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Paper in Mail Box Re- That Sent Before rages in >919. .wtoM Prh YOWK,"*September 18..Re- Department of Justice agents radical oirculars. Binned n Anarchistic Fighters." were found in a mail box at treet and Broadway at -11:58 hursday. furnished the first clue, they said, to the iden- the persons who were respon¬ sible jfcr the explosion in Wall street. whi«?H three minutes later killed thirt#-#ve persons, injured 299 others and caused property damage running into millions. In making public the circulars, which: were printed on cheap paper, sevei^by eleven inches. Chief William J. FIjNn of the bureau of investiga¬ tion -pt the Department of Justice called' attention to the fact that the bonb^Mvt in the nation-wide bomb plot on Jiirip 2.\191J, were wrapped in circulars announcing the coming of the revolution and signed '.Anarch¬ istic Rghters." Th*.circular read: "Remember. will not tolerate any hjrhger. Free the political pris¬ oners hr it will be sure death for all of yofc "^.MKtCaa AoarftkiM. Fighters." OnteM KiMftlM Wards. TtM circulars were not iaclosed in envelopes, nor did they bear ad- I dn mi.a. Some of them contained mis- I spelled words. The time at which the j circulars were placed in the mail bos 'was fixed at between 11:9* Thursday ¦morning, when the box war emptied, aad at 11:58, when the next collection wao made, anil they were found. Chief Flynn made them public soon after he had conferred here with .Attorney General "Palmer and Assist¬ ant Attorney Generals Carvan and Hoover. i "In my opinion this was not an at¬ tack on J. P. Morgan * Co-' Chief Flynn declared. "I b*!HW "that those responsible picked eat the financial center in order tocreata a demonstra¬ tion." Chief Flynn declared' there was a striking similarity betaroen the cir cnlars fonnd after th^iathm>irMe tank plot In Jane. 191t, and thooe fMM tn the mailbox. But sot, bo ¦aid. was printed on cheap."php%r ahd contained several misspelled words. The circulars fount to 1#f mailbox, he explained, were apparently pctnted hurriedly with robber stamps and dis¬ crepancies tn spelling Wtonld indicate they were printed by two dlftereht men. In two of the eireolsrs the word "prlslner" appeared, while the word {"remember'' was Spelled "remimber" in two circulars and "maimer" In the others. On two of the circulars the word "lighter" appeared In the sig¬ nature. while In tlfe others the plgral -form was used. Bomb With Ttpaipx Discovery of the Jctrculars, Chief Flynn said, -make* the plan of ths bombers fairly clear." -They left the Wagon with a horse attached tn Wall street, having set the timing device for a few momenta ahead." he explained. They didn't want to take a chance of mailing the circulars. They didn't want to throw them Into the street, an they walked away 'from the scene of their crime. bo they stock them in the box. Three minutes later their bomb had or There Is no doubt at all In my mind that this is about what hap¬ pened. The fact that the boa was empty when the letter carrier visited it at 11:1# and that the circulars were in it at 11 :M, oo close to the time of the explosion, aad so ciooe to the scene of it, cafrleo conviction. [ This is one of the most Important cfoes we have, hot. of coorse, the identification of the horse aad wagon that carried the- Infernal machine to Wall street to paramount. If we can Identify that wo should have clear ¦ailing. "Mo clockwork has been found, aad It shouldn't be expected that any wooM be left. No metal parts were found m the debris left by the bombo on Jane V 1111, either. But we are reasonably sure that a time device was used. A fuse would have smoked, ¦ome one might have smellod it. The fltock arrangement would bo the safest. I "Ton might add as an expression Of my personal opinion that the bomb waa not directed against Mr. Morgan, any member of the Morgan firm, or any other individual, it was placed in the -financial heart of America as a defiance against the American peo¬ ple and the American government. That Is my opinion. The other circulars wo have found have bea signed simply, 'Anarchist ~fighter*.' Ton may see from these copies that they have added 'Ameri¬ can' to their title now." Other Warnings Fonnd. Mark O. Prentiss, chairman of the United States Clearing House of For- CTodits, turned over to the police , a poet card which he said was deliv¬ ered to him s«yin4 week* ago. The card read: fV* . ..,/ - "Unleeo** ptft , stetftng. francs marks down where they -belong at once, every bank interested ip for¬ eign credit Will -be Btnrh to pieces. I do my work right. We will make the job a new way." The note was dlgned. "American." Prentisa.' said the card apparently Was tn a disguised handwriting. The police.obtained another warn¬ ing postal' nigned "Ed," addressed to Sheppard Romans, of Prosser 4 Ro¬ mans in the Equitable building, post¬ marked Toronto, .and dated Septem¬ ber IS. at,.11 p.m.. ) Assistant Distrfct Attorney Talley has asked Mr. HMnans to give him. any information he can concerning., the writer .of t%e post card, which read: .. Jv*? A . .' "Dear Shep:-1CMP away from Wall street tfcia;. Wednesday afternoon. There netmo was a- road that didn't have a tuga, Qood luck. EC." UNHURT. Tint Be*o#s d( jfow York Explo¬ sion Stated He Was Killed. Relatives of Irving Jacobs,' a-for¬ mer resident of this city. Who was reported to have been <£1JI<d ip the- explosion which shook up thfe finan¬ cial district of^Jfew^York Thursday, received word Artfm )ii»n.A<may thai he was uninjured. J 'l i' Tf Mr. Jacobs, who was a member of the stock exchange, was understood to have been in the neighborhood of the explosion. He is the son of Harry Jacobs, who was a member of the firm of Jacobs Brothers, Jewelers, Washington. His mother was for¬ merly Miss Carrie Lansburgh. daugh¬ ter o( Oustave Lansburgh. of this city. LOST BONDS RECOVERED. Only $21,000 Worth of Securities Still Kissing. NEW YORK. September 18..Total losses in securities at the stock ex¬ change, resulting from the Wall street explosion Thursday, amounted to ap¬ proximately $212.t00, of which the greater portion has been recovered, according to information collected last night by the National Surety Company. It is estimated the ultimate loss would not *xceed $21,000. PUT 0V RETIRED LIST. Lieut Col. ''Clarence K. La Motte, infantry, has been placed on tlie re¬ tired list Jt*jr reason -of disability in¬ cident to it* service. " * TO -BURN WALL STREET FOUND t ^>EW YORK. September 18..The S*" York Tribune says: Further evidence' that the bomb plot was designed for widespread detrac¬ tion has been brought out in the ex¬ amination of three rusty and battered tin cana which were picked up at the scene of the blast. These cans, with other odds and ends,- were turned over to the police immediately after the explosion. The cana were subjected to a thorough inspection by experts at police head¬ quarters. The opinion (Irst prevailed thatthe three cans might have contained ex¬ plosive*. Later it was found the con¬ tainers had been filled with gasoline and kerosene. Expert* were unani¬ mous in the belief that the plotters included conflagrations in their plans for a general destruction of the finan¬ cial district. Inspector Lahey said the presence of gasoline and. kerosene probably accounted for the fact that the cloth¬ ing of many of the explosion victims was burned off. ANDEXECUTIVES Declares Education Should Have Strategic Place in D. C. Activities. Education in Washington should occupy a "pivotal and strategic place." Dr. A brum Simon, president of the board of education, declared today in a message ef greeting to the teachers and officers of the pub- lie schools, who resume their duties Monday after a three-month vaca¬ tion. The message was read to the entire school personnel at various meetings held today throughout the school system, where final prepara¬ tions were made, for the opening of the schools. "Entering upon a new school year fraught with great opportunities for progress, and with even greater re¬ sponsibilities to realise It." said Dr. Simon's manage, "I greet the entire teaching «id administrative force of our puMto school system. All of us apprert^te the significance of educa¬ tion -for security and advance¬ ment of our democracy; and we con¬ tend thai' education in the capital of the nation ought to ocecupy. a pivotal and rtrategto place. The recent Ap¬ propriation bill tabs'gone reasonably far in securing for our teachers more salaries, and in making teachership in our public schools a more desirable profession. Tribute te Ssperfarteadeat. "The coming of Dr. Frank W. Bal- lou to Washington adds an element of impressive Interest and promise to the personnel and administrative respon¬ sibility of our system. I am certain that the fine loyalty and warm en¬ thusiasm which you all have evinced in your attitude and work In the pre¬ vious yean will be brought to bear with signal effectiveness upon the solution of the pressing problems which now.confront us. 1 am zealous tot a whole-hearted co-operation among the component units of our vast organisation, so that the close of the year will register a forward and prideful step in the educational progress of the cause we all hold as our priceless possession. "With the hearty good' wishes of the membership of the board of edu¬ cation, and with the additional greet¬ ings, both official and personal, of Dr. Ballou." School officials reported today that not one cog in the great school, ma¬ chinery has been overlooked to In¬ sure perfect working order when the schools open Monday. Final instruc¬ tions were given the