The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-01-23

| but quickly returned at different point.
The mob kept increasing in size, ana
/ with multiplied force its demeanor be-
came much bolder. They hooted the mo-
tormen, jeered at the police and stoned
! the cars. The tracks were piled UP with
large beams, huge stones, ash barrels. old
| stoves and numerous other Instructions.
| These caused much delay TO the cars, and
| gave the strikers an opportunity TO plead
with the non-Union men TO desert their
posts The trouble eliminated at I'D 4.
NJ. when car No. 115 came along. Near
Patchen avenue il had TO stop owing 10
| Instructions on the track. The strikers
crowded about the car and asked the
| motorman and conductor TO join them.
| They refused. Strikers then jumped upon
| the platforms, seized both men by the
necks. yanked them off and threw them
into the bowling mob. Once there, they
were kicked and punched unmercltuIly.
HOT FIGHT RESULTS.
Then a dozen strikers picked both men
up bodily, and ran down a side street
with them. About a dozen cars had IN
the meantime come up, and the police on
the platforms drew their sticks and fell
upon the crowd. They smashed right and
left, generally landing on some strikers
head. The crowd retaliated with stones,
and for a few minutes the fight was hot.
The police grabbed two leaders of the
mob and placed them under arrest. Tne
strikers tried to rescue their brethren,
and were only prevented from so doing
by the police drawing their revolvers ana
driving the mob back. The temper of the
strikers was now thoroughly aroused. and
they stoned the cars increasingly. IL was
found impossible for the few policemen in
the neighborhood to cope with the strik-
nd in fOr N 70
a few minutes a detachment of officers
under command of Captain Dyer, and
portion of Troop A, Lieutenant Badgley
in charge, came up. At the sight of the
gallopng horses the mob beat a hasty re-
treat. rushing into nearby saloons, up
side streets and across lots. The cavalry
Immediately formed a pickett line and
paraded up and down the sidewalks
forcing idlers to move rapidly along.
WOMEN AMONG THE RIOTERS.
There were large number of women
i'm the throng, and they hooted and jeered
worse than the men. Many Of the wo-
men, with babes In their arms crowded
about the cars and their voices, crying
in shrill tones, "Scabs." "Scabs, "Scabs,"
could be heard for blocks. The police
We're somewhat gentle with them, but
for all that the women stoned them on |
ed the strikers for not tearing the non |
union men from the cars, and one big |
irish woman offered to take a prisoner |
from policeman il some one would hold |
a child she carried i'm her arms
Up and down Fulton street from Ralph |
10 Tompkins avenue Troop A paraded, |
keeping the crowds moving. This was a |
difficult task, for the strikers would only |
be driven from one place to assemble in |
frhnxr a.,
and the sight of so many trolley cars |
stirred them to boiling pitch. But the |
cavalry did quite effective work, and their
efforts doubtless prevented a riot
About 2:3O a number of strikers rushed !
up Rochester avenue TO Fulton street |
threw rope over the trolley wire and
attempted to pull it down. The cavalry
charged on them and they fed.
WORKMAN coYYELLY's GRIEVANCE.
Asked about the situation tonight. |
Master Workman Connolly, of District |
Assembly 7. said:
Every lineman will be ordered out I'm
the morning, and those who remain in
will know what they are doing. Every
thing is quet. and the men are firm"
Master Workman Connolly said that |
members of the Seventh Regiment took /
possession OF the Odd-Fclows' Han, on
Palmetto street, near Myrtle avenue at
o'clock this afternoon.
II had made arrangements to hold a
large meeting there tonight" he said,
"and several prominent citizens were 10
make addresses. l was in that neigh
borhood this afternoon but when 1 at
tempted to enter the hail / was prevented
by the militia. All those who We're in
the hall were locked in. and the papers
and books were seized by the officers of
the Seventh Regiment in command. This
/ considered a high-handed outrage. The
city is not under martial law. and |
cannot understand where they get their
authority to close this place. 1 deter
mined, i'm consequence of this action on
the part of the military, to revoke the
order for the lnemen 10 return to work,
and this means that they will all be out
in the morning"
This is the strikers version of the af-
fair They threaten the vengeance of
organized labor on the perpetrators OF
this invasion Of the rights of workingmen
to assemble and organize.
THE MILITARY ACCOUNT or 1T.
The military account of the affair va
ries materially from Conelly's statement.
1t is as follows:
When the troops We're ordered out TO
protect the starting Of the first cars from
Rdgewood, on the Gates-avenue line, at
3.JD l.. NJ. To-Day, AdJOI +tpIdm9, vi INC
Seventh Regiment, noticed that a large
number of the strikers, who had been
standing nearly all day in front Of their
headduarters retired within the building |
AS a matter Of precauton, and to preserv-
ing the peace, should any Of these men
be inclined 10 break IL, he ordered the
second company to advance on the double
quick down Palmer street until they had
passed the hall The police at his re-
quest followed Immediately and caused
the doors of the hall 10 be locked For
over two hours nearly two hundred men
were securely boxed. No papers We're
seized. nor were any OF their rights in
vaded, save keeping them in voluntary
until all the cars sent out
had returned and had been securely
housed.
There are about four hundred Iinemen
employed on the trolley lines. They are
under contract TO work until February |
26th. Presidents Lewis and Norton said
this afternoon that they had not heard
that their linemen will strike In the
morning.
ON THE GATIs AyESuR LISF.
There was trouble all day on the Gates
avenue line. One shot was fired by
seventh Regiment man before 1t was
over. Early in the day President Norton.
1f the Brooklyn City System, which con-
trolls the line, announced that 1t would | ,
be operated. He succeeded in moving
ten cars over the line. This number does )
not mean that ten cars were in operation ,
all day. AS a matter of fact, they were ,
started out close together after 3:30 =.