The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-05-10
MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
Riotous Rabble at Clinton Hall-The Reform
Party snuffsd Out Gross Partisanship Of the
Chair-Yella, Kisses, Cat-Calls, Threats
and Defiant Demonstrations-The Pc
lice Preserve Order

The annual meetings the above society have In the
achieved for unenvabe notoety for the disorder
unfarness that chara cerizei them bu the held
evening Clinton Hall will long stand bold relief
when compared with previous The society
r. $50 members and convused by internal chickering's
tween rival factions This the rcfomers they style
themselves rallied In all their strength desperate
TO overthrow what they call
RING PARTY,
an.reormors who have they claim routed them pre-.
vious seos by repeaters and baotboI suna only The
reformers, Young Democracy of the Association
headed by NJ L. Mckenzie j. c. Lloyd, Thomas T. Hazard
Vim. Noyes, &C., and profess among other reforms.
want the Library opened Sunday and an
honeat election.
the hour named In the CALL Sergeant Haggery OF the
Fifteenth precinct, marched platoon of Hall
and took possession AL who applied to be admitted were
refused until
THEY HAD SECURED TICKETS
OF admission, which issued the officers OF the
cation TO Keep strikers About four or five hundred
admitted when the President Charles Aen took
chair and the minutes Of last meeting read. The
The conclusion Of the reading the signal the opening
of OF the reformers Mr. Lloyd led BY moving
amend the minutes where they declared the adoption
of the constitutional anne dments by unanimous
vote by inserting the word los The President the
motion out OF order. Instantly
81 s nsu 81 spd that
table the spirit moved him. The followed was
% &c is
sn sm ey"n
Eormed raved and threatened vehemently. Finally,
and that made the building shake Lloyd and
bis faction then attempted to get in motions which to
TuE ..our OF oRprn" GAa
easns lighting %ns
Of s ss rnsn % %
renewed the regulars yeng with the minority in
way to the platform, many Of whom reached il after
climbing over the an forcing them to seek safety
ton was declared carried ins,ruc,ing
s an nar and hs
DARED TUE PoiIcr TO LAY HAND uroN mH
i psn b. %: IN e IN ;w"F
heard" Here his infantie voice was los, in wells OF
apr him SS1 EGO nnto .Ss
DarnF al these scenes e, o. dsr@csGp rons he police
moved in and the crowd oil
YOUNG sKIRaIsnERs BACK THEIR IsTREscn-
ard established iins upon which they took up
aud the President, amid TIE violent scenes declared
election Several times on divisions an opportunity was
fyrn to learn The srsnsh Of the reformes who were not
After the adjournment the minority mounted chairs and
THE pIs OF CAT oAL,s,
wells and profanity that mingled in While
the excitement was at its height and the police ready
advancing upon each other
WAS TURNED
and by the aid Of lighted matches the police cleared
room The Young democrats" defeated the number of
about thirty, left in body search hall TO hoid In
dgnatlon meeting
Taken as whole 1t was one Of the most dIsreputab.e
gatherings that held In the
would make thieves could they witness blush. The prcsi
dent by his grossly partisan rulings lent fuel TO the flame
tha' has been snod ring for months and until the assoca
ton - entirely rurgcd Of It's disordery elements 1t will be
Ielroas SPOT upon our fair fame.
The annual report shows the expenditures for the year
be x66, s. income for the year. &6U5l7 balance in
any IS s.; the number Of volumes In the library, l2237
ncreas daring year. IL AIS Of which l430 donated
eircclated during year, 26o ,U34 volumes.