New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-12
Doyle's Men, in Sea Attack,
Take Meadow" Picked
for Plant by City.
POLICE FEARED RAID
AGAINST LAKE ISLAND
In Battle Array Await Assault on
Discarded Site, While Bung-
allow Is Landed.

Capture of strategically located ISL
snds by armed men is getting to be
such a common matter in Staten ISL
and's garbage plant fight that the event
hardly makes a ripple on the dark
waters of Arthur Kill. Nor has Sunday,
scowling skies or bleak winds any ter
rors for the Richmond warriors, as was
demonstrated yesterday, when Edward
P. Doyle and heavily armed force
took and fortified Meadow Island.
The newly captured site lies in Ar
thur Kill just east of Lake Island. the
alternative site for the city's garbage
plant, and at present held by armed
guards of the contractors and by thirty
city policemen. Doyle learned late Sat
urday night that city officials had de-
cided erecting the plant on Lake ISL
and was impractical, since the water
surrounding it freezes tight in winter,
and had opened negotiations for pur-
chasing Meadow Island.
Police Boat Takes Up Chase.
At daybreak yesterday he leaped into
his automobile and hurried to Rossville,
Staten Island. where dwells John An
drovette, owner of Meadow Island.
Doyle Immediately took an option on
the site. Then he rushed back to
Mariners Harbor, rented barge and
tugboat, piled the barge full Of lumber.
carpenters and armed guards. and by
mid-afternoon was steaming toward
Meadow Island.
AS he had done when he captured
Prall's Island from the guards of j.
Sterling Drake, he ordered the car
penters to commence at once con-
structing a bungalow. They hammered
away while the barge nosed through
the kill, and had completed the struct-
ure when the tug touched Meadow
Island.
Meantime the Harbor Squad Of the
police had received fash that Doyle
was on his way to capture Lake Island.
A police boat set out in pursuit. IL
rounded the curve above Meadow Island
lust in time for its occupants TO see
Doyle and his thirty guards lift the
bungalow from the barge and carry 1t
to Meadow Island.
Police Line Up for Attack.
Transporting the fort" and forti-
fying the island were watched eagerly
by the thirty policemen and the guards
on Lake Island. They instantly arrayed
themselves in battle line, believing that
as soon as the tide arose Doyle and his
men would attempt to move the bunga-
low over to Lake Island. They 'phoned
news of the impending attack to Pc
lice Headquarters in Manhattan, and
within an hour nearly fifty police re-
serves had been rushed to the New
Dorp station. There they stayed
throughout the afternoon and last
night.
DOYLE left the bungalow garrisoned
by twelve armed men. He then built
raft of the lumber left from the bun
galow, foated over to the Lake Island
beach, looked over the ground and
finally left the scene of battle.
81 expect TO capture Lake Island
within the next twenty-four hours" he
said at his home last night. 81 shall
act as soon as Justice Cropsey, IN
BROOKLYN, hands down decision re-
garding the injunction Mrs. Doyle has
asked for demanding that the police
men be taken from the site. whether
the decision is favorable or unfavorable
will not matter. Nothing is going to
stand in the way of getting possession
of that land, which | own, and upon
which | shall not allow garbage plant
to be erected"