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STRIKE EXTRA NO. 6 PRICE ONE CENT NIGHT EDITION SOLOIERS SENT FOR Trouble Breaks Out in Mas- peth and all Eastern MOBS FORM Through the District. IN RIDGEWOOD. Cars. Stoned and Pistol Shots Fired at the Police Guard- ing Them. CITIZENS DENOUNCE An Appeal to MAJOR COCHRAN Made to the Grand Jury Investigate the Hicks Sireet Shooting. Trouble is brewing in the Eastern Dis- trict of Brooklyn, where cars were run, to-day for the first time since the otrike| began. . Cars were stoned by crowds and pistols shotswere fired at policemen. ‘The Sheriff of Queens County was notified early in the day by President Lewis, of the Brooklyn Heights Com- pany, that cars would be run over the Grand street line, and asking that proper protection be afforded. The depot of the line is in Maspeth, which is ‘in Queens County; conse- quently the Brooklyn police could not be expected to furnish the required squad. Car 4,111, guarded by two deputy sher- iffs of Queens County, was sent with twenty non-union men to the depot at Maspeth. A crowd of 150 men rushed from the strikers’ headquarters, over- powered the guard and took the twenty non-untonists prisoners. ‘The captured men were taken to the heaiquarters and two strikers ran the At Manhattan avenue and Java street, Greznpoint, several policemen were bruised with missiles thrown by a mob. Special Policeman Meehan, while rid- ing on a car on Manhattan avenue, near Greenpoint avenue, was shot at by some Che f Circulation Books Open to All. ) HOMESTEAD. NEW YORK, FRIDAY: JANUARY 95 ee ee ee eee Tee ere CHICAGO. Ridgewood station. A few stones were thrown at cars on each line. Capt, Kitzer, and his squad of mounted police charged on the Myrtle avenue crowd and drove them back. The crowd returned, however, rein- forced by a large number of sympathiz- ers, and were considerably bolder. one in # crowd. The bullet grased the] officer's head and buried itself in woodwork. Prior to the shooting the car had been car to the depot. a Sy HOW "@ GIRL THINKS HE LOOKS ON CHOLLY eORET DUTY. A telephone message was sent to General McLeer asking for fa detachment of troops to guard the property. The strikers are said to be @etermined that no cars shall run over the line. ‘Troop A was sent to the scene of the trouble, Sheriff Doht, of Queens County, was told by the strikers that the captured men had been sent back to Brooklyn in wagons, One of the prisoners escaped, and bore marke of having been badly beaten, He is a resident of Allegheny, Pa. He says he was clubbed after being | arried into the strikers’ headquarters, Late this afternoon the wires at Man- attan and Driggs avenues, ‘vere cue, Jars were blocked at that point for a jong time. A big crowd assembled, and stones wey thrown. HER BOY [8 IN THE SEVENTH. stoned and every glass in it was shat- tered. & Flushing avenue car while passing the Navy-Yard, at Clermont avenue, at 12.90, was attacked by a crowd of 300 men, who shattered every pane of glass in it, and dragged the motorman and conductor from the plattorms and hus- tled them away. A platoop of police drove the crowd off, but the car was delayed for a long time untY a new crew eaal€ he procured. During the afternoon big crowds of fdlers began to collect on both Myrtle and Gates avenues in the vicinity of the COAL, SHIRT WAS FULL It {s feared that before nightfall there will be serious trouble. Major Abrams, of the Seventh Regi- ment, has ordered ail companies under his command to hold themselves in readiness to go out at a moment's no- tle, Father O'Hare and a number of citi- zens in Greenpoint used moral suasion to such effect that cars on Manhattan avenue were deserted by their non-union crews, whereupon the strikers ran the cars back to the depot. While a number of cars were still blockaded, however, a mob burned out the trolley wire, and were dispersed by the police and Troop A, During the charge four shots were fired at the police from a house on Man- hattan avenue. Search of the houses failed to find the marksmen, Mayor Schieren notified Father O'Hare to inform the rioters that violence would not be tolerated in Greenpoint, and soldiers would be stationed there if further disorder occurred, In South Brooklyn the crowd grew troublesome along the route of the Crosstown line. The line was obstructed by refuse of every description. The wires, too, were decorated with all sorts of articles. A force of men under a strong guard re- moved them. Twice within a few hours 500 feet of Erle Basin, Company A of the Fourteenth Regi- ment was called to the spot to prevent a riot. Fully 600 people had gathered in the neighborhood, and were armed with stones and clubs. At Hicks and Sackett street a fusillade of stones, sticks, bottles, crockery and other missiles came from the tenement- houses and was directed against a squad of soldiers of the Fourteenth Brooklyn Regiment which was escorting a car hurt and there was no shooting. The citizens and property owners ving in the