The evening world. Newspaper, January 17, 1895, Page 1

La sr , WOULD NOT ARBITRATE \ ‘MayorSchieren’s Conference With Railroad Officials Was Fruitless. STRIKERS GROW TROUBLESOME. Cars Attacked in Flatbush, on Fifth Avenue and on Halsey Street. PRES'T PARTRIDGE SIGNS AN AGREEMENT. . Corporation Counsel Ma donald and Police Commissioner Welles, were also in attendance. The efforts of the Mayor to arbitrate were fruitless, judging from ail indica- tiona. ‘The conference lasted a trifle over half an hour. As the Mayor was hurrying from the club house steps he wan asked what the result of the meeting waa. | He appeared to be mad trom crown to 06. | He waved the reporters off imperiouniy, land strode down the street towards the jot Ha on't bother me," My mind is pre-occupl Mr. Norton Jampea into a cab and rat- | tled off. President Lewis sald he did not care to say anything Corporation Counsel McDonald said the object of the meeting was to get a correct understanding of the situation direct from headquarters. Further than this they refused to talk, Commissioner Welles chewed vigorous- at a toothpick, and had nothing to rriving at the City Hall, Mr. Schlieren rushed into hie office and shut the door with a siam, After reaching his office in the City Hall, Corporation Counsel Macdonald said'to an “Fyening World" reporte! “Nothing definite came of the me ing. simply talked over the alti tion. have now heard both aides, the strikers and the managers, but nothing has been done, and it ts not certain that anything wall be,” Mayor Schieren sent out word to the company of newspaper men who were i, His Honor. DUDE MOTORMAN ON A TROLLEY CAR. The Strike, as far as the D2 Kalb Avenue Line Is Concerned, Is Declared Off. Mayor Schieren, of Brooklyn, had a| meeting decided to wait upon the com- conference with Presidents Lewis and’ pany and propose to call the strike off if Norton this afternoon, but nothing was | the officials would take off one trip. done towards settling the strike, { —o Karlier in the day the Mayor an-| Nouncel Uiat he would see the Presi- dents and endeavor to atrange matters Fo that peace would be restored. He was pliiniy very angry at the result of his mission, but refused to glve any par- tleul Shortly after 4 o'clock*there began to Y, trouble at the Fifth avenue depot The strikers gathered in force and Stoned the cars, breaking windows in! several. The police reserves cleared the avenue, forcing the men down the side street, The Mayor has requested the Corpora- tion Counsel to give him an opinion as to the power of the City Executive to compel the compan: The strike on the Brooklyn City and Newtown Railroad was declared off, President Partridge having sisned anj{ Agreement with the men. There were | concessions made on both sides, but the, men claim to have fared the best, ( Employees of the Fiatbush jine at al to run their cars, AA. ONG ISLA: pro ees Furniture Vans as Stages, The Brooklyn Heigs Company started cars on Putnam avenue and Halsey street shortly after noon, The strikers nttacked the cars with stones, and Po- iceman Battin, of the Seventeenth Sub- Precinet, was struck but not badly hurt, The Flatbush line experienced the most trouble, Three cars on that line were Schieren’s Conference with Presi- dents Came to Nothin: Mayor i} | | had finally given in and agreed to take back all the former employees of the line a “The Evening World result of the conference between the State Board cf Mediation and Arbit loa, Col. Partridge and the strike lead- ers of District Assembly 75, and Frank:in avenue line about 400 men, The order was tridge and employees provides that Bttacked to-day and the police were| Contactar, ix cemplovees provides tha compelled to charge the crowd on the |shal | bluff near the reservoir, The assailants | Jays dt used stones and lumps of ice very freely, qui 4 WOULD NOT ARBITRATE. that there shall be as cars a> the requirements of travel per- mit chieren of Brooklyn had @/to have twenty minutes for breakf conference with President Norton, of | thirty minutes for dinner snd not i | the Atlantic Avenue Railroad Company, | ‘ha twenty minutes for supper. and President Lewis of the Brooklyn | not be discharged without hearing, Heights Company, at the Hamilton Club that they will be. required to wear no| ot Strike Leaders Conferring. waiting to see him that he might have something to say to them later in the afternoon, President Lewis was seen after the conference a t the Hamilton Club, and he sald: “T have offered to make no concessions to any of the former employees of the Company, and shall make none. The sit- uation remains practically it was at the beginning of the strike, so far an our company is concerned. PARTRIDGE COMES TO TERMS. Thc striking Brooklyn trolley line em- Ployees nave gained a substantial ad- vantage in their fight with the railroad managers, and the outlook this morn- ing gave indications that the men would eventually come out ahead in their struggle for thelr rights. Every one was jubilant over the fact that Col. Partridge, President of the Brooklyn City and Newtown Company, jtep which was foreshadowed in yesterday, as a This company operates the De Kalb nt out from the offices of the Company shortly after 1 o'clock this morning to the vari- ous depots and car-houses of the two lines directing the superintendents in charge to re-employ all the old men who Were will.ng to return to work, and be in readiness to start the c at 5) o'clock this morning, | This ordec was carried out, and word belng sent to the men by the Execu- tive Boare of DA, 75, they were al on hand to resume work this in The agreement between President Pa: rs, motormen and switchmen be pald at the rate of $2 for @ full rk and $1.50 for trippers; that no FS’ or motormen shall be re- uired to work more than ten hours per lay within twelve consecutive hours, and full’ day ‘The work of trippers is to be com- leted within fourteen consecutive Conductors and motormen er day, and time and be pald for work over President Partridge also agreed to re- Instate sirckers reporting for duty fore noon to-day. The agreement was signed by President Partridge, for the Collins and Willlam C combe, for the men ‘As @ result the cars on the De Kalb avenue and Franklin avenue lines were ed out promptly at the regular hour and residents of rts of the ‘city through which these found that the; In possession of their ordinary travel- ecommodations when they were iness this morn- and inconveniences which they have experienced during odor senha A NEW CONDUCTOR STABBED. The conductor of car No. 1,387, of the Putnam Avenue and Halsey Street line, had @ rough experience on NIGHT EDITION FELIX FAURE IS PRESIDENT. —+-— Elected to Succeed M. Casi. iir-Perier as Chief of the French Republic, ORLEANS SSUESA MANIFESTO, STRIKE LEADER FLANAGAN. (Who conferred with the Mayor) After Annie guished herself by being arrested for two men boarded Later the men walked to the rear platform, pretending . One of them drew a knife and slashed it across the conduc- and stabbed him. . Dunn, of the Fourteenth Precinct jumped on ‘the car and placed both the men under arres At the Gaten Avenue and took sea to hunt cha Of 990 Jefrer and Michael Callan, 1569 Broadwi NORTON WILL NOT YIELD. Care with New Men and South Ferry Li of the Brooklyn Heights Company, and President Nor- (i, Of the Atlantic Avenue Company, have refused to come to the terms offered, although the Arbitration Com- labored long and earnestly with Mr. Lewis yesterday, Ported this morning, however, that al- though the Breklyn Heights Company had not yet given in, there was a very strong probability that some agreement might be arrived at before the end of the day, especially when it @ big point had been secured by the men in the case of Col. Partridge's Company. With President Norton, however, Com- could do nothing. He refused to listen to any arguments, and declared that he would not recede ‘an inch from the position which he had President Lewis, ay evident that missioner Feeney sion, publican, Was the first to deposit a ballot in the urn, ical Soclalist, who Is obliged to serve in the army, although he represents one of the districts of Reims tn the Chamber of 1 the loudly protested against his absence, crying “Shame! testy, however, the roll call was contin- ued, When the name of M. Edmond | lengths Toussaint, Socialist, was called, he sho STRIKE LEADER CALLAN (Who conferred with the Mayor.) There is nothing to arbitrate,” he to arbitrate with, this Company The old employees of Were given an opportunity to return to work until noon yesterday, and ax they did not accept this offer we shall have nothing further to do with them, unless they apply individually, and take their with the new men, many men as we need to start our cars and only wan’ a guarantee of sum™- clent police protection in order to put all our lines in operation,” Shortly after 6 o'clock this morning the police began making active p-epara- tions for trouble in the vicinity of the depot of the Atlantic Avenue Company, Fifth avenue and Twenty-fourth street, and ut thut hour the Fifth ave- nue depot was the only point in Brook- lyn where the police expected trouble. the Company had Vive la Revolution sociale! depot to take out cars to-day union men came in three wagons. M. Waldeck Rousseau Withdraws from the Contest in Favor of the Winner. EXCITING SCENES IN PALACE. In the Final Balloting M. Faure ceived 430 Vetes and M. Brisson 361. VERSAILLES, Jan, 17.