The evening world. Newspaper, January 22, 1895, Page 1

webbined NO. 6 ANOTHER SHOT FIRED. Seventh Regiment Soldier Scares a Man Looking Out of a Window. ere ORDERS GIVEN TO CLOSE THEM. Cars Again Started from Ridge- wood Depot of the Gates Ave- nue Route. SOME LINEMEN REFUSED TO WORK. After a Conference, However, They All Went Back---Three New Lines Opened To-Day. Another shot was fired by a soldier the Executive Board of District Assem- of the Seventh Regiment to-day. bly No. 7% last night consented to call- Cars were started on the Gates Ave-|ing the linemen out. The men in the nue line from Ridgewood shortly before | various depots were not notified, how- 4 o'clock. The order was given to close | ever, and they began work this morning all windows in houses along the route. | #8 usual. “One man refused to obeythe order and| Shortly after 9 o'clock they learned of Misjor Abrams ordered a private to|the decision to call them out, and at shoot. once stopped work. ‘The soldier raised his gun, but the man| At noon there was a conference among in the window did not st © bullct | the strike leaders, and it was decided struck the sash of the window just over | that the linemen should not go out, The the man’s head and he disappeared. men in the two depots thereupon re- A window in the second car out was | turned to work, smashed with a brick after going a few] It is said that the conditions under blocks, The micsile came from a houxe-| which they have agreed to resume work top. There was no other interference, are that they are not to be called upon ‘A report was circulated in the neigh- | to act as motormen or conductors in the borhood of the Ridgewood depot this | place of strikers, nor to work under afternoon to the effect that the strikers | police protection. would be ordered back to work to-night| ‘The fact that the men quit so readily and that the strike would be ended. emphasizes the fact that they are willing ‘'Tais report probably grew out of the | to stand by their fellows. fact that the forty new men employed { Judge Gaynor issued an order to the by the Company were pald off at 2] Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company o'clock. this morning to show cause why a man- Master Workman Connelly denied that | damus should not issue to comvel that the strike would be called off under any| Company to run cars at regular in- circumstances. iervals, Linemen employed in the Gates avenue] Application for the order was made and Third avenue depots of the trolley|in behalf of Loader Bros., a Fulton roads in Brooklyn refused this morning | street furniture concern. It is return- to repair wires which had been cut dur-| able to-morrow. ang the night The report spread at once] An additional force of 125 men were that they were.on strike, The only ex-|sworn in this morning as special police- planation the men would give for their| men, Their names were selected from ‘Tearing Down Trolley Wires with Ropes This Morning. defection was that they would not do; the appointment Jist, and include some any more repairing until they had seen | who failed to pass the civil-service ex- nination, Master Workman Connell ‘A committee of three called upon Con-| Deputy Commissioner Crosby said that nelley at headquarters and had # long | !f the disorder continues [00 extra police- conference. The leader of the great| men would be sworn in and placed on strike refused to say what had been| duty. discussed, save that the linemen had not} The foliowing lines of surface care been called out. affected by the strike were in operation Latey in the day it was learned that|yp to 6 o'clock to-day: ATLANTIC AVENUE RAILROAD COMPANY. Fifth avenue line, South Ferry and the bridge: 15 cara. Seventh avenue line, to South Ferry and the bridge; 20 cars. Fifteenth street line; 1 ear. Bergen street lin Butler street tine; 2 cars BROOKLYN HEIGHTS RAILROAD COMPANY. Court street line; 19 cars Flatbush avenue tino; 26 cars 7 cars. Fulton street line; 15 care. Malsey atreot line; 35 carn. BROOKLYN, QUEENS COUNTY AND 8UB- URBAN. Broadway line; 18 cars, Ralph and Presidents Norton and Lewis notified the police this morning that they would attempt to start cars on Fifteenth street Butler street and on the Broadway line. Col. Appleton's guard dispersed crowds from around the Halsey street depot. ‘The goldiers useu we butt ends of their muskets, It wae “'ecovered that union men se- cured work at the Ninth avenue depot, under the guise of non-untonists, with the object of damaging cars. Several cars were so crippled that electricians were at work all night repairing them. Tt was also learned that an attempt was made to burn the depot last night. Gen. McAlpin and Col. Marvin, Gov. Morton's military secretaries, left Al- bany on a special train at noon to-day to