The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-28
SCHOOLS IN PANIC
Women Cry They're Cutting
Our Chndren'S ThrOatS."
FRIGHT AT DOCTORS WORK
East Side In Arms TO Head OFT
a Massacre"

Board Doctors Have Tried TO Make
Examinations Young Woman Teacher
Marches Her Children Out to the Tune
or q Patriotic Song Essex Market
Court AdJourns TO Tackle the Crowd
That Surrounds n Nearby School.
A hatless young Jewess with hair flying
In the wind and the look OF a mother tigress
in her eyes ran across Broome street toward
Public School 10. in Cannon street,
Yesterday morning about 10 O'Clock crying
in Yiddish; The Christs are cutting my
taby's throat" and within a few minutes
the hair trigger East Side had broken out
into panic and riot.
Before IL O'Clock more than 1000 children
were pushing and surglng through the
narrow streets sout h of Houston and east
Of the Bowery, school windows were being
broken by maddened parents. window
screens we're being torn of and mounted
police, patrolmen and roundsmen were
charging the mobs in an effort to restore
order.
Starting at Broome and Cannon streets
the news that Jewish school children were
being butchered flew In some mysterious
way In all di rections. From the crowded
tenements there tumbled a shrieking crowd
of parents, older brothers and sisters, their
minds filed with the red ink, job typ,
headlines Of massacres. and their one object
TO throw protecting arms around little
Sarah or Isidor before the butchers killed
him.
Each mother told the othe as sheSran
along. and Of course each ran straight for
the public school where the awful slaugh-
ters were taking place. None stopped to
inquire as to the truth Of the rumors, and
90 in a few minutes every one of the many
public schools that dot tie neighborhood
had before it a bowling mob, while the
frightened teachers and doubly scared
children listened to the uproar and won
dered what it was all about.
The terror of the mothers was not allayed
when they reached the schools and found
gibbering curbstone orators in the middle
OF inpassioned speeches about the butch
cries that were taking place within the
buildings.
They've killed four now and buried
them in the cellar of the school," cried one
young mother to the throng in front Of
School No. ITO, and like speeches were
made in front of many other schools. Then
when the mothers found that they could
not storm the school rooms and carry of
their ofIspring-not. at least, until principals
and teachers found what it was all about
the feelings Of the East Side can be imagined.
Who set on foot the rumor that children's
threats were being cut could not be learned.
The best explanation Of the uprising is
that given by an official Of the Board Of
Education, who says that when some OF
the cheap medical practitioners of the
district heard that the Board Of Health
physicians were making an exa mi nation
OF the school children's threats to remove
adenoids and enlarged tonsils where neces-
ssry, East Side doctors Of a certain brand
sent a man or men around to the parents
yesterday morning warning them that
yesterday was to be given over toa general
throat cutting in the schools.
The object of the East Side doctors. this
official say was to get for themselves
the rs or 50 cent fee for each operation
which the Board Of Health doctors do free,
but not till they hav the written permission
Of parents in each case
Miss A. E. Simpson, principal Of the
school at Broome and Cannon streets,
where the trouble started, told yesterday
Of the beginning Of the rumor.
'In School 40 here, said she, "we have
$500 children, about 100 Of whom are
mentally backward, and some, especially
those that come to us from the Children's
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amined by physicians Of the Health Board
and cards are sent to the parents with
the results Of the physical examinations.
It IL the opinion Of the doctors that much
OF the mental and even moral backward
ness could be remedied, in part at least,
II slight operations correcting these abb
normal throat conditions were performed.
The doctors would not operate, Of course,
without the permission Of the parents.
when we told the mothers that 1t would
be we'll to have this work lone by their own
physicians they old us they were too poor.
Than DR.. Mayer Of Mount Sinai Hospital
offered TO scrape the threats at the schools,
and as the parents made no obje ction
Dr.. Mayer, DR.. Cronin, eight medical in
spectors Of the Board Of Health, together
with eight school nurses in charge OF Miss
Rogers, came here last Thursday and per-
formed eighty-three operations in less
than an hour and a half. Almost all the
children then treated came to school the
next day
Miss Simpson then repeated the story
that East Side doctors had started yester-
days trouble because Of their fear OF a
loss Of fees. She also said hat the same
men were responsible for the disturbances
three years ago, when the Health Board
started in to treat the children fortrachoma.
The earlier excitement did not get the head
way of that Of yesterday, however, as It
was nipped just about the time the rumor
started through the streets hat a big
black man was going from school to school,
leaving a bloody trail behind hin.
Three years ago the teachers heard the
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