The evening world. Newspaper, January 16, 1895, Page 1

Cp ve (“Circulation Books ( Open to All ») “ There is every prospect that the big Qrolley strike in Brooklyn will be Bpeedily ended. ‘was to have met this afternoon, ad- Journed until to-morrow jn order to con- fer upon terms with Presidents of the various roads. It was sald that a compromise would Be effected which will embrace three dis- ——. puted pointe. _ President Partr’ went to making ol) kina. 1 his Master Workr n Connelly sald this afternoon that he woul! call the strike eff if the presidents would agree to e matter to arbitration ereprs of Gén. MeLeer, At the suggestion Commander of the Second Brigade Militia, the commanders of all the resi ate ments Ir Brooklyn have culled for vol- unteers to guard the armuries from ible invasion by strike Armory At the Thirteenth Regiment ebout twenty-five of es Cetin fort ere there all 0 aoe, toctay. ‘Mayor Schieren is Menishing provisions, and the men do Iggown cooking, the commissary de- riment of the regiment being com- ' oe Trolley Road Employees Agree to Make Cer- tain Concessions. 0 CONSULT WITH OFFICIAL Col, Austen trouble, but that he AIKE * S. a the etrikers are concerned. It is expected that if an outbreak occurs it will be within the next twenty-four hours, and the Police Department fully Tealiges that it is in a poor condition to cope with anything like a well- organized mob. The third day of the great trolley tie- up in Brooklyn began with every pros- pect for serious conflicts between the strikers and police before the day was ended. | The first sign of trouble occurred tn | Flatbush, At 8 o'clock, as a mail car was going uptown on the Flatbush avenue line, it was attacked by a mob of about one hundred men, who hooted and feered and riddled the windows with stones. The outbreak took place near Church lane. Luckily, there was nobody in the car ‘The motorman turned on more current And soon was out of the reach of the strikers. No arrests were made. The determination on the part of the railroad companies to run more cars, and the fact that all the tied-up lines have been engaging a large number of new hat principally motormen and conductor given rise to the belief that a concerted attempt would be made to break the strike to-day. The temper of the crowds was shown yesterday in the riots which occurred on the Fifth Avenue line of the Atlantic Avenue Company, and in the vicinity of the Flatbush depot, and to-day it will not be surprising if these disturbances aster Workman Connelly Offers to Call the Str’ke Off if Presi- dents Will Arbitrate. ARMORIES ARE PLACED UNDER GUARD.| . Wen. McLeer Takes Precautions Against Invasion---Mob Attacks a Car with Stones. id he did not anticipate understood that Gen. McLeer's suggestion was made as ‘The State Board of Arbitration which | a precaution, Sol. Austen has left | command. The Twenty-third Regiment Arthory | gates. | of Brooklyn “Evening World” rt. view a number of the storm doors A private, with a head, said that there were soldier boys inal but that the lieutenant had no information for any one, further than | that they were there to guard the armory. | No Ammunition to Be Sold. Police Inspector Mackellar sent an order ty ail gunsmiths and hardware yes in Brooklyn this afternoon, pro- | jubiting the proprietors from sellinss ammunition until the present strike troubles are over, He ing the duiged in, ‘Then there suddenly came into soldiers’ heads from | danger in case rioting Is in- Major Cochran in looked deserted tntil an reporter this after- noon hammered on thi Agnes McDonald 1 (Tae girl whe threw a brick.) e Inch-thick iron beautiful blond | purposes lessen- | should become more widespread. The police force ix already overworked and has had its hands full In suppress- ing the disturbances which have already oveurrel They have been on duty 4l- most continuously for two days, and the men are becoming tire and disgruntled by the large amount of extra duty which has been imposed upon them. Big Strain op the Hh They number less than 1,700 men ail told, and in order to protect so enormous a territory as that covered by the city |of Brooklyn the resurees of the force j have been strained to the utmost Bevides this, a lar number officers } are now on the sick list, which has fur- ther diminished the efficiency of the force, It will become a very serious mat- ‘The question of his authority has heen rained, but it is gene: lly conceded that the order will be complied with in so far’ ME STARTS Clearing Fifth Avenue at the Depet. Bridge Entrance of the Usion L Read. