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STRIKE | EXTRA NO. 6 [Circulation Books Open to A PRICE ONE © NIGHT EDITION DISORDER NOT CHECKED Despite Military Guard the Trolley Cars Are Attacked by the Strikers. FULTON STREET WIRES CUT. President Norton Did Not Start All His Cars, as He Had Agreed to Do. STRIKERS SAY THAT HE IS SHORT OF MEN. » Major Cochran Declares It Will Be Necessary to Call for More Troops. Nearly three thousand members of the Becond Brigade of the National Guard in Brooklyn are under arms tn response to Mayor Schieren's call to assist the police of the city and prevent further violence on the part of the striking mo- tormen ard con@uctors of the trolley roads, Preattent Nartop, of the Brooklyn City, road, declared yesterday that if given proper protection he would start up all h's ilnes, beginning at 7 o'clock this oring. Notwithstanding this assertion, com- Paratively few cars were run up to noon. { The ririkers say the officials have not enough men to carry out their promise, end that Norton's assertion waa simply @ bluff to induce them to return to work at the old terms. Only one line in the city ran its full complement of cars up to noon, The first demonstration of violence took place at the Halsey Street depot, Where Corpl. Cherry, of Company 1, 47th | Regiment, was knocked down by a crowd of strikers, He was so severely beaten that he had to be taken to the armory. A green motorman on the Sumner ave- nue line, in returning from the “roadway ferry, ran his car on to the Harrison avenue tracks, and went quite a distance before discovering his mistake. Before he could retrace his course, a people in that vicinity and raised about 40 for the strikers. Alderman McGarry has contributed $1,000 for the strikers’ use, Detall of the 47th Regiment Duty at the Halsey Street Depot. —_— j im crowd of strikers surrounded the car, ar) p M. to-day a report was re- upset it and were about to set it on ceiveg at Police Headquarters that the fire when dispersed by the police. ;cars of the Bergen street line were be- The militia cha ered at the Fifth avenue and Bergen | Claseon avenue. pirees depots, No resistance was Of) «4 44, inmedistely sent out to the fered. | Bergen street police station to hurry out A movement Is on foot among the tne reserves there to the scene of the storekeepra on Fifth avenue to raise @ | aisturbance, 4 for the benefit of the strikers, al- | pack ‘oe latter sald they did not neod, Sttiker~ and thelr sympathizers had ae sake (gathered and every car that passed Mrs. Annie Vogel is at the head of a| Ws asseilod with stones, snowbal eonmittoe which went around and col- | Pieces of ice and other missiles. fected money from the different business The windows of five cars were broken a . 3 V 4 upon crowds gath-| ing stoned by a mob at Bedford and! and the motormen and conductors who had charge of them had narrow escapes from injury. Finally Sergt. McGrath came up with & squad of police, charged the gang and captured Charles Schnaurs, of 818 Bergen street, who was one of the ring- leaders of the mob. In East New York the strikers cut the wires on the Fulton street road, crip- pling the road for some time. It is said they made prisoners of the non- union crews of several cars. i ‘The ordere for the soldiers to emble were sent out by Gen. | McLeer to his staff officers and the commanders of the few Brooklyn regiments before midnight last night, and ‘ly this morning hundreds of mititiamen ‘had gathered at the differ- ent armories in readiness for active duty. There are four regiments in Brooklyn, a battery, and a separate company. They are as follows: Beene at Noon To-Day in Front of the Halsey Street Car Stables. Thirteenth Regiment, Sumner and Jefferson ave: Col. David . Austen, Fourtes iment, North Portia: and Auburn place; Col. Harry W. Michell ‘Twenty-third Kegiment, Bedford avenue, Atle Col. Alexis C. Smutth. iment, Marcy avenue and Hey- Ward sueet, Col, Joba G. Kady, ion pear pt. Henry 8, Rasquin, Seventeenth Separate Company, Flushing; Capt. Frank U. Bolt j_ The strength of the rey | Thirteenth Reglirent men urteenth Regims ut see GL men ‘Twenty-third Hegiment. + $05 men | Forty-ae Seventesath Separate Company... > EW YORK Of these men, 149 are oMciatly clamved ae ahary- ‘shooters. Gen.McLeer has made his heada’ ters at the office of the “all of Records and will remain there during the day to issue orders. | The troops were sent out from the armortles early this morning to the various points where trouble was ex-| pected. The depots which are under the protection of the militia aro at Hamilte : avenue and Bush atreet, Fifth avenue and Twenty-fourth street, Ninth 8 avenue and Twentleth street, Seventh avenue and Twentieth street, Bergen strect and Sumner avenue, Broadway and Halsey street, Tompkins avenue and Fulton street and the Flatbush depot. At 5.4 A, M. to-day the reveille was! sounded in every regiment, and the men | were given an opportunity to get their breakfasts before being mustered tn line, They had been ordered to report in full fatigue uniform, with canteens, overcoats, haversacks, leggings