The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-23
RICHMOND RUN BY R0UGHS.
DIsGR4CEEUL SCENES ON THE
 MOONLIGHT EICURsIoS.


 Boat and at the Beach.
 The most enjoyable excursion for those who enjoyed 1t was the one from this city to Pleasure Beach Saturday night on the steamer City of Richmond. The excursion was well advertised and was to have been pleasant. It proved. however to have been almost altogether stag affair.
 The fun began at the dock, where 1t was found that the tickets were not being taken. The boat was immediately boarded by gang of down towners, who know how to enjoy an excursion without paying a cent. The boat started off three minutes after 8. All went we'll until the boat neared Bridgeport. when the gang began to assert themselves. Hitherto they had only been q little jolly. As they drew near the dock at Pleasure Beach the water became very shallow. The crowd got together and began running from one side to another. Then they all stayed on one side. and the wheel on the other was out of the water.
 At Pleasure Beach the gate was closed and the gatekeeper attempted 10 collect tickets. Down went the gate with crash and In rushed the crowd.
 Almost all the places were closed at Pleasure Beach, but those which were open caught 1t.
 The man who had the dolls to throw at ought to have known better than shout as he did.
 Hit him on the head, one cigar!"
 He attracted the crowd and in a short time half of his dolls were crashed by shower of stones, sticks and brick bats.
 Next the popcorn counter caught it. Everything was taken which could be eaten. Opposition was fruitless.
 Next the gang swarmed to the variety stage, which was on the island. Here one of the gang, who was half drunk, got on the stage. Another of the gang announced that the man on the stage would do several acrobatic feats. The acrobat attempted a somersault in the air. He landed fiat on his back, and then quit. Signs were broken and statues tumbled over. In fact, the gang wanted to bring back the statue of Captain Kidd, which is on the island
 When time came for returning, anoth- CT attempt was made to take tickets. Those who had tickets gave them, but those who didn't got aboard just the same. By this time the crowd had be- come hungry. The man at the sandwich counter had a loaf of bread stolen out of his hands. Soon all of the crowd was inside the bar and the proprietor was outside. The second mate, who saw how things were going turned on the coffee and let it all run out. He could not pre- vent the crowd from getting at it,and so he determined to deprive them of it anyway.
 One of the owners of the boat, Eugene McKenna of this city, remonstrated with the roughs. He was hooted at and struck. He drew a pistodl and held the crowd at bay. They did not molest him after that.
 Next the crowd turned their atten- ton to the bar. They took two half bar rels of beer and tapped them with the rung of a stool. The gang drank the beer from the fire pails.
 They went around having hilarious time after that, and then fighting be- gan.
 Hats were stolen, fights were frequent and pandimonium reigned. David Ullman of 20 Edwards street had stateroom, and it was broken n- \ o and a coat containing $40 was taken. Sergeant McGann and squad of police ! were at the dock, but the landing here was orderly.
 Another account of the proceedings is l as follows:
 One of the crew opened lunch coun- ter in the saloon of the boat, where he was trying to turn an honest penny. Soon the crowd, having secured all the | liquor they wanted for the time being, turned their attention to the lunch stand. They marched up in crowd to the stand and commenced to devour the sandwiches. When the proprietor had the temerity to ask for his pay he was greeted with a volley of paths and told to go to a hotter place than New Haven was last week. The crowd then surged upon the stand and broke it When the proprietor saw that his prop. erty and perhaps his life was in dan- l ger he drew out his revolver and dis. charged it into the air. In reply one o1 1 the crowd whipped out his revolver anG fired two shots through the coffee urn That was enough for the owner of the stand. He promptly left his propert. to the tender mercies of the mob anC hastened for safety into the hold of the vessel. The mob took the sandwiches and threw them and the hams over.
 board into the sound
 The passengers then got to fightine among themselves, and brawl afte,
 brawl followed each other in quick sue
 cession. Several were hit over the
 heads with bottles and nearly all were
 more or less bruised and cut up.
 When Pleasure Beach was reached
 the boat was over an hour making z
 landing owing to the fact that the tide
 was not sufficiently high to enable the
 Richmond to make the dock. Finally
 however, the boat succeeded in makius a landing and the crowd surged or shore. Here they carried on their or gies even more wildly than on the boat They deliberately broke down the batl houses and threw the lumber into the sound. Part of the crowd went to 2 popcorn stand and after they haC thrown the proprietor out bodily, stole all his popcorn. Some of the party ther went to another place on the island an( tapped the till for s160. All then went