New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-12-30
Intense ColdHere;
Shortage of Coal
Causes TWo Riots
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State Street, Brooklyn, who collapsed
in front of the East Thirty-hfth Street
police station yesterday afternoon.
She was taken into the station, but
when a physician arrived she was dead.
The doctor said she was the victim Of
a heart attack superinduced by the
cold.
Harry Miller baker living at lO2-A
Hull Avenue, Brooklyn, was overcome
while awaiting a streetcar at Jamaica
and Alabama avenues. At the queens
County Hospital IL was found that his
hands had been frozen.
Sam Chaderow, a teamster, of 1870
South Eighth Street, Brooklyn, also was
sent 10 a hospital with frozen hands.
Mrs. Mary Clemens, Of 1920 Third
Avenue, Manhattan, collapsed at blev-
enth Avenue and Fifty-siXth Street
and was revived in a nearby drugstore.
Michael Klein, of 319 First Street,
Brooklyn, was repairing the root OF a
four story building in Rosebank, Staten
Island. when the cold numbed him. lie
fell and both arms were broken.
A nurse from the Henry Street Set
tl0nent, on her rounds yesterday after
noon, found man and boy sitting on
their doorstep shivering with cold.
They said they were following the jew
ish custom of mourning. The boy add
ed that his mother had died from the
cold. The nurse went inside the house,
in Madison Street. and found that there
was not lump of Goa! or stick Of wood
in the place.
Nurses and neiGhborhood visitors
from other social settlements reported
many fuelless homes in the poorer
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The Health Department, however
recorded decrease in the number Of
pneumonia deaths. For the twenty
four hours ended at noon yesterday
pneumonia fatalities in the five bor-
oughs totalled thirty-thrce, although
the aggregate for the week equalled
the average Of 3l4 maintained during
the last month.
David Propp, wood and coal deal
er at 800 East Roth Street. had fifty
tons of coal Friday. He invited the
neighborhoOd 70 come and get II at
% cents basket. Thirty tons were
sold bv dark. When he reopened his
yard yesterday afternoon for the sale
of the remaining twenty tons crowd
of several thousand throngcd about
the Mace In A little while the coal
had been exhausted. and more than
200 customers remained TO be served.
When he tried TO close the yard these
resisted. They rushed him. Propp hed
into his Office and called the police.
Sergeant Leahy and five men from the
East 10th Street station with clubs
dispersed the mob after fragments OF
ice and other missiles coming from
every direction had broken practically
every window within throwing distance.
While this demonstration was in
progress party of ten women ap-
peared before Magistrate Corrgan, IN
the Harlem police court, to report that
in the building at 81 East 1l7th Street
there had been no heat for nearly a
month, and no water since the pipes
had burst during the cold weather,
two weeks ago. Magistrate Corrigan
sent the women TO the Mayor.
The williamsburg riot occurred AT
Morgan and johnson avenues, where a
crowd, gathered in expectation Of the
arrival Of twenty barges OF coal,
started a raid on the only two barges
that appeared. Police Of the Stagg
Street station had to use their clubs
TO suppress this demonstration.
Persons driven out of their homes
by the lack of fuel thronged settle
ment houses and other institutions.
/ Churches and synagogues which could
provide heat were filled with more
/ than Sunday crowds.
At the Municipal Lodging House last
/ night there were 325 men, thirty WON
en- and three children. Superintendent
Rice said that the coal problem was
I perplexiuR him