The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 26, 1903, Page 1

ABT —Showere tonight and & hy south to east winds, EDITION IREATEST S TR THE SEATTLE STAR. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, MARCH 46, 1903 IKE IN HISTORY OF CITY Bank Clearings Today, $555,180 This Date a Year Ago, $446,630 Increa: VOL, 5. No. 25. $108,550 25 CENTS PER MONTH TIES UP ALL S7REET CAR LINES OF THE SEATTLE ELECTRIC COMPANY EW CAR MEN’S UNION VOTES TO ‘ & STRIKE AND 580 Six Cars Out of 130 are Run- and Thousands of Citizens! are Forced to Walk---Non-Union rmen and Conductors are Jeered By Crowds, but no Real Acts of Violence Have Been Committed and None are Ex- sted---Recognition of Union 5 greatest trike in the qnred tee disturbances on busy street Seattle wes insugurated ” As forecasted in the Star motormen and oe. | feattic Electric Com-| the men in charge are jeored at as y after 12 o'clock Inst corners but no rioting, and none ts expected. Cars with non-union crews are hooted aa they pass and | WITH A “seas,” but no vicious attempt has BOARD AND ROOM been made by the strikers to inter- hall and receiving their ultimatum serv- corporation yesterday, rupt traffic, such as it fa, ON MONDAY BY ‘The striking carmen have, as a t rule, consistently opposed any at with the the full strength of the Street Raitway Em- of Seattic, to take out B their demands should d with. the sun rose behind the morning on 8 city From Ballard to from Eiliett bay to not @ street cer A great stillness, fn the business dis- tempt to Interfore hon- union moetormen and conductors Sympathiaers have done most of the Interference. Chiet of Police Sullivan and Sher iff Cudines have been appiied to by Superintendent ot electric company for officers to pro- tect non-union men, but so far the officials named have not deemed tt necessary to appoint ppectal men for the Kempster OF BREAKING IN NEW ™ elined to name any men. Mr. Furth said pit We accede to the demands of E: < the strikers, it means that we must Gerceghout! thie city. | UTE? OUts. Kempeter told the pow out ef employment both at Tacoma and Beatle fmithful em sheriff that he aid not expect trow troliey and the muf- ployes whe have stood by us and we ble before Hightfal, by which time)are pot ‘Dullt that way. We stand) cable were nowhere by our friends Asa matter of fact,} he thought he would have most of jtwo-third of the men have been led. hin cars running. tte this an against thelr own! an it. They had no g of the ote, The lines on which care are deing drigalog rain, the business of tofl- any. Mr. Furth asserted that the Seattle | : 2." lard, Capitol Hill, Green Lake, and Madrona park | thing clee When the Anne divisions, Six cars| arbitration was suggested to him, be aE Beth nentn cam ‘STEPS THAT STREET UP VOTED SHORTLY AFTE PANY'’S REFUSAL OF UNION TRAINMEN IDLE MEN SENT 10 TACOMA GET d/1-2 CEMS AN HOUR WITH FREE BOARo AND ROOM (SPECIAL TO THE STAR.) TACOMA, MARCH 26—THERE ARE 26 MEN HER@ FROM SEATTLE WHO ARE ORAWING 37), CENTS AN HOUR, FURNISHED IN ADDITION. THEY FREELY STATE THAT THEY WERE SENT OVER SUPERINTENDENT KEM SEATTLE ELECTRIC COMPANY, AND THAT THEY AR STRUCTED TO STAY UNTIL THE END OF THE STRIKE MOST OF THEM ARE OLD EMPLOYVES, WEARING SERVICE STRIPES. THEY FREELY ADMITTED THAT THEY HAD REGULAR RUNS IN SEATTLE AND WERE RECEIVING THE HIGHEST WAGES THERE. HERE AS MOTORMEN ON THE CARS, AND IN THE WORK STER OF THE N- THEY ARE EMPLOYED said that he would be glad to submit the Inmue to any board of disinter ented cith and that if the dix atonal i jo againet the com- be would cheerfully submit. Bt “Ll am not stubborn, If public decides that I am wrong. I will recede.” Mr. Furth added that new men would be “broken in” as rapidly « ie. and that if any should come other cities, they would be giv om employment, if competent. He admitted that the of fim the places of the strikers wane, of heceselty Tie public, unlees the strtae seuss give tn. LED TO CAR STRIKE R MIONIOHT, BECAUSE OF Com. DEMANDS—aQuUICK WORK IN ORGANIZING THE MEN As foreshadowed tn the Star yeu torday the members of the newly or- jaed Street Rallway Employes’ jon of Beattie, met last night in hall after most of the cars hed ceased running to consider the situation, Half an hour after mid- night the reeefution net to take cars out (oday was reached. At least 300 men were present at the meet- ns was tvell understood beforehand by those acquainted with the situa- sotion would be taken. of the company to make any anewer to the demand served dpon Supt. Kempeter in the forenoon Was notice to the men that war wae an and might as well be previpttated at once am to be delayed tn « vain hope, of concessions. They had in fact delivered an witimatum that an MEN WAS PRECIPITATED BY SEATTLE