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY ter in the present condition of the force should there be any general outbreak of lawlessness and violence. Inspector Mackellar, who was tn charge of Police Headquarters th's morning, looked worried and anxious. He has had no rest at all this week. “These are trying times," he sald to an “Evening World" reporter this morn- ing, “but we are doing the best we can and hope to suppress any trouble that may occur, The men, of course, are re- quired to do a great deal of extra duty, but they expect this in such a case. All IT can say at present ts that we shall endeavor to meet any emergency as It arises, The police reserves were called out from four precincts in Brooklyn early this morning with instructions to quell a riot in Flatlands. The news soon spread about town that rioting was in progress, and excitement was at fever heat for a time. The “riot consisted of half a dozen corner loafers guying the crew of @ passing car. One of them threw a stone which went far from the mark. In due course of time the stone was exagger- ated into a shot, the latter into a vol- ley and the haif dozen men into @ regi- The officials of the Atlantic Avenue Company made heroic efforts ail the morning to break the backbone of the strike on the Fifth avenue line. After 10 o'clock they had started seven cars from the depot at Twenty-fourth street, six regulars and one mail car, and succeeded in getting them away without any interference from the strik- lers, the police still holling the crowds in check. At the Court street line cars ran on regular schedule time, and hundreds of passengers were carried, Big crowds collected City Mall Square and | watehed cars as they passed by their to the ferry and the dime. Preste way fon bri statements } ent Norton, of the At TCompany, that he propo: operating all the lines of that s noon to-day, was generally regar a forerunner of trouble. ‘This wi Helude the Adams street, I ade ye terday ntle Ave to begin tem at ed as NUARY 16, 1895, Rutler street, Fifteenth street, Green- wood, Hicks street, Hoyt street, Park @venue, Seventh avenue and Vanderbilt @venue and West End Division, It was reported during the morning that there were signs of activity at the | Car houres of all these lines, and: It was generally belived that an attempt would be made to 'y out this programme, At least on some of these lines. | Afraid of the Bridge. Tt was announced, however, during the forenoon, that the Company had abandoned its idea of attempting to run cars over the Hamilton avenue bridge, which crosses the Gowanus Canal, This is an open bridge, and the vicinity ts regarded as a very dangerous one. Large crowds of strikers and their sup- porters have been congregating there for two days past, and this morning {t looked as if they were prepared to offer resistance if cars should be run over this route. The inability of the police force to strikers, but at Pollco He. rt had been made of Iquarters no ch an oveur- MEN OFFER CONCESSIONS. The Strike May Be Compromined by Arbitratt The meeting of the State Board of Arbitration, which was to take place in the Aldermanic chamber of the City Hall at 4 o'clock this afternoon, was ad- Journed until to-morrow morning at 11 o'clock Commissioner Feeney in adjourning the meeting sald that at a conference of the Bourd at the St. George Hotel to- day, the railroad employees had offered to make certain concessiona which they had requested the Board to lay before the railroad officials. The Board, he sald, sented the matter to Prestdent of the Brooklyn town Railroad Company, and w Partridge, ity and New- then Strikers Storming a Car en Flatbush Avenue. furnish adequate protection at this point when so many other localities demanded attention was recognized by the Com- pany. Subsequently more cars were taken out. The crowd of strikers had thinned out considerably and those who re- mained, made no effort to Interfere. ‘The Brooklyn elevated railroads reaped another rich harvest to-day. The ata- tions on all the lines were crowded more densely than on any previous day of the strike. This was the result of the rain and stormy weather, which discouraged walking and drove people to put up wit the discomforts of the overcrowded *" trains, and the delays and inconven- lences attendant upon the enormously increased traffic, During the early hours of the morning the service on the Kings County Ele- vated road was fairly good ana the trains were kept moving steadily, al- though there were some delays. The number of trains had been largely in- creased, and everything was being done to accommodate the unusual pressure of travel. On the various branches of the Broc lyn-Union road, however, the fi tles afforded were wretched. There blockades eveywhere along