New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-01
TO STOP OLD GLORY WAVING.
TANNANY BELIEVED TO BE THE SPITE
FUI. COMPLAINANT
COMPELLED TO SHOW CAUSE WHY THE FLAG
POLE IN HUDsON-sT FROM WHICH IiiH
NATIONAL ENSIGN HAS LONG FLoATED

COMPELLED TO SHOW CAUSE WHY THE FLAG
POLE IN HuDsoN-sT.. FROM WHICH THE
NATIONAL ENSIGN HAS Long FioATEp.
SHOULD NOT BE REMOVED.
A case in which Tammanv Is believed to be the
complainant against Old Glory is to De arsue' De-
fore civil Justice Wauhopc Lynn on December o.
r., le,aI notice which was Issued at Justice Lynns
office early in the week does not read tnat way TO
be sure II is A notice the :. McF 1daen SompA"S'
AT No 1875 HudsOn-st to show cause why ""spo'
in front Of that place should not be rehnoVeu' o'i
Glory has foated at the top Of nagstan thc'e io'
n great mary years. and nobody thought that the
mole was an incumbrance until lately. when the man
who is at the head OF the :. McFadden Company
became political thorn in the side OF Iammahy'
Miss Sarah McFadden aged ninety-two. VINO now
lives In Washington, ID. G.. began to mahuidc.u'e
e,gs In the old tnreestO!y brick house al ~" '' ui
son-st more than sixty years ago. The house belongs
N the Trinity Church Corporation. Miss McFa11eh
was intensely patriotic and also had some shfe"d-
ness a. . business woman She mad nearly '"o-
nopoy Of t1e idgmakng business In inns CITY io'
time and the company when sun b"dfs hei ""'i''
,s in the same business Miss McFadden had nag
mole erected in front Of the house and General pN
ho us ., tho head Of the Trinity Church Corpora
,,on first raised flag the pole. Peter cooper
and other patriotic men OF that time were present
AZ the flag raising. General DIX VINO aiter"a'" s"'e
the famous order TO shoot on the spot any one WIN
at;en,uied 10 tear down the American nag was I"
eues. AT the house on several occasions when inc
veterans of 1876 had their annual dinners IN Miss
NcF.ddcn's front room. At the time OF the war
Miss McFadden gave away 50 many hags 10 the
school children mat the police asked her 10 ueS''
because the children blocked up Hudson-st 1t had
heen her custom TO give away flags TO the chi'uIe"
an every Fourth Of July for a number OF years
When Miss McFadden went to Washington sew
oral vears ago she LEFT her business TO hei nephe"s
/ Hitch Harrison and j. w. Harrison lhey nave
hon, tho flag hvng in front of The house every Day
year in and year our. The original nagpoIe mas
heon supplanted by newer one. which STANDS eH-
ac,v where the first did. at the outer euee o.
Tho Sidewalk and IT Is in nobOdys way !" Hitch
Harrison was a Tammany man FOR humper vi
years but about "A year ago he became so niuVH u'S
cus,ed with the thods OF the corrupt PoIit'cdi
p1nization that left Tdmmany ana Joiiicd .ii'
9,pricn Democrats. AT the last cItctloh ne va"
The leader OF the Anti-Tammany Democrats III 'iie
Gates threatened that they would get even VIM
him but he only laughed al them his Dfothei VIZ
10 Washington to spend Thanksgiving WIN men
Aunt Sarah and during his absence thc ~
given 10 snow cause Why he historic hasstdii siI'
no, ne cur down and taken away. Sohlcpou! hi'
made a complain, that the pole was an llcu'pi a'oc
The Harrisons said yesterday tna' tnes Wv. ~
know who had made the complaint Du' u u wa Wv.
r,mmon report In the ne!ghborhood that laihnans
men had insured the complaint as piece OF spite
The Uarrisons VIII try to snow cause why III
GLORY saoud be allowed to hoat over the sue"a III
and they may try keep II there by paying ""'S "
there Is other way