New-York tribune., 1904-08-14
BUTCHER MEN IN RIOT.
Violence Continues ON East Side
Prices Go Up a Little.

In spite of the heavy police guard, rioting and
attacks on the men who have taken their places
were repeated yesterday by the striking beef
butchers Richard Sargent. colored. Of No. 44O
West Forty-ffth-st.. employed as a meat car
rier by Schwarzschild & Sulzberger. was at
tackled at the entrance OF the plant at Forty
ffth-st., and after vainly attempting 20 shield
his head from a rain of sticks, stones and other
missiles he ran down the avenue. pursued by
part of the crowd
At Forty-second-st. Policeman Stanley went
to his rescue The crowd did not seem to be at
all awed 1t continued to assail the negro, and
even directed some missiles at Stanley. Women
and children on the roofs of tenement houses
threw sticks and bricks down at Stanley and
Sargent, who stood at bay. Sargent, bleeding
from cuts on his head and face. became too
frightened to stand his ground, and fed further
down the avenue, The strikers stopped their at
tack on the policeman and ran after the negro.
Stanley with them 10 Thirty-eighth-st..
where the appearance of. other policemen in
Inundated the rioters that they dispersed, dis
appearing quickly that none OF them were
rested.
Several arrests were made during the early
afternoon The prisoners were charged with in
citing a riot They were riding uptown on a
First-ave car. and at Forty seventh st Jumped
of. who had nothing to do with strikes
or riots was walking along. and the strikers
approached him and began TO call "Scab" The
cry was taken mp by crowd. but before there
could be any trouble Patrolmen Wilkes and
Clarke seized the strikers and hustled them TO
the East F1fty-hrst-st. station.
A few minutes later Zele Markowitz and Otto
Gushoskritsky were arrested. charged with riot
ing. Markowitz was driving a wagon ahead OF
heavy truck Of the United Dressed Beef Com
pany. He drove zlgzag across tho street. 20 re-
tard the heavy truck When ne arrested
Gushoskritsky interfered- When arraigned be-
fore the sergeant at the station. Markowtz
threatened TO wipe out the place. with the ser
geant as fail. and said IL the sergeant came
from behind the desk he would have his heart
locked up at once.
More than one hundred policemen were sta
toned last night in the striking district in First
ave. The strikers were quiet then. Tomorrow
| ten mounted men and ten bicycle policemen
viii be assigned 10 the district, In addition to
the special and regular men who now there.
The United Dressed Beef Company killed
| few head OF cattle yesterday, but the Schwarz-
schild & Sulzberger company did not kill any.
Mr.. Josephs, OF the latter firm, said that every
thing was satisfactory to him. Several wagons
of the two packing houses were sent out under
| the guard of patrolmen
Meat prices showed little change III the city
yesterday In small representative butchers
shops the East Side Tribune reporter was
told that while meat had gone up as much as
three and four cents pound since the Chicago
strike opened prices were virtually the same as
they were the preceding week. The hosner
butchers received supplies Friday, and
only small supply the day previous. Yesterday
being the Jewish Sabbath there practically
| no business done at all The prices asked were
the same usual.