Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-31
THE NEW YORK STRIKE.
Several Conflicts Between
the Mob and Police.
TRACKS BLOCKED AND TORN UP.
Park Avenue Hotel Walters Side
with the Strikers and Boycott
the Policemen.
,Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD.

iAssociated Press DISPATCHES to the HERALD.
New York, January 30.-The street
car tie.up continues. This morning tn
strikers overturned wagon on th'
Grand street tracks. A portion Of th'
police reserves were called out and dis
persed the mob. Trouble is feared. Onl.
few cars will be run to-day. A car OF
Sixth avenue started at o'clock, guard
ed by three policemen. AT Bleecker ant
Carmine streets they were overpoweret
by mob and the car was overturned
Police headquarters has been asked t.
send assistance.
Large crowds OF strikers and sympa
thizers began to assemble early at the
stables of the belt line. Additiona
police arrived and cleared the sidewalk
The excitement is at fever heat. 1t was
said that if the cars started there woulG
be bloodshed, because the strikers are
getting desperate. Two thousand five
hundred police are on duty. The Broad.
way line will start cars at noon. At II
O'Clock the strikers gathered at Bedford
and Carmine streets and overturned hall
a dozen wagons on Sixth avenue tracks,
and compelled ashmon to dump loads on
the track. Milk cans and paving stones
were scattered along the entire block.
Policemen on duty we're roughly handled
till relief squad arrived and dispersed
the crowds.
At noon a Belt Line car left the stables,
escorted by 250 policemen. At Fifty
ninth street the tracks were found OBJ
structed. The car returned to the barn
and no more will be sent out.
Forty trips have been made on the
Grand-street line. The cars were followed
by jeers, yells and sometimes showers of
stones. Many of the strikers are drunk
and declare that the cars must stop,
even if lives are lost in doing it. Serions
trouble is feared. 1t is rumored that the
have been called out.
The strikers this afternoon obstructed
the Broadway tracks and tore up the
before the police arrived. The tracks at
were also obstructed. The State Board
action. The State Railroad Commission
cIo diC AcdIluS tu0 GIlcNduCS5 VI tue
strikers.
BROOKLYN, January 3O.-The street car
tie-up continues. Minor assaults are
frequent, but there is no serious trouble.
New York, January 30.-The deter
mined efforts of the strikers to check
the running of the Third avenue cars
has been entirely unsuccessful, and this
is g very disquieting feature to the
,k~ &C
weak-kneed. The Car Company to-day
secured a large number of new men, and
additional Efforts to start cars will be
made IN the morning.
The walters in the Park Avenue Hotel
this evening refused to serve food to the
policemen who were sent in there, and
the officers had to get food elsewhere.
Judge Hilton, who controls the hotel,
declared tonight that he would close up
his house sooner than have a repetition
of such work.
At Third avenue and Ninety Eighth
street, at o'clock this afternoon, three
cars manned by "scabs" were attacked
and overturned. Stones and other mis-
siles flew in volleys at the drivers and
conductors, but determined charge by
the police dispersed the crowd, and the
ringleaders were arrested.
Fourth-avenue car was attacked on
Seventy-seventh street by crowd hid
den behind brick pile. They pelted
the Car with stones aud bricks, breaking
all the windows but not injaring the oc-
cupants.
Many of the strikers we're paid off to-
day and there is great deal of drunk
enness tonight, which is disquieting to
the police.