The evening world. Newspaper, January 20, 1895, Page 1

—S oD (" Circulation Books Open to All.”) PRICE ONE CENT To- Day’s D evelopments_in the Brooklyn Trolle EXTR CALLS FOR MORET a Mayor Schieren Also Issues| a Proclama SUNDAY-7 P. M. AOOP tion to Keep the Streets Clear. MAY GET NEW Railroad Preside YORK CITY MEN. nts Again Refuse to Agree to Proposed Terms of Sett lement. MORE SCENES OF VIOLENCE IN BROOKLYN Few Cars Were Run, but the Strikers Used Stones and the Soldiers Their Bayonets. this afternoon Mayor Sculeren late ‘» the citizens of Brookly Im the name jeren, Mayor within the 11 ra © streets, ing its present disturbed condition herehy give notice that the police ed to disperse any unlawfal assem ort all persons to asnint « the people of the of the City of 5 of the city to squares 0} 1 ex 20, Dated, City of Brooklyn, Jai Mayor Schieren this afternoon decided troops to assist in to call for more preserving order in Brooklyn and to ald the the fwolley roads \o run their cars. ‘This decision was reached after the Mayor had made another unsuccessful attempt to bring about a settlement of presidents of various the strike. He hed a conference with the repre- sentatives of the strikers and Presi- dents, Norton. afternoon, but could be arrived at. ‘Then the Mayor , with Gen, McLeer and some of the city officials, when it was determined to the Sheriff, a requisi- Governor for additional wis no mutual agreement had a conference issue, through tion the military forces. ‘The request was sent to thi is recelved this on vernon, and if @ favorable reply evening, it is probable that eve York regiments wiil be sent to the scene ‘of trouble to-morrow. There .were little outbreaks in various hey were parts of the city to-day, easily quelled by the polly Cara were running on the 5 in numb or militia. e lines as yeeterday, but were fewe These lines Halsey avenue, th avenue, Sumner avenue, Flat ush avenue and the East New York branch of On the latter road the wire th ty were Bergen str a sivey eariy this morning, and it was not until 2 o'clock that the brakes were repaired so that the cars could be run Shortly after midnight this morning the soldiers stationed a Firth ave the nue and Twenty-fourth t depot charged upon a crowd which had as- semblod near them and had a pelt- Ing them with stones and pieces of lee, ‘The mob seattered, but one of the men comprising it received a wound from « eoliier's bayonet. ‘Two men were seen to carry away a smiall bo: who, it Wa» suld, had been seriously weinued, and Wicker this | issued the following proclamation: publ te of New York, I, Charles A, Brooklyn,do hereby request all per- refrain from unnecessarily assem- her public places in the city dur- and until quiet is restored; and I and the militia have been request- blage. in the observance of th CHARLES SCHIER! 1895, Frequent. Mayor, fell, and before he could rise a dozen men had fallen over him and were trampled upon by thelr flying comrades. They escaped with a few bruises, | A crowd surrounded a car which had jJumped the track on Court street, near | Hamilton avenue, and stoned the police and motorman, The latter was severely cut about the eye und was removed un- der guard, Other cars were blocked, and the passengers in them feil on their knees |on the car floors to escape flying rocks. Several wagon-loads of rocks and stones were found piled up on the Gates avenue tracks between Evergreen and [Irving avenues this morning. | ‘Dhis is one of the lines that President Lewis said he was going to start up to- | day. Big flagstones had been dragged from the sidewalk and placed crosswise on | the tracks, and the trolley wires at that point had been displaced, and it looked as if an attempt had been made to pull them down. ‘The strikers on the Gates avenue line were very indignant this morning when this act of obstruction was attributed to them, ‘They denied that they had anything to do with it, and de4lared that it was the work of outsiders, Mayor Schieren has announced that he [wil consr this evening with railroad | otticiats strikers, and seek to have an Arbitration Committee of three cit- |zens named (o settte the strike, | | ASKS FOR MORE SOLDIERS. m Made Another Un- | Attempt to Arbitrate. | The following notice was sent out this morning to all captains by Police Com- | niasioner Welles: | “11m Honor, Mayor Schleren, will hold | a conference to-day with the officials of | the various