Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-18
THE RIOTING IN NEW YORK.
Policemen Finally Remove the Mob
From Walhalla Hall.

The unemployed workingmen who had
seized Walhalla Hall in New York yester-
day, as described in the dispatches 70 The
Star, had just about settled down TO busi-
ness when word of the affair was sent to
the Eldridge street police station. The SER
geant In charge at once called out the re-
serve section. The reserves, numbering
about fourteen men, with Roundsman COL
ton at their head, started on a double-Quick
run for the scene OF the disturbance.
1t was then that pandemonium broke
loose. The sons and daughters OF the pro-
prietor of the hall insisted that every one
OF the unemployed men be arrested at once.
sible. as the hall was black with men.
The roundsman. however, asked IL they
wanted the hall cleared. On getting an
One OF the ward detectives was By his Side
and he at once tried to seize a man who
had mounted a chair and was In the act
of speaking.
The speaker was dragged through the
crowd, and. with a policeman on either side,
was marched to the station house. One
half the crowd followed. while the others
remained, determined to hold the meeting
anyhow. The roundsman said he would
clear the hall at any cost, and more police
men were sent for. Then he changed his
mind for the moment by leaving the hall
to take care of itself, and he directed his
men to clear the streets, which were fast
getting choked in the vicinity.
The first prisoners name was Albert
Rosenfeld. and he said he was a tailor, but
refused to tell where he lived. At the FL
bridge street station. however. he after
ward gave his address la Essex street.
Rosenfeld was pointed out by Proprietor
Fliegman and several other persons who
had witnessed the riot as the ringleader of
the mob and as one OF those who had been
active in smashing In the doors.
Two other arrests were made. One OF the
prisoners was Joseph Gold, thirty-fve years
old, a tailor. of 10S Hester street. and the
other Abraham Simon, twenty-seven years
old, Of 80 Richardson street, Williamsburg,
also a tailor. They had assisted Resented
in leading the attack on the doors and win
dows Of the saloon, II was said.
Shouting Poles and Russians.
Meanwhile the crowd which hal remained
in front Of walhalla Hall had not dispersed
and the little room in rear Of the saloon
was packed with shouting Poles and Rus
slams.
Proprietor Flierrnan thought n best to lei
them remain in there for Or IN realty ne wa
fly IL he interfered with them.
Inside there were about a hundred men
talking excitedly, all at once. in Russian O,
some dialect which nobody could under.
stand.
The leader Of the unemployed foreigners
seemed to be w; Belkowitz. who said he
speech in his own tongue. which stirred W
his audience to the highest pitch of excite
ment, and the bowls and yells could b
He afterward told reporter that the oh
Ject OF the meeting was to disease soms
means OF finding employment, as the fam
lilies Of these men were all starving. Belko
WITT explained that IN his speech he told
the crowd that there ought TO be no dis
elimination against the Russian working
men, and that they ought 20 be able 10 ap
ply for work on equal terms with Ameri
cans or those OF any other nationality
What he advocated was an appeal 10 The
United States government to furnish then
with work II there was no work to b,
done, the government ought to make wori
for them
Several other speeches were made de
nouncing the government for not giving tn,
poor people work.
Joseph Barondess arrived 1T the hall a
1918 o'clock. He held a short conferer G,
with the proprietor Of the hall, in which
Fliegman stated his side of the case, ant
Barondess then entered the hall and ed
dressed the meeting. After introducins
himself he urged the crowd to leave the hall
The proposition was greeted with a storm
OF opposition, and the men almost unani
mously cried out that they would not leav,
the hall until the three men taken prisoner,
We're released.
Barondess argued with the crowd for som,
time, but to no purpose, and finally h,
asked Il they would leave IL ne secured an
other and larger hall for them. The propo
sition was assented to. and Barondess ief
to see IL he could secure Clarendon Hall
Besides the excited men who thronged Wal
vent Hall. few doors away. A speech wa.
made from the curbstone by one of the un
employed men, in which he said that unies,
the three men were liberated from fail tn,
Essex Market police court would b
stormed.