The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-25

room. They took her out on the platform LEAD.
chsirs.. As there gas no root over this platform
s sfS rom On. S e he women SS%n IN SR sss GROVE sSS Ssid c va:
shame opoke the girl out In the rain. a. hSe s
crowd Voiu nrSSs to lend his macfintosh as q
c]SSUofine for the girls Dress Another man
Bring her inside; she'll get pneumonia"
The rain in her face Will, bring her around"
said one Of iho men who had carried 4, her e. ont ut. .,
rood, for this is an Indian ball" 80.
Not being able to revive the girl by rubbing
her hands and slHppips her face, one tipSy wO-
She's gThS got my z P %fsi,f i Eh ft, AM TPf ths only only w. way gI q
she'h come round II she gets a bath, cause
night PHld ,n:I MssSiCtSr, K. e,,, addressed a.
Maggie; shes subjected 70 them when she
takes too much. Let's get her in the water.
W., wi9 |, some ,9S@Sso0f you gents hell tor carry nor INTO
And tho gents - said In q minute"
Then they lifted the girl and carried her Into
the bathhouse, while Maggie went for a bathing
suit Maggie and her friend then went into the
bsthhouse and put a bathing, suit on their
thing was in readiness and they carried the girl
out OF the bathbousc and ducked her a few times
IN nn teG T tSe Water tln trest hne stsi and nGP she was s. carried
back to the bathhouse. where her friends dressed
her and poured lemon and settler down her
throat. Half an hour later Bho was able to limp
from the batbhouse into the ballroom, and In
another half hour she was dancing with the
crowd, apparently enjoying herself.
but tho rain beat down so hard that they only
carried her Z, the opening near the water tank.
80 she was carried out to her homo a block
away whore q physician was called to attend
her. y Many other women began to faint when
The first fight began with one woman telling
another that she didn't know how to sing a
little bit The woman who received the com,
pliment picked up, q glass filled with beer and
threw glass and all at tho othor woman. 1t
struck the othor woman's head. the glass break
ing on her sailor hat. and the beer dripping down
from the edges Of the hat like rain from an um.
brella- Tho young woman who had been hit tried
to get back at the other. but was prevented by
the member o the Disturbance Committee, who
crowded show 6etweon the women and thus pushed
II can lick her in one punch II she'll come
outside" said the woman with the despoilcd
sailor hat.
Just about the time this fight was on a man
employed at the race track got into n row with q
negro, and the two punched each other. They
were put out of the ballroom. Then a negro
and q man with the white woman punched the
negro woman. He was promptly punched by
an 1h negro woman: she was put out out, al
Coney Island seemed to revol. They marched
eight abreast. after marching in couples once
around the ball. With a dozen In a row. all yell.
Ing like Indians and now and then singing to
tho march music, they marched and counter
marched for q quarter OF an hour. some of the
air. and TIE Women staREerins along singing.
shouting, stamping until pandemoniun relgned
In tho ballroom. and many In tho crowd fell OK
hausted on the floor. Then, when they couldn't
called for them and took them home, for II was
another day. and the city crowd was beginning
cry, Indians. had had their day-and an awful
night, too.