Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-02-02
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
The Strike Situation in New York
and Brooklyn.
MOST LINES RUNNING CARS.
The Passengers Consist Largely oE Police
Who Don't Have TO Pay Nickel
a Ride, but Are Ready to Club
ObstreperouS Strikers.

Cars, with police guards, We're run on all
but the Second avenue Belt, Eighth and
Ninth avenue lines. These companies have
not asked Superintendent Murray for aid in
getting their cars through
Inspector Steers, at the head of 100 police
men, put in an early appearance at the
stables of the Broadway and Seventh avenue
road. With his men drawn up in line, In
spector Steers said to them, i'll a low, deter
mined tone:
'.I'll have no more nonsense, men. Keep
the corners cleared today
The policemen were then distributed all
along the avenue and Broadway from Fifty
second to Forty-second street There We're
few struggling strikers on the corners and
they Were ''moved on
About fifty men went into the stables be-
fore o'clock. They were the men who were
engaged yesterday and new men seeking en-
ployment. The programme for the day con-
templated the starting of car at o'clock, to
be followed by as many more as could be
manned
The Broadway tracks near Fifty-first street
were held down by six large pieces of flag
stone, while between Fifty-fourth and Fifty
fifth streets other pieces of lesser size formed
a further blockade
At 8 O'clock, as planned, the first car was
started
1t was reported early that an unknown
woman had been seriously hurt during the
night at Forty-third street and Seventh ave
nue., through the overturning of a cab at
point where the strikers had torn up por-
ton of the track The woman's injuries re-
quired her immediate removal to a hospital
There We're 225 men ready for work at the
stables, some of them old employees taken
back, and applications for places were plenti-
full.
There are signs in abundance on Tenth ave-
nue., from Fortieth street to Fifty-ninth street,
of the many short and sharp encounters that
have occurred between the police and popu-
lace along that thoroughfare.
s The paving stones in front of the tenement
from which old Mrs. Kate Moore pelted the
police with her plates, cups and saucers, are
literally covered with the broken chips of
china. Kate is in prison now, and the war is
waged without her.
The west tracks below the Belt line depot at
Fifty-third street and Tenth avenue are still
covered with manure, heaps of ashes and
stones.
Among the refuse is occasionally found n
battered Derby that had been good enough to
wear until its usefulness was destroyed in
some melee by polceman's locust.
A reporter picked up one round stone
which was covered with frozen blood, to
which several patches of iron gray hair adj
hered. 1t was a CHASTITY evidence of the fray.
President Scribner is anxious to run a car,
but it is understood that Inspector Steers
cannot spare the large force of men yet that
it would take to see a car safely through
fighting Ninth avenue, where the women go
to stores with bricks in their pockets and the
children just learning to talk climb ON the
roof tops to drop rocks son de cops
The following notice, in big, bold. black
type, is posted all over the outer walls of the
depot:
$3.50 REWARD
will be paid by the Belt railroad for the arrest
and conviction Of any person feloniously OBJ
structing. attacking or injurinS the cars or tracks
of this company any of its employees. or feloni-
ously attempting to enter its buildings or fsloni-
oasly assauiting any person on his way to or
from its depot at any time within the next thirty
days.
BY order of the president
wILLIAM n. 4. HARRIS. supt.
New York, Jan. 81. 1880
Vice President Wylnans said it had been
pasted up early in the morning by order of
the president.
The reporter asked him if he would be will
ing to submit the trouble between the COM
pany and its men to the mediation of Mayor
Grant to effect settlement He replied:
"There are no troubles between us and the
men we have now, SO there is no necessity for
the mayors interference. The men who left
our employment are discharged, and viii not
be taken back again unless needed. and then
only as individuals
1--WE have force enough now TO run all our
cars, and viii dc SO assoon as Inspector Steers
can give US protection for our property in the
streets of this city,
Superintendent Murray reached police head
quarters at 5 O'Clock in the morning and held
consultations with each of his inspectors. He
said to the reporter that he was prepared to
supply adequate police protection for therun-
ming Of cars on every line in the city today.
i have not as yet, said the superintendent,
received any application from the Belt line,
Second avenue, Seventh, Eighth or Ninth
avenue companies for police TO enable them
to rum cars or any notification that they in
tend to runs If they win furnish drivers and
conductors I win guarantee that the cars
shall rum
The stables of the Dry Dock line are still
standing on their old site, despite the alarm
| which stirred in the bosom cf Superintendent
White late at night, when some one in breath
less haste came to tell him that there was
/ tax among the striking employees Of the
road Of burning the stables
| Superintendent White sent. word to Capt
| Clincky that he needed stronger guard
about the stables, and the force was IN
| creased. The story excited the Tisibles Of
| Master Workman Mananm Of the local g.