The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-03-12
James A. Patten Is Mobbed by
Brokers at Manchester
Cotton Exchange.
WAS RESCUED BY POLICE
IN CONTRAST TO THIS REcEP.
TON WAS THE ONE rendered
HIM By CORN EXCHANGE sRok-
ERS At LIVERPOOL,

London, March PA hostile demon
stration on the floor of the Cotton Ex-
change at Manchester, and one direct
ly contrasting it for friendliness on
the Corn Exchange at Liverpool. were
met with yesterday by James A. Pat
ten, Chicago wheat and cotton operat-
or.
In the first Patten was mobbed and
probably escaped injury only by being
rescued by the police: in the latter he
was greeted with cheering and other
manifestations of friendliness Pat
ten sailed from Liverpool today for
New York on board the Cunard Line
steamer Mauritania.
The brief vacation in England of the
Chicago operator had been spent most
ly about the Liverpool markets. and
yesterday he made up his mind to run
over to Manchester to see the city and
visit the Cotton Exchange.
1t was known to Patten that there
had been threats of an unpleasant re-
ception should he visit "Cottonopolis."
but he refused to believe they would
be carried into effect
Emanated From Losers.
These threats, it is said. emanated
from persons on the exchange who
had lost large sums as a result of Pat
tens operations in Chicago, and from
others who held him responsible for
Thursdays rise in the price of cotton
and who believed that his visit to Eng
land had for it's purpose the manipula-
ton of the market.
Hardly had Patten touched the floor
of the Manchester Exchange before the
outburst came.
Instantly hostile cries were raised
and the air was filled with "booings"
and hootings, mingled with an occa-
sional cheer.
Amid the din the brokers rushed to-
ward the American, who was quickly
surrounded by threatening mob and
jostled hither and thither as the pres
sure of excited. throngs behind carried
those in the center of the circle up and
down the floor of the pit in an exhaust
ing scrimmage.
Driven Into the Street.
After a while the brokers, exerting
their energies in a common direction,
made final rush and drove the wheat
king into the street.
The business of the Exchange was
suspended and hundreds of men left
the pit and followed the speculator in
to Bank street, where another big
crowd soon assembled.
At this point the visitor received a
reception even more riOtOus than that
| which greeted him within the EX-
change.
The mob hurled epithets and a hun
dred fists were shaken at Patten, who
| turned deathly pale as the threatening
crowd pressed closely and seemed on
the point of personally assaulting him.
At a critical moment a strong force
| of police arrived. and forcing it's way
through the rioters. surrounded Patten
| and hustled him into an office and out
of the back doors into a cab, in which
he was hurriedly driven to a railroad
station. He took the first train for
| Liverpool.
Unhurt, But Surprised.
While unhurt, Patten was greatly
surprised and irr0ated at the dislike
the people of Manchester had shown
for him.
Arriving in Liverpool, Patten just
had time to visit the Corn Exchange
| before it closed for the day.
| The floor was crowded with mem
bers, who evinced their sympathy with
him for the treatment that had been
shown him in Manchester by taking
off their hats and cheering him when
he referred to the incident.
| A demonstration similar to the Man
chester affair took place on the Lon
don Exchange after the recent cleo
ton, when a member of the Exchange,
who was a candidate for parliament
and had made reflections in his speech
es on the sobriety of the personnel of
the navy, was chased from the build
ing and along the street.