vicinity of Harrison and Hicks streets, South Brooklyn, who were witnesses of the shooting of Thomas menace to public convenience is con- cerned. “The companies say they are operating a large number of cars. I have every Treason to belleve that statement. j know that the service is good.” | Yesterday seventeen lines were opened | and a total of nearly 300 cars were run, Up to 4 o'clock this afternoon the rail- road officials were running 897 cars on i twenty-six lines, At 9.20 o'clock this morning a citizen called at the Adams street station and gave the sergeant in charge what he supposed was a dynamite bomb. He laid a long piece of tron, covered with what seemed to be tar and enamel, Fulton street. | ‘The alloged bomb was taken to the ' Navy Yard to be tested. | John Strong was held in the Lee Ave- nue Court, Williameburg, to-day on a Sweethearts third Reg soldiers of Company K, Thirteenth Regiment, circulated a petition this morning through that part of the city requesting ‘District-Attorney James Ridgway to take immediate action and thoroughly investigate the affair. The petition was laid Mr. Ridgway this afternoon by a committee before | of the signers, but the District-Attorney said that all he could do at present would be to submit the matter to the Grand Jury of Kings County next Tues- day. President Lewis said to-day that he believed the strike was broken. He de- clared that he had received a number of applications from union men for positions, Mayor Bchieren, when asked this! morning for his views on the situation, said: “The strike, in my opinien, ts prac- toally at an end. That is, so far as the Wives Visiting the Twenty ! Carney on Wednesday, by one of the econd at the Twenty- ent Armory, charge of carrying conce ‘The police think he is a dangerous An- | archist. Special Officer Tammany found Strong at an early hour this morning us manner in the vicinity of His an- Tam- et on Driggs avenue swers to questions did not suit many, who locked him up. When searched at the jun, Tam many neary fainted when he tound that his prisoner had small dynamite bombs and a la.ge loaded in his pockets, “I wanted to make things pleasant for somebody he said, he intended to do with the bombs. The bombs were placed in water in the Bedford avenue station, srong seemed unconcerned when ar. raigned in court, and told Justice Goet- st revolver when asked what RECORDER Gory says he has been advised to Moke tu order to acquire he “calm judicial mind.” He mho 16 try “AMERICAN GUARD Che @annos,"’ Ali iovaccs T wior dv cenls % jon the desk, saying he had found it on through the block. no one was seriously | the car tracks at Flatbush avenue and sled weapons. | acting in [“ Carenuation Books Open to Ail.” BROOKLYN. tine of him. sympathy or by employment. Col. Appleton, of the Seventh Regl- wires were cut at Richards street and have ridden over some of the lines and | ment, said to an “Evening World" re- |porter thie morning: ESCORTING AN OLD LADY HOME “I eapect an order any moment trom brigade headquarters directing me to return with my command to New York.” Personally, he said he would issue an order in a short time directing the pick- ete in the vicinity of the Halsey street depot to return to the depot and await further orders. This would indicate that Col, Appleton fears no further trouble. Col. Appleton said that the members of the Seventh Regiment had expressed no desire to return to their homes. They were willing to re- main on duty as long as their presence was considered necessary. Members of Companies K, E and 1 Seventh Regiment, stationed in Ea: New York, received orders this morning to get in readiness for marching orders, and to have everything packed and |cleaned up ready to move at a minute's notice. ‘The members of the Ninth Regiment, who had been held tn reserve in the armory In New York. received orders to go to thelr homes iast night, it being lthought there wouid be no cail for thelr | services. Karly this morning the railroad off- Jelals sent the police a list of the car Y RANKLAR pails of A Dude's Idea that he did not care what became He refused to say if he was P concerned in the strike either through ~} EXTRA NO. — -- = PRICE ONE CENT. lines they intended to operate to-day. It included ati the lines of the Brook:yn Heights systein. Tho total number of cara they prom- ised to run is 435. On ordinary occasions during rush hours there are nearly 1,300 cars In use on the streets of Brooklyn. Wires were cut in several parts of the city last nigat, but were ail repaired before 10 o'clock this morning, except in the vicinity of the Ninth avenue depot, Where great destruction was wrought yesterday morning, The officials will try makeshift ar- rangements in order to get care started. Police on Bedford avenue this morn- ing fired a volley of shots at men in a wagon who were discovered cutting wires. One of the men 1s believed to have been wounded. The sudden move on the part of the trolley officials to get all their lines in working