the route, and the trains were packed so that pas- wengers who had been able to get aboard found it almost impossible to get out. Hale Coat to the Compan The te-up oi the Brooklyn trolley Ines Is costing the companies a mint of money. It is estimated upon the basis of the figures furnished by the different companies of their average daily traffic that they have been losing hetween $20,000 and $40,000 a day ever since the strike began. It is estimated that the daily gross re- celpts of the Rroklyn City Company Mne are about $20,000, The Atlantic Avenue Company receives about $900 a day from passengers, and the De Kalb and Franklin avenue system about $3,500 a day. It may be said that since the beg ning of the week this revenue has been entirely cut off, #0 that the Josses caused by the strike to the companies whose Ines are tled-up In the three days ending to-night will be something Hike $100,00 Of course their expenses for operating their lines have been cut down p Honately, for they have had no wages to pay since thelr men went out, and most | of the depots have been closed uy Wire Reported ( At 12.90 this afternoon Car the Flatbush avenne station and started | dow town Instead of two policeme {t had five on board, and it was followed jby a ‘trol Wagon wi ten or fifteen men In it, and a large call of wire It was reported at the depot that some of the wires downtown had been cut by | engaged In taking similar action with regard to the other companies affected by the strike. For this reason the meet- ing was adjourned. After the meeting an * ening World” ! nise WIRE-CUTTING reporter saw Mr. Feeney, who said that the other mbers of the Board were then with President Lewis and_ the directors of the Brooklyn Heights Rail- road Company, and at the conclusion of that conference they would endeavor to, meke an appointment with President Norton, of the Atlantic Avenue Com- pany, and lay the matter before him. jo the men offer “What concessions to make?” he was asked. “Tt would not be proper for me to state,” was the reply.“ L will say, how- ever, that they are material. You un- derstand, of course, that the concessions are of a general character, as all the roads are not run on the same plan and tails, if the railroads are dispose, matter, would be arrang com, and their men.* fe From another source it: wa reported thet the concessions involve th dis- puted points. Late this afternoon it was reported that President Partridge had practically stated tha he was willing to treat with the men and to that has heen offe acee He expected to confer with the direc- any this evening, when ve detinitely settled, later that had s that the strike would be vase! his belle! on the with the presidents of the strike leader (Continued on Second Page.) Smoke The new Viginia C orld. mation Books Open to t the compromise | Ail.” STRIKE _EXTRA NO. 3 DON'T BE A TRAITOR! First Striker to Return to Work Pleaded With by His Wife But Gottschalk Repulsed Her and the Crowd Hissed. Police Arrived in Time to Save the Car from Destru ne One of the most dramatic incidents of the strike occurred this afternoon at 3.80 o'clock when Motorman John Gotts- chalk, who is the only one of the strik- ers to return to work, was bringing Car No. %, of the Fifth Avenue line down- town, ‘The car was slowly approaching Twen- ty-sixth street, where a considerabl crowd of strikers and their sympathix ers had gathered, when it was hailed by Gottschalk's wife, who desired to get aboard, It was stopped and she stepped on. paid her fare to the conductor and then walked hurriedly through the cur out to the front platform. ‘The crowd yelled and hooted and made such demonstrations of hostility that the motorman stopped the car. His wife appealed to him to desert his post and go back to his comrades, the strikers. “Don't be a traitor, John,” she plead- ed, “don't leave the men who are your friends. Come off the car She threw her arms about him and tried to pull him off the platform, while the crowd cheered her on. For fully five minutes, while the car was held by the crowd, she pleaded with her husband, and when he repulsed her the mob shrieked and hissed at him, The crowd became very much ex- cited, and It is more than likely the car would have been wrecked had not thi platoon of police arrived from the Twen- ty-fourth street station and cleared a way for It. Mrs, Gottschalk remained in the car as it went towards the bridge. 