Waterbury Democrat., 1902-06-20
TROOPS CALLED OUT
Governor Murphy Orders the First Regiment to Paterson.
ANARCHIST LEADERS IN HIDING.
silk MiII Employers Furnished Arms and Ammunition In Case of Emer- gency~-Hudson County MiIIa
 Are shut Down.

PATERSON, N. J., June 20.-Gov- ernor Murphy of New Jersey late last night ordered several companies of the First regiment of Newark to proceed to Paterson at once. The First troop, formerly the Essex troopers, was also ordered out.
 A battalion of the First regiment was placed on guard duty about the silk mills early this morning, Mayor Hinch- cliffe having finally yielded to the de- mand of the mill owners for stronger protection.
 The calling out of the troops is looked upon with disfavor generally, as it is feared that the Weayers and other branches of the silk trade will refuse to work under armed guard and that complete shutdown will come before sundown.
 Yesterdays most important event was the suspension of Chief of Police F. c. Graul by Mayor Hinchcliffe and the assumption by the mayor of the duties of that position. William Mcqueen, the English anarchist who was promi- nent at Wednesdays meeting before the rioting began, has left the city and is believed to be ill New York. Galle- ano, the Italian, and Grossman, the German, who are said to have been prominent Wednesday, have also kept from public notice. Mayor Hinchcliffe wishes to interview all these men.
 This weeks edition of La Questione Social, one of the anarchist papers, was set up here, but sent to Passaic print CT to run off the forms. He was or dered not to handle it and complied.
 The police late in the afternoon broke up an anarchist meeting near Sandy Hill, in the outskirts of Paterson, and arrested three women and four men. The leaders of the anarchists, one of whom was said to be Galleano, who is reported to have led the attacks on the mills, escaped after several shots had been fired at them.
 The real reason that Mayor Hinch- cliffe lost all patience with Chief Graul has become known. Wednesday when the rioting became serious the mayor over the telephone ordered the chief to arm the firemen with revolvers and clubs. The chief protested that it would be bad policy. The mayor is- sued an order. Then the chief protest ed he had no weapons. The mayor or dered that they be instantly purchased and cartridges as well. Then it ap- peared the chief yielded, but in place of sending some one to make the pur- chases he went himself around to hard ware stores to buy the revolvers. He took them to the station house and. left. He did not return.
 While the chief was buying the re- yolvers he stopped to talk with a mill owner who demanded protection. He replied that there was no need, that the people were getting excited over nothing. While he was talking patrol wagon loaded with men dashed past, and a moment later trolley car taken possession of by the men who could not get in the wagon flew past, but the chief did nothing.
 All but three of the silk mills in Hud- son county, N. J., have closed down in- definitely About 10000 hands are in consequence out of employment, and within the next twenty-four hours the number will likely reach 13,000 The immediate cause of the shutting down of the mills was the dyers' strike riot in this city.
 When the employees of the Pelgram & Meyer mills, on Matlock street, re- ported for work yesterday morning, every fourth man of the 300 male em- ployees was provided by the manage ment with a gun.
 During the night shot guns Winches- ters and reyolvers comprising small but formidable arsenal were quietly carried into the mill. Accompanying the weapons were thirty rounds of ann intuition for each piece. With the ar rival of the men workers the firearms were distributed, and the employees went to their looms armed and pre- pared for any emergency.