St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-21
The st. Paul City Railway
Company Has Men and
to Spare.
Another Contingent Of Sew
enty-Odd Arrives Here
From Kansas City.
Traffic Will Be Resumed on
All Lines Early Mon
day Morning.
Citizens Of the Fifth Ward
Protest Against the Com
pany's Tyranny.

LIE police force was ulVlueQ y6SJer-
day morning into two details, one of
which was ordered to the West Seventh
street barns and the other to Rice
street. Business on the Seventh street
line was started shortly after o'clock
with the regular number of cars and a
full complement of men, and cars were
run on the regular time schedule until 5
D. m. Ont Oh Rice street, where cars
were started at 7:30, it was expected
that ''de gang" would be encountered
when the first attempt was made by the
company to resume traffic. A detail
of mounted police and two patrol
wagons and bus loaded with officers
were accordingly sent out there to
guard the three cars that were started.
There was no trouble, however. and the
procession passed the full length of
Rice street, through the business dis
trict and to West st. Paul and return
without encountering any difficulty
There were the usual crowds along the
line who yelled rats and similar
epithets to their hearts content, but
the demonstration ended there. On
the second trip the patrol wagons
were Withdrawn ana the cars
were run until $50 with a small mount
ed escort and four officers on each car.
In the afternoon the number of cars was
increased to nine. 1t is proposed to-
day to run the Rice street and West
Seventh street lines on regular time,
reducing the number of policemen on
the cars to one each, and to run a few
cars over the University avenue line.
The trouble is considered practically
over. and it is believed that by Monday
all the lines will
BE IN FULL OPERATION.
The idlerS along the routes of the
West Seventh and Rice street car lines
yesterday were at times rather loud i'm
their denunciation of the drivers who
had taken the places of the strikers,
but most of them were careful not to
he too loud while within reach of the
patrolmen. Henry Clark, former
driver on the Rice street line, was
arrested early yesterday morning,
just after the cars pulled out
from the Rice street barn,
for yelling rats" and ''scabs''
with too great vehemence. He was
taken before the police magistrate and
fined $40, which he paid from roll of
$500. Johnnie Corrigan, thirteen-year-
old boy. was caught in the act of plac-
ing railroad signal torpedoes on the
u.
He claimed that the explosives, which
did no damage, except to brighten the
horses, were furnished him by man
whom he did not know The case
against him was continued until
tomorrow. August Struka, Bohem-
ian cook from Minneapolis, was taken
from Ramsey and Seventh streets about
o'clock last night to the central sta
ton and charged with disorderly con-
duct. He persisted in addressing the
vilest language to all the car drivers
who passed the corner on which he
stood. Michael O'iroole, the Rice street
contractor who was arrested Friday
afternoon for repeatedly blocking street
cars at WabaSha and Seventh streets
with heavy wagon; was arraigned be-
fore Judge Cory yesterday morning.
He was released under a suspended
sentence of 500 or ninety days.
1t is claimed by the officers of the
company that they now have all the
men necessary to operate every line in
the city, and that sufficient police pro-
lection is all that is wanting. S. A.
Barbridge, the Chicagoan, who recruited
the street car forces in that city during
the recent strike, arrived yesterday
afternoon with Seventy-five
MEN FROM KANSAS CITY.
VIII Ullt large contingent previously
imported from Kansas City and Chi
cago, the available forces of the COM
pany are augmented to nearly 200 men,
A large number of them are quartered
in a vacant building at Fourth and EX-
change streets. and others are lodged at
the different street car barns, several
busses being used to convey them to
and from the Market restaurant, where
they are fed. The term ''cOw boys" has
been applied to them, but they are the
refuse element of the cities of Kan
sas City and Chicago and cannot
be even compared with the men
whose places they are expected to fill.
Buns predominant among them, but
there is an occasional representative of
the shabby genteel, attired in soiled
Prince Albert, who keenly feels the
degradation of his association with
wharf rats. street loafers aid their
kind. The first disturbance at their
quarters resulted last night, when one
of the strikers attempted to board bus
with crowd of them going to their
supper, in order to induce them to de-
Sert the company. He was detected by
Barbridge, row followed, and the
striker got great deal the worst of the
encounter. No arrests were made.