9 STONES FLEW IN FLATBUSH. but Nobody A large reinforcement of men for the Flatbush line were sent out to the depot by the Brooklyn Heights Company early this morning. Two cars had been laid up in Bush street overnight, and a few mffutes after 6 o'clock this morning they started for Flatbush. Erch car was filled with the new men who were to be put to work on this line, and two police officers accompanied ea cur, There were about fifty men in all. These cars reached Flatbush before 7 o'clock and met with no obstruction or interference on the route. The crowd which had gathered at that hour was not large, and the presence of the police deterred them from mal ing any demonstration, The cars were run Into the station, and the new motor- men and conductora were assigned to dut A dozen cars were once and the Company began rm at 7.20, when ‘the frat cai or the ferry, After that the ¢re run out on about five minute until the operation of the road as well under way. At first no resistance was offered by the strikers, but the crowds simply stood along the avenue and hooted at the cars as they passed by, Mean- while, however, a mob began to collect at the reservoir, and soon It became noixy and violent ax the numbers in- creased. WNTED POLICE AT THE FIFTH AVENUE DEPOT, curred when a car ne, A crowd of strik- ¢, after jeering and n-union crew, resorted e throw! ig missiles crashed through the vindowk and flew in close proximity to the heade of the An outhreak reached Church, ers gathered t Kat the 7 conductor and motor- man either was hit, however, and the motorman. partied his car out by puting on a little extra of rang power, other Hacn, Pure th Comune Priek | | | ia i) 47 LAST HE GETS THERE | ORLEANS MAY G0 TO FRANCE, The French Pretender to Meet His Supporters at Dover To-Day. CHEERS FOR A PARIS: KING) M. Casimir-Perier Is Univ Blamed for Resigning the Presideacy, ASSEMBLY MEETS TO-MORROW. Jn Spite of the Grave Crisis the Stock Markets Are Not Much Affected. LONDON, Jan. 16.—The Duke of Or leans, pretender to the throne of Franca, left Stowe House to-day for Dover, It {9 presumed that he 1s going te Belgium, or that he will meet his sup porters at Dover. Consequently, it te belleved that the Royallste of Frames are preparing to take some action i view of the crisis in France, | THE DUKR OF ORLEANS. | ‘The resignation of M. Casimir-Perter, | President of the French Republic, pro- |duced a complete change in the busi- ness tendency on the Stock Exchange this morning. Buying was entirely stopped and there was a closing of ac- counts for a rise. ‘This is proceeding rapidly in all de- partments. ‘There was a general, though moderate, decline. French es fell 2, with the majority of other interna- tional stocks, PARIS, Jan. 16.—As the Deputies were leaving the Chamber to-day, after hear- ing the President of the Chamber read M. Casimir-Perier's letter of resigna- tion, the Duke de La Rochefoucauld, Duke de Doudeauville, cried: “Vive le Roi!" (Long live the King.) A scene of great excitement followed, during which the members of the Left retorted with loud cries of: “Vive la Republique!" (Long live the Republic.) M. de Baudry d’ Asson, Legitimist, re- plied with a loud shout of: "Vive le Rol!" "Vive le Rol!" M. Brisson, President of the Chamber of Deputies, this afternoon officially an- nounced that he had received a letter from M, Challemel-Lacour, President of the Senate, convoking the National Assembly for 1 o'clock to-morrow at Versailles, France is facing a crisis to-day as the result of the resignation of Casimire Perler as President of the French Re- public, ‘This action was taken unex- pectedly last evening after he had had 4 conference with several members of the Cabinet, which had just resigned from ottice At 11 o'clock this morning M. Casimire Perier received Premier Dupuy and the rest of the Cabinet Ministers, After a short conference they withdrew and later an officer of the President's Mili- tary Household conveyed to M. Dupuy M. Casimir-Perier’s letter resigning the Presidency of the French Repubite. The Senate and Chamber of Deputies met at 3 o'clock this afternoon, and the following letter from M, Casimir-Perier was read to both bodies: “I did not conceal from myself the difficulties of the task which the Na- ticha! Assembly imposed upon me. had foreseen them, but If one does not refuse a post in a moment of danger one can only preserve one's dignity in the conviction that the country Is being served, A President of the Republic without means of action or without cons trol, can derive from the confidence of the ation alone that moral force with- out which he ts nothing. T doubt neither the good sense nor the justice of France, But public opinion has been led astray. (Continued on Third Page The importations during 18) of GH. Bi T7s cance, or 44,704 cases more thea ea cs \. Other brand” its Tao vintage atsraot, attention for remarkable quality, natumal ess aud purity,