railroads and the Executive |Commitier of the strikers and request upon & committee of three them to agr disinterested citizens, to be appointed by | His Houor, the Mayor, to act as a board ‘of arbitration and try to adjust the dif- jferences between the companies’ and | their employees.” ‘This course was agreed upon at 4 con- \ | ; Mayor's house was over at 4 o'clock |Mayor gave out the following state- 5; Poration Counsel McDonald, Commis- stoner Welles and other members of the cabinet, which lasted until 2 o'clock this mornin The conference which was held at the and ended in another failure. The ment, but would not go into particu: lars: “An effort was made to ascertain if an adjustment could be effected in the | interest of public safety and the toration of travelling facilities, | res- “Those present at the conference were Master-Workman Connelly and Messrs. Best and Giblin, representing the for- mer employees of the roads. Later # conference was held with President Nor- ton, of the Atlantic avenue road; Presl- dent Lewis, of the Brooklyn road, and President Wicker, ot Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban road. “The effort was without result.” At the confer e the strikers’ repre- eentatives made the following propusi- tion: “It is proposed to submit to the Mayor, or a committee appointed by the May that the companies restore to the pay- roll and positions, as occupled on Jan, all employees employed at that date, without conditions to discharge any those now employed. “The whole case to be submitted to the Mayor or committge for settlement In all its details, as to who should be permitted to remain, the matter of ex- tras and trippers and all matters of con- troversy betwea the men and the com- Panies, and the agreements to be settled in any manner that may be desired, to abide by the result. The commi tee to give full hearings before the con- of jin all parts of th | stables Londel away, and was knocked down. More policemen arrived, and Londel was arrested. He lives at 122 Sands street, TROUBLE WAS EXPECTED. Police and Soldiers Prepared for a Repetition of Moting. The usual Sunday quiet of the City of Churches bade fair to be rudely sis turbed to-day, This is the seventh day of the great strike, and the temper of the men had not been Improved by thelr enforced {dleness, Livery succeeding day has been marked by increased disorder city, and last night aks were more vio- especially the outbre lent than lever ‘To-day the points where curred w Incr ands who are in strikers, but who ha the various already the thous th with the n kept away owas, ble has 1 a ymp from the scenes of disturbance by thelr dally occupations, Careful preparations had boon made to despaten t any quarter of the city in case no cmergency, and an) organization ed out on ae= n yesterday, which results in keeping fewer soldiers at the armortes of the four Brooklyn reg!- nents, Detachments the National Guard were sent early from the ars mortes to the terminals and depots of the various raliroad Ines, and the men who had been on guard duty during the night were relieved, Tt was or that the Sevente ‘lushing had this) morning 10) onth Re to be detatled force of soldiers Kiment a ‘ulton street line ast night was par: 3 doubled. had. be the ‘Thin the detachment o| G ment upon the turbulent mob, wh had gathered at the Alabama’ av in Which several of the cr were bayoifetted by militiamen, citement wasn to its high pitch, and all thr: the night and earl morning hundreds of people hung about the vicinity, and threats of ven- geance were heard on every side. ‘The aoldiers were frequently attacked with stones and other mis thrown in the dark, and Maleolm W. Woods, of 3A1 Sixteenth street. a young soldier of nineteen, and a private in the Forty- seventh ‘Regiment, struck in the head with a plece of coal and seriou: clusion of the matter.” injured. He was taken to St. CROWD AT ALABAMA AVE Tt Is stated that President Lewis was willing to agree to the terms, but Presi- dent Norton refused absolutely. Later the Mayor's secretary gave out | the following statement: “Under the circumstances, it becomes necessary to secure addditional protec- tion tn order to open more of the sur- face lines, ‘The Mayor has since con- ferred with Gen, McLeer, and has made requisition on the Governor for addl- tional troops. They will doubtless be on duty promptly. “It is a time when the gathering of people on the streets should be avolded, and the police have been ordered and the militia requested to prevent any crowds from ‘collecting or people from| ing on the streets. he persons who were present at) this conference in Gen, MeLeer's head- | quarters in the Hall of Records building were Mayor Schlieren, City Works Com- missioner White, Police Welles and Stephen H, Olin, of Fitzgerald's staff. They remained in| conference over an hour.” | The presence of Col. Olin, of Gen.