Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-23
SHEATH GOWN STARTS
RIOT AMONG BROKERS
IN BUSY WALL STREET
URCHIN'S SHOUT CAUSES BIG
SCRAMBLE TO SEE
Crowd Pursues 5lushing Woman, Who
Runs Wildly About, Seeking
Protection from Pry-
Ing Eyes

zNEw YORK, March 22.--Wall street
has been very dull lately. Sales have
been small; the brokers idle. Possibly
this may account in part for the pam
icky burst of rudeness with which
many of them mobbed a young woman
yesterday afternoon.
1t was Just after the close of the
market Saturday The policeman at
the Wall street corner saw a comely
woman swing lightly around the cor
ner, coming from the SUBWAY INTO
Broad street.
A picture hat served as the back
ground for a face that was very at
tractiVe Her dress was of black. IL
chung to her graceful figure. A strong
wind swept around the corner. 1t en-
tered into Il conspiracy with the i1imsy
skirt, and in a moment there was re-
yealed an outline of blue stocking. \
HoodIum Starts the Riot
"I,ook at the sheath skirt" yelled an
urchin
The cry of save himself who cam at
the battle of Waterloo barely precipi-
tated greater disorder. Young men for
got their manners and swarmed after
the hapless owner of the shapely stock
inc. Old men followed and Joined in
the mob to the grand total of 1000
men"
With rude jest and shout the crowd
which gained accessions every moment.
swept the blushing woman along:
Mounted police rode among the MOB OF
men and boys, but did not succeed III
dispensing them.
A gilded buckle peeped from its hid
ing place to see what had caused the
uproar. Small boys grabbed at 1t. The
woman seemed unconscious of the real
l,A Pin
skirt with greater vigor and fled. She
left old Gen. Washington standing un.
needed and unheeding on his pedestai
in the cold George Washington was
never discourteous to woman. she
passed the group of figures, where both
men and women disport themselves
along the frieZe of the Stock Exchange.
J. P. Morgan's office faded in her flight
like a telegraph pole marking the flight
of the Twentieth Century Limited.
The policeman at the corner put MS
stocky form in the forefront of the
fray and thus delivered himself:
Its a shame That's what 1t is.
That woman was doing nothing to at
tract attention. You fellows go to
shows every night where the young
women dance, and then come along
here and pursue an innocent woman
who gets tangled up with the wind.
Beat it!'
But the crowd Sufged on.
Faints in Brokers Office
Twice the young woman attempted to
escape. First she ran into the Ex-
change place entrance of the NILS
building and entered telephone booth.
The crowd followed, damned all the
entrances, while the mounted traMc
squad and the infantry of the ponce
tried to check the riot.
Terrified and indignant the woman
fled to a brokers' office on the ground
floor. Thence the employees made an
effort to help her escape by the wall
street entrance in a cab. But the wan
street entrance had become congested
and the hooting, yelling mob forbade
egress.
The young woman, overcome by ner
embarrassment, tainted.
yard after yard of ticker tape. tossed
from windows, after the Wall street
manner of expressing its excitement,
chung to cornices and f1uttered over the
heads of the crowd. The high build
ings became packed amphitheaters'
from which thousands of spectators
men. girls and boys, hung eagerly.
When at length the attaches or
Schaeffer & Co, in whose office the I'M
fortunate woman had found refuge,
managed to get her safely away, the
crowd still fingered. It was said she
was taken to the Hotel Aston.
The name of the woman was not DIS
covered, though one rumor had it that
she was from Springfield, Mass, and
has a brother in business In John street.