Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-02-01

ful trim " t@ ears ire applicants LOT WorR 81
The ~ ef.w very numerous. and al were
tales 81 IN the next Tip the ears went as
Tar E.ssa street.
~ over the Sixth avenue road
sifh at s O'Clock. and was fol-
l3e teenotliers. Every car had four
or slFe res,on on board At 10 O'Clock
some 81 ts. cars had made two round trips
vif!se.l. lasiestation- The cars were manned
by rses-. lands.
The strikers were given no chance for a pre-
concerted onslaught upon the cars, as the POI
lice dispersed every crowd that gathered
along tie line. President Curtis says he has
hired al the conductors he wants and is turn
ing away applicants. Very few strikers have
applied t. him for work
The first car run across town by the Forty
second street line had no trouble in making
the roand trip, and President Foster ordered
more cars out.
The Dry Dock company began running
Grand street cars early this morning. BY 10
O'Clock twelve were running without trouble
About half past IL o'clock panic seized
the big crowd around the bulletin boards on
Park row, and rush was made for Broad
way opposite the Astor house. A Broadway
car with half dozen policemen and as many
passengers was on its way down town The
people lining both sides of the car tracks
did not show any marks of i'll feeling to-
wards the driver or conductor. 1t returned
and passed up by the Aston house in due time.
Seve-al strikers were arraigned in the
police courts for obstructing the tracks or
othei-unlawful acts against the surface roads
and were either sent 10 the Island for month
Dr held in $500 bail for trial
A delegation of BUSH ~ men called on
a II IL "A.
ence to bring about speedy settlement Of the
strike
BR ooKI.yN, Feb. 1.-The deacon has run
a carr This was the annoInceme@s that was
heard on all sides in Brooklyn, and it meant
a great deal But ut what cost in sore
heads, rrtiied police tempers and strikers
wrath had this been accomplished.
The strikers were of the opinion that the
company would not attempt to run car at
all unit the strike was settled. This opinion
they formed from the published interviews
with Secretary William j. Richardson, in
which he stated that be would not incite riot
by running a car.
But n o'clock in the morning the shrewd
secretary mede move that was totally un-
expected. At the hour named be telephoned
TO police headquarters for sufficient force of
men to protect car from the stables at At
lantic and Third avenues to the bridge and
return 10 Greenwood cemetery.
Within forty minutes 800 men, not includ-
ing the mounted police from the Tenth and
Fourteenth precincts, were distributed along
the line of the Atlantic avenues Third avenue
line, and Superintendent Campbell announced
that the police were ready
The doors of the Third avenue stables were
thrown open and mounted police numbering
about thirty men dashed out of the stables
and cleared the street. They were followed
car 202, of the Fifth avenue and Boerum place
line.
Roundsman Murphy boarded the front plat
form OF the car with six patrolmen, and Sergt.
Hayes, with six men, occupied the rear, while
ON the inside there were another half dozen
blue coats. Behind the car marched twenty
four patrolmen under command OF Sergt.
Metcalfe, Of Che Tenth precinct. The entire
car and escort were surrormdeded by the
mounted police.
The streets were crowded with strikers BY
the time the car had been run block the po-
lice had work to do. They were armed with
heavy night sticks and were also provided
with revolvers The orders of Inspector Me
Loughlin were brief and to the point He
simply said, as the car started out: Boys,
quickly, too
The mounted squad approached the mob at
Fourth avenues but the strikers, armed with
clubs and cobbic stones, held their ground.
"Chargcln said Scrgt. johnson, sharply, and
the spirited, well trained horses of the police
dashed into the mob, rearing and plunging
upon al sides The long, yellow clubs de
scribed s~ift circles in the air, but there were
no heads FOR them TO alight upon, for the
hoofs Of the plunsing steeds had made rapid
opening through the crowd The car passed
the corner amid shower of stones, bottles
and small missiles No one was hurt.
The mounted squad cleared the streets all
the way, bat at Tenth street The first barri-
cade was encountered Fully 1000 men were
in the mob. The tracks had been covered
with building stone, ashes, coal bins and
other material aud halt was compulsory.
When the car stopped the mob charged upon
it, with the intention of derailing and over
turning il, but the clubs of the police beat
such lusty tattoo upon their heads that they
were forced TO retreat.