| Fitzgerald's staff, at the conference! makes it evident that the New York regiments wre to be called out, Gen, | Fitzgerald Is commander of the First Brigade, of New York Cit CAPT. FRENCH INJURED, | Commissioner ey A Stone Cut Hin Nose While Riding ona Car, Police Capt. Henry French, of the Six- teenth Precinct, while riding on a Flush- ing avenue car this afternoon was struck | in the face with a stone thrown by a man on the sidewalk, ‘The stone cut the Captain's nose badly, {| but he did not leave the car. When he reached the ferry he telephoned to iis) station that he was not badly hurt POLICEMAN KNOCKED DOWN. | Big Mau Who Led a Crowd Fought | When Vushed Away, Just before 3 o'clock a car of the, Seventh avenue Mne came to « stand- sti on Myrtle avenue, near Adams) atreet, owing to trouble with the wire, A crowd gathered, and the policemen o'clock with two non-union ini present were unable to disperse it Andrew Londel, a Swede, led the} crowd and urged the men to upset the car, | ed and rushed to carry them 1n- jside the depot, Many others in the mob had also fallen to the Land were trampled up by ning crowd. For a few In ments th in front of the depot resembled 4 miniature batte-ground A inna Won: Ito have been seri: w arried {nto the depot, 1 thou showed that they ed One bey about ten old, who | wax carried off by ¢ was sald to have been jabbed buck by. a ayonet. He was taken to his home on wenty-Afth 3 and the re his wound Was only a teh. About oO olock 1 of strikers marched down from ib Nip depot id stood about we aireet jeering at thes were seatt and at 4 v'elock all was quiet along the line The first car left the eS charge and two policemen for protection. It NUE AND FULTON STREET, Hospital, where it was suid that his in- jury was not serious. Alexander Sands, a painter, was struck in the head’ with a stone th by one of the mob wilch gathered at that point, and was badly hurt. Cars were running at 9 o'cloc morning on all the lines which were in operation yesterday, including the Sum- |ner avenue line of ‘the Suburban Com- Pany. JABBED WITH BAYONETS. Boy Reported Seriously Hart at Fifth &venue Depo Capt. Thorne and his troops from the Twenty-third Regiment had a lively scrimmage with a mob In front of the Fifth avenue depot of the Atlantic av nue road, at Twenty-fourth strect, shortly after midnight this morning. A crowd of about a thousand gathered in front of the depot and to threaten the soldiers and pleces of ice at the pickets. Thorne called out all the men in Com- panies I and G and lined them up tn front of the depot. Capt. Thorne Instructed the men not to injure any one unless it was a lutely necessary. The order to charge bayonets was then given and the sol- diers rushed at the mob. ne old man, who had been the crowd to attack the tro shaking his fist in the faces ¢ the pickets, was jabbed in th tripped, and those fell over him until Piled on top of him. ‘The few police on guard at the depot supposed that all in the heap were men urging ps and some of leg. He rushing in the rear there were fifteen few brulse An ambulance ¥ but before the surg: from’ the Norwegian Hospital the crowd had dis-| persed, Home of those wo had been ving ‘upon the ground were assisted away by friends, while athers scrambled to their feet and ran off. lated Hous, ‘The old man whi was wounded in th into a nearby sal left for his home ‘ later his condit shat first to fall was takes vd for, He tying that sth x. + went to the bridge a incident, AUS o'clock the first South Perry ear Was sent out and was followet by two i retur ed without NEW YORK, SUNDAY, JANUARY 20, Mary's 1895, SOLDI ue depot that ident n had decided not to open up any lines to-day, “We want to have said Mr. Quinn to an “and hesiles we i fon given us is sufficient yet ning cars on other lines than » opened yesterday he policemen have had a hard week, and we think they ought to have a little rest When the strikers heard Supt, Quinn's statement they