Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1889-02-04
THE STRIKE is WANING.
But New York Boys Makes It
Lively for the Police.
A "RAssLE" WITH THE scABs.~

Young Hoodlums Attack Car of the
Twenty-thIrd street Line. and the re
serves Are Called Out--The Roads Rap
idly Resuming.
New York, Feb A gang Of urchins.
none Of whom appeared 20 be more than IA
years of age. congregated on First avenue,
around Thirty-fourth street. shortly after
noon. The cars Of the Twenty-third street
cross town, and the Forty street cross
town, and Thirty-fourth street ferry lines
were running up 10 | o'clock with more or
less regularity, and without any incident Of
note. On the avenue, between Twenty-fifth
and Fortysecond streets, large number Of
boys were playing, as had been their won't
on Sunday afternoon.
The regular police patrol only were on the
beat when some gamin far up the avenue
shouted ont. "Whats the matter with givin'
the scabs the rassem That was sufficient
The word flew through the avenue and caught
the fancy Of the boys Before the police
knew anything was happening break had
been made for wagon standing near the
curb at Thrtieth street. II was dragged out
upon the track and literally streen all over
il, amid the widest enthusiasm. The cheer
ing could be heard for blocks away, and the
tenements that abound in the district seemed
20 open and pour out boys of all ages and
sizes in most uxuriant profusion. Ths
police charged them, aud then the
tumut began. Men who were pass
ing protested that children should not
be clubbed, and they Kissed and
jcered the officers, while from the windows
Of the houses willing hands not infrequently
threw out buckets OF water on the heads Of
| the finest The latter were few In numbers
and punched together, SO when they got out
Of the scuiile IN which they were for the mo-
ment engaged they found that smaller
/ brigade further down the avenue had capt
ured two trucks from somewhere and run
them on the track A car chanced along at
| the time and regular blockade ensued
Some few ladies who were passengers got
| out Of Il, and then the gamins stood back and
| polted il with whatever they could lay their
handso on Superintendent Mclean OF the car
line at once communicated with Capt Ryan,
who was up at the Fourth avenue road
stables, and he despatched twenty Of the re-
serves BY the time they arrived the avenue
was blocked and jammed with people. Every
body was pushing and iostling and shouting
The police were powerless. They became
henmed in near the car depot, and the rest
Of the line wns IN the possession Of the boys
They piled It with everything movable they
could find for blocks away Back yards CON
tributed wood, and the stores were levied ON
for anything and everything that could Ia
utilized as an obstruction.
The reserves that had been sent for came
through Thirty-fifth street, but they couldn'i
get within a block Of the gang 50 denseIy
packed was the street. At least 5000 people
must have been pulled or got showed into the
lines, and once in retreat was impossible The
temper of the crowd was not improved BY ia
close quarters, and danger was imminent
from people living In the houses throwing
missiles An alarm was finally sent 20 police
headquarters, and Inspectors Steers and
Byrnes, with two detachments Of men, came
} flying up ON the patrol wagons. They formed
in what is known as The "riOt square, and In
less than twenty minutes they had the avenue
clear For more than an hour il was placed
practically under martial law No one was
allowed 10 come out Of or 20 IN any Of the
houses, and all windows were ordered closed
The hitter action was rendered necessary
because Of some missiles that had been
thrown az the officers There were several
rumors that shots had been fired, but they
lacked verification
That no strikers were engaged in the meles
may fairly be assumed from the fact that
they have no quarrel with the Twenty-third
street line in particular. IL was very gener
ally conceded by the policemen that it aross
from the pranks of several hundred young
sters, who could not be clubbed out Of exist
ence.
| On the Si1th A Avenua line tbe,a ,vas aou,.
disturbance in Carmine street, but none o
any consequence
The Fourth Avenue line ran sixty-sever
cars until o'clock. To-day il win attenp
:, % send out its regular number Capt RyaI
win make an effort 20 see Second avenue car
safely along to-day, and the Broadway hav
informed the police that they will run until
o'clock in the evening.
Whatever aspect matters assumed during
the past week, i developed yesterday that TIN
real fight for the supremacy has not yet beer
fought All talk now Of a conference ha.
ceased, and the men have settled down int
2 dogged resistance. At their headquarters tht
idea was secuted that many Of the Knight
p were showing the white feather, and they
rather fatty cmtradicted the claims Of the
o companies that the men were coming % them
. No attempt was made yesterday TO run cars
ON any Of the eight lines Of the Atlantic Ave
nue. railroad in Brooklyn. The committee Of
J. down town merchants, whose receipts have
a fallen of considerably during the strike, was
h hopeful that It might succeed in devising
n some plan of settlement, but conferences with
q. President William Richardson and with the
executive committee of District Assembly No
Is convinced the COMMITTEES that there was
no chance Of a compromise at present.