teachers today by their -supervising principal* for operating their classes, while the Jaaitors at the various buildings worked all day la putting them in first-class condition for the opening. Reports to school officials indicate that the enrollment this year will reach the highest mark in the history of the District schools. Belief was expressed early in the/year that -an Increase of 5,000 was expected, but now It to believed that it will reach 10.PM. bringing thetbtal enrollment of the schools up to 70,000. Tentative plans have been made by supervising principals for caring for the Increase In enrollment by- estab¬ lishing half-day sessions fn the third and fourth grades of the more con¬ gested schools. The operation of this scheme will not be started, however, until the latter part of next week, when It is definitely ascertained which of the schools are. to .be. crowded be¬ yond capacity. High school principals also have made tentative arrangements for handing the heavy enrollment expect¬ ed. The organisation of the high schools is not likely to be perfected until the latter part of next week. FISCHER WARNED FRIENDS OF BUST . TWO WEEKS AGO (Continued from First Page.) according to Allen, at the time of the all,-comer's tournament, where Fischer frequently was called upon to officiate In various capacities. Allen said he paid no attention to Fischer, who Allen declared had a rep¬ utation for volubility..., -. /Described mm "Plata Nat." WHITE PLAINS. N. Y., September II-.Dr. William L. Russell, medical superintendent of Bloomingdale Hos¬ pital. -aaM today that Edward P Fischer, who issued the warning con¬ cerning tfle New York bomb explo- 1»ad;J>*° confined at the ohs- pttaJ in W05 for about eighteen months, and again in 1810 tor ap¬ proximately- the same length of time P" e*ch occasion. Dr. Russell said, he had b£en committed at the request 09' his sister. Dr. Russell said the records showed JFipeher was suffering from "mania Repressive psychosis." was at times Violent and used strong language. J. R. De La Toqr'^ Bueno of White Plains said today that he had attended Columbia University with Fischer in Two weeks ago,, on a Manhattan subway train, he said, a man who introduced himself as his "old colleae chum, Fischer," talked of a social revolutic:. and told him he was em¬ ployed by the French high, commis¬ sion as an interpreter. .Fischer said there would soon "be uprisings in New York and elsewhere, Bueno said He described Fischer as' "a plain nut." - HAMILTON, Ontario, September 18 .Kdwin P. Fischer of New York, who was detained by the police here is connection with Thursday's explosion In Wall street. New York, has been adjudged insane by the locaf lunacy commission and sent to the Hamilton Jail. Further actlofc, It is said will awfUt the arrival of an offioer who is said to be on his way here from New York with a grand jury jsub- poena for Fischer. The doctors on the lunacy commit¬ tee declared Fischer was not respon¬ sible for his actions. Fischer had in his possession when taken into custody here a cony 'of Soviet'Russia, a pamphlet published kqd a, cerUflrXe FOLLOWING THE EXPLOSION IN NEW YORK FINANCIAL DISTRICT. POLICE REMOVING THE BODY OF ONE OF THE VICTIMS. BLACKSMITH, WffO £HOD Man Certain He Knows Owner of Animal. Rusty Red Wagon Similar to Those Used by Street Cleaners. By tbe AnOclttPd Press. HACKENSACK, N. J.. September 18. .Identity of the blacksmith who shod file horse foufid dead near the scene of i"hursday'8 explosion in York's financial district is known to the De¬ partment of Justice, according: to a statement made here by William M. Mead, chi^f cleric irf .the office of J. P. Morgan & Co.*' This blacksmith, he added, claims to Vyiaw the man who owned the animal. "A peculiar incident of the whole affair," added Mr. Mead, "is that a letter was received on the 15th, the day before the explosion, warning every one to stay' away from Wall street between 2 and 3 o'clock on the day of the 16th. This letter came from Buffalo and was sent by a lawyer who was believed to have been in the employ of a prominent foreign concern." Feel Plot Premeditated. "We feel .that the. plot was premed¬ itated." declared Mr. Mead, "and that a deliberate attempt was made to destroy'the building of J. P. Morgan it Co., and to £ill and injure as many people as'possible. The most likely story of the explosion is that a red wagon drawn by a horse stopped at the left Side of the curb facing east on Wall street and directly opposite the center of the Morgan building. A man most likely then set a large bomb believed Inclosed In the wagon to ex¬ plode at 12 o'clock and then walked away. "We have found parts of the wagon and shoes of the hdrse. These shoes are,expected to aid materially in solv¬ ing the mystery of the tragedy, for we have found the blacksmith who shod the horse and -who claims to know the man who owns the animal." NEW YORK. September 18..Con- flicking descriptions of the-; wagon blown up In the Wall street explosion have been reoeived ljy the police. - All available bits of the vehicle have been taken to police headquarter^, where efforts are being made to reconstruct the vehicle sufficiently to determine its exact type. A cursory examina¬ tion indicates it was of unusual breadth, which leads Detective Chief Coughlin to believe it was Of the type tised In transporting, crates of eggs. Ing he had passed the New York bar examinations. He> also had several post cards, sitbilar to those published, containing warnings predicting a dis¬ aster in Wall street ^Fischer talked freely to,Magistrate Je~lfr In' the detention room. He ad¬ mitted sending the post Card to his "chief in the French mission," . New York, and also of sending word~«f an impending disaster to a friend in a Wail strefct "brokerage -office. Fischer ¦w^s said to have been a well known tennis player.. Asked as to where, he received his information as to the bombing; he stated that ."it came frpm the ait." At the time he received this word he said, he bad a severe pain in his head. He Complained of having.a Sim¬ ilar pain yesterday and that he be¬ lieved "something terrible was hap¬ pening somewhere now." He stated that he "believed in a re¬ ligion of love," but that he "hated the Morgans." Among many papers found on >the prisoner was a post card addressed in Toronto, dated September IS. to a man in New York/whoge name is be¬ ing withheld. -stated that he was iti "financial straits", and asked that money be remitted promptly. In one comer of the card was "the following warning: "Have Bob keep away from Wall street this Wednesday after¬ noon." The first women's labor union in China has bjen organized by the native wohien employ#* in the hosiery laotoriea in Shanghai. - ». Official' opinion is almost unanimous that it was not the regular type of wagon used in the transportation of powder or explosives through city streets. One of tlj'e b»st descriptions of the mysterious vehicle was furnished by Lawrence Serbin. who. with his part¬ ner. was engaged in selling choco¬ lates to the noon-day crowd from a w#gon- ftt the corner of Nassau and WaU streets,-less than 300 feet from the scene of the explosion. Strong Scotch Accent. He declared the cart'came from New street iind was driven by a man who spoke with a strong Scotch accent. Just before 12 o'clock Thursday Ser¬ bin fcaid that he and his partner were doing business on Broad street where the' new stock exchange, addition is being built, when they were ordered away by a man in civilian clothes whom they took to be an officer. He added .that they turned their horse around, passed the Morgan bank and went, to the corner of Wall and Nas¬ sau stt^ets. where they resumed busi¬ ness. "My wagon was on the right side of Wall street, looking toward Broad," he added, "and across the street "from me was an automobile. We began to do a good business with the noon crowds. Then some one sang out to me In a Scotch accent, 'Pull your horse up, buddy.'- I looked up at him and his wagon'. "He must have come from New street,- because I was watching the cop on Broadway all the time. My part¬ ner was doing the selling. If he came down Wall street I couldn't have missed him. When I pulled out of the way he Went straight down Wall street, and about a minute later I was knocked . down and didn't remember anything until I came to In the Broad Street Hospital. "The Wagon was a bum work wagon with dark, dirty red paint, something like>a dirt wagon and about twice the size of those used by street cleaners. It, was .a rusty red color and was drawn by an old brown horse. "The driver was a dark complexioned, unshaven, wiry man, probably thirty- five or forty years old, and dressed in working clothps and a dark cap. He s,eemed for be about five feet six inches >tall. He had dark hair." EXPL OSION LIKE WAR BOMB, SAY MINE EXPERTS The appearance of nearby buildings indicates that the explosion in the New York financial district was like the discharge of a small war bomb, said a telegram received at the bu¬ reau of mines from George S. Rice, chief mining engineer of the bureau, who was in N.ew York on business when the explosion occurred. "Center of explosion, in street near¬ er assay office tha-n Morgan building," said the telegram. "Appears--from buildings like discharge'of small war bomb, except no crater and' small evidence of pitting "in asphalt pave¬ ment. Heaviest pitting in assay of¬ fice about three to eight feet above sidewalk. Maximum depth of pitting of stone wall about tjlree inches deep and elsewhere shallow, and scattered." Dr. Charles K. Munroe. consulting explosives engineer who took a j