The sun., 1906-12-28
had TOO MUCH REVOLUTION.
GRAND STREET THEATRE CALLS
FOR POLICE HELP.

SO Many Tickets Sold FOR . Russian Revo.
tionary Benent That Hair the Buyers
Were Left Outside-They Declined 20
BE Oppressed That Way without Row.
| I pud II down on der book shouted
Treasurer Hyman Feier, when It was all
over yesterday afternoon, Il pud 1t down
on der book-no moro OF socialists-no
more OF der revolutionaries-no more Of
der anarchists-no more OF any Of dem
not no more. On der book write Il down.
1t had been a red hot afternoon at Adler q
Grand Theatre. In Grand street Just east Of
the Bowary, an afternoon Of angry argu-
ment In twenty dialects, of strange oaths
and execrations, OF objurgations and Of
sweat. Over 1000 angry ticket holders
bad been driven away from the doors Of the
theatre, first by the theatre employees
and later by the police, for the reason that
the house was packed to the doors and the
roof long before 2 o'clock and It was not
humanity possible to admit another man.
The Revolutionary Red Cross Society,
an East Side organization Of Jews, had
planned a monster benefit for the cause Of
the oppressed of their race In Russia. The
oppressed wanted guns and bullets and giant
powder and some other things advanced,
and their fellow countrymen Of the East
Side engineered the benefit TO supply these
wants.
So they hired Jacob Adler's theatre for
the purpose. Mr.. Adler and his company
volunteered their services TO give a per-
formance OF Jacob Gordin's play, The
Abnormal Man" The reserved seat tickets
and the customary number Of admission
tickets for standing room down stairs and
the gallery we're turned over to the Red
Cross Society TO sell They started out TO
make the affair a bowling success
They succeeded so well that they turned
the theatre upside down with excitement
and riot was STAYED of only by the timely
presence Of the police. who drove the hun
dreds of angry kickers into the street with
small ceremony. Adler's Theatre will hold
about 800 people. But the Red Cross
Society's agents in different parts of the
East Side we're so anxious to make all the
money they could for the cause that they
oversold the house. From the hundreds
that were turned away yesterday afternoon,
protesting and waving their tickets fran
tically over their heads, IL appears that
they must have sold about three times as
many admissions as the house will hold
At any rate, somebody did.
The early corners got in without any
Il
began. At 2 clock the doors were closed
few minutes later the private watchman
stationed in the gallery rushed into the
ticket Office and waving his stick about his
head declared that he was being mobbed.
If | lose my chob l dond care" he
moaned. For Why dond you send me
policemens?"
A telephone message to the Eldridge
street station brought twelve men from
the reserves. A few minutes later two
tkr. hs.I .nNz
the office and said they had been robbed.
Inspector Mclaughlin sent half a dozen
men over from Headquarters under Sergt.
Brown. Detectives Lander, Collins and
Silverstein arrived few minutes later:
Before the show was half over they had
rounded up eight prisoners who they said
were notorious pickpockets. One Of them
bears the pleasing professional name of
Lock-'em-upski Brinkoff Another is
known among his friends & as faGco
hard pressed by the managers Of the Rev.
olutionary Red Cross Society. When the
mob began to besiege the locked doors
of the theatre they pursued the manager
into his office.
Louis is a little, smooth shaven, pepper
pot Of a man, with a head of hair like
black chrysanthemum. young woman
who wore the badge Of the society backed
him into a corner and shook her fist IN his
face.
For Why you sell all these tickets out?'
she demanded Peoples come in here
all der time and den more and more and
den der police drives dem away vid dere
madness. For Why you do it? Say it!
Say it! For Why you do soch a ting
The manager boiled over at once.
1T Ia a falsty-a falsity," he screamed
at the top of his voice. We sold not der
tickets out of dis officel YOU do it-you
do it and den you comes around and say
il on us!' Here he relapsed into spatter
of dialect. But his accIser was not daunted.
at lisa q dishonest on you--R dishonesty"
she shouted, as she retreated in good order.
dishonesty YOURSELF" screamed the
manager on call us a dishonesty when
il iss you!" The manager locked himself
in his Office and would come out no more.
Meantime the police had the crowd well
in hand. They did not drive out anybody
who had got in. but before the police arrived
the thetare had been jammed in a manner
to violate the fire. ordinance. However,
more got in. and the 1000 who had paid
to get in and who were chased away took
10 out in grlmbling.
MANY Of the superfiuous admissions were
sold at the Office of Vorpdrts, at ITS East
Broadway Here it was said that it was
all a mistake and the result OF the lnexperl-
ence Of the managers Of the Revolutionary
Red Cross Society. Announcement would
be made to-day, it was said, where those who
had bought tickets and who couldn't get in
could get their money back.
just before the performance the theatre
orchestra went on strike. They wouldn't
play unless they got their money. At
tast sos was posted as a guarantee, the
question to be decided later with the union.
Charity comes at home first" said the
leader Of the orchestra. He makes out
a check now in der office: see it?'