Com. RENCE IN TACOMA, BUT A DEEPER QUES- VED IN THE TROUGLE the jocal strike ,“scabe” wpon the blackboard in the > is |roome of the Western Central Labor Union: A. C. Campbell, J. Seanian, B. Hardin, C. Cummi Ludington, x Morphy. y. 4. Bonler, W. Teets, Roland, Osbour " elgren, Hicks, Floyd, Dy Johnecp, Lee| It ts claimed that about [60 men Shaiffier and A. V. MUholiatid All| 4f¢ now enrotied in the union. A these went to Tacoma to take the! temporary organisation has been of- places of strikers. fected with 8. W, McCoy an preat- Lee Shaiffier was an inspector in| dent and A. M. Mortensen as secre thin city, Nearly all the others are| tary. sid to bave given up fi clase ‘The work of organising has been work to go to Tacoma. A. ©. Camp-} going on steadily since Sunday at- bell je sald to have been running &# | ternoon. That night and all day n Sonday the prime movers continued the wor! obtaining signers to (he Beveral of the men named are said | agreement to join the untow and by to have been regarded as spies for! Tuesday evening a sufficient number 4 é iy B= The | had been obtained to warrant a 01 reapon meeting to commence formal organ- bility for the destruction of the} ation ‘This meeting lasted nearly all night. In the morning « committee com- posed of George Bean, J. W. Web- “a Charles Kt. Zipeer, G. P. Per- vival and A. Runean presented to would be ordered. to go that the men Own free will,| Lee Shaiffier, Campbell and A. V, Milholland. ‘There is no Question of wages in left jobs payt he controversy. That subject has an hour to take the|not heen mentioned in the agitation Who had been re-| The fight ts aolely to obtain recon “an hour tion of the union and to secure the u the Beattic men|emnrinyment of none but union aber Of more an hour In|in this eity or Tacoma, Upon that they work or not; |iawue the struggle will proceed until ot lone side h ives way or mpany in an 4 coma Rai all he carried to the bitter end that ft is a fight for principle, and Men are posted asithat no concession te possible DENT FURTH | A car on the Ballard line wae run out early in the morning tn charge of Conductor James Badolette and Motorman John Tyler, The latter was formerly inspector for the com pany. This car made one trip to Ballard and return, When itr Seattle terminus on Western’ it was surrounded by strik crowd of sympathieers. strikers tried induc and conductor te work and join the range of Strikers, Both men claimed that they had not been notified that the atrike had been or and for that reason they had consented to take a car out After the car had been held at the terminus for an hour and @ haif the motorman and conductor agreed to take It to the barn. This promise they carried out and were greeted with shouts of approval alt along the line. When the same car wan at Ballard it met rather a warmer reeeption Main street was lined with oral nis an hour! hundred workingmen and other ree to take 18- | idents of Ballard, who loudly jeered ¢ men WEE! the men Who were operating the car, ati) drawing 24 cente an houf from) no act of vicence was attempted, the Hoeattle Mlectrle company. He|jawever, A man in brass button said that most of the men who went| on the front end was the onl to Tacoma were substitutes whol genger to enter and leave Ball they chone to) were not work! regularly t,| the car Seattle and that they were paid by the | "The dar did not start back until] Pes egiteie company i#! coma mpany, according to nearly 12 o'clock. It began t 4 Pee ars Atteet carlumual acale. Ie said | with five passengers, bu ee Mr. Furth?” he he Tacornm COmpiny haw A 24-| down Hallard avenue fF cent class, As well a@ the Beattle gauntlet of opprobrious cries trie company, and if any men in threats from 160 hontile throats they that claws went to Tacoma, they are! dropped orf one at a time until the doubtiews receiving that rate there.” | gar was empty of passengers at the enerat Manager Grant, who was) jower end of the street present, asserted at thie point that! The workingmen of Ballard have the at in thie city i led By men he Wy Aischarwed by. the | company ee, and Mr. Furth’ dents of the Hoth, however do- on the Great NCH the avenur ere and @ The motorman ELECTRIC COMPANY'S SIDE OF THE PRESENT) ITS THAT CORPORATION'S INTEREFERENCE TACOMA SITUATION there, it has been on the ground of President of the He- self-interest, and not merely to help TN cecopeny, to « cortgin out unotner corporat "That ie it, Mr. Furth |posttively Beattle Hie the ¢laim of the union ied that mpany had strike there, this morning he said fompariy was in Mand We permitted some £0. We had We needed, but wel to go. there. | In thie eity, ent Jobs, and the i A major- ma com- BY stockholders of Wie company. stone Own & large