order is belleved to be due to the decision of Justice Gaynor yesterday that @ writ of mandamus should be is- sued, Both Sides of the Questfon. The following letter is printe din the Evening Post to-night: To the Editor of The Even! Sir: Your suggestion that the grievances of the Brooklyn motormen ‘ought to be met by agitation—public meetings, petitions to the Mayor ‘and the Legislature, and publication In the news: papers," ie an excellant one, provided always there ia some means of guarantesing the men engaged in these public meetings, potitions, ‘and publications shall not be at once discharged from the employ of the Company they are ac- cusing. You may that ‘if this were the mode in which fuch disputes between employers and employees were ordinarily settled, aympathy would go out an freely to the men, under such conditions as Prevail in Brooklyn, as it Post: mubject to very unjust condl- tions, are not able at the same time to secure the attention of the public to thelr grievances and retain their positions, and even men engagod in a peaceable strike," which does not tncon- Yentence the public, are allowed to continue in {dleanss and suffering, as the striking cloak-mal era havo been in this clty aince last September, without much help trom public sympathy. You speak of ‘‘compulsory arbitration’ as one of the “proposed remedies," and dwell upon the “diMculty of getting large bodies of men to abide by the decision of the arbitrators. T do hot know of any one who advocates ‘compulsory arbitration,"’ but the objection you very reasonably urge aginat it does not bold, in actual practice, tn the case of voluntary arbitration, for the etaion of the arbitrators, where both parties have Agreed beforehand to abide by it, is im fact, MAJOR COCHRAN, OF THE THIRTEENTH REGIMENT. uaually respected, But it arbitration, for labor troubles th eof time to talk about issiom of the remedies only efficient ‘'remedy’* ls to prevent them. No company ought to allow ita relations with its employees to be such that a strike on their part s necessary to call Public attention to their grievamces. There should be a ‘Joint board’ estabiished by every company, upon which the employees should have equal representation, and al! questions of joint Interest should be discussed and settied by that | board, Why might not one of the provisions of every charter granted (o a pub establishment of such ab employees by years of experience at such boards preserve peace between them and their employees, why should not the law re- (Continued on Second Page.) For ing, fes and other sporting news see 9 GAYNOR WILL DECIDE LATER, damus Proceedings Against © ° Lewis's Road COMPANY WANTS MORE TIME, It Seeks to Have the Writ Alternative Instead of Peremptory. STRIKERS ARE HIGHLY -|They Say the Decision Will F Lewis to Admit His Scarcity of Help. Justice William J. Gaynor, ta ~ Spec.al Term of the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, heard argument this ing on the question of whether @ emptory or alternative writ of damus should be issued to compel i Brooklyn Heights Ratlroad Compaay operate its cars. He reserved decision until later im da} : On the -pplication of Mirabesa fs Towns, the poet lawyer, for d Loeder, a Fulton street furniture ¢ Justice Gaynor yesterday decided the writ of mandamus should 4 : against the Company, and ordered the |, lawyers for plaintiff and defendant t © appear this morning, when it would Be de d whether it would be peremptory, Company Would Gaim Time. It is to the interest of the C that the writ should be alternative, the reason that the case would tl have to be gone all over again by @ justice and a jury. This would give / the Company time An alternative writ can only ‘7 ‘e i where a question of fact is involved, cannot issue until argument has heard by a justice and a jury. A peremptory writ operates as as issued by the Judge after has been heard. ONE OF Tits #T>92SENTH ON HICKS TREND And they “never touched him.’ | vies. Lawyer Towns was assisted in his are gument by Delos McCurdy. The Brooklyn Heights Company was. represented by Its counsel, Thomas & Moore, assisted by Lawyers J. T. Dae Charles F. Stone and William G, Trul Towns Opens the Case. jlearned Judge, {the p Lawyer Towns opened the case for intiff by arguing that there was no question of fact involved, but that the only reason the Company was not running cars was because they were not willing to pay a certain price to the employees, “There is not a single paragraph tm their answer,” said Mr. Towns, “thas raises a question of fact. “The case is similar to that brought, by Major McNulty before Supreme although denying the writ, says in his opinion that there wag no question of fact involved," Gaynor Makes Comparisons, Justice Gaynor interrupted Mr. Towns. | to say thar the case was similar te the of the Situation, ’ x. case of the residents of Arverne against the Long Island: Railroad, when the (Continued on Third Page.) The im, Muy s A 50, 78 cases, of 44, 704 otter brand,