New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-04
ANOTHER CLASH OF RACES
cor0RED BOY THROWS APPLE CORE
AND PRECIPITATES RIOTOJS
DIST RRANCE.

An apple core caused clash between white men
snd negroes yesterday in West Forty-seventh-st.
between Seventh and Eighth ayes Some bioou
was shed several ugly weapons were brandlshed'
bricks flew and as a result one man was taken TO
a hospital: the police were called out sick man
was pulled out of bed and put under arrest. and
then the leaders of the trouble skulked away Inc
apple core precipitated the disturbance by lanohg
souareIy il the neck of William Kohes a Whlte
man. Of No SIS West Thrty-eighth-st hohles'
who is a pedler was driving through Forty-seN-
enth-st when he felt the missile strike. He turned
snd saw 4 group Of small black boys scamperlhg
around the corner of Forty-seventh-st and Elshth-
ave The particular place in his neck where the
annie had struck had been cut a week previous oy
a coIored man. Kohles. smarting with pain ana
indfgnation started in pursuit of the YOUNGSTERS
and catching the apple thrower in klshth-
ave he slapped his face He had no sooner Au-
-,iristere5 this punishment than heavy oloW
from a negro standing near laid MIN out On 'iIe
sidewalk Kohles then pulled out reNoiNei'
ao1risbing il with such a sweep OF arm mat ne
,a,ead general stampede up the street. He yelieo;
TN shoot you niggers-Ill shoot you every one
Getting on his wagon again he drove through
F-ortv-seventh-st from Eighth-ave. TO seventh
ave shouting and brandshing his pistol
SICK MAN DRAGGED FROM HIS BED.
The boy who had hit Kohles saw him coming
and scampered into No. 256 west r orty-seE
1-or1es was in hot pursuit. A crowd OF LABOR Day
,,ars5ers came UP on the run, and IN the eNclle-
rneut the door was broken in A part OF llle II. d
floor of the house IS occupied by ChaFIes PiooAs'
q co1ored man twenty-siX years old, VINO IVes
here with his wife and his son, Aubrey Br Goks
had been abed for several weeks with typn faml
fever He heard the cries Of the crow am s;rfare
Ing TO wife who was n me f bsd INST
come The tTed 70 f g9 We oqt F OF
zen iie station followed by the crowd, burst into
me room a rush was made for BROOKS. b,s o,,b
Stand back said O'Neill, and ne useu ms ''1O
i SDon't take him" said BroOks's wife. He's
O The man was nevertheless pulled into the street
and walked 10 Forty-seVench-S bo i Vere with him
Brooks as the person who threw the apple gore
Phey were unable do Some one ne. y feIIeG
Lynch the nigger'' but QNeil struS5k rag
BROOKS was taken the station house ds MaeR
Kohles told the sergeant thet He He was
cIsd in thin pair Of trousers and an undershiFt,
on his Fe1e 72 Tbo@as H murray Of No 8 West
his Phgssicbai 5 v TeeT With ne more
Clothes He then returned home
sAT0oNKEEPER DEFIEs THE MOB.
In the mean time William H. Pettilo (colored)
and his seven-year-old daughter Ruth were pass
ing through Forty-seventl:-st.' When a cro"u %
white men started after them. The little grl ran
auav and got out of the reach Of the mob and
her father ran into the saloon Of Lee Springie near
bv He was followed by Thomas Mason, oil NO
247 West Forty-seventh-st- and Reuben winston
of No. 245 East Nineteenth-st bofn coloTgT 6i
revolver. stood in the doorway and dened the mon;
Policeman O'Connell on the scene IN lew
minutes and dispersed the crowd.
Bv this time a dozen policemen hao reached the
1 scene of the trouble, which became some%haII
n o1ieted II was said that several of the colored
men from the roofs Of buildings hurled bricks at
the white men Michael Conway. sixteen years OLD,
of 10 404 West Thirty-second-st. in passing
through Forty-seventh-st. his express wagon
was struck the foot by a brick and received a
severe injury He was taken to Roosevelt Hos
pital. ,s 49,.
According 20 Chester lie Mars, a colored street
sweeper who lives at No 246 West Forty-seventh-
St Kohles had gone through the neighborhood
several times houTshing his revolver and threat
ening TO shoot colored men. He saw one colored
man complain TO a policeman of kohles's be
hayjor but saws that the policeman replied You
people must not pay any attention to him He'll
20 away" Captain Donahue detailed two extra
policemen in the district,