The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-03
RIOTOUS EXCURSIONISTS.
6TAB a JERSEY CONSTABLE AND BAT
TER A JERSEY JUSTICE.

The Gates Coterie Find tho Cat Alley Gang
Waiting for Them ut Carteret, N. j., and
Fighting Begins Mt Once-Police Allow
Them to Land Here without Arrests.
The Gates Cotere. which has It's rooms at
Front and Jackson streets. had an excursion
yesterday to Radey's Union Grove. at Carteret.
N j.. ten miles south OF Elizabethport. There
were two barges the william Myers and the
WI. Haskell. The tug Neptune towcd them.
There were five women aboard to every man.
In the dancing pavilion at the grove n free
fRht developed. Constable John Dolan and
John Ballard and Judge Donovan went to the
grove to try to restore order. The original con-
tention appeared to DO forgotten as soon as
these three Jerseymen appeared. and every
one attacked them.
There were pistols and knives in the crowd
Dolan was stabbed several times in the back
and neck. Ono OF Billiards. eyes was gouged
out and Judge Donovan was badly battered
about the head and arms. Several OF the ex-
cursionists were knock cd down. but the women
dragged them out OF the fight.
A hastily collected band OF citizens from Car
teret went to the grove to help tho consta-
bles. but were repulscd at the entrance.
While they were reforming tho entire
excursion party climbed aboard the
barges. cut their moorings and pushed
of. Dolan and Ballard were picked up
unconscious in tho dancing pavilion. They
physician and Dr.. Corwin o. Halfway. Doan's
wounds may be fatal and Ballard 10 seriously
A telephone message was sent 10 Police
Headquarters here: but the harhor police faile
to catch the excursion coming back 1t landed
at the loot OF Clinton street. and some OF those
who had been aboard told this story OF tho
Jessie williams. dancer. who was In the
party came from Chinatown. She was escorted
by a mar whom girl known as Lefty tried
then the men. took sides. On one or
other Of the boats there was a fist fight
There all tho roughs t vent mt ashore They found
waiting for them the - Cat Alley" gang. which
had gone down by train, -,
at fsticnfs. The constab les appeared and the
crowd did them up and then made for the
When the boats got back to New York, sew
sIaI men and women were carried ashore.
known; Many OF the eycursionists had cuts.
and Sun reporter saw five hlnck eyes in one
party got as far ms Jackson and Cherry streets
and then sat down on the curb. There was not
had been warned three honrs before tTaua''e'S
The Detective Bureau here. when 1t was no
titled that there was trouble involving the
police and told the 0 harbo 'P 'T polies f01 to-
watch out; The harbor police patrols were
The Detective Bureau tried to get into the
Myers excursion office to ind out whore tho
gACuIHoH "Duiu luuN, DuI Ine ONCE was
locked up and the inquiry was abandoned
1t was said at the Gates Coterie rooms last
night that this was the third annual excur-
sion they had given. Last year there were
twenty five or thirty flgh ITS on board. Men were
cut and had their wounds sewed up by doctors
in the neighborhood Just as was done yester-
day. There was nobody to stop US or touch us.
why SHOULDN'T we do as we want ter?" they
The President Of the cotere according to
the picnic posters. is James F. Brady The
Vice President Is Patrick J. Costello Jim Mil
Ter. Mike NJ Her and Jimmie Quigey men
famous for their muscle. were supposed to
keen order on board. They were lame and sore
last night.