Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
RACE RIOTS IN NEW
YORK NOT INFREo UENT
SOUTHLAND NOT ONLY PLACE OF
INTERNEClNE WARFARE
Three In as Many Weeks, When Whites
Nearly Murder BIacks-consump-
tive Colony Near the City-Im-
mense Contract for steel Bridge

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Special Correspondence of The Herald.
| NEW YORK, Aug. 1-Three times
in as many weeks and in as many diff
ferent sections Of the city there have
been serious race riots with results
which showed clearly there is no essen
tial difference in the feeling between
the white and the negro races in New
York and that which exists in any other
part Of the country.
Rioting between whites and blacks is
no new thing here, although it was a
novelty five years ago this summer,
when New Workers witnessed one of
the most serious race riots which ever
was seen in the country.
Then, in a ten-hour running fight,
which started in Hell's Kitchen and ex-
tended over the entire West Side, from
Fourteenth to Fifty-ninth street, ne
groes were dragged from their homes
and from street cars to have their
heads beaten in or to be strung from
lampposts. The net result was nearly
dozen dead and fully 500 injured.
With all the talk against race preju-
dice which is INDUCED in by SO many
white men,, the feeling between the
races is intense, as the police records
so clearly show. For the last four or
five years the police have been kept
busy looking after the regions where
the tenements of whites and negroes
are close by. The slightest pretext
serves to start fight, and once start
ed, whites and blacks swarm from their
respective quarters, while stones, clubs
and razors, to say nothing of more than
few revolvers, all add to the gaiety
of nations.
Five years ago the big race riot
started through the stabbing of a white
policeman by negro desperado, whose
paramour was arrested by the police
man.
The latter died and the negro fled the
city, but on the day of the policeman's
funeral some of his neighbors threw
things from their windows at a couple
of negroes who were watching the
funeral procession start. The negroes
resented this, and in an instant tha
general fight was on so fiercely it took
over 1000 policemen ten hours to quell
it. Even then the real scattering of
the mob was accomplished only by a
hard rainstorm during the early hours
of the following morning.
One of the latest riots started with
an insulting remark of a negro at a
passing white man; another started be-
cause a negro resented the gibes of
some white boys playing ball, while the
third was caused by a negro refusing
to make way on the street to allow a
white woman to pass.
All of the riots were in tenement dis
tricts where negro tenements had
crept in among the white tenements.
But in the light of these events no New
Yorker can afford to slur an other
region for the lynching Of negroes or
for riots which mean the terrorization
of the blacks.
BY fall this city will have in opera
ton one of the finest tracts in the coun-
try for the care and treatment of con-
sumptives. 1t is located in Orange
county, and the land, which consists of
1900 acres, is to cost the city $780,
Already the appropriation has been
made, and the city is now proceeding
with the necessary steps to take title,
The land is located well up in the
Catskil mountains. At present there
are forty farm houses on 1t, and all are
to be fitted up as the homes OF patients
which the city will admit to the big
consumptive camp. Fully 400 patients
can be accommodated within a month
after the city gets its title to the prob
erty. The land is 1900 feet above sea
level, and is pronounced by physicians
who have been over the ground as'the
finest possible site for the establish
ment of AN institution to fight the raw
ages of tuberculosis
There are upward Of $4,000 consump-
tives in Greater New York, but the
health officials plan to send none but
"curables" TO the new institution.
While there the city will not only treat