New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-14
THE CAR STRIKE IN CHICAGO.
REACTION IN FAVOR OF YERKES-MlSS
McCORNIICK'S WEDDING
ley TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.

Chicago Oct l3-The great street-car striKe mas
naturally been the absorbing topic In Chicag" 'hie
week For more than ten days there were pra0
i.cally no street or cable cars on the hor'h anu
west sides and more than threefourt Oh Nhcaso
population were deprived Of all public means Oh
conveyance. Tho express wagons and o'her I'M
proyscd carrvaus have, Of course been en'irciy
Inadequate substitutes and they doubled the street
car tariff they have been the means OF serious
Increase In the expenses of the army OF worAhsmon
shcpgrls and clerks who live In the outshrs OF 'no
town. The strike began on the north side, where
the 900 conductors and drivers OF the ferkcs lines
made demands TO hours and wages that inc co"
many refused TO grant. After they had been out one
day the 500 west side men tied UP the lines III 'nA
part OF the city and resolved to stay out uh'i 'hs
company granted the demands OF the noitn-slde SUM-
ers There IS little doubt that the strike would never
have occurred had not the men presumed upon the
great unIopularity OF Yerkes and his PhiladelphA
svpd,cate Yet the strikers presumed too much, and
the inconvenience to which they have subjected the
Inhabitants caused slight reaction In favor OF ferAes
The course Of the city authorities In this emergency
has been universally condemned by THE best czehs'
MAYOR Roche like his predecessors, tcmporized Win
mobs and curried favor with the labor agitaios III
stead Of employing energetic measures at the STAR
so much license was given the strikers and the
crowds that they did precisely as they pie ased, built
oplar barcades in the streets in the face OF the pc
uce stoned the new drivers and IN every conceivable
vsy preve lted the from running the cars This
sort of thing was allowed 20 continue until Thursday
the mob getting worse and worse every day until
several officers OF the company were mobpod IN the
streets The authorities then, for the nnt unle'
adoped proper measures and showed the crowds that
the nol,ce could clear the streets. Tho Aroeit%
ze,tungp the Anarchist organ, did what II could
10 stir up strife and TO the scenes OF le'S-the
Mccormick riots and the Haymarkot massacre
The statement tecgraphed from New-forK that
VI n Incbam the head Of the Ingham Speculation
syndicate" is John Fleming, who figured In chcasos
corrupt Fund "" swindle Is incorrect FLEMING
IS living here in Chicago and has been eVor since I've
was hardened by Judge Blodgett. The funa )"
scheme wis started late in the seventies by Fleming
A. Merriam, who flooded the country with circulars
Offering TO sell s1O-shares In fund which was 10 DO
used in specializing in grain and provisions on 'he
Chicago Ioars OF Trade. The shareholders were
promIsed the dividends from the profits cued from the
market by master hands In trading When stock
holders who had received dividends complained to
the Post Office Department the order was given TO
hold the mail OF Fleming Merriam IL was BODY
blow The Office was closed and Fleming nen TO
Canada. where no deemed himself safe. During the