The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-25
ODE Aeolian Company.
CREW FOUGHT HARD FOR WINE.
WANTED MORE AFTER BANOUET
on BOARD THE GCTEOD.
Drove the Mate Into the Forecastie and
Held Him Prisoner Until Police Re.
serves dubbed the Leaders Into Sub.
missiOn-Ftve Are Now Resting In Jail.

If Charles Gounod. the famous COM
poser. had been alive to witness the high
old time which occurred Sunday night
aboard the good ship named after him
he certainly would have renamed his
Soldiers Chorus in his opera Faust "
so as to have II The Sailors Chorus for
the crew OF the bark Gounod feel now like
singing oh. dear, we'll never get drunk
again Seventeen Of them were arrested,
but dozen were discharged The re-
naming five are now locked up In the Long
Island City jail,
The Charles Gounod is a st eel bark She
arrived here from London and Cherbourg
on Sunday in ballast and tied up to her
pier at the foot Of Tenth street Long
Island City. Then a banquet was given
to the sailors. and wine flowed freely. The
captain. Jules Oyer, went ashore at dusk.
Some Of the members Of the crew followed
soon afterward They tried to get more
drinks in the Long Island City saloons,
but failed because the saloonkeepers did
not understand French.
About O'Clock those who went ashore
returned to the ship and called for more
wine, The first mate, Caesar Lugie, re-
fused. heated arg iment followed and
then the members of the crew declared
that they would take whatever they wanted.
The mate, backed up by two sailors, tried
TO prevent the men from getting at the
wine. and free fight followed 1t was
the liveliest sort Of fight. Knives were
drawn and men chased each other up on
deck and down into the 70 castle and
through the alleys between decks. Two
Of the wine defenders had to take refuge
in the hold Of the vessel
The mate kept up a steady fire with his
pistol in an effort to keep the sailors at
lay, but this only added to their anger.
and they hurled iron spikes at him and
forced him to take refuge in the focastle
They then hurled cord wood at him and
threatened to set the bark afire to force
him from his hiding place. He kept yelling
for help and his cries were heard by the
Waterman on the Tier, who telephoned To
police adquarters asking for the police
reserves TO come and quell a mu,ny aboard
the ship
AT Gao Roundsman Miller and SQUAD |
OF thirty. policemen from the Long Island |
City station arrived at the dock and found |
the sailors shouting, fighting and trying |
70 get al the first mate. The police got |
aboard the ship and had a harG-tC -hai.d |
battle with the sailors. The cook of the |
bark attacked one policeman and had a |
hiiue rdisei 10 StaD nm, when another |
cop hit the cook on the head with a club |
and knocked him serseless. The battle
with the police lasted half an hour and
ended in tho capture of seventeen mon
The seventeen were taken to the police
station ard the first mate followed To make
complaints, He said he had no charges
10 make against twelve of the men and
these were permitted To return To the shin
The remaining five were locked up An
the members Of the crew were cut and
bleeding
After being attended by physician. the
prisoners were able to tell their names
and ages They were Peter Sutton, rs
years old; Joseph Refine. 90 Andrew
Fdouard, 81; Marc Refine, -. and Victor
Sousouse, 81,
Casar, the mate. said that Sousouse,
who is the ships carpenter, led the mutiuv.
He added that the ships cook was villain
and ought to be punished worse than the
others
Yesterday the five men were arraigred
before Justice Connorton. Four were SEN
fenced To Jail for five DAYS The fifth
man, Sousolse. was held for the action of
The Grand Jury,
The ship looked as though it had passed
through cyclone. Strewn all over the
decks and on the stairways were broken
bolts, logs of wood and other things which
he sailors had used in the fight. The
captain would not permit any one TO clean
up He said that he would leave every
thing In disorder until the French Consul
could see for himself just what sort Of time
the men had in his absence.