Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-02-28
CARS RUN an NGHT.
A START MADE IN THAT DIRECTION LAST
EVENING.
Several Circuits Of tn, LOOP Mads--Ascidsns Of
Yestsrday-WOrk Of the Pclice-lnteE-
est in the Eighth Ward.

company maze start 81 AuAui~S ~~A'
last evening, and sent three or four
cars around the loop on rather irregular
trips up to about half-past nine o'clock.
This move on the part Of the Com
pany created, as was expected, good
deal of interest and excitement in the
Eighth ward, and some hundreds OF
Young men, and some old men, were
brought out upon the streets to see what
was going on.
Chief McNicboi had notice OF the
matter. and had force Of sixteen reg
ular officers, under the immediate COM
mand OF Lieutenant Gaus. along the
line of the road south OF Twenty-seventh
street, and the Captain was Hitting
along himself from place TO place keep
ing a general supervision OF the terri
tory.
one arrest was made, the prisoner be-
ing a young man who refused TO obey
the orders Of the officers to move on.
He was locked up 40 the Eighth ward
engine house, but was released later,
upon his solemn promise 70 behave him
self.
Several accidents occurred on the
line Of the road during the day, although
the people down in the lower part OF
town did not call them by that name.
During the morning, about halt-past
nine, car Viola ran into the Chicago
Tea COmpany's wagon, driven by I'd
ward Taylor, at BOggs' run. Mr.. Taylor
Jumped out of the wagon 10 es-
cape being hurt, but the wagon
being struck by the car as he jumped,
he was thrown violently on TO pile OF
lumber, sustaining painful injuries. He
was taken to PAUL ReidePs and physi-
clan summoned. The wagon was badly
wrecked and its contents destroyed,
making a loss OF about Sfj. A wagon
belonging 20 John WenZel, the butcher,
was also struck 0y car, and at FORTY
third street a wagon filled with pro-
duce was hit, and apples and other fruit
and vegetables scattered over the mud.
At this point, during the afternoon,
car came up town at a rapid rate OF
speed, and swung around the curve into
FOrty-third street without Stacking up.
Mr.. Jesse Solomon, the Steubenyille cap
italist, was on the rear platform, and was
thrown violently TO the ground, falling
his full length in the mud. Spectators
say II the ground had been frozen he
would surely have been badly hurt.
The car did not stop TO see
what injury had been sustained
by Mr.. Solomon, but went on up
Wood street Mr.. Solomon went % one
or two places in the vicinity 10 wash the
mud of himself. but owing to his being
on the car he was denied admission
until he explained he knew nothing
about there being a strike on the line.
The impression is growing that tho
mOtor-men are not careful enough, not
sounding their alarm-bell for vehicles
and pedestrians on the tracks.
When the cars started last night
crowds numbering from half a dozen up
20 fifty or sixty, cOngregated az the
various corners, from Twenty-seventh
street down, people being especially
numerous at Thirty-fith street, az
Forty-thlrd and at Forty-elghth, but
the presence Of so many police
put a damper on any disposition
10 be disorderly. Once in q while
a railroad torpedo, a stick or stone
would be placed on the track when an
officers back was turned or he had gone
10 the other end Of his beat, but beyond
this and an occasional yell or jeer moth
ing occurred during the greater part OF
tbs evening. About half-past eight
there was crowd Of about fifty people
at Thirty-Gfth street and they yelled IN
chorus at the men on car bound up
, town, and exploded a torpedo or two
under the wheels. The noise OF these
explosions and the yells Of the crowd
---.a.l 600 ownffouannf for n tina huf
half a dozen police were on hand and
no further disorder occurred. In Ben
wood some stones were thrown during
the day, one going through a car.
At Forty-eighth street large crowd
stood about during the entire evening,
but the police kept them over on the
Marshall county side OF the street
pretty WELL Two or three Marshall
county officers were on duty there also,
and there was no disorder. The last
car went around the "lO0p" few min
utes after nine o'clock, few or no
passengers being carried on the
South Side, and then final
car was run up town TO bring up the
the men in the power house. It is
likely cars will be run at night right
along now.
Some folks have been disposed to find
fault with the police during the past
month, for not preventing disorder with
IN the limits of the city, and il would
perhaps not be amiSs 10 say that during
all that time the officers have been do
ing double duty, often In very bad
weather, and several have been laid OF
sick as q result The usual day force
consists Of but one man in each
ward, and two additional
men make up the night
force, going on at p. m, and remain
ing on duty all night. This would ordi-
narlly give but one man In the Eighth
ward in the day time, three in the even
ing, and two an night, after the day
man goes off duty, and the same in the
other wards. To put force OF eight
or ten officers on duty in tho Eighth
ward. day after day, necessitateS the
night men being transferred down there
after breakfast when they ought 10 be
I'm bed, and the Chief has, since
the period Of disorder set TO, sent half
the night force down IN the morning 20
do day duty until noon, while the other
half went 20 bed, the latter 10 turn get
ting I'D and REPORTING for duty at noon.
remaining on day duty all afternoon and
then going on regular night duty again
at o. NJ. It Will be seen that this gives
, the force about twenty-fOur hours
Of solid dutH every other day, with
only about fivel hours sleep when they
do get to beG, Ind continued over q
month has beeh quite a hardship. As
to preventing / disorder, the officers
point out that lthere are twenty-One
squares between Twenty-seventh and
Forty-eighth streets, with car lines on
two streets. and even with ten officers