New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-30
Another Meeting Dispersed

Eight hunQreU or more Oh lHc NV
ers marched up Eighth Avenue to Co,
lumbus Circle. where they attempted
TO hold another meeting, but were
quickly dispersed by the police, who
followed in automobiles and kept them
moving.
One OF those arrested was John d..
Moore, a consulting engineer and ma
tional secretary of the Friends OF irish
Freedom who on Tuesday issued pub.
| lie defy to Mayor Mitchell and Chief
City Magistrate McAdoo. Another was
Stephen johnson, of 339 West Forty
eighth Street. who organized the meet
| ing Of the Friends OF Irish Freedom IN
Thirty-hfth Street.
The trouble started shortly before 8
! O'Clock, when several hundred OF the
! Irish sympathizers gathered at Thirty
seventh Street and Broadway. which
corner has been in the limelight for
! the last two weeks as soapbox storm
centre. They found the site occupied
by a wagon, from which recruiting
meeting was being held under the aus
pices of the American Defence Society.
The wagon bore the legend: Timothy
Healy, chairman"
Angered at Election
The Friends" were in no mood to
listen TO recruiting speeches. After
much grumblng, one of them shouted
that the meeting would be held in
Thirty-fifth Street and the crowd moved
two blocks south. Johnson was tho
first sneaker. He declared that the re-
cruiting meeting in Thirty seventh
Street was a part Of the Anglo-SaScn
plot of Mayor Mitchell and the Bcci
Of Magistrates 70 throttle free speech.
Then ne turned his attention to Cor
| oner Healy.
Tim Healy could never address an
audience Of real Irishmen!" he shouted.
"In the first place he is not capable OF
making an address, and in the second
place no Irishman would listen to him. y
Finally. ne detied the police 10 break
I'D the meeting. At this point patrol
man stepped up and whispered that he
was under arrest. Johnson held up his
hand. informed the crowd of his arrest
and urged them TO remain peaceabie.
! While Johnson was being escorted
away Shaun Conway mounted the plat
! form. but hardly had launched into his
speech before q policeman escorted him
down. He, however, was allowed to 60.
Then Mr.. Moore leaped to the plat
form waving a large American flag. He
| launched into an impassloned Grafton
against everything in general and Great
/ Britain in particular. He lasted only
few minutes before ne was on his
way to the Night Court. Stand pat,
John; stand pat!" James L. Cook, a
Jersey City mining engineer, is alleged
to have shouted. Mr. Cook became pris-
! oner No. 3.
Woman Then Arrested
A woman, madly shrieking that she
was a suffrsgette, leaped TO the plat
| form, tore off her hat and began waving
! the flag. As she left Margaret 7. j.
! Curley, a stenographer, Of l66 Eighth
| Avenue, mounted the platform, shrek
| ing This was the signal for the crowd
/ 10 jeer the police. Miss Curhey was
| arrested, and by this time the crowd
was milling about in such threatening
manner that Lieutenant Weeks sent
calls for reserves.
They came and fought their way to
the platform with drawn clubs. After
stripping it of the flags they hurled it
! into a cellar. Then, on foot and in
automobiles which shunted the crowds
along, they gradually drov. the throng
up Broadway. There were nearly 1000
women in the crowd, and many had
their dresses torn in the riot. At this
| point John Weisenbach, butcher. was
taken into custody and headed for the
! night court.
! The larger part OF the crowd headed
/ that way. too, while a smaller part
debouched into Eighth Avenue. toward
| Columbus Circle. Fully 1000 men and
women jammed Fifty-seventh Street in
1 front of the mems night court and
pressed their way toward the large
iron gates. until Warden Mallon, fearing
an attempt might be made TO reach the
prisoners, stationed a squad OF guards
there. Finally, the din assumed such
proportions that Magistrate Brough
was unable to hold court. He went to
I his chambers and telephoned for the
reserves.