—Felix Faure has been elected President of the French Republic to succeed Casimir- Perler, who resigned. The National As- sembly convened at the Palace here to- day to hold the election. The following was the result of the second ballot, so far as the leading can- didates are concerned M. Felix Faure... come a0 M. Henri Brisson... eer There were violent Socialist protests when the result was announced. M. Challemel-Lacour, President of the Senate, tho presiding officer of the National Asacmbly, called the Senators and Members of the Chamber of Lepu- tiesto order at 1 P. M., and the pro- ceedings proper opened at 1.10 P. M., when M, Challemel-Lacour read the ai Ucles of the Constitution which applied to the case, ‘Then there was a scene of considerable excitement, deputies from all parts of the hall springing to their feet and de- manding to be heard. M. Henri Michelin, Revisionist, asked leave to address the Assembly with the intention of recom- mending the convocation of a Conatitu- tional Assembly, with the object of re- vising the present Constitution, M. de Baudry d'Asson, Monarchist and Revisionist, who, as a result of his in- terruptions, has repeatedly been the ob- Ject of rigorous measures upon the part of the Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies, demanded to be heard. But M. Challemel-Lacour could not grant M. Michelin's request, and, belleving that M. de Baudry d’Asson was only going to make One of his familiar affirmations of devotion to the monarchy and the papacy, the President refused to hear him. On the other hand, M. Challemel- immediately taken. This was proceeded with amid considerable excitement in the galleries of the great hall, which were crowded to their utmost with notabilities representing every profes- M. Aveyron Labarthe, Moderator Re- When the name of M. Leon Mirmun,Rad- oclulists sprang to their feet and In spite of their pro- (“ Cireniation Books: RACE HORSE STOLEN, MR, SAGE iS President Kendall Acouses Him of Sharp Practices, Gonzales, customary the races were cf the straightaway or- der. August Belmont inten: D string of racers to Europe in charge of Jack Joyn Woodchopper. ‘106. t Dorsey) Lacour ordered that the first ballot be} Cexstors, 10. (4. Mage): lowed by Elmstone and 1 puties, was culled in a low voice, | Wesichester, 106 (Taylor) ..60-1 101 6 6 6 Johnny wax the pacemaker, leading his fled until opp the ‘paddock, | where Chateau made a bol and « |driving finish resulte by a he ted: "Citoyens et citoyennes: I refuse to vote. I shall deposit a blank in the urn, During the balloting, wh Down with the Presidency, Let us! jenstne arte the inner by ats have a dissolution. Stop voting. His beat K lengths This wus regarded as un indication | fF second position. that the Allemanist group. contrary to} se Beneral expectations, voted against M, |S) lls Ee aia Brisson, ‘There was an uproar also when | , ‘ \ The rew men came from Philadelphia two days ago, ording to # striker, thelr expenses to Brooklyn are paid they are promised $% a day euch the strike is oy r when they are to be | Yon lstantly approac! cur had # sign labelled | ‘ar to Fulton was sturted "laté4o P.M Af Duld | ballots, the Deputies assembled in the nue! Gallerie des Bustes, which was very the | crowded ok honed to Police Headq y to run a car from the Fifth aver it President Norton said he wou have both lines from the Fifth aven depot running on schedule t.me before It Is also agreed t t employees shal ‘i in Remson street this afternoon, ‘The| other uniform than a cap. They. are : mecting was requested by the RODE ON THE 1" ROAR crusns | WhO sought to make some settlement of Feel to be paid when care are detained by fires or other unavoidable cause, All special and excursion cars shall Ly A momen Norton gave out ment at noon, in which he said he could 4 large hole through the blockade. reward notices it and conviction ny one intimidating new men or se lil He was dl for the detection, an tes tite weve Hoes wi TH ASSO