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Show j FEAR ATTACKS 1 ON COMMISSION EN ROUTE 1ST Detectives Accompany the Anglo-French Financiers on Trip to Chicago and Western Cities. CLOSE WATCH WHEN TRAIN IS MADE UP Engine and Cars Carefully Examined by Railroad Officials Of-ficials and No One Allowed Al-lowed to Approach. NEW YORK, Sept. 27. The fast New York Central train, which left here to day for Chicago with Lord Heading, lord chief justice of England, and three of his associates in the Anglo-French financial fi-nancial commission aboard, was inspected inspect-ed and policed as never before when it rolled out of the Grand Central station sta-tion this afternoon. The commissioners were bound for Chicago, where they are to confer with western bankers over the tentative terms of the proposed half -billion-dollar credit loan to Great Britain and France. During their stay in this city members of the commission have received threat- ening letters from persons hostile to the Joan, and the police have taken unusual precautious to guard them from harm. Swarm of Detectives. These precautions were extended today to-day to their departure for Chicago. Twenty , detectives were scattered through the lobbies of the hotel where the commission has been stopping, as the time for their departure approached. Another squad of detectives awaited the commissioners in the Grand Central station sta-tion and still other detectives were stationed sta-tioned at intervals along the short route which the commissioners took from the hotel to the station. The train itself "was under surveillance surveil-lance from the moment it was made up. One car was set aside for the use of I hp commission, and this coach was scrutinized more closely, perhaps, than any other. Every article of furniture in this car was examined by railroad detectives before the car was thrown opou. The contents of all other coaches also were inspected. Examination Complete. Alter the train had been made up, railroad detectives went over tihe cars carefully from the outside, even examining exam-ining the trucks and bearings to make sure that no dangerous missile had beeu .ct-rotcd in any part of the train. The engine was examined and no one except detectives and the crew was permitted to go near the train until it was ready for passengers. All passengers boarding the train passed detectives, who scrutinized them and their baggage closely. When the train departed railroad detectives were said to be aboard. Some of Lord Reading's Read-ing's friends had urged him to permit at least two detectives to reserve accommodations ac-commodations in the car set aside for the commission, but it is understood he vetoed this suggestion. Information as to the precautions was refused bv a representative of the railroad tonight, but it was reported, without confirmation, that the elaborate plans for securing the commission's gaiety while on the way to Chicago were taken at the suggestion of a member mem-ber of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co.. the fiscal agents in Cnis country or Great Britain and France. |