The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-02-02
THE GREAT STRIKE ON.
Spread Of the Brooklyn Labor Trou-
bles to the Metropolis.
NEW YORK STREET CARS TIED UP.
Every Line in Gotham Except Two In
volved in the Struggle-Mo1s Pre-
vent Cars From Running-Ob-
strueting the Tracks
With Barricades,

New YoRK, Jan. $3.50 P. M.-About
3 o'clock 100 policemen were dispatched
from police headquarters to Thirty
third Street and Third Avenue, where
riot was reported to be in progress.
Preparations have been made in
Brooklyn to call out the Thirteenth.
Nineteenth and Twenty-third Regi-
ments IN case of riot arising out OF the
Atlantic Avenue horse car tie-up. The
company has decided not to run anv
cars at present and so long as no at
tempt Is made to run cars it is thought
that there will be no serious trouble,
New YORK, Jan. 29.-With two excep-
tions every line of street cars in this city
is tied up. When the last night trip
was made each car was run into the
stables and at 4 A. NJ. the great strike
commenced. Supt. Murray and In
spectors Steers, Williams and Conlan
have been at police headquarters since
day consulting with officers of the
surface roads. Two police patrol wagons
are there In readiness for emergency
and q large number of reserves are
quartered in the building. The only
cars running are those of the Third Ave
nue. and Bleecker Street roads.
1t Is now nearly three years since the
last street car tle-up was experienced
In this city. The men have been pre-
pairing for this struggle for some time
past and the order to drop the lines was
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car men last evening. Messengers were
dispatched to the different stables to
notify the men at work to quit at A NJ
or with the first trip of the morning.
The night cars, as fast as they arrived at
the stables, were run in, the horses
stabbed and fed and left to enjoy the
usual rest. The men went quietly
home.
Peter NJ. Tomery, an Italian, was on
his way last night to the Fifth Avenue
stables to look for work, when he was
set upon, kicked and beaten brutally
and stabbed in the face. His assailants
escaped as the police appeared. Tomery
was taken to the hospital unconscious
and he will probably die. He was
stabbed in the temple, his cheek cut
through, several teeth Knocked out and
his skull fractured.
,
ond Avenue lines, 800 men; Sixth Ave-
nue., 500 men; Broadway lines, through
University Place and Broadway, / 100
men; Eighth and Ninth Avenue lines,
800 men; Belt Line, 45O men; Dry Dock
lines, Avenue B and d, Cortlandt and
Grand Street Ferry, $50 men. Grand
and Forty-second Street, Central Cross
Town, Chambers Street and Avenue c
lines, the Boulevard line, st. Nicholas
Avenue and One Hundred and Tenth
Street, Harlem, Morrisania and One
Hundred and Thirty-eighth Street and
Port Morris. The Sharp lines, the
Twenty-third Street, -Four eenth Street,
Bleecker Street and Christopher Street
lines have not stopped.
\ lively row occurred at Grand Street
this morning when crowd of strikers
tried to oyertuIn a car. The Grand
Street cross-town line was tied up when
the last car came in. The company
notified the police that they would try
to run car in a short lime. The police
reserves were ordered out and some Of
them placed about the company's
stables and Offices. Shortly before 6
o'clock car was drawn from the barn
down to the starting point in front of
the ferry. howling mob Of
strikers surrounded it the min
II.
4 hollow square of stalwart police off,
GERS surrounded the car and the mob
did nothing more than veil. A vast
crowd Of people from the neigh hboring
tenements gathered at the scene. All
of them were IN sympathy with the
strikers and their presence and cries
tended to increase the intense excite
ment that reigned in the immediate
vicinity of the ferry. John Mahoney,
the clerk in the office, drove The car.
He is the same man who took out the
first car during the last strike on this
line.
The car stood little while before a
start was made. 1t was surrounded by
an ever-increasing throng hat yelled it.
self hOarse. The police were strung
along Grand Street about ten to block
At last the car started and the crowd
began to make mischief. A truck was
driven on the car tracks. A police
officer tried to interfere, but was
carried OFF his feet by the
surging mob. This obstruction was
removed and the car passed on.
Halts were made on almost every block.
Policemen kept dashing up all the time
and attacked the struggling strikers. A
moment or two of this and the crowd
became d1sordered and began to scatter.
The police had gained the day. The
fight had been short but decisive. The
trouble was not over yet, however. The
police captured one of the ringleaders
and n court he was fined.
Another collision between the strikers
and the police took place at about half
past 10 clock when a car was sent out
on the Sixth Avenue road. 1t had eight
officers on board. When the car got as
far as Forty-second Street it was attacked
by about 200 strikers who did all in their
power 10 stop it. A platoon CT seventy
five police headed by Capt. Walsh,
charged on the strikers. A scufile
ensued and two or three OF the strikers
were roughly handled. One of these
was carried away by his friends and
another was placed under arrest. In
spector Williams with thirty policemen
is now in charge of the depot. Up to
II:3O O'Clock six cars had been run out,
On the return of the first and second
cars they were attacked between Thirty
eighth and Thirty-ninth Streets. The
pojlce we're on hand promptly and
made two arrests, whereupon the crowd
dispersed.
Twelve cars had been sent out on the
Sixth Avenue Line up to noon and the
superintendent said he would keep send
ing them out all day II enough police
were furnished. The first eight cars
were manned by old hands, the rest by
new men.
At balf-past o'clock this afternoon
the ticket office or transfer house at
Fortv-second Street and Seventh Ave-
nue., was carried bodily across the
street by the strikers and set fire to.
There was considerable excitement.
The police charged on the law break
ers. but no one was seriously injured.
Thomas Kane, a stable man on strike,
was arrested and locked up, charged
with assaulting one of the officers.
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curboard or drawer viii drive away
ants.