Rg the name of M. Dejeante, , Was (2 ttaston ui ‘, called, He shouted th " : : Down with the Presiden r ‘s Waile the voting Was in progr iopribran omteerta mute ny Soeur nee friends of M. Felix Faure were act By EUAS, SOREL She we y begin: canvassing for votes, and with apparent jenaths. from Hronston who beat Jewel suc until a rumor was started that | 4 lens nda Na me LAs SA he was a I ant. ‘This had a bad PITH 4, and | effect upon his candidacy, but a deputa, Sit amd guarter furlongs, selling doand 4 sik » jockeys. sirettti"y }tloned M. Faure upon the subje " * cars |latter, who was greatly excited, ® ’ 1am # Catholic denial reassured his supp oft rters second ballot began r depositing thetr first M. Pelletan, editor of La Just of e| Paris, was the centre of an excited throng, who were vehemently protesting against the abs as alr army nee of M. Mirman, who, stated, is serving in the M. Gerauld-Kichard shouted “This election is illeg: M. Jaures, the Soctalist leader, wae (Continued on Third Page) Pive tu . Mis je name Pa of Avez was called an Allemanist De uty shouted: For entries a mews see al: Open to FELIX FAURE, The New President of France. Alanthracite Missing from Her Stable at Alexander. Rumor that August Belmont Will Paragon Joyouse Events. (Special to The Evening World) RACE TRACK, ALEXANDER I8L- AND, Jan. 17—The card as origin- ally offered to-day was a deciledly good one in potnt of quantity, but the scratches were numeroun. Nevertheless, there were a sufficient number left in the various events to make matters in- teresting for the ten books on the line. The track was very heavy, and as is ditions, all Word was received here to-day that to emulate the er-Croker combination and send a It in said that Mr, Belmont’s stay will be an extended one, and that the con signment of thoroughbreds will include some of the «: of Rayon d'Or, tién was experien A mild se. 4 shortly before the first race by the with- drawal of Alanthracite, as she was stolen from the stable last night. The betting was not affected, as the hor: Was at #@ to land whatever bets w ade Were returned To satisfy a claim Atlas and Surprise |were sold at auction, but were bought jin. FIRST RACE. Selling; four and a halt furlongs, Re: 106 (Murphy). 105 Hat) 198 (Duty) My 1Yetier) 19 (Burnie) 80-1 (U Moore)..20-1 6-119 19 19 Despair showed the way, closely fol- nzales, to the s took the Despair beat ime—1.01 i 223 34m aon I. tborsey) eh. Tol (bumyy tot |, Johnny winning do Doe Bireth was third, eight way. Time—L.07, THID RACE rae 1 Diager 1s ‘He iMecagleyy hed din the winner by six ee SCORED, Chiseled Him Out of Bank Note Stock. The Latdiaw Suit Takes « Most Un- expected Tu Beven able lawyers renewed hostili- tes in the Laidlaw-Sage controversy before Justice Patterson and a jury in the Supreme Court this morning. Patterson remarked in an audible tone to Clerk Brady: “We ought to have hired a hall." Col, James started out this morning with questions implying an attack on memory of President Kenda, of tne New York Banknote Com. He demanded the day of the week, the day of the month, the month, which Russell Sage's office was blown up by Dynamiter 3 could only the Winter of the year in red the office haste some one yelled "Look out remembered giving the policeman who guarded the stairway but he couldn't tell whether he was a big or little man: wore full beard or no beard at Qi Tell me why you mustache, fru which fat is boiled #hall be solidly closed with fireproof material, so as to prevent the escape of fire and smoke from them into other part that after the same date ‘trangome and windows opening Into halls from any portion of any tenement-house where Paint, oil, spirituous liquors or drugs stored or kept for sale shall be remo and o y the wall, and all doors le such hall or room from a place thus use in a tenement-house shail be made fire proof. WITNESS GEO, nt Deacon Sage ent towards the Heights, Inspector of ‘Poli Then he composed himself, and, cocking his head one side, assumed @ listening attitute. began on a new line of the damaging owners of house: not sutticiently lighted | from without shall be_ compelle halls sufficient artificial light, and that the halls of all tenemen each floor shall be lighted until o'clock at night sand my experi elgucened my re. esitent of your Kendall desir Jay's testimony, say that his counsel nical term, A Rood enough toa | todgtn ‘ol Jmes joined in the merriment that T was busiuoas | stable, Mackey B, w | Benjamin ‘was second riterion was third y 1.00, RESULTS AT MADISON. MADISON, Jan. 17 on Sixth Page.) Se Boar « powers of the Bourd of Health in regal ToNenements. and lodging-houses be res xtrie toe as to’ private schools “i tenesmente of refuting that in ‘his own handwriting,” with softness and and only to which are ¢ his overcoat, trom which he produced a | That the present law requiring the own and every tenement Depa a = nam tiga "of uroperty be amended. 