The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-08-29
AN OLD-CINE NEW YORK RIOT.
How BHdy-Snatchfng anc T+.fica
students joke led 10 an Attack ET.,O.
IlOspktaA-The Tragic Result

Students JOKE Lid 10 aa Attack Upon
HOspttaA-The Tragic Result.
4 correspondent in New York paper
writes as follows:
About the middle of April, 1888 there
was a climax Of teeiing in NV Yorl,
against medical students who for q year
past mad been rather reckless III BODY
suatching. So long as they dissected the
remalns Of slaves, Or the untor:unates HAT
came from Fotters field. no one much
cared. Bnt grave under the protection OF
Trinity parish even, and several in the
Greenwich street burial ground, much
used by the Methodists, had been de-
spoiled. There was much talk and indig-
nation about the optroges. OF course
you remember the New York
hospital that tronted Yves Pearl on
Broadway. In my fathers time it occu-
;Ned the block to Duane street and from
lis rear windows was 20 be had an almost
uninterrupted view Of green fields and
the river. The medical school Of Coiuin-
bia'--not long before called Kings Col
iege--was attached to that hospital.
The college buildings remained until
about twenty years ago from ting on
Park place, and Of course college and
hospital Were contiguous. The front CT
he hospital WAS said 10 be quite fine il
appearance: IL grounds were finely laid /
gu; with walks. strawberries ang trees.and
at the back there was an open space thar I
The boys of the period would play in. ! /
Young Boo SAWYER or Ben AIeL while /
dissccting one April atternoon-I think
the l3th-had opened window for tie 7
sake OF the river breeze, and from thence /
out OF mere joke held up an am putated arm /
10 the boys. One of them--and observe the +
curious and appalling condolences fate I
sometimes prepares. even as in the case
the two Harrisons, father and son-.nore
inquisitive than the resi-, pulled q ligh+
ladder which was lyin@ gear ald erected
1t against the hospital wall. So rs 70
climb up for q better view. The 'stv-
bones, still locuar. sale Sonny. don't
hat look like mothers ARM |: ~as
said. hut curious enough.
within few months the boys mother
ha1 died Full OF this remark ard
upon what no doubt he had
heard OF 'resurrection- the boy dropped
from the ladder anG went off to find his
father, WAC was then engaged in LAYING
brick on house in Fulton street The
tatner dropped his tools and went UP to
Che graveyard that believe, was some
where near the Lispenard meadows. and.
oddly, upon digging, the body was not
Il be found.
il took but brief time in the little
city to bruit about the whole affair The
workmen engaged with the father and
IL
mob. The story vas passed about as son
and father told it, and in an hour hospital
grounds and the hospital itself IEH1ln1 !.
with unthinking and enraged a
not content with driving out II
cd students and keepers, prao -
ted the bones and Quilted It'd
and laboratories. Intellige
stantlv sent TO Mayor James
colder Richard Varick and j
ert Boyo. and between the ~
4 posse comitatus and wen
II riot The poor mason
he recognized parts of the,
wife. Whether in his exd
= not could never be veri
was no doubt that his
i:ssected s'
The presence OF the
lime alayed the disordef
students had been rom
we're in danger Of being
was then living witt
II Dew street. and was =
study when the news
ately repaired to the u
that the authorizes tn
excited Also and that,
Gals had been already Ne
keeping IN the Jail ID K
l. was the general id bre
bother must come ci Tx
ing discretion the lor,
nly father goes to UI8 er.y
street-where boats were kept, and was
soon taken across TO jersey. where every
day he got word as to what went on.
The evening of the riot was a fine |
spring one, and there was no need of any ]
extra newspapers in those dsys- By tea
time. backwards, east, west, north ami ,
were full of the outrage. 1t ,
was Down with the hospital Death 10 j,
the grave-stealers,' etc. Even women {
Joined In the CRY. The feeling vas i
rampant also with many In better classes.
George Clinton was then governor. s
Hamilton Vas sort Of gentrA !
Is was John Jay. There tras {