The regiment's task had only just begun, however. Peter had orders to
clear the streets about the station. After a consultation with the
police captain, the companies were told off, and filing out of the
various doors, they began work. Peter had planned his debouchments so as
to split the mob into sections, knowing that each fragment pushed back
rendered the remainder less formidable. First a sally was made from the
terminal station, and after two lines of troops had been thrown across
Forty-second Street, the second was ordered to advance. Thus a great
tongue of the mob, which stretched towards Third Avenue, was pressed
back, almost to that street, and held there, without a quarter of the
mob knowing that anything was being done. Then a similar operation was
repeated on Forty-third Street and Forty-fourth Street, and possession
was taken of Madison Avenue. Another wedge was driven into the mob and a
section pushed along Forty-second, nearly to Fifth Avenue. Then what was
left of the mob was pushed back from the front of the building down Park
Avenue.
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