The new North-west., 1888-10-26

HEADQUARTERS, NORTH SIDE.
nineteen; the latter demand equal pay with
the former, and being refused strike. This
was ON tho ''north side," as Chicagoans call
that division of the city north Of the Chicago
river. Tho drivers and conductors on the
west side declared the usual rule, IAN injury
to one is the concern of ALL" and struck in
sympathy with the others.
It is needless to detail the successive steps:
they were such as the public is now familiar
with. Tho evolution Of riot is monotonously
regular. First strike, then tho search for
''scabs," '.rats" or "blacklegs" to take the
places of the strikers; then an obstruction by
the latter, an appeal to the police, a swarm Of
private detectives, a mob, clubs on one side
and stones or softer and nastier missiles on
the other; then the revolver, and, as it now
appears, the bomb, and finally q massacre.
Americans have got SO used to this line Of de-
vclopment that, as they read their papers
from day to day, they know with tolerablo
certainty what to look for in them next day.
A street car strike, however, has its COM
ical features, and Chicago had great deal of
fun tho first day. In pouring rain the
wearied clerks, shop girls and other employees
issued from the stores on the main streets
find with dlsmay that no cars were running.
All who lived Oh the north side had from one
to five miles walking before them. There
was a ''panic in convcyances." Omnibuses,
hacks, cabs, market carts and all clean and
common vehicles were filed in q few min
utes; then tho unlucky late ones turned to
butcher carts, coal carts, furniture vans,
lumber wagons, anything, everything that
would do transporting, and in few instances
::earied but financially solid men were
wheeled home in hand carts or hauled i'll little
boys' wagons. All these had money; but the
weary and impecunious thousands had to
walk. It was like the days of epizooty in
1872, when street couvcyances were drawn
by oxen. Curses on Yerkes and tho COM
p,..,ies were both loud and deep, for at the
start public sympathy was with the strikers
During the first Saturday and Sunday no
attempts were made to run the north side
cars President Yerl1es was consolidating
his forces Some experienced drivers were
obtained from Philadelphia, and many new
men employed The barns were put in
charge of detectives hired by the company,
and 400 extra policemen wcro put on the
north side force. And with this dread array
the Mondays excitement began. But after
examining the law Mayor Roche informed
the car compauys officials that the
private detectives could not be allowed
to engage; tho protection business must be
done bv the regular police. EARLY III the
morning q few cars loaded with policemen
were run: the general public was too timld
to takc passage. Tho strikers and their sup
norters gathered fast, and soon the streets
we're blocked SO that tho cars had to be lit
crally forced through them But there was
no fighting yet. Tho women in the crowd,
md we'll dressed and apparently respectable
ladies on the sidewalk, jeered at tho drivers
and yelled ''Scabs! rats! Philadelphia pau
pers!" etc. Tho strikers pressed close on the
cars and urged the new men not to ''act as
tools to Cypress their brethren" Occasion
ol,v one abandoned his car and Joined tho
strikers, being received with loud cheers
and occasionally borne away on the mems
shoulders. And so passed Monday.
On Tuesday began the second stase-miid
f;ohtinr There wero paving stones, tin
cans. mud. dead cats and garbage on one
side. clubs on the other; but no shooting yet.
Only one pistol drawn. The blood was not
vet up to fighting heat Through tho cen.
tral section the few cars moving were forced
n few rods ut a time-palo drivers gripping
the reins and police in front and rear tight
iur their way. At one place several paving
stones had been set up in the middle OF the
track, on which wero written in chalk sucn
threats as: "Scabs, look out for bombs"
"Down with the scabs," 20, you dirty scab
doss,n and "Wc'l fix nll scabs.' Garbage
hoxes filed with stones werc placed across
the track, and on them were also wratsea
threats to ssdo" the non-union men.
The west sidc drivers and conductors haa