ridiculed tt, and sald that the truth was that President Norton did hot have the men to man his cars, PASSENGERS FRIGHTENED. Fell On Their Races” on Floor to 0 While a Court street car was turning from Hamilton avenue into Court street at 190 this afternoon the gmeen moter- the Car Stonen, man did not reduce the spc sult snily and the car jumped the track, sarranging the machinery so that it could not proceed. A crowd quickly gathered and taking advantage of the situation tired volley after volley of stones at the c Po- eman Ryan, who was on guard on the ont platform, was hit In several places, and the motorman was struck on the e. He Was so severely Injured that an ambulance was called, but the motor- man would not venture to go to the hospital in the ambulance. His was dressed by the surgeon and he was re- moved under guard. In the mean thue two other cars came up and were blocked. Infurlated men threw stones at th gers were obliged Knees on the foo’ the flying rocks. The trouble continued until serves the Third, Fifteenth recinets arrive the crowd away, Police Capt. Rhodes made a speech to ihe crowd, urging ther to be orderly, and then the cars were taken back to the car-house and the passen- » get down on their of the cars to escape the re- eventh and and drove STRIKERS OFPER MOXEY TO NONs! w 1 ‘for ke with a wick Revolver and ed Down, king for four have hell £412 Prompe and beaten trikers alleged to Ernest ’k n f one of the conductors the Pith avenue day. He was goin: work mn bis and wh pon by « gang. One beat bim on tie head Hoot s scalp 4 ays he can identify the Hawick, a noa-union mM (25 Lynch street, was guing this m ng from the power-house aod was turning the « roof Fu y, thers. The wan, Who Was jubled in the ley, ference between Mayor Sehieren, Cor-| Vollceman Marringion tried to push | At # o'clock Supt. Quian telephoned to) SGD RE srowd, Joho Duffy, forty-two years old, TRUE i PET ARTI. dnss TS Dur th Hex Were thrown across the trucks Nostrand ‘ ees and many oft t xtreet the strikers . ts had parrow escapes | and patalgers ie struck It Was quickly removed by the Com- ‘Tar nteen Wd, of Winch and a squad of mounted Books Open to Ail.” ————S= PRICE ONE CENT. S GUARDING THE ATLANTIC AVENUE STABLEs, of 70 Steub suspicion of bel LUMBER ON THE TRACK. Efforts ™ street, was arres on ing Brunswick's assailant, le to ckade the Bi wen Street Line, During the early hours to-day every- thing was quiet and orderly about the Bergen street and Sumner avenue de- nts, One hundred soldiers from com- es 1) and G, Fourteenth Regiment, under the command of Capt. Mayer, guarded th ots. About se five policemen, twenty- five from the Twenty-first Precinct, un- der Capt. Hardy; twenty-five from the Twelfth Precinct, under Capt, Dyer; « squad from the Central Office, and a j squad of mounted police under Sergt. Cole were aiso detailed for duty in the vicinity, The railro: to start a here were feinity up two or three stood on th ful distance he new Ber 1 companies no, effort Little cliqu ed early an aw respe he situat n and conductors n street und Sumner ave Very much dissatisfied with the ton afforded them. They claim that when the strikers at- tack “a car the police make bat lite effort to protect them, and allow the cars to be boarded, They are forced to mit to the union men and leave thelr posts In order to avold serious trouble, the lines prot AU1015 # blg pile of lumber was placed UNION MEN TO JOIN THEI RANKS. ! The first car let th neat $ o'clock and no attempt was made to interfere with ft Up to 10.30 o'clock eight cars had heen sen veut on the Bergen street line, three of eturned before that | hour on ume. Th about 9.30 o'el eh oth did ot resort to Violence, they kept up a con- stant stream of jibes and jeers at the hew men. About 10 o'clock the strikers succeeded ucing tWo new. motormen to leave curs, ‘They were t from Boston by the Company. strik- gw promived to pay thelr fare buck The men eft under th mires. lag The crowd tried to rescue the prisoner, but failed. GAVE BILLS AND BLOWS. Strikers Try to Pe: Queens County and Suburban road, or Hergen street, shortly before noon to: day, saulted and a striker arrested. At Il o'clock six cars Were run out. They started on schedule time, trip all the cars were blocked. As the first car reached Rodney stree: the car could not proceed. A big crowd of strikers and their sym pathizers gathered about the car and tried to Induce the