New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-07-10

fhis rafk can peas us out
rsesats she nlatirr eith sou" sneered the
attendant g esn pui you out myself To
carry aut fhis threat hs grabbed ihr chair of
enc n ere men ard tried ~ turn y ever The
a. unant bF = quick move landed The traie
ran on his face There vas hnoih'f e''h'h
ga fhs sttsnasu, tree hack n defiance and
ssia
ashst g. your nams1 shall have you ar
rested
s.Tefry Mcaoesrn" answered tho broader
sfsrtfiarfsA q tha fs.o eso Jumped to biz feet
ss n e. iaY aut his sntaaonist on the spot In
stead b. hurled the sreen chair over The heads
~ fhs craed - enc iaen, and took another
saaf Hs was not further disturbed Iis com
psnion was Joe" Humphreys. another prize
60 arrests vere made and az each pris-
sref yes marched m ie The vest THIRTEEN ~
station u crowd followed at the heels of the ON.
rsfa AZ one time the crowd got in step, and
lnsFr he'd % thr words. spatei spate--elaeHeh
eiansv Nav. wha gave his awc a. twenty-five
Ysafa ana sBid De vas salesman. ~ No. Il
Wfaf one, hundred and eiRh'ecnth-ft. was ar
rsstsa for throwing "a chair out ia Madison-ave
where wac Rfunna p pieces ny nreNsrN
wagon Others placed under arrest were John
Kearns iwenty-threc years old. q No. 80
Easf Einotiefh-Et. charged lbs John J. Pears.
collector. with melting % riot, Morris Eiaen-
berg nftsen years old. 81 No. Is Market-st !;
rhiln Filone. eighteen years OLD, Of No. ~
FHFahefh-st josef A pucharme II No i46
ras, TWenty-elghth-st. and Philip celano OF
No 2f2 Eliza neth-rt. pucharne was fined -.
ana Celano 50. bv Magistrate Mayo. IN the JEFF
ferEon Market Court May was committed for
i've DAYS in DEFAULT ~ payment Of a hnc ~ -
Toward evening the attendants found them
selves oufuumhered hy the crowd that they
resigned themselves 90 simply watching the oc-
eupants % the green chairs Toll AZ their ease.
A. the result of riots On former DAYS David
coiav OF No 1871 Second-ave. and James
Kelly. % No 5l1 East Thirteenth-st, two Of
hss trait
terday morning.
James TaIbert. a nagman in the employ OF
che Metropolitan Street Railway Company.
who was arrested last Saturday complaint Of
otto Beerman. another chair attendant. who
charged him with assault. was discharged. as
Reerman withdrew his complaint
A LIVELY EVENING.
~ ere evening there was a multitude in the
park and outbreaks seemed imminent several
times.
The frs; trouble OF the evening occurred when
the attendants went from chair 20 chair and
informed the occupants that they must either
pay or so. In several cases they refused 10 do
either Then Otto Bierman. standing the
lawn behind. grasped the chair firmly by the
uprish,s. and piunging forward with sudden
ness. invariably unseated the sitter. Several
small arguments resulted. but nothing serious
IN the mean time the crowd had become i'm
mense. and the paths and street at the lower
end OF the park were black with people. The
policemen gave up trying TO keep the crowds
moving in the nearby paths. and confined their
attention 10 the one path along which the chairs
were placed The Jam there was sight All
the policemen could d. to prod the people
along and tell them 20 keep moving.
once an attendant pleaded with the rounds
man 20 stop the concourse through the way. and
the roundsman curtly replied that it was a
public way and citizens had perfect right to
use f.
The collection Of fees from remonstrative sit
tiers invariably the signal for a demonstra-
ton the part of the mob. The Jam in the
path between the chairs would stop moving. and
hundreds would start for the storm centre. Then
the policemen's night sticks leveed. would
forge through and through until the congestion
was relieved.
The first arrest was made by Policeman
Feten Of the West Thirtieth-st. station. about
80 o'clock. A man. who later gave his name
as Thomas Philip and his address at Greenwich
and Cedar SITS. refused to pay for chair. and
a fight followed which nearly drove the crowd
into a frenzy. The policeman placed him under
arrest hut jumped over the chair barrier into
The lawn The policeman followed, and the null
titude was restored TO good humor by watch
ing the game Of tag in the triangular space.
Philip was captured and taken 10 the station.
where he locked up on charge Of dis
orderly conduct in having caused a crowd to
EXHoRTED DEFIANCE; ARRESTED.
Only one other arrest made in the even
ing This was when Michael Fitzgibbons. Of No
10 West Eighty-ninth-st.. and friend seated
themselves in two chairs. Garner Palmer, the
seventeen-year-old adopted son Of Spate. dap
per lad with bright brown eyes and most polite
and businesslike demeanor, who IS collector
in the square, asked the two for their
nickels. Fitzgibbons did not refuse TO pay, but
Immediately stood up. and, according to the at
.endants. exhorted his companion TO stand his
ground and neither pay give up his seat. A
big hubbub followed, and policeman marched
Fftzgibbons and his friend. with Beerman. the
chief 'bouncer." to the station. There Fitz-
gibbons was locked up and the others were let
60
At the upper end Of the park the only excite
ment resulted from the persistency of two
women in keeping chairs without paying. They
refused 20 give their names, but were both loud
IN their e1hortations concerning the freedom of
the parks. One finally went away. The other
was elected from her chair without much trou-
bic later on. and her speech having failed to win
the small boys, she hooted from the park
with hundreds following in her wake. The po-
ncemen refused to leave their pests by the seats
to go 10 her, although the woman EVIL
IDENTIFY in danger at intervals in her progress
from the square
Old policemen said that the Jam between the
chairs in the lower end Of the park was the
worst jam they had ever seen. considering the
circumstances.