The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-01
BIG RAID ON TRAIN ROWDIES.
so BRONX PARK BALL PLAYERS
ARRESTED on THE ELEVATED.
Private Detectives Placed on tho Cars
and squads Of Police ~ Stations
TO Cope With Downtown HuEh-Pas-
senEers Insulted; windows Broken.

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senEers Insulted windows Broken.
Fifty boys, ranging in age from 10 TO 20
! years. we're arrested yesterday afternoon
| by the police OF the Alexander avenue,
| Morrisanla and East 10th street stations,
for creating disturbances on southbound
| Third avenue elevated trains in The Bronx.
The boys were taken from the trains at the
i3Sd and lSsth street stations and hurried
in patrol wagons TO the Alexander avenue
police station where, later, they were sorted
out. Those over 10 years, OF whom there
were eleven, were locked up in the East i28th
street station house and the rest were turned
over to the Gerry society.
Every spring since Bronx Park opened
and baseball privileges were given within
its grounds, the public has had to suffer
from the rowdyism Of lower East Side
youths returning from games. This season
It has been worse than ever and the Inter-
borough company's officials have decided TO
put a stop to the nuisance.
There was an unusually large crowd
Of boys in the park yesterday. Anticipa-
ting trouble, the Interborough managers
had employed over a dozen rivate de-
tectives and scattered them at 4 O'Clock,
Wh0u lllb HOillt Ih9ll DekdAlt On lub bOulu-
bound elevated trains. The police Of the
three precincts had also been forewarned
and were stationed at the l3Sd and lSsth
street stations Of the road.
About 4:9O o'clock a crowd Of boisterous
boys boarded an elevated train at the
Bronx Park station. They all went into
the rear car, as is their custom, and at once
began raising a rumpus. Most Of the
passengers in the car soon became dis
gusted and moved into forward cars. The
marlborough detectives were powerless
to repress the hoodums. The latter threw
balls at each other from one end Of the car
10 the other. They cut the bell rope and
breaking into the motorman's box blew
the whistle. Many Of them had filed their
pockets with pebbles, which they threw
at the open windows Of tepemsnts along
the route. Half dozen windows in the
car we're broken, seats were overturned
and a few passengers who had tried to re-
main in the car had their hats ruined
Some Of the young rowdies extended their
insults to passengers in the other cars.
Just "a the boys thought they had full
possession Of things the train stopped at
the l3Sth street station. There a large
squad Of policemen was waiting. The
hoodlums hadn't time to think before the
police we're inside the cars and they were
under arrest. Two husky youths jumped
through a window and ran up the track,
but they were oveThauled after barely
escaping being run over by another south
bound train.
The youths were taken 10 the station
house while another squad Of police waited
for the next train. From bali past 4 until
8 O'Clock the police were kept on duty at
the l3Sd and 1Ssth street stations, where
all southbomd trains were held up and the
disturbers placed under arrest.
A big crowd gathered around the ele-
waited stations and lined the streets 70 the
station houses. All the police reserves in
The Bronx were called upon 10 preserve
order.
Later many Of the prisoners parents
visited the station houses and caused lot
OF commotion. Only few Of the boys
we're able 10 get bail. Those held in the
Fast l2eth street station house will be ar
raigned in the MorrisaniR police court TO-
day. The younger offenders, who we're
transferred into the hands Of the Gerry
society, will be aTraigned in the Children's