St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-28
STRIKERS IN STRAITS.
BROOKLYN Street Car Men Are
on the Verge Of Star
Vatlon.
THEIR FAMILIES SUFFERING.
The Great Strike Appears
Practically a Thing Of
the Past.
THEIR FAMILIES SUFFERING.
BROOKLYN SALOONS CLOSED
No Rioting Reported - The
Cars Run on Most OF
the Lines.


the Lines.
BROOKLYN, Jan. 27.-Were it not for
the scarcity of cars today one would not
have thought that one of the biggest
strikes in the history of Brooklyn was
in progress. Church goers had to walk
10 church IN many instances or take
chances in the enormous crowds which
took possession of the cars. Otherwise
there was perfect calm. Large crowds
assembled around the depots, where
military guards were stationed, but
there was no violence there, and the
bantering the troops received was Of
good-natured kind Those in position
to draw conclusions from facts, and
draw conclusions without prejudice, say
that the strike Is about ended. The
companies seem to be III a position to
run their cars. They are not sEilIfuIly
operated, and throughout the day there
we're many collisions, and there was
much humping together, but there was
no accident of serious nature. The
number of cars operated today was
slightly over the number running yes
terday. Some were without some OF
their windows, and others running with
dilapidated- looking motor boxes and
badly
Twisted DashbO ards,
but most of them were carrying passen-
rers without mOlestatiOn. The COM
panies did not venture to open any new
| lines. nor did they seek to run their
crosstown line of cars through the Erie
Basin district today Many of the i'll
[ habitants OF that locality are of turbu-
/ lent character. and would, the police
say, do mischief if only for the sake of
making trouble The railroad COM
panies have now become able to OPP
| crate their lines after dusk, and will, II
! no serious disturbances are made in the
/ future. soon be running them all mght,
as they did before the strike began.
The quietness of the strike has been
l
have pointed out to the men the folly OF
riotous course. They explained that
the state could supply two militia
men for each striker if they were
needed. and that mob rule would soon
be oyerthrown by bullets and bayonets.
! The men heard and understood the re-
quests of the leaders. and followed them
out. Starvation already confrOnts many
of the families of the strikers. The men
were not well equipped financially when
they decided to stop Work, and the bulk
of their funds has been used for the
transportation of non-uniOn men TO the
cities from whence they came to
Replace the strikers.
This alone has cost the strikers many
thousands of dollars. StOrekeepers
have been very consid crate, but, now
that they see that the strikers are being
replaced by men from other cities, they
are 10th to give credit, and the wives
and children of the men out of work
are going hungry. Landlords. too, do
not enter into tue merits Of the situa-
ton between the strikers and the COM
DHlllEE.
strike is ended do not cut much figure
with them. The demands for food and
for rent have crippled the resources or
the strikers. and many OF them are in
sore straits. 1t was reported that all
the Knights of Labor i'll Brooklyn would
90 out on the strike, but no credence
can be put in the rumOr. The saloons
throughout Brooklyn were kept tightly
closed today i'll obedience to a special
order issued by Mayor Schieren and a
threat made by Superintendent or Po-
lice Campbell that he would vigorously
enforce the order President Lewis, of
the Brooklyn Heights ROilway COM
panv, did not come to his office this
morning, nor did any other official of
the company. During the day the state
ment was given out that the company
has received more than 200 applications
| from men claiming to be
Efficient EEOtOrmen
and conductors for positions. Many OF
the men now on strike are represented
as APPLYING for reinstatement. Presi-
dent Norton, of the Atlantic Avenue
road. directed things by telephone from
his home.
so far as the Atlantic Avenue road
is concerned" said Chief Clerk Ken
nedy, the strike is over. We have
more applicants for WORK than we have
positions. At least a hundred cars are
out today, and our Sunday schedule
only calls for that aumber out of hun
| dred and fiftv."
How about the linemen@ was asked.
1--WE have all we need. The power
house men are not going out. That l
can say positively, and no wires are be-
/ ing cut"
Executive Committeeman Giblin and
Best went to Philadelphia today to con-
fer with Grand Master Workman Sow
ereign. The report that they had in
view the calling out of the entire
Knights Of Labor in Brooklyn gained
considerable credence. Master Work.
man Connolly said that the report that
he intended to call off the strike was un-
true in every respect.
''The companies" he said, "haVe not
by any means all the men they want or
| need. They are badly crippled. Tor ali
the men now in their employ would not
be sufficient TO operate the roads in
the manner III which they were operated
before the Strike.'
a Mass Meeting
Of the strikers friends and sympa-
thizers was held this afternoon at the
Athen aum, at Eighth and Clinton
streets. The house was packed to the