The herald., 1896-11-01

through the crowd. Other women were
stood on their heads in the same local.
ity.
AT another hour. in that vicinity, a
large crowd of half drunken ruff1ans
congregated and took unseemly liber-
ties with women who happened TO pc
passing that way. the croWu Would
form on each side Of the walk, and when
the victim had passed about to the CEN
ter of the line. all hands would rush
upon her Alone she was compelled 10
battle her way out, after being fnsulted
and msterated in the most brutal way.
Paint was smeared on her race ana
flour on her garments. In seVeral cases
women were thrown to the pavement
and severely bruised by the heels of
these merry makers" In several cases
their garments were torn and their mats
crushed out of shape. An elderly gem
tleman came along with three girls, ev-
idently his daughters. ranging IN age
from II to II years of age. They We're
not spared. The girls, mortified and
horror stricken. looked appealngly to
their father who attempted to remon-
strate with the crowd. A bully of the
worst type struck the old man in the
face, breaking his nose. This was too
much for some of the spectators in the
windows above. Buckets of water were
thrown upon the revelers and they dis
persed along Eleventh street toward
Main.
The crowd seemed determined to let
no woman guilty of having a clean face
escape the general besmearing of car
mine. lamp black. grease paint, shoe
backing or axle grease. AS the cable
cars passed along the street men would
reach up and transform fair Caucas-
ians into brunettes. one man whose
palms were thick with shoe backing
clasped a woman's face with both
hauds When she turned to her escort
who had not seen the attack, it was
with difficulty that he recognized her.
One funny" incident, which fortu-
nately ended the right way, happened
on Main street, near Eighth, about 10
o'clock. A burly colored man, carrying
bucket of black paint and a brush
met a well-dressed trio, one man and
two women, and without provocation
or warning. daubed the faces of both
women with paint before the male es-
cort could interfere. The escort was
worth having. He was a young man.
but decisive one. and quickly knocked
that black comedian down and kicked
him in the head until he was nearly
senseless. Everybody who saw the per-
formance applauded the victor.
About the same hour and near the
same place a man struck a woman on
the head with an inflated bladder and
the woman responded with a blow on
the mans face. The man returned the
blow and the woman struck him again,
straight from the shoulder, and the bat
tie was stopped The man came out of
the fight bleeding at the nose and the
woman showed black eye.
Another kind of comedians of the
day were two roughs, each of whom
Wore one boxing glove, which they used
instead of badders wherewith to pun
mel strangers. They struck half doz-
en- persons before they encountered a
big man with a cane. He raped one of
them on the side of the head, and
they sneaked away in the crowd.
The "kavorters" paid great attention
to the street cars. Early in the evening
it was funny, because the sport consist
ed of fellows in women's clothes hug
ging the conductors, with screams of
Let me alone" and you naughty
man." much to the embarrassment oc
street car travel.
AS the night advanced the Walnut
street cars were besieged by the paint
fiends and women We're not safe even
with escorts, unless inside with the win
dows down. At Eleventh and Walnut
one of these fellows stood by the grip
when the cars stopped and slyly caught
hold of women's clothes. When the car