promioeuj part, in the investigation of explosion of an infernal ma-, chine in-the Capitol building he*e. several years ago. > hag: Men ord/eredr to. New York by the bureau to assiBt other gevemmstttiAgeaW -In Investi¬ gating the explosion. '. COX STATES VIEWS ON ORIENTAL ISSUE IN SAN~ FRANCISCO (Continued from First Page.) and after a parade up Market street tendered him an informal hotel reception before his auditorium address. En route here the governor made a rear-platform address at Sulsun. Senator Harding's nomination. Gov. Cox asserted, was a "ratification" by the "senatorial oligarchy." The ensu¬ ing republican campaign, he said, had been "a sickening farce" to deceive the public. ' The governor also accused Senator Harding of having, a '.'chameleon pol¬ icy," charging him with reversing his position upon the- Japanese question as well as upon the league issue. The sen¬ ator's ;latest league speech, the demo¬ cratic candidate, declared, made a total of ten variant positions assumed. DnMirn chlenaco PnceHlrra. DenouWing the Chicago convention proceedings in scathing terms, Gov. Cox said: "From that hour until this the small group of men'.that made the nomination has bee'ti the Custodian of the candidate; sponsored and censored his spoiken words antt -outlined Ms whole course. In grateful recognition. Senator Harding, in his speech; of acceptance, promised a plural government in Contradistinction to the conscience and personal responsi¬ bility of the President himself. "The performance at Marion through the weeks has been the greatest politi¬ cal farce in the history of the country. Certain types of men are sent for, and as they leave the front porch prepared interviews are handed to the press. Everything works with a mechanical precision. The hand of the masters is supreme and the one objective is to de¬ ceive the public as to what is actually going on behind the scenes." JilUMe duration. In stating his position on the Jap¬ anese question. Gov. Co* read the democratic platform plank, pledging support to a policy of "non-admission of Asiatic immigrants," and said: "My interpretation of that is that California objects to land owned within her borders by orientals. The fundamental principle of the demo¬ cratic party is that the states shall exercise every right in the determina¬ tion of th*lr domestic policies, which they may properly exercise within the Constitution of the United States. To the United States is reserved the treaty-making power establishing the relations of the nation as a whole with friendly nations. "California should not ask. and I am sure, docs not ask for any pro¬ cedure in the oriental settlement problem, which cannot be accommo¬ dated to the general policy of the government in harmoniously working out such agreements as must be made with friendly nations. At the same time, if California does not desire her lands to come into the possession of orientals, she may expect, in conse¬ quence with the established demo¬ cratic principle, the genuine co-oper¬ ation of the national government in the working out of a plan whereby she excludes the oriental settler. There is nothing evasive about this. It con¬ stitutes a flat offer of co-operation in any decent settlement of this ques¬ tion." The governor was applauded fre¬ quently, especially when he outlined his position on Japanese immigration, ^o which he added: "God Almighty in¬ tended that the fathers of America should be white men." A man in the gallery led three cheers for the nominee when he de¬ nounced the republican leaders for attacking President Wilson during his Illness. A question from the gallery re¬ garding Ireland drew from the gov¬ ernor a reiteration of his promise to call attention of the league to the Irish question. "And if Ireland achieves her In¬ dependence." the governor added, "she will want the league because it pro¬ vides for protection of weak and small nations against external ag¬ gression." In addition to the United States the countries in which women now have votes on the same terms aa men are Austria, British East Africa, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, the Crimea, Esthonia, Holland. Germany, Iceland, Lettonia. Lithuania. Luxemburg, Po¬ land, Rhodesia, Sweden and the lUkraia*. . . % jLefts Unit** State* regular* frm Governor* Inland on guard In mat of the United State* nibtrrawrr at Wall and Broad street*. wrrc seat at the reque»t of Aaali«a«« Treaanrer Martin Yogcl to protect the X900.000.000 la gold In the I ury van Itm. '»iic boIldiBgr waw b#d!y I damaged by the blast. mKht: Soldier* and police oa guard at I the entrance to the United State* ansay J office In Wall *treet. The building van badly damaged, having the ap¬ pearance of having been sprayed by | machine gun fire. 53 BUI STILL jNjnLSj Scores Being Sent Home as They Recover From Bomb Injuries. NEW YORK. September 18..The New York Times today says: Fifty- three victims of the Wall street ex¬ plosion were still under treatment in the various hospitals last night*. A number, it was said, had been trans-i {erred from Broad Street and V-otati- I ieer hospitals to private institutiOTMf j in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Scores of them were sent home.' One of the callers at the Volunteer] Hospital in the afternoon was di young woman who was searching fofl a brother who had not been home all night. She was making the rounds 1 of the hospitals, she said, and though she had heard a report that j he had been killed, hope grew as at 1 each place she was told his name did not appear in the list of patients. 1 At the hospitals one gained fuller] knowledge- of the sorrow that came into many a family as a.result of the explosion. Particular sadness Wan at¬ tached to the death of Catherine Dickinson of Elmhurst. Recently she lost her father and brother, and she was the comfor-t of a widowed mother. She might have escaped, but she took her lunch hour an hour earlier oif Thursday in order to help another girl get a position. She was stand¬ ing at Broad and Wall street* wait¬ ing for the appearance of her friend wlien she was killed. In the excitement at the morgue on Thursday night the relatives of Rob¬ ert Westbay. an eiKhteen-year-old messenger who was killed, ordered a wrong body sent to their home. It was not untfl the body had been taken home and more careful examination made that it was found a wrong identification had be£n made. It was returned to the morgue, in the mean¬ time the body of the boy had been received from Volunteer Hospital, where he died. It was identified and later taken to the family home. Morgaaa Rfisat Business. J. P. Morgan A Co., apparently the target at which Thursday's explosion was aimed, resumed business yester¬ day, after bAing closed for only the three business hours from noon, the| time of the explosion, to 3 o'clock, the j time-honored hour for the closing of banking institutions. Large sheets of canvass had been stretched across the windows*, from which every atom of glass had been blown. The glass dome In the main Hanking room of the building was in¬ closed with scaffolding. The glass in the partitions of the various cages along the counters was missing. The staff of the banking bouse were all in their places. With the excep-1 tion of Thomas Joyce! killed outright by the explosion, and John A. Dono- hue, one of the executives of the for¬ eign export department, who died at Bellevue Hospital in- the morning, and two or three of the more seriously in¬ jured, every member or employe of the firm was In his or her place, from Henry P. Davison and Thomas Cochran, two of I the partners, who were out of town at the time of the explosion, and Junius Spencer Morgan, son of J. P. Morgan, who refuaed to permit minor cuts to keep him from work, to the humblest messenger and filing clerk in the firm's employ. v Bank books.Like Hospital. Upon Mr. Lamont's invitation, a group ot reporters entered the build¬ ing and were shown the evidences of damages and the efforts made to re¬ pair it. It was a novel sight to enter one of the biggest financial Institu¬ tions in the world and see dignified executives at work with heads bandaged, to see clerks operating typewriters and adding machines with one disabled hand, to be greeted by special watchmen, whose eyes and noses were the only parts of their features visible, to see everywhere persons looking like patients in the convalescent ward of an Army hos¬ pital and to feel at the same time the calm yet steady impulse of a-great business organisation running with unlmparied smoothness. Like all other buildings within the limits of the effect of the explosion, the Morgan building was under heavy police guard. Uniformed patrolmen surrounded the building and half a dozen detectives in plain clothes kept in the immediate vicinity all day. No one was admitted unless he eould show that he had business. Mr. Davison, who was shooting on his Long Island estate on Thursday, discovered how strict a guard was kept when he tried to enter the build¬ ing in a hurry early in the afternoon. A big policeman, probably frort some remote precinct, tried to stop the banker, until several employes rushed oat attd told who was, CHILD IS KILLED BY BOMB AT CAMP MEADE "BATTLE' Investigation Ordered Into Casualties Among 15,000 Spectators Who Saw Mimic Assault Upon "Village." la spfte of precautions taken to safeguard spectators and participants during the sham ^battle at Camp Meade yesterday afternoon, one child was hr!mhd by,a- foment from a burs tin* .bomb. a forme*- set-vie- man was out Jm. i16j i. *?.? a wo,nan sustained a bruised shoulder" from " other fra'g- ments. In