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Show ! rmmI ' m J r RRRfl I "" M At the Peace Banquet in H ' Carnegie Hall This H , Evening-. RMMj I H New York, Dec. 30. Thero is to bo H I peace at the Citizens' Peace banquet H1 " hero tonight, oven if takes twenty po- H ', licemen to accomplish it. At the re- H ( quest of Samuel D. Thomas, a moiii- H bcr of tho executive commit too of the H dinner, Poilco Commissioner Waldo B 1ms assigned to duty in and about H the dining room twenty members of B tho "strong arm squad," which achlev- H' ed famo as the result of numerous H victories in encounters with street H ' car rowdies and Coney island ruffians. U After Mr. Thomas' visit Commls- M sloner Waldo said ho had received H letters from several prominent men M who attended tho recent belligerent M pence gathering in Carnegie hall. They M y asked him to use all the power of his M ! department to avert a repetition of M " fliich rowdyism at the dinner tonight. H Tho policemen will not be in uniform. M Mr. Thomas was unwilling to discuss H tho dinner for publication. H "Wo aro going to hae a peaceable H dinner and the president is going to H bo protected," was all ho would say. |