The evening world., 1904-02-19
She Showed Admitting Men of
YorkviIIe How She Managed
to Escape from the lroquois
Theatre Fire in Chicago.
HER ACT NEEDED NO
WARDROBE Whatever.
After jerome's Men Had Taken
1t All in They Raided the Place
and Six Accused of Being
Promoters Were Arrested.

The meaning OF o. F. r. rs applied
TO the o. F. r. Club OF Yorkville is
"out for Fun" but several OF the MEM
bers are out on ball as the result OF a
chaste smoker given last night at the
Old Homestead. in Third avenue be-
tween Ninetieth and Ninety-rrst streets.
They were present because OF an in
Henneberry, of the Observation-Disclosures
ONCE, that some of the doings at the
smoker promised to be unfit for publi-
cation. Mr.. Henneberry lives In the
neighborhood and helps to keep the lid
down In that district.
Tickets to the smoker were sold all
over the east side of Yorkville and the
gathering that packed the Old Home
stead to the doors was extremely repre-
sentative OF the best thought and
clothes of the district. Among the au-
dience were about a dozen county de-
tectives.
The Cause of the Raid.
The show thai formed the attraction
for the smoker audience was not better
nor no worse than the average enter
tainment of the kind until the con-
GLIDING number. This was the piece de
resistance, so to speak. 1t purported
10 represent in pantomime the efforts
of an actress to escape from the Iro-
quols Theatre fire. In point of cos
tuning. 1t was more representative OF
the wanderings OF Eve in. the garden
Of Ede before she discovered the apple
tree. ,
The county detectives In the audi.
ence. having paid their money for
tickets. waited until the female person
who w the performance was all
through and had taken a couple of en-
cores. Then they rose up as one ,aan,
the show being over. and arrested the
whole outfit.
Bottled Up in the Hail.
Detectives guarded the door,. There
was no escape. The entir- audience
was compelled to remain until the mer
who were believed to have arranged
the entertainment were picked out and
placed under arrest. They were taken
to the East Eighty-eighth street sta
tion, where bail was furnished for al
but one.
There were six prisoners arraigned In
Harlem Court to-day as a result of the
raid. They were Flora Kinnine. the re-
fined performer, who described herself
as a dancer and contortionist and said
she lived at No. 4s3 Willis avenue;
Samuel Wenk. OF No. 5o2 East Eighty
eighth street. a man with two liquor
stores in Yorkville. who acted as an
nouncer and stage manager; Israel Gold
ctein. a cigar manufacturer. of No. go
East Seventy-eighth street: Edward
Coleman, a machinist. of No. II Delan-
cey street: Joseph Schwartz. a cigar
"a uf~acturer. Of No. 1856 Second aye
nue., and Emanuel Fry. a cigar manu-
~facturer. Of No. 225 East Eighty-ffth
street.
Lots of Cops There.
County Detective Hammond, who LEI
the raid. and Police Capt. German, IL
whose precinct the raid took place, wer,
conspicuous in the examination. Capt
German was striving to show that h
knew all about 1t, Inc Hammond wa
trying to show that the police knew
nothing about 1t. SO far as attempting
to do any arresting was concerned.
why" said Hammond. there were
twenty policemen in the house In plain
clothes. When they found that we had
raided the show they put on their
shields and every one Of them grabbed
from one to three spectators and
hustled them out OF the building. Thai
was the last we saw of cops or spec
tators. As soon as they got to the
street they melted away"
The raid was premature" explained
Capt. German. II knew about tho
thing from an anonymous letter.
went to the Old Homestead with 4
waFdman, but they get the logs On II,
and we couldn't get In Until. after tn;
raid"
The woman was held In 81, 900 bail ant
Wenk In $500 bail for taking part in al
immoral exhibition. The other foui
%prisohers were discharged. They showed
the utmost excitement and t~repidation
which may be partially explained b,
the fact that I'D of them are married
men.
Charles Krieger, proprietor of the Oh
Homestead, at Ninety-irst street anc
Third avenue, was arraigned in tn,
Harlem Police Court this afternoon OF
the complaint OF Capt. German, charged
with keeping a disorderly house. Hi
arrest was a result of the rail las
night. Krleger was released on 500
ball. The examination was adjourned
until Wednesday next.
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