San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-18

| Resolved, That the city attor
ney be and he is hereby instructed
to draw up the proper legal motto,
and cause same to be present
ed to the president and man
ager OF the San Antonio Street
Railway company to the effect thai
said company is violating section
Ii, page l5S, of first part of ordi'
nances, and that said company by
said violation is laying itself liable
to forfeiting its rights and fran
chises. And be it further
Resolved, That should said com.
pany fail or refuse to run its cars
as provided under the laws of this
city then the city attorney shall
take the proper legal steps looking
toward the revoking of the fran
chises to streets, ETC.. heretofore
granted.
This was adopted and the council
adjourned.
The action of the council was re-
ceived among the citizens and
business men generally with great
satisfaction, but it was the general
opinion that the remedy was far
from being rapidly operative in it's
action.
However, it placed the council on
record as to it's standing on the
question and this satisfied every
body.
The president of the car company
makes repeated illusions to the
LIGHTS statement made the first
day of the strike that the men
were worked Is hours per day for
$l.12b and $1.35, denying this to be
true. The LIGHT asked and receiv-
ed this information from one of the
street car men and thus gave it.
1t is now reiterated by Aldermen
Hice and many other reputable
citizens that the same men have
been daily seen working in cars at
Z o'clock in the morning and up to
II at night. Possibly they received
extra pay for thus working over
twelve hours per day, but the men
did not so state to the LIGHT re-
porter.
Alderman Limburger, in the
council meeting, hit the the nail
on the head when he wanted to
know why the San Antonio Street
Railway company did not operate
it's cars? He had not seen any OBJ
structions. He had not seen nor
heard of any violence and he could
not see why the street railway
did not run the cars.
They had run a few cars. Why
not run on regular time?
The street car men and
labor organizations aiding
them have prepared a
petition or resolution to circu-
late among the citizens for sigma
lures, pledging that they, the sign
ers, will not ride on the cars of this
railway system until the strikers
are reinstated az their demands.
The men deny the presidents
statements that he has plenty of
Of men to run cars.
The South Heights car line car
ries the U. S. mail to South
Heights suburbs and the strike
sympathizers say they are doubt
full if they should attack this line.
Thep should do nothing in any way
riotous.
Chas. Johnson, a motorman who
was arrested yesterday for not
ringing his gong at crossings, car
ried formidable looking knife.
A car was derailed yesterday
afternoon at the corner of Soledad
and Houston streets, by a green
motorman, and was run almost
into the grocery store at this cor
ner.
The Southern Pacific and Aran-
sas Pass sympathizers were wait
ing to have some fun last night,
but were disappointed, as cars were
not run.
This morning about s o'clock w.
Barnes, motor man on a South
Heights canvas guyed so badly by
a gang all along Houston street
that he cursed a man named Sol
cher, on an ice wagon. Solcher
jumped on his car and
Barnes left his motor and
rushed at him, striking him
on the head. Others boarded the
car and fought with Barnes, and a
shower of rocks, picked up on Ma
varro street, accompanied by heavy
chunks of ice, were thrown at the
car and motorman. He lodged
these missiles and ran his car to-
ward the sheds, where he got a
Winchester and putting it on the
front platform conspicuously,
paDnn hack and faced the