The sun., 1918-12-14
REDS PARK STRIKE
OFF; WET GROUNDS
Rain Saves World From Being
Overturned by Gathering
Of Bolsheviki.
E. o. JONES Is ARRESTED
Red Tie and All, Police Take
Amateur Robespierre Away
in Black Maria.

Friday the Thirteenth was a fivver
,, for the million and half Reds whom
Ellis o. Jones, father Of the people,
expected to lead to the happy land
of promise somewhere in Central
Park" at high noon yesterday.
First. the Bolsheviki and Bolshe-
vikini hate rain almost as much as
the "insldious capitalistic class" and
second, Ellis himself was pinched be-
fore the great uprising OF the people
got healthy start.
While fifty or more lower East Side
women umbrellaed up and down the
Mall in Central Park for a couple of
hours waiting for Savior Jones, he
was borrowing a red necktie from his
son out in the Jones homestead on
Beech Knoll Forest Hills. l.. 1.
Though the scarlet affair looked
good on Sonny Jones. Jones. ST.. ad-
mitted 1t didn't become his particular
brand of pulchritude.
|
Mr.. Jones7" he was asked when the
red led him into the park, down to-
ward the zoo.
NO" he answered truth Is,
thought I'd wear II to-day in honor
Of the occasion. l borrowed 1t from
my boy. know l don't look good
in It."
Million Workers Expected.
With the circulation of typewriter
papers: Workers, take a holiday
Spread the idea like wildfire. Brighten
the Industrial Kaisers. Tom Mooney
was to be hanged on Friday the Thir-
tenth. We workers will show our
power. We demand restoration Of
Free Press (and lot of other restora-
lions, emitting only the Chinese mon
archy), the liberation OF political pris-
oners. including Socialists. 1. w. W.,
conscientious DIRECTORS, demanding
these things in the only way intelli-
gible to the masters, by dropping our
tools. and ceasing to produce profits
for them on Friday the Thirteenth"
Jones expected his million to stream
] the Central Park Mall, and all in ALL
1t was to be a grand picnic of Boil
sheviki,
But 1t rained.
Those birds don't come out in the
rain" explained a bus driver to one
Of his passengers They're water
dodgers"
Along toward 1 o'clock a dozen
Scandinavian and Russian women
walked up and down the Mall, gath
ering in front Of the band stand oppo-
site Seventy-flrst street. until big Tom
Lyons, who shoots the Police Depart
ment's machine guns. glowered at
them. and they did rubber heel and
toe toward the esplanade.
Makes Seditious Remark.
Over on the drive was the Black
Maria, and the engine was coughing
for business. Just then the shevikini
remembered their washtubs and
started for Delaney street and haven,
when who should stroll up the Mall
but Ellis himself.
Nobody knew him. Everybody
thought z. o. J. was a nickname for
John Reed. A half dozen policemen
under Capt. Edward ]. Bourke OF the
Arsenal station saw Jones and thought
tllIll SOLlt CuIlOub 6cDllcildAl lEUIu lLO
avenue out for an airing. Finally a
SUN man approached him and asked:
Now that high noon is passed. Mr..
Jones, have you cancelled your private
debts, &c.?"
But / have none"
do you suppose anybody's going
to pay a darned bit of attention to
your proclamation which would have
the workers take over industries, and
the courts. and all the other things
you want done?"
Mr.. Jones fixed his eye on the four
tenth bulb on "M" IN the Hotel
Majestic sign across the park and ap-
parently he wasn't thinking OF mum
dane things.
DO you believe IN disoanding the
army and navy?"
why. yes" he replied; 80 do some
congressman"
Capt. Bourke. who was standing on
| the fringe OF the crowd, then elbowed
his way through the women and
slapped Jones on the back.
well, Mr.. Jones, that's a seditious
utterance and I'll take you in GUS
tody. Cali the wagon. Tom"
Bites the Hand That Searches.
} So the police cart had a customer