The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-08-10
Need for Missionary Work in GOtham's
Thickest Populated District,
A GLIMPSE INTO HELuS KITCHEN
Graphic Account of Days Doings in
Barbaric New York-Ihe Police
and the Politicians on the See
Saw. Dude Darlings Unpopular

mana now IN new oIh tits II w a.
to accept the deliverances Of the New
York Herald.
Here is the opening paragraph Of the
Herald's ugly picture
We have war I'm New York. We have
barbarism ia New York. The battles
roaring for a week in the heart Of tie
great metropolis show a disgraceful con-
oition affairs. IL is evidently high time
ID stop sending watermelOns. threshing
machines and red flannel 20 the heather.
The field Is great at home, and the har-
vest is ripe for a thousand refo-mers 10
tackle our own Icy mountains and coral
strands.
'Batte-Row." alias "Hems Kitchen. "
as It is euphoniously called is nightly
stirred up. This IS the region in which
murders and robberies abound The
'colored tenant" can be prohtaby intro
duced here. and the old hoodlum popu-
lation are indignant at the reform"
WAR on HIGH COLLARS
So when these Pullman employees ho-
tel walters and others claimed q share
Of the sidewalk IN the Hells Kitchen
district. the right 70 play bail in the
streets with the heelers ana toughs. Il
created vinegar and animosity. The
chocolate dude Haunting wide striped
shirts, red. blue and green. with collars
an inch higher than any white man in
town made the boys swear. Repeat
ers and ballot box suffers with big poll
tical pulls were ready Tor bloodshed
Michael Terence explained 10 a Herald
reporter yesterday as follows
DE boys don allow that any coon
has DC prorogauve 10 be walkin over our
children, with red collars reaching above
their ears. and putin on the sassafras
mar ners Of millionaire. We won't
stand IL. Coons has no business givin'
pink tea parties. II a man insists on be-
in a niger and Twin I'm dis good old dis
trict whore de boys held the fort all desc
years, dey's got 10 get down Of der mules
and stop putin on starch. Let EN- vote
De Democratic ticket an give de boys
plenty al room. When we're allowed 10
do as we please den we're fine as silk
and don't hurt nobody. See"
A = oman who saw the beginning OF the
disturbance. says:
AN EYE WITNESS.
THE situation here Is unique and Pc
cullar Fortunately for us some Of these
big fiat houses are owned by leading
politicians and capitalists closely con-
nocted with the city government They
know exactly how we have been treated
by the outlaws who have made this dis
trict infamous for so many years.
Because the lazy shftless men-many
Of them minals-CannOt pay the high
rent demanded and we can they are de-
termined to drive me- away Hence the
shooting and outrages that the police per
mtted az the beginning Of the week.
Why is IT. an charged 90 the blacks? The
whites began a.. Why are all the white
gangs allowed 20 escape and all cOlored
men imprisoned?
THE trouble began In this way. on
Sunday about noon Carey Bates. OF NO
l32 west Thirty-ninth street. who Is en-
pioyed by a big corporation. was playing
ball On the street with some OF his ace
quaintauces The saloon adjoining was
running wide open with a gang OF heel
ers sitting in front watching the game
with the eyes Of devils.
"By accident the ball went astray and
rolled on the Sidewalk a time or two
where these idle men were sitting. IL Us
sad the ball once struck white child.
I doubt &C. for 1 was looking and did not
see fl.
"The saloon by the way. was being run
IN violation of the law and the men were
more or less under the Influence of liquor
that had been sold them against the law.
when the ball went their way one
man exclaimed. IT that bah comes here
again TN cut f. up Carey Bates re-
sponded. 30. you won't cut that ball IL
you do you'n have 10 cut me up This
led 10 some hot language. In fact. the
saloon people poured out Bllngssate
with a stream OF oaths most shocking 10
hear. even in HelIs Kitchen.
Clubs, razors and guns became fashion
able I'm "Helrs Kitchen" and the police
seem % have been al a discount. at least
for q while Fatal shooting occurred
The police however. rallied. and fifty Of
them charged down the street.
\ GREAT DAY FOR THICK SKULLS
when the captain posted his books that
night he had twenty-three prisoners
locked in the Yves, Twenty eventh-Stree
station. AN yelling for guns or raZOrs.
Here Is "a small thumnai extract from
the record OF that night. which reads like
a chapter from the Philippine savages:
Captain Halpin marched 90 the corner
Of Tenth avenue and Thirty-ninth street
with about forty policemen and sergeant
Parkinson and Instructed his men 20
drive the crowds of the corner and keep
them moving. Policeman Mcmahon ar
tempted 70 drive Joseph Hart. Of No. 4o2
west Thirty-eightn street, from the cor
uer Hart refused 20 move. and when
pushed struck Mcmahon a vicious blow
on the point OF the jaw. which t0ppled
him over In the street. Two policemen
ran 10 his assistance and Hart was lifted
into the patrol wagon and was driven 20
the station house. while a bowling mob
chased after IL.
Captain Halpin placed his men az
distance OF fifteen or twenty feet apart.
with instructions 70 arrest anybody who
refused 70 move and 10 took but little
while 20 clear the blocks from Ninth ave
nue. 10 Eleventh Clubs were freely used
by the policemen 20 force the crowd 20
keep moving. and many a man who pro-
tested and refused 70 move when ordered
was driven back with couple Of WELL
timed blows with the stick.
George Maher. thirty-nne years old OF
No. $50 west Fifty-sixth street. refused 20
move from the corner of Ninth avenue
and Thirty-ninth street when ordered,
and was promptly locked mp. Captain
Halpin himself made the arrest.
A WILD NIGHT SCENE.
The police army lay on their arms and
rested. There seemed 20 be peace with
the colored people dreaming Of water
melons. rszOrs and Jack Haverly until
some one in a nightmare yelled. -Four.
leven. forty-f0ur." when hell broke loose
On skates again.
A half dozen pistol shots rang out. Po-
icemen hurried toward the middle OF the
block. where the shooting had occurred,
and pushed into a mass OF several hun
ired persons Word was hurriediy sent
10 the Thirty-seventh street station house