The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-28
SCHOOLS IN PANIC
Continued from Fret Page.

| Diminishing the little ones after telling them
| they should be ashamed OF their fears.
Yesterday, however, the news got into
school rooms only when the mob had ar
rived and, with screams for their kinder
had begun to storm the buildings. Ex-
cited principals ran down the steps to stop
| short before q broadside Of curses. and after
a futile attempt to learn the cause OF the
excitement from the hysterical m
| retired to consult with the teachers.
And in the meantime the little ones began
to|grow FESTIVE as their names were shouted
to them through the open windows.
Public School 1877 is just next to the
| Essex Market court, and Magistrate Breen
was listening to a passionate plea from
Rosey the Lawyer when a muttering like
the Rroan OF a stage mob could be heard.
As the noise increased courf and audience
began to look about i~nqiiringB. Then
with a roar the mob charged down on the
school doors and windows, not fifty feet
from where the Magistrate was sitting.
and to a chorus Of yells and the tinkle OF
falling glass Magistrate Breen, Assistant
District Attorney MCGUIRE, Police Sergeant
Post, court officers and reporters spilled
out on Essex street.
Hundreds OF women and a number OF
men we're hammering on the school doors
and crying to the policemen to save their
children from slaughter. One woman had
raised a ladder to a window when she found
that the doors had been locked, and women
and men were tearing the window screens
from their fastenings and throwing them
into the street.
On the edge Of the struggling crowd Otto
| Gottlieb, a middle aged man, OF s2e Grand
street, was urging the storming party on
] with loud cries in Yiddish, telling Of the
awful things that were happening to the
children within.
"They're cutting their heads off" Gott-
! heb screamed from his perch on the court
steps.
stop that damn y~elling!' cried Sergt.
Post az he made a dive for Gottlieb. Post
pulled the orator from his place and Tor
the next few minutes there was a lively
AGRA, at the feet Of the Magistrate Gott-
lieb was sibdued and pulled from the surg
hg crowd, and Magistrate Breen fined him
81 on the spot without waiting for further
evidence.
BY this time 1000 children within the
! school began to jump from their seats and
run aimlessly about the rooms, a. the wins
dows were shattered. Principal Stevens
ran downstairs to learn the trouble and in
the meantime the teachers tried to quiet
the scholars. Blu when efforts were made
to keep the little ones from boiling pupils
bit and kicked to get toward the long fight
of steps that leads from the upper floors to
the street door.
A few OF them stopped instinctively when
the school gong rang out the call FOR the
fire drill. and it was at this moment that
one OF the teachers, little Miss Julia Ham,
burger, stepped into the breach and saved
the day. White Tipped she began to sing.
Three cheers for the red. white and bluel
Three cheers for the red, white and bluel
she began, starting with the chorus OF the
school song and tapping time with a SPELL
ing book. There was a quaver Of excite
ment in her voice, but she kept it up and the
children obeyed her gesture directing them
to fall into line.
One by one the piping voices Joined the
teachers, and then the girl began to lead
her charges toward the street and down
toward the fighting mob, which, Miss Ham
burger said after&ard, LOOKED like -the
pictures OF the cruciixion." Policemen
AnO COllTI lItl q wv ''S Sho"N w
the opposite side of Essex street, and then
the wide door opened.
Down the steps marched a very pale
Young woman, still beating time with the
spellins book, and behind came the children
singing in mighty chorus.
Three cheers for the red. white and bluei =
Three cheers for the red, white and bluel
Oh. the Army and Navy forever
1h ree cheers for the red, white and Dluel
l. And as little SarahYand her tiny brother
were grabbed up by hysterical mothers
and Rugged and patted with all the emotion
OF the East Side, little Miss Hamburger
sought a deserted corner Of the court steps
and sat down for a good, cheerful cry.
Near the approach Of the Williamsburg
Bridge and along Delaney street are seven
or eight schools, and by fhis time most of
the 5000 or 1000 children of that n~eighbor-
hood had turned for some unknown reason
into narrow Pitt street and charged down
the incline where Pitt street slopes from
Grand street to Houston. From thousands
of threats came screams as il the little ones
were being pursued by a nameless terror,
and into this drove streamed the parents
from the teeming tenements, many Of whom
knew nothing Of the trouble till they heard
ana saw tneI pdlhCey S'i'uioH'
Long before the excitement had reached
this stage Capt. Murtha of the Eldridge
street station house saw that matters were
getting beyond him. Officers, roundsmen,
plain clothes men, a few mounted men from
Grand street and all the patrolmen and re-
serves were running from school to school.
They quieted one mob only to find that a
worse riot was in progress "A block or less
away.
By quick telephoning Capt. Murtha spread
the news of the trouble around to other
stations, and by IL O'Clock he had ten or
twelve additional mounted men and two
reserves from every station from the First
precinct to the Thirty-seventh at his dis
posal. With this small army to work with
the police began to bring the East Side back
to normal, and disinterested witnesses say
that never have the police handled a riot
30 well as they did yesterday.
When the rioting was at its worst it was a