Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-10-12
STREET STRIKE.
NEGOTIATIONS tRE OFF AND TIE
FIG6T rs ON.
Cars Crowded, but with Polieemen-A
Proclamation from the
Mayor.
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CHICAGO, October 1l.-Mayor Roche
held a short conference this morning With
the committee Of street-car strikers and
found them disposed to compromise. he
then held one lasting several hours with
President Yerkes, of the street-car syndi-
cate, but could make nothing out Of him.
Yerkes is quoted as saying after his con-
ference with the Mayor that latter all.
negotiations are off and the company is
now prepared for long siege. Cars will
run to-day and the Mayor has promised
ample protection. ] will make no more
offers; nor will receive any. All nego-
tiations are of. The fight is on. ="
A few cars we're run on the North Side
to-day under similar but rather 9verse
circumstances than those of yesterday.
More rails have been torn upand carried
away. and more distractions we're met
with. A heavy force OF police guarded
every car, and they had several severe
conflicts with a mob. but no serious
casualties were reported. The police
show q much steiner front to-day than
yesterday. and the determination Is an
nounced to summary quell any attempt
at mob violence. On the West Side only
two cars were run out Of the barn late
this afternoon. They made the round
trip without serious mishap, carrying all
the police they could hold, but nobody
besides.
Mayor Roche has issued the following
proclamation
Whereas difficulties have arisen be-
tween the Third-Street Car Company and
their employees, and as it is necessary
for the preservation of peace and the
good name of the city that law and
order should be maintained, therefore
the citizens are requested not to congre-
gate on the streets in any section of the
city, but 10 follow tneir usual vacations
If crowd collects at any point aud evil
disposed persons intending 10 commit an
overt act conceal themselves IN their
midst, and when breaches OF the peace
occur innocent onlookers are liable to he
injured, the law imposes upon the
authorities the duty OF preserving order
and protecting property, aud this Will be
done.
[Signed] JOIN A. ROCHE, Mayor.
1t is asserted with much positiyeness
that Saturday morning has been decided
on as the time for the employees Of the
eastern roads Of the Philadelphia syndi-
cate to strike should the Chicago strikers
desire them 20 90 out The syndl-
cate controls the Broadway Surface Lire,
and Sixth and Seyenth-Ayenue lines IN
New York, employing about fifteen hun.
bred men. An equal number is employed
by the syndicate in Philadelphia and
about tYs hundred in Pittsburgh. IL Is
expecteF that the syndicate in three
cities will receive tomorrow n formal no.
tice OF the impending strikes. Robert
HOokstree. driver of the Ne,t-Side car
which made the first trip TO state street
and return Wednesday, received Sl5Ofor
his services. The contract was that he
should stick at bis post for the entire
journey for the sum offered HIM. His
knuckles were laid bare by stone, his
| Jaw was broken with a chunk OF granite,
and his face torn open with brick, hut
he fulfilled his bargain, and got his
money the instant he entered the
barn. lie was unable TO leave
OF secure meoical treatment until tins
morning owing TO the surveillance OF the
strikers sympathizers. T.. X. Caswell,
who drove the hading car on the West
Side this evening, dropped his lines
! Imply when the ear safely entered the
barn. lie fell on the platform in a dead
faint. The excitement and nervous ten
sion had been too great for him. The
trip was six miles. with the bowling,
ieering mob continuously in sight aud
the possibility of a rock or pistol-ball
flying by at any moment