The age-herald., 1900-08-17
Mobs Gathering in Many Parts
 of the City.
THE PAWN SHOPS HAD BUSY DAY
Large Amount of Small Arms Were Sold in the Tenderloin District One Negro Came Near
 Being Lynched.

New York; August 16.-Riotng continued at intervals today, many negroes being beaten by mobs and number of white men severely clubbed by the police. To- n-ght the police reserves were called on several times to disperse mobs in various parts of the city.
 Inspector Thompson, with 100 policemen in addition to the several hundred regular nen in the precincts affected, tho ground in the riotous district before nightA fall, and he kept his men on the move. They had orders to arrest any man-black or white-who evinced the slightest dispo- sition towards riot. The danger spot was recognized to be around the West Thirty- seventh street station. In Thirty sixth, Thirty seventh, Thirty-eighth and Thirty. ninth streets are many large negro tene- ments Everybody was kept on the move Early in the evening the patromen be- gan to bring in prisoners. William Elliott cclored 21 years o.l, was arrested for buy ing a revolver. He declined to surrender the weapon and arrested. On the way to the station he resisted and the police- man used his club. When Elliott was brought into the station he bleeding from two scalp wounds and was hardly able to talk.
 Hardy Johnson, a negro porter was seen with loaded revolver in a trolley car Po- | lieeman Gaynor jumped on the car and jerked Johnson out of it. The negro tried to the weapon, but Gaynor beat him with his stick until the fellow begged for mercy. He had a four-inch gash on his face when locked up.
 Assaulted on Gar
 Inspector Thompson was near Eighth av- enue and Fortieth street when he noticed Q tumut aboard Eighth avenue He ran with couple of men to investigate and found that negro passenger was the cause of the trouble. He had not done anything, but several white men tried to get in a punch at the black man, and two women tried to stab him in the face with hat pins. Inspector Thompson arrived just in time to see a paving stone crash through the car window and lay the negro out with stun ming blow on the head. Louis Swartz, IS years old threw the stone He was arrested. On the way to the station Jacob Gombel undertook to take SwartZ from the police man and was arrested.
 Many fights between whites and blacks resulted tonight. Vincent A. Streets, col ored, and James Shane, white began a row, and both were arrested. Alex Robin son. negro, and colored friend were on a Thirty-fourth street car. Some one sent up a shout as the car neared Eighth avenue that the two negroes ought to be lynched. man with a clothes line ap- peared from somewhere and the two ne- groes pulled off the The rope was thrown around Robinson's neck, and with fifty men and boys pulling the mob started for a lamp post. A squad of police appeared before the mob had gone far, and with much clubbing dispersed the crowd. The two negroes got away.
 Pawn shops Ihriv
 Every pawn shop in the Tenderlo,n did a thriving trade in small arms today A leading pawn broker said today that he knew of five shops that had sold out every thing from black jacks to Colts 4is. Most of the purchasers were negroes.
 Word reached the West Forty-seventh Street station tonight that a large mob was at Eighth avenue and Forty-second street. The reserves were run out and dis persed the crowd, which numbered over one thousand persons. second alarm sent the reserves to Forty-ninth street and Tenth avenue, but not more than fifty per sons were there. They ran before the po- licemen.
 A riot call was sent in from Twenty seventh street and Eighth avenue at 10 o'clock. Chief Devery ordered Captain Cooney to take a large squad and disperse the crowd. He found several hundred men at the corner mentioned, and they were acting very ugly The mob was charged and many were clubbed.
 Policeman Howard a well dressed man on the corner and ordered him to move. The man refused to do Howard knocked him down and took d revolver from him. Howard made another search and found that the man had badge. He then let him go, convinced that he had beaten brother officer. Half an hour later the po- liceman who had been clubbed staggered in- to the West Thirty-seventh street station to complain of his treatment Chief DeVery at once recognized him as Patroiman William Powers, "the terror to the kids" who some- time ago brought about much comment on himself for arresting children Chief Devery ordered Captain Cooney to take Powers shield and revolver and lock him upon the charge of being drunk and disorderly and fourishing d revolver to incite the crowd to riot.