other resp-ctn the battle, representing the capture of Mont- two years a*T). was carried through without a hitch, and was en- joyed by a crowd of more than 15.0«0 rrom Baltimore and Washington, many of whom were former service men. Bomb Kills Child. Ca""' Dornbush, four years old. of Brooklyn. Md.. was killed when a railing paper bomb burst near where he was watching the battle with his F. Kuehnle. also of Brooklyn, and other members of the iamily. including Mr. Kuehnle's fonr- y ear-old son, Henry, jr. The child was struck on the forehead by a fragment from the missile, and was rushed at once to the camp hospital, where the physicians said death had been instantaneous. Harry K. Volkman of 1934 1st street northeast was struck on the right foot by a fragment supposed to have come from one of the bursting mines and was taken to the camp hospital, >vnere he remained overnight. A bruised shoulder was Buffered by- Mrs. Dorothy Guntz of 1927 East Monument street. Baltimore, when she was hit by a part of a bomb. She was taken home by relatives. Mai. C. B. Moore, chief at staff at Camp Meade, immediately after the battle- said there would be an in¬ vestigation of the death of the Dorn- bush child. He added that the guards were attempting to clnr the ground where the child was standing at the .time the accident occurred. * T*T M»vr Crowd. Shortly before the battle be(can and for the greater part of its duration guards along the Baltimore road at- Alexandria common council held an adjourned meeting last night and adopted a resolution appropriating the sum of »r.,<K>0 to pay the public school teachers off for the month of Septem¬ ber. On the recommendation of the Joint committee on light and finance the sum of $3,000 was appropriated to pay a coal bill for the city gas plant. A meeting of the board erf aldermen will be held next Tuesday night for the purpose of concurring in the action of common council on these measures. On invitation of Councilman Desmond tho members went to the Columbia engine house and witnessed a demonstration of the new automatic fire alarm ringtr. An electrically operated- fire alarm rfnger, the patent of W. O. TWmin. this city, which rings 108 times whan an aJ&rtn of fire is sounded, wu tested out last night at the Columbia engine house- in the= presence of Fire Chief Ogden and tho members of the common council. Jt is proposed to install one of these ringers at each of the three fire engine houses and also one in the tower of the City Market building, to be op¬ erated from police headquarters. Council will be called upon to make an appropriation for the purchase of the device shortly. In the corporation court yesterday afternoon a jury was unable to agree and was discharged in the suit of Vaqce H. Peele against Irvin Payne. Charles Gorham and ftaymond Gor¬ ham. The jury was out half an hour. Mr. Peele sought to recover the sum of $540 for injuries sustained in an automobile accident June 11. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Zachary have issued Invitations fo>r the mar- riage of tbeir youngest daughter. Miss Catherine Ana Zachary. to Mr. Robert tieon Bodington of Seminary Hill. The wedding will take place Wednesday evening in the Del Ray Baptist Church. 0. C. ENGINEER WEDS. Warren B. Hadley Pauses in Task for Marriage. Warren B. Hadley. electrical engi- . neer of the District, paused long enough yesterday in-the task of run¬ ning his branch of the city- govern¬ ment to go to Rockvllle and be mar¬ ried to Mrs. Emma McKay Edwards, a widow. At this time of 'year the heads of departments are ail busy preparing their recommendations to the Com¬ missioners for the next District ap- proprlation hill. For this reason Mr. Hadley was forced to postpone a wed¬ ding trip, and'return to the stack of papers piled high on his desk this morning. Mr. Hadley is a widower. His bride has resided at' 2900 Tth street north¬ east. , ... t , The' eleatrical engineer received congratulations of his friends at the District building. JAPAN NAMES ENVOYS. TOKIO. September 18..Baron Gon- suke Hayashi and Viscount Kikujiro rshii. Japanese ambassadors to Eng¬ land and France, have been designated as Japanese delegates to the league of nations conference at Geneva. Baron Tanetaro Megato. formerly financial commissioner to the United States, will be chief delegate tempted to get the crowd to move far¬ ther from the dancer sone. warning them that lh<\\ were not ia a safe place. but the majority of the spectators re¬ fused to give up their place of vantage for one less exposed. Whether those struck by fragments were in this part of the field the inquiry probably will de¬ termine. No artillery was used in the battle, the effect of a barrage beinr produced bv explosives tired from trench mnrtars These mortars were so placed that their extreme ranee whk 390 yards short of the Baltimore roiul. Newspaper photog¬ raphers had been refused permission to occupy a-part of the ground onto which the spectators pressed about the tine the action began. Men who served in some of the more spectacular actions in northern France were unanimous in their praise of the realism of the spectacle yesterday. The sight of a number of rockets, set off promptly at 2 o'clock, was a signal for a roar of bursting shells on what was supposed to be the German front line position, and from opposite hill crests arose the ..rat- tat-tat" of machine guns AlrplaM la Battle. While this continued a dozen air¬ planes maneuvered overhead in mimic aerial warfare, and the smoke rolled over the field in a most realistic fash¬ ion. A fw' minutes later the first large tank emerged from the woods occu¬ pied by the attacking forces, flanked by the infantry scouts, while near them came machine gun squads and batteries of one-pounders. A dosen whippet tanks were soon rattling down the slopes, followed by the long lines of infantry with fixed bayonets As the attack developed the bar¬ rage lifted to the imitation village that marked the objective of the of¬ fensive forces, and the canvas Struc¬ tures burst into flames as the khaki hosts closed in around them. Follow¬ ing the battle, the crowds inspected t-he tanks at leisure, and many left the field without knowing that the spectacle had resulted in one fatality. ROCKVILLE. ROCKVIIXG, Md.. September 18.. The directors of the Montgomery .County Agricultural Society met here yesterday afternoon and received the report of the receipts and expendi¬ tures incident to the recent RodnriUe fair. The total receipts were in the. neighborhood of $15,560. or several thousand dollars in excess of the largest receipts of any previous Rock vilie fair and more than sufficient by something like $2,500 to pay all expenses of the fair proper, x Mr. and Mrs. Fountain Peters of Glen, this county, have announced the marriage of their daughter. Miss Madella Lee Peters, and Alfred E. Johnson of Phi lade Iphia. which took place recently in Philadelphia. It is understood to have been a genuine elopement. The couple are spending their honeymoon at South Hampton. L. I. Miss Ruth May Benson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Benson of Chhin John, this county, and Wil¬ liam Edward Strother of Betheada were married a few days ago by Rev. John E. Shick. pastor of Bradburn Memorial Methodist Church, Wash¬ ington. the ceremony taking place at the home of the bride In the presence of a small company of relatives and friends. Miss Alvg Ray Carroll of Betheada, 'this county, and Millard AJoyaius- Walter of Washington were married a few days ago by Rev. G. W. Van Fosson of Ml I ford. Pa., the ceremony taking place 'at Betheada. Births Reported. The follewiBg birth* have beta reported to the health department ia the last tweaty- four boor*: Xioolo and Angelina Genu: twins, hay and dri¬ ftnbert T. and Susie B. StringfelUrw: bay. Roy L. and Marguerite Newbsuser; bey. . William B. and Marion Bill: girl. Webster aad Annie Spates; girl. Francis J. and Hortense M. Becker: boy. Ernest W. and Louisa M. Guernsey: boy. Thorns* J. and Gladys Bright; girl. Reajamiae 8. and Mtria Afeeraathy: bay. Kdwsrd o. aad Both H. <lo*uit: girl. William aad Hery A. line be.: girl. Charles J. and < Georgia langmead: girl. Samuel B. and Myrtle B. Bagaam: girl. Ernest N. and Clara M. Reid: boy. Raymond I', and fteela J. Khrmantraot: girl. Peter and Ida S. Howard: hoy. Joha .V aad Ardray Williams: hay. Julian and Viala Taylor: girl. Deaths Reported. The following deaths have beea reported is the health department ia the laat twenty-few hours: Henry Joseph Hell, 32. 1118 B street north¬ east. Mary E. Arendes. 48, 823 2.1th street. Burton LcHlnffweil. if, 1M7 D street aorta- c**t. Annie E. Hancock. 4}. 1348 Harvard stsaet. Fredrick Vrbaa. 63. 300 McLeaa arcane southwest. Josephine Winifred Fen too. 12. 142 llth street northeast. 'Virginia K. Hayes, lafaat, .18 Penaeytrasla aTenue southeast. Infant of Harry C. and Belra B. Vaagha. 1330 H street. Mary Irene Brows. 30, 1717 Se»ton street. Victoria fMckson. 51, 1*2; 4th street. Mattie Jaekaoa. 48, 2*^0 3d street nailkisal Harry Coleman. 15. 1822 B street northeast. Kllsabeth CI latins, 85, 748 >th street aoath- east. Ephraim Warren. 48, .Tohereoloois Hospital. Nellie E. Chapman, 49, £258 Oeselaad see- Moaelle O. Jackson. 1 *4. 1920 15th street the stomach is'Off." sometimes a is to quit cof- i trial proves i* a lot of sat¬ in knowing. 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Page 1: Into Among Who Saw Upon Village. - Library of Congresschroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1920-09-18/ed-1/seq-2.pdf · tion-pt the Department of Justice called' attention to

