, 1907-08-29

criminate popping of plstols and
shouting and running around, ard then
two OF three Orientals go to the hos
pital, badly bunged up. The cause?
Merely a local blooming out of a quar-.
rel that has its Dot at the bottom
OF the social structure of Syria; the
e between the two branches of
he Syrian church has been r%eopened
in due form here in New York. Nine
times out of ten one or another of the
hostile bishops or both of them man
age to get tangled up in the police
court end of the ARRAY.
Traced Many Murders.
A few days ago the sensational
Union Square murder served to direct
attention to the fight between the
Turks and the Armenians and be-
tween the Armenians themselves. The
richest Armenian in America, a mil
lonaire rug merchant, was shot to
death from behind as he came out of
the Everett House, where he had been
for his lunch. Investigating the assas-
sination the district attorneys Office
stumbled upon a door which, being
opened, showed a veritable Blue
Boards closet of horrors. Mr.. Jerome's
young men were able to trace the muir
der of the rug merchant. the butchery
OF the Armenian priest. old Father
kaspar, three months before, and half
a dozen other unexplained murders
here and in other parts of the globe
to a common cause.
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surprise, that for months and years
most of the wealthy Armenians in
America had been living in fear of
their lives because of the threats and
the acts of a mysterious Armenian So
ciety formed ostensibly for the pur
pose of aiding the moribund revolu-
ton against Turkey. but in reality
doing a large mail-order business in
murder. blackmail and intimidation
a society which has its headquarters
in Cypress and which, through its
chosen agents. strikes deadly blows at
will in New York or London or Con
stantinople or New England. The
slayer of the rug dealer came, so the
police believe. all the way across the
ocean from Greece to shoot one of his
countrymen whom he had never seen.
He got his orders and he came.
Trouble Brought from Sparta.
One night last week a desperate
fight broke out among the Greek ped
dlers who sell fruit n peanuts
around the Manhattan entrance of
Brooklyn bridge. Up and down Park
Row the fight ragged. Fifteen or TWEEN
ty Greeks, arrayed in equal strength
on either side, deserted their push
carts to use knives and fists and clubs
on n another. They overpowered the
first of the policemen who came
against them and kept right on. 1t
took the reserves from two station
houses to NOV the gladiators down
n drag them away to the station
house.
In the police court the magistrate
said he supposed they were two rival
groups of p%eddlers who had fallen out
over the distribution of the fruitful
territory about the bridge ntrance
"Oh. no." explained the interpreter,
quite as a matter of fact. "All these
men come from Sparta, and there has
been a bitter quarrel between their
families in Sparta for many years.
They happened to meet in force here
in New York"
He added that from what he could
gather there would probably be work
for an undertaken when the leaders of
the two clans came out of the work
house. And there you are. That's the
way it goes in New York, the world
metropolis.
Police Commissioner Bingham re-
Allies that the police force as it is
constituted at present is not compe-
tent to cope with the foreigners who
bring their old feuds and conspiracies
over here with them. He has asked
for a special appropriation of s25, 00G
with which to hire a s~ecret-servics
staff of Cinnamon, Italians and Ar