San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-08-17
THE CAR STRIKE.
SPECIAL SESSION OF CITY COUNCIL
CALLED.
Mass Meeting Last Night-Injunc-
tions 70 Restrain Violence-Notes,
Arrests, Accidents and Incidents.

After last nights grand demon
stration at Convention hall, all
the talk on the streets was the Pc
tition to the city council to take
the strike subject in hand, and all
that was discussed today was
whether the mayor or the mayor,
pro tenn would consent to the de-
mands of the citizens for special
meeting. This was soon settled
this morning however, after the,
citizens committee had called on
Mayor Pro Tenn Elmendorf,
acting, and presented the
petition. ThreeIaldermen, by the
city charter can call a special
meeting, and it was soon arranged
that call for a meeting at 2:30
o'clock p. M, today should be made,
and this was done by Hon. Elmen-
dorf, and the aldermen were i'm
mediately notified.
There is nothing new in the
operative part of the strike. A few
cars have been put in operation on
the different lines of the sys-
tenn, but they are very poorly
patronized and the motormen and
boys who run them are subjected
to the bitterest insults, ridicule and
abuse along the route Of the rail-
way by the strike sympathizers,
that it is possible to imagine.
A party Of strike sympathizers
caught the big assistant superin-
tendent, Fred Bolton, acting as
motorman on car near the Tenth
street power house about S o'clock
last night. He had Mexican as
conductor and was assaulted with
stale eggs, old potatoes, ETC.,
The trolley pole flew off
and the car stopped and tho
crowd had the men at their mercy
until they took to flight to save
themselves.
A motorman, near the Arkansas
Pass depot, was assaulted with a
shower of loaves Of bread and
pieces Of meat by strike sympa-
thiZers yesterday afternoon, and
was told to take the provisions to
his family and quit working on
the car.
A motorman on this line also re-
ported to police station that several
strike sympathizers had boarded
his car, pulled him off and took
the motor key with them. Two
ladies were on the car, and this
was left without control, to go on
it's way. 1t ran few yards, slow
ly, and was then stopped by one of
the men putting on the brake.
The situation for the company
looked little scary as night ap-
preached, particularly as some
Arkansas Pass men threatened to
throw car, motorman and all into
the river on Arkansas street, if it
ran down there another trip. The
company's managers became very
much frightened and not only
called for police protection, but APP
piled for and received an omnibus
injunction from Judge Noonan
restraining all hands from in
terfering with the road in
any way. The injunctions were
placed In the hands Of deputies
sheriff, who, accompanied by the
superintendent, served the papers
on the men as they were pointed
out at the meeting last night.
The strikers and their sympa-
thizers are very indignant at the
action Of the roads president and
the allegations contained in the
application for injunction, and
claim they have never had any
idea of attempting violence. They
say this was done simply to man.
ufacture sentiment against them.
Two motormen were arrested for
not ringing their gongs at street
crossings on the west side of the San
Pedro on Dolorosa and East
streets, yesterday, and one man,
on a South Flores street Cal, should
have been arrested, as he nearly
ran over lady who was crossing
in front of his rapidly approach
ing car. Had not a gentleman
caught the lady and thrown her out
of the way, she would have been
run over. She was thrown down,
but seeing the averted danger,
thanked her rescuer.