Liock t latin that if have auoF to the Taor handing 1) Ho corporntion * of Me Ta | A large number of reel town came to Benttle Northern passenger | ES: ie cm tacitly boycotted the street railway | Supt. Kempster a written demand tor ition of the r 1 union aad the ihe employes whe had 7 Tacoma. Mar told veneer: day of the curt refuesi of the de- The union men were then notified to be present at the meeting: to be held shorty after midnight for the Purpose of putting Into effect the de- cision made the night before, to te oe ear service. Strike leaders say they will enert every eflort to prevent violence and they do mot expect that thir own men will be qullty of any. They “ fuly aware that lawless elements v fere forcibly with the operation of cars, and eay they are willing to help run United States mall cars, Tt la claimed by the union leaders that leas than $6 mep have remained out of the new oulon, and that the union will be a to Diock the oper- ation of care almost completely. The ‘tke leaders are confident of ulti- le vietory. and say that the strike Wil be conducted peacenbty, ‘The teamaters of the elty are al- lowed to be making more trouble than the etrthe: They blockade the few oars that are running when- ever possible, , Obstructions were pinced on the track at the corner of Boren avenue and Pike street. At one time several empty wagons and heavy timbers were piled up in a heap there, A similar obstruction Was reported on eWatern avenue to block the Ballard tine. BALLARD WORKINGMEN BOYCOTT STREET CARS train this morning. About 11 o'clock others who had business in the city chartered © large omnibus and e to Seattle in thet The schools of Ballard were ously affected by the strike. Seven teachers who are employed in th schools and tive in Seattle, were not able to get out to thelr desks t morning. While none of the sch were clowed, the work was seriously hampered. BON MARCHE TO CARRY SHOPPERS The Bon Marche department ate this morning equipped 90 of its de livery wagons with seats and will send them to the suburbs to collect shoppers who in the absence of atreet cars have no other means of conveyance. Manager A, G. Bu chanan said “The strike could not have come at a more unfortunate time for today t day of ure absolutely fight and 1 want underst that the Marche has not od the general transportation business, but that we ive to bring ae many of r# AN porsible to us, our it ; me that will be wu # purpose will hear « sigr effect thut free ride to t | mayor HUMES Bon | th aeme overt aot | ur | et eriyty UNION MEN PREVENTED MOBBING OF MOTERMEN fore, ax well as two of the office force of the elsetric company, who were on the car It seemed at one time as though the strikers would drag the m i man from the car, but 4 repre tive of the Western Central Labor | Union made his way inte the midat the crowd and In an apoech begged the strikers tc the car to proceed The #loquenc whose name could had the desired effect The track | was cleared and the car proceeded It carried no panen About ® o'clock this morning an atiempt was made to run a car over the Pike street and Broadway tine, At the corner of Fifth avenue and rikers surrounded the vented further progress. . clan, attempte ro of the crowd. fn #0 doing he struck Sam Hamilton's furniture van, but ho werions damage resulted ‘The #trect was blockaded for 20) minutes, during which time the strikers reviled the motor= man, whom they asserted was alon its way lineman, never having ru na car be- | gers. CHAMBER ADOPTS THE trl allow the speaker, not be learned, COMMITTEE REPORT moat bitterly opposed the Third av- enue and Fine street nite, He | that even if the city secured it free | of cost, the people would still be put) to an expense of 10,000 to | 6), 006 securing & new #ite and erecting @ ‘The Chamber of Commerce, with- out & dissenting vote, yerterday evening adopted the report of its committee on municipal affairs, rec- emmending that the proposed r municipal buliding be erected on emmmt city hall eite, The ot heme of thd report, including th recommendation against the pro posed Third avenue and Pine atreet | site, and the recommendation that | the county procure the other haif of the present city hall bieck or the Yesler estate block for a county court house, were alao adopted al- n ng the f an | at th the roughfare and file @ peti- that body and have it! © future | discussed at some MoeGiraw taken. menting upon the delightful walk he had this morning “it's « darned shame,” he ex- cinimed, “that the public in a big city like Seattle has to suffer be- cause Some street car men down In the little suburb of Tacoma have « farievance and are not getting # & Ben-unton crew met with an much maney as the car men do bi Aeeident at the foot