New-York tribune., 1909-06-18
CHILDREN IN PANIC
Biack Hand Scare Causes ErCite
nent IN East Side Schools.

Runlors that TIE Black Hand had threatened 70
blow Up one Of the punEc schools with dynamite
and the siren whistle of fire engine responding
to a false alarm were associated in the minds Of
the parents OF the pupils Of five East Side schools
yesterday. and caused q panic. The schools were
forced close long before the usual hour and that
none cf the several thousand children exposed 70
danger through the unreasonable excitement Of
their mothers injured due 70 hard work
The part of th- police, fremen and citizHns
For more than week the East Side has been in
state Il unrest because OF the alleged intention
OF the Black Hand. The rumors which caused all
the trouble started among the Italians and spread
10 the Jews II WAS thought yesterday mcrning
that something would surely happen before night
and many pupils were kept a. home. Public Schooi
4 a. Rivington and Pit streets. was said to be
the school thar would up first
Just before the end Of the recess. at l
O'clock. the siren whistle of Engine Company .
was heard as IL dashed through The narrow streets
in response 20 an alarm turned in from The hex
at the corner where this school i situated More
than 4 thousand children were playing in III
school ward. Filled HiTh The uneasiness f"sterei
by their parents they struggled frantcally 70 get
through the gate 90 the street. Almost before the
engine reached the school hundreds Of mothers
were there fighting get into tie yard To ma
their children
Miss Lizzie Rector. principal Of the school was
povverless 10 avert the panic. bat Norris Gold
berg who keeps store at No Il RiTington street
and Simon Nendelsohn Of No. l2o South lst street
the children out of the Jam. by one They soon
cleared a 4assa gewav and the pupils rusheG
through the gate lee water through q sluice-
The trouble had hardly been quieted when the
mothers Of pupils 81 Public School 2. at jackson
and Madison streets. began 10 heat upon me doors
They had heard tho sieu whistle and Their IN
fau7ed minds were sci Of ike torch. Lieutenan;
Drsecou OF Engine Company T. who scented
trouble all along the line when he saw what VA
going on al Public School :, sent Fire1nen Lew
ana keanc To The s~ene They held hack IN
children and the police restrained the mothers
TIE children were made TO leave the building iou'
time
The next school 70 feel the effects OF the panic
Was Public School q. al Gouverneur and Monroe
streets There Were three thousand pupils IN lnelr
seats Rhen word came that school had been
61-rar7ited Reserves from the Madison and De
lance, street police station nipped an lnclfleh'
l,anic in time for the principal Mss % oDonhe'. 10
dismiss the children Mothers II pupils OF FHhAr
School ls7 al Go,Iverneur and Henry streets ca-Se'
50 much uneasness among -he children 10y mel
srrieks and wells that the principa- Dr. ha"diu
ErtlfnCer finally dismissed 1he children
The teachers in FuaIc School -, IN East Ho"S
,on street near Avenue y. heard Of the panic l2t
R-as sweeping down on them sooner than the
mothers diG and when the latter ran shrleNlAs
toward the school they their children goliS
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