Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-07-03
ANARCHY IN CHICAGO
Likely to Result From the Street
Car Strike.
BOLD RioTlNe IN THE STREETS.
The Mayor Asked for Protection---TaIk Of
Ordering Out the National
Guard.
THE SITUATION GROWING SERIOUS.

ShlCAGO, July Z.-lne west DlFLsion
Street Railroad Company has made no at
tempt since the serious encounter on Mad
ison steeet yesterday afternoon, to run out
any Of its cars. The officers of the COM
pany have had several consultations with
the Mayor and Chief Of Police without
any apparent result. Mayor Harrison de.
clsysd bis willingness 10 give The company
police protection, provided it was prepared
to put Its cars in operation, but he did 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 az one Of serious i'm
port, and the Times this morning in
Inmates 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 OF
this time may result in a similar outcome.
1t is cited that various labor organizations
ore enisting the active support of the strik-
ers, and it is cited that recruits from these
organizations and lawless individuals Joined
in the disorder of yesterday. The News
and the Inter- Ocean, while expressing su-
preme dislike for the methods employed by
the street car company IN the past toward
the public, enjoining as it does complete
monopoly Of the passenger carrying traffic
in the most pcpnlous district of the city,
should be granted absolute protection for its
employees in moving its cars, and thst q
failure to afford such protection
May Result in Anarchy.
The statement is made that the Governor
may be called upon to order out force Of
National Guard troops, but dispatch from
the State Capitol declares that no such sp-
plication has yet been made. The street
car company officials declare that they have
an ample force of men to man their cars,
provided they are insured protection from
assault. In the meantime practically every
carrysll in the city has been pressed into
service for the accommodation of the West
Side travelling public, and beyond the dis
comfort which naturally follows of
mounting an ordinary express wagon,
having plain pine bosds for seats
the public is not in any way incon-
yenienced. The street car companies in the
past having purchased or driven out Of the
business all omnibus companies, compare
lively few of the latter style Of vehicle re.
main in the city, but the present emergency
has resulted in bringing to light consid
cradle number, and it is almost idle to state
that these and every band wagon or other
side seated conveyance in the city has been
pressed into service. The prevailing fare
is ten cents, and express wagon drivers
state that they have collected from Sl2 to
$50 day from passengers in the ordinary
run of traffic. The hanson cabs, with
which the city is suppiedin large numbers
naturally cannot supply the full demands
made upon them.
Several meetings of citizens have been
held to protest against the delay of the
street car company in resuming the car ser
vice, and legal proceedings have been
threatened to compel forfeiture of the com.
pany's charter under provision which
compels the company to run its cars daily.
Fears of Anarchy.
Another dispatch ssqJ: At early dawn
the striking conductors and drivers and out
side sympsthizers began to congregste on
the street in anticipation Of an attempt to
start out some Of the cars by the company.
The company kept their cars 10 the barn,
however, and made no sign. Mr.. King,
Division Superintendent, admitted that he
had been instructed by the company to
make no attempt to start the cars until
further orders. None of the new conductors
and drivers alleged to have been hired yes.
terdsy were in the barns, and the crowd
stopped all strangers who were going to-
ward them to make inquiries as to their
business An obnoxious car starter under
took to go to the barn, but was stopped at
Park avenue by half dozen men, and
Given Severe Beating.
The policemen in the neigkborhood calm
" watched the chastisement of the man,
and made no attempt to stop the row. The
strikers, encouraged by their success yester-
day, and the apparent weakening Of the
company to-day, are said to have made an
additional demand on the officials as the
price Of peace. They ask that not only
shall the fifteen discharged men be taken
back, but that several obnoxious car starters
and other barn employees be discharged.
An official Of the company stated this
morning that he did not look for any furth.
n trouble, and thought q settlement of
some kind would be arrived at to-day.
A rumor is current that IN spite Of their
to the contrary the company
will attempt to start cars to-day. Fthey do
20 there viii undoubtedly be repetition OF
riotous scenes. The men are on
he alert and say that they cannot be duped
" seeming impsssiveness on the part OF the