The herald., 1896-02-10

friends to move the crowd by verbal re-
quest proving to be without avail, he
picked up coterie of followers and passed
around the corner of Second street onto
Spring. in front of the Bryson block
Here Rice and his friends commenced to
sing Nearer My God to Tee.
A TRAvEsTY
! AS soon as tho crowd surrounding the
| station heard his voice and the singing of
the others the mob commenced to move
around the corner.
In five minutes half of the tllrong was on
/ Spring street. Then Rice and those with
| him changed their base of operations.
| They marched around in front of the
station singing, America, sweet country
dear, sweet land of liberty, it is of thee I
sing"
This patriotic refrain caught the crowd.
and it was picked up by fully 1000 voices
The air rang with tho anthem. 1t could
be heard for blocks Even some of the
guests in the hotel picked it up.
Rice and his immediate followers did
not remain in one place singing. They
marched up and down in front of the
police station and with the assistance OF
the crowd kept up the singing.
POLICEMEN ARRIVE
In the meantime policemen commenced
to arrive at the station from their beats.
There were about ten officers on hand at
9:30 pm. But no effort was made until
10 pm. to dispense the mob. The COM
mand was not given by any one in author.
ity to the crowd directing them to move on
or to break up until later.
1t was not bad crowd, nor was it made
up of hard characters. 1t was a regula-
ton street crowd, made up of citizens in
various walks of life. Furthermore, they
were peaceable and law.abidipg to the en-
tent that they intended no violence and
did none.
II they had been firmly dealt with in the
first place by the order being given to
them as a crowd by an officer in authority,
to dispense or accept the consequences, it
is quite probable that there would have
been no mob fifteen minutes after Mrs.
Rice was arrested.
FINALLY ACTED
But nobody at the police sration seemed
to know what to do until aoou. 10 o'clock,
when it was decided that some thing must
be done or serious results might follow,
from the fact that the lhrons was con.
SANITY receiving accessions.
The street cars came to the corner of
Second and Spring streets from all parts
of the city, loaded with passengers going
home. AS soon as the passengers saw the
mob they left the cars and Joined the
throng to ascertain what it was all about.
After Rice had led the singing for about
him and his right bower, who gave tho
! name of A. d. McCune.
AN EXCITED NAN
McCune was really the most excited in
dividual in the entire mob unless it was
Sergeant Morton McCune lost his head
al ogether. He did not know whether h
WAS ''afoot or q horseback He would
wildly wave his hands about as he tried to
sing. In one hand he held his hat and with
the other he would ut intervals run I'D his
hair as if he desired especially TO have his
locks strike the evening breezes. There
was wild look in his eyes, but he was
harmless.
When the police arrested Rice anG Nc
Cune the crowd howled derisvely. With.
out any very great difficulty tho stalwart
form of Rice was landed inside of the sta.
ton. McCune is in size Insignificant and
he followed close behind.
STILL THEY WAITED
Even after this the crowd hung OH. By
this time-about 1O:1O p, m.-some fifteen
officers and detectives had arrived at the
station. They were instructed by Sergeant
Morton to dispense the crowd and pro-
|, ceeded to do SO. They met with several
obstreperous individuals, but taken as O
whole the crowd obeyed the commands OF
the officers with but little back talk. First
the sidewalk was cleared and then the
streets.
While this was being done on Second
street another street evangelist started
meeting in front of the Bryson block, on
Spring street. He tried to talk, but the
good-natured mob would not let him. They
yelled and hooted, and finally the man
gave up his mission for the night as too
hard job.
THIRTY MINUTES WORK SETTLED IT
After the police proceeded to the per-