The age-herald., 1897-10-03
BATTLE IN A BEANERY.
Row Due to a Plate of Wheats Not Being Served
 Quickly.

From the New York Sun.
 Dennetts Park row restaurant was as peaceful as the Scriptural placards on the walls at a quarter past o'clock last night. The humming of the coffee urn. and the hissing of the griddle were broken only by the clatter of plates be- hind the screen at the back of the room and the monotonous howls of ''two-up and a round of wheats,' or two drop ped hash" of the white-robad ones who fitted from one to another of the long narrow tables among the patient pat rons.
 Five minutes later it was a slaughter pen. Passersby on the sidewalk saw through the plate glass windows butter cakes whirling through the air above a confused mass of tables, customers walters, crockery, and spurts of steam ing coffee. Only Q deadened roar, like that Of the whirr of a distant machine shop, was audible, except when a fugi- tive combat stumbled out through the swinging doors and gave vent to great burst of warning sounds.
 rive minutes later the hum of the cof- lee urn sounded once more the note of pedcs. The customers, some of them a. nttie flushed and crumpled, were being waited on by walters who, if their aprons were not altogether immaculate, were aggressively polite and bewilder- 1mgiy prompt. One waiter Joseph thompson n Of 26 Bedford street. had gone 70 the oak street station in charge of Policeman O'Sullivan, who had ended the fight. Two customers. Henry E. Morse of Rutherford. N. J., and l.. K. smith of New Brunswick, N. J.. had gore with the policeman and his pris- faW Thompson what they really thought of him, his ancestry and posterity, than to act as witnesses against him, as they did finally.
 Morse and Smith took seats at the sec ona table from the cashier alt o'clock. Morse ordered wheat cakes and coffee; smith, just to vary the monotony, made point of saying that he wanted coffee and wheat cakes. Walter Thompson looked at him with grim disapproval, anp White bringing the coffee for both brought only Morses cakes
 Why couldn't you bring .his?" said Morse pointing to Smiths empty place. ,Ggo on. now" retorted Thompson. I'm doing this"
 You may get done first thing you kn9w. said Morse who was in a state of ihind favorable to lively argument
 Al customer interrupted the conversa- ton by crcwding past Thompson and taklng g. seat next to Morse. He told THompson to bring him a cup of coffee ana plate of hash with a poached eggt
 eQne up an a dropped hash--onew walled Thompson.
 , Don't make so much noise and bring thf4e wheat cak s., said Morse
 Say, you," snarled Thompson, rest ing his harsd on the table and leaning over MorSsfs shoulder, you get too elauned gay and I'll put you on the cheese"
 Come on out in the park and I'll show you" said Morse. with cheerful promptness.
 Thompson went away. He came back soon with the third customers coffee and hash. As he passed behind Mofse's back the cup of coffeee fell from the saucsr in Thompson's hand to the floor and smashed.
 The waiter whirled on Morse. It was quite apparent that he thought Morse sciousneEs, kept on eating his wheat cakes. Thompson smashed the empty saucer just over Morse's ear. Morse rose with leap that tipped the table over. The walter took the platter of hash in both hands and struck Morse across the face with 1t. Smith mean while. began to yell and belabor the wattsr with his fist. The six other wait erss with shouts, came running to their companion's aid. Customers joined 'the fray and mad confusion reigned. The melee occupied all the space in front of the cashiers desk and as far back as the fourth table.
 A refugee summoned Policeman O'Sul- hvan from Ann street. He fought his way into the tangle through alternate layers of walters and customers un.l he reached Morse, who was at the bottom. Morse said that Thompson started the fight.
 "Aw, go on," cried Thompson with scorn. Why can't you act like a gem tleman? Wasn't I a gentleman to you?"
 eve ain't the same kind of gentle men. you and l." began Morse
 lO'Sullivan, who loves not oratory, commanded silence. He seized Thomp- son.
 You take ms," shouted Thompson, defiantly, ''and you take the whole shop. Come on, boys!
 The other walters lined up threaten ineay. Some had pitchers, some glasses. O'Sullivan seemd likely to be hurt.
 Just then a. young man whose big mus saes fairly showed through his, trimly fitting clothes ran in from the street. s.sWait a minute" he implored, as one pleading for human life. Just wait, wfaft one minute"
 He placed himself beside O'Sullivan and sighed rapturously.
 Now, go ahsad," he said to O'Sulli- van as he Mfted his doubled fists. "nell 'em to come on." he added impatient1y "Why don't they come?''
 The walters backed away and almost miraculously their eagerness to fight dissolved into zeal to set the place to rights. The -shouldered, unnam- ed hero shook his head sadly.
 "Es my best chance in two years" he muttered, surveying the wreck, land T was five minutes too late"
 Thompson went away with O'Sullivan peaceably. Those present agree that the evenings entertainment was not a bit ] sf4e:voe Co s&e s1saffF.ee sSe x4e cspt0wn place of Mn. Childs, Mir Dennett's conn petitor on Monday, when there were three fires in quick succession and the crsforners esead,ed without having