The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-19
Books and Furniture Burned Police Give Rioters
 Little Resistance
SALVATION ARMY
 BARRACKS RUINED
Misinterpretation of Secre- tary Daniels Speech May Have Been Cause of Seat tie Outbreak.

Seattle, July 10-Whi1e the officers of
 the Pacific fleet reserve of the United States Navy were dancing at the army and navy ball in the State Arm ory late last night, and early today, several hundred of the sailors and marines were marching through the streets of the city, denouncing the In- drstria1 Workers of the World and the red flag, sacking and burning Social ist and the Industrial Workers head quarters and in their excitement de- molishing a Salvation army meeting room before learning that they had
 mistaken the place
 The city headquarters of the mod crate Socialists and the radical Social ists were sacked and the books and furniture carried into the street and burned. Socialist news stand on the principal street corner of the city was destroyed. and the big meeting room of the Industrial Workers of the World, in the southern part of the city, was stripped of it's belongings, which were thrown from a second story window and burned in the street. The police offered no resistance to the rioters. Some of the officers said that all the force was busy handling crowds attending the Golden Potaatch Festivi- LlSS ana no reserves were dVa1ldOkG LO cope with the rioters.
 The hat bands of the cruisers Charleston, Colorado, California were most numerous among the sailors The actual destruction of property was car ried on by uniformed nlen including a number of petty officers. The dam age is estimated at $6,e0o.
 A report was widely circulated today that Secretary of the Navy Daniels, in speech at the Rainier club, had taken the Industrial Workers of the World as his subject and had decIar- ed that they and other believers in the red flag should be driven out of the country. Those who heard the address of the secretary say that it was ex- ceedingly moderate and had no refer ence to any local trouble, nor did he at any time mention the Industrial Workers.
 A street fight, Thursday night, at an Industrial Workers meeting in which three soldiers were beaten, had been represented to the naval men as a di- rect attack upon the service. All day some sort of trouble had been ex- pected
 The riottng began before dark. At first only g, dozen sailors were engag- ed but later the number increased to probably 800. The crowd continued marching through the streets until af- ter midnight, wavtng American flags and yelling defiance at the Industrial Workers of the World.
 Secretary Daniels was at the ar my and navy ball when told of the i extent Nof the damage done by the rioters.
 He said it would not be fair to ask 1 him to discuss the outbreak because he knew nothing about it. Concern l ing his speech at the Rainier Club in which he gIorified the stars and stripes and condemned the red flag. he said:
 Soid Ef nj oononT-7iTEy patriotism had no reference to any local situation. In fact, do not know anything about local troubles, if you have any. I did not mention the i Industrial Workers of the World, nor did I know that organization had ob- tained a footho1d here. I confess l that my brief talk on the flag was not made here for the first time, but was a repetition from my recent ad- dress at Erie, Pa"
 Rear Admiral Reynolds, command l CT of the reserve fleet, expressed re- heard only indefinite rumors He was therefore not in a position to discuss | the rioting, he said.
 The admiral continued:
 While I was at dinner with Secre- tary Daniels on the West Virginia I word came from Chief of Police Ban | nick, warning me that he feared there | might be trouble between the sailors and Industrial Workers owing to i'll feeling existing between them. at once sent a patrol of thirty men ash ore, armed with night sticks They | were instructed to round up such dis | orderly men as might be found and send them to their ships
 Willard Price, a Socialist leader whose news stand was wrecked early in the night, said the loss to the So- cia1ists would be about $2,000.
 The sacking of the Salvation Ar my's quarters by the mob was due chiefly to the finding of numerous chairs in the place. These, the sail DTS believed, indicated that it was a rendezvous of Industrial Workers. By the light of matches the sailors began to break the chairs and benches. One burly b1uejacket hurled an organ off a platform and then, seizing heavy chair, proceeded to demo1ish the or gan. Suddenly one of the men, tear ing dowi a. motto God Is Love-" from the wall started back and said Boys, we're all wrong.
 A sign that had been stamped under foot, read God So Loveth the World that He Gave His Only Begotton Son. some of the sailors shouted to their comrades to stop the smashing and word was passed that the place was Salvation Army meeting room. Some of the sailors refused to stop their demolition of the furniture sayingt
 SUhat'z the difference?"