The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-08-14
NAB SCORES OF CAR ROWDlES
CONEI ISLAND ALONE YIELDS
OVER SIXTY ARRESTS.
Bronx Woman seriously Injured by Being
Pushed From Car by Drunken Youths
Baseball Players Pull Women's Noses
and Scatter Snun In subway Train.

Bronx woman seriously In jufed by BeinG
Pushed From Car by Drunken Youths
Baseball Players Pull Women's Noses
and Scatter Snun In subway Train.
Yesterday was another blue Sunday
for car rowdies. those who made Coney
Island the scene Of their activities alone
adding scores Of names to the police blot
ters. One young woman was seriously
injured by being pushed from moving
car in The Bronx and number Of women
riding In the subway had their noses
pulled by rowdies.
Two rowdies pushed Miss Clara Gold
berg. a young saleswoman. who lives at
5i4 East i%sth street. from a street car
early yesterday morning and she is In a
serious condition as the result OF her in
juries. With her brother. Simon Gold
berg. and her sister and brother-in-law.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lazarus. Miss Gold
berg was returning from Clason's Point
to her home In The Bronx. They sat in
the first seat Of an open car and opposite
them on the fixed seat were two young
men with three women. The men evil
IDENTIFY had been drinking and acted
boisterously. Finally they began to use
profane language and Miss Goldberg re-
buked them.
AZ the corner OF Westchester and Brook
avenues Miss Goldberg and her relatives
got on the car. As she was stepping
down to the running board Miss Goldberg
said to the young men;
"You might at least have some respect
for women"
One Of the rowdies gave her q shove
which threw her from the moving car
She lost her balance upon landing in the
road and fell heavily against a pillar OF
the subway structure. Simon Goldberg
and the brother -in-law already had hopped
of the car and they ran to the assistance
of Miss Goldberg. She was unconscious
and was bleeding from a wound on the
head. After he had picked her up her
brother turned to the car to get the rowdies.
but they had slipped out under the rail
at the other side. leaving their women
companions in the car. Simon Goldberg
got from the women the names of the
two men and the police are looking for
them.
Miss Goldberg was taken tn Lebanon
Hospital. where DIR. Goldstein sewed up q
long wound behind her ear. She was
suffering from shock also and had to re-
main in the hospital for several hours
before she could be removed TO her home.
Yesterday afternoon she became worse
and DR.. Goldstein was summoned. He
said that her condition was serious.
Ten husky policemen in plain clothes
were sent to Coney Island to put damper
on rowdyism there. and from tho first ten
minutes up to midnight they were kept
busy. More than sixty arrests were
made. The policemen stationed them
selves at the railroad terminals and
gathered in car window jumpers and
fellows who made themselves obnoxious
in other ways. OF these arrests ten
were made for annoying girls. Most
of the prisoners gave Italian names.
The Scattergoods played the Normans
yesterday at baseball in Van Cortlandt
Park and the Scsttergoods won. While
they were returning TO the lower East
Side via the subway the winners cele-
bra ted their victory by tweaking women s
noses. scattering Chinese snuf and gen.
eral rough house. Everybody sneezed.
Messrs. Conway. Shields and Falk
members Of Lieut.. Becker's strong arm
squad. sat two cars ahead of the fifth
car. where the riot was in progress. They
ran back and between sneezes corralled
five of the celebrants. These were
hustled on the train at lslst street and
taken to the West l52d street police sta
ton. They gave their names as Joseph
Slopolsky of lA Monroe street. Arthur
Schulberg of 1876 Madison street. Reuben
and Hyman Goldman of l9l Madison
street and Harry Lipschtz of l4i Monroe
street Their friends followed them
to the station house and bought up much
food and cigarettes at neighboring lunch
counters. which they asked Lieut.. Tighe
To send in to the cells occupied by the
captives.
They were taken to night court and
Magistrate Freschi sent each to the work
house for five days. About that time
three other prisoners were brought into
night court and the detectives testified
that they had been annoying passengers
by trying to sit in girls laps and throw
ing baseball mitts They. too were sent
to the workhouse for five days.
A third roundup brought in two boys
trate Freschi said he couldn't call that
rowdysm and fined them $40 each. which
they were unable to pay. The prisoners
arraigned in night court for creating a
disturbance were all neatly dressed and
said they had jobs.
Il am sorry to send you away" said the
Magistrate. but it appears that the cars
were crowded and your conduct most
Objectionable. The Magistrate must be
firm in such cases, however. and do what
he can to help the police stamp out ruffian-
ism"