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Show I NEW YORK CUSTOM HOUSE UNDER GUARD I TROOPS UTCH FOR ATTEMPT TO PLACE BOMB Several Employes Suddenly Develop Illness Which Keeps Them Home I WARNING BELIEVED TO ! HAVE BEEN ONLY HOAX Police Satisfied Fischer Had Nothing to Do With Wall ! Street Blast NEW YORK: Sept. 21. The New York customs hoiivi lod.i . was under ' j the heaviest guard In Its History, be- H cause of the warning received yester- H do y thai I hi Wa 1 1 si r '-; e cploslen last Thursday wou'd be followed this afternoon after-noon with blowing up of the great gov I m ninent structure. Although both federal and local authorities au-thorities were Inclined to rsgard as a hoax the postcard received by Codec-' Codec-' toi Edwards, setiinc '-' o'c lock as the out tor the second explosion, they look no chances. Office workers making their way now n the canyon of lower Broadway this morning, found scores of coast guards carrying rifles and sldo arms nterlng the custom house in addition, addi-tion, scores of United States custom guards had been mobilized Every one entering the structure was closely eiuestlcmed FAR FROM SOLUTION. Federal and police authorities today v ere admittedly as far as ever from h ; solution of the mystery surrounding 1 the explosion that spread death and lestrttdtion in Wall street last Thurs- I Hope of developments lrom questioning ques-tioning Edwin P- Fischer, lawver and former employe of the French high .commission, and Alexander lirallovsky, Russian journalist, went glimmering with the commitment of the formei jlor psychopathic observation in Belle-v Belle-v u. hospital and the unconditional ro- 1 lease of the latter after authorities had satisfied themselves that he had nothing noth-ing to do with the tragedy. Sl'DDK.N ILLM1SS. An epidemic of "sudden illness and ' visits from out of town relatives," was particularly noticeable among customs house employes and lower 'Manhattan workers this morning William i Pdg Bill) H Edwards, collector col-lector of Internal revenue, was early lut work, however, and asserted that ; i a o o'clock would find him at his desk, i Although regarding the postcard warn-ling warn-ling as a joke he declared that ever -thing the law allows' has been don (to safeguard Ho. lles of workers m the building i |