New-York tribune., 1911-04-09
ANARCHISTS AND THEIR
MA|DENS IN GAY DANCE
Great Pouring of the Sect from
BoWery and Nearby Lanes
Into East 4th Street.
,NlGHT OF PRISONERS BALL
sAnd Most Envied of All in the
Great Throng Were Those
Who Had Served Time
in Siberia.

Anarchism bpoke loose on the fas'
iSide last night By twos' oy iouis, ~
the hundreds. ITS devotees poured 'n'o
Fast 4th street from the BowerF anu
from the neishboring lanes.
Tbare were anarchists with long hair'
.arsrchists with black ties, and even an
tsrchists in gray prison suits ana chalns'
And there were anarchists also with hair
ribbons and in clean. new, "hlte sprihs
dresses for it was the night OF 'ne an
archists' ball.
The ball was the second annual prls-
soners' ball Of the Anarchist Red cross.
Though nigh on 10 Thousand men anu
maidens whirled round on the floor OF
the Manhattan Lyceum to the pnislns
music Of Professor Sculer's Double Union
Brass Rand. they did not all belong 10
the Red Cross.
According tosthe latest official reckon
ing only A few over sixty are regularly
enrolled in that ambitious organizat'oh'
And they were not all prisoners. el'ner'
\ In fact none of them was. unless the
pasrolrnan at the door was derenct III
his duty. Some Of them, however were
ov.nrisoncrs. Andt,hey were the envy OF
,bs gathering. for had they not served
tim. in Siberia?
Tn, Anarchist Red sCross. be II known
j. ar institution foalnded in 1913 LOT
the n,o-pose of raising funds 10 ship un-
.,ortuna,,e exiles from Siberia TO coun-
tries f,A.her afeld There are branches
Of il in Boston and Chicago. and 1t Is
Ehussly preparing TO invade san fran-
,;sc,a and .uher lsrge,cities of the Union
last wear the ball in this city netteo
$500 for the cause. The total amount
dispa,Ched 10 the suffering comrades
,anruisNing in Russian jails was said
% have been I'm the neighborhood OF
l$1,7oo-
q This may not serm like very large
spm to those accustomed to send So.ooo
al a tihnc 10 famine sufferers in China.
Rnt when il is remembered that there
are two rubles 10 every dollar and a
ilhundred kopecksi to, the ruble, II will be
nseen that the amount is not so insig-
rifcant after all. For they say that in
.benighted Siberia one kopeck will pur-
chase as many ice cream sodas as a
whole dollar VILE in this part of the
globe.
The ex-prieoners were In the limelight
last night One of shem held down the
stand where they held you up 10 make
tyou buy postcards in the interest of
those lost souls across the seas. she
was Anna Goldman, sentenced in 1905
TO five years in Siberian exile, three
of which she actually served.
She told last night through an inter
pretcr of the time when officer. two
soldiers and FIVE policemen arrived al
her humble dwelling in the dead Of a
winters night apd searched the house
discovering seditious literature con-
cealed IN various places. What was the
use Of making offence? Certainly she
had those books against the cruel gov
n ernment. Did not its treatment OF her
prove its cruelty?
After waiting months in prison for a
trial SlIc was at last placed on train
and talVn 40 far as;Irkutsk. From that
voiut she WAS compelled 10 walk-yes.
walk-a,voss the frozen plains for about
five weeks before she arrived at the vii
lasc 10 which she was sent. II was the
village Of Turinsk. where she spent
those three, drearv years. and while she
was there she received six rubles a
month from the gracious government.
Money SEM from America freed her.
.;hc was a.uiving argument for the So
,icty VshiCh she served
Two other prisoners were men who
had gone to bed one night with death
hanging over thegp for the morning
But it was fased that they should not
taste Of II. for their friends had not for
sakou them. Date in the evening be-
fore the fatal day the keeper OF the
prison received message over the
phone in a VOICE which sounded To hin,
familiar and official. The message said
that soldiers w0uld call for the con-
demned prisoners earlier than was usua
on the morrow. '1he soldiers called and
The prisoners were turned over to them
hut not TO be shot, as traitors. ON the
other hand. they were set at liberty by
these merry soldiers and told to seeh
the land of the FREQ, across the ocean.
Rut. of course all i.he anarchists there
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