The sun., 1908-10-05
REDS WILDLY WELCOME DVDS
MOB, WHEN RED SPECIAL GETS
rs, CARRIES HIM BODILY OFF,


and Its idol RoOseyeit Helongs in
the Jungle. Says the Hot Orator.
The Socialists Of New Y had a per-
tectly corking time yesterday. afternoon
and evening. Comrade Debs. hot from
the revivifed Red Special. stormed on
the stage Of che Hippodrome for their
delight hooking the President with one
hand while he lambasted Bryan with the
other. Comrade Sinclair entertained with
hi, copyrighted monologue How l
Tanned T. Roosevelts and, Comrade Hart
Of Texas grabbed percussion capped
adiectives from his word box and ex-
poded them like torpedoes against tho
great back wall OF the theatre In, :
velvet draped box Comrades James
Graham Phelps Stokes. Robert HuasSSS:... /.
Charles Edward Russell and Poet MARX
ham beamed, and smiled and smote one
hand upon the other.
1t was past 2 o'clock when the Red
Special, drawn by oapitalistio electric
locomotive. slid into the Grand Central
station, but for two hours the business
Of the terminal had been clogged by an
immense Esst Side crowd which swayed
and surged from the Hotel Belmont.
across Forty-seoond street. through the
waiting room. over rhe conoourse and
jammed itself against the stout grills.
Incoming and outgoing travellers strug-
aled for room to poss and used their
grips as battering rams Uniformed
train callers roared through megaphones,
but they wasted their breath. The po-
lice. active on the edges of the crowd.
would have had to use their cluhs to clear
a four foot lane from train shed 70 waiting
room, but they attempted nothing OF the
sort. f
At quarter past O'Clock the clatter
Of tongues, the sporadic yelling and the
shuttle and grinding of feet were lost in
q sudden roar OF high voices. The He'd
Special was In, though the train oouldn't
be seen from the ooncourse. There was
a determined rush against the iron gates
which the attendants and few policemen
held closed. A man or two lost his foot
ing and went down, cursing. Here and
there a woman squeezed roughly,
screamed, Then the gate shot open and
a tall angular man In q much wripkled
gray suit, whose head was bald. whose
face was lined with wearipess'and who
smiled continually. popped out, 1t was
Debs. A squad Of policemen ringed him
about. and cordoned around the police
we're husky volunteers, but the crowd
swept the guards away and started for
the street with Debs who swung his arms
and fought for breath
They swallowed him up, Ticking od the
police as they went, and jammed him
through the doors Of the Vanderbilt
avenue entrance. He was battered and
paved and clawed as they carried him
up Vanderbilt avenue to Forty-fourth
street. over to Madison avenue and down
ar,in 10 Forty-second. Nov and then
he was lifted from his feet. and you could
zee the bald head bobbing like a cork
above waves of black and brown derby
hats. He appealed huskily for release
but MS voice provoked tornadoes OF yells
and half hysterical cheers in half a dozen
lag reyes. ~ q
AZ Forty-secondl street and Madison
avenue the police drove phalanx into
the heart OF Debe's captors, released him
and half ran him to the Grand Union
Hotel, where, musse1. disheveiled and
quite out Of breath, he took room and
went to bed. for few hours. Within
few minutes the whooping crowd was
healing east through Forty-second street
racing for seats In the Hippodrome.
Cautious cabbies who seldom give an
inch of road space for anything save a
policeman huGged the curbs with their
open faced vehicles. and you could hear
the trolley oar motormen believing
vainly while they inohed their cars along.
The Hippodrome seats $500 people.
1t held yesterday afternoon at least
1900, since all the seats were taken. the
stage was occupied by 1900 at least and
perhaps 1000 were standing In the audi
torium and back Of the galleries. Such
as could not force their way into the
Hippodrome. maybe 1900 hustled to the
American Theatrey where Debs spoke
later The bulk Of the crowd were Jews,
the majority Of these plainly from east
Of the Bowery. although fair percentage
of the audience was made up Of Germans
and Italians. Far .he rest Il was mix
ture of races lately from the south Of
Europe. Here and there you saw black
face. Certainly. the Socialist campaign
fund must have benefited. because mo-
body got In without paying. Fifty
cents, rs cents or Is cents Il cost to hear
Candidate Debs and the other speech
making comrades. Besides they took up
a collection. Young girls attended to
that part Of the programme, and the
baskets they carried to the back Of the
stage were heavy with silver and cur
rency.
Wherever you looked the audience was
freckled with red. Squares OF red cot
ton cloth huttered from every hand.
Red flags draped the wide hall ovals Of
the galleries. Two omnibus boxes high
up on each side Of the stage were a II
yermihon. The women in>the audience.
quick to catch at decorative effect.
twisted the red handkerchiefs into liberty
caps, which they pinned on their heads.
Most Of them were black haired and dark
OF complexion, The eject was striking.
Al times, when the speakers struck home
. TO their approval, men add women lifted
themselyes from their fest and whirled
the red kerchiefs around their heads.
Prominently displayed where the
fashli ght photographers could snap them
from any position In the house were some
Of the best known parlor Socialists In
New York. James Graham Phelps Stokes
sat in the shade OF the beard OF Markham.
Robert Hunter and young Upton Sinclair
chatted with Charles Sprague smith.
Mrs. Rose Pastor Stokes and q party OF
women Clled the rest of the spaca In the
boz. John O'Hara Cosgraye looked In.
John Spargo, who presided, touched
oh the firat applause when he told them