New-York tribune., 1919-07-29

hours. 1t was the result Of long
standing feud-the issue being en-
croachment on what the whites char
acterized as white territory. Police
finally effected truce and the princi-
pals were arrested.
Hundreds of stenographcrs, clerks
and other downtown employees who mus .
pass through the "Black Belt" to reacl
their homes remained in the business
district hotels and at North Side lodging
places.
Pool rooms, moving picture houses
and other gathering places in the "Black
Belt" were ordered closed The Coroner
has began an investigation of the cause
Of the riots.
Numerous conferences were held by
the authorities. After one of these
States Attorney Maclay Hoyne is
sued statement charging that poll
ticians teaching the colored element
disrespect for the law was the basic
reason for the riots.
Police Afraid, He Says
@"The Police Department has been
demoralized to such extent by the
politicians, black and white, on the
South Side that they are afraid to
arrest and prosecute men with polti-
cal backing or who claim to have polit-
ical influence" the statement said.
Despite the fact that fifty mounted
police and 100 patrolmen were on duty
in the negro district, with orders to
disarm pedestrians and arrest rioters,
sporadic disturbances were reported
to-day from more than a dozen dis
tricts.
DR.. j. U. Turner, a negro city health
department officer, was attacked by five
white men on a South Side street
When his assailants saw his star they
fed. DR.. Turner chased them and
captured Henry Rosin, nineteen years
old, who was turned over to the police
and booked on a charge of assault
Robert Reynolds and George Martin,
negro boys employed as messengers by
the Postal Telegraph Company, were
attacked by ten white men. The boys
we're rescued by the police, but no ar
rest was made.
George Wiley, a negro, the fl rst pris-
oner arraigned in the municipal court
as result of last nights disturbances,
was fined S. and a razor he carried was
ordered confscated.
Police to-day said they had been un-
able to find any trace of the unidenti-
fed white boy reported drowned yes
terday in Lake Michigan, at the foot OF
Twenty-ninth Street.
Coroner Peter Nj. Hoffman, in open
ing the inquest over the unidentified
negro boy who was drowned yesterday,
announced he would make a thorough
investigation of the entire affair.
Origin of the Trouble
Accounts Of the origin of the trouble
differ, but the version accepted by the
police is that the fighting started at
the Twenty-ninth Street bathing beach,
where the whites and colored people
are accustomed to swim in Lake Michi-
gan, although thes two races are sepa-
rated by an imaginary line. This YER
sion of the affair says a negro boy on
raft crossed the boundary line and
white boys threw stones. The colored
boy was knocked into the water and
drowned. A general fight between the
races followed
After the fighting near the beach had
been quelled trouble broke out further
west, near the centre Of the colored
district John O'Brien, a policeman,
was attacked by mob at Twenty-ninth
and State streets, after he had tried to
rescue a fellow policeman from a crowd
of negroes Several shots were fired,
and he was struck in the arm. He drew
his revolver and fired into the crowd.
Three negroes were hit. Three other
policemen were hurt with stones and
clubs during the rioting.
1t is estimated that there are nearly
100000 negroes in Chicago, nearly
$4,000 of whom were drawn here dur
ing the last three or four years by the
attractive wages in shops and factories
manufacturing war materials. Virtu-
ally all of the negroes live on the South
Side, and many have acquired property
in desirable neighborhoods occupied by
whites. This has led to many minor
clashes between the races, ana in sew
eral instances in recent months bombs
have been exploded in buildings oc-
cupied by negroes