Evening journal., 1919-06-20
TEST OF N GUARD.
CAUSES KEAR-PANIC.
Metropolis is Thrown Into
Uproar When Armed
Soldiers Appear

NEW YORK, June 20.-Ten regiments
OF the New York State guard demon
slra,cd last night what they could do
by way OF protecting the city in an
emergency. when they answered test
mobilization call and quickly threw
cordons OF armed guards about public
buildings. power houses. csrbarns, pub
lic utilities and the homes OF promi-
nent citizens
Automobile trucks alled with armed
men dashed from armories TO spots
theoretically held 10 be in danger. and
the guardsmen carried out the practice
drill so grimly that in many quarters
II was believed they were TO remain
on guard duty 10 protect the city from
red" outbreaks.
This belief was heightened by the
secrecy thrown about the proceedings
Colonel Hayes, OF the Seventh Infantry,
announced that two battalions OF his
men had been sent out Ito guard pub
lie property" and that the orders.
which were secret, specified no date for
their return.
In less than an hour from the time
Of mobilization, set for : o'clock heavy
guards had been rushed to the Brook
lyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg
bridges; the Hudson tunnels, subway
stations, the postofilce buildings. rail-
road stations, carbarns and power
houses.
The realism given the drill was
strengthened by the fact that ammuni-
lion was issued TO the men. Newspaper
men were barred from all armories.
ABOUT 100000 men in all were mObil-
izcd. including the Seventh, Eighth, Fif<-
icenth, SiXty-ninth and Seventy-frst
infantry and the Eighth and Ninth
coast Artillery in Manhattan, and the.
Fourteenth. Twenty-thlrd and Forty-'
lcNenth Infantry and Second Field Ar
illery in Brooklyn.
Heavy guards also were thrown about
he residences OF prominent citizens
aad about the Gimbel Brothers de-
plrment store, whose shipping labels
we're forged and used 10 mail bombs
10 nearly score OF government Of
lcials and prominent citizens on May
Day. The Store OF Saks & Co., whose
name appeared on letterhesds above
anarchistic pamphlets recently circu-
lated in Philadelphia, also was placed
unde- guard.
Oge OF The most menacing exhibits
o.; the drill was a detachment OF
'toons stationed about City Hall, with
% line guns bristlng from all sides
o. tIc building. The troops carried
"t-l b3yone,s and went about their
~v"k With grim dctcrm nation
The excitement caused N the crowd
90 streets by the sight OF armed soil
d.e-s marching N an directions reached
lis hcisht in Broadway where the
great theatre crowds were startled
b. The unexpected and unexplained
sight 0f squads OF soldiers with
cleaning bayonets mounting guard
over subway exits and entrances. The
widest rumors spread through the
ih-ongs which were not allayed by the
inability 10 obtain any reason for the
martial display.
40 Brooklyn bridge, one of New
Yorls most crowded points, almost a
panic was caused by a newspaper
PHOTOGRAPHER who exploded flashlight
while the excitement was at its zenith.
The flash and dctonaiion sent the
crowd nyng in an directions. con-
iinccd a bomb had been thrown. SOL
Tiers rushed toward the spot, With
.owcrcd bayoneis and the photo
yrapher was nearly made q victim Of
his enterprise before he could explain
he innocent nature OF the explosion.
Dcmobilization was carried out with
Inc same precision and dispatch that
marked the mobilization. and shortly
ficr ( o'clock all the troops had re-
urned 90 their armories.
When The soldiers returned to Their
.rmorios il was reported among them
hat no man was to leave the city
mill after July g. unless by special
,ermission OF his commanding officer.
This report was neither confirmed nor
cnied by officers who refused TO
sommcnt on IT, General Robb. COM
handing the Brooklyn troops. ex-
pressed himself as satisfied That his
miro command could be mobilized' in
ease OF emergency. in three hours.