Paper in Mail Box Re-That Sent Before

rages in >919..wtoM PrhYOWK,"*September 18..Re-Department of Justice agents

radical oirculars. Binnedn Anarchistic Fighters."

were found in a mail box attreet and Broadway at -11:58hursday. furnished the firstclue, they said, to the iden-

the persons who were respon¬sible jfcr the explosion in Wall street.whi«?H three minutes later killedthirt#-#ve persons, injured 299 othersand caused property damage runninginto millions.

In making public the circulars,which: were printed on cheap paper,sevei^by eleven inches. Chief WilliamJ. FIjNn of the bureau of investiga¬tion -pt the Department of Justicecalled' attention to the fact that thebonb^Mvt in the nation-wide bombplot on Jiirip 2.\191J, were wrapped incirculars announcing the coming ofthe revolution and signed '.Anarch¬istic Rghters."Th*.circular read:"Remember. will not tolerate

any hjrhger. Free the political pris¬oners hr it will be sure death for allof yofc

"^.MKtCaa AoarftkiM. Fighters."OnteM KiMftlM Wards.

TtM circulars were not iaclosed inenvelopes, nor did they bear ad-

I dn mi.a. Some of them contained mis-I spelled words. The time at which thej circulars were placed in the mail bos'was fixed at between 11:9* Thursday¦morning, when the box war emptied,aad at 11:58, when the next collectionwao made, anil they were found.Chief Flynn made them public soonafter he had conferred here with.Attorney General "Palmer and Assist¬ant Attorney Generals Carvan andHoover. i

"In my opinion this was not an at¬tack on J. P. Morgan * Co-' ChiefFlynn declared. "I b*!HW "that thoseresponsible picked eat the financialcenter in order tocreata a demonstra¬tion."Chief Flynn declared' there was a

striking similarity betaroen the circnlars fonnd after th^iathm>irMetank plot In Jane. 191t, and thooefMM tn the mailbox. But sot, bo¦aid. was printed on cheap."php%r ahdcontained several misspelled words.The circulars fount to 1#f mailbox,

he explained, were apparently pctntedhurriedly with robber stamps and dis¬crepancies tn spelling Wtonld indicatethey were printed by two dlfterehtmen. In two of the eireolsrs the word"prlslner" appeared, while the word

{"remember'' was Spelled "remimber"in two circulars and "maimer" In theothers. On two of the circulars theword "lighter" appeared In the sig¬nature. while In tlfe others the plgral-form was used.

Bomb With TtpaipxDiscovery of the Jctrculars, Chief

Flynn said, -make* the plan of thsbombers fairly clear."-They left the Wagon with a horse

attached tn Wall street, having setthe timing device for a few momentaahead." he explained. They didn'twant to take a chance of mailing thecirculars. They didn't want to throwthem Into the street, an they walkedaway 'from the scene of their crime.bo they stock them in the box. Threeminutes later their bomb had or

There Is no doubt at all In mymind that this is about what hap¬pened. The fact that the boa was

empty when the letter carrier visitedit at 11:1# and that the circulars werein it at 11 :M, oo close to the time ofthe explosion, aad so ciooe to thescene of it, cafrleo conviction. [This is one of the most Important

cfoes we have, hot. of coorse, theidentification of the horse aad wagonthat carried the- Infernal machine toWall street to paramount. If we can

Identify that wo should have clear¦ailing."Mo clockwork has been found, aad

It shouldn't be expected that anywooM be left. No metal parts were

found m the debris left by the bomboon Jane V 1111, either. But we are

reasonably sure that a time devicewas used. A fuse would have smoked,¦ome one might have smellod it. Thefltock arrangement would bo thesafest.

I"Ton might add as an expression

Of my personal opinion that the bombwaa not directed against Mr. Morgan,any member of the Morgan firm, or

any other individual, it was placedin the -financial heart of America as

a defiance against the American peo¬ple and the American government.That Is my opinion.The other circulars wo have found

have bea signed simply, 'Anarchist~fighter*.' Ton may see from thesecopies that they have added 'Ameri¬can' to their title now."

Other Warnings Fonnd.Mark O. Prentiss, chairman of the

United States Clearing House of For-CTodits, turned over to the police

, a poet card which he said was deliv¬ered to him s«yin4 week* ago. Thecard read: fV* . ..,/ -

"Unleeo** ptft , stetftng. francsmarks down where they -belong atonce, every bank interested ip for¬eign credit Will -be Btnrh to pieces.I do my work right. We will makethe job a new way."The note was dlgned. "American."Prentisa.' said the card apparently

Was tn a disguised handwriting.The police.obtained another warn¬

ing postal' nigned "Ed," addressed toSheppard Romans, of Prosser 4 Ro¬mans in the Equitable building, post¬marked Toronto, .and dated Septem¬ber IS. at,.11 p.m.. )

Assistant Distrfct Attorney Talleyhas asked Mr. HMnans to give him.any information he can concerning.,the writer .of t%e post card, whichread: .. Jv*? A .

.'

"Dear Shep:-1CMP away from Wallstreet tfcia;. Wednesday afternoon.There netmo was a- road that didn'thave a tuga, Qood luck. EC."

UNHURT.Tint Be*o#s d( jfow York Explo¬

sion Stated He Was Killed.Relatives of Irving Jacobs,' a-for¬

mer resident of this city. Who wasreported to have been <£1JI<d ip the-explosion which shook up thfe finan¬cial district of^Jfew^York Thursday,received word Artfm )ii»n.A<may thaihe was uninjured. J 'l i' Tf

Mr. Jacobs, who was a member ofthe stock exchange, was understoodto have been in the neighborhood ofthe explosion. He is the son of HarryJacobs, who was a member of thefirm of Jacobs Brothers, Jewelers,Washington. His mother was for¬merly Miss Carrie Lansburgh. daugh¬ter o( Oustave Lansburgh. of thiscity.

LOST BONDS RECOVERED.Only $21,000 Worth of Securities

Still Kissing.NEW YORK. September 18..Total

losses in securities at the stock ex¬change, resulting from the Wall streetexplosion Thursday, amounted to ap¬proximately $212.t00, of which thegreater portion has been recovered,according to information collectedlast night by the National SuretyCompany. It is estimated the ultimateloss would not *xceed $21,000.

PUT 0V RETIRED LIST.Lieut Col. ''Clarence K. La Motte,

infantry, has been placed on tlie re¬tired list Jt*jr reason -of disability in¬cident to it* service. "

*

TO -BURN WALLSTREET FOUND

t ^>EW YORK. September 18..TheS*" York Tribune says:Further evidence' that the bomb plot

was designed for widespread detrac¬tion has been brought out in the ex¬

amination of three rusty and batteredtin cana which were picked up atthe scene of the blast.These cans, with other odds and

ends,- were turned over to the policeimmediately after the explosion. Thecana were subjected to a thoroughinspection by experts at police head¬quarters.The opinion (Irst prevailed thatthe

three cans might have contained ex¬plosive*. Later it was found the con¬tainers had been filled with gasolineand kerosene. Expert* were unani¬mous in the belief that the plottersincluded conflagrations in their plansfor a general destruction of the finan¬cial district.Inspector Lahey said the presence

of gasoline and. kerosene probablyaccounted for the fact that the cloth¬ing of many of the explosion victimswas burned off.

ANDEXECUTIVESDeclares Education Should

Have Strategic Place inD. C. Activities.

Education in Washington shouldoccupy a "pivotal and strategicplace." Dr. Abrum Simon, presidentof the board of education, declaredtoday in a message ef greeting tothe teachers and officers of the pub-lie schools, who resume their dutiesMonday after a three-month vaca¬tion. The message was read to theentire school personnel at variousmeetings held today throughout theschool system, where final prepara¬tions were made, for the opening ofthe schools."Entering upon a new school year

fraught with great opportunities forprogress, and with even greater re¬sponsibilities to realise It." said Dr.Simon's manage, "I greet the entireteaching «id administrative force ofour puMto school system. All of us

apprert^te the significance of educa¬tion -for security and advance¬ment of our democracy; and we con¬tend thai' education in the capital ofthe nation ought to ocecupy. a pivotaland rtrategto place. The recent Ap¬propriation bill tabs'gone reasonablyfar in securing for our teachers more

salaries, and in makingteachership in our public schools amore desirable profession.

Tribute te Ssperfarteadeat."The coming of Dr. Frank W. Bal-

lou to Washington adds an element ofimpressive Interest and promise to thepersonnel and administrative respon¬sibility of our system. I am certainthat the fine loyalty and warm en¬thusiasm which you all have evincedin your attitude and work In the pre¬vious yean will be brought to bearwith signal effectiveness upon thesolution of the pressing problemswhich now.confront us. 1 am zealoustot a whole-hearted co-operationamong the component units of ourvast organisation, so that the close ofthe year will register a forward andprideful step in the educationalprogress of the cause we all hold asour priceless possession."With the hearty good' wishes of

the membership of the board of edu¬cation, and with the additional greet¬ings, both official and personal, of Dr.Ballou."School officials reported today that

not one cog in the great school,ma¬chinery has been overlooked to In¬sure perfect working order when theschools open Monday. Final instruc¬tions were given the teachers todayby their -supervising principal* foroperating their classes, while theJaaitors at the various buildingsworked all day la putting them infirst-class condition for the opening.