of Queen Min Heattle, where they have to hustie | tor ir pay Goren Anne counterbalance sut |The mayor is now riding bicycle of bectness for came time. in The indominable chief executitive of same manner the ertp lost the | the clty resurrected his wheel this ‘euluaeees that te used in iB] Morning and surprised his friends by ended Tt riding up to the city bal foe eed fer aut ae He was as complacent as if wuch a pe Ba thing as the strike were an un- car, which raced down the hill Mi noe el naty at speed. Just be- ~ fowe Mercer street was reached the stip struck some obstruc- tien and the trucks of the car twtsted around, tearing up the tracks for « distance of 36 feet or more, The car was also Gightiy wrecked. It te seid the aeocident was due to the inex- perience of the motorman, 8 THIS MAIL CARP over nee of the Beattie Bhce- FIRST SMASHUP At 11:90 o'clock this morning & Queen Anne car in charge of INCIDENTS OF STRIKE A non-union lineman in the em~- ploy of the Beattle Electric company was roughly handled by strike sym - pathivers thie afternoon He was accosted on Pike street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, and asked to quit the employ of the company ‘union, Upon who tere in his behalf. An incoming Pike street Hroadway car was stopped corner of Becond avenue and Pike mtreet, at 2 o'cto this afternoon, and Inspector Kimer Green, who wax in charae of the car, was rotten- by a large crowd of strike aympathizers As on the previous trip of this car, the trotiew = copoly jerked a from the wire and the trolley-rope weed to Join) At $10 this afternoon a Capitol Hill car was blocked on Becond ave fue between union and Pike streets by lumber plied on the track A Humber of women passengers were im the car, While the carmen were trying to clear away the obstruction, 4n installment of rotten egas was fired at them, and they were libe ally fremeced with the mens, were also thrown agninat the car, but a» the windows re down th passengers escaped injury from the delicate attention. POPULAR SENTIMENT WITH THE STRIKERS The strikers are tn high spirits and exceedingly songuine of early fuceers, They claim now to have more than $09 members in the union. | the barn and shop men having jotn e@ in large numbers. It is anwerted | at labor headquarters that scarcely & man of the Conductors and motor- | men in the employ of the company | yesterday, i at work today. The few that have not joined the union | are not at work. Toklas-Singerman @ Co. have | wiven $100 to the treasury of the union, and ined more in case of a prolongnt jon of the striek. Schwa. | bacher Bros, it is reported, sent | word to the strike headquarters that the union men could have grocertes | for six months on credit at their} houre. Popular sympathy seems to be | ranging itself strongly on the aide of | the strikers. SCHOOLS NOT AFFECED ooper of the public schools | at except at the High school tendance at the diferent schools has not diminished in conse- | Apence of the strike. | Ag pier schoo! students are drawn ¢rorel all parte of the city many ot those living in the suburbs could) Mot come + | “QUIT HIS JOB At teday Motorman Tyler. who been runni Queen Anne line wan the On his way to the Sais Woes chaeree repemealy by the crowds that jined Becond avenue and Pike street, ARBITRATION PROVIDED FOR S—In care any dispute granted J. Db. and Jacob Furth, March §, ed owned by the Seattle ‘Company. TALK OF PEACE Furth of the Seattle into @ con ference with Mayor Hummer in t jatter's Office in the city Pal, at * fas 1 wi i thu ee iy press ‘Shortly before M ted. to « repre- tative et the anion that he would eet A Comelittes of the men mud ort wl 7 the’ Situa oe ee ey Abe Supt 9, [RUN DOW | BY TRAIN | Teamster Has Narrow Escape, and ‘One Horse is Fatally Hurt BADGES WORN Tadgee bearing the words, “I B Walk, Do You?’ and “Blue Ie B} True, 1 Walk, Do You?” are be ing worn by hundreds of citt name today. V re cannot keep pace with the demand. Tele B graph poles along First and Becond avenue e being deck A Northern Pacific passenger train | thie morning ran at a high rate of | j speed into a team owned by A. R MeCleod, throwing the driver, M. J. | Burk, out of the wagon and so se verely injuring one of the horses 7 ” » No that it had to be shot, Bark landed | oo Me ect DO NOUR) on his head and right elbSw within feet of the passingtrain but SUREeaRneensesaweRsoneoe no further injuries than a d arm and slight bruises on hia head | The engine struck the horse on the right ide » bolted NOT DISTURBED Humes stated today that yet been asked by the sctric. Company for as running tte cars. “A delegation from tho strikers Ned on venting,” hi sald, a her I wou furnish policemen proteot non union motormen uctors during the strike, teld them that I had no of » for such w purpore destruction of hréatened committed blocks up & he wae stopp Kurk says that he w that the train was team was struck, whisties or bells. W. A. Snyder, who aaw dent, state# that the train appeared | o be running nearly 20 miles an hour when ft struck the team, and gave no warning of ite approach Acetdents similar to that of this morning are frequent on Ratiroad | avenue Trains run at high speed on the thoroughfare and “flying” | switches are fre yily made, en dangering the lives of pedestrians Mayor he had Beattle ne until the having heard no the acct: | property { te The Star) ARLINGTON, Wh March 26.