Show THE FIRE ISLAND DRAMA TH Escene oene enacted on fire island I 1 yesterday was highly dramatic the conduct of the mob which gathered at the dock numbers of t those ose composing it armed with shotguns to resist the landing of the unfortunate passengers from the I 1 IN Nor or mania was not merely unmanly it was brutal and barbarous those people exhibited the perfect perfection iou of selfish cowardice the appeals made by and in behalf of the passengers were so pathetic that they awaken the emotions of the reader of the report of them the obstruct ors would not even allow the old women and the children to come ashore to obtain one nights rest they even persistently refused to permit bedding and food to be taken aboard the to tire the hungry exposed and exhausted passengers unless the captain should come on shore to receive service of a kempor temporary a ry injunction order forbidding him to land ind passengers we should think that the infamous reid bold the lawyer who acted for and prompted the mob would be remembered in all time to lomeas come as an in trickster it lie Is to the credit of the re presenta tives of the press that they interceded intercedes Inter ceded on behalf of the unfortunate people and plead with the mob not to perpetrate such a crime this incident is a disgrace to the country and presents the nation in an aim u enviable light before the world it to is a verification of the commentary of the poet about mans ii humanity to man the normania Nor manla 1 people were mostly americans americana returning home who were denied the privilege of planting their feet upon the soil of their own land by the inhumanity and cowardice of a mob of their own countrymen it is passing pacing estrange that such a scene should occur among 16 6 brave a people as th the e americans |