New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-15
EVICTION BY WHOLESALE.
MANY oIGARMAKERS EMPLOYEES ELECTED

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TINE EFFECTS or ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY PER.
SINS CARRIED INTO THE STREET.
| Yesterday was st. Valentines Day, and the most
unpopular observers of that good old day In the Six
tenth Ward Jscoby Bookman, the cigar
| makers who sent some bitter valentines to twonty
families OF their striking employees in tho shape
OF writs OF ejcctment The families lived In the firms
tenement houses Nos 33e, 33s and $40 East Thirty
eighth-st near First-ave. Twentyfour families or
about 100 PERSONS were eviced three families being
permitted to remain account of illness. 1t was the
intention Of Jacoby q Bookman to dspossess their
fol mer employees on Monday, but as the warrants
were not signed in time for Monday the eviction had
to be delayed until yesterday.
Nearly every man, woman and child livirg in
and Thirty eighth-st, who know what eviction
gathered yesterday morning the triple tene-
ment house which contained the strikers and their
families. The building is four stories high and might
accommodate ton dozen families comfortably.
But II is managed to take In twenty seven fam
IlIes and besides accommodate goodsIzed beershop
the first floor Opposite this homo Of Bohemia
Is fve-sory tenement house, and all day long yes
terday 1t looked like SIX Bowery lodging houses on
moving day. BY o'clock the windows were hlled
with furniture bed-cothing, and about every house
hold utons to make for the evicted cgarmakers
as fast az they should be dlspossessed. Women and
children peeked out Of the windows to watch the
scene. Crowds Of mon, policemen and boys filled the
Sidewalks and trucks and express carts In shoals
choked the street. In and around the home of the
strikers the strikers themselves wild Bohemians,
their families and friends-all waiting for the val
entincs.
FvTRYBOnY IL GOOD HUMOR.
While the crowd was waiting the strikers and their
sympathzers poured In and out Of the bcer-shop.
The propret.r set up a free lunch, and the crowd
fortified itself for chapter In Irelands woes
stcamng Frankfurt sausages and bread Everybody
was good and It required nothing but litto
music TO make the lively. German band
noated down one OF the cutters about that time and
IT surrounded by a crowd Of newspaper men,
strikers and their friends The Office Of Jacoby &
Boolman is Just below the tenement house, and the
band started for the Office. sign is put up there,
No reporters admitted That would Of course,
keep out reporters, but It could not tackle reporters
The strains of the Dead March In saul' brought
young Mr.. Jacoby to the window; the bowls OF the
crowd sent him back. No violence was meant or
threatened, but at that moment Captain Ryan with
a dozen officers came the scene and cleared the
streets. The fun still kept and In another hour
St. Valentine himself in the person Of Marshal George
walked TO Jacoby Boohmsns office register tho
band ground out The Rogues March,
ALL THw FURNITURE ON THE SIDEWALK.
In a few moments they went to work They dis
appeared in the dark dirty entry that belongs to No
800, and old woman came out with a load
Of boxes and bundles. The crowd yelled 1t saw
her, and the band struck up Tho Masellaise' After
tho old woman came the assistants OF the Marshal
Juggling rlckety chairs, tables, tubs with kitchen
utensils. table dishes, trunks ETC., but not rag Of
carpet curtain. bundle was brought out wrapped
In the American flag, and the crowd cheered wildly |
and gave shouts that could be heard In Jacoby & |
Bookmans Office Louis Cermack was the first to
DO dispossesscd.
In short time all the furniture in the apartments,
II they could be called such, In No. 1886 was out, aud
the Sidewalk In front of the building was packed |
with It. Once the assistants came out with stove
pipes In their hands and the crowd yelled again Some
the strikers had kept their stoves gong red hot,
and when red headed assistant came into the |
street Juggling a rel It stove with a carpet wrapped
around IL the crowd yelled, " here Is der white |
donkey n Out of the twenty four dspossessed fam
HES only three families assisted in moving their goods.
One striker cOndescended to assist the Marshal by |
putting three Derby hats on his head and walking |
to his home the street amidst the laughter
Of his friends. The good nature OF the crowd was
ntaglous and nearly broke the glass OF camera,
whose enterprisng owner pointed at the crowd, and
who succeeded In taking good picture of the scene,
assistants and all.
In No 335 the Marshal had to break door in, but |
that about all the trouble he had AS fast as the
strikers dispOsscssed they moved to their new
quarter, either the street to place
at hand BY O'Clock streams of men lugging
furniture Of all kinds such make life endurable
In cigar tenementhOuse, had pretty much reduced
the mass OF furniture the strikers late homes
aud by O'clock the great eviction over.