Reports to school officials indicatethat the enrollment this year willreach the highest mark in the historyof the District schools. Belief wasexpressed early in the/year that -anIncrease of 5,000 was expected, butnow It to believed that it will reach10.PM. bringing thetbtal enrollmentof the schools up to 70,000.Tentative plans have been made by

supervising principals for caring forthe Increase In enrollment by- estab¬lishing half-day sessions fn the thirdand fourth grades of the more con¬gested schools. The operation of thisscheme will not be started, however,until the latter part of next week,when It is definitely ascertained whichof the schools are. to .be. crowded be¬yond capacity.High school principals also have

made tentative arrangements forhanding the heavy enrollment expect¬ed. The organisation of the highschools is not likely to be perfecteduntil the latter part of next week.

FISCHER WARNEDFRIENDS OF BUST

. TWO WEEKS AGO(Continued from First Page.)

according to Allen, at the time of theall,-comer's tournament, where Fischerfrequently was called upon to officiate Invarious capacities.

Allen said he paid no attention toFischer, who Allen declared had a rep¬utation for volubility..., -.

/Described mm "Plata Nat."WHITE PLAINS. N. Y., September

II-.Dr. William L. Russell, medicalsuperintendent of Bloomingdale Hos¬pital. -aaM today that Edward PFischer, who issued the warning con¬cerning tfle New York bomb explo-

1»ad;J>*° confined at the ohs-pttaJ in W05 for about eighteenmonths, and again in 1810 tor ap¬proximately- the same length of timeP" e*ch occasion. Dr. Russell said, hehad b£en committed at the request09' his sister.

Dr. Russell said the records showedJFipeher was suffering from "maniaRepressive psychosis." was at timesViolent and used strong language.

J. R. De La Toqr'^ Bueno of WhitePlains said today that he had attended

Columbia University with Fischer in

Two weeks ago,, on a Manhattansubway train, he said, a man whointroduced himself as his "old colleaechum, Fischer," talked of a socialrevolutic:. and told him he was em¬ployed by the French high, commis¬sion as an interpreter. .Fischer saidthere would soon "be uprisings in NewYork and elsewhere, Bueno saidHe described Fischer as' "a plain

nut." -

HAMILTON, Ontario, September 18.Kdwin P. Fischer of New York, whowas detained by the police here isconnection with Thursday's explosionIn Wall street. New York, has beenadjudged insane by the locaf lunacycommission and sent to the HamiltonJail. Further actlofc, It is said willawfUt the arrival of an offioer whois said to be on his way here fromNew York with a grand jury jsub-poena for Fischer.The doctors on the lunacy commit¬

tee declared Fischer was not respon¬sible for his actions.

Fischer had in his possession whentaken into custody here a cony 'ofSoviet'Russia, a pamphlet published

kqd a, cerUflrXe

FOLLOWING THE EXPLOSION IN NEW YORK FINANCIAL DISTRICT.

POLICE REMOVING THE BODY OF ONE OF THE VICTIMS.

BLACKSMITH, WffO £HOD

Man Certain He Knows Owner of Animal.RustyRed Wagon Similar to Those Used

by Street Cleaners.By tbe AnOclttPd Press.HACKENSACK, N. J.. September 18.

.Identity of the blacksmith who shodfile horse foufid dead near the scene

of i"hursday'8 explosion in York'sfinancial district is known to the De¬partment of Justice, according: to a

statement made here by William M.Mead, chi^f cleric irf .the office of J.P. Morgan & Co.*' This blacksmith, headded, claims to Vyiaw the man whoowned the animal."A peculiar incident of the whole

affair," added Mr. Mead, "is that a

letter was received on the 15th, theday before the explosion, warningevery one to stay' away from Wallstreet between 2 and 3 o'clock on theday of the 16th. This letter camefrom Buffalo and was sent by a lawyerwho was believed to have been inthe employ of a prominent foreignconcern."

Feel Plot Premeditated."We feel .that the. plot was premed¬

itated." declared Mr. Mead, "and thata deliberate attempt was made todestroy'the building of J. P. Morganit Co., and to £ill and injure as manypeople as'possible. The most likelystory of the explosion is that a redwagon drawn by a horse stopped atthe left Side of the curb facing easton Wall street and directly oppositethe center of the Morgan building. Aman most likely then set a large bombbelieved Inclosed In the wagon to ex¬

plode at 12 o'clock and then walkedaway."We have found parts of the wagon

and shoes of the hdrse. These shoesare,expected to aid materially in solv¬ing the mystery of the tragedy, forwe have found the blacksmith whoshod the horse and -who claims toknow the man who owns the animal."NEW YORK. September 18..Con-

flicking descriptions of the-; wagonblown up In the Wall street explosionhave been reoeived ljy the police. - Allavailable bits of the vehicle have beentaken to police headquarter^, whereefforts are being made to reconstructthe vehicle sufficiently to determineits exact type. A cursory examina¬tion indicates it was of unusualbreadth, which leads Detective ChiefCoughlin to believe it was Of the typetised In transporting, crates of eggs.

Ing he had passed the New York barexaminations. He> also had severalpost cards, sitbilar to those published,containing warnings predicting a dis¬aster in Wall street^Fischer talked freely to,Magistrate

Je~lfr In' the detention room. He ad¬mitted sending the post Card to his"chief in the French mission," . NewYork, and also of sending word~«f an

impending disaster to a friend in a

Wail strefct "brokerage -office. Fischer¦w^s said to have been a well knowntennis player..Asked as to where, he received his

information as to the bombing; hestated that ."it came frpm the ait."At the time he received this word

he said, he bad a severe pain in hishead. He Complained of having.a Sim¬ilar pain yesterday and that he be¬lieved "something terrible was hap¬pening somewhere now."He stated that he "believed in a re¬

ligion of love," but that he "hated theMorgans."Among many papers found on >the

prisoner was a post card addressed inToronto, dated September IS. to a

man in New York/whoge name is be¬ing withheld. 1« -stated that he was

iti "financial straits", and asked thatmoney be remitted promptly. In onecomer of the card was "the followingwarning: "Have Bob keep away fromWall street this Wednesday after¬noon."

The first women's labor union inChina has bjen organized by thenative wohien employ#* in the hosierylaotoriea in Shanghai. - ».

Official' opinion is almost unanimousthat it was not the regular type ofwagon used in the transportation ofpowder or explosives through citystreets.One of tlj'e b»st descriptions of the

mysterious vehicle was furnished byLawrence Serbin. who. with his part¬ner. was engaged in selling choco¬lates to the noon-day crowd from a

w#gon- ftt the corner of Nassau andWaU streets,-less than 300 feet fromthe scene of the explosion.

Strong Scotch Accent.He declared the cart'came from New

street iind was driven by a man whospoke with a strong Scotch accent.Just before 12 o'clock Thursday Ser¬bin fcaid that he and his partner were

doing business on Broad street wherethe' new stock exchange, addition isbeing built, when they were orderedaway by a man in civilian clotheswhom they took to be an officer. Headded .that they turned their horsearound, passed the Morgan bank andwent, to the corner of Wall and Nas¬sau stt^ets. where they resumed busi¬ness."My wagon was on the right side

of Wall street, looking toward Broad,"he added, "and across the street "fromme was an automobile. We began todo a good business with the nooncrowds. Then some one sang out tome In a Scotch accent, 'Pull your horseup, buddy.'- I looked up at him and hiswagon'."He must have come from New

street,- because I was watching the copon Broadway all the time. My part¬ner was doing the selling. If he camedown Wall street I couldn't havemissed him. When I pulled out of theway he Went straight down Wall street,and about a minute later I wasknocked . down and didn't rememberanything until I came to In the BroadStreet Hospital."The Wagon was a bum work wagon

with dark, dirty red paint, somethinglike>a dirt wagon and about twice thesize of those used by street cleaners.It, was .a rusty red color and wasdrawn by an old brown horse."The driver was a dark complexioned,

unshaven, wiry man, probably thirty-five or forty years old, and dressed inworking clothps and a dark cap. Hes,eemed for be about five feet six inches

>tall. He had dark hair."

EXPLOSION LIKEWAR BOMB, SAYMINE EXPERTS

The appearance of nearby buildingsindicates that the explosion in theNew York financial district was likethe discharge of a small war bomb,said a telegram received at the bu¬reau of mines from George S. Rice,chief mining engineer of the bureau,who was in N.ew York on businesswhen the explosion occurred."Center of explosion, in street near¬

er assay office tha-n Morgan building,"said the telegram. "Appears--frombuildings like discharge'of small war

bomb, except no crater and' smallevidence of pitting "in asphalt pave¬ment. Heaviest pitting in assay of¬fice about three to eight feet abovesidewalk. Maximum depth of pittingof stone wall about tjlree inches deepand elsewhere shallow, and scattered."Dr. Charles K. Munroe. consulting

explosives engineer who took aj promioeuj part, in the investigationof explosion of an infernal ma-,chine in-the Capitol building he*e.several years ago. > hag: Men ord/eredrto. New York by the bureau to assiBtother gevemmstttiAgeaW -In Investi¬gating the explosion. '.

