The sun., 1919-10-23
GERMAN Is SUNG
SPITE FLYING EGGS


tagging behind and at the sides. the mob
moved through Fifty-first street toward
Park avenue, which Is a block from the
theatre. Near the avenue they were
charged by hfteen mounted cops, ten In
the first rank, FIVE in the second. who
nudged the rioters back by swinging
their horses from pavement to sidewalk
and back as they advanced and by bend
ing over and swinging their clubs freely.
Yelling. the raiders retreated west
ward in Fifty-f1rst street, all except a
sailor, who kept on alone toward the
theatre. Two plain clothes policemen
chased him, one Of them shouting stop
or we'll shoot" In F1fty-frst street
between Park and Lexington avenues,
half a block from the theatre where
singing in German was going on, the
sailor dropped. He had not been shot,
but something had hit him on the head
and he was unconscious. He was taken
to Flower Hospital. His cap was let
tered "U. s. Shipping Board"
Meanwhile a man in civilian clothes
on the truck fired revolver. then
Jumped off and raced down Park ave-
nue.. Policemen swarmed after him.
Others were waiting at Fiftieth street.
The quarry ducked into an apartment
mouse at 320 Park avenue, at Fiftieth
street. Nine policemen followed him in
with nightsticks flying. When he came
out they were carrying him. An am
bulance was sent for. The names OF the
sailor and the gun toter were not
learned at this time. In the scramble
the American flag disappeared from the
auto truck. which the police captured.
When the sailor fell Father Martin OF
st. Patrick's Cathedral hurried to his
side and stood over him until DR.. Jost
arrived in an ambulance from Flower
Hospital. The police said they did not
know whether the sailor had been
dubbed, run down by the mounted mer
or hit by a brick or stone.
The sailor, who was taken to Belle
vue Hospital. was identified as William
Reid OF the training ship Granite Stat'
and haling from Jamaica Plains, Mass
He told the police that he was walking
with Miss Mary Murphy of the Y. W
C. A. and had no thought of riotint
when he was caught in a charge of til,
mounted men and foot policemen anC
was hit with what he thought was {
blackjack. He asked that Mrs Bur
llngame. director of War Camp Com
munity Service Bureau at the Gran,
Central Station, be notified. She sal,
that Reid served six months in Franc
with the Sixth Naval Battalion. wa
| gassed and since his return had beel
| subject to fainting spells. At Bellevu
| no sign of a fractured skull was found
but It appeared that the sailor had beel
kicked in the abdomen. He was hys
terical.
A few minutes after this episod
| Frederick a. Wallis, Fourth Deput
Commissioner Of Police, arrived at tn
theatre, where Augustus D. Porter, Thir
Deputy; Chief Inspector John Daily, In
spector Thomas v. Underhill and Capt
| William w. Duggan OF the East Fifty
| first street station had been directing
police operations since early in the eve
min. Commissioner Wallis said head
| quarters had heard that organizes
bands of service men were on their wa,
| to the theatre.
A little after 10 o'clock leaders Of sew
| eral hundred men gathered at Forty
ninth street and Park avenue telephone
to the Motor Transport Corps garage a
Eleventh avenue and Fifty-seventl
street and asked that two motor truck
be got ready as they were going I
! charge the police. The crowd the
marched to the garage and were tryinl
to start two trucks which they foun
stalled In the street when they wer
driven Off by army guards armed wit
rifles. Returning to Madison avenu