and muske' and each man was provided) with forty rounds of ammunition, At 7 o'clock they were ready to start out for the different points to which} they had been assigne are in favor of going out on a strike in sympathy with the employees of the trolley roads, and there {s a possibility that a strike of this character will take | Place. | Major Cochran, a son-in-law of (ol. David Austen, says that in all probabitity {ty the Second Brigade will not be able to cope with the strike, and that Mayor | Schlieren may be compelled to call on| Gov. Morton and ask him to order out the First and Third Brigades, The extent of the country to be guard- ed by troops, he says, makes, {t almost Impossible for a single brigade to render effective service. A mob of 30) caused a disturbance at the Fifth avenue depot at 2.0 this after hoon. After standing considerable guy- Ing the milltfa charged in a half-hearted way, and the mounted police were nec- essary to disperse the crowd, WAS NORTON BLUFFING? Despite Military Guard Very Few of Hin Cars Are Running. Although President Norton stated very positively yesierday that he Intenled to Tun the regular number of cars on the Seventh and Ninth avenues and Bergen street this morning, only one line, the Fifth Avenue, haa run {ts full comple- ment of cars up to 3 o'clock this after- noon, No effort had been made to start any more, although the depots of these Mies were fuily provected by the militia and the police, and there would have been no difficulty In sending out as many cars | as the Company could man with imotor- | men and conductors ‘The fact that President Norton haa failed to carry out his promises, not- BROOKLYN’S RECORD: » 62 0 K.lisd by Trolls) In 18 months, Killed by Strikers, . 2. a aye When we are done shooting strikers who smash car windows with bricks we should try soldiers on those other ruffians who smash helpless —_ pad citizens with trolley cars. ees ; DONOGHUE FOULED, TALENT IN THE LEAD, ————ae POLICEMAN A BURGLAR. John Powers, of Pate: Robbing a Store. Skater Joe Lost a Race to Da-) Paroimen oie a ot hie shield ami | 200 Firat Four Favorites Pass the vidson at Orange Lake. uniform by Chief Graul, this morning, Finish as Winners. and locked up In a cell to answer charges of robbing Vandervoort & Slingland’s dry-goods store, For a month the firm has been miss- Ing daily small quantities of goods, and two days ago the Chief of Police was | notified. Powers has been on the beat ince Jan, 1 | him last week. ‘Warrant Officer Titus was 4 hide in the store, and he was e this jorning when Powers entered says e saw Powers appropriate three pairs of woollen socks and two silk handker- chiefs, Titus reported the matter to the Chief, who arrested Powers on his beat owers denied the thefts, but when arched him he found the handkerchiefs under his vest eted In his uniform were a box But He Made a Record of 30) Seconds for a Quarter. Gecca, Walcott, His Grace and Long- shanks Win the Events. Suspicion first fell upon jled to; PFominent New York Sports Visit Rud Won the Five-Mile Champton- ship Event. (Special to The RACE THACK, ALEXANDER I8L- AND, Jun, 19.—The attendance to-day was considerably larger than any day World.) | (Special to The Evening World.) NEWBURG, Jan, 19.—The races of the | National Skating Association were ham- pered considerably by the heavy fall of of breakfast bacon, two yards silk ri of the week, The duy was anything but hon, three oranges, two apples and two inviting, a cold, penetrating wind sweep- ticks of tuttl-fruitl. Powers declared ny over the cor ; that he bought the tuttl-frutt, ing over the course and making matters a disagreeable as possible, ‘Snapper” Garrison and a number of friends arrived from New York, and for | ‘A search warrant was tssued, and the [chief Is making an Investigation at) Powers's home. | ded as a model om- cer, He has by ten years on the the greater part of the afternoon the) force, the young men about town former was the centre of an admiring | had dubbed him “Pretty Powers," he be- up. He refused to divulge the ob-| Ing considered the handsomest man on frour. He Totus the force. lana THE QUIGLEY STEAL GROWS oe Printer Warley Tarned Ow $460,000 Worth of Conn terfeit City Bonds, Quigley Got Signatures of € Officials by Corresponding with Them. HIS WIFE SAW HIM IN HIS CEI She Ca‘led Upon Recorder. Gof, Plead for Mercy, but He = Was Busy, It developed to-day that the Mi National Bank will not be the only. through Edwin 0. Quigley’s bond gerles, OLIN QUIGLEY, THE OLDEST BOT. it 1s said that at least half « désem) other banks and many private e individuals have negotiated or less of the counterfeit bonds. = © President St, John said to-day that: total amount of the Mercantile louses would fall short of the origifial sum mentioned, $144,000, F It is impossible to say just how —_- Meusre, Carr, and. McLaughlin, who TOBE ADRY SUNDAY. it aie trem Nao ok Qi Meee, | of the St. Asaph’ track, paid a visit to} ton that place ‘to-day to confer about the Sept: Breaes Sending Nea Oe coming meeting. cine Matters, Much interest ls manifested among | ‘hor nus