— | Gien Robbine, & year # Robbin there ia an act oun breach « a nin the bil fishing he body was not found ore regrade | 04 POLIGE AND SHERIFF EXPECT WO VIOLENCE We have six care running Buperinter to conduct th the greatest tr wine from outsider re usually cause th troub ‘There yet has been 1 have and th rering ax much territory ae poe ha horwe and carriage, H little about the plans of the ven this m I will take measures to protect per nal property and to suppress vio going to put on ver, I will have dso that they to handle b und wilt will be sufficient protec believe that the street car mer will conduct their strike tn an order ly manner and that they will re frain from violence. However, I be FIRST bie wit in symp nd who may there is ence I wi arranger ng Poltoe y patrol ew ergt. Powers out several squad and the nelgh- near tenderloin beats tn treet tensibly to attend the y were within hailing « chief all of the time called on ata moments houl yey be required atany the ty Sullivan hae ordered all pa~ to remain on duty 12 hours Appeint no special deputies tric company's 1m Cuda this ee it appears that not be avoided, I do be situation ie at ait informed Supt. requested to depu- ard property.” ARREST ent growing out of the { Martin Thomson, boy who lives at for cutting @ trolley near Becond avenue At the station the ut the rope beceuse told him to do tt alarming Kempster tize men to DESPERATE ACT OF DESPONDENT WOMAN ATTEMPTS TO END HER LIFE BY JUMPING FROM A HIGH WIN- DOW-—ESCAPES AND 18 ALMOST UNINJURED Lou Storme, a dressmaker, morning Jumped from @ balcony of a Yesler way lodging house to the ground, @¢ feet below. and insisted on walking to the hos- pital, Not a bone was broken and ber injuries consisted chiefly in a severe shaking up. to the Wayside Mission hospital, finatiy | where it te thought that she will re- ° eover, Abandonment by the man she loved and @ fit of despondency brought on by heavy drinking are sald by her friends to have been the cause of her attempt at seif-destrue- tion, Miss Btorme ts about 25 years of age and for some time past has lived at the @palding house, near the corner of Fourth avenue and Yesler way. house that she jumped this morn- ing. hold her when she was about make the leap, but she broke away from them. Shortly after 4 o'clock thie morn- Ing she was with her two friends in Bhe had been the Spalding house. thie Bhe got up She was taken It wae from the reer of this Two friends, Bertha McMann and Mary McGinnis, attempted to drinking, presumably on account of the dixagreement with her sweet- heart. Buddeniy she broke away from the two women who were with her and rushed to the back of the house. Her friends did not think that she was going to attempt to kill herself, but followed her out on the back porch of the building in order to keep her from falling. No sooner had she gained the backs porch than she tried to jump over the railing. The buliding is two stories bigh on the Yesier way but ft is fully €0 feet to the from the balcony on which she waa standing. The two women with her grabbed her and forced her back into the house. She broke away again, how- ever, and rushed out on the veranda, This time she ed head = firee over the rail. fer two companions caught her skirts as she was going over and held her for a few sec~ onds, Before they could get a se- cure hold, however, the dress had slipped off and the woman plunged to the ground. Help was called and several of- ficers from the pollee siation, = diock away, came to the house. Those who had seen the leap did not think that anything but (he man- gied form of a dead woman would be found below. To thelr surprise, however, when the officers found the woman she was apparentiy but little hurt, There was an indenta- ton In the ground several inches deep where she landed, but the woman had no bones broken. She in- sisted on walking to the hospital when told that she would have to go there, but the ambulance was calied to take her. She was attended at the Wayside Minsion horpita! by Dr. Johnson. 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