New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-30
RIOTS IN CHIN ATOWN.
PISTOLS. KNIVES AND CLUBs-A REIGN
OF TERROR.
FEUD BETWEEN TWO GANGS. ONE OF
WHICH MURDERED MEMBER OF
OTHER. CAUSES RATTLE


All Chinatown. With many Of the principal
business streets leading into Broadway, was IN
state of siege and riot FOR several hours last
night the result of long standing and
bitter feud between two rival factions OF young
men and youths of Chinatown and the Ghetto.
So bitter was the rivalry between the two fac
uohs and so lawess the element dominating the
organizations that for time It appeared that
the police We're powerless RevolVers were
drawn and dozens Of shots We're fred. clubs We're
used freely knives were brought into play, ana
| any convenient weapon seized by the r1o'-
ing youths and used viciously.
The police reserves of the Elizabeth, Eldrdse
ana Macdougal ST. stations were turned out
and for a time Chinatown was policed in squads
OF nVe men within half q block Of each other
by midnight the trouble was we'll over for the
TIME being but it was feared the trouble max
ing element of the two rival factions might
break loose at any time afterward Thirteen
prisoners taken and locked up in the
Elizabeth-st. station Each had revolver or
knife
The two rival factions the Five Points
Social Club, with rooms at No. 126 whtest..
ana making their night headquarters in a Chat
nam Square saloon. and the Jack Eastman
social club most of the members of which i've
IN Essex, Ludlow. Norfolk and Broome SITS, ana
nave their headquarters near New Irving Han
The Five Points crowd are frequenters of emma
town and its numerous dives
The trouble dates hack Saturday night
week ago At that time number of the East
man crowd in a resort known as tine
chatham Club, n Doyers-st.. Chinatown. In
there at the time was Five Points man known
as Mike BOve, a son of Mulberry st saloon
keeper, Several epithets were hurled at Bove.
- ted hon hc
on by the Eastman crowd beaten almost into
nsensihility. his watch and chain stolen. his
pockets rifed, and the third finger Of his left
hand literally chewed off. On it was a ring.
Then Bove was carried out of the resort thrown
into tse gutter. given few parting kicks and
left slone. He crawhed home the police heard of
the affair, made desuknry investigation and
there the case ended
on Sunday night last. however Bove had re-
covered enough to got out. He rounded up his
Five Points crones and plan of action look
ing toward vengeance was mapped out Early
yesterday crowd of about thirty of the Five
Pointers moved into Norfolk-st- There
they met a man named Isidore Foster Of No
527 Fifth-.t.. ari said to be a member of the
Eastman crowd The Five Points crowd set
upon Foster. They beat him and he broke away
and ran He chased down Norfolk-st. TO
Essex and then to BroOme-st There he was
caught and given a second beating As re,
suit he was taken TO the GOUverneur Hospital
with fractured skull. where he died.
This brought the feud to head. and last
night the Eastman crowd started out 10 get
even About o'clock the Eastman fellows,
about sixty strong headed toward Chinatown
and the Bowery Five Points men knew OF the
Anticipated attack and hundred strong were
prepared to meet ii. When the Eastman crowd
reached the Bowery they divided into Two
squads: one travelled down TO Doyers-st., the
other through WalkeT-st. toward the Five
Points crowd clubhouse.
The factions met in Walker ST. Both
were heavily armed. 4 dozen shots sig
nailed the opening OF the battle Then clubs.
sticks. rocks, bricks from the tunnel every
weapon that could he seized upon. were brought
into play The fighters retreated and advanced
until they reached Walker-st. and Broadway
There Policemen Nillson and Grinton. of the
Eliza beth-st. station got into the thick of The
rioting The crowd retrcated before the police
mems clubs and drawn revolvers up Whte-st
to Courtlandt Alley. other policemen came TO
the rescue and rounded the crowd up Most of
them escaped. some running into Broadway,
others down White-st and the Alley. Four We're
arrested there and rusned to the Eliza heth-St /
station.
In the meantime the rtoting broke out atresh |
at White and Centre SITS. but the police reserves
we're on the crowd in minute and stopped |
them taking In two or three more prisoners
The two factions met again at Doyersst. a nd the
Rowerv No shots were fired there, but clubs |
and boot heels freely used. Policemen |
from the Eliza beth-st station and the Eldrldge-
st station took in half dozen prisoners there.