[citation needed] The gang, now a dominant force in New York, included Charles "Red" Farrell, Mike Costello, "Rubber" Shaw, Rickey Harrison, and "Honey" Stewart.
According to author Lucy Sante, activist Dorothy Day, by her own admission, spent much of her youth partying with the Dusters in Greenwich Village.
The saloon keeper reported this to his friend Dennis Sullivan, a patrolman from the Charles Street station, who arrested Farrell and ten other members at a local pool hall for vagrancy.
As the gang fled, five members remained behind to jump on Sullivan's back and to kick him in the face repeatedly before a police "flying squad" arrived.
Sullivan was hospitalized for over a month and the incident was immortalized in a poem by Gopher leader "One Lung" Curran:[1] Says Dinny "Here's me only chance To gain meself a name; I'll clean up the Hudson Dusters, and reach the hall of fame."
By 1914 however, with most of its leaders in jail or dead from drug overdoses, the remainder of the gang were driven from their territory by the Marginals under Tanner Smith, who after defeating the Pearl Buttons would assume control for the next decade.