Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-11-13
POLICE CLUB
The STRIKERS
New York Having Exciting
Time With Street Cleaners.

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New York, Nov. f3.-@Riots-some Oh
them serious-mark the continuation of
the street cleaners strike. In Hells
Kitchen. on the west side, a woman
leaning over a coping let fly a brick
that struck Max T. Schmittberger,
chief inspector of the police depart
ment. This started real activities on
West Fifty-seeond street and In a quar-
ter of an hour 1000 men. with scalps
cut and shoulders bruised, were flung
before the mounted and foot reserves.
AS the inspector in his motor car
turned from Tenth avenue Into Fifty
second street, bound stward, it was
noticed by the officers who accompa
MED the, Inspector that on both sides
of the street the roofs were packed
with women, Who stretched over the
low protecting walls. poised for ac-
ton. They had little piles Of bricks
from demolished chimneys ready Mt
their elbows. Some gripped broken
dishes, bottles with Jagged necks or
battered frying pans.
One woEnan found her mark. She
launched a chunk Of brick, which
struck schmittberger a glancing blow
on the right side of the head just
above the temple. cutting q cash an
inch and a half long In the scalp.
4 mob of men and boys were run
ming toward the machine by this time
from Eleventh and Tenth avenues
with the intention Of dragging its oc-
cupants out. The street was choking
with a crowd.
Schmfttberger snatched out his re-
volver and swerved 1t from roof to
street He was b~areheaded, blood
was triekling down his right cheek,
and bis eyeglasses had been Jared
from his nose. For two minutes he
held them level with the pistol. He
bis voice above the chorus of
yells.
HIll shoot the first man or woman
who throws" roared the chief inspect
or.
The mob around the car backed
away The women on the roofs dodg-
ID behind the copings. The police car
moved with much dignity westward TO
The Fifty-second stable of the depart
nent- There the inspectors cut was
dressed. Then he returned to West
street just in time to see
troop of mounted policemen charge
the street at full gallop. The
mob divided to let them through, press.
ing back to the house wall and grab
bing up bricks and stones. Missiles
few past the heads of the mounted
men or struck their horses. Hallway
DOWN the block the riders wheeled and
,ame back, turning their horses to left
right and following the mob on
he sidewalks. Men went down in
heaps, tumbling over each other In the
effort to avoid the hoofs. The
men SWING their clubs, ham
nering every head that came near.
The street was Don cleared by the
mounted men. and a squad of fifty foot
advanced with machinelike pre-
Their clubs rose and fell and
time q club landed a man went
Town or burst yelling to the shelter of
/ house or fought his way desperately
% comparative safety. Sc~hmittberger,
who vas out OF his car, was lighting
at the head Of his army.
From Fifty-second street the squad
split and went up and down Eleventh
sweeping the street clean of
not garbage.
The police didn't bother to estimate
or take many prisoners.
Fifty of the mob were injured enough
to require treatment at home OF at
drug stores.
Three prisoners were locked up,
charged with disorderly conduct.
The first bomb thrown of the strike
occurred In Harlem's Little Italy
jones and Sergeant Hell.
mers, In charge Of a squad on guardl
stable d, sos East One Hundred
and Sixteenth street, were at the cor
ner of Pleasant avenue and One Hun
dred and Sixteenth street when some
thing bit the curb twenty feet from
them. There was an explosion, and
they heard things whistle past their
ears. Glass was broken In house win
dows near by.
Jones and Hellmers. investigating.
found a jagged piece OF gas pipe In
the gutter, 1t was, they concluded.
the remains Of a very businesslike
bomb meant either for them or for
strike breakers.