New-York tribune., 1919-10-22
Mayor Again Forbids Per-
formancc and Company
Asks Justice Blur for
Writ of Injunction
Decision Promised
For This Morning
Great Crowd Gathers at
Theater and 500 Po-
lice Are Kept in Reserve

Tie renaissance Of German opera
in New York. objected to by the
American Legion, came 20 halt last
evening. Mayor Iiylan's second re-
versa! Of opinion aud Supreme Court
Justice B;jur's dissemination TO pass
immediately OH tho star Opera Com
nanv's appiication for an injunction
against police Interference, combined
to reduce. at least temporarily, the
scheduled season OF Ieutonic music
to the lesser dignity of one-night
stand.
Despite the announcement of the
opera company managers that they
would not attempt TO give 2 per
formance until Justice Blur rules TO-
day on the right Of the Mayor to for
I'D it, the police were not 30 be caught
mapping. \ milling thronG Of several
thousand began carly in the evening
to gather in the vicinity Of the LeXlng-
ION Opera House. conspicuously dark,
ana forty patrolMcn were sent to the
sour corners at fiftieth and Fifty
NrSf streets, ana lHlIQ <tNcuut dhG
Lexington Avenues.
500 Police Held Ready
Five hundred men twenty-five of
them mounted, were held in readiness
hy Inspector Underhill and Captain
Duggan in the East 5lst Street station.
Developments proved these precautions
had been we'll taken, or while nothing
approaching the wildly riotous events
had their hands full for q halfhour
Or so when leo service men, rein
forced b. about 1000 civilians, at
tempted TO stage d dem monstration be-
fore the Lexington Opera House. A
squad Of mounted men was required
to disperse them.
1t was shortly after s o'clock when
an army truck bearing some fifty sol
diers, sailors and marines came north
on Lexington Avenue. A policeman at
the Forty-eishth Street corner stopped
1t and ordered its occupants out. They
obeyed and the driver was allowed to
proceed.
Other service men came running
rom all directions until the uniformed
aob was Increased three fold, when It
o',areed' past the policeman straight up
sxington Avenue. Ten bluecoats met
IRE rush a. Forty-ninth Street and
cned /, west in that thoroughfare.
Service Men Jcer Police
The men reassembled in parade for
nation at Park Avenue and, led by a
soldier and sailor, each of whom
carried small American flag, marched
aorth TO Fiftieth Street and thence
EAST to Lexington Avenue. They drew
ip in front OF the opera house and be-
san TO hoot and jeer ct the policemen
,ationed there
Meanwhile Inspector Underhil had
oeen apprised OF what was afoot. and
zad hurrie,; to the scene with 4 dozen
s.cked pa.roimen. lie had also dis
stehea the mounted men from She ia
non house n another direction. The
Inspector AID his squad walked toward
.2e crowd OF disturbers. which by now
I'D been joined by hundreds of civil
ans and they took to their heels down
fifty-tirst street toward Third Ave
hue. underhill and his patrolmen fol-
lowed closely, warning the disturbers
20 disperse
They made brief stand at Third
Avenue. but continued their flight
Then the police showed they mean;
business. When the crowd was half
Ray between Third and Second avenues
force o. mounted men wheeled iron
second Avenue into Fifty-frst Street.
and the service men and tncir civilian
sympathizcrs found Themselves in ;
trap.
Crowd Promptly Scatter
Apprel>n1Stn that they were to b.
aHcn .ato custody gave way, howe yer
#hen tns mounted platoon opened
passage for them through its ranks
iney .ook prompt advantage of the 'op
sortunlty and soon scattered up an,
oown Second Avenue.
- ME this was going on the tifteel
posicemen II the lobby Of the oper
mouse had observed we'll dressed maj
eross Lexington Avenue. He carried
H'aaarne bag, which he placed upol
''e Sidewalk. lie opened the bag, drew
manner from Il, and. before any o
laf poiiccmcn, who stood shoulder T.
srsa.asf, ssalizcd what he was ABOUT
80 lAnmcd his ~ay pat them an,
"f''eh tho hammer through heaV
pane oi platexiass in the opera aous
a'o1 ln~n the lone rIoter droppc
-" hamrocy and submitted to arrest
''h fignt arn ~as gashed from wis
" siDo" By the shattered ylass.
AZ the East Fifty first Street sta
ION he SAID he was Herbert Levi,
."ty-s'1 years old, Of 53A Iadiso
Hrsnue, and clained TO have serve
Yserseas M the Second Division Of III
s,afinH,,. After = hospital surgeon ha
e'i%ned MS wound ne wa5 locked u
V enafz< ~ maiicioo2 n @cnlcf
i""is told Mag istsate tofriVan. bc
lore whom he ua4 arraiyned In Nigh
,u,onr'. that he VA a magazine writcl
ne attributed his 4ct 50 "patriotism
one Of tfs higncst forms Of patriol
,Sm' said the ,nagtstrate. "Is sdhe,
nH 70 the laws of the country. 1her
s1f iot OF people who drink Germa
"ss' and 1 hear no objection 10 tha
Continued on pogs eight