consult with the commanding officers in Brooklyn and report in person to th Governor. At a conference of the heads of elty departments held in Mayor Schleren’s office, lasting nearly four hours, the situation was discussed, The outcome of the conference was ex- pressed in a proclamation by the Mayor to the effect that law and order must be preserved, If \t required the entire forces at the command of the State. Up to 5 o'clock vars were running on three new lines—Fifteenth street, Butler street and Ralph avenue. eet SHOT AT A MAN IN A WINDOW. Seventh Regiment Private Ei the Order to Shat U Cars over the Gates avenue line were started at 3.45 o'clock this afternoon, Half an hour before that car No. 634 had come up from the city end of the route loaded with non-union men and umner avenue line: 10 care MAJOR WILYIAM KIPP (ibe. only officer of tha Seygnth wounded), (Se oy “NEW YORK, TUESDAY, JANUARY etly ordered one of the privates to take | aim, The soldier levelled his gun and | apparently took a careful sight. | The man in the window did not atir | until a bullet splintered the wood tn the | sash above his head. Then he closed the window and disappeared from view ‘The militia cleared the streets for a space of several blocks and then drew up In line on the curbs while the cars were being sent out. Car 624 was the first to go out. Motor- man Scofield and Conductor G. BE. White manned {t, Polleemen Sullivan ans Clark, of the Eleventh Precinct, stood he front platform, and McAuley and Glasgow, of the Sixth Precinct, protected | the conductor. A aquad of mounted police rode in| front of the car. Not a striker ratsed a hand so far as could be seen from the! depot. The car proceeded unmolested a far as Bushwick avenue, where it dis appeared from the view of the watchers At Ridgewood depot. Cars 1,517, 1,666, 1,898, 1,688, 1,857, 1.558, 1,513 and 1,538 were run out at three-min- ute Intervals and were not interfered with by the strikers. Major Abrams raid that the quiet mood of the strikers indicated that the mob intended waiting until nightfall before making any attack. | Companies B, D and G will remain all | night at the depot in case any attack should be made. At the corner of Central and Gates avenue some one from a housetop threw half a brick, which amashed a window, This was the only attack made on the car. ‘The cars at 4.30 o'clock were running ANY KIND OF RUN THIS can out every ten or fifteen minutes, and escorted by a strong force of mounted police. It experienced no trouble on the route. On its arrival Supt, Morrison imme- Hiately ordered cars to be put in read- iness and communicated his intentions to Major Abrams, in command of the troop nd Capt. Kitzer, under whose ‘ontrol the police were. Word was passed down Myrtle and Gates avenues that cars were about to be started, and that the windows of the houses along the route must be kept shut If the occupants of the houses refused to obey the orders were for the police }and militht to shoot ‘There is to be no play about this to-day,” sald Major Abrams, “ Our mer are Instructed to awalt the order to fire. and when it Is given, to shoot straight Police Capt, Kitzer stated that he had given the same instructions to his men, |closing of windows was followed, was lobserved when the militia lined up on i Myrtle avenue Just before the first car was run out A man was looking from the window of @ house at the corner of Gates and Myrtle avenues. ‘The Captain of Company G shouted for him to clore his window. The man grinned derisively, and the captain ss. Lh St eneemeslenne eee See Troubles Over Cut Wires That Are Down Now in Gates Avenue. How strictly this rule regarding the | qu A man was arrested by Roundsman Wells, from whom he attempted to take CARTRIDGE ON THE TRACK. it Seared the Mo manuond He Ran Away, A Fulton street car while passing Pat chen avenue, ran over a cartrilge wh had been placed on the track, The cart |rldge exploded and the motorman jumped off. The mob closed in on the car, but were clubbed away by the police. blo For latest and fullest details of the | Brooklyn Strike, Bee to-morrow morn. ling’s World. —_—- CROWD CAPTURED A CAR. —_ WHY THE CARS DON'T RUN. Brooklyn Strike, Sce to-morrow morn- Ing’s World. -_-+-— WILL RUN CARS UNTIL 10 P.M. Pres it Wicker, of the § Road, So Notifies the Presid ha: Hee, Company, were opi ted to-day, notified the poll late this afternoon that he intended run- ning cars over some of the routes up to 10 o'clock to-night, —— BURNED A WIRE APART. Uneteas by a Mob. A mob at Broadway and Rockaway | avenue placed obstructions before car | 122 of the Broadway line, which was proceeding on the up track. The police 1 the ear managed to protect the motorman and conductor until the arrival of a squad of mounted police and two details in patrol