New-York tribune., 1918-11-26
Disorders Quelled
BY Mounted Men
Red Flag Waved and
Star Spangled Ban
ner' Sung at Garden
Demonstration

ing, cheering. singing Historically in
Madison Square Garden last night for
Bolshevism, the Red rule in Russia
Tom Mooney and the red flag, about
900 soldiers and sailors made a deter
mined attack upon the building, fiat
tsning the thin Gordon of patrolmen on
the sidewalk and, hurting themselves
bodily against the doors on the
Twenty sixth Street side of the build
ing while glass shattered by missiles
they hurled tinkled upon them from
windows overhead. Reinforced to the
number of nearly 1000 the soldiers
and sailors maintained the attack un-
til charged by mounted police.
At 1880 calls were sent to ten police
stations from Police Headquarters to
send all available patrolmen to Madi-
son Square. Garden.
Many Socialists Beaten
After the meeting conditions we're
aTen worse, as the police, either
through mismanagement or by inten-
lion, permitted women and men to be
seized searched for Socialist buttons
or red ties by soldiers and sailors, and
IN many instances beaten severely.
For several moments after a patrol
man at Twenty-sixth Street and Lex
ington Avenue had been hit by stone
he and three other policemen stood
With revolvers levelled at all passersby,
threatening to shoot.
1t was after $50 o'clock and the
meeting was in full swing inside when
the array of soldiers and sailors came
swinging through Twenty-sixth Street
whistling a marching tune. They
marched in the middle of the street,
watched with some interest by patrol
men, who were stationed at fifteen or
twenty foot intervals on the Garden
side of the street.
Yell as They Charge
When their column stretched nearly
the length of the huge building the men
in blue and olive drab suddenly
stopped whistling and without any
order which reached the ears of the
patrolmen on the sidewalk did a
squads right" which snapped them
into a double line facing the flank Of
the Garden. There was brief instant
oihesitation and then with a yell they
Charged at top speed.
Patrolmen were brushed aside and
sramped under foot, and the soldiers
and sailors flung themselves against
the side exits to the building, batter
ing with their fists and kicking. Those
who found themselves opposite a door
less expanse of wall picked up such
missiles as they could find and flung
them at the windows.
In vain the scattered patrolmen
sought to rally and disperse the uni
formed mob. They were outnumbered
30 heavily that they could not even
md space to rap on the sidewalk for
assistance.
Two Hundred Police Meet Attack
Word Of their predicament reached
thief Inspector John Daily, who was in
s'ce the building, and the exit doors
new open in the surprised faces of the
ossaulting soldiers and sailors, to eject
az least 200 patrolmen, who came on
she run with nightsticks raised. An
e'ner hundred or so policemen were
susned out Of the cellar of building
nearby, where they had been concealed,
AID between the two attacking parties
Ne soldiers and sailors gave way
sspidly
As they fell back toward Fourth
Avenue they received rapid reinforce
ments, both soldiers and sailors, who
ha'erialized out of the night in mys-
efious fashion. Although Inspector
Daiys men were by no means gentle,
"ey we're not fighting for blood, and
~ tne numbers Of the military mob
Increased the policemen fell back until
sasy had been driven half the length of
NE Garden.
fifty Mounted Men Appear
AZ this juncture the doors of run
sy leading 10 The basemcnt of the
ss"o'ng were sprung and out came
aAW mounted patxolmen, their canter-
'as horscs sounding a warning rumble
~ .as treads as they poured out of the
4he mounted men In blue and gold
''sd all before them. Their stceds,
s'ned Tor years for just such work.
@'assd daintily around the fringes Of
~ astonndcd throng of soldiers and
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