New-York tribune., 1902-05-18
MEAT RIOTS SPREAD.
KOSHER SHOPS WRECKED IN
HARLEM AND BROOKLYN.
MOB OF WOMEN WITH BABIES IN
ARMS CHARGE INTO STORES-A
MILK SCRACITY IMMINENT.

Inc meat rlots spread last night, and while
the lower East Side, where they first began
was quiet in so far actual violence was con-
cerned, most of the kosher shopkeepers in that
section shutting up their stores Harlem and
Brooklyn We're the scenes of mob fury similar
10 those which prevailed in Essex, Eldridge,
Broome' Rivington and other streets inhabited
chiefly by Hebrews, Thursday night.
The serious condition of the food supply the
East Side threatens TO be made more menacing
by shortage in the milk supply. Because Of
the lack of meat there has been a great demand
on the supply Of milk and eggs the lower
East Side. So Ereat has the consumption of
milk been that the supply is becoming scanty
Word has been sent by the wholesalers TO farm
ers. asking that more milk he sent to the city,
but IT is thought that despite this there will be
d genuine scarcity OF milk in day two if
the trouble keeps up, and probable increase in
prices.
The most dramatic rioting of the night
in Harlem. a tall we'll built Hebrew woman
leading a six-year-old child roamed about one
end of Harlem leading a hundred other Hebrew
women, many leading carrying children.
They destroyed the meat in several kosher
shops, smashed windows. assaulted men and
women. took their meat away from them and
threw it in the street and made a number of
butchers close up after they had driven them
from their shops The leader Mrs. Yetta
Hirschberg, OF No. 30S East One-hundred- and
sixth-st. locked up while crowd OF a
thousand yelled for her at the police. the kosh-
ers and the Beef Trust.
Mrs. Hirschberg got hundred women about
her at o'clock. Women carrying babes in their
and leading other children stood in one
hundred and -sixth-st. yelling against the Beef
Trust. They gathered opposite the kosher shop
of Abraham Lippman. at No. 24S, and watched
buI When - out and crossed
the street the women rushed at him, showed
him against a wall and took the meat away
from him. tore it up and threw II into the street.
Then they slapped punched and struck the man
with various kinds OF clubs until he ran away.
'Hurrahm yelled the women loudly, as they
took up a march with their children beside them.
Encouraging one another, they started In pro-
cession with other women joining them and
crowd continually augmenting, followed them.
They went to the kosher shop of Frank Bresosin'
at No 232 East One-hundred- and -sixth-st,
where they chased him and his wife into the
street tore the meat from the hooks and threw
il on the floor. threw all the meats on the coun-
ter on the floor and into the street smashed the
glasses in the windows and then cheered them
selves al they closed up the place and went to
the next
Captain Haughey, Of the East One-hundred- J
and fourth st. station, heard OF the rioting ana
sent kOunQSnan HOfndNt with tHe IcSClNce' a.
ter the women. Before they arrived the women !
had reached the shop of Samuel Hoflln Of
No. 210 East One-hundred- and-sxth-st. They /
wrecked his shop in the same way they had
Bregosin's. throwing the meat the floor and
smashing the windows. They stopped several
people coming out took their meat away and
destroyed it. tFamping on it in the street.
Then they got to the shop of Samuel Gunser.
at One hundred and -second-st and Secondave.. /
threw the meat the floor, broke the windows, /
chased Gunser out and closed up the shop.
Frank Brothers. al No 21S East One hundred |
and-second- st, was next marched on. The |
women joked and hugged their children as they
marched along and yelled every now and then.
in Yiddish. Down with the Beef Trust" and
Down with the butchers, They knocked down
two women and man who had bought meat
in Frank Brothers place. Then the police re
serves came up The women were not daunted,
and they puzzled the police. The latter did not
want to club them, and the women stood their
ground and refused to move on. At last the po-
lice decided to arrest Mrs. Hirsch. Some of the
policemen had whips, and they threatened the
The first riot in Brooklyn occurred last night
at o'clock in the Brooklyn Ghetto Siegel and
Moore SITS, between Graham-ave. and Manhat-
tan-ave., when five hundred people, mostly
women, took part and the reserves from the
Stagg-st. station We're called out to disperse the
mob. Between II o'clock and midnight a larger
riot occurred, stores being battered, glass anI
doors broken, meat scattered. and even meat in
private houses sought out. Patrol wagons ar
rived from the Herbert-st, Stagg-st. and Green
point stations Twenty-Five women were ar
rested. and several policemen hurt Roundsmen
Keller, of the stagg-st station suffered frac-
ture OF the leg by impact of a paving stone.
The police say the disturbances We're instigated
by two women from Manhattan.
Excited bands of women, arrayed in white
waists and black skirts, patrolled the streets.
picketed the kosher shops. and in detail repeated
the violent scenes OF previous days.
The principal trouble was in Third ave be-
tween One-hundred- and SEVENTEEN and one
and seventy second SITS, where half a
dozen kosher butcher shops situated A
crowd of more than thirty women assembled
early last evening and began TO stop women and
girls who were on their way 10 the shops to buy
meat
Five of the oldest of them led the others TO
/. Jacobs's shop. at No. 1856 Thrd-ave
little girl came out with package of meat and
the women seized her, took the package AWAY
opened 1t, and screaming in triumph scattered
the meat in the street. Then they yelled again
as they rushed at another woman took the
meat she had. and, tearing 1t apart threw II
away.
Down with the butchers!" they yelled again
and again. Wen have our rights" "Don'f
buy from then1r' were cries often reneatad
BY this time Captain Price. of the Fremont
ation, had heard of the rioting and had sent