The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-14
ENGLAND'SFOES
THROWN OUT OF
CARNEGIE HALL
American Rights Commit
tees Pro.Ally Mectinga
Series of Fights.
GERMANS AND IRISH
KEEP POLICE BUSY


II was not always easy to catch the
drift ~ the speeches made at the Ameri-
can Rights Committees mass meeting II
Carnegie Hall last night because the
police were 40 necessarily busy throw
ing indignant Germans and 1rishmen ou'
OF the hail.
Twenty-four persons were plucked
thus summarily from various sections 7f
the audience---iifted from their seats by
III, coat collar and propelled more or
less forcibly toward the exits. Now and
then when the rage ovcrcame discretion
the thud-thud of fists landing upon am
pie faces punctuated the chorus Of COM
bat. the angry shouts OF the dispossessed
and the shrill plants Of frightened
women.
Trouble had been anticipated because
OF a general notion that intensely pro-
German or anti-British persons would
never sit silent while the leaders Of their
I American rights committee were devel-
o,ing their downright theory THAI the
7 United states is in duty bound to sever
relations with Germany and go to war
on the sid. Of the Entente Allies. There
I had been hint even that bomb was
( to he exploded within Carnegie I.all.
| Inspector Daily Prepared.
\ certain amount Of preparedness WAS
4 taken therefore by Inspector John DAILY.
Fify policemen In uniform were sta
toned In and around Carnegie Hall and
twenty men in plain clothes were dis
t-ibuted among the audience. They were
+ IN action almost from the minute the
meeting began. Cooper Union. that
forum of unres,rained speech AMI speaker
. batting. never saw "A wilder ns citing than
was held last night IN Carnegie Hall.
HON. of classic music and high brow
oratory.
The police and others observed at the
/ outset that the top galleries were being
mined for explosions. While the floor
OF the auditorium and the horseshoe of
boxes were filling with men and women
in evening dress the galleries wers pack
ing with large. amply girthed persons
who wore their hair ponpadour or whose
mustache ends pointed straight north or
whose g,itturais or brogue LETT no doubt
whatever as TO where their sympathies
lay, The atmosphere Of the whole place
was tense. Nerves tightened like fiddle
strings in the brief wait for the chair
man of the meeting. George Haven Put
nam. To appear. sudden noises made
nervous persons jump and glance about
apprehensivelv.
Even b-for" Mr. Putnam came upon the
stag" ther. was "A runpus back among the
crowd gathered upon that elevation. First
there Wa "A stir. then "A gust Of words
- =. ,h To tntl ttsteh Is,,ey
land :" and the next instant four bis
s;,rcial officers were running two young
';.Iinans ou. of the back door and into
Ftfty sixth street, Things uueted mo-
IN. utarily Nj Putnam began his ad
di".s undis,urbed At FIRST. He talket
atout N. general frightfu'ness of Ger
n.any',. method of war making. abou
Relgum, Serbia. the LuSitania, Z.ppe
lins submarines and the mining Of oper
:, as Then he said with "A youthful rins
IN his voice:
~ were younger man would b.
or the s,aa Of the British army to
da.." D."
"Rritish" Fires the spark.
. TIL. word British WAS the detonator
. TIL stormy cheering that followed Mr.
Pu,nam's declaration was su"reeied b!
an ugly chorus Of groans, Kisses, boots
: The galleries were In uproar. Voice
c!ashcd as their owners shrleked insult
, upon England and England's allies. ON
cIuld see thc police moblizing. commit
! down IN the a!ses. sprinting UP stair
WAYS. spreading themselves through tn
turbulent SECTIONS of the house. For
moment or two the uniforms daunte'
tn. dis;urbsrs. but only for momen
or two Mr. PutnV'n began again,
'"rhe British Empire IL the most he
n.ncent empire the world ever saw
India. Egypt. all ~ the colonies. az
loyal because they hav" enjoyed peac
with justice at the hands OF Grca
Britain :"
And again the lid blew of "Io,
!, about Ireland" "Iiow about the Ro"rs >
= when did we ever get Justice from III
Dritish:" shut upw Put him out,
"Nherc are the police" For the lor
:, OF Mike. get a cop somebody" Don
. shove that lady you fool 'rlI smts
+, your face for YOU, that's what III 40
= II went on that way for three or fou
4 niaut.s--sheer pandemonium On
= could See Mr.. Putnams lips moving, bu
, un ear could catch what he was saFin1
. Presently, Ia a lull. he appealed TO
: ,osslhlc sense OF fairness In the minds q
IN, Yelling british haters and Gorina
admirers
, This Is our meeting" he pr"tcste,
j. "You gentlemen can have a meeting q
your own. later, II YOU desire.
y such appeals We're wasted on IN" "a
I.ry shouters. II was as certain ~ any
thing could be that they had gone
: carnegie Hall 10 roar down any sort {
I pro- Ally u,terances that they had gon
o looking for trouble. They were not Ion
o tinding It. Mr., Haven finished at sol
:. Of vocal gallop. getting in sent"n'
i here and IA word there. and then III
Il police grabbed for particular individua
G they had singled out.
h Instantly the threatened ones wave
the little American flags with which the
n had provided themselves. waved thel
o confidently. AS much M 10 say
J. II am under the stars and stripe
l. Touch me II you dare"
Thc flag No Protection.
Well that was one time when Il
stars ana stripes weren't much prote'
- tion. As the trouble makers WEI
snatched from their seats their hit
American flags were taken away fro
t. them The policemen either put III
Ie flags In their own packets or hands
n ,nrm to peaceful citizens thereabOut an
,e then went calmly on with their tub
a bouncing disturbers. Six We're flung o,
Ie In "A batch. all from tine top CALLER
while everybody on the auditorium foI
9 and in the boxes stood UP and chcered.
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