motorman and con- ductor to desert. The men refused. When the second car came up bush the first back to the dep crowd called upon the conduct motor to leave their curs were hed in front of the tv men and they were promised g Finally the motorman jumped car and joined the str crowd chee! Civil Engineer Merkleham, who in the car, took the motorman’s pia and brought the car back to the dej As the third car passed out a crowd sirik- collected around jt One of the ers jumped upon the car platform struck the conductor a stinging ble in the face. ‘The assailant was place under arrest Shortiy after noon cw 13) of the Halsey street line, and wid, of the| | Street Sa Sumner avenue line, collided at Halsey | ‘The 150 militiamen on guand at th, and Sumner avenu Sumner Maurice 8 & Sigel street, afternoon on ‘the Sumner avenue c os avenue car broken. uss, aged twenty-thr charge Few Cars Were § don Sevemth Avenue Line. A crowd numbering between 300 and 4 people gathered in the neighborhood of the Ninth avenue and Twentieth street car stables of the Atlantic Ave- hue Company this morning, but it was very quiet and orderly, Only one car was @ent out on the Ninth avenue line during the forenoon, but on the Seventh avenue road six cars were started between 8 and 9 o'clock on seve No attempt was made by the persons in the @treet to in with them. Although the Company claims that it {has men at its depot capable of running all ihe on regular schedule time, nothing was seen of them this morning Everything favored a general start upon minutes headway any of hoth these I | if the Railroad Company had a lent force to man the t have bi an mat m all in operation with ont any danger Two) compan iment, under Tat’ the Nir there is a foree tn aduit CARS RUNNING TO FLATBUSH. of pe The Crowd a} and Offered No Viol Was Smal nee, the point ty went! ‘ . The Brookiyn Heights Company were Wir cobs Trunaing about the number of ears hen WY SEE) om the Flatbush depot this morning hortly befor aay, ‘This us ay, under the protection of a the comp: he Twenty-third Kt Shortly after noon a big W. A- Stokes. sembled on bein sides of cars Were started out about 7 Street. tracks from ! | wer n Dc e Rireet traces, 170) A. M. and w nat about five m inatancen passitig Cate. were stoned jutes’ headway ) demonstration was Finally “the 1 i dd} made by the strikers ju that neighbor stones on the tru $| hood this mot 1 the new motor and men maida ere not interfered 18 wa with. on WAS every In fact, Mergen stree 1 Hicks street on the Ln ks all broki inn th At the Junction of Suter avenue and Halsey street two cars collided shortly ant while thes we induced the motormen to deser ed this afternoon that nen and condu: had teet and Myrtle avenue when he waa, avenues. feo a aie ti ie dot | CharEE a ¢ and set upon by a crowd of | Charee af of them struck him on the | 3 then ing Win down, Several po- | sinashed the windows. _ oemen rushed up and scatteret tae], Pollve Canta: Bhort and Callen, with over 10) poiie crowd and arr reserves, charged on the ted @ man Bamed Gal- were not ¢ out up to be H nal group and a owe no dixposition to inter h the running of the cars, EAST NEW YORK CARS MOVE Police and Soldiers or ihe First Thine, that has h pot of t alton «Une in Bast New York since the be rolled out this} afternoon clock, it was and was guarded on all sides by with fixed Bayonets Over three thousand men and women were gathered in the vicinity, but they made uo demonstration, The car wormed soldi) ade New Men A non-union conductor was as- but be- fore the firat car had made the round and Broadway the fuse burned out and to , while the was nd The axle of f| vue and Twentieth street, had a some was arrested during ‘the of stoning a BIG CROWD, BUT NO TROUBLE y Car Strike. its way atong at low speed watil t€ reached Manhattan Crossing, It was rumored that at that point the gates would be dropped on the ear, but no attempt was made and the militia drew je and permitted the car to {proceed. It gathered headway and es ht more cars followed on dway, with similar reaul he crowd was very o1 sence of three companies infantry it | jquickly disappeared. The troops returned to 2 yards ‘away, ea UB te. he cond cut, “which ty mecond ‘cut, 'w nuten inter. It wan geet i ip from the Forty-seventh | Regi - |two' from the: Fourteenth backed “by elghty mounted police, under Of the ten cars, only one got throure without interruption. piomeaaee iis th loga