Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-01-31
G0THAM'S BIG TIE-UP.
A FEW SMALL RIOTS TAXI PLACE IN NEW
Y0RK'S STREETS.
Car Tracks Are BlOckadsd and Stones and Clubs
Thrown by the Mob-Ssvsral Arrests Made
Police Prepared for Emergencies and R1-
pect No Serious Trouble.

slept in station houses in their clotbee.
Superintendent Murray expressed himself
as being able to meet any emergency and
declared that the strain did not in any way
incapacitate the men. The present regula-
tiOns could be continued Indefinitely, he
declared, and added that the police would
protect TIE property OF the car companies
from the ODslaughts Of any mob. The
Third Avenue Rsilroad ran eighty cars
during the night. They were not molest-
ed. General Fitzgerald called upon Super
intendeet Murray yesterday to offer the
aid of the National Guard to help to pre-
serve order. when we are whipped"
was the chiefs answer, I'VE will be glad to
avail ourselves of the aid of the militia" 4"
The neighborhood of the Sixth avenue
car stables was deserted except by the
police this morning. 1t was said that cars
would be started from here beginning at
nine O'Clock, or az soon thereafter as q
sufficient force Of police could be mustered
to man them.
AT $3.50 the first car was sent out. Three
policemen were on each platform. About
one hundred strikers we're standing about
the depot, but they did not attempt to in
terfere
Matters were quiet around the stables
of the Broadway and Seventh Avenue
Railroad Company. The strikers stood
in knots on the corner, but were very
orderly. A notice was posted in the office
window stating that employees who did rot
report for duty before room to-day wonld
be considered discharged, and those who
returned to work would be fully protected
in the diechaTge Of their duties.
ShSrtly before 10 O'Clock INSPECTOR
Steers, stationed with force of men at the
Belt Line Company's stables, notified
Superintendent Murray that the situation
there was threatening, and that be had
called for a platoon of men from the
Twenty-secopd precinct; that the rein
forcement had arrived and been stationed
inside the stables. An immense thfong of
strikers and sympathizers had gathered on
Frtty-third street, o block aouth CT the
stables, and threats we're freely made any
attempt to run care they would be thrown
into the liver. The saloons in the neigh
bOIhOod were doing rushing business,
and there is no doubt that bloodehed will
result Il an attempt is made to run the
cars. inspector Steers had o conference
with President Scribner and endeavoIed to
him from attempting to run cars,
but that official was obdurate. The
police then cleared the sidewalks around
the stable, but mp to II o'clock no at
tempt vas made TO start q car.
At eleven o'clock a mob of strikers
gathered at the corner OF Bedford aud Car
niue streets, and overturned half O dozsn
wagons on the Sixth Avenue tracks. They
also compelled two sshmen to dump their
loads on The tracks, ard thirty milk cars
and lot Of paving stones were scattered
along for the length of an entire block.
The OIL, policeman on duty there at the
time we're Officsrs Byrnes and Shanahan,
Of the Ninth precinct. They did the best
they could with the mob until Sixth
avenue car came down, when they were
reinforced by the four policemen who were
On beard Of il, but thess could make no
heldwsy. Shanahan was badly beaten
about the head, and ByrDe discharged his
pistol into the crowd. Finally a reserve
squsd arrived under the command of Cap
taips Copeland and Grogan, and the mob
was speedily dispersed.
Soon after o'clock about forty strikers
assembled on Broadway, between Forty
fourth and FOrty-ffth streets, and after
several wagons on the car tracks,
one OF which was loaded with lard and
they tore up three or four
plates and made off before
the police arrived on the scene. The
strikers also became rather troublesome on
upper Sixth Avenue this afternoon. At
street they tore up the flag
tones and laid them on the track, aud at
Fifty-frst street some men were arrested
for trying to Overturn q wagon The State
Board of Arbitration is in the city, but
reither side has as yet entered into negcti-
atoms with it looking to an end of the
tie-up.
The State Railroad Commissioners are in
session to-day hearing the grievances of the
striking employees.
The Grand street line ran eight cars up
10 p. NJ, making in all forty trips. The
,ars were greeted with hoots and yells, and
sometimes with a shower of stones. Two
patrol wagons filled with policemen were
Kept going up and down the route of the
,srs so as to keep an opsn passage and pre-
vent distractions bting put on the track
1y the strikers. The line of the car route
Iss tdroDged with strikers, and many Of
hem were under the influence of liquor.
Several of the strikers this morning told
Paymsster FOsdick, of the Dry Deck Line,
hat the Grand street cars must stop run
hing, even if soma of the Unionists lost
heir lives in attempting to compel them
10 so.
The first witness before the Railroad
Commission to day was w. ]. Richardson
lie stated that the Atlantic avenue road
you'd be glad to meet a committee COM
,osed of their cid employees and talk over
ha existing trouble.
Two of the old employees were the next
witnesses. They repeated the strikers
ide of the story. d.
The law was interpreted TO them as con-
aimed in sections 1875, 1897 and 1898 of
he Revised Statutes. They were greatly |
surprised when told by the Commission
hat the failure to run car over their |
-oad every day did not mean a forfeiture
If it's charter. They then strongly ad-
vised the strikers representatives to re-
urn to Brooklyn and endeavor to persuade
the strikers to call on Mr.. Richardson as
Did employees and not as Knights of Labor.
The conference ended then and the men
returned to Brooklyn to talk with their
fellow strikers.