New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-31
GANGS OF BAD BOYS.
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Ter is in the real estate business, and has charge
of large property interests. 1t is an everyday oc-
cqrrence for some housewife to come into his once
and say:
hovs Why. I went downtown on Monday to buy
a shirtwaist-there was E sale, you hho" anu
when ] got back you ought 10 have seen my pa',
room The Observation-Disclosures gang sot Al
through the window and took every bit OF lead oul
=. - And The rrass faucets they just ripped them
out too The place a junk heap II MIS- VI VI
lanev who lives across the airsha1t' hauh seen
them and yelled they would have cleaned Out III!
whole fat. the little devils
we can't stand the vandalism OF these hOou-
lums much longer" said Mr.. Foster to 1rlDune
reporter Yesterday. AT the present time We can
not do anything with them, because the llaslS-
trates do not hold them and the parents are NJ
made responsible. What is wanted Is an oIoii-aIs
that will compel the parents guardian OF chllu
= - s,,e Of & for these offences. 1t is safe
n cav that then the father will not let ms boy
roam the streets and the risk OF Dragging liili
into court , 49,.
n-a not afraid of any one. They know the ponce
xiu not arrest them, or even II they 90 'iie iee-
crates will let them go the first offence IL CUNT
20 such pass that every street has its gang anu
no house is safe. Here's only a sample Nj ros
Ter then told OF three boys who MADE a ralo vi Z"
,,rivate house in e-hundred-and-itth-st between
1o-,, ord Lexington ayes They tore off the sky
3sht TO the servants room on the top hoor' anu
one boy dropped TO the floor below, Instance u
eight feet. Then he opened the scutue ana let III
his oonfederates They started Immediately 10
clean out the lead and copper in the house. winch
was untenanted and were working along smoothly
until they encountered an old fashioned pathluo'
Nv means Of an old knife they ripped out lhe
copper lining. and then discovered LEAD drlp pan
underneath. In order to get the pan lhey hau 10
knock down the board frame by which the 'up
did by means OF q lt4i
nine for hammer. Then they bostered up inc
heavy tub with a prop, and began pulling OUT the
nan In the midst Of the performance the prop
came out. and the tub fell with laundering crash
Different street gangs often have feuds "flch
are Naged as bitterly the feuds in BTeathltt
County Eostilities reach such a pitch that wheh
two boys Of different factions meet there Is an
Interchange Of greetings about as follows;
say YOU belong to the Sixty-hfth7 st. gang, Ell:
That's all right. The Sixty-fourth can lick your
Eahg"
Go on. wese can knock out all Of youse.'
Take that. See?'
A fight ensues with a hurry call for reinforce
-nents Often good sized battle results In when
half a dozen are wounded with sticks and stones
7, Was I'm such a street fight that Theodore Korde
q Rrooklyn boy was so seriously hurt that ne dleu
a few days ago. Young kordeL however true 10
TIE traditions Of feuds, was not one OF the COM
batants. but a spectator. He was standing on the
e,oop OF his home, at No. 81 North Seventh-st-'
watching fight when a stone struck him in the
right temple. His mother saw him fall' ana
,-,sbed out and carried him TO his bed. The phy-
stefan who was called in found the lad suffering
With conclusion of the brain Several boys We're
arrested and George Howe, a sixteen year-old
,,ou,b was accused of having thr' wn the stone
stone fights are so common In this part OF VIII
garsh,rc that il is impossible. as II - IN certain
,ar+s OF Park-ave.. Manhattan. 10 get insurance
on plate glass windows
The Indifference Of the police TO the hoouiull
gangs is already bearing bitter fruit The boys
because Of becoming Indifferent to all restraint ana
losing all respect for the law or the guardians OF
me law defy the police when they become men.
For example the Bath Beach police encountered a
gang Of toughs the other morning returning from
Conev Island with the result that one policeman
almost lost his nose IN fight. The gang consist
ed az about ten Young men. who had climbed up
,r+o the strans Of a West End division train stuck
their feet on, of the ventilator windows accosted
the Young women Of the car using all the names or
an extensive vocabulary. and threatened their
escorts with plugging" If they interfered. An
alarm was sent ahead. and when the train reached
Nineteenth-ave. Captain Cullen. Sergeant Ryder
and ten policemen were there to make arrests
The hooolurns instantly showed fight. and one By
the name OF Johnson. who later said he trying
10 get on the police force got the force then and
there. He jumped a roundsman by the name
Of Nugent took his club away from him, and beat
him SO viciously that he broke his and cut a
long wound III his head. The other bluecoats had
TO pun their receivers before they could overpower
the young rufians