avenue ng materiale that were carried = some houses in course of deposited on the pies of Sergt. Reisel, r ef Berat. Reisel, having a deterring ef- — GUARD LINE EXTENDED. rd Work for Peden the Halsey Street Depot. The first car on the Putnam avenve and Halsey street line started at Th o'clock this morning, It ram, to t bridge, and returned an hour and 0 © quarter later with @ load of new men 2: passengers. By 9 o'clock five cits weit Fupning, q The militia extended the across ‘the street, and pedestrians Bat elthe long other streets score of questiona at the i of a bayonet. Companies B, F, D and & of the Forty-seventh Regiment, command of Major William H. a ars on duty. qThe Company clat of men, and will endeavor to run Cars to-day. Police Capt. Dunn and At, officers are on hand, and accompan} each car until it gets well under way. — On Gates avenue, between fi an Tevergreen avenues, several ” rocks and other rubbish were or the trac The wires i ee indicating that an attempt made to tear them down. ‘The strikers In the vicinity were |nant over the matter and disc knowledge of it. ‘They said no cause to interfere with that no cars had been run over it. pinhole. to Join Their Rank NEARLY GRA RE. There was considerable excitement BBED A wi * about the Sumner avenue depot of the| A Green Motormi jarrewly Ee. i caped Dea "| A green motorman on fr Flatbus! avenue car this morning had @ marrev escape from being shocked to death ty ja feed wire at the junction of Fulto — treet while a big crowd of several hur. dred people watched him. Just as the car left Flatbush avene and tyrned down Fulton street the trot ley pole slipped from the feed wire ove head. The motorman did not know what th: matter was or how to adjust the pols again, He climbed upon the roof of th car, and, catching hold of the She and, Was about to, grasp? tive ie Wire Wit the, eebeny oc 4 People turned their heads a : pocting the man to be shocked to demi py the current. Had it not been * cries of & Ballseman he would have been killed. ANNOYED THE SOLDIERS. Strikers at N t Atlantic avenue line depot, Ninth ayy what exciting time during the nighy Companies D and E of the Twenty third Regiment, Capt. E. J, Krafts, wey _ on duty. st strikers, with drums, marched to 2) depot. The men on sentinel duty looky for an attac and the reserve forces side also expected it, but were agreeaby disappointed. ‘The strikers came as near to the lr. as possible, and amused themselves wi + yelling and annoying the soldiers wi insulting remarks. Police Capt. Murpiy, and a platoon of thirty policemen on hand, Dut were not called out, ‘hirty or forty motormen and con ductors slept on the premises, and thr ow ones were engaged. this mMmOrnit, P to 9 o'clock this morning no instru tions had. been Tecelved by Supt My ray regarding the running of cars, had been sent out up to that hour, be | how: thought. the Seventh’ ais | nue cars would be A Jones "to tun. ‘There’ were on it fifty strikers ‘on hand at 9 o'clock, whet | everything was quiet, MOTORMAN CKED. Platform an: Haaled from & Badly Beaten. While a Fifth avenue car was gotn up Adams street, at Myrtle avenue, thi afternoon, about twenty men jumped f front of it and the motorman wo hauled from the platform, | re was then thrown to the ¥ and a halt dozen men hammered h’r tL his eyes were blackened and h wes badly brulsed, n the mean time the reserves frop the Adams street station, only @ blag: away, heard of the assault, and, com | tng out on a run, drove the assailant away, _—. | BROUGHT BACK BY UNION MEt | A Car Was Abandoned Street. mpkins avenue and Fulton atree @ car approached the depot in charge ¢ motormen with large placards om thei breasts, bearing the letters “K of A mob of several” thousand “golfow them, ¢ s the Knights. Oppes: Dr, Meredith's house there were thie |companies of the ‘Thirteenth’ Reginr jlined up with fixed bayonets, ome a as they {poked on ne was stopped “and the my 1 back at the point of the bayon, | ‘The car proved to have been one ta out by hon-union men and abaadou | somewher illamaburg, - it w taken charge of by K. of L, men ag ile the mob cheered returned to the depot, ‘ ‘All wlong the line thousands Te “4 an bs 7 "Phey tool, th out und. we bring it back to them a pathizers followed, while the K, HE Ook the mille an pos 00) mi ‘ drive away the who Sieg men, who Tan the car slowly, Parr \ to have plenty | © About 1 o'clock this morning some ¢: 4 3 ¥