New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-25
Recruits Increase Enthusiasm
of Workers, Who Parade
Streets in DiSorderIy
Demonstrations.
POLICE PUT TO THE TEST
Bricks Fly and Many Arrests
Are Made-Miss Flynn, Girl
Leader, Is Hit on Hand
with Nightstick Dur.
ing the Fray.

Nioience played FAR greater part in
the walters strike yesterday than at
any time since its beginning. and even
the disorder of New Years Eve was
fan exceeded By the strikers. who
seemed drunken with fancied power
Scenes comparable in a way to the
Commune took part in the hotel and
cafe zone all day. Windows were
smashed in. policemen assaulted and
OF yells and curses.
Last night the walters made their
most desperate efforts to make a pan
demonium OF the big hotels and cafes.
They smashed in windows at Delmon-
ico's and the Ritz Carlton and at
tempted TO attack the Manhattan On
every side they were met by squads
of patrolmen. who did not hesitate to
use their niGhtsticks. Rough-and- -tum-
bic fights occurred all over the streets
as the procession Of bowling men swept
along the thoroughfares, trying to
shoulder into the gutter any one VINO
did not sympathlze with them. The
patrolmen kept on the walters heels.
however, and about a score Of the dis
gruntled men were arrested and locked
up.
About 1870 o'clock more than Two
hundred walters poured into 44th street
from Sixth avenue and started over TO
Delmorico's. AS they passed the front
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standing there. The patrolmen did rot
hesitate an instant. They hurled them
selves into the strikers ranks, and the
thud of nightsticks mingled with the
Wells of the walters One waiter stand
ing on the outside of the crow
slammed half brick through one Of
the windows on the Fifth avenue ede
of the restaurant. and the falling glass
almost covered a table at which sat
two young women and their escorts.
Attack on Manhattan Repuised.
The walters then turned abruptly and
went on down the avenue. turning east
in 42d street. They proposed 10 turn
the Hotel Manhattan topsy-turvy, but
Sergeant Hughes, of the East J1st
street station, had squad of buecoat5
waiting for them. The policemen
showed the strikers off the sidewalk;
not. however, before the taxi starters
glass cage had been overturned and
shattered on the sidewalk.
Running at full speed, the walters.
.itchenmen, cooks pantrymen and
other hotel and restaurant help scut-
tied up Madison avenue TO 43d street.
where they reformed themselves into 4
grotesque parade and started for the
Ritz Carlton. There were only four
uniformed men on duty here, and they
banged their nightsticks on the pave
ment as they saw the strikers coming,
but the yells drowned out the noise Of
the raps.
When they realized this the police
men turned their clubs on the mob
that ran full tilt into them. The police
men fought desperately to turn the
crowd back, but some of the walters
rushed by them and OH up Madison
avenue. one of them threw brickbat
through the door of the Carlton Apart
ments, adjoining the hotel, and at the
same time another fired revolver five
times into the air.
Commissioner Waldo, who lives in
the Carlton Apartments, stuck his head
out of his sixth story window when
he heard the shots. He took in the
situation at a glance. and used his
private telephone wire to ask the East
5Ist street station for reserves.
The patrol wagon made a record run.
but by the time it arrived the walters
had melted away. Before they got
away a man was arrested for throwing
the brick through the door.
Salute Hotel with Bricks.
After the demonstration at the Ritz
Carlton the mob gathered at 46th street
and Fifth avenue. Lieutenant Raynor.
who had men scattered from 47th street
to 5sth street along the avenue, blew
his whistle and raped with his stick
for help.
The walters disappeared from the
avenue and started through 46th
street toward Sixth avenue. AS they
came abreast of the Hotel Patterson,
approximately in the middle of the
block, they saluted 1t with a shower
of bricks and stones. breaking four
windows and smashing some Of ~
cornice work.
Raynor. who by this time had gath
cred force of forty-five men. charged
into the mob Of two hundred walters,
the police. under orders, using their
nightsticks freely. Some of the hardi-
er rioters tried to stand the patrolmen
OFF for a moment but We're soon routed.
The crowd started on the run toward
Broadway and disappeared.
The police were handicapped last
evening by an order issued by Com.
missioner Waldo. Although there are
twenty-five hotels in the 29th Precinct,
where the greater sart of the waiter
strike riots have occurred. six men and
sergeant were taken from this pre-
cinct last evening and transferred to
another. weakening the force.
The strike spread with much efrec.
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