Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-23
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 Up and down Fulton street, from Ralph to Tompkins avenue, Troop A paraded, keeping the crowds moving. This was a difficult task. The strikers could only Do driven from one place to assemble in ao- other. They were in a very ugly mood, and the sight ot so many trolley cars stirred them up to boiling pitch. But the cav airy did quite effective work, and their ef- forts doubtless prevented riot.
 f About 230 D. m. number of strikers ruahed up Rochester avenue to Fulton street, threw rope over the trolley wire and attempted to pull it down. The cav airy charged upon them and the strikers fled
 LINEMEN TO BE CALLED OUT.
 Fifteen linemen, most of them Gates avenue men, struck today. 1t is not settled whether they did it of their own motive CT were ordered out by their mas ter workman, but the latter certainly ordered them nacS to work and they were reinstated. Asked about the situation to- light Master Workman Connolly of Dis trict Assembly No. 75 said:
 "Every lineman will be ordered out in the morning, and those who remain will know what they are doing. Everything is quiet and the men are firm.p
 CoNNELLY HAS WORD TO SAY.
 Master Workman Connolly said that members of the Seventh regiment took possession of the Odd Fellows hall on Pal metto street, near Myrtle avenue, at O clock this afternoon. "I had made ar- engagements to hold a large meeting there tonigbt,' he said, 'sand several prominent citizens were to make addresses. l was in that neighborhood this afternoon, but when l attempted to enter the hall was prevented by the militia. All those who were in the hail were locked in, and the papers and books were seized by the fficers in command of the Seventh regiment. This considered hieh handed outrage. The city is not under martial law and cannot understand where they get theIr authority to close this place. l determined in consequence of this action on the part of the military, to revoke the order for the linemen to return to work, and this means that they will all be out in the morning."
 That is the strikers version of the af- fair. They threaten the vengeance of or- ganized labor on the perpetrators of this invasion of the rights of workingmen to assemble and organize.
 ANOTHER VERSION. The military version of the affair varies considerably from the strikers. It is as follows:
 When the troops were ordered out to pro- tect the starting of the first cars from Ridg- wood on the Gates avenue line at 3:30 D. m. | today Major Abrams of the Seventh regi- ment noticed that large number of the 1 strikers, who had been standing nearly all | day in front of their headquarters, retired l within the building. As matter of pre- | caution and to assist in preserving the l peace, should any of these men be inclined l to break it, he ordered the second company 1 to advance on the double quick down Pal metto street until they had passed the hall. l The police at his request followed immedi- ately and caused the doors of the hall to be locked. For over two hours nearly 200 1 men were securely boxed. No papers were seized nor were any of their rights in-
 vaded except keeping them in voluntary confinement until all the cars sent out had 1 returned and were securely housed. l There are about 400 linemen employed on 1 the trolley lines. They are under contract l to work until February 2S. Presidents l Lewis and Norton said this evening that I they had not heard that their linemen will l strike in the morning.
 l ONE SHOT FIRED. | There was trouble all day on the Gates l avenue line. One shot was fired by l Seventh regiment man before it was light. l Early in the day President Norton of the | Brooklyn City system, which controls the l line, announced that it would be operated. l He succeeded In moving ten cars over the l line. This number does not mean that 1 ten cars were in operation all day. As a | matter of fact they were started out close | together after 3:30 p. m. and were hustled l back into the car house before o'clock. SOLDIERS AND POLICEMEN. Major Abrams and Companies B, D and G, Seventh regiment, 300 strong, were on l duty this morning at the depot in Ridg- wood. The depot was also guarded by Police Captain Kitzer with thirty men, Sergeant Black with thirty, Captain Ennis fifteen men.
 The first car, No. 524, was started out at 3:30 D. m. It was escorted by Major Abrams and a detachment of troops. MORE SHOTS FIRED.
 At Knickerbocker avenue and Palmetto street the troops and police fired a shot, as did also one ot the miiitiamen. On Gates avenue one of the police ordered all win dows closed. One man hissed the militia meu and would not take his head in and militiaman fired. The shot hit the window sash and the man retreated. The first car had it's windows smashed. The others were hit with stones and bricks. All cars stopped at o'clock.
 Superintendent Quinn of the Atlantic avenue line stated tonight that the company had runcars all day over nearly all the lines of the system. The first car on the Atlantic avenue line, he said, was sent out at 8:25 a. m. and the last car over that road was run into the stables at o'clock tonight. The lines which the company was operating, he said, were the two Fifth avenue lines, the Seventh avenue line, the Bergen street line, the Vanderbilt avenue line, the Butler street line and the Fifteenth street line. Cars were sent over the last named two koddo toody, hIs Stuiuh oaidB iOi lhC utob time since the strike was inaugurated, and he declared there had not been the slightest disturbance on any of the lines.
 President Norton, MT. Quinn said, was much pleased at the outlook, and was sanguine that the companies would be able to operate their roads fully in few days.
 Cars were run much later tonight on the Court street line than at any time since the strike began. The last car left the ferry for the depot at $40 tonight. No trouble occurred on the line during the day.
 TWO PEOPLE SHOT.
 A charge was made by the military at Broadway and Halsoy street tonight at Il o'clock. Some small boys had been jeer- ing the soldiers, and there were but few about. A drunken man from New York started from John Conway saloon, on the corner. to cross Halsey street. He was fired upon and hit in the face, sustaining compound fracture of the jaw. His name is Thomas Ahens. He will die.
 MT. Mitchell of the Brooklyn City rail- road was shot in the arm. Two of the bull lets of the guns of the militia went through the large plate windows of the candy store of John Eckoff at No. 1857 Broadway, mar rowly missing the clerk behind the coun- far xvbo