Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-30
THE CAR STRIKE.
sorted to by the Men.
Violence and Rioting Re-
THE STRIKERS GET DRUNK.
All the New York Street-Car Lines,
With the Exception of
Two, Tied Up.
THE STRIKERS GET DRUM

in this city is tied up. When the las
night trip was made, each car was ruI
into the stables and at 4 A. M. the grea
strike commenced. Up to this hour nc
disorder has been reported. Superinten
dent Murray and Inspectors Speers,
Williams and Coplan have been al
police headquarters since daybreak con-
sulting with the officers of the surface
roads. Two police patrol wagons are
there in readiness for any emergency
and a large number of reserves are
quartered in the building. The
only cars running are those of the Third
avenue and Blocker street roads. The
President of the Sixth avenue roads said
he would run Car this morning over the
lines of his route, even if all the strikers
CONT bined to stop it. The strikers are
preparing to do this, and they predict
that the car will not run below Eighth
street. The police reserves are ali on
duty, in anticipation of trouble. In all
about 4, 800 men have stopped work.
A lively row occurred at Grand street
this morning when a crowd of strikers
tried to overturn a car. A large mob
blocked the street when the car started,
and all sorts Of Instructions were placed
on the track. The crowd surrounded the
car and unhitched the horses. The
police had collected in force and had a
hand-to-hand fight with the mob. De-
spite the police, however, the mob lifted
the car bodily and slung it across the
tracks. The police kept dashing up all the
time and attacking the struggling strikers.
A moment or two OF this and the crowd
became disordered and began to scatter.
The police had gained the day. The
police captured one of the ringleaders.
Up to IL 80 A. NJ. six cars had been
sent out and two had made the trip. A
number of minor scrimmages between
the police and strikers had taken place
About o'clock 100 policemen were
dispatched from police headquarters to
Thirty-third street and Third avenue,
where riot was reported to be in pro-
gress.
Preparations have been made in
Brooklyn to call out the 18th, 10Th and 23d
regiments in case of 3 riot arising out OF
the Atlantic-avenue horse car tie-up.
The company has decided not to run
any cars at present. The police in
Brooklyn, unlike those of New York, ap-
pear to be in thorough sympathy with
the strikers. Mr.. Richardson, son of the
proprietor Of the road, defed the Brook
lyd Aldermen to revoke the company's
charter. He eaid this could only be
done by the Legislature.
As the afternoonwaned the tied-up lines
which had run out cars during the day
housed their rolling stock and their new
men, and comparative quiet followed the
activities of the daytime. About 5
O'Clock, when the last Sixth-avenue car
reached the depot, the police were re-
lieved. The strikers, however, remained
in the neighborhood of the stables.
There was great excitement at Twenty
third street and Tenth avenue all day,
the strikers at one time stopping and
overturning a car before the police could
gather in force. The greatest excite
ment existed around the Fourth-avenue
stables, where 600 strikers were gathered.
Two or three efforts were made to
run the cara. A small police force was
on hand. The car finally started, but
ran into pile of ashes which had been
dumped by the strikers. The latter
quickly made demonstration, but we're
routed by the police and their ringleader
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ing the Car windows with stones and
injuring the lady passenger slightly. At
Sixty-third street a Twenty-third street
car was stopped in the middle of
Fourth avenue tracks. while the con-
ductor was put off, the passengers
driven out and the car overturned.
Quite serious time seemed imminent.
but the police made vigorous demonstra
tions with their clubs and scattered the
crowd. Other cars were also stopped at
this point. Sight-seers lined the avenue
and greatly interfered with the police.
Many of the strikers were intoxicated.
Late in the afternoon the companies on
the East Side determined to run no more
cars, and the crowds began dispensing.
The Forty-second street across town
line made four unsuccessful attempts to
run a car. One manned by twenty
policemen encountered serious opposition
at Seventh avenue, where the strikers
had barricaded the tracks. The police
removed the distractions and the strjk-
ers began to throw stones. Two of the
officers were badly cut about the face be-
fore the crowd scattered. Every patrol
man not on duty tonight vas kept at the
station house and the full force will be
out tomorrow.
Master Workman MCGEE, of the strik-
ers' order, called on Mayor Grant to-day
and complained that the police were
making themselves too officious. The
Mayor informed him he had no doubt
the police officers would act discreetly.
Despite the quiet of tonight, an alarm
ing feature of The situation is the appar-
ent tendency of the strikers to intoxica-
tion. Many of them tonight are under
the influence of liquor, and it is feared
that serious consequences will follow to-
morrow.
This evening Bergh's Society hired
fifty Italians to feed and water the horses
of the Belt line. On their way to the
stable, under police escort, one of them
slipped and fell on the sidewalk, and
despite the presence of the police, was
set upon and fearfully beaten by num-
ber of strikers who were lounging about
War In Europe Inevitable.
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