Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1889-01-30
ANNAPOLIS. ND. WEDNESDAY EVENING. JANUARY 1885,

out, and lis skull was fractured. He is mar
ried and lives in West Twenty-seventh street.
The strikers number about as follows: First
and Second avenue lines, COO men; Fourth av
enue line, $50 men; Sixth avenue line, 500
men: Broadway line and branches, / 100 men;
Eighth and Ninth avenue lines, zoo men;
Belt line, $50 men; Dry Dock lines, Avenues
b and d, Cortlandt and Grand street ferry
lines, 600 men.
Total 1850.
The strikers principal demand is that they
shall receive on all lines S225 day for ten
hours work inside of twelve hours. There is
a long list of grievances, but the principal
trouble is in regard to the pay and hours OF
work.
The police preparations are said to be almost
perfect. As soon as word was sent out, pa
troll wagons from the annexed districts came
rattling into the city; the reserves, who had
been held at the station houses all day, were
distributed at the various car stables, and at
all points where it was at all likely that any
trouble would occur.
A squad of fifty policemen, under comnmad
of Capt Smith, was stationed at headquar-
tiers, and two patrol wagons waited outside in
Mulberry street
When the sun rose the department was
ready to meet any move that the strikers
might make.
i propose said Superintendent Murray,
ito protect every railroads property, and
am prepared to run every line in the city il
they want me to do it."
If the more turbulently inclined of the
strikers could have seen the superintendent
quiet look of determination as he said these
words it would have had a great and lasting
moral effect upon them.
The managers of the various roads in the
tie up, while not altogether unprepared for
the strike, were nevertheless greatly aston
ished that it had come so soon and with 50 lit
tie warning.
Many of them had no idea of what had hap
pened until or O'Clock this morning They
were taken almost completely by surprise.
All around the stables, sngly and in couples
and groups of three and four, were the all inn
portant ''pclxets" These mon are, as a rule,
big, muscular fellows, and their peculiar duty
is to discourage industry.
They are particularly ayerse TO seeing any
man looking for work, and 10y gentle words
and soothing speech they demonstrate 70 such
the beauties and pleasures OF idleness.
If this plan doesn't work they knock the
labor seeker down. That invariably works
The plcSers were out iii force at daylight.
An attempt TO run a car on the Grand
street line resulted in many cracked heads
The car was overturned by the mob, who
We're frightfully clubbed by the police. The
car finally returned TO the stables One
arrestwas made.
A number of lesser riots are reported.
BROOKLYN, Jan. 30--Police Commissioner
Bell had a conference this morning with the
colonels of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and
Twenty-third regiments in relation to the
prospects of a riot over the strike of the em-
ployes of the Atlantic Avenue Railroad com
pany. The coonels informed the commits
sioner that they were ready at any time their
services were needed. The company has de
cided not to run any cars at present, and as
long as no attempt is made to put any of the
cars on the road it is not likely that there
will be any serious trouble.