The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-14
THE CITY WELL GUARDED.
The Number Of The Police on The
Streets Has Not Been Decreased.


Not Needed Now Only a Small
Squad on Duty at the Ship-Abra-
ham Brown Under Arrest for Satur-
days RiotinE- Col. Harmon to Begin
Loading More Ships Soon.
Abraham Brown. cOlored, who is
charged with being one Of the men who
struck and kicked Foreman Cain in the
fight between the union and non-union
longshoremen Saturday morning, was ar
rested yesterday morning by Detectives
BOssen and Kavauaugh. Brown was found
sthis home at No. 2ll Henry street, where
he Is said to have remained ever since
Saturday morning. Brown, Of course. de-
MED having been in the crowd Saturday
morning, and claimed that he was at
home sick. There is pretty conclusive
evidence to the contrary, however. His
case will come before Recorder Wilson
this morning, and he viii probably re
ceive the same sentence as the other
rioters.
FIRST ON THE wHAREs.
Everything was very quiet among the
AoAt oAAOANLANu NCos-A va n Af4bhNlNb
News reporter, who visited the Berenguer
el Grande at the Central press wharf,
found Col. Harmon, with a large force of
men, hard at work slowing cotton aboard
the ship He reported that his force was
in better shape and doing better work
than any day since the work began. Eight
gangs were at work in the ship, and there
seemed to be a considerable amount
of cotton aboard. Only two police
men were on duty guarding the entrance
to the yard with Wiuchesters. Every
thing was very quiet in the neigh borhood.
Col. Harmon said that he would probably
begin loading some Of the other ships by
tomorrow or Monday and that he had al
ready arranged for all the labor needed
for the work. He has plenty of negro la
Dor, but is short on white labor William
Adams, who was shot five times in the
row Saturday morning, was hard at work
in the hold of the vessel yesterday.
THE POLICE WITHDRAWN.
The men at work on the ship were not
escorted TO and from the ship by police,
this not being necessary, as the men are
not marched down to Bay street, but
scatter TO their homes in various Dor
tions of the city on leaving work Mayor
McDOnough has instructed the chief of
police instead TO station squad of police
during the day in that neigh borhoOd
This answers all purposes. Fully half Of
the police not on duty are reserved at the
barracks, now, the other half being al
lowed 10 90 TO their homes. Lieut.. Reilly
said last night that the report
that the police had been withdrawn
from other sections of the city during the
last few days in order to allow of their
concentration on Bay street, is entirely
incorrect. In not single instance, he
said, had the regular details on duty on
the streets been diminished, the full num-
Der being sent out night and day All
the extra work of escorting the men back
and forth from the ship has been done by
the reserve portion of the force. The re-
port that the police had been Withdrawn
from the southern section of the CITY has
been generally circulated and has caused
uneasiness to many nervous people
THE LONGsHORENtEN's PROPOSITION.
There is considerable discussion of the
proposition of the longshoremen made at
Tuesdays conference TO stow cotton at 40
cents bale Some of the friends of the
longshoremen claim that the proposition
meant that the men should take the work
at 40 cents bale, thus doing away with
the stevedores. while others interpret il
to mean that the stevedores should take
the work at 40 cents bale, instead of 45
TO AZ cents as before, and that the pay
OF the men should be reduced to fit the
new rate
The proposition was never clearly stated
and none of the men have been found as
Yet who can or will explain what was
meant by it. The brokers interpret it to
mean that the longshoremen are willing
to work at 40 cents a bale, at which rate
they would make more money than under
their present rules. If the proposition
means to do away with the stevedores the
latter would like to know it, The steve
dores have stood closely by the long ashore
men IN this fight, and they would take il
very unkindly if a compromise should be
made that would leave them out in the
cold. Some Of them are investigating
this report.