New-York tribune., 1918-11-26


see in the street, men or women, and
announced that if any one made a
throwing motion he would shoot. His
Two companions also drew revolvers
and menaced pedestrians.
=. Shortly before the meeting broke up
Mayor Hylan drove into Madison
Square nj his motor car and sough out
Inspector DAILY. The Chief Inspector
told him that all possible protection
was being given to agitators and to the
general public and the Mayor drove
away again
Fourteen arrests had been reported
by the police up to midnight and not
soldier or a sailor was among those ar
rested.
Many women leaped to their seats
and waved red handkerchiefs, and there
was some confusion and jeering as
detectives circulated through the audi
ence snatching such emblems from
their hands. One youth got an ova-
tion when he took off his coat and re-
vealed a shirt of startling red. He
did not stay to enjoy the sensation
he caused, however, because he was
conducted him to the lobby and per-
sonally handled the job of getting
him out of the shirt before getting
him out Of the Garden.
Several persons were elected in much
the same manner, though the others
"kept their shirts on" There was such
a movement in progress at the moment
when United States Marshal Thomas
d. Mccarthy arrived. Men and women
were being driven out in mass by
patrolmen and urged on by detectives.
The latter were not sparing in the
use Of their black jacks, nor especially
nj ,yyho t|o FOL
Marshal Mccarthy lodged back to
await better opportunity of entering.
The blackjacks, partially concealed in
the hands of the wielders, were rising
and falling impartially among the
throng that jostled and crowded in it's
efforts to squeeze through the doorway
all together.
Several Injured Found
w. Several injured men were found at
Twenty-third Street and Third Avenue.
Jacob Kaufmann, of 337 East Thir-
teenth Street, was taken to Bellevue
Hospital. Others who were treated by
ambulance surgeons were George Sus
kise, of 81 East Fifty-second Street;
Morris Tehiermann, of 1461 Webster
Avenue, The Bronx, and Eric Marsne1,
sailor, of 121 East Twenty-fourth
Street.
Those arrested were Samuel Chezin-
son, Of 853 DeKalb Avenue, Brooklyn;
Dora Fisk, of 459 Schenck Avenue, The
Bronx, and Sarah Cohen, of 346 East
Seventeenth Street, who displayed
red flag in the gallery, the police said,
while Scott Nearing was speaking.
Detectives Donlin and O'Connor
seized the three and were starting out
with them when Harry Steinberg, of
1876 Clinton Street, began to jeer at
!,
the East Twenty-second Street police
station.
In opening the meeting, Scott Near
ing geared the crowd to a high pitch
of tensity by voicing the demand that
liberty be restored" to this country
Every mention of the word liberty"
was the signal for prolonged out
burst of enthusiasm. All "political
prisoners" Nearing added. must be i'm
mediatey released from Jail. With
equal passion he demanded the imme-
diate withdrawal of troops from Rus
Sia.
Ella Reeves Bloor, late Socialist can
ddate for Lieutenant Governor of New
York, followed Nearing. She was garbed
in flaming red Russian blouse and
waved her arms wildly, but her advice
was for moderation, at least SO far as
the display of the red flag was con-
cerned.
Socialist Alderman Algernon Lee
echoed that advice at some length, adj
ing that the audience should not be
too hard in its judgment of the police
present, since, after all, the police
mans lot was not happy one. He
ended, however. by reminding his
hearers that 1--WE shall nol pay our
debt to Russia and Germany by lust
sending greetings. We must do our
part"
Within the hall meanwhile, disre-
garding the frantic pleas of their
leaders, the tense strung crowd was
getting out of hand and cutting loose
in spasm after spasm of bedlamite de-
monstration. Again and again, at
mention of some talismanc word such
as RUSSIA" "Germany," "H ylan, ,""pro-
letariat,' huge red flag would be
swung as though by magic from one
Of the high spidery rafters of the en-
closure. PaNdemonium on each oc-
casion mounted to fresh heights of
frenzy. only to change to an angry,
snarling- roar, shot through with fan
fares of hisses, as flying wedges of
osldiers and sailors formed and, scat
terlng the crowd to right and left.
made for the offending banners and
piucked them from their places.
HOwls and Catcalls
Again and again on these occasions as
the crowd leaped, apparently eager for
action, to it's feet and catcalls and
howls resounded through the building,
only the brisk intervention Of a hard
worked brass band, it appeared, STAYED
off preclpitate break up of the gath
erlng in open riot.
Meanwhile Tom Mooney, the con-
demned San Francisco labor leader, in
whose name the NEE ing had chiefly
been called, remained for the most part
forgotten and neglected. Scott Near
ing, who opened the proceedings with
an impassioned harangue, mentioned
him once toward the end of his dis
course, and the crowd duly went wild.
Thereafter, though, it was a quarter TO
10 before any second mention of
Mooney was made.
Throughout the affair it was the
capitalist class" the ruling system"
the present order" that formed the
avowed targets. For the most part the
police and soldiers held themselves un-
der tight rein, but whenever the red
banners appeared they acted with
promptness and decision. When, upon
Judge Jacob Panken's announcement
that he would rather stand with Pat
rick Henry than beside John F. Hylan,"
Miss Annie Crane, of 244 Clinton
Street, Brooklyn, was moved to float
fiery red streamer above the crowd,
Lieutenant w. x. Barry, of the army,
seized her by the back of the neck and
with a Sinple null wronchaJ hor o,,+