The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-26
WOMEN TNKOSHER NEAT RIOTS
NINETf-TWO IN JAZZ AND TWO IN
A HOSPlTAL-ONE MAY DIE.

Philadelphia Police Ptght win ssebse f Jews
About Butcher shSps-Toas Of Meat
spoiled with Kerosene and Actd-TwS
SHOPS wreckcd Heat Helps Police.
PHILADELPHIA. July % As a protest
against the rise In meat prices. urged by
Socialists at mass meetings held the night
before thousands Of Jewish women and a
scant sprinkling Of men to-day mobbed the
kosher butcher shops in the southern part
OF the city.
Armed with pitchers and buckets OF kero-
sene and acids they held their ground for
hours and prevented n pound OF meat
being sold in any OF the shops After nearly
a day Of fighting with the rioters the police
tonight were able to tsbulate the result
OF the days disorder.
Einety-two women are under arrest
charged vsriously with assault and battery
and melting 10 riot.
Two women are in Mount Sinai Hospital
suffering from acid burns. The police say
they tried to buy meat against the orders
Of the mob and that they we're deluged with
| carbolic acid. One Of them. Rosie Isaacson.
may die.
Two butcher shops we're wrecked. One
at 7i2 South Fourth street kept by s. Brick
etts and the other at 800 South Third.
Twenty tons OF meat was spoiled with
kerosene.
On Wednesday night the agitation over
the Increase in meat prices that had stirred
the Jewish quarter for more than, a week
came to a head when in three halls mass
meetings were held.
Speakers well known TO the police for
their infiammatory utteranoes on former
npCQainna ad0rRaaQd 0na m0RttnQ alter
another. Their ~harangues bore fruit, for
early this morning groups OF women began
to gather as though by Encouragement
in the public square at Third street and
led the police to believe at first that they
had gathered there to get fresh air, but
when a man climbed q tree and told the
crowd how the butchers had combined
TO raise the price Of meat beyond the
purses OF the poor they changed their
minds and sent In a riot call.
Meanwhile the women agreed to live on
bread and onions, but they also emphati-
cally declared the butchers meat should
rot before they would permit others to
buy il.
Then the crowd proceeded to the meat
shop at 1903 South Seventh street. A
crowd Of 200 women and about a dozen
men gathered in front Of the shop. No
one had the courage TO brave the crowd
and enter the store. which is conducted by
Joseph Berman, until Max Jasper, who has
a milk shop at 1917 South Seventh street,
appeared and declared: Il can go in there
and buy meat and nobody will bother me-
In a moment Jasper was using an axe
to keep of the women who surged about
him, threatening to tear him TO pieces.
Samuel Greenberg, a special police
man. who with twenty others had come in
response to a riot call, ran to lJasper's
assistance. He was obliged TO dra W his
revolver 10 keep back the crowd.
just then a disturbance started on the
outskirts Of the mob, Mrs. Rosie Green
berg had come to the assistance of her son,
the policeman. Several men attacked the
old woman and beat her into unconscious
ness.
Another squad OF policemen arrived OPP
%portunely on the scene and pursued the men,.
They darted into a house, and the chase
led over several roofs. Ont Of the men got
away. but the policemen caught his com
psnions.
At Seventh and Dickinson streets Alvey
and Hubey, two policemen, tried to arrest
three women. Hubey was bombarded with
eggs. and by the time he had his prisoners
landed in the patrol wagon he looked like an
omelet.
All day long the police battled with mobs
of women. Many OF the women had chill
dren at their breasts and the police pre-
ferred to be pushed back rather than sacri-
fee any lives. After hours Of fighting the
heat told on the mobs, and by 7 o'clock this
evening they had dispersed.
New trouble is anticipated tomorrow