Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-01-30
TIED UP.
Repetition of the Scenes of Three
Years Ago in New York.
THE GREAT STREET CAR STRIKE
Inaugurated Yesterday Thousands of Men
On all the New York Surface Roads
Quit Their Work.
THE GREAT STREET CAR STRIKE
SCENES OF RIOT YESTERDAY.
Battles Between the Police and the Strikers
Cars Overtumed---The Brooklyn Police
Side With the Strikers--Pre-
pairing to Call the
Militia.

NEW lohhi january SS.-lnb lOnS-
threatened surface road strike was inau-
gurated here this morning.
The only cars running to-day are those
of The Third avenue and Bleecker street
rosds
1t is now nearly three years since the
last tie. up was experienced in this city.
The men have been preparing for this
struggle for some time past, and the order
to drop the lines was promulgated at the
meeting Of the street car men last evening.
Messengers were dispatches to the differ
ent stables to notify the men at work to
quit at a. m, or with the first trip of
the morning. The night cars, as fast as
they arrived at the stables, were run iu,
the horses stabbed and fed and left to en-
joy the unusual rest. The men went
quietly home.
The strikers comprise the employees of
the First and Second avenue lines, COO
men; Sixth avenue, 500 men; Broadway
hles, through University Place and B;oad-
way, /, 100 men; Eighth to Ninth avenue
lines, 700 men; Belt lire, $50 men; Dry
Dock lines, Avenue B and d, COrtlandt and
Grand Steet Ferry, $50 men; Grand and
Forty-second street; Genital Cross Town;
Chambers Street and Avenue q lines; the
Boulevard line; st. Nicholas avenue ard
Oae Hundred and Tenth street; Harlem,
Mofrisania aud One Hundred and Thirty
einhth street and Port Morris. The Sharp
lines, tbs Twenty-third street, Fourteenth
street, Beecker street and Christopher
street lines have not stopped.
The drivers Of the all-night cars finished
their trips before tying mp. The tie-up on
the Day Dock and East Broadway lines
was sympathetic one because of the
Brooklyn tie.up, Deacon Richardson, Pres-
ident Of the Atlantic Avenue lines, Brock
lyn, being large stakeholder ins the Dry
Deck ana East Broadway company. They
hsd no trouble about hours or pay.
At sn early hour Pre5i lent Curtis, of
;he Sixth avenue road, said he would run
car this morning over ths lines Of his route,
even if ali the strikers combined to stop il.
Tha strikers were prepared 10 40 this, and
they predicted the car would not run be-
low Eighth street. The police reserves
we're on duty last night in all the station
houses in anticipation of trouble The
patrol wagons we're in readiness and calls
we're made from the up town precincts for
extra men to guard the stables on the West
Side near Fiitieth street.
Fifty-pire men were ordered to guard
The Sixth avenue stables where the most
trouble is feared. Many of the men on this
road rre the ex.st!ik5Ts of the Third ave-
nue. road, and do not care fer repetition
Of their lockout. But they will be closely
watched by their brother workmen. The
men at pr; sent employed on the Third Av-
enus RsilIold are, msny of them, Union
men, but they are not strong enough to 60
out. The terms of the men are, IN brief,
s. % per day of ten h5urt' work instead Of
twelve hOurs.
Peter NJ. Tomery, an Italian, was on his
wav last night to the Eighth avenue
stables, to look for work, when he was set
mon. kicked and belten btutally and
stabbed in the face. His sssail6nts escaped
as the police appeared. Tomery was tsken n
TO the hospital unconscious, and he will
probably die. He was stabbed in the
samnle soveral teeth knocked out and bio
skull fractured.
lively row occurred at Grand street
this morning when crowd of strikers
tried tn oyerturn car. The Grend street
Cross-town line was tied up when the last
car came in. The company notified the
police that they wOald try to run in q
abort time. The police reserves were
ordered out, and some OF them placed
about the cOmpany's stables and offices.
Short!y before o car was drawn from the
barn down to the starting point in front Of
the ferry. A bowling mob Of strikers sur
rounded il the minute it came from the
harm. A hollow square of etalwart police
officers surrounded the car and the mob
did nothing more than yell. A vast crowd
of Dsople from the neighbOring tenements
Gathered at the scene. All of them were
in sympathy with the strikers, and their
prssence and cries tended 20 increase toe
intense excitement that reigned in the i'm
mediats vicinity of the ferry.
John MGhoney, a clerk III the Office,
drove the car. He is the same man who
took out the first car during the last strike
on this line. The car stood little while
before a start was made. II was sur
rorn5ed by an ever increasing throng that
vailed itself hosrse. The police we,e
strung along Grand Street about one to q
blocl, At last the car started and the
crowd begsn to make mischief. A truck
wes driven or the tracks. A police officer
tried 10 interfere but was carried OIL his
feet by the surging mob. This obstruc-
tion was removed, and the car passed on,
hut hslts were made on almost every
block. Other trucks were placed on the
tracks. but were quickly removed. At
Grand and Attorney streets, another
heavy wagon barred the way end stopped
the car. The crowd surrounded the car
and unhitched the horses They were
GIVEN sharp blow and started oil, almost
dfagsipr the driver over the front OF the
cor The police by this time had collected
in forca and had q hand-to-hand fight with
the mob. Despite the police, however,
tho mob lifted the car bodily and slung 1t
across the trsck. Policemen kept dashing
mn all the tine and attacked the strug-
cling strikers. A moment or two OF this,
and the crowd became disoIdered and
bsgan to scatter-the police had gained
tbe first victory. They captured one OF
the riugleaders, and in court he was fined;
The car by this time was righted and
the horses hitched to it. 1t was drawn to
the other track and taken back to the
stable. and no more violence was attemp'-
ed.
The scenes at the other stables were
eomewhot similar. Large crowds sur
rounded the buildings, but mp to II O'CLOCK
no DANGEROUS acts of violence had been re-
ported. All the residents OF the district II
the reiChborhood of Vestry street, through
which the Grand street cars pass, sympa
thizs with the strikers. Hearing that
car was coming this morning they gath
erei all the trucks and wagons in the vi
, ciniiv and massed them in the street, com
pletely blOckadiug it; ...
Another collision between the strlSer
sn5 the police took place at about half
Tsst 10 o'clock, when a car was sent on
or The sixth Avenue road. 1t hSd eigh
r oaicers on board. When the car got as ia
ss Forty-second street, it was attacked b!