The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-07-24
GYPsIEs IN A RAILWAY STATION

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 A band of gypsies mad up of four men, twenty women and forty child. ren, ranging in age from months to 16 years, defed the police of Union Station recently and caused great ex- citement in the waiting rooms, the Midway, the lunchrcoms and every other department in the station.
 For time it. looked as if the police would have to club the women in the crowd, but through the cool and per-. sistent work of Sergeant David l. Fields and Policemen Ward, Combs Mcclellan, and Weaver the unruly ag- gregaticn was driven from the station to an open lot at Eighteenth and Wal- nut Streets. They remained there until late in the afternoon, thousands Of persons croWding around them. q, The gypsies at the Union Station on an early morning train fro Chicago, | They went into the immigrant waiting room at the east end and camped there all morning. They spread their blank cts and made their beds just as they i do in the rural districts, when trayell- | ing afoot overland. l When Sergeant Fields and his squad of policemen wen on duty A. M, a large gathering of the curious had surrounded the queer wayfarers, and it was evident that something must be done to rid the station of its lunwel- come settlers The station officials all | lr- haA Sfaf fpa nd 1rt Fields immediately went about to rid the station of tie ''red bandana" lod- gers. He realized that is was a tedious, difficult undertaking. None of the l gypsies could speak English, or at 1 least they refused to do so.
 Sergeant Fields called his men and corrailed the bunch" He succeeded in keepingNthe band in a corner, and made known to sthem that he wanted them to move ,pn." One of the male members then spoke a few English words. He said they were going to move, but to give them until ten o'clock. It was then near ten, and l Sergeant Fields agreed, but he told them that they must move at that 1 hour, and move fast. l While waiting for the moving hour. the gypsices quietly scattered to all parts of the station. The children made raid on the lunchstand in the immigrant room, and cakes, fruits and all other uncovered delicacies on the counter disappeared rapidly They had evidently been -sohooled in stealing, for the yaccomplisheh their work unaided by the older members of the band. The tots swept down upon the lunchstand in a body, grabbing everything they could get their hands on. The children came so fast to the stand that the two wattresses were. helpless. After filling their mouths and hands, the youngs- ters would turn and run back to their parents, who would simly laugh at their antics.
 Bookstands, newspaper standss cigar counters, lemonade stands. and every other counter with anything uncovered suffered from similar raids. One of the mischievous youngsters, while try ing to reach banana, fell and splash ed headfirst into a large jar of orange ade. As fast as the youngsters stole ci- gars they would run to their parents and secrete them.
 The situation grew so annoying that Sergeant Fields and his men decided to move the gypsies before ten o'clock. They came down upon the without warning and rushed them out of the waiting room into the Midway, fore ing them with their clubs to make an exit at the Eighteenth Street archway. The women fought back, the men mocked the officers, and the chil hiss ed the bluecoats. The woment display ed more boldness than the men. Several of the threatened to fight, and the of- tcers had had to handle them roughly to compel them to comply with their orders. Pushing, showing, and beating them on, the policemen succeeded in driving the mob into an open lot at the southeast corner of Eighteenth and Walnut Streets. The men,. women, and children hurling epithets at the polic- men, huddled in the centre of the lot, and settled down for the day.
 They were there only a few minutes before several thousand persons had
 congregated and all day large crowd ot curious stood looking at them. Late in the afternoon they rolled up their packs, gathered bird cages, guinea