The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-23

The air ana the WInCOW not only CtOSSu
but all the faces disappeared.
During the passage of the car down the
avenue there was considerable peering. but
one shot from polceman's revolver fired
In the air closed the open windows and
only one missile was fired at the first car
and none at the others as they proceeded
on. what at first promised to be a perilons
journey. All the car returned without
damage on schedule time The cars cars taken ak en-
way to East New York as previously
headway on Franklin avenue at the corner
of Lexington avenue, dashed into car
of line drs and smashed ar,n and S5
when crossing Central avenue woman
stopped with a tin dish in her hand from
which she threw something into the arr
1t was cayenne pepper and the wind blew
it in the faces of the motormen and police
not not lessen ai their their speed. speed and when they
reached the depot were attended to by the
surgeons of the Seventh Regiment.
"A POLICE ORDER.
The following order has been issued by
Superintendent of Police Campbell:
Amy officer who suffers without resist
ance to the best of his ability any motor
man. conductor or other employe or any
railroad company to be taken from the car
or to be otherwise assaulted, or fails to
promptly arrest any person so assaultng
or attempting to assault any such motor
man, conductor or other employe, or who
fails promptly to arrest any person who
puts Or attempts to put any obstruction
attempt to interfere with the free oper-
alton of the railroad, whether by cutting
wires, trolley ropes, also OF opstructiohs or
otherwise WILL on good proof being pro-
duced before the commissioner. be at once
dismissed from the force. BY order OF
the commissioner.
During the afternoon and evening there
occurred no less than seven collisions of
trolley cars with wagons, trucks or other
vehicles.
Master Workman Connolly returned to
the strikers headquarters after an ab-
sence of half an hour and again announced
that the line men should go out again he
refused to explain anything about the or
der, but when asked what would be done
with line men who refused to go out, he
replied that they would simply be outside
the pale of honorable workingTnen. This
move was precipitated by the alleged action
of the militia, when, at O'Clock this after
noon a company of the Seventh Regiment
surrounded hall at Myrtle and Palmetto
streets, which entered by the soldiers,
who seized all books and papers of the local
assembly who occupied the place as
meeting room The militia was finally with
drawn and police took possession of the
hall. Both the militia and the police deny
this.
Major Abrams said 'I most emphatically
deny that any soldier entered Odd Fellows
Hail. AS matter of precaution, ordered
the doors locked before the first car
started and kept them locked until the
last car returned and was secure in the
depot No papers. books or any other prop
eTty was touched by my men, and as soon
the pfckeUS were WlInQfdWn the men
who had been boxed up were again at lib
erty to go in or out as they pleased. There
is positively foundation whatever for
the sensational story given publicity by
Matters in South Brooklyn were unusu-
ally quiet all day. At the power house,
street, where Company HI, of the Third
Regiment. under command of Captain Captain
to keep close watch for wire cutting to-
night. All was quiet at midnight.
KNIGHT OF LABOR INTERVIEWED.
The Pequod Club rooms corner of Third
avenue and Fifty fifth street, which is the
headquarters of the strikers, was a lively
place during the night. Hundreds of the
.menfTere there most of the time. Pro-
vfsfohs sent in by grocers in the vi
cinity About $1Oo in money was received
by the strikers during the day.. In speak
ing of the situation, Walter S. Ross. of
District Assembly 70, said. tonight: I'VE
have good reason to believe that the COM
pany will ask us for .tlement in the
morning. They have go new men. and
recruiting stations in dill / parts of the
State. At Albany they h. l twenty men,
and were to send them down Monday, but
men did not appear. We have everything
smut off at Boston, and 1 don't think they
We have twenty men doing picket duty all
the time, night and day. They patrol the
streets In the vicinity Of Fifty-eighth
If they a stranger approaching the
company's barns they intercept him. and
always succeed in getting him away. 1t
don't look if the railroad company was
getting on OF the ], 800 Cars cnaJ ordinarily
run on Brooklyn height, only eight are in
operation, exclusive of the Atlantic-avenue
line. We have advised our men to keep
quiet and to do no harm, and as long as
At ,7;so o'clock this evening. at the Ridge
Lieutenant Schuyler. in command of Com
pany B of the Seventh Regiment, sent
to protect the power house and it's ap-
prOaches, with orders to use violence If re-
Lieutenant Schuyler dispersed the crowd.
though at first 1T was slow in moving: One
man, German, wanted to argue his rights.
and would not move Private Leonard
onet With ie sucent % force s to o''m make him
howl. He Immediately threw a stone, and
a few minutes after he was driven away
he returned with a number OF men armed
with stones These they threw at the sol
diers and Immediately fled.
gathered around the depot. No guard
on the outside of the building. Suddenly
q number of stones. were hurled into the
depot by the crowd. In a moment Capt.
Nesbit. of Company b, followed by Adjt.
Weaver and several privates, rushed out,
formed skrnish line and drove the stone
thrcwers back. Then the police took up
the pursuit. and fired four five shots
over the heads of the crowd, effectually
dispensing them. The soldiers did not fire.
At $50 the people who had taken the ele-
waited steps for vantage ground from which
to guy the police and militia were driven
up and into the depot and made to buy
tickets in order to escape. Since these in
cidents a heavy guard has been maintained
outside the depot.
MEETING OF STRIKERS.
An enthusiastic meeting of strikers and
their sympathizers was held tonight at
Labor Lyceum in Wolloughby avenue. The
strikers, with their families and friends
were out in full force. AS each speaker
came forward he received with wild
applause. j. DeLong, business man,
strongly in sympathy with the strike move
ment, claimed that every man, woman and
child in Brooklyn was in sympathy with
the strikers. On motion of the chairman,
NJ. J. Bowen, resolution passed, re-
questing the Mayor to sign the recent reso-
luton of the Board of Aldermen, condemn
ing the trolley companies.
Adjutant McAipin. who is here as the
military and personal representative OF
Governor Morton, had a conference, late
in the afternoon, with Mayor Schren, Po-
lice Commissioner Wells and Corporation
Counsel Mcdonald. The Acknowledgment
offered TO call out the Third Brigade of the
National Guard to aid in the restoration OF
order He was assured by the Mayor tnat
at present, there is no occasion for calling
out more troops. General McAlpin promised
m hav he rip de dU tn