New-York tribune., 1900-08-17
A PART OF THE NEGRO QUARTERS on THE WEST SIDE

Forty-second-st., were crowded with people who
pected to see a repetition of the disturbances of
Wednesday night There were several hundred po-
icemen in the avenue, many of them in plain
clothes. trying to keep the crowds moving and
looking out for possible trouble. Hundreds of
hoodlums We're on the avenue watching the electric
cars and eager to throw things any colOred man
who might appear The coiored people kept off the
avenue. In the side streets many coored people
kept within doors and afraid to venture
on the walks. There were a few scenes OF dis
order and the police arrested almost every negro
who appeared in the streets. clubbing some Of the
prisoners.
Early in the evening the patrolmcn began 10
bring in prisoners at the West Thirty-seveuth-st.
station The first registered William
Elliott coIored OF No. 327 West Thirty-dfth-st He
works al the Imperial Hotel He was seen coming
out Of Eighth-ave. pawushop with a new
volver He declined surrender tho weapon and
arrested on the way the station the
policeman used his club When Elliott brought
into the station he bleeding from two scalp
wounds and ne hardly able talk His
wounds were dressed by ambulance surgeon
and he was locked up
Hardley johnson, a negro porter, of No 53o West
Fifty-third-st, seen with loaded revolver in
an Eighth-ave. car. Policeman Gaynor jumped on
the and Jerked Johnson Of #. and beat him
with his night stick unti Johnson begged for
mercy. The prisoner had a four inch cash in his
face when locked up
Robert Myrck. twenty-eirht years old Of No. IA
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off the corner at Eighth-ave and Thirty y-eghth-st.
| He took his time about it and was arrested.
| A found in his pocket.
Inspector Thompson was near EiEhth-ave. and
| Fortieth-st. when 70 noticed tumult aboard
| Eghth-ave car he ran with couple OF men to
! investigate and found that. a negro passenger was
! being attacked Inspector Thompson arrived
: the car just in time to a paving stone crash
! through the window and lay the negro ont
| with a stunning blow the head Louis swartz,
; eighteen years old, Of No. 3iS West Thirty-ninth-
St, threw the stone. Inspector Thompson arrested
him. on the way the station Jacob Ciembcr of
Thirty-seyenth-st. and Eighth-ave. undertook to
; take swarz from the policeman who had him in
! custody. Gembel lives at No &i5 Manhattan-ave.
| He arrested for interfering with the police
man, who gave him egg sized lump the
right eye.
Mrs. James, a colored woman Of No $40 West
Thirty-seventh-st.. went to the police station and
begged for policeman to protect her and her baby
! She said the tenants of her house we've terror
stricken. They had been warned Of an attack in
the late night. Captain Cooney assured her that
she would have ample protection and she went
| home.
Vincent A. Streets a negro painter, who says he
has lived for twenty-five years az No. S19 West
Forty-frst-st.. was arrested near his home, fight
ing drunk He carried a pOliceman's billy loaded
with lead large revolver, fifty cartridges, rzor
and razor-edEed knife
James Spellman, recently arrived from North
Carolina, and now living No. 436 West Twenty
ninth-st.. fought with John Waguer, white of
No 34G West Thirty-eghth-st., at Nnth-ave. and
Thrty-ninth-st Wagner had loaded whip Fe
used it with telling effect. Both men We
locked up.
Alexander Robinson, negro and colored
friend were Thirty-fourth-st. ear. Some one
set up shout the car neared Eighth ave that
the two negroes ought to be lynched man Win
a clothesline appeared, and the two negroes were
| pulled the car The rope thrown around
Robnson's neck. and fifty more, pulling at It,
started for a lamppost squad Of police appeared
before the crowd had gone far, and with much cuh-
bing dispersed it. The two negroes got away IN
! the scrimmage
SOL Russell Wright negro, OF No 125 West
Twenty-seventh-st., intoxicated near Twenty
seventh-st and Seventh-ave. and displayed large
and expensive hunting knife. Two policemen
! closed in him. and with some clubbing managed
/ TO dfsarm him. At the station he protested that
he lawabiding colored man.
II belong to the STANDARD oil Company" he FRO
| tested
We'll. SOL" asked the sergeant. what do you
do for MI Rockefeller"
Il oil floors" the negro replied solemnly.
Robert H Peters of No. 22S West Thrtieth-st
! had revolver, which ne used reckessly at Thir-
tieth-st. and Seventh-ave He locked up.
| Alexander Bradshaw, of No. 30 West twenty
seventh-st.. arrested in F1fteenth-st., near
Sixth-avc., by Policeman Brown for having loaded
revolver in his pocket He resisted and Brown
dubbed him. nficting scalp wound
Chief Devery said 1O:3O p. m. that he
tired Of having white people from other parts of
the city coming into the troubled district. He said
| warn those white people who are coming into
this district IN hat ,dn VIII be not f qt tP up oths them they
| will find that coming here to look for trouble
will have to take the consequences; They must
| leave the negroes alone: The further they keep
them 1 find that all this trouble has been started
by boys The parents iI must keep their boys nsd al
| fve hundred In this district tonight preserv-