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L I RIOT i V V t 4 1 Babies in Arms Cry As Pol icemen Batt I e eTo To Break Up Crowd Doors of City Hall Assailed in Protest Against I High Cost of Living V V V 1 ll In sc f i S tl to Th The lb Telegram EW YORK ORK Feb 20 Out Out of oC N NEW NEV the Ghetto und and the tho east cast side Ide itI tenements tenements' V there swarmed today hundreds of oC women screaming We c aro are starved starved- Wo We 0 want bread They swooped down upon tho the city hall hail where rioting and scenes of ot disorder disorder disorder dis dis- order Thousands of or women of oC the tenement tenement ten ten- ement district fell Into the line led lcd by Swe Sweet t Marie Gans Gaas A long line they came old women bobbling hobbling hob bob bling and stumbling and amI shawl shawl- wrapped heads und and young mothers moth moth- ers holding aloft pale and wan babes Their screams rent the air airas airas as officers fought to break breakup up the parade of or protest Their numbers num nulTi- bers had dwindled I l by bythe bythe P Policemen the time they I reached t tho h 0 R 1 c Reply ep ZV 7 y I city h hall ll and to Wails began I loud 0 tl cries of ot hun huh V Plaintive ger r r Cr trIng babes babe and ml v echo of oC tho p peas rc of oV Europe Europe all all added to tho thu intense excitement Demands for Cor l Ia Mayor or Mitchel lItchel failed to bring out the chief chic executive but instead there camo came mounted policemen Within a few minutes after aller the and assailed the V an vanguard arrived doo of oC the city hall hail more than five thousand excited men and women filled city park and a second sec sec- on ond oiW call for Cor reserve poU police e went in Down Park row there came hundreds hundreds hundreds hun hun- of ut eager cager spectators lured luied by bythe bytho bytho tho the first riot scenes New York has seen for tor many a day Business Businessmen men from Crom the financial districts and from offices and shops nearby all added to the throng which jamm jammed d In upon the city hall Then there came camo the thelong thelong long Ions line of or stragglers V A line lino of or police was formed about the city hall hail and stormed by bythe bythe the screeching women many of or them holding babies aloft and cryIng cryIng cryIng cry- cry Ing out You sec see them they them they are starving starving In ing We e want bread 1 William Kennel the ma mayors mayor's mayors mayor's may may- ors or's aide ald finally appeared at al the doors of oC tho the city hall ball Tho The sight of oC tho the uniformed aide nide was tho signal sis for a new outburst from the mob Finally It quieted sufficiently for tor Kennel to announce the mayor would receive a a. delegation of or four of uC the women There were Immediate Imme diate V erica cries crl for Marie ll Mario Sweet we l 1 ri e A little woman wo- wo man made her herway W way up the Cheers city hail steps V Vand and there wore for V loud chers for Cor Corthe the Marie M. arle Sweet Marie Gans wa as the first delegato alp to tho mayor She Sho chose for tor her associates te Mrs Ida Harris president of oC the Mo ers ers' Vigilance ue leuc of oC the east cast side Mrs Tillie J. J and Mrs Annb An- An V nb Walker both leaders in the tenement districts Once in the corridors of or the city hall hail th the delegation found round they had V been deceived Mayor Mitchel was not in his office and It was an announced announced an- an he might not be in all nIl day V Rushing out to the city hall hail steps Marie Mario Gans Cans told the tho cro crowd d they had been betrayed and haranguing ing inS her followers she succeeded succeed d in starting anew the screeching and yelling Suddenly she was as seized from behind by four tour husky policemen policemen police police- men and dragged into the buildIng building build build- In ing where she was detained and then arrested for tor disorderly con con- V duct Robbed of or its leader once more the roar of thousands of at voices t went up and little Benjamin Bernstein Bernstein Bern Bern- stein 15 thin and scrawny arose on the steps and addressed the tho V crolI crol crowds v H I tor 1 a am ann starved cri cried d the lad lall as V tears s swept ept down his pale face Ive I've got a sister sl t r and a mother and father tather and we all ai live e on Oil 3 a. a week Then the boy was wa swept into the tho maelstrom and his plaintive cries of ot protest were drowned by the moans and shrieks of or the rioters V as mounted police made th their lr wa way through the mob attempting to break brcak it up After Arter more than titan an hour Police and a a. halt half of or disorder and Halt demonstration police finally Riots succeeded in V scattering the tho crowd in all nil directions and still shrieking oaths oath and muttering muttering- threats threat tho the hundreds of or women made their way back to the tho ghetto and tho the east side not In an organized bod body but hut in little groups scattered lJ by bythe bythe the police Today's dt demonstration was an anI I aftermath of oC the food tood rioting yesterday yesterday yes yes- in Hester heater and Il streets n and nd tho the Williamsburg and anti Brownsville Browns districts Incensed at tho tIm high bight prices charged yesterday ester ay afternoon hundreds hundreds hun bun of or the tenement house women stormed push carts and street stands and wrecked them scattering scatter scatter- lug ing the products In the streets Throngs of or frantic women as assailed assailed as- as sailed the police and attempted to rescue their leader Sweet Marie Gan Cans Gans when she was being taken to pr prison from Crom the tho city hall hat in a pa patrol patrol patrol pa- pa wagon Several Sc times limes the tho women charged tho the wagon n on and patrolmen were scattered and their clothing torn in the melee melce The rho women were finally driven off oCt and Marie was as taken to the tho Elizabeth Elizabeth Eliza Eliza- beth street station |