The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-28

Of Health was attacked while passing
| School 80, at Ninth street and Avenue c,
and sought safety by running down Avenue
G to a drug store at Eighth street. Patrol
man Burke Of the Union Market station
house forced his way into the drug store
and found Max Scott. IS years old, OF e4s
East Thirteenth street, pointing q loaded
revolver at the doctor, who held his hands
aloft In real Western fashion. Burke
pulled his own gun, disarmed Scott, and
after telephoning for the reserves got the
physician TO O car in safety.
Detective Landers Of the Eldridge street
station charged a crowd In front OF School
20 at Eldridge and Rlvington streets
| and found David Stern, "a years old, OF LOG
| Orchard street, mounted on the fence and
| shouting in Yiddish.
Fools, to send your children to Ameri-
can schools!" Stern was saying when Lam
ders, who speaks Yiddish, arrived. They
butcher your babies right and left. l can
| give you the names Of many children that
have been killed and buried in the school
cellars. I can give you the addresses Of
Shut up" called Landers, land come
down out Of there
This Is a free country shouted the
young orator, and 1t is myright under the
Constitution to-
Constitution helll" said Landers, and
he pulled the man OF high ideas from the
fence and tried to drag him away. In
stantly the crowd OF wonen set upon the
detective. His clothes were being torn and
fists were raining on his face when two
patrolmen ran up and tried to help him out.
| Still ~undaunted, the crowd tried to keep
| the police from dragging Stern AWAY. More
rioters came running down Rivington
street and were joining In the fracas, when
Landers yelled In Yiddish; This is a thief
! out Of the way!" and the crowd fell back
Immediately.
Miss Julia Richman. district superin-
tepdent Of schools, and Mrs. Annie Boyne f.,
principal Of School % at l54 Broome street,
rot hard words from the crowd when
| trying to quiet it. and Mrs, Boyne received
more Of the pushoart fruit In addition.
Miss Richman was going through Norfolk
street where a crowd Of loungers from
Seward Park had butted in merely for the
10y Of the thing. Here she was jostled
and one man ran up to Miss Richmsn with
| the information that he was a physician.
Would Miss Richman take him Immediately
to his little daughter before the child was
killed. He was told that he should be
ashamed OF himself.
We'll, you'd care he said, III they were
| Christian children, but because they're
Jews
I'm a Jewess myself Interrupted Miss
Richman, -and / am sorry l have to talk
this way to q man that speaks English az
we'll as you do. You can zee your child
when school Ia dismissed
please 60 away quietly said MH.
BOVINE at the school at Stanton and Sheriff
streets. your children are all right. l
am a mother myself and will look out for
your babies
you don't look it." yelled the crowd.
and began to throw stones and vegetables
at the principal. Mrs. Boyne then sent
out five Of her teachers who spoke Yiddish
to persuads/th thu mothers to go away, and
they succeeded.
Noon had almost come before the East
| Side had gone back to normal, but for many
hours there was a FESTIVE spirit abroad.
like a herd of colts just getting over a
| fright. Mounted policemen slowly patrolled
| the streets with watchful eyes, pushoarts
we're righted and remnants OF stock gathered
| together. And nowhere could be found a
| child that would admit his mother had
taken part in the uproar.
INV mamma wouldn't nave such a foolish.
ness, they answered.
Practically all the twenty-five or thirty
schools in the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth
and Sixth school districts were closed for
| the rest OF the day. Graduation exercises
were conducted, however. in school No. rs,
and here Miss Richman told to the audi
| enoe of her sorrow because Of their foolish
scare of the morning.
The idea of believing" said Miss Rich
man, that children were being killed and
buried In cellars whereupon the audience
laughed at the absurdity Of the idea.
why didn't you laugh this morning.
said the speaker. These rooms should
be emptied Of your children for a Few months
and your silly mothers sent here for q term
or two instead"
Miss Richman said yesterday afternoon
that the day had been another proof OF the
need for more mounted policemen on the
East Side. One mounted man, she said
was worth ten patrolmen, because Of the
fear the horses seemed to give the Gro wds
The schools will resume work this morning,
Miss Richman said, although she expects
them to be almost ~depopulated for a day
or two.
Rosey the Lawyer was Of the opinion that
all the fuss was due TO the announcement
by the school children at their homes that
the graduation exercises we're about to take
place. Rosey said the mothers mistook
graduation for vaccination or assassina-
tinn