The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-21


All the morning the Mayor was confer
ring with the members of his cabinet and
was in constant communication with rep
resentatives of the labor organizations. 1t
was rumored this morning that additional
troops were to be called out. Mayor
Schieren was asked if this rumor had any
foundation in fact. He replied that he had
no intention of asking the Governor for
more troops.
There was great deal of excitement in
the neighborhood of the Halsey-street
stables of the Putnam-avenue line at noon,
when large crowd of riotous strikers
began to force back the soldiers defending
the stables They were kept back at the
point of the bayonet and desisted from
their hostile demonstration.
Malcolm Wood, the militiaman whose
skull was fractured last night by a brick
thrown by strikers from the Alabama
avenue elevated station, has been
taken from St. Mary's Hospital to his home
to-day. He rested quietly during the night
and was visited by his parents. 1t is be-
heved he will recover.
The strikers continue to tear down and
cut the electric wires, but as the cars were
not running on the Fulton-street line to-
day no great inconvenience was caused.
Between II and II o'clock a Vanderbilt
avenue car became derailed at Vanderbilt
avenue and Bergen street. A large crowd
Of dlsorderly characters were attracted to
the scene, but the police were numerous
enough to drive them away, but not before
the windows were smashed by stones.
AT 80 o'clock this afternoon car 161 of
the Bergen-street line became stalled on
account of some defective mechanism in
front of the empty lot between Classon
and Grand avenues. This caused the stop
page of three other cars. At the back of
the lot is ffteen-foot bluff. The crowd
gathered there and threw stones at the
cars, demolishing every pane of glass.
The police charged, but the men made a
determined stand, being led by a man
named Gallagher He was placed under
arrest by Officer Stats of the Twenty
second Precinct. The strikers attempted
rescue, but Policemen Gowan and Conner
went to Stats assistance and marched him
off TO the Twenty-second Precinct station.
Several of the policemen we're cut by flying
stones and pieces of brick, but no one was
seriously injured. The neighborhood is
now patrolled by a strong force of police.
In this instance also cooking utensils and
other household goods were hurled at the
police from the windows of houses in the
neighborhood, and boiling water was
thrown from the upper floors. The police
are investigating the matter.
Major Cochran of the Thirteenth Regi-
ment said to a reporter of the Associated
Press this afternoon that the military forces
in the city are not sufficient to cope with
the rioters. The separate company of
Flushing, L. l., arrived in Brooklyn early
this morning. 1t has not yet been assigned
to duty.
The presence of the military caused an
enormous crowd to gather around the
Bush street carhouse of the Court-street
line to-day. The strikers were orderly
enough until a green motorman became
mixed up in switch at Hamilton avenue
and Court street. He could not extricate
his car and the crowd gathered around
him and ''guyed" him. Another car ap-
preaching the city had run through the
crowd and hurt two men and woman,
who were taken away by strikers, and their
names could not be obtained.
This made the crowd so angry that they
began to throw stones at the car and
smashed every window in it. The police
charged, but were powerless to move the
men, and one of the bluecoats was hit on
the head with stone, inficting small
scalp wound. The line was blocked for
half an hour. Great excitement ensued,
and missiles were thrown at the motormen
and police from the windows of the houses
called out and the crowd was dispersed in
every direction. Court street was patrolled
throughout the entire length by the police.
The soldiers had to charge the crowd
around the stable three times, but no one
was injured. The Mayor, through his sec
rotary, made this statement to the Asso-
ciated Press:
Gan effort was made to ascertain if an
adjustment could be effected in the inter
ests of public convenience and safety by
which all the surface cars of the city could
be restored to immediate use. To this end
the Mayor held a conference with Messrs.
Giblin, Best and Connolly, representing
the former employees of the railroads and
later with the representatives of the various
companies, including Presidents Lewis,
Norton and Wicker. The effort was with
out result. Corporation Counsel Mcdonald
and Public Works Commissioner White
were at the conference.
Strike Leader Connolly said later that
the fault lies with the companies. The
men only stood out for the taking back of
all the men.
At the Alabama-street stables of the
Fulton street line of the Brooklyn Railroad
Company, where the furious conflict oc-
CURED last night between the militia and
strikers, there was a crowd of 1000 strikers
and their friends to-day. The military
kept them well back from the railroad
tracks, which were INSTRUCTED from time to
time with ash barrels and iron stoves.
At o'clock this afternoon two cars were
started from the depot, and got as far as
Sumner street, where they were stopped
by pile of building material placed on the
track for a distance of fifty feet. At 5 P. M.
there was great excitement on Broadway,
between Moore and Flushing streets. A
Sumner-avenue car was attacked by mob,
and Captain French of the Nineteenth
Precinct was struck in the face with a
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