New-York tribune., 1901-07-07

TRIES TOLYNCH SPATE MAN
PAY CHAIR ATTENDANT ESCAPES INTO
FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL.
A POLICEMAN USES HIS CLUB ON ANOTHER
MOB THAT BECOMES RIOTOUs IN
MADISON SQUARE.

MADlSON SQUARE.
Save me, They're going to lynch met
shrieked bulging eyed individual who came
sprawlinS into the corridor of the Fifth Avenue
Hotel yesterday afternoon much as baseball
player might slide TO the home plate. A howl
ing mob close on his heels, and several
volleys of brickbats and broken mortar had
whizzed around his head.
The hotel employees believing that the new ar
rival was some notorious outlaw who, though
deserving a lynching. nevertheless in accord
with the law should be kept for an official exc
cuton, at once rushed to his rescue and shut
the doors in the face of the mob. With the
crowd at bay the fugitive was asked who he
was
Thomas Tulley." was the answer.
What have you done?" asked one of the
porters with some timidity.
Much to the surprise and disgust of every one
the stranger answered stammering:
Il take-ca-care of the pay-pay chairs in
the pa-park; Mr.. Spate's chairs-you know"
Throw him out in the street again. shouted
some one.
HIS FACE WAS CUT.
"Oh don't don'tr' whined Tulley. They'll
kill mer' And, as If TO prove his assertion, he
turned his face to the light. II was cut in
several Jagged slashes and was bleeding The
for further protection he smuggled into the
baggage room.
1t was then learned that the trouble began
when a man. whosek name is said to be Ben
jamin Harrison. seated himself comfortably in
one of Spates chairs in Madison Square. He
had just settled back in a position besa suited
to studying several cumulus clouds. when some
one him said:
Five cents for the chair. please"
The occupant of the Spate chair Strengthened
| up to find himself confronted by an attendant
do YOU work for Spate and Clausen?' asked
Harrison.
"Naver mind whom work for" the an
| swer: but you'll have to pay five cents II you
! stay In that chair"
DO Spate and Clausen own the parks. or only
| have a 900 year lease on em?" again querlea
the satirical Harrison.
The attendant at this changed his tactics with
the threat:
you'll pay for that seat or I'll throw you
| outr'
Try IT," said Harrison. stretching himself as
! for nap.
THE ANTAGONISTS GRAPPLE.
The descriptions of Harrison vary considera-
blv. The park habitues say that he Is an Ola
man with a STOPPING frame. Tuhey sald' on
the other hand. that his antagonist was
| powerful young man. with an eN'rao'uiii"tS
| nbvsical development. Whatever may oe the
resnectlve heights. girths. and sizes of head and
| fee, of the Combatants. they inmeula'eAS
| rrappled on Harrison's challenge
| tn, s,gbt of two men tumbling on the grass
drAv a crowd as rapidly as If Commissioner
! ! artrv had opened a genuine gold mine IN the
park. AS sooh as the crowd learned ns '''e
! Of the fight there were Such SeilS as
He's a Spate mani!
| He's got the pay chairs!
Hit him for Spate! 80
'.Ftt him again for Clausen.
| Harrisons cause at once espoused by the
| crowd which closed in on Tulley like Nebraska
| cyclone. In the mixup small BOY was S'rucN
| with stone AT this some one Se'4eu
| Lynch him!"
| The mob had now assumed threatening dimen-
sions; sticks and stones We're nylhs, anu ta
were so well aimed at Tulley's head that tney
| drew blood. The cry Of "Lynch MIN! was en-, cIo /,
! rused bv n dozen others. who 10 make soou
their threat, threw Tulley down anu oee"i "a
| ging him toward the street.
| 3 Tulley broke loose from his tormentors and
! started for the Fifth Avenue Hotel on deau
run He yelled to several policemen Tor help,
! but rhey only shook their heads. They had
been instructed by Chief Of Police Murphy, theS
said afterward. not to arrest persons LOT sltIins
In park chairs and would not interfere Iuiey'
! seeing other means or escape, pluhseu lh'o
| the corridor OF the hotel.
The crowd srorned around the hotel for nearly
an hour. Tuley, finding that he could not leave
his asylum unguarded. at last induced FohSeo ice
man Ryan to take him to his home, AT NO -50
West Twenty -seventh-st
| Some time after TulIey escaped from mob
a boy. about fourteen years old sat in one or the
! chairs Two attendants approached MIN ana
demanded pay. The boy refused 70 give a
| nickel and n crowd soon collected threatening
| the attendants with bodily harm. Patroman
| Mulcahey of the West Thirtieth-st- station. de
| tailed AT the park tried to disperse the crowd
but II threatened TO throw him into the PARK
pond The crowd closed in on the poicemah
and he was forced to draw his club and strike
| some Of the men in front before the crowd
| would disperse. No arrests were made.
| Occupants of the Spate chairs In the square
| who did not desire to pay were not molested for
the rest of the day.