to the outcome of the in: | Supt. Byrnes ts making al. prepara-’ sinction proceedings which Will be heard | tlons for a dry Sunday, This morning he had a number of newly appointed policemen at Headquarters, and he gave on Wednesday next, It is thought that | the Court will take a favorable view of the mutt ad dried out nicely during | , 80 that it was deemed safe | gh to permit the circular course to be used It was still heavy though, and | the fourteen books lald thelr books ac- instructions directly. These officers will start from Police dquarters 12 sht, and will be under the uid ‘eniral OMce detectives. hey will work upon the same principle us last Sunday, Supt. Byrnes admits that the present system of arrests is in great dexree a farce, and lays the blame on the police force. ¢ He says of ‘ast Sunday's arrests that twenty-five saloon-keepers were sent fo the iaiand for six months or a year each. He feara it will be impossible to-morrow to get into a saloon with a club, BISMARCK NOT THE MAN. cordingly, FIRST RACE. Malden; selling half a mile, Retting. St a 21 a broke first, and made the run- | withstanding the additional protection which had been afforded his company | by the culling out of the militia, went far to confirm the sta have all along been made by kers that he has not a sufficient number ef new men to run his cars, and that he has simply been making ‘a bluff to wain time, in the hope that the old employees’ of the Company would be willing to return to work at the terms he offered, Up to noon the Atlantic Avenue Rail- road Company had succeeded In securing forty new motorimen and con take the place of strikers, and sent them to the deput at Ninth avenue and Twen- Heth street, It was suid they would be- Bin work this afternoon. | Police Commissioner Welles telephoned to the railroad Presidents this morning to learn what they were doing toward moving thelr cars, now that the mi had been called to their assistance stri- y seven cars Were running 6 the three lines, which he rad promised sO cyen on regular schedule time this morning. The Commixstoner was aeked what he the troops. but he declined io make any posi that It had n) produced was generally expec'ed, He repeated what he said yesterday, .|that he had not been in favor of such 4 move, and added that from what infor- mation “he he had received this morning ppanies did not have the number of vy men which they had claimed or they 11 have run more cars, resident Lewis, of the Brooklyn Heights Company, sent word to Gen Meleer that this’ afternoon he. would make an attempt to run cars on the Ful- ton stret line. Gr ‘¢ telephoned out to | y street depot for Major Will: |lam H Eddy to take 100 men out to the }Alnbama “avenue depot of the Fulton Street line He also telenhoned to Capt, ‘George E, Leddy, of Comapny Gi. in {charge of the ‘Thirteenth Regiment troupe at Hulsoy street, that he woud send out fifty men at 7'o'clock to-night to relieve ul on duty at that point. } communication, sent by . 0! mi "Sin the Abagtic “(Continued on Second Pase.) {isought of the result of ordering out | Statement, though he intimated | the effect which | was of the opinion that the railroad | LO PE RAR RRR PT os ‘hing to hut e stretch, where 1 sing up, but after | a head’ from Bo- won by with Stella gelding third, nt Herbert for that position, Time— JOR DONOGHUR, ; Bismarck will suc a-Jelitaeh snow which hid the ice on Orange Lake, {ay German Ambassador at: Washington OND RACE end at first it was bttul if the seb the diplomatic service do Six and a half Curiongs, sellin, uled ents could lake place rd, and after Count Bis- eu ic AUIL A, M., after the track bad been BY cleared of people and * | iim to the sta i a eae ee ee ivan {i 4 ot 1 H Walcott de the running and aoe i wai of the qua siven, lack 0 alcott made the running and ‘ at a was miven (Marck would ha provement, | (Continued on Third Page.) lye he ix notoriously brusque and distant: | ‘ontinued on Third Page.) | Hels more Iikely to goto London.) | —— ausfers trom iith Street. orrow vet Ral extra char ‘The Favorite Way to Ploridn. Soutnern Ratiway and BC & PO Flocida short line. Dining and sis S$. Augustine and To Broadway. vies and other sporting aes (Sunday) passengers on ad line wil! b *- York offices, AND Tey . “> ‘The Board of Arbitration In Session im Brooklyn. THE SECRETARY, ° GILBERT ROBERTSON EDWARD FEENEY. 5 WILLIAM PURCELL a a aaa sea pages Basins ide mas of the bogus bonds are afloat, ley had severai firms printing him. F. R. Warley, of 19 Broad printed $480,009 of them, all have probably been b; {ted Quigley to-day at the Tombs, thanked Quigley for exonerating of all blams, MRA QUIGLEY. Warley 1s a manufacturing stationer, who came fron Cincinnati shout four years ago and embarked in business, le said to-day that he had been intr uuced to the prisoner by one of the most reputable firms in this city. They recommended nim to Quigl and the | latter was spoken of by the introducer © as 4 man who could throw a large amount of business into the hands @f | UJ the young printer.

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