Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-05
TROOPS CALLED OUT
To Quell a New Jersey Riot by a
Hundred Italian Laborers.
UNABLE TO SECURE THEIR PAY,
The Rioters Threaten to Kill Everybody
in the Village.
HELD IN CHECK BY THE SHERIFF

ESPECIAL rELEGnAM TO THE DIsPATcH.i
TRENTON, Jan. AT midnight last
night a requisition arrived on Adjutant
General Stryker for troops to 20 to Barnsgat
Park and quell a riot. The Adjutant Cen
| eral communicated with Governor Albeit,
| and the latter ordered out the companies
| the National Guard located at Camden.
Barnegat Park is new resort in Ocean
county, on the New Jersey Southern Rail-
road, and five miles from Toms river.
About 100 Italians employed there in the
work OF grading streets and si.iilar i'm
provements, and who have not been paid in
| full for their labor, threatened to burn
down the village, and so menacing was
their attitude and conduct that the citizens
decided Cd calling on the military Tor pro-
| lection.
Barnegat Park is the summer resort Of u
number Of active and retired army officers.
They formed company several years ago,
and began the sale of lots. Since then the
place has grown into village, with many
beautiful cottages several stores, fine no.
| tel, known as 'Tbe Pines, and a boulevard
stretching several miles to Barnegat Bay.
Two months ago the Italian laborers began
/ to grumble because they were not paid reg
ularly or in full for their labor. Lieuteu-
ant E. A. Farrow, of the Twenty-frst Iu-
fantry, who is the resident representative of
the stockholders of the company, and at the
head OF the local government. it is said,
promised the Italians that they should be
paid promptly, but they received little or no
money after that.
The Italians Threaten Bloodshed.
Three weeks ago they threw down their
picks and shovels and declared that unless
a settlement was made with them at once
they would loot the place. They showed
revolvers and stilletos and evinced such
| ugliness that Lieutenant Farrow called on
Sheriff Hageman, Of Ocean county, for.p pro-
lection. The Sheriff organized a strong
| posse and remained in Barnesat Park two
days 1t required both nerve and diplo-
macy on his part then to prevent bloodshed.
The Italians declared that they had 1een
| robbed and that advantage had been taken
of their inability to speak English.
Through an interpreter, they were promised
| their pay in full on the first of January,
| and thus the difficulty was temporarily
| patched up. The Italians resumed work
and comparative quiet reigned until New
Years day, when their money not being
forthcoming they once more grew ugly.
| To-day Sheriff Hageman was summoned
in haste to the Park to protect lives and
property. He responded to the call with
dozen heavily armed deputies and his
prompt arrival undoubtedly saved the place
| rom destruction. The Italians were fairly
| wild with rage. With picSs, shoyeis, re-
volvers and knives they paraded the streets,
threatening to kill every man, woman and
child in the place and then lay the buildings
| in ashes.
Inhabitants Fly in Terror.
Most of the inhabitants fed to The Pines
! and many hysterical women and frightened
/ children were taken to the nearby woods.
Prosecutor of the Pleas Middleton arrived,
and by his advice Sheriff Hageman swore
in 90 more men to serve ss deputies. This
show of strength and determination to sup
press them had subduing effect upon the
italians Word was received here tonight
that the mob could be held by the Sherif's
posse until tomorrow, when final settle
ment will be made with the men.
Notwithstanding the manv improvements
made there, Barnegat Park has not been
booming as it should, and in consequence
the assessments made on stockholders and
lot owners have not been regularly paid,
which accounts for the non-payment of the
laborers. The company requires all the en-
ployes to live in the place and deal at certain
stores. These regulations and others of a
red tape character have had more or less to
do with incensing the men. Lieutenant
Farrow is confident that he will be able to
meet all the obligations in few days. A
meeting OF the company will De called at
once. The ordering out of the troops was
countermanded at a late hour. owing to
word being received from Sheriff Hageman
that his own force was sufficient to overcome
the mob.