New-York tribune., 1918-11-29
Paper Caps Only
Red at Socialists
Thanksgiving Ball
Police Prepared for Busy
Time at New Star Casino,
but Nothing Happens
Fighting Men Barred
One False Alarm of Soldiers
and Sailors on March Brings
Provost Guard

Five thousand Socialists gathered in
Thanksgiving assemblage at the New
Star Casino, Park Avenue and 107th
Street, yesterday, and not blow was
struck, not brick flung, not window
smashed, not a man beaten up. At l
O'clock this morning, when the assem-
blage at length broke up and the cele-
they were still very heartily and sin
cerely giving thanks.
They thanked the police and they
thanked the plainclothes men and they
thanked the provost guard, and If there
had been enough soldiers and sailors
present to have made it worth while
they would probably have thanked
them, too. But soldiers and sailors
were conspicuously absent.
Once there was a rumor that they
had put In an appearance and that
blood was in their eyes and clubs in
their hands. Telephonically the rumor
shal's Office by gentleman giving his
name as "Captain Williams"
Rush of Provost Guard
At once the provost guard sprang
into vigilant life. Two patrols went
.4AA q iHS ou1 IniOuSH tlle ledhy nlEnt.
Another and more reckless detachment
under Captain Don L. Monteith dived
into the subway. They arrived - let
THE Subway Sun" make what it can of
tat approximately the same time.
And they found a hall decorated with
more American flags than most of the
provost guardsmen had ever seen be-
fore all in one place, and with more
tobacco smoke in the air than ever col
lected under so many American flags,
and through the general haze an ar
IDENTIFY perspiring company of very,
very young men and some fairly young
women, sweetly, idylically dancing
while the Carl Sahm Club Band" over
and over and over again, more or less
musically announced that "I'm Sorry
Made You Cry"
And what the provost guardsmen
said was considerable and emphatic,
but not intended for publication.
A little later Major P. L. Thomas,
commandment of the guard, looked in to
make personally certain that all was
indeed we'll, and he opined that he had
never seen pleasanter, quieter, more
sociable little dance, and forthwith
dismissed practically all Of the fifty
guardsmen who had been sent out.
When last seen they declared that they
were looking for captain Williams"
Don Red Paper Caps
All of which cheered up the reds
immensely, and by 8 o'clock practically
everybody in the hall had donned
red paper cap. julius Gerber lighted a
25cent cigar and said:
"Certainly there isn't any trouble.
There never was any chance Of trouble.
Neither was there ever any intention
of holding a meeting or having any
speeches tonight: This is simply the
regular annual Thanksgiving dance of
the party"
Truth 70 tell, about the only real
excitement at the ball followed the
announcement that Governor Stephens
had commuted the sentence of Thomas
Mooney.
Shortly after midnight, Secretary
Gerber mounted the platform, and
after gaining the attention of most of
the persons in the hall, shouted
i've some good news for you. Gov
ernor Stephens has pardoned Thomas
Mooney"
Instantly there was a wild cheer.
The orchestra started to play the
"Marsellaise" and the crowd began to
sing. The excitement continued for
perhaps ten minutes. Then the ball
picked up where it had left off.
Whereupon, brown-eyed girl in
bright red blouse said to hooked
nose-plainclothes man, Are you a
Bolshevik?" And the plainclothes man
said, "Sure, kid; amt you?" And the.
Carl Sahm Club band struck up "I'rr
Sorry l Made You ,"-and-and.
well, and there you were, don't you
In fact by 10 o'clock there were so
many there-theyd been coming ever
since three in the afternoon-that Cap
tain Frank A. McGuiness, of the fire
prevention bureau, ordered the doors
closed. The police guard, however,
under Captain Michael Brady of the
l04th Street station, still stuck to it's
post, in case any itinerant service men
should appear, bent on "starting some
thing" a 'SyxsSa
But only a few came. And those
were all compelled to show their
passes. If they didn't have passes
they were sent swiftly along into the
dripping night. Even the bow-legped
sailor who protested he was looking
for pal who was inside was sent
along.
"They's so many solMers and sailors
in there dancin,," one COP explained
you'd never be able to find him"
And so. to be sure, there were and
as the red-haired girl with chewing
gum said to the girl who had no chew
"Honest. ! I don't think they're rough
And tho lantern -jawed barkeep
wlnked and murmured pensivelv: