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Show ACCUSED OF EXTORTION. Two Tromtnent New Yorkers Tlaced Under Arrest. New York, Nov H A man giving tho nime of Harry A Williams mil who the pollu declare Is Henry (' Wilson, Wil-son, for twenty yours chief clerk and civil engineer In the Department of the i'ast, V a. A, with ollltes In this city was arrested tonight on tho charge of extortion llenjninln I" "A hltinnrc, who says ho Is a reporter, wus unested Willi film on a similar chnigc lhe two men are iietustd or trying to bold up lhe Water I'rnnt Improvement company or Jersev I Ity, which Is en-guged en-guged In lllllng In trlb woik on Itlktr s Islund In the Host river under lontiait with tho sltect cleaning department The men uto claused with extorting IMO, which tho illeo say was given thc.ni 111 markel bills mule r tlueuts of Btopplng the work of the compiny by musing to bo withdrawn un uriny tug, n diedge and some stows wblili had been loaned In ordei lo expedite the ox-ttullon ox-ttullon nt the contract |