St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-31
Specifically the New York
MalcOntents All EndeayOr
to Be Brave
Some Return to Work and
Others Mean to Follow
Suit.
Half a Dozen Conflicts, in
Which the Coppers Use
Their Clubs.
Chief Murray Believes the
Spirit Of the Strike Is
Broken.

New YORK, Jan. 30.-The fact that
the public has not been entirely bereft
OF surface street car transportation has
been disquieting element to the strlk-
ers; hence the determined effort to
check the running of Third avenue
cars. In this the strikers have been en-
tirely unsuccessful, and new doubts
crept among and were to-day uttered
by the men as car after car trundled out
from the various depots. "Some have
gone back to work, and Pm not going
to be frozen out and left" said one
striker OF a group, which this afternoon
stood watching the passage OF a car
feeling was found to have grown widely
to-day, though, specifically, the men
all endeavor to be brave. Some are
actually so; some are not. Superin-
tendent Skitt, of the Fourth avenue
line, late this afternoon stated that he
then had under protection $50 new men.
and some OF the strikers had come back,
but of these he selected only the best
ones. They would be taken, however.
only one by one, and individually, upon
application. Directly opposite to the
Fourth avenue stables is the great
structure built by A. T. Stewart for a
women's home, and which is now the
Park Avenue hotel. Superintendent
Skitt had issued to the police on duty
about the depot meal checks upon the
Park Avenue hotel. A platoon of Off
GERS repaired there for supper, but the
table walters of the house, who belong
to unions,
REFUSED TO SERVE THEM
with food. and the policemen went away
to another hotel. where their checks
were hoDored. And now the Park ave-
nue. walters will doubtless be forced to
seek other quarters in which to serve
victuals to the public, because Judge
Henry Hilton, who controls all the
Stewart hotels, when he learned the
facts this evening declared that he
would rather close up the hotel than
that such an affront should be offered
to men doing their duty as the police
are doing. Thus far there has been no
expression Of Impotence on the part of
the public against the companies who
have run no cars since the strike, and
those which have are patronized by very
many who do so as an Endorsement,
so they say, of the determination Of the
lines to withstand the strike. Those
who must walk thus far have trudged
uncomplainingly and those who may
use the elevated roads, do so cheerily
despite the stairs and added walk en-
tailed at the termini. There are some
strikers manfully battling against the
laWlesS tendencies of their comrades.
One such came to the surface to-day.
Five hundred men at Forty-eighth
street and Seventh avenue this after
noon, knocked down and brutally
kicked tidily dressed man who, how
ever. looked needy. and said he was
GOING TO SEEK WORK
at the Broadway depot, two blocks
away. His face was cut, his hat was
lost, and his clothing was torn so as to
disclose the fact that in his restitution
he had wrapped his body in newspapers
to serve the purpose of a shirt which he
clearly could not afford. An officer
wrested the would.be worker and vic
tim from the mob, and to his aid hur
ried brawny, bearded driver who wore
about his waist the belt many use, and
on the hands he raised against the mob
of his fellow strikers were the buckskin
gloves worn by drivers, and the palms
of which bore the mark of the brake
handle. ''Shame, you men-Shame,"
he cried, while his face grew
white with intense nervous feeling
and the mob hesitated and halted.
''Back every one-back say" again he
shouted, with uplifted hands. And the
throng dropped its angry head, as
though abashed, and struggled away in
twos and threeS, and slngly. Such ILL.,
stances of cool-head leadership have
thus far, however, been few, SO far as
observed. About 4 O'Clock this after
of
street and Second avenue, and, after a
long discussion, started to Third avenue
under the leadership of striking driver
OF the Second avenue line, named
Michael J. Maher. When one of the
Third avenue ''scab" cars came along
the order was given Ego for it," and the
crowd obeyed.
THREE CARS WE'RE OVERTURNED
and stones and other missiles flew in
volleys at driver and conductors, and
the traces of the harness were cut. De-
tective Sergeant Cottrell singled out
Maher as the leader of the mob, and
placed him under arrest at the point OF
a revolver. The mob made several IN
effectual attempts torescue their leader.
Meanwhile two patrol wagons filled with
police officers and the reserve from an
adjacent police station were dispatched
to the scene, and secured peace by use
of the club. Car No. 107 Of the Fourth
avenue line, on it's way up town at
Seventy-secOnd street, was attacked by
a crowd of about fifty strikers, who had
hidden behind brick pile. They
and stones. All the windows
were broken, though two passengers
who were aboard were uninjured The
two policemen who were with the car
drew their clubs and revolverS and
charged the crowd. Officer John Morris
had his club seized by one of the strik-
ers, while another hit him over the head
with shovel, inflicting a severe scalp
wound. The crowd was finally dis
persed and the car brought into the
depot. By order of the state military
authorities thirty members of the Third
battery were stationed tonight in the
state arsenal at ThIrty-fifth street and
Seventh avenue. The main purpose in
view was to insure resistance to
any attempt that might be made
by the strikers to attack the arsenal
in order to provide themselves with
arms. The police tonight are at ease,
and the chief states that he is able to
furnish ample protection to every road
in the city that cares to run its cars, and
the force mas Deen SO ddJ uSteu tnaG IL
can handle the strike with strong
hands, no matter how long it continues.
Chief Murray believes the spirit of the
strike is broken, and that its backbone
of determination will fold up at an
early date. Some men have been paid
off to-day and there is not little
tonight, which is not a
desirable element in the eyes of the
police.