, 1889-01-30
SEVERAL RIOTS.
The Street Car Tie Up in New
York City.
Strikers and Police Clash at all
Quarters.
Many Unsuccessful Attempts
Made to Run Cars.

NEW YORK, 9 a. M, Jan. 29.-With
but two exceptions every line OF street
cars in this city is tied up. When the
last night trip was made each car was run
into thu stables and at 4 a. IN. the great
strike commenced. Up to this hour no
disorder has been reported. Superin-
tendent Murray and Inspectors Steers,
Williams and Coplan have been at police
headquarters since daybreak consulting
with officers of the surface roads Two
police patrol wagons are there in readi-
ness tor any emergency INT a large num-
Der of reserves are quartered in the build
ing.
The Trouble Begins.
NEW York, Jan. 29.-The long
threatened surface road strike was in
~auguratcd here this morni ng. The only
cars running are those of the Third ave-
nue. and Blocker street roads. The presi
dent of the Sixth avenue road said he
would run a car this morning over the
lines of his route even if al. the strikers
combined to stop it. The strikers are
preparing to do this and they predict that
The car will not run below Eighth street.
Police reserves are all on duty IN antici-
patton of trouble. In all about 4 800
men have stopped work.
A lively row occurred at Grand street
this morning, when a crew of strikers
tried TO Overturn a car.
A large mob blocked the street when
the car started, and all sorts of obstruc.
tons were placed on the track. The
crowd surrounded the car and unhitched
the horses. The police had collected in
force and had a hand to hand fight. with
the mob. Despite the police, however,
the mob lifted the car bodily and slung it
ing up all the time and attacked the
struggling strikers. A momen or two of
this and the crowd became disOrdered and
began to scatter, TIE police had gained
the day. The police captured one Of the
ring leaders
Up to 4:30 a. m, six cars had been
sent out and had made the trip. A mum
Der Of minor scrimmages betv cen the
police and strikers had taken place.
About | O'Clock 300 policemen were
dispatched. from police headquarters to
Twenty-third street and Third avenue,
where Il riot was reported to be in pro-
gress.
As the afternoon waned the tied up
lines which had run out cars during the
day housed their rolling stock and their
new men and comparative quiet followed
the activities of the day time. About
5 o'clock when the last Sixth avenue car
reached the depot police were relieved.
The strikers, however, remained in the
neighborhood of the stables.
There was great excitement at Twenty
third and Tenth avenue all day, the strik-
ers at one time stopping and overturning
a car before the police could gather in
force. The greatest excitement existed
about the Fourth venue stables where
600 strikers were gathered. Two or three
efforts were made to run the cars. A
small police force was on hand and the
car was finally started but ran into a pile
of ashes dumped by the strikers. The
latter quickly made a demonstration but
were routed by the police and their ring
leader arrested. The crowd got even by
smashing the car windows with stones
and iniuring slightly a lady passenger.
At Sixty-third street a Twenty-third
street car was stopped in the middle OF
the Fourth avenue tracks, the conductor
put off and the passengers driven out and
the car overturned. Quite a serious time
seemed imminent, but the police made a
vigorous demonstration with clubs and
scattered the crowd. Other cars were also
stopped at this point. Sightseers lined
the avenue and greatly interfered with
the police. Many strikers were intoxi-
Gated.
Late in the afternoon the companies on
the east side determined TO run no more
cars and the crowds began dispensing.
The Forty second street cross town cars
made four unsuccessful attempts to run a
car. One manned by twenty policemen
encountered serious opposition at Seventh
avenue, where the strikers had barricaded
the tracks. The police removed the OBJ
structions and the strikers began to throw
stones. Two officers were badly cut about
the face before the crowd scattered.
Every policeman in the city tonight
not on duty was kept at the station house,
and-a full force will be out tomorrow.
Master Workman McGce of the strikers
order called on Mayor Grant and com
planned that the police were making them
selves too oficions. The mayor informed
him that he had no doubt the police Off
Gals would act disCrrctly.
Despite the furry Of to night an alarm
ing feature of the situation is the appar-
ent tendency Of the strikers 10 intoxica-
ton. Many of them tonight are under
the influence of liquor and it is feared
that serious consequences will result to-
morrow. This evening Burgh's Society
hired fifty Italians to feed and water the
horses of the belt lines. On the way to
the stable and under police escort one
slipped and fell and despite the presence
of the police was set upon and brutally
beaten by a number of strikers ~iounging
about.
In Brooklyn.