New-York tribune., 1921-02-28
rerdon of 100 Is To BE
Thrown Around Garden
for Horror Mass Meeting
of Geruaanys Friends
|Hylan Is Silent as
Protests Pour I'm
Legion Members and Ex-
Service Men Prepare to
Attend; Fear Disorders

81 The mastering of nearly 200 police
a eneers and reserves in the 21st Pre-
a elrct and continued silence or the part
q Il Nayor Hylan are believed to indicate
Il lat no steps are to be taken by the
,i,y to step the Horror on the Rhine
nsss meeting in Madison Square Gar
4 ssn TONIGHT, Because hundreds of
] protests have poured into the Mayors
efiee asking that the meeting be fon
bidden and predictions of trouble of q
,erious nature have been openly made,
nayor Hylan's silence caused much
j comment yesterday.
One hundred picked men, under the
command of Captain James H. Post
and Inspector William Coleman, will be
thrown around the Garden long before
The time set for the meeting, it was
said last night. Ar additional hundred
police reserves will be scattered
throughout the precinct subject to
emergency cal, it was said at the 21st
| u.
tain Post, fearing trouble in the event
the meeting is held, had his fears con-
frmed yesterday when it was learned
fiat hundreds of American Legion and
former service men are planning to
songregate at Twenty eighth Street
and Fourth Avenue early in the even
ing and march to the Garden in body
ais only comment was, eve. Will have
% preserve law and order if trouble
starts."
Hundreds Join in Protest
Hundreds of letters and kilograms
protesting against the holding Of the
meeting poured into Mayor Hylan's Of
fee yesterday and hundreds more, it
is believed, will be received to-day.
Various organization heads and indi-
viduals, alarmed over Mayor Hylan's
silence regarding formal protest
lodged with him by the state branch Of
the American Legion, yesterday lent
their efforts by means of protests and
appeals. So far as could be ascer-
tanned, the Mayor made no response
other than brief letter of acknowl-
e5gment to the legion letter.
The New York Chapter, Sons of the
American Revolution, through it's presi-
dent Oliver B. Bridgman, yesterday
eant the following protest against the
holding of the meeting to Mayor Hy-
Ian The formal protest, draft of
which was sent to the Department Of
Justice and to the Police Department,
follows:
q most emphatically protest against
the holding Of the mass meeting in
Madison Square Garden tomorrow
committee. Such meeting has ap-
parently for its one object, no matter
how carefully concealed, the rupture
Of the strong tie between the American
and French people"
One protest from upwards of 10000
New York and Brooklyn school children,
members of the Loyal League, was de-
livered at the Mayors Office shortly
after 6 o'clock last night. The protest,
IN telegraphis form. was tersely worded
and was sIgned by Mrs. E. M. Raynor,
president of the league and former
president-general of the Daughters of
the Revolution. Mrs. Raynor said that
the protest represented more than
$4,000 school children from more than
100 school districts.
No Efforts to Cancel Contract
So far as could be ascertained yes
terday, no steps to cancel the contract
held by the Committee of One Hun
dred had been taken by Tex Richard,
manager of the Garden. Mr.. Rickard
has been confined to his home with a
SpvnTq - iu
secretary, Frank Coultry, could not be
reached.
DR.. Z. Won Mach, prominent German
leader and organizer of the New York
campaign Committee against the hor-
ror on the Rhine, under whose auspices
the meeting is to be held, could not
oe reached at his Office yesterday. His
aecreta<y, who vouchsafed the informa-
ton that she had been vested with au-
thorlty to speak for him, said that the
meeting would be held regardless of
the protests made by the American
Legion and other organizations. When
questioned as to the Rhine Committee s
attitude toward the American Legion,
she replied, 81 have no use for the
american Legion" When asked to give
aaer name, she refused, and when in
formed that she might be quoted as
having made such a statement she said,
= want to be quoted just that way"
she then hung up the receiver.
Daughters of Revolution Protest
;, Protests from the Daughters of the
kevolution and Daughters of the Gin
elnnati were prominent among those
aelivered to Mayor Hylan oIiice yes
@roay. Late last nigh. another pro-
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