Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-07-09
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Interested Parties for Settlement.
CHIoAoo, July 2.--The West Division
Street Railway Company has made no at
tempt to run out any of its cars since the
serious encounter on Madison street yes
terday afternoon. The offlcers of the
company have had several consultations
with the mayor and chief of police, but
without any apparent result. Mayor
Harrison has declared his willingness to
give the company police protection pro-
vided it be prepared to put its cars in
operation, but that he does not believe in
keeping the entire police force on duty to
oversee the running of two or three cars.
The newspapers are beginning to look
at the situation as one of serious import,
and the Times this morning intimates
that the hesitancy Of "mushy" mayor
in 1871 provoked the serious riots of that
year, and warns Mayor Harrison that any
hesitation in preserving the peace at this
time may result in similar outcome. It
is cited that various organizations are en-
listing for the active support of the
strikers and that recruits from these
organizations and lawless individuals
joined in the disorder of yesterday.
The Neaos and Inter Ocean, while ex-
pressing supreme dislike to the methods
employed by the street car company in
the past toward the public, enjoying as it
does complete monopoly of the passen-
ger-carrying traffic in the most populous
districts of the city, say il should be
granted absolute protection for its en-
ployes in moving its cars, and that n
failure to afford such protection may re-
suit in anarchy.
The statement made is that the governor
may be called upon to order out force
Of National Guard troops, but dispatch
from the state capitol declares that no
application for such an order has an order
has yet been made. The street car COM
pany officials declare that they have an
ample force of men to run their cars pro-
vided they are insured protection from as
sault. In the meantime practically every
carryall in the city has been pressed into
service for the accommodation of the
west side travelling public, and beyond
the discomfort which naturally follows
from mounting an ordinary express
wagon, having plain pine boards for seats,
the public is not in any way incon-
yenienced. The street car companies
in the past having purchased OF
driven out of the business all omnibus
companies, comparatively few of the
latter style of vehicles remain in the city,
but the present emergency has resulted
in bringing to light considerable
number, and it is almost idle TO state that
these and every band wagon or other side
seated conveyance in the city have been
pressed into service. The prevailing fare
is 10 cents, and express wagon drivers
state that they have collected from 1912 tc
800 day from passengers in the ordinary
run of traffic. The hanson cabs, witt
which the city is supplied in large mum
bers, naturally cannot supply the full de
mands made upon them. Several meet
ings of citizens have been held TO protes
against the delay of the street car com
pany in resuming the car service, ant
legal proceedings have been threatened
to compel n forfeiture of the company
charter under provision which compel
the company to run its cars daily.