The New York herald., 1921-05-21
CLUBS END RIOTS AS
2,75O Begin LANDING
ON AQU|7ANA PIER.
Police Have Exciting Fight
With Strikers, Who Use
Rocks as Weapons.
FIREMAN BADLY HURT
Run West Swiftest Since
1914. and List Biggest
Since War Began.
ORPHANS TO LIVE HERE
Barney Flood Fails to Get
Travelling Pawnbroker,'
but Has a Prisoner.
13 ORPHANS TO LIVE HERE

The arrival of thirty patrolmen from
the West Twentieth and Charles street
stations prevented a serious outbreak
last night soon after o'clock when
the steamship Aquitania of the Cunard
Line began to discharge her passen-
gers at Pier 81 and Pier 56 at Thir-
teenth street and Fourteenth street
and the Hudson River. Several hun
dred strikers were pushing menacingly
toward the pier gates, but they were
quickly routed by the police and driven
northward in Eleventh avenue.
The police pursued the crowd for
half a block and were greeted by
shower of stones. The patrolmen. one
Of whom was struck by stone, then
started again after the crowd and used
their nightsticks freely before all OF
the strikers could get out of the way.
The trouble caused considerable ex-
citement in the densely populated neigh
borhood but It lasted only few min
utes as the crowds of strikers made no
attempt to fight the officers. The re-
serves under Sergeants Kelly and
Hughes established police lines about the
pier, and the Aquitania discharged her
passengers without further incident.
Half a dozen women carrying placards
denouncing the English and urging the
strikers to stand firm were marching
back and forth before the pier gates
when the trouble began. They hid be-
hind automobiles when the police came
and we're not molested. One OF the
placards read, Dukes and Counts are
serving as strike breakers Aother
said, "The English nobility goes 10 work
as strike breakers. Strike breaking
aristocrats stand together. so should we
workers"
Swift Trip Across Seas.
Half an hour after the police had
driven the strikers from the pier front
phiIip Brown. negro fireman of the
,.unard Line, was attacked by crowd
OF strikers in Eleventh avenue. near Six
teenth street, when he started to his
home in 14s West 141st street. Patrol
man John Dilge heard two women sit
ting in an automobile scream as they
saw Brown attacked. and hurried to the
negro's rescue. as did several other po-
licemen. The strikers ran when they
saw the police approach. Dilge fired
four shots in the air. Three Of the
strikers stopped. They were arrested
on disorde-ly conduct charges.
The Aquitania made the fastest voy-
age from Southampton to New York
since 1914, and also carried the largest
number of passengers that have arrived
here on a single trip since the start
OF the war. Her actual running time
10 the Ambrose Channel lightship was
dive days and twenty hours. and she
would have lowered this considerably
had il not been for the thick blanket OF
FOG at the finish. Her passengers totalled
2.750. of whom 606 were In the first
cabin and $40 In the second.
Because Of the strike of Tie Stewards
Union in Great Britain cnly twenty Of
the regular stewards were aboard. Be
fore the Acuuitania sailed the company
called for volunteers from It's clerical
staffs all over England and 500 re-
sponded. Only about 200 of the volun-
teers were accepted.
The first shipment Of orphans sent
By the British American Child Adoption
Committee arrived on board In charge
az three nurses. They were met at the
pier by a committee consisting of Dr.
and Mrs. Henry d. Chaplin. Miss Clara
g. Spence, Miss Josephene Plow-Day.
Mrs. Irwin Van Cornell and Miss May
Wells There were thirteen youngsters
from five weeks to three years old-ten
girls and three boys. A special board OF
inquiry from Ellis Island sat on board
ship last night and passed the children
after the committee agreed that all
would be adopted by well to do American
families within two weeks DIR. and Mrs.
Chaplin are to take four for the Alice
Chaplin Adoption Nursery, 2l0o Lexing-
ton avenue the Spence Alumnae Asso-
citation is TO take four and Miss Spence
and Miss Charlotte Baker together will
take five.
Arrest In Mail Fraud Case.
Detective Sergeant Barney Flood. who
was decorated with the Legion OF Honor
while In Paris for his war service on
&C. Dwyer. under Federal indictment for
using the mails TO defrahd. when the
ship got within the three mile limit yes
tcrday morning. Dwyer was deported
from France and placed on the Adui-
tania by Paris detectives at Cherbourg
He is accused of fraud In company with
Kate NJ. Stanton and Albert F'roeIich
promoters OF the Stanton OIL Company.
Flood went abroad to run down Tsa-
dore Krumholtz, the travelling pawn
broker" charged with ewindling clients
here out OF $4,000 worth OF jewels and
money which the detective succeeded In
recovering In Vienna. Krumholtz, on
representations from the State Depart
ment. has been deported from Austria
10 Poland and Is now In Warsaw. There
IL no extradition treaty between tho
United States and Poland at present,
but negotiations for his return to New
York are going on and are expected TO
result successfully within o few months.
Crap shooting In the smoke room was
= favoritc sport on the voyage and pas
scngers said one pot of $4,000 was die
poaed Of on "A single shake Of the dice
Pots OF $500 and $500 were too common
10 excite comment, the passengers said.
zee top Of Want Ad. page to-day for valu-
.h,s r<s,S,a tio0 utyeu Situation Wanted