New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-09-13
BIG RIOT OF NEGROES.
Bullets, Bottles. Ra@ors and Night
sticks Figure IN Fight.

Following the "bellhops'" ball at Suffers Har-
lem River Park there were many aching heads
IN Kettle Row and san Juan Hill yesterday
morning That in itself is not unusual. but most
OF the aches We're gathered in a wild battle that
| stretched from the park at 121th street south to
San Juan Hill One man is in the hospital and
a few more are locked up because OF thelr eh'hu-
siasm in the battle but the gratest monuments
OF the battle were the broken beer oottles'
glasses. razors and splintered baseoaH pats
which marked the firing line
Only the cream Of san Juan Hill was invited
10 attend the grand annual ball of the Belineh ;
Beneficial Association. and all the Negroes WHO
can afford 10 wear diamonds came up from
Thompson street the Tenderloin, Helrs Kitchen
Kettle Row san Juan Hill and the Dip. There
were a few white men there. but they were blot
ted out of sight as soon as the battle was on
Most of them figured later on the hospital rolls
These were Emil SchartzkOpf Of No 927 Column
bus avenue who was buried under a storm OF
beer glasses. undergoing repairs later at the
Harlem Hospital; Ernest Schmidt. Of No. +S9
East SSth street. who broke his nose stopping
wine bottle: Max Zeller. waiter. who was cut
up around the face: William Hagan. special pa
troman. who lost nearly all his front teeth. and
James Newman. who was we'll beaten up Even
Gus Slutzer a relative of the who runs the
park and a special patrolman. had a cut in his
cheek that II took five stitches 10 sew up. Pa
trolman Common was hit in the head with brick
down on the Hill
The Negro casualties reported TO the police
were fewer but more serious, James Harris was
shot by patroman on San Juan Hill, while
Tracy Ringold left the park hurriedly that
after he landed in the middle of the street he
had to be rushed the Harlem Hospital, suf-
terlng from conclusion OF the brain. Both
Negroes In serious condition.
About O'Clock yesterday morning chocO-
late ColOred belle. whose name is yvc unknown,
cast sleeps eyes at some Seventh avenue beau
OF whom her escort did not approve He showed
his displeasure in the conventional way. While
he was kicking her Special PatrOnan DoOley
took a hand In the game with his billy. BY the
time that he had cracked the Negroes head the
second time he was buried by the black cloud
OF dancers that swamped him He wTiggled out
OF the bunch and ran for his life through the
kitchen and out through a windOw-he didn't
stop 10 open it-and down the street
After him went the jewellers. Schwartzkopf
got in the way Some beer glasses hit him and
he went down and out Schmidt and the other
white suffered likewise engulfed in the black
wave Everything not nailed down seized
for weapon. and then somebody began 70 shoot.
wanted him
over the fence OF the park he went in a single
bound As the Negroes swarmed over the fence
Roundsman Austin and the reserves from the
nightsticks stopped the trouble at that particu-
lar place. Tracy Ringold started 10 leave in
great hurry. He jumped into a hanson with
such speed that he landed in the street on the
other side which resulted in conclusion Of the
brain Oswald Deverney, Of No. 10T West 141st
street had he used some OF Ringods haste.
might have Jared better, for the police locked
him up for melting the trouble.