New-York tribune., 1919-07-04
$4,000 Guard
City To-day
Against Reds
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Emanuel, the Spanish and Portuguese
and the Temple BETHEL Synagogues.
Plainclothes men will keep an eye on
telephone and telegraph stations, power
houses, waterworks, the Pennsylvania
and Grand Central railroad terminals.
the Postoffice, Treasury Building,
Criminal Courts Building, Board Of
Health Building, Municipal Building,
City Hall and certain food storage
warehouses.
Large reserves Of police will be held
in readiness for any emergency at GER
tain station houses in the various bor-
oughs. Sheriff James F. Donnelly, of
the Bronx, issued a command to all
deputy and special deputy sherifs of
that county ordering them to active
duty to-day as part Of the general
scheme to keep the peace. The sheriff
admonished the deputies to call upon
citizens help in case of riots or law
lessness.
A man entered the Criminal Courts
Building early last evening and in
quircd the way to the chambers of
Judge Otto A. Rosalsky, of General
Sessions. He was engaged in dis
pute with an elevator operator, VINO
had told him the Judge had gone, when
Probation Officer Connors and other at
taches Of the building came up.
They took the visitor to a room on
the first floor to interroeate him. Once
inside the man drew revolver and
after lining up his would-be inquisitors.
faces to the wall, took his departure
cowing those in the lobby with his re-
voiver as he went out.
Detective Examines Suspect
Detective Cassetti. Of Manhattan
went to the Poplar Street police sta
tion, Brooklyn, last night in connection
with the case to examine man under
arrest there who had new revolver III
his possession. He did not divulge the
result of his examination.
Several years ago Judge Rosalsky
received bomb which injured Owen
Eagan, inspector of the Bureau of Com
bustibles, when he opened it.
Colonel Edward Olmsted, chief of
staff for Major General John F. Organ,
Of the New York Guard, announced d
that although the state forces will not
be mobilized in armories, system of
rapid-fre mobilization had been COM
pleted, so that the 10000 members of
the guard could be assembled in the
shortest possible time.
Differences of opinion were EXPIRE ssed
yesterday as to the reason for the
cancellation of Fourth of July
anti-Bolshevik meeting which was
to have been held tonight in Carne-
gle Hall. The American Committee
for the Relief and Salvation of Rus
sia, which sponsored the demon
stration, had declared that the meeting
had been called off because the police
had advised the Carnegie Hall manage
mcnt that riotng and bomb throwing
might ensue. The committee complained
that adequate police protection had
been denied them.
Hall Was Not Leased
THE police had nothing to do with
terday. "They did not tell US we would
have to keep the hall dark because of
fear of bombs. The fact is, that the
hall was never leased. Several groups
OF Russians inquired about the use of
the hall. One group said they repre-
sented the Russian revolutionary party.
Another. group said they represented
the anti Bolsheviki. When we heard
that it was planned to have a parade
cided not to lease it for that night
We felt that the police might have
enough to do elsewhere. We wanted to
be fair to everybody, so we decided not
to invite trouble"
John Daily, chief inspector of the
Police Department, said the meeting
had not been denied police protection
81 never heard that Russian meet
ing was to have been held there" he
said. ".Certainly we did not tell the
Carnegie Hall management that il
would have to keep closed"
Louis Scott Dabo, executive secre
tary of the committee, declined to dis
cusse the subject. He referred inouir
ers to Frances Tilgman, 1888 Broad
way, who issued a statement in behal1
of the committee.
Statement Is Issued
The statement said
"That the continued existence of or
ganized government in this country is
threatened is the opinion of Charles
Stewart Dawson, chairman of the
Board of Trustees of the American De
fence Society, in discussing the action
of the police in instructing the man
agement of Carnegie Hall to cancel the
reservation for the antiBolshevik
meeting which was to have been held
by the American Committee for the
Relief and Salvation of Russia Mr.
Dawson was to have presided at the
meeting, which had been called for The
purpose Of demonstrating the fact that
there are hundreds Of thousands OF
Russians in this country who are op-
posed to the government Of the Bill
sheviki in Russia. Mr.. Dawson draws
attention to the fact that the elements
of disorder in this city have found
no difficulty in obtaining full police
protection for open meetings at which
they have advocated revolution and cites
letter written by Colonel Roosevelt
to Felix Frankfurter on December II
1917, in which Colonel Roosevelt cen.
surcd the authorities who fail to give
lawful citizens the needed protection
against the radical elements"
Albert De Silver director Of the
National Civil Liberties Bureau, wrote
yesterday to Mayor Hylan asking for
an investigation into what he termed
the "police intimidation" which caused
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