The sun., 1918-11-27
6,OOOSERVICE
MEN THREATEN
ANOTHER RIOT
Soldiers and Sailors Besiege
Socialist Meeting at
Palm Garden.
COPS HAVE STRUGGLE
Woman With Red Flag or
Flower Roughly Handled
ts:.'-' by the Crowd.
COPS HAVE STRUGGLE


A crowd Of approximately 5000 ring
Ing. hooting. shouting and booing SOL
diers, sailors and marines in uniform
gathered in F1fty-eighth street before
Palm Garden last night and, threaten
ing to beat any and every one who
dared to display a semblance OF red.
provoked q scene Of threatened disor-
der that called the combined reserve
police strength from every precinct IN
mid Manhattan and later from a dozen
precincts as far up town as Harlem.
Inside the hall 1000 persons-mostly
.women-sat meekly listening TO the
tamest set OF speeches that ever came
from a supposedly militant band Of
Socialists with Bolshevik tenAencies
In fact the audience apparently was
nothing OF the kind. for the chief
speaker was Howard G. Pell, Jr.. re-
Gently elected on the Democratic
ticket as the Representative In Con-
gress from the Seventeenth district
II there ever had been an inten-
ton to- faunt the crimson on which
Mayor Hylan has placed an off1cial
ban the presence OF the men in
uniform put q damper on the ardor of
those who 90 intended. The meeting
had been called by the women's Inter
national League, which has its head
quarters at 10 Fifth avenue, and It's
announced purpose was to discuss
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basis for worlds peace, how long the
censorship on press and wire COM
munications was to be enforced and
how long It would be before Ameri-
can troops were withdrawn from
Russia
Police Force Increased.
= AZ the soldiers and sailors began 70
gather. FIRST in groups OF two or three.
then in tens and Juveniles and finally
as II by prearrangement, In fifties and
double that number. the small police
guard under Capt. Duggan OF the East
F1fty-nrst street station was in
CREASED.
At 8 o'clock Capt Duggan said he
was certain there were not less than
5000 men In uniform ranged in Fifty :
eighth street between Lexington and
Third avenues. An hour later he said
the number OF protestants against the
Socialist emblem had grown to at
least 5000. Others who saw the crowd
thought there might have been be-
tween 5000 and 1000 soldiers all told
and at a generous estimate.
As the crowd Of uniformed men grew
ANl ~
enter the hall. Inspector Morris said
ne, thought they had q right to go in.
bu Capt. Duggan said he was afraid
that II they did get inside there would
Be q repetition OF the disorder that
marked the meeting OF Socialists the
night before in Madison Square Gar
den and he barred every man in uni
form from the place.
Capt. Duggan went so far even as to
insist that the soldiers. sailors and
marines-not few OF whom wore SER
vice and wound stripes and were on
crutches-keep on the opposite side Of
the street from the building where the
meeting was being held, and to en-
force his order he threw a line of the
biggest policemen he had along the
curling In front OF the building.
Cops Are Pushed Back.
That line, however, edged back as
the numbers OF the men in uniform
increased and slowly the cops were
pushed aback-without any outward
show OF pushing-against the walls OF
the big building. Then Capt. Duggan
relented and announced that he was
willing to permit a few of the soldiers
and sailors to go inside and see for
, themselves that the Mayors anti-red
order was being strictly compiled with.
Several of the men in uniform did go
in and came out satisfied.
There never was a chance that the
red flag would be displayed inside the
hall, for the manager OF the place had
announced that It was taboo there.
He announced in so many words that
at the first sign OF red in the place
he would turn out the lights and let
every one shift for himself"
Even the assurance of their COM
rades, however, that all was well in
side the hall failed to satisfy the
throng gathered outside. They shouted
that they had put on the uniform to
save those buns" and they didn't I'm
tend TO stand for red flags In a white
mans land" They declared that they
would see about the red flag and every
other kind of red when the meeting
was over, and II was chance OF further
trouble later on that prompted Inspec-
tor Morris to summon the extra police
reserves from as far away as Harlem.
Altogether at IL o'clock there were
more than 800 policemen stationed in
and about the garden and gathered in
emergency companies a block or two
away awaiting developments.
The only real sign OF trouble ap-