Valdez daily prospector., 1914-05-28
MANY ANARCHISTS IN NEW YORK CITY
Police Unable to Control Them-Many
 of ]. w. w. Followers.
United Press Service.)

NEW YORK, May 28.-"NeVer ln their worst days were the blackest l centers of Russia and other European | countries where anarchy is fostered, l any worse than certain sections of ! New York in regard to breeding spots 1 for agitation against established gov ernment" That statement made few days ago by one of the most prominent of New York's police officials, and a man who has studied anarchy and anarchists for 30 years along with his study of crime, aptly tells the situ- ation in this metropolitan center of the home of the free" There isn't | shadow of doubt that anarchists | and radical agitators generally have freer rein in New York today than l they have ever had before. And, strange to say, the man who is in sisting on giving the public forum speakers" and agitators the loosest sort of free SD ech" rein is no oth- CT official than Mayor Mitchell, who recently narrowly escaped assasAna- tion at the hands of a poor maniacal old crank, whose mind no doubt had been violently twisted through hear ing day after day everything from God to government denounced by an archists in the public squares.
 Of course, some of these public forum speakers represent honest
 God-fearing reasonable organizations, such as union labor, etc, which are
 protesting reasonably against certain
 conditions that even the most con- servative, tory-minded individuals
 admits are all wrong But the ma
 jority of these speakers are preach
 ing anarchy as black and destructive
 as can be heard anywhere.
 At Union Square, at the foot of
 Benjamin Franklin's statue in Park
 Row, in Rutgers Square, and other
 public rostrums these speakers ex- hort crowds. It is not infrequent that
 a Socialist speaker and an anarchist
 or an I. w. w. exhorter begin to
 talk at the same time and within few feet of each other. When this
 happens, the speakers make it fun
 for the crowds by heaping abuse on
 each others heads.
 The occupation of Vera Cruz and the Trinidad, Colo, coal strike in
 which militiamen and strikers shot
 each other down, furnished basis for
 much talk by these speakers. The two events first brought to gener- } al notice Sweet Marie" Gang, Reba ) Edelson, Gussie Miller, and other girls who follow Emma Goldman, Alexan- der Berkman, Wild Joe" O'Carroll } who led the church riots, and the teachers at the Ferrer School of An
 archy.
 Sweet Marie" Gang, by the way
 was so named in irony, by the police because of her foul tongue when har-
 ranguing mobs. Besides threatening to kill John D. Rockefeller, Jr., or sight the Gang girl, cursed and blas-
 phemed, hurled vile epithets at men or women in the crowd who annoyed her by jeering or asking questions and made herself generally the very
 opposite of the name the-police gave her.
 Marie is a pink and white com pfexioned girl of g. Her figure is of
 the voluptuous type and her eyes and
 mouth are extremely !sensuous. If she did not follow too closely the
 habits of Emma Goldman in dress ing she would make rather an attract
 i've girl Women critics might say
 that Marie's figure is sloppy or fin
 clining to fat.
 f The Edelson girl who. they say, is
 extremely jealous of Marie because of
 the latter's ability to pull the limit hand get away with it," until she was
 finally jailed for 60 days for threats,
 was thrown into a Tombs cell after causing riot by her exhortations.
 Reba. or Becky, as she prefers to be called, is very nice looking. She is slight and exceedingly we'll proportioned and is very tidy in her l'dress. Maybe that's one reason Ma rie doesn't get along so we'll with Re
 ba. All these women call themselves Red Virgins" and "Red. Angels" The police say it ought to be "Bleck An gels"