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Show TAKE WHIG I Comparative Quiet Prevails' at Socialist Meeting in New York. Xi:W YORK", Nov. 26. To prevent a' recurrence of the clash between socialists j and soldiers and sailors which followed ' the meeting in Madison Square Garden last nipht, police reserves were hurried tonipht to a hall In JKasr. Fifty-eighth street- in which internationalists had gathered to denounce capitalism. .Several hundred men In uniform gathered gath-ered outside the hall. They roughly handled han-dled one young woman wearing a miniature minia-ture red flag in her hair while taking it from her. After the meeting started-the soldiers and sailors demanded entrance, but were hold back by the police. Representatives who entered the hall singly came back . rnid assured the men outside that the red Jpriag was not being displayed and that no disloyal utterances had been made. r There was but one disturbance in the hall during the meeting. This was when a soldier and several civilians removed a red necktie from a man standing at the roar. The police lined the streets for a block in both directions to protect the internationalists interna-tionalists when the meeting , ended. Wo- men with red flowers or ribbons on their bats were addressed roughly by the uniformed uni-formed men, who demanded the offending offend-ing color be removed. No attacks were s, made on women, but several men were chased by sailors and a few - were beaten. v The board of aldermen today adopted an ordinance prohibiting the display of red flags at parades or public meetings here. The measure becomes effective when Mayor llylan, who favors the ordinance, or-dinance, adds his signature. A maximum penalty of $ rOO fine and ten days" imprisonment im-prisonment is provided for violation. |