Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-03
GRIMES OF THE REDS.
Outrages Recalled by Recent Bomb Throwing In New York.
GRAPHIC FORERUNNER IN 1889

caso-Father Henrichs' Murder and
 Attempt to Kill Chief shippy of Chi
 caso Their Latest Deeds.
 First of its kind in New York, the
 Union square anarchistic demonstra-
 tion had singularly graphic forerun-
 her in 1SS9-so graphic, in fact, that it
 is entirely possible that the reds" who
 had memory of the former affair might
 have inspired the deed recently per
 petrated
 In 1888 and 1889 New York was in-
 vaded by group of Belgian an
 archiStS. They came singly and by
 twos and by agreement made rendez-
 vous at Maspeth, N. Y. The police had
 fairly accurate line on the arrivals
 and kept them under strict surveil-
 lance.
 AS soon as the newcomers became set.
 tied they grew bold and announced
 meeting for the unemployed and dis
 satisfied, to be held in Union square,
 just such meeting as was planned
 for the other day; also they applied for
 a permit to hold the meeting, and this
 was granted on condition there should
 be no infammatory speeches. The po-
 lice were present ln large number and
 kept the lid so tightly on the oratory that the anarchists found their custom
 ary grievance.
 Immediately they started to manu-
 fo Jvyya ita hS for fha pose of wreaking their revenge against the police. Two baSketfuls of these
 bombs were brought to New York from Maspeth and stored in tene-
 ment house at Eleventh street and First avenue by two women. The same afternoon the police made a raid on the place and confiscated the bombs. Finding their plan foiled, the local reds" fled and continued quiescent for some time.
 Notwithstanding the severity with which the New York police have han dled the known anarchists that city has come to be admittedly the anarch- istic center of the world. New York is not only linked closely to every other center of anarchism, but it is from that city that nearly all the wires are pulled. Nearly every anarchist of prominence has at one time or another made his home in New York, screened from publicity by the size of the city and secure through the inadequacy of means for his suppression. The rel atively small group at Paterson, N. J., which has gained for that city an un- enyiable name as hotbed of scarlet ism, is known by those thoroughly fa- miliar with the workings of the an archists to be subservient to New York domination.
 Anarchism first came to be taken seriously in New York at the time of the Haymarket outrage in Chicago in 1886. On the night of May three bombs were thrown into a squad of police detailed to keep order at meet ing the object of which ostensibly was to discuss the strike situation in the Deering Harvester works in Chicago. The country was mortified and terror stricken by the killing and wounding of nearly a hundred men. Twenty two policemen were hardest hit, three | of them being killed outright, three more dying within a few days and the others being badly hurt.
 This event and the trial and execu- tion of the Chicago anarchists that fol- | lowed served to call attention to the | anarchists that made their headquar- l ters in New York. The police became | active and rounded up every known 1 red" Many of them were locked up, but there was little punishment, owing to the difficulty of establishing legal i charge against them. Since that time, however, the anarchists of New York | have been watched more carefully than those of any other city.
 In the summer of 1900, before Gae- tano Bresci, the Paterson anarchist, assnssinated King Himbert of Italy, there was a great deal of activity among the New York anarchists, but no overt acts were committed which could be made the basis of legal action. As in the case of the Chicago Hay market. there were a Hull and a scur- rying to cover by the anarchists after the assassination of King Humbert. Then came jubilation as publicly as the reds" dared to make 1t.
 Lucy Parsons. the widow of one of the Chicago anarchists who were hang ed. made a speech in that city lauding the act of Bresci and was locked up. In New York the International Invin- cibles, as the local anarchists styled themselves for the occasion, held a public meeting to praise the heroism of the assassin of King Humbert. In Paterson also the anarchists came out of their holes long enough to sing a song Of praise to Bresci. These public demonstrations revived police activity and inspired a deeper fear in the public. The favorite head quarters of the New York anarchists. In NacdOugal street and in Gold street, were watched and occasional raids were made when inc talk took on too crim- son hue. This policy of suppression had the effect of driving tho reds" out of public attention for nearly a year. The assassination the following year 1f President Mckinley had been pre- 5esiei for a few weeks by unusual an- OratOrical activity. Johann Most. with his FrpIheit in New York: Pedro Estsve. with his La Questione Sos-l1Ie. and other suarchistic leaders with other publications had been fan ling their followers Into action and 1; lareiy managing rS keep out of jail. When these teachings and spurs to ,sert action fItereI into the feeble