The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-01-24
THROWING BRICKS
Is Becoming a Dangerous Amusement
in Brooklyn.
SEVERAL PERSONS SHOT BY THE
MILITIA YESTERDAY.

Citizens Are Ordered to Keep Their Win
dows Closed and Failure to Obey
Causes Trouble-An Exciting Day in
the City of Churches,
Brooklyn, January 23.-Loeser & Co., dry
goods merchants. of Fulton street, sus-
pended five hundred clerks today, SO they
announce. until the strike is over. They
say their trade is so affected they cannot
afford to keep the clerks on the salary roll.
Abrams and Strauss suspended seyenty-five
clerks today for similar reasons. Deputy
Police Commissioner Crosby continues to
swear in new policemen who are at once
assigned to strike duty. This morning he
swore liz. The men were sent out with long
night sticks. Some being ashamed to be
seen with long clubs, rammed them down
their trousers legs.
GOOD PRACTICE.
This afternoon company of the Four
teentb regiment fred upon men on the roof
of building on Hicks street. Thomas
| Connolly fell seriously wounded and was
taken to the Long island college hospital.
The Butler:street cars of theAtlantic Avenue
system started this forenoon.
This is the first opening since the strike
| began. butler street depot at Nostrand
| avenue and Butler street was guarded by
Co. D. list regiment and twenty five police
| men. Six cars run at ten minutes headway
| with no disturbance.
i The Reid avenue line. Brooklyn, Queens
county, and suburban system started at
| noon. Eight cars were run. This was the
| third line opened today. At 2 O'Clock on
all the lines affected by the strike 2sO cars
We're running. This is the best showing the
companies have made yet. At 1925 This
| morning, while Sumner avenue car was
on the way from Broadway ferry an un-
| known man Jumped on the platform when
the car was near briggs avenue and struck
the conductor and ran away. Patrolman
Worden of the 10th precinct was on the
platform of the car at the time. but made
no effort to catch the assaillant. His case
| was reported to the superintendent of
police. At 12.15 p. m. car started from the
depot on Halsey street, quickly followed by
| others. The Gates avenue line started run
ming cars at p. m. and number of cars
started from the ferry on this line early in
the day by way of Myrtle avenue which
was protected by the Goth battalion.
ATTHE NAVY YARD.
Word came to the navy yard from Wash
ington this morning to the commandant
that no marine or sailor be allowed liberty
1 during I he present labor troubles. and all
men must hold themselves in readiness for
any emergency.
STRIKERS PENNED IN.
Major Abrams, in command of companies
B, D and of the 7th reg giment, this MORN
ing. closed all saloons near Ridgewood. He
| of ti0n ed mic at at the door of each with
orders not to allow any one to pass in or
out. A large number of men were practical
ly imprisoned in this way. The Major closed
ODD Fellows hall on Palmetto street, in
which the strikers gather. There were three
hundred men in the place at the time. They
! clamored to get out. Finally messenger
was despatched to the Office of Baldwin f.
Strauss, lawyer of Fulton street and an
hour later he appeared before Justics Gay
nor in the Supreme court asking for g writ
of habeas corpus, compelling Brig. Gen.
McLeer to produce the imprisoned strikers
in court. When Gen. McLeer was served
| with writ of habeas corpus, he sent word
to Col. Appleton to release the men penned
| in the hall. and when the lawyers entered
4 court to argue the matter the men were at
liberty and not produced in court. Paul
| G. Detere, who appeared for the judge
| advocate of the National Guard in the
matter, stated there were other exits to the
hall than the one blocked by the militia,
therefore the strikers were not prisoners at
any time. He said that the troops closed
the main entrance to the hall to prevent
men from rushing out and throwing bricks,
stones and other missiles and then retreat
to the looms to escape the militia. The
| writ was dismissed.
| BLOOD WAS SHED.
Blood was shed in starting the cars on the
Hicks street line of the Atlantic avenue
this afternoon. Troops were ordered TO
| protect the route. The first car started from
Butler street stables at 2.26 p. M, with
police on the front and rear platforms. Col.
Sustin deployed men over several blocks in
the neighboIhoods where he anticipated
trouble. The second battalion got hot re-
ception in the region about Hicks and
Harrison streets This regiment will stand
no nonsense. They were greeted with
| stones, bottles and other missiles from the
! windows and taunted and ridiculed by the
| people on the door steps. The first car it,
| self was not attacked, it's occupants say.
but the militiamen themselves were the
targets. Finally they ordered all windows
| closed and sidewalks and doorways cleared.
| The people in the windows did not obey,
| and there was a crack of rifle and a piece
| of brown stone was Clipped from the house
| front at the side of window. The window
| was then closed. People across the way
| leaned out over the heads of the troops ana
| threw things. Crack-crack spoke the guns
and bullets whizzed past several heads. The
| police rushed into the house at 4l0 Hicks
| street and arrested Jacob Qunlan for throw
| ing Jumps Of coal at Private Cole. At 4.39
| Hicks street they arrested John Mead, who
| pointed loaded revolver at Corporal Plstt.
| At "A Hicks street a man was seen on the
roof and the order was given, ''stand back
| there Almost simultaneously several
| ahots were fred and the man dropped. He
was roofer named Thomas Carney. He was
ramoved to Long island hospital. In all
about forty shots were fired. Carney was
the only man hit. The car proceeded with
ont interruption, and after that the win
dows were kept closed and the doorways
dsserted. Two cars passed through the
st,eets and returned TO the stables without
ininrv The firing of the troops caused
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