New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-19
TIE CROWD WE'LL MANAGED.
INSPECTOR CORTRtGHT PROFITS Dh
CHIEF CONLlN'S ENPERlhNCh
OF LAST WEEK.
-, c,.cu ELABORATE AND UTTERLY rNVIEHDS
SYSTEM AS CAUSED THE POLICE MlSNAN-

SYSTEM As CAUSED Ils RUIN . '''
AGEMpNr At THE BRYAN MEETING.
!, &c doubtful If New-YorH crowd equal IN Its
nroportons to that which surged around ana "''o
Madison Square Garden last night, mas wv ','
hc,.er ,ompered or better managed. But an moi
,.,4ual or a mob t. always good-natured II II Is
handled with tact. perhaps it all gets PACK 10 so
MANAGEMENT in the end Throughout ule en''e
evening from soon after . o'clock, wheh 'he ms
,p,ers hegan 10 take up their positions. untll me
Ia. MAI, b,d left the square there no disturb
.,ce q. any consequence. there was little ru7hihs
and there were no accidents Of any sort worm
notice ,.,ss T., ,no
absence OF CHIEF Conlin had complete charge OF al
engagement. for handling the crowd, and ne dis
/ ,laved so much Genera,ship that ne earieu 'ns
4 thanks of all the thousands VINO came lot 'he uie
| beine under his jurisdiction, many or "hoh nau
suffered so severely from police Observation-Disclosures o.ly
n week ago at the Bryan meeting. The Inspector
had evidently prohted py 'he eNPoi -
| Conlin last week.
! Inspector Cortrights plans were extremely S''Pe
There were no cordons upon cordons OF o'uecoA's
and dfferen; pass for each Gordon The system
of admission was plain that the wayfarng man
could not re, twisted Even the policemen could ana
did understand IT, If q man had an ADMISSION uehe'
of any sort. plain admission. reserved seat pia'oi
| press or box he was admitted withih 'he lines
Otherwise he stayed outside The mes 'hat couIu "o
be passed without tickets did not include most OF
| Manhattan Island. They included simply the DOCK
occupied by the Madison Square Garden
INSPECTOR CORTRIGHT's FORCE
The Inspectors force consisted OF 40 pohcefnen
| chosen from all the precincts IN the CITY Ac'ns
! Inspector Thompson was IN charge OF inc rou, u"
ave side and under him were Captains Moynhan
! and Haughey with 125 men. On the IWentv-sN'"-s''
eide where the lam was greatest, Acting Inspector
! NcCulaph WAS in command, and under MN were
Captains Delaney and Price and sergeant Noiii'
with 49, men; while the Madson-aVe. ana l"ei-
I +v-s,veuth-s. side Acting Inspectors y Neoic
and Harley with Captains Westervelt' Cross
Scbrnitf berger Groo ana Vredenburgn. As there was
comparatively little Of the crush here until an 'n'
holders of seats had gone in only 11o policemen were
needed to keep order ..-,o
If $50 policemen who looked after the preservation
NJ neace inside the Garden and Captain Alaire had
the soft snap" of the whole thing with MS reserve
force Of fifteen mounted policemen and ABOUT eEn'F
pa trolrnen who die nothing Dui hod uo"H De"'''
in the basement. .,oo,,
The crowd came early. Soon after o'clock
| naorlo hogan ~ arrive The Twenty -seventh-st.
were for the members OF the press holders
Of tickets admitting the grandstand ana reseiTeu
seats around the platform n % side of the building
had little trouble. The main enran3e I'D tckets
for around the arena ana lor e r weTe
tickets The EG isbed to enter the gallery
and the seats or the main floor that were ho' IT,
Every entrance in the building was thrown ape open
at O'clock There was less thah me nsq q" rbc
"rT was extremely wise therein, for was found
necessary close all the entrances after
O'clock. Then the holders Of simple admiss,P On
SIC cNeH W did not take them long to do MS bus
few Of them succeeded n e boV pull with
the force But this side Of the GARDEN Inc
multitude Was Hoy Knew wrong had been done
them in issuing admission tickets han there
were unreserved seats they complained niue an am
gave the police almost trouble. Al s:l9 O'CLOCK
there remained few sfat h D'Ss. had been before
determined enough of the crowd was adml ncy 10
iii them. Then Il was that the Incky OF puoh''
ones next the doors got their re"a'"'
A GOOD-NATURED CROWD.
As soon AS IT was known that every seat In the
vast house had been taken, ana the cnee'9
! that came through the windows maze !, e'iue'''
no, tho meeting was well under way. the police
CLEARED the streets OF the crowd that had peeh u'
able TO get inside and the crowd. content IN the
1,ouledge that il had not been abused, was per
fectlv willing to go. Nobody had been ciuDDen WIN
iybts,icks OF insulted by his own servant NOBODY
had been prevented from gong 10 MS own o'''' ~
hi. own house simply because IT was near '"e
-, ,rhe natrons Of the Madison Square R"of
| corder were not forbidden TO use the tickets lot
which they had paid The patron wagons INA. .."',
the walks stood Idle II WAS 1cGlunu ee,mr
10 rt Nanny result may have been in part que 20 ,e
tact thal Qua fan we're present week or to the
| olichi3ml weather that would not alIo" AZ ,his -
osi nrobable and the most potent cause ~
rationai management on me paa, PR, "a more ., GOOD
autn ordIle or better-handled crowd has seldom
assembled on aetims Police Commissioner Rooseo
Welt said 70 Tribune reporter p,he pocn ar
angemcns FOR the se.n a a aTi 'S %ere ccnrteouS
simply aon h fforbearine Their management was
spendd and reflects high cred, upon IN pc b
Gorright, who was III ch"rR' anu '''''
subcrdinates