90 as make the same more easy of enforce- ment. Then he took Af you will send me the date the Board at which It w. REPORT ON TENEMENTS, | Richard Watson Gilder and His Colleagnes Make Many Recommendations. MORE LIGHT, A AND PARKS, Board of Health Should Be Em- _ powered to Institute Condem- nation Proceedings. PRECAUTIONS AGAINST ‘FIRE. Restrictions as te the Area a Tenement-House Shalt Occupy. Richard Watson Gilder end his eke. leagues of the Tenement-Houre Commige sion have nade their report. It contains twenty-one .«commendations, as follows: First—Destrvetion of Unsanitary Bulld- ings.—That power be given to the Board of Health to institute condemnation pre ceedings for the destruction of buildings which are so unsanitary to be unit for human habitation, with provision for reasonable compensation to the “ye ers in case of such destruction. Second—Construction of tenement+ houses hereafter to be built. That the constructa@m of tenement houses be improved #0 as to afford more Nght and air to their inhabitants from fire, and. That the present law be amended by depriving the Hoard of Health and the Building Department of the power te dispense with the requirements concerna- ing the amount of open space to be- left on the lots where they are constructed, and hat no tenement or lodging house w eubsequently constructed shall occupy more than 70 per centum of an interior vity lot; nor more than 9 per centum of 4 corner lot; and that, in computi the amount of the lot covered by building, all shafts or courts of less than twenty- tive square feet in area shall be con- sidered as part of the solid building and not as part of the free-air space. Thi ‘evention of ttre. r precautions be taken to decrease the danger from fire in tenement-houses: already constructed; that for this Loa pose a law be passed forbidding, er the first day of September, 186, (a) the storage In any tenement-house ‘of feed, y or straw; (b) the mainteenance after that date of any bakery or pi of business in which fat is” boil in any tenement-house more than three stories in height in which more tha: two families Hve on one floor, and’ which is not fireproof; (c)_ that after sald date all openings into the halls or other parts of tenement-houses bakeries or places of business in of the house, and (d) sed Up as gol ding into any Four—Height of Basement Ceilings Above Ground.—That ceilings of ail base- ments occupied as human habitations be at least two feet above the level of the ground adjolnin, Five-Removal of” Wall Paper.—That no wall-paper shall be used in any tene- ment or lodging-house subsequently con- structed, und that wall-paper now on walls or ceilings of any tenement or dging-house shall bs removed within sixty days after the passage of an act for that purpose; the Board of Health to have power to make exceptions In cer- tain sp ified cases, ve Lightizi Bix—T are to supply in such houses upo: Seven—Overcrowding.—That the law be imended So as to make it mandatory up- the Board of Health to prevent over- owding of tenement-houses, so that at a least six hundred cubie feet of air sh: be afforded to each occupant of a room in such tenem nt-houses, instead of leav~ he same discretionary with the of Health, as 1s the case at pres- ht—The use of tenement-houss houses, stable: handling of rag: of Health shall not b rmitted und any umstances, to allow a tenemen house to be used as a lodging-house, o. for the storage or handling of ug Nine—Discretionary Powers of the Health—That the discretionar: 1 so that they shall only apply ars and Ventilation and permission ouses; and, In certain cases, as to the of wallpaper in tenement-houses, egulations coneerning these t with the other pro- ns of U Ten—The Filing of Owner's Name. vontral of soa having lodging house to file In ¢ ment of Health @ notice contal d addrera and descrip o Ni 10 per cont of the had known of ment all during the 10 per cent. (Continued on Third Page) Eleven—Increase | of Health Board's Inspection Force.—That fifteen (Continued on Third Page.) oR A aS: *