Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-03
The City Continues Inert and no 20
lice Interference is
Called For.

BERLIN req. ~ mere was ON nous
quiet in the city to-day. The most
significant feature of the morning was
the silence of most of the pastors on
the subject that was in every body 5
mind. The usual prayers were offered
up for the kaiser and the fatherla nd.
but not word of admonition or peti-
ton bearing upon an outbreak or dis
order such as Berlin has not seen in
forty-four years. The church going
crowds went and came in the most
orderly manner, and. in Difference
to the commands understood TO have
been given to the police, there is no
gathering of groups in the public
streets.
In the quarters of The cil5 n ly IN
habited by worliingmen- d double force
of police was on duty, and wherever
three or four persons were seen to
gether they were ordered to dispersc.
The order was generally obeyed, al
though in one instance, in Rosenthal
straase, workingman, carpenter by
trade, asked the police to arrest him
and said he would do violence if they
did not. On being questioned as to his
reason he said that he had nothing to
eat and that he wished to be i'm.
prisoned, as he could not bear
the sight of his wife and children starv-
ing. His story was investigated and
proved to be true. In a wretched
apartment a woman aud three children
were found, almost without clothing
and weak from want of food. Thous-
ands of families of these men are either
starving or dependent Tor su bstence on
charity.
The first general impression that the
riots were instigated by social Demo
Gratis is obviously incorrect. Although
the social Democratic deputies in the
reichstag often have said that the
labor problem cannot be solved by
sprinkling rosewater" they have re-
pressed the more turbulent of their fol-
lowers constantly by explaining
that the time. for violent revolu-
ton was not yet ripe. Liebnecht,
Bebel, Singer, Auer and Vollmar
have said on the platform and in the
soclaliStic press repeated recently that
any outbreak at present would be
crushed at once by the military and
would, therefore, put back the cause of
socialism many years. The people in
general are rather apathetic concern
ing the scenes of violence in the streets,
apparently regarding the whole demon
stration as a timely reply to the En-
peror's speech before the Brandenberg
| landtag.
The city is now perfectly quiet and
there has not been single disturbance
that called for armed police interfer-
ence. 1t is believed that the disorderly
movement has spent it's force and that
no further trouble is to be appre-
hended. Perfect tranquility prevails
even in the districts i'm which the dis
orders were most marked.
EFFORTS TO FLOAT THE ELDER.
Work on the Stranded Steamer Being
Kept Up Night and Day.
LONDON, Feb. 29-The strenuous eff
forts TO float the stranded North Lloyd
steamer Elder and tow her to Soton are
continued night and day at enormous
expense. AS fast as bales of cotton and
other tioa table articles are extricate ted
from the Elder they are thrown over
board, to be picked mp by the scores Of
shore boats which are on hand for that
purpose. The salvage steamers Hermes,
Belos, News, and Berthilda remain on
the scene, their divers working ia re-
lays. Hundreds of shoremen, divided
into gangs. are kept at work under
high pressure night and day, such
liberal pay being given that the men
gladly undertake the extraordinary
labors demanded of them. Three
powerful centrifugal pumps have been
brought from Soton and rugged to six
teen suction hoses running to the
Elders stern. where the divers are
constantly recovering maize, coffee.
etc.