The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-01-23

one. Car. No. 541 of the line arrived
from down town with about 80 men on
board, Sergeant Sheldon, with four pa
trollnen carrying drawn pistols on the
'front.' platform. Captain Kitzer and
1ourt men made a similar display in
the rear. When the car stopped, the
captain noticed four or five men ON the
elevated railroad track. Pointing his
revolver at them, ne shouted, Come,
get OH that track; we are through
h1onkeylng. Get off, or we will show
you we mean business
Inc military also ordered them away
lure
The platform and stairs were also
cleared. As the second company OF
Tue seventh regiment swung around
INTO ftelgnetto street, the great crowd
OF strikers in front of their head
quarters. odd Fellows Hail. scarca
NAN a. block away, suddenly halted, u
large number running around into Irv-
ms avenue, but about 200 crowded into
Thy; hall.
Then, at a signal, the line of men in
plue stretched across the street and ad-
Ianced at double quick past the hall
doors. which We're at once closed and
locked by. the police and the men were,
IKE rats in a trap, secured until all the
cars cars We're sent out and brought back to
sIS OepOl-iI d space OF a IlLIl6 over Two
hours. When the troops reported call
ready, car 5A, which had been brought
up with men as stated, was started down
Inc Line with the two motor men, two
porters on board.
Just as the start was made, a, member
OIL the Seventh regiment could see several
persons IN an open window in the sec
ond story window of a hotel opposite the
depot. He ordered it closed. The order
was not instantly obeyed, so he fired a
shot into the air and the window was not
only closed, but all the faces disappeared.
During the passage of the car down the
avenue there was considerable jeering.
nut one shot from a policeman's revolver
flred IN the air, closed up the open Win
lows, and only one missile was fired at
the first car and none at the others as
they proceeded on which at first prom
lsed TO be perilous journey.
All the cars returned without DANA ge
upon the scheduled time.
Orders Issued.
The following order has been issued by
Superintendent Campbell:
"Of1ce of the Superintendent of Police,
Brooklyn, n. Y, Jan. %, 1895.
Ordered, that any officer who suffers.
without resistance to the best of his
ability, any motorman or conductor or
any employee of any railroad company to
be taken from the car or TO be otherwise
assaulted, or fails to promptly arrest any
person so assaulting or attempting to
assault any such motorman, conductor or
other employee, or fails promptly to ar
rest any person who puts attempts to
put any obstruction ON the track or other
wise TO Interfere with or attempt to inter
fere with the free operation of the rail-
road, whether by cutting wires, trolley
ropes, also of distractions or otherwise,
viii, on proof being produced before the
commissioner, be at once dismissed from
the force.
by order of the commissioner.
"P. CAMPBELL,
Superintendent of Police"
During the afternoon and evening there
occurred no less than seven collisions
of trolley cars with wagons, trucks or
other vehicles.
Matters in South Brooklyn were I'M
usually quiet all day. The Pequod club
night. Hundreds Of men were there
in by grocers in the Vicinity. About
strikers during the day.
An enthusiastic meeting of strikers
and their eympafhizers was held to-,
night on Wiloughby avenue. The
strikers with their families and friends
were out in full force. AS each speak
er came forward he was received with
Wild applause. J. De Long, a business
man strongly in sympathy with the
strike movement, claimed that every
man, woman and child in Brooklyn
was in sympathy with the strikers. On
a motion of the chairman, a resolution
was passed requesting the mayor to
sign the recent resolution passed by
the board Of aldermen condemning the
trolley companies.