The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-16
KOSHER MEAT RIOTS
CONTINUED LAST NIGHT BY NEW
 YORK HEBREWS.
Directed Against Butchers Who Persist in Selling Meat Despite Agreement to Close Because of Boef Trusts High Prices Nu merous Police Details Sent Out to Preserve Order.


 New York May 15.--The rioting in connection with the protest of the He brew residents of the East Side against the sale of meats in certain f'kosher' butcher shops whose proprietors per- sisted in selling meat, despite the re-
 cent agreement to close owing to the high prices of the beef trust, and which
 broke out early to-day, was continued tonight. This was in spite of the eff fort of numerous police details sent out to preserve order. The authorities were compelled to put out police lines III
 Broome Norfolk, Essex, Ludlow and Suffolk streets, between Delancey and Grand, and everybody was kept out of those streets The rioting commenced anew early in the evening. Everybody seemed to be surly and in bad hurnor. Every time policeman's helmet show ed itself club, a stone or piece of refuse of the street was thrown at the policeman's head. A number of arrests were made after night sticks had been used freely in dlspersing the crowds.
 Early in the evening some of the riot CTS learned that two Hebrew bakers on Division street had been cooking meat and selling it. There was surge of the crowd into that neighborhood, and in short time the bakeries were clean ed out and their owners had fled for safety.
 In the territory covered by the police of the Madison street station much the same conditions prevailed. By 10 o'clock there had been number of arrests there, disorderly conduct being alleged, and about the police station there was a pushing, scrambllng mob of hun dreds.
 The scene about New Irving hall to- night was one of the widest confusion and disorder. The police reserves from three police stations had been ordered out and were in lines about the hall. The police seemed to have but little control over the mobs and used their clubs right and left.
 A delegation of women and children, about 200 strong, went down from the hall to District Attorney Jerome's house on Rutger street and called upon him to go to the hall and settle mat ters. He, with Assistant District At- torney Morgan went to the hall, escort ed by the crowd. Arrived at the hall the two took walk through the block about the building and then disappear ed.
 In Pike and Madison street number of women and girls went into the tene- ment houses about the time the tenants were eating their supperS and threw all the meat they could lay their hands on out of the windows. For this number of arrests were made.
 The crowds descended several hun dred strong on some butcher shops at Orchard and Rivington and Orchard and Delaney streets and made short work of the kosher signs. The shops were smashed open, the koscher meats hurled through the windows into the streets and the shops generally wreck ed.
 Later in the night the police reserves from two other police stations were added to those that had been called earlier In the evening, making about 300 policement in tn district. Captain Walsh was struck on the back of the head by a flying stone, and slightly in- jured. Sergeant McDermott also got a somebody's flying club.
 New York, May 15,-Eight hundred women gathered tonight at a meeting in the New Irving hall and announced their inflexble purpose not to pay the price for Kosher meat demanded by the retail butchers.
 Joseph Barondess made a pacific speech and advised the women to form a cooperative society; to buy their own cattle and sell the meat in their own shops.
 It was decided that a delegation of | the women should wait on Mayor Low, either tomorrow or Saturday, and ob- tain permission for an open air meet ing.
 By midnight the crowds had quieted | to a great extent. It was said that 1 there would be another outbreak early | tomorrow and that the trouble was not l over by any means.