The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-31
ARSENAL UNDER GUARD.
FEARS THAT TIE CAR STRIKERS
MIGHT TRY TO LOOTIT.

very Few Cars Run on ANY of the
Aoaos-fhe Police Have One or Two
desperate Struggles with Mobs
Costructing the Charters
Not in Danger
NE" YORK, Jan. 3O.-There was trouble
on the Grand street cross-town line al South
FiItn avenue this morning. Strikers over
tuFhel a coal wagon on tie tracks and it
looked as If an encounter was imminent. a
patrol wagon fun Of reserves was sent there
from police headquarters, but when they
arrived at the scene Capt. Tnompson's re-
serves from the Eighth precinct pc lice
station had removed the obstruction and
dispersed the strikers.
ne Sixth avenue company sent out
!. cir hrst car at $50 O'Clock this morning.
. cree police were on each platform About
iOO st1ker5 were standing about the depot,
buS luey did not attempt 10 interfere. TIE
superintendent said that he wall not run
more th&u len or c dozen cars during the
day.
The Broadway line ADVERTISED in a morn
ing paper for conductors and drivers to
take the places of the strikers
But LITTLE CHANGE.
The condition to-day was much like that
run on all OF them, IN all cases under police
protection, aud that disturbances, although
numerous, were not so serious as those of
yesterday. One new feature was an attack
made by strikers on a Third avenue car,
winch was quickly suppressed and the ring
leader arrested. The Third avenue men
are non-union men and have not struck
GUARDING AN ARSENAL.
By order of the state militia authorities,
RFna- - t1,eA
stationed tonight in T arsenal at Thirty
fifth street aud Seventh avenue. The maia
Nu'pos9 III view Is 10 arrest acy attem1t
t1at might be made by strikers TO att rex
the arsenal in order to provide them elves
with arms. Report from the various car
stables ana other points where the strikers
are wont to congre7ate snow that quietness
reigns at all these places. The men are
holding a meeting at Wendelps assembly
room.
Fourth avenue cars did not run below
Fourteenth or above Eighty sixth streets.
The Ninth avenue line did not ATTEMPT to
run cars. Their line is near the river front,
on the West Side.
EVERYTHING WAGONS.
At II o'clock tonight mob of strikers
gathered at the corner of Bedford and Car
mine streets and overturned half a
dozen wagons on the Sixth avenue
ash men to dump their leads on the tracks,
and thirty milk cans and a lot of paving
stones were seattle @ along for an entire
block. The only policemen on duty there
at the time were officers Byrnes and Shana-
han If tae Ninth precinct They did the
bes5 they could with the mob until a Sixth
avenue car came down, when they
were reinforced by four police
men who were on board it.
but these could make no headAav. Officer
Shanahan was bailY beaten about the head,
and Officer Byrnes discharged his pistol into
the crowd. Final V a reserve squad arrived,
under Capts. Co Gland and Grogaa, aud the
mob was speedily dispersed.
ON THE BELT LINE.
Only one car was run On the belt line,
and 1t had an escort of $50 policemen. 1t
was housed after one trip, the policemen
being taken off for use elsewhere.
The Second avenue line made no attempt
to run cars.
The greatest efforts, both of the strikers
and OF the railroad companies, are being
put forth on the Grand street cross town
line and on the Sixth avenue road. The
cars on these roads had trouble on almost
every block, but they were kept running in
greater numbers than on any Of the dis
turbed roads, and in greater numbers than
yesterday.
WAGONS FULL OF POLICE.
Two patrol wagons filled with police were
kept going up and down the route of the
Grand street cars, so as to keep an open
passage, and prevent distractions being
put on the track by the strikers Several
strikers this morning told Paymaster Fos-
dick OF the drydock line that the Grand
street cars must stop running. even il some
of the unioniSts lost their lines in attempt
ing to make the n