New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-04
THE "HELL'S KITCHEN' RIOTS.
INSPECTOR THOMPSON ARRANGES FOR a
SPECIAL POLICING or THE DIS
TI-REED DISTRICT.

The twenty-eight persons. including two women
arrested by the police in quelling the fight IN
Eighth-ave. on Tuesday night between the white
and coored families in "Hels Kitchen, were ar
raigned in the West Side police court yesterday
All except one man were released they said
that they tried TO obey the orders OF the police
who told them to so quietly TO their homes. but
were caught he mob and could not get away
George MADEIRA. a white prisoner. who said that
he would not stop fighting till "HelTs Kitchen
was rid of negroes was fined s.. Most or the
prisoners had slight wounds. which they received
in the riot, and there many spectators IN
court who also showed marks OF having been
caught in the clash. The police say that there
were four hundred white men and TWO hundred
negroes in Tuesday nights fight
Acting Mayor Guggenheimer yesterday received
n letter from 4 real estate agent who wrote that
many colored persons living in "Hells Kitchen
were moving TO other districts owing TO the white
hoodlums" who making their lives miserable
He further said that when the colored tenants
asked for protection the police dubbed them The
letter was turned over 10 the Police Depart
ment Chief Devery said that the police were do
Inc their full duty
Inspector Thompson who has control OF tn ter
ritory on the west side Of the city. in which the
Tiells Kitchen war has been going on, took
matters under his personal charge last night, with
the determination Of ending the trouble al once
He mapped out section bounded by Thirys sixth
River In this district he placed four policemen at
each street crossing and policeman in the
centre Of each block In order 70 police the dis
trict so thoroughly. Inspector thompson not only
used the force Of the West Thirty seventh-st sta
ton, but also fifty men from court squads. fifty
men from other precincts. siX;y-two men from the
Central Office Detective Bureau. and twenty-six
men from his own stan There were more police
than citizens on the streets.
Before the Inspector turned the men out at
o'clock in the evening. he had them all before him
IN the West Thirty-seventh-st. station and talked
to them. He told them that the race war must be
brought to end, told them now 10 keep the peo-
pie moving and instructed them to prevent the
forming OF crowds An hour after these instructions
had been given. the Inspector walked over the
entire district how his men were acting. AT
Tcnth-ave and Thrty-ninth-st. he found crowd
their posts Of duty. without making an effort
toward breaking the crowd. Thompson sara soine
crowd had melted Soon Afterwards Benjamin
Ware of No. 347 West Thirty -nnth.st was ar
of No i9 49e IVES, Thirty ninth-s, was arrested FOR
walking through Thirty niEth-st. with loaded re-
Thirty-nnth and most OF the other streets OF the
specially policed district were quiet and there ana
not 10 be an indication Of another outbreak
The police said last night that much or the ttoun,,
had been brought about by landlords VINO f.itri
rooms TO negroes in houses occupied by whites.
They said too. that the negroes were peifnlttrI 20
paw their rent by the week. while with the whites
the rent was insisted on by the month In advance.
These causes had brought about bitter feeling
Last evening. ID. Kempner member OF me reaI
estate firm Of d. Kempner q Son. NO go Elehth-
ave hurried into the West Thirty -scventh-st sta,
ton He showed a postal card H. had received
during the day. II was decorated with Skull ana
crOssbones. and read; -,
brought the coons into the neighborhood We WI
be after you next Say yoqT PaETTTT az No or
The man seemed alarmed and patrolman was
sent to guard him his way home