The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-02


feet apart. In the basement mounted
cops were held In reserve until the
approach Of the Red leaders was
heralded up Madison avenue.
Capt. Charles H. McKenny also
had 1875 detectives In the Garden in
plain clothes with orders to arrest
any person who waved a red flag,
which nobody tried to do.
The service men, estimated by the
police at nearly one thousand, col
lected near the Liberty Loan head
quarters at 1888 Broadway and
marched through Twenty-ninth street.
led by a bugler. At Twenty-ninth
OF mounted police, followed by police
infantry, formed barrier. The po-
flee rode their horses across the side
walks and formed q solid wall from
building line to building line through
which no one could break. Sergeant
barrow, up In front Of the mounted
men. shouted at the soldiers advanc-
ing from the north: where are you
going?"
ITO the Garden piped the spokes-
man of the host led by the bugler.
"You can't go in that formation.
You had better go the other way"
said Darrow.
Most of the mob fell back quietly,
although some curses were thrown at
Commissioner Enright's men, but
others who did not move fast enough
to suit the police were nudged along
with nightstick and the nuzzling Of
horses.
Soldiers Fight Police.
Two more files of police Joined the
attack and those soldiers who still re-
sisted were bumped along up the ave-
nue. and shunted into the side streets.
The soldiers had no weapons. The
melee started at $3.50 o'clock and half
an hour later a crowd Of soldiers who
were still shouting wildly and Boosting
that they would get into the Garden
anyway were bagged in West Twenty
eighth street between Madison and
Fifth avenues. Several hundred police
men. led by mounted platoon.
charged them and used their night
sticks after bricks had been thrown at
them from doorways. A mounted pa
trolman drove his horse across the
sidewalk. pursuing an American soldier
and a Canadian in Highlander uniform
who seemed to be the leaders Of the
rioters.
At the entrance to the Hote
Latham, 4 West Twenty-eighth street
the American, who was a sergeant
was felled by the blow Of a nightstick
across his right shoulder. He said
that he was Henry J. Crompton. hon
orably discharged from the Sixty
fourth Machine Gun Company. The
Canadian identified himself as Barney
Dreyfus, and was said by others to be
the same man who led the attack in
} front Of Madison Square Garden in the
afternoon.
Dreyfus, who was in the uniform of
/. the Gordon Highlanders and said that
he received wound in his right leg
and that the wound was reopened
when he was knocked down by po-
licemans horse. was taken to New
York Hospital, WHARF, thirteen stitches
were sewed in bis leg.
Benjamin Duchman, recently of the
. Forty-eighth Infantry. seems to have
been the innocent bystander Of the
affair. He said that he was walking
; up Broadway at Twenty eighth street,
on his way to a theatre, when
mounted policeman told him to beat
, It" and then hit him, over the head
three times and on the shoulder once.
{ Partly unconscious Duchman was car
ried into the Liberty Loan office at
Twenty ninth street and Broadway.
One Legged Marine H1rt.
A sailor who got himself into the cas-
ualty list was Earl Lamlie Of the
U. s. S. Bridge. His bruises were
attended by a surgeon from New York
Hospital. Charles Galloway. a one
Hospital. Charles Galloway. a one
legged marine veteran, was knocked
down in Twenty-eighth street, and car
ried off by his comrades.
II was learned later that Duchman
is a patient who is on leave from Green
hurt Hospital. From the Victory
Loan headquarters into which he vas
carried he was taken back to the hos
pital in an army ambulance. He was
member of the Forty-second Regi-
ment, which is still overseas.
The night battle was pretty we'll ended
when the mob In uniform was cleared
out OF Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth
streets. About a hundred Of them, how
ever. still bound for the Garden re-
formed in Fifth avenue. at Thirty-frst
street. where one mounted policeman and
one on foot, held them off for twenty
minutes until reserves arrived The
mounted policemen made a show of
charging the crowd. when a bottle thrown
from somewhere broke on the pavement
at his horses feet. but thought better
of 1t. The soldiers called the police
men "slackers' and worse names and
included Mayor Hylan In an impartial
denunciation of the city authorities
For some reason they commended that
the Mayor was a pal OF the Reds, be-
cause he wouldn't let the United States
Army hop into the. Garden and break
up a meeting which was really very
peaceful session and was presided over,
not by Red, but by Edward l. Han
nah. president OF the Central Federated
Labor Union.
Soldier Found Bleeding.
Private Edward Gillespie, formerly of
Company L. 104th Infantry was found
bleeding on the sidewalk In front OF the
Prince George Hotel in West Twenty
eighth street Guests OF the hotel picked
him up and he was taken to the Victory
Loan office in broadway He said that