St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-19
OUT IN ST. PAUL.
Minneapolis Delegates Succeed in
Their Mission

Their Mission.
1t is the unexpected that always hap
pens, and the old saying was again veri-
fed yesterday morning when the seven
hundred and odd men in the employ of
the Twin City Rapid Transit company
in this city went out on strike.
There had been some talk among the
men ON Saturday night about the action
of the company in requiring its employees
to sign the new contract. but neither the
company officials nor the men had the
least idea that the strike would extend
to this city. At o'clock yesterday
morning delegations from the meeting
in Minneapolis were at the six barns in
this city, and succeeded in getting the
employees, or at least the motoneerS and
conductors, to refuse to go to work.
On the Lafayette and Rondo line the
Minneapolis strikers were not so sue
cessful at the start, but before 10 o'clock
all the cars on this line had pulled in
the barn for good. All the other lines.
with the exception of the Fourth and
Seventh street cable lines, were tied up,
and on these two the service was very
limited. One car was operated over the
Fourth street cable and four on the East
Seventh street line. The five cars were
manned by barn employees, and not by
the regular gripmen and conductors.
At O'Clock Supt. HOskins telephoned
the police department and inquired for
the chief. Word was at once sent to
Chief Garvin's residence, but that Off
cial had gone on a fishing excursion,
and the word sent back was that he
would no return to the city until Mon
day. A telephone message sent to
the residence of Mayor Wright brought
back the response that his honor was
in Chicag 0. but would be home Monday
The central sta ton patrol wagon was
sent to Capt.iSchwenZer's home, and he
was soon at the office of the street rail-
way company. At the suggestion of
Supt. Hoskins two patrolmen were de-
tailed at each of the six barns of the
company, and detail of four officers
placed at points on the loop not COW
cred by the regular patrolmen. This
precaution. however, was unnecessary,
as the men were very quiet and orderly,
and very few of them were about the
barns during the day.
The strikers, to the number of 400 or
so, met at Labor hall, on East Seventh
street, shortly before noon, and decided
to hold a meeting at O'Clock to discuss
the situation. In the meantime the men
gathered in groups on the street corners
in the vicinity of the hall and saluted
the men operating the East Seventh
cable line by the title of "scabs"
Further than this the strikers were very
orderly, and the police had little or
nothing to do except to walk their beats.
AS soon as Acting Chief Schweitzer
had made the detail for the barns and
the streets travelled by the loop, he
notified Acting Mayor Hickman of the
state of affairs. The acting mayor, who
resides at Merriam Park, was in com
munication with the police during the
day, but, at the suggestion of the Off
Gals, did not come down town until
late in the afternoon. When he arrived
at the city hall it was after o'clock,
and as eYefything was very quiet and
cars on the interurban line and on the
two lines on Rice street were running,
he hied himself back to his home at
Merriam Park.
At 3 O'Clock the first interurban car
passed the poSe-eice, and the motoneer
and conductor stated to a GLOBE re-
porter that the company had notified
the men in Minneapolis that they would