Wichita eagle., 1889-01-30
TRAFFIC oBsTRUcTED.
The Street Gar Tie-Up in New York City
Almost Complete.

NEW York, Jan. 29.-With two excep-
lions every line of street car in this city
is tied up. When the last night trip was
made and each car was run into the
stables at a. m. the great strike was COM
menced. Up to this hour no disorder has
been reported. Superintendent Murray,
Inspectors Steers, Williams, and others
have been atpolice headquarters since day.
break this morning consulting with Off
GERS of surface roads. Two police patrol
wagons are there in readiness for any
emergency and large number OF reserves
are quartered in the building.
The men at present employed on the
Third avenue railroad are many of them
union men, but they are not strong
enough to go out. The terms of the men
are in brief s2.25 per day for ten hours
work instead of twelve hours
Peter NJ. Tomrey, Italian, was on his
way last night to Eighth avenue to ask
for work, when he was set upon, kicked,
beaten, and brutally stabbed in the face.
His assailants escaped as the police APP
peared
Tomrey was taken to the hospital union
and will probably die. He was stabbed in
the temple, his cheek cut through. several
teeth knocked out and his knee fractured.
The strikers comprise: First and Sec
ond avenue lines. 600 men; Sixth avenue,
500 men; broadway lines through univer-
sity place, Broadway, /, 100 men: Eighth
and Ninth avenue lines, 200 men; belt line
450 men: dry dock lines, avenues b and d
Crettend street and Grand street ferry, $50
men.
Grand and Forty-Second street, Central
cross town, Chambers street and avenue G
lines, Boulevard iine ST. Nicholas avenue,
One hundred and tenth street. Harlem,
Morrisanla, One hundred and thirty
eighth street, Port Morris, Sharp lines,
twenty-thirp, Fortieth, Blocker street
and Christopher street lines have not been
stopped
Streets and avenues through which the
car lines pass have deserted appearance.
Drivers of al night cars finished their trip
before tying up The tie up on the dry
Deck and East Broadway line was a SYM
pathetic one because of the Brooklyn tie
up. Deacon Richardson, president of the
Atlantic avenue lines, Brooklyn, being
large stakeholder in the Dry Dock and
East Broadway company. They had no
trouble about hours or pay.
A lively row occurred at Grand street
this morning when crowd of strikers
tried to over turn car. The company no.
titled the police that they would try to run
a car in short time. Police reserves were
ordered out and some of them placed about
the company's stables and offices. Short
ly before 6 O'Clock the car was drawn from
the barn down to the starting point in
front of the ferry.
A howing mob of strikers surrounded
it. A hollow square of stalwart police
officers surrounded the car and the mob
did nothing more than howl. A crowd of
people from neighboring tenements gath
pathy with the strikers and their presence
and cries tended to increase the intense ex-
that reigned in the Immediate
of the ferry. Police were strung
along Grand street about one to a block.
At last the car started and the crowd be-
gan to make mischief. 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; other
trucks were placed on the car tracks, but
were quickly removed. At Grand and
streets another heavy furniture
wagon barred the way and stopped the
car. The crowd surrounded the car and
unhitched the horses. They were given
sharp rap and started off almost dragging
the driver over in front of the car.
The police all this time had collected in
force and had hand to hand fight with
the mob Despite the police, however, the
mob lifted the car bodily and slung it
across the track. Policemen kept dashing
up all the time and attacked the strug-
Cling strikers. After moment or two of
this the crowd became disordered and be-
gan to scatter.
The police had gained the day. The
fight had been short but decisive. Trou-
BILE was not over yet, however. The police
captured one of the ring leaders, and in
court he was fined.
The car had by this time been righted
and horses hitehed to its 1t was drawn
over to the other track and taken back to
the stable. No more violence was at
tempted.
Scenes at other stables were somewhat
similar. Large crowds surrounded the
buildings but up to Ii o'clock no danger
Gus act of violence had been reported. All
of the district in the neighbour
Grand street cars pass, sympathiZe with
the strikers.
Twelve cars had been sent out on the
Sixth avenue line up to noon. The super
intendent said he would keep sending
them out all day if enough police were
The first eight cars were
manned by old hands, the rest by new
men. At half past | o'clock this afternoon
the ticket office or the transfer house at
Forty-second street and Seventh avenue
was carried bodily across the street by
strikers and set fire to. There was con-
excitement. The police charged
on the law breakers, but no one was
injured. Thomas Kane, a stable
man on the strike, was arrested and locked
up charged with assaulting one of the