COX STATES VIEWSON ORIENTAL ISSUE

IN SAN~FRANCISCO(Continued from First Page.)

and after a parade up Market streettendered him an informal hotel receptionbefore his auditorium address. En routehere the governor made a rear-platformaddress at Sulsun.Senator Harding's nomination. Gov.

Cox asserted, was a "ratification" bythe "senatorial oligarchy." The ensu¬ing republican campaign, he said, hadbeen "a sickening farce" to deceive thepublic. '

The governor also accused SenatorHarding of having, a '.'chameleon pol¬icy," charging him with reversing hisposition upon the- Japanese question aswell as upon the league issue. The sen¬ator's ;latest league speech, the demo¬cratic candidate, declared, made a totalof ten variant positions assumed.DnMirn chlenaco PnceHlrra.DenouWing the Chicago convention

proceedings in scathing terms, Gov. Coxsaid:"From that hour until this the small

group of men'.that made the nominationhas bee'ti the Custodian of the candidate;sponsored and censored his spoikenwords antt -outlined Ms whole course. Ingrateful recognition. Senator Harding,in his speech; of acceptance, promised aplural government in Contradistinctionto the conscience and personal responsi¬bility of the President himself."The performance at Marion through

the weeks has been the greatest politi¬cal farce in the history of the country.Certain types of men are sent for, andas they leave the front porch preparedinterviews are handed to the press.Everything works with a mechanicalprecision. The hand of the masters issupreme and the one objective is to de¬ceive the public as to what is actuallygoing on behind the scenes."

JilUMe duration.In stating his position on the Jap¬

anese question. Gov. Co* read thedemocratic platform plank, pledgingsupport to a policy of "non-admissionof Asiatic immigrants," and said:"My interpretation of that is that

California objects to land ownedwithin her borders by orientals. Thefundamental principle of the demo¬cratic party is that the states shallexercise every right in the determina¬tion of th*lr domestic policies, whichthey may properly exercise within theConstitution of the United States. Tothe United States is reserved thetreaty-making power establishing therelations of the nation as a wholewith friendly nations.

"California should not ask. and Iam sure, docs not ask for any pro¬cedure in the oriental settlementproblem, which cannot be accommo¬dated to the general policy of thegovernment in harmoniously workingout such agreements as must be madewith friendly nations. At the sametime, if California does not desire herlands to come into the possession oforientals, she may expect, in conse¬quence with the established demo¬cratic principle, the genuine co-oper¬ation of the national government inthe working out of a plan whereby sheexcludes the oriental settler. Thereis nothing evasive about this. It con¬stitutes a flat offer of co-operation inany decent settlement of this ques¬tion."The governor was applauded fre¬

quently, especially when he outlinedhis position on Japanese immigration,^o which he added: "God Almighty in¬tended that the fathers of Americashould be white men."A man in the gallery led three

cheers for the nominee when he de¬nounced the republican leaders forattacking President Wilson duringhis Illness.A question from the gallery re¬

garding Ireland drew from the gov¬ernor a reiteration of his promise tocall attention of the league to theIrish question."And if Ireland achieves her In¬

dependence." the governor added, "shewill want the league because it pro¬vides for protection of weak andsmall nations against external ag¬gression."

In addition to the United States thecountries in which women now havevotes on the same terms aa men areAustria, British East Africa, Canada,Czechoslovakia, Denmark, the Crimea,Esthonia, Holland. Germany, Iceland,Lettonia. Lithuania. Luxemburg, Po¬land, Rhodesia, Sweden and thelUkraia*. .

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jLefts Unit** State* regular* frmGovernor* Inland on guard In matof the United State* nibtrrawrr atWall and Broad street*.wrrc seat at the reque»t of Aaali«a««Treaanrer Martin Yogcl to protect theX900.000.000 la gold In the Iury vanItm. '»iic boIldiBgr waw b#d!y Idamaged by the blast.

mKht: Soldier* and police oa guard at Ithe entrance to the United State* ansay Joffice In Wall *treet. The buildingvan badly damaged, having the ap¬pearance of having been sprayed by |machine gun fire.

53BUISTILLjNjnLSjScores Being Sent Home as

They Recover FromBomb Injuries.

NEW YORK. September 18..TheNew York Times today says: Fifty-three victims of the Wall street ex¬plosion were still under treatment inthe various hospitals last night*. Anumber, it was said, had been trans-i{erred from Broad Street and V-otati- Iieer hospitals to private institutiOTMf jin Manhattan and Brooklyn. Scoresof them were sent home.'One of the callers at the Volunteer]Hospital in the afternoon was di

young woman who was searching fofla brother who had not been home allnight. She was making the rounds 1of the hospitals, she said, andthough she had heard a report that jhe had been killed, hope grew as at 1each place she was told his name didnot appear in the list of patients. 1At the hospitals one gained fuller]knowledge- of the sorrow that cameinto many a family as a.result of theexplosion. Particular sadness Wan at¬tached to the death of CatherineDickinson of Elmhurst. Recently shelost her father and brother, and shewas the comfor-t of a widowed mother.She might have escaped, but she tookher lunch hour an hour earlier oifThursday in order to help anothergirl get a position. She was stand¬ing at Broad and Wall street* wait¬ing for the appearance of her friendwlien she was killed.In the excitement at the morgue on

Thursday night the relatives of Rob¬ert Westbay. an eiKhteen-year-oldmessenger who was killed, ordered awrong body sent to their home. Itwas not untfl the body had been takenhome and more careful examinationmade that it was found a wrongidentification had be£n made. It wasreturned to the morgue, in the mean¬time the body of the boy had beenreceived from Volunteer Hospital,where he died. It was identified andlater taken to the family home.

Morgaaa Rfisat Business.J. P. Morgan A Co., apparently the

target at which Thursday's explosionwas aimed, resumed business yester¬day, after bAing closed for only thethree business hours from noon, the|time of the explosion, to 3 o'clock, the jtime-honored hour for the closing ofbanking institutions.Large sheets of canvass had been

stretched across the windows*, fromwhich every atom of glass had beenblown. The glass dome In the mainHanking room of the building was in¬closed with scaffolding. The glass inthe partitions of the various cagesalong the counters was missing.The staff of the banking bouse were

all in their places. With the excep-1tion of Thomas Joyce! killed outrightby the explosion, and John A. Dono-hue, one of the executives of the for¬eign export department, who died atBellevue Hospital in- the morning, andtwo or three of the more seriously in¬jured, every member or employe of thefirm was In his or her place, from HenryP. Davison and Thomas Cochran, two of

I the partners, who were out of town atthe time of the explosion, and JuniusSpencer Morgan, son of J. P. Morgan,who refuaed to permit minor cuts tokeep him from work, to the humblestmessenger and filing clerk in thefirm's employ. v

Bank books.Like Hospital.Upon Mr. Lamont's invitation, a

group ot reporters entered the build¬ing and were shown the evidences ofdamages and the efforts made to re¬pair it. It was a novel sight to enterone of the biggest financial Institu¬tions in the world and see dignifiedexecutives at work with headsbandaged, to see clerks operatingtypewriters and adding machines withone disabled hand, to be greeted byspecial watchmen, whose eyes andnoses were the only parts of theirfeatures visible, to see everywherepersons looking like patients in theconvalescent ward of an Army hos¬pital and to feel at the same time thecalm yet steady impulse of a-greatbusiness organisation running withunlmparied smoothness.Like all other buildings within the

limits of the effect of the explosion,the Morgan building was under heavypolice guard. Uniformed patrolmensurrounded the building and half adozen detectives in plain clothes keptin the immediate vicinity all day. Noone was admitted unless he eouldshow that he had business.

Mr. Davison, who was shooting onhis Long Island estate on Thursday,discovered how strict a guard waskept when he tried to enter the build¬ing in a hurry early in the afternoon.A big policeman, probably frort someremote precinct, tried to stop thebanker, until several employes rushedoat attd told who b« was,

CHILD IS KILLED BY BOMBAT CAMP MEADE "BATTLE'

Investigation Ordered Into CasualtiesAmong 15,000 Spectators Who Saw

Mimic Assault Upon "Village."la spfte of precautions taken to

safeguard spectators and participantsduring the sham ^battle at Camp Meadeyesterday afternoon, one child was

hr!mhd by,a- foment from a burstin*.bomb. a forme*- set-vie- man was out

Jm. i16j i. *?.? a wo,nan sustained abruised shoulder" from " other fra'g-ments. In other resp-ctn the battle,representing the capture of Mont-

two years a*T). was carriedthrough without a hitch, and was en-joyed by a crowd of more than 15.0«0rrom Baltimore and Washington,many of whom were former servicemen.

