New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-11
BOUCK WHITE FIGHTS
I'm OIL KINGS CHURCH
Radical Minister Causes a
Riot in Edifce Where
Rockefeller Worships.
THE REV. DR.. GRANT
ALSO NEAR ARREST
One Man Is Beaten in the Street
Scuffle-Ten Locked Up-Re-
new BraWl in Court.

Bouck White, an ordained minister,
who recently organized the Church OF
the Social Revolution, was thrown out
OF Calvary Baptist Church. In west
57th ST., yesterday morning when he
ATTEMPTED to interrupt the services.
Emanuel Lopez. a Portuguese fol-
lower Of White. was beaten by de-
tectives in front of the church, and the
exciting experience was one that many
of the fashionable congregation. in
which the Rockefellers worship. VIII
long remember.
When the trouble was over the police
had locked up ten members OF the So
cialist church in the West 4Ith st. po-
lice station, charged with disorderly
conduct. Lopez, after being treated at
the station by DR.. Boyce, OF Poly
clinic Hospital, was put in a cell on a
separate charge Of using boisterous
language and failing to move on when
ordered to.
At the night court all the prisoners
except F-ubbel were represented by two
women lawyers, Bertha Rumbaugh and
Mary r. Powle, who said bail for Their
clients would be impossible, and asked
for trial at once or a remand en- parole.
All were paroled in custody of their
counsel until Tuesday morning, when
they are to appear at the West Side
Court.
The court was thronged, and the
crowd cheered when the prisoners were
released. Men waved and threw their
hats 10 the ceiling. Women surrounded
Dr White and wrung him by the hand.
Ono man threw his arms around the
preacher's neck and kissed him on the
cheek.
After the prisoners had been paroled
and were getting back their properly
the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant, OF tho
Church Of the Ascension, Fifth av' anu
11th St. was threatened with arrest On
a charge Of disorderly conduct because
he insisted on talking on behalf Of the
prisoners.
Sergeant Degan, in fact. was on his
wav with the rector to the complaint
desk when he changed his mind turned
him over to another policeman and mad
him escorted to the door.
White entered the church before the
services began. When the Rev. Cor
nelius Woelfkin was about to make the
regular Sunday announcements White
rose from a seat in the back OF the
church and started toward the altar
eav,ng. "Well, doctor, l am here
to"- He was stopped by George n.
Sage. an usher. who asked him to sit
down.
He found place in the third pew
but instead of remaining quiet inter-
rupted the pastor by getting up and
ahortirq 81 am here, doctor, as a
o,orovman from a neighboring church,
and / want to-
reflective Lleutenants Gilday and
Gleason came to the assistance OF the
,,sbers who hurried down the aisle.
White struggled with the detectives
chanting that he was there to preacn
the truth. When an attempt was made
to force him from the church he tried
~ brace himself against the pews and
the pillars supporting the balcony.
little ceremony was used in getting
him out. Halfway down the aisle he
law on the floor, kicking at those about
him.
Meanwhile followers Of White jumped
IN their feet from pews in all parts OF
the church, shouting protests and de-
manding TO be heard. Some ran TO the
aisle through which White was being
dragged and tried 10 release him
White. who is about feet inches
Continued on page ). column