The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-22
eral shots were fired into the crowd.

eral shots were fired into the crowd.
but no one was reported injured.
At the Halsey-street depot a car
was pelted with stones and sticks.
the windows broken and the woodwork
smashed. The two police guards fired
their pistols into the crowd, which dis
persed. Whether or not any one was
struck is not known. Under such con-
ditions it was deemed advisable to
abandon for the night all attempts to
run cars on any of the tied-up lines
and by $50 all the cars were housed.
Men to take the places of the strikers
are being engaged in other cities and
from the unemployed of Brooklyn. One
hundred new men were received at the
Ridgewood car house of the Brooklyn
Heights company to-day, and smaller
numbers of men were received at other
depots. The hiring of inexperienced
men has given the strikers and their
sympathizers an argument which is be-
ing used to influence public opinion.
as is shown by the proceedings in the
Board of Aldermen and Board of SUI
pervisors. With all the companies have
been able to do. only small fraction
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one in six-have been operated at all.
and on those which have been nominal
ly in operation the last few days not
more than half the usual number of
cars have been run.
The ranks of the strikers will prob
ably be recruited tomorrow by the
linemen, who, until now, have remained
in the employ of the company. They
number about 600 and may be classed
as experts. Their sympathies have
been with the strikers throughout.
They have thus far responded to all
calls to repair wires cut by strikers or
their allies. Now, however, they say
that it is evident that the company is
waging a merciless warfare on those
who went out last Monday, and they
profess to fear that some day their
turn may come to suffer from what they
call capitalistic oppression. They have
let it be understood that tomorrow
they will not go out to repair cut lines.
even at the risk of dismissal. They
will not strike, they say; they will
merely refuse to perform the work re-
quired of them and put on the COM
panies the onus of discharging them.
ACTION OF CIVIL AUTHORITIES.
The attitude of the civil authorities
is factor of considerable Importance.
Mayor Schieren has consistently ex-
erted all the powers of his office for
the maintenance of order. BY his di-
rection the police force has been prac-
tically at the disposal of the street.
railway companies for the last eight
dove Tho mon have baen called on n
do extra duty during all that time. and
the righteousness of their service has
told heavily on them, a considerable
number having been temporarily in
capacitated for duty. 1t has been
charged in some quarters that the po-
lice have evinced too much tenderness
for the rioters. Police Commissioner
Wells has invited any one that has evil
dence of this to lay proofs before him.
and he promises to make summary
work of any officer found to have been
derelict. sEss s-
In the Board of Aldermen this after
noon a resolution was introduced by
Mr.. Cohen which proposes to oblige
corporations operating street railways
by electricity to employ as motormen
only such persons as shall have passed
satisfactory examination to their
qualifications. Alderman Guylfoile
offered resolution calling on the State
Legislature to increase the license fee
for each street car from $40, as at pres
ent to 800. No action was taken on
either of these resolutions. The board
voted, with not one dissenting member.
in approval of a memorial signed by
about sixty property owners that calls
for measures which shall compel the
street railway companies to operate
the usual number of cars on their lines
or else request the Attorney-general to
bring proceedings for the annulment
of their charter.
A resolution expressing sentiments
similar to those of the memorial were
unanimously adopted by the Board of
Supervisors. The executive committee
of the strikers were to-day called be-
fore the meeting to tell their story of
employment of incompetent motormen,
which, it is held, imperils the safety Of
passengers, pedestrians and those driv-
ing on the streets of the city. These
several official acts are. of course. cal
culated to give encouragement to the
strikers, whose champion, Major Nc
NuIty, not disheartened by the failure
of his move in the same direction last
week, made application to Judge Gull
len to-day for an order on the street.
railway companies to show cause why
their charters should not be forfeited
for failure to keep their several lines
in operation. Major McNulty is mer-
chant, who alleges that his business
suffers by reason of the suspension of
street-railway traffic.
CONFLICT WITH A MOB.
Militia and Police Compelled to Shoot