The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-09
LUNA PARKS BURST Or SONG
$4,000 PRESENT TO SHOUT HOCH
TO GERMAN SINGERS.

LAght Fingered Gentry Went Along and Fred
Thompson, Police Magistrate Pro TEN,
Administered Crude Justice IN the Alex.
Williams styIe-Ail Went Home Happy.
High Justice, the Middle and the Low,
we're not maintained by the police at Luna
Park last night. More than $4,000 people
swarmed into the Red Heart city at the in
y1tation of Fred Thompson to hear the
Wiener Mannergesang Verein shake the
towers with full throated German aong. The
Coney Island police force was caught In
prepared The Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company, which hadn't arranged its sum-
mer schedule, hadn't enough trains by q
tenth to accommodate the horde. The
result was slam bang, 60 as you please con-
fusion and side bruising discomfort.
The young man who melted the frost
OIL the Buffalo Exposition once upon a time
didn't intend to open Luna until next
saturday, but TO oblige his German friends
he pushed the gate open last night, set the
bartender tapping half barrels, made the
wienerwurst purveyors stir themselves
and pushed buttons enough TO throw on n
few less than a million red, white, green
and orange incandescents. That was only
the easy part.
When the big crowd jammed itself into
Mr.. T~hompson's fun village the enterprise
ing crooks and grafters OF Coney, who hadn't
expected to get such an easy thing, looked
around, saw there was only about one
policeman on hand for about 5000 jolly
Germans, gave the view halloa and got
busy.
Boss Thompson, review wing the crowd
from he ,Ac.- -, M &a -.- ---
to get complaints from good natured but
very veXed German guests that their pock-
cts been picked. There musthave been
a Score Of such complaints within half an
hour. One man had been touched for a
pocketbook containing $40, another lost
$40 in loose bills. One very a%ggreved
singer mourned a gold watch.
h active young boss Of Luna spent
Just about ten seconds figuring what was
best to do. Then he got Fred Mcclellan.
the show manager at Luna, who used TO
be the strong man of Buffalo and q handy
volunteer whenever the police force Of
Buffalo weren't able to handle real bad
huskies with O'Briens aboard. He made
Mcclellan his chief OF police on the spot.
Mac said Thompson, get Dog cared
McCluskey, Tyler, Billy Valley, Mike Tyrone
I'll tllC DullC VI tuI IcRuldT I16u you CAN
corral. Tell 'em that the dips are trying to
put the park to the bad tonight, and see
that the boys get their men and bring them |
to me. They know by sight most OF these
Grab 'em wherever they BEE EN-
and bring them to me here at the office.
"Whatn you do when you get emf"
asked Mcclellan.
watch me- said the Boss.
Less than an hour later there were re-
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park office with his lean fingers twisted
in the coat oollars Of two Of Coney Islands
lined them up before Thompson.
Caught EN- with the goods, boss said
'All right" said Fred. Il sit-stand.
| Judge in these parts. Maybe
Z isn't constitutional or strictly legal, but
don't think there'l be any comeback
Ready. Mac? Grab that man. Hold him
yo!"
Mcclellan got a grip on the first luckless
crook, held his arms straight down and
backed him up to Thompson. j. Fred
eaned back easily, got a good balance
md planted two hard kicks where they
would make the best impression. The
nan howled.
Now said Fred, get out Of here. II
you ever show your ugly mug in this place
gain TO the cops. you &c, and you know
what that means.'
Inc second man got three firmly planted \
and was turned loose. BY that time
Vahey a turned up with another one
Ind Constable Tyrone was waiting for the
Judge to pronounce sentence on a fourth
From 10 O'Clock, at which time
Justice Thompson had kicked about nine
,rooks, until long after midnight there
we're no more complaints.
/ don't know but that this plan ought
o be put in operation throughout the sea
'on," said Boss Thompson, laying aside
lis ermine.
There we're 30 many people in the park |
asst night and the roar of sound was so
yTeat that nobody really knew whether !
he singing UNITS came of as advertised.
Over near the great white pavilion, in
intervals when the mass of people were
till for the fraction OF a second, there were
loises like song.
The singing society OF the Austrian Can't
along with Herman Ridder, Herbert
jillis OF the German Liederkranz and dozens
II other New York German-America ms
Who are acting as entertainers, were merely
wallowed up in the big crowd that fell on
una u~nprepared. Everybody had a great
ime. so delegations OF flushed Austrians and
iermans' reported every now and then to
Thompson, and nobody minded the
MASKING n jamming.
The worst OF the crowding and discomfort
anne at going home time, which was any
between midnight and any old hour
n the morning. The Brooklyn Rapid Tran
it trains that bumped and jerked Manhat-
carried chunk Of solid German