wagons, with guard t. Dy Ca A WATEH pacTony, How the Soldiers Slept Last Night. but that not as many cars as usual) iocked by a log laid on the track at would be started. There was no crowd about the depot | «, at 8 o'clock, but the soldiers are keep- ing guards out in the if there was actual war, Up to 9 o'clock twenty cars had been started on the Broadway line, owned by the Brooklyn. ty and Suburban from the Brooklyn end third street ferry to East New Sand the two off Jumped off to carry away the obstructl ame manner as | strikers and sympathizers had gathered. ard and began pum- melling both motorman and con Hoth were bes Queens Coun- ession of the ‘Twent, ‘onductor Ryan, i 4, stuck to his ter vigorous use ‘The cars left the depot under a strong guard of who escorted them several blo ran on a headway of four minutes, rs were alse started on Fulton street ew York depot. it was suid that running on a five-minute headway by cars would be running. the cars wer torman was sent persed th way, who was in the the trolley rope. Half un hour later the wire at this same point was #evered by the use of a naphtha torch, dropping apart as the metal melted under the flerce heat with- out endangering those who committed the deed, as would have been the case had they attempted to cut it. SIx cars wei car at a time on the division. No ll wire can be repaired. os CARS SMASHED IN COLLISION. Green Motormen Imperil the Lives of Many Women en ge: Quite a serous smash-up occurred atl thre the Junction of Flatbush and Fifth av ued on Second Page.) covers ot the Car 115, of the Fulton street line, was | and fullest detalls of the the neighborhood of the depot was very) a club, He wae beaten and lucked up. 1 Policeman 5: It wae announced this morning at the East New York depot that cars would be run on schedule time to-day, and that the Srvoazay. une Rhee) be operat CONS ivareb Claaiaet re Ga, New ¥ nt Wicker, of the Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban Railroad whose lines on Sumner ave- nue and Broadway and Ralph avenue town Hroadway Track Rendered he reinforcements, with fifteen men of Troop A, under Lieut. Badgley, dis- rowd and removed the ob- structions, Henry Behlitt, of 182 Broad- rowd, Was ar- rested. He was charged with cutting stalled, no linemen be- Ing at hand, until it was finally decided to use the opposite track for ears run- ning in both directions, allowing one were at the Broadway de- pot, and a message was sent downtown for a gang, [t 1s doubtful whether the — NIGHT | EDITION THE POWER OF REMOVAL BILL. As Drafted by the LXX. to’ Be Favorably Reported by the Senate Committee, MAY BE A LAW IN A WEEK. The Assembly Committee Is Seid te Stand Ready to Approve It. FULL TEXT OF THE MEASURE. Mayoralty Appeintees May Be Re-) moved Four Months Atter Election. (Special to The Evening World.) ALBANY, Jan, 2.—The Benate Com mittee this afternoon voted to report fe vorably the Committee of Seventy’ Power of Removal bill, It will be ree ported to-morrow and probably passed. The Assembly Cities Committee will almost certainly report: favorably the same bill to-morrow, and jt will pass with very little oppeaition from present Indications, ‘The bill will then be sent to the Mayor in oficial form and he wil) hear argu ments of citizens on pide (he Mayor has already ap nll, the public heasiage nd the ullt wil be retarae® to the |Islature approved. It will ..on be ct to the Governor for his signature, a she be in full operation within @ The bill ts as follow: time within four mouth or New York. ay, ot plesuree of New York may, at pl remove from office any pabfic officer nor ninling “ofice "F appointment except judicial officers, rovivion ie made by the Med by law tion &—All_acte or with this act are hereby repealed. Section 4.—This act shall take effect tmme> diately Representatives of the LXX. Arrived: Albany To-Day. (Spectal to The Eventi World.) ALBANY, Jan, 2—The noon train from New York to-day brought the special committee of the Committee of LXX. appointed to present the Come mittee’s wishes on the various legisla tive matters, ‘Thy Committee consisted of Chairman Larocque and Messrs. W, B, Horn- blower and C. C. Beeman, Charley Bteckler also came up. Mr. Larocque sald before the Asse} bly Cities Committee met, that he we sent to the Committee the wishes ot he Committee of LXX. regarding pee Removal bill “it dew a bill drawn up by the Committes X., he said, was the best of the in'that it authorized the carrying ‘of the plan’ for removing in com- nt and undesirable officals, even ugh the office of Mayor be left vacant by death or otherwise. ‘The Committee has not been informed whether Mayor Strong will send representative, It is presumed that he will not In view of his declaration of ime wndence yesterday. Lz VAL RA SSA SSS 4