The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-15
AVID WESTFEUOINNEW YORK
BATTLES or TWO EAST SDE
gangs on CHERRY HILL.
Nishtiy shooting Matches Between the
ss.Sionk Eastmsns and the iakie-iakes
-IaIf q Dozen Men killed-Poiice
Declare Martial Lava Shiny BIZ
of uisfory of the Modern City.

Joseph Fallon is one Of the biggest police
men in New York As he stands, with MS
arms folded and his long locust club dang
ling under his lef elbow. and looks down
into the double row OF lights from the top
o, Cherry Hill, he Is indeed grim and IN
Spiring symbol Of law and order.
Magazine readers and summers for
generations have known Cherry Hill, Inc
old, small-windowed brick tenements fac
i-s each other. the frequent saloons along
..ss block, the back-tenement archways
which glover darkly out from the darker
alleys behind and the peculiar rough-and-
ready looking -for-trouble temperament
that Ii exposed gratuitously on the faces
OF It's dwelleB-all these are familiar.
To Joe Fallon, just out from the house :
for his II to 7 o'clock tour, surveying his
domain before he went down into it, went
q Sun reporter last Thursday night.
@Quieter than Fifth avenue, just now.
isn't it?- suggested the reporter.
Fallon laughed. His laugh was not alto
gether pleasant to hear.
@Quiet, Is it?' he said. 1T better be.
There's martial law on Cherry Hill this
night There amt a soul dares move
faster than walk or lift his voice above a
whisper, lest we give II to 'em and give 1t
TO 'em good ,
Down toward Roosevelt street a little
knot of men was gathering. The police
man started down the hill. As he APP
preached. swinging the club bit conspicu-
ously, they stood apart and avoided his eye.
IT'S a nice night observed Fallon,
quite without warmth in his tone.
There was a confused murmur OF assent
from the crowd. He passed on, leaving a
patiently dispirited gathering behind him.
Fallon's post is the two blocks Of Cherry
street on either side Of Roosevelt street.
II Is one Of the shortest active posts in the
city, and additionally the toughest.
As they traversed the length OF II, the
policeman and the reporter met an unac-
EQUITABLE number of middle-aged, stocky,
notwithstanding men Of a type quite
different from the ordinary saloon loungers
Of the neighborhood. 1t was observed that
they wnked at Fallon as he passed and
Falion winked back.
sWho are these fellows?" asked the re-
porter
whisper" said Fallon. with a grin.
They're the reserve squad from the house
in plain clothes. And every son OF gun OF
them has got his night stick under his coat =
Let it be written that Mr.. Fallon's worried
look vanished for minute and he chuckled.
For nearly a week Cherry Hill had been
the nightly scene OF shooting matches
between crowds Of men. Shots few in
the early morning hours as they few In
Western mining camps generation ago.
Five men had been taken to the hospitals.
All this disturbance was because the
Monk Eastmans, having made terms with
tho Five Points gang. found that the Yakie-
Yakes of Cherry Hill did not feel them-
selves included in the armistice as a part
OF The Five Points forces. Most OF the
Yakie-Yakes had been arrested.
On Thursday evening word came down
from Suffolk street that the Monk East
mans were coming down to clean out Cherry
Hill late that night. And il they couldn't
find any Yakie-Yakes about they were
jumping the police.
The state Of affairs the reporter found
in the shadow Of the big Bridge Thursday
midnight was merely evidence that the
police OF the old Oak street station were
ready and even anxious TO I've jumped. But
they weren't jumped that nj ght-they wero
too ready
For the captain and his men feel keenly
the stigma put upon the precinct by the
Wild Western goingS on there Of late. They
are part cularly angry because the men
who have done all the shooting and stabbing
have been men from outside III" boundaries
OF the precinct. who have come over into
Cherry Hill and Roosevelt street and Frank
fort street. under the Bridge to fight out
their deadly feuds For the Five Points
gang has secretly REINFORCED the Yakis-
Yakes night after night, until the number
OF fighters on a side has been from forty to
fifty on more than one night.
In the dear old days that have gone be-
yss recall. when every block Of Cherry
str96t was a post for two pollcemen. who
never dared Ia get out of call 81 each other
Cherry Hill was tough on IL own account
Those wer. the days when Double Alley
hourished and was the resort 81 murderers
and of other fugitiSes from justice, who
Rsye the pollc. perennial and bloody hattie
Th~re were feuds 10 those days, too, and
they We're fought to the death. even ~
tho~e Of to-day
Bsi the fighters wer" ~ a different sort
They ~cr. bug and rough aud they fought
for IN. hove Of fighting u Was oui -
such schools ~ tho strenuous life that IA.
present generation of higher officers -
the present ISlll"" fpTnr were graduated
Cherry Hill vac educated Out ~ that stage
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Itkliais and Gp-ks aud hgs-ians some
sr. stall held 10y families that Nsf- then.
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