New-York tribune., 1919-10-21
resounded on all sides of the Lexing-

resounded on all sides of the Lexing-
Ton Opera House.
The protracted bushwhacking that
went on. however, began to wear upon
the nerves Of the police, and violence
and fighting assumed a more prominent
place in the turbulence. The rioters
became animated with a more vicious
spirit. They took to throwing milk
bottles and other missiles at street
lights. dropping paving stones and
bricks from roofs. and were careless as
to whether they struck policemen or
rot
Eugene Dunn, mounted policeman,
was hit by the sawed-off butt of bill
lard cue as he sat his horse in Fifty
first Street, between Lexington and
Park avenues. The weighted billy
struck him in the face and made cash
Elmer Sites. q marine who served two
years in France with the canadian
forces, was picked up at Forty-ninth
Street and Lexington Avenue with his
hip severely injured. He said, and
others agreed with him, that police
mans horse had kicked him. He was
taken to Flower Hospital. sailor was
knocked senseless later in fight in
Madison Avenue, near Fifty-frst Street.
Patriot was 80. O. w. L."
The only man arrested in the early
encounters, youth in sailors uniform,
who was accused of throwing fragment
of marble cornice from the roof of a
Lexington Avenue building. turned out
to be a man for whom the navy had
been looking for four months as being
absent without leave. He was turned
over to the naval authorities.
The Madison Avenue fight in which
the sailo~ was felled by patroln.ans
niehtstick, took place while Harold
Schwab, member of Manhattan Naval
Post of the American Legion, was en-
deavoring to call off his men. He told
Captain Duggan of his intention and set
out in police automobile, accompanied
by several patrolmen and a man whose
captains uniform bore the insignia of
the 77th Division.
The party went first to Fiftieth Street
and Park Avenue; where Schwab
harangued the service men, saying that
by orderly methods, but that if the
Mayor permitted it to go on another
night eve will go over his head" The
mob greeted his conciliatng speech with
jeers.
"To hell with the Mayor!" yelled
somebody; "Hard Boiled Smiths the
boy!"
In "Hand-to- Hand" Conflict
"feah!" roared the crowd, ard
Schwab and his party set out to find
more fertile ground. At Fifty-tirst
Street and Madison Avenue they ran
into handto-hand conflict between
legion men and the police. As the
automobile drove up the mob broke un-
der the charge of mounted and foot
patrolmen, individuals fleeing up the
steps and into the driveways of resi-
dences in the vicinity, with patrolmen
in hot pursuit.
1T was here that the sailor. Harry
Weiman, of the George Washington,
was left uncon -cious by his retreating
comrades. He was carried into a house
to await the arrival Of an ambulance
from Flower Hospital.
Although it seemed hopeless. Schwab
continued his peacemaking tour.
Lawrence D Ell imam. of the real os-
tate firm of Pease & Gilman, who was
standing in front of the Lexington
Opera House with two or three mem
bers of the American Legion while the
lighting was going on, said that it was
disgraceful to assign 200 policemen to
protect German opera when burglars
and bandits roamed the city's streets
WlthOuC hlndrance. he criticized the
severity shown by the police in the
latter part Of the evening
Soldiers in the Lobby
Earlier in the evening the service
men had free access to the opera house
lobby, those with wound stripes and
crutches displaying themselves prom
inently before every one who sought
the box office. Like the police, the
segion men were certain that there
was to be no performance and so in
formed many of the audience. One
woman who had received this warning
asked the box Office man about it.
ITS all wrong, madam" he said.
Were going to give performance"
cts all wrong. all right" averred
one of two soldiers who stood near
the box office, "but there'l be no
show"
A bulky representative OF the man.
agcment thrust his way to the two SOL
dlers and said:
"There']l be a show here tonight
and there'll be no hell raising, either.
You soldiers better understand that"
The soldiers turned and walked out.