Bomb Kills Child.Ca""' Dornbush, four years old. of

Brooklyn. Md.. was killed when arailing paper bomb burst near wherehe was watching the battle with his

F. Kuehnle. also ofBrooklyn, and other members of theiamily. including Mr. Kuehnle's fonr-y ear-old son, Henry, jr. The childwas struck on the forehead by afragment from the missile, and wasrushed at once to the camp hospital,where the physicians said death hadbeen instantaneous.Harry K. Volkman of 1934 1st street

northeast was struck on the rightfoot by a fragment supposed to havecome from one of the bursting minesand was taken to the camp hospital,>vnere he remained overnight.A bruised shoulder was Buffered by-

Mrs. Dorothy Guntz of 1927 EastMonument street. Baltimore, when shewas hit by a part of a bomb. Shewas taken home by relatives.Mai. C. B. Moore, chief at staff at

Camp Meade, immediately after thebattle- said there would be an in¬vestigation of the death of the Dorn-bush child. He added that the guardswere attempting to clnr the groundwhere the child was standing at the.time the accident occurred.

* T*T t» M»vr Crowd.Shortly before the battle be(can and

for the greater part of its durationguards along the Baltimore road at-

Alexandria common council held anadjourned meeting last night andadopted a resolution appropriating thesum of »r.,<K>0 to pay the public schoolteachers off for the month of Septem¬ber. On the recommendation of theJoint committee on light and financethe sum of $3,000 was appropriated topay a coal bill for the city gas plant.A meeting of the board erf aldermen willbe held next Tuesday night for thepurpose of concurring in the action ofcommon council on these measures. Oninvitation of Councilman Desmond thomembers went to the Columbia enginehouse and witnessed a demonstration ofthe new automatic fire alarm ringtr.An electrically operated- fire alarm

rfnger, the patent of W. O. TWmin. thiscity, which rings 108 times whan an

aJ&rtn of fire is sounded, wu tested outlast night at the Columbia engine house-in the= presence of Fire Chief Ogden andtho members of the common council.Jt is proposed to install one of these

ringers at each of the three fire enginehouses and also one in the tower ofthe City Market building, to be op¬erated from police headquarters.Council will be called upon to makean appropriation for the purchase ofthe device shortly.

In the corporation court yesterdayafternoon a jury was unable to agreeand was discharged in the suit ofVaqce H. Peele against Irvin Payne.Charles Gorham and ftaymond Gor¬ham. The jury was out half an hour.Mr. Peele sought to recover the sum

of $540 for injuries sustained in an

automobile accident June 11.Mr. and Mrs. George W. Zachary

have issued Invitations fo>r the mar-

riage of tbeir youngest daughter. MissCatherine Ana Zachary. to Mr. Roberttieon Bodington of Seminary Hill. Thewedding will take place Wednesdayevening in the Del Ray Baptist Church.

0. C. ENGINEER WEDS.Warren B. Hadley Pauses in Task

for Marriage.Warren B. Hadley. electrical engi-

.neer of the District, paused longenough yesterday in-the task of run¬

ning his branch of the city- govern¬ment to go to Rockvllle and be mar¬

ried to Mrs. Emma McKay Edwards,a widow.At this time of 'year the heads of

departments are ail busy preparingtheir recommendations to the Com¬missioners for the next District ap-proprlation hill. For this reason Mr.Hadley was forced to postpone a wed¬ding trip, and'return to the stack ofpapers piled high on his desk thismorning.Mr. Hadley is a widower. His bride

has resided at' 2900 Tth street north¬east. , ...t ,

The' eleatrical engineer receivedcongratulations of his friends at theDistrict building.

JAPAN NAMES ENVOYS.TOKIO. September 18..Baron Gon-

suke Hayashi and Viscount Kikujirorshii. Japanese ambassadors to Eng¬land and France, have been designatedas Japanese delegates to the leagueof nations conference at Geneva.Baron Tanetaro Megato. formerlyfinancial commissioner to the UnitedStates, will be chief delegate

tempted to get the crowd to move far¬ther from the dancer sone. warningthem that lh<\\ were not ia a safe place.but the majority of the spectators re¬fused to give up their place of vantagefor one less exposed. Whether thosestruck by fragments were in this partof the field the inquiry probably will de¬termine.No artillery was used in the battle,

the effect of a barrage beinr producedbv explosives tired from trench mnrtarsThese mortars were so placed that theirextreme ranee whk 390 yards short ofthe Baltimore roiul. Newspaper photog¬raphers had been refused permission tooccupy a-part of the ground onto whichthe spectators pressed about the tinethe action began.Men who served in some of the

more spectacular actions in northernFrance were unanimous in theirpraise of the realism of the spectacleyesterday. The sight of a number ofrockets, set off promptly at 2 o'clock,was a signal for a roar of burstingshells on what was supposed to be theGerman front line position, and fromopposite hill crests arose the ..rat-tat-tat" of machine guns

AlrplaM la Battle.While this continued a dozen air¬

planes maneuvered overhead in mimicaerial warfare, and the smoke rolledover the field in a most realistic fash¬ion.A fw' minutes later the first large

tank emerged from the woods occu¬pied by the attacking forces, flankedby the infantry scouts, while nearthem came machine gun squads andbatteries of one-pounders. A dosenwhippet tanks were soon rattlingdown the slopes, followed by the longlines of infantry with fixed bayonetsAs the attack developed the bar¬

rage lifted to the imitation villagethat marked the objective of the of¬fensive forces, and the canvas Struc¬tures burst into flames as the khakihosts closed in around them. Follow¬ing the battle, the crowds inspectedt-he tanks at leisure, and many leftthe field without knowing that thespectacle had resulted in one fatality.

ROCKVILLE.ROCKVIIXG, Md.. September 18..

The directors of the Montgomery.County Agricultural Society met hereyesterday afternoon and received thereport of the receipts and expendi¬tures incident to the recent RodnriUefair. The total receipts were in the.neighborhood of $15,560. or severalthousand dollars in excess of thelargest receipts of any previous Rockvilie fair and more than sufficientby something like $2,500 to pay allexpenses of the fair proper,x Mr. and Mrs. Fountain Peters ofGlen, this county, have announcedthe marriage of their daughter. MissMadella Lee Peters, and Alfred E.Johnson of Phi ladeIphia. which tookplace recently in Philadelphia. It isunderstood to have been a genuineelopement. The couple are spendingtheir honeymoon at South Hampton.L. I.Miss Ruth May Benson, daughter

of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Bensonof Chhin John, this county, and Wil¬liam Edward Strother of Betheadawere married a few days ago by Rev.John E. Shick. pastor of BradburnMemorial Methodist Church, Wash¬ington. the ceremony taking place atthe home of the bride In the presenceof a small company of relatives andfriends.Miss Alvg Ray Carroll of Betheada,

'this county, and Millard AJoyaius-Walter of Washington were marrieda few days ago by Rev. G. W. VanFosson of Ml Iford. Pa., the ceremonytaking place 'at Betheada.

Births Reported.The follewiBg birth* have beta reported to

the health department ia the last tweaty-four boor*:

Xioolo and Angelina Genu: twins, hay anddri¬

ftnbert T. and Susie B. StringfelUrw: bay.Roy L. and Marguerite Newbsuser; bey.

. William B. and Marion Bill: girl.Webster aad Annie Spates; girl.Francis J. and Hortense M. Becker: boy.Ernest W. and Louisa M. Guernsey: boy.Thorns* J. and Gladys Bright; girl.Reajamiae 8. and Mtria Afeeraathy: bay.Kdwsrd o. aad Both H. <lo*uit: girl.William aad Hery A. linebe.: girl.Charles J. and < Georgia langmead: girl.Samuel B. and Myrtle B. Bagaam: girl.Ernest N. and Clara M. Reid: boy.Raymond I', and fteela J. Khrmantraot: girl.Peter and Ida S. Howard: hoy.Joha .V aad Ardray Williams: hay.Julian and Viala Taylor: girl.

Deaths Reported.The following deaths have beea reported is

the health department ia the laat twenty-fewhours:Henry Joseph Hell, 32. 1118 B street north¬

east.Mary E. Arendes. 48, 823 2.1th street.Burton LcHlnffweil. if, 1M7 D street aorta-

c**t.Annie E. Hancock. 4}. 1348 Harvard stsaet.Fredrick Vrbaa. 63. 300 McLeaa arcane

southwest.Josephine Winifred Fentoo. 12. 142 llth

street northeast.'Virginia K. Hayes, lafaat, .18 Penaeytrasla

aTenue southeast.Infant of Harry C. and Belra B. Vaagha.

1330 H street.Mary Irene Brows. 30, 1717 Se»ton street.Victoria fMckson. 51, 1*2; 4th street.Mattie Jaekaoa. 48, 2*^0 3d street nailkisalHarry Coleman. 15. 1822 B street northeast.Kllsabeth CIlatins, 85, 748 >th street aoath-

east.Ephraim Warren. 48, .Tohereoloois Hospital.Nellie E. Chapman, 49, £258 Oeselaad see-

Moaelle O. Jackson. 1 *4. 1920 15th street

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