The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-08-24
BATTLE ENDS PARTY:
ROBBERY, SAYS HOST
Police Reserves Arrest Three
Guests Of Youth, Who
Charges Theft Plot.
FLASKS STREW BUILDING
Fighting on Apartment Roof,
in Halls and in Cellar Draws
Crowd Near Drive.
FLASKS STREW BUILDING

julius l.. Marco. a vice-president Of
the Stephens Fuel Company, Inc, went
away for the summer recently with
Mrs. Marco. and his son, Benjamin.
who is 10 years old, gave party last
night in the family apartment in sos
of his male friends and nine women,
and the party went along swimmingly,
but not at all dryly, until soon after
midnight, when, according to young
Marcos stories 10 the police, the
guests attacked him for the purpose
Of robbery.
that spread all over the apartment
house, into the cellars and on the roofs
of nearby buildings. and which did not
end until the reserves from the West
125th street station came and pried
guests from bathtubs and dumbwaiters.
dug them from cellars and plucked
them from roofs and took three of
them TO the station house to be ques-
toned and entered on the blotter.
The apartment house is within half a
block OF Riverside Drive. After the
police had stopped the fight the cor
ridors, stairs and lower floor looked as
though the Hudson River had acquired
n Bahama odor and moved in. The
corridors and stairs were strewn with
broken glasses and broken bottles. and
at the bottom OF the stairs n pool OF
highly scented liquor gave evidence Of
the terrific struggle that had gone on
upstairs. The collars and coats Of
Marco aad his guests were ripped and
torn. and their garments We're red and
their noses were bleeding. The police
expressed the opinion that the boys had
hit each other pretty hard.
Several tenants said last night that
since his folks went TO the country
young Marco had given several parties
that were not exactly silent and not
exactly dry but that last nights affair
was the prize. II was not so noisy In
the early part of the evening. they said.
but about midnight some wild shouts
we're heard. followed by the crash OF
broken glass.
Then the door of the apartment open
cd and began to erupt shrieking girls
and young men engaged IN battle. They
battled up the stairs and down the stairs
to the roofs and the cellars: they chased
one another to the tops of other apart
nlent houses and into the cellars next
door. and they hurled bottles and glasse
and language from one end OF the apart
ment house 20 the other
The row was so voclfcrous and so sue
cessful from the standpoint Of purely
physical demonstration that it awakened
almost every one In the neighborhood
and more than three hundred persons
ran into the street to see what Il was
about. The crowd in the streets Joined
the battlers in yelling for the police and
finally IL occurred to some one 10 get
. COP. They found one at i23d street
and the Drive. He took one look and
rang for the reserves, and twenty po-
llcemen came from tho West 18th street
station in a patrol wagon. They walked
back. because the wagon was transport
ing Marco and his guests.
Reuben Bernard. elevator operator OF
tho anartment house. heard the noise
and mounted guard =; the street door
with fire axe. He stopped five Of
tho guests, but they broke away before
the police came. Patrolmen who searched
the neighborhood. however. arrested
three men who gave their names az
John Phillips, an engineer. OF l57 West
1OSth street Edward Mcdonald. an iron
worker. Of f45 West fo8th street, and
Frank CreaRin. a chauffeur, Of 1896
Fortieth street Brooklyn.
Young Marco told the police that he
met most OF his guests in q pool room
two or three days ago and invited them
10 hts party. lie said also that before
tho row began they cut the telephone
wires go he would not be able to summon
the police. None Of the women was
caught by the police Creagin was said
~ the police to have been caught In q
bathtu5 In a womcn's club al sos West
tf-ti, otrort