or less and for as many hours as the employer pleased without extra money for “overtime.” Zaranko got their American Federation of Labor charter for them about seven years ago. Their working conditions were bettered under Zaranko's administration until they were receiving $1 an hour and were working eight hours a day only. Zaranko became involved in an ugly squabble in the union about four and a half years ago and quit as president. He became a travel- ing organizer for various international unions Included in the American Federation of Labor. He returned to this city and the Presidency of Local No. 95 last summer when the union was entering its fight for existence in conflict with the Brindell Building Trades Council Dockbuilders and House Sho:ers (and Wreckers) Union yLocal No. 1456, . It fs typical of Zanranko's qualities of leadership that the husky, simple-minded lads of the old union have given to him increasingly loyal support from the very beginning of his losing fight. They gather at the headquarters at No, 64 East Fourth Street and watch for his coming each day as eagerly as school girls await the coming of a favorite teacher. But the comparison can go no further. There is notbing school- girlish about their debates and their story telling as they sit and play cards in the waiting room and curse Brindell arfd his allies, They talk of little else than their card playing and their hatred for Brindell and the Building Trades Counctl. They mix the two. When a man with a combihation including kings is “called” in a poker game there is one (Continued on Third Page.* 33.00 / Sizea 14 to 20 years e ALTERATIONS NO CREDITS