The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-23
Neither LabOrerS Nor Employers Will
Yield.
POLICEMEN CLEARING THE TRACKS
With Orders to Shoot Into Any Window
Seen Open Along the Street
Railway Routes.

place about Il o'clock tonight, when, in
an encounter with a few boys at the
Halsey-street station OF the Brooklyn City
Railroad Company. a volley was fired by
the militia and Henry Ahen of New York
City was fatally shot, musket-ball
entering his mouth and passing through
his head Another man, whose name is
Williams, was wounded in the arm. The
shooting had the instant effect of dis
persing the mob.
The ninth day of the tie-up has closed
without bringing material change in the
situation. 1t has been day of alarming
rumors, which fortunately had slight or
no foundation. There were between day
break and nightfall numerous brushes
between the police and militia on one side
and the strikers or headstrong, law-defying
sympathizers with their cause on the other
A mandate of Master Workman Connolly
was promulgated calling upon the linemen
TO abandon their situations tomorrow
morning. The effect of this move, which
the strikers have compared to the playing
of high trump card, remains to be dem
onstrated.
The developments of the day have not
been reassuring as a whole. In spite of
the fact that there are under arms in the
city 5000 State soldiers and 1900 policemen
are on duty intramural traffic is suffering
a virtual paralysis, in which the industries
of the city participate to a greater or lesser
degree, lawlessness is rampant and alto
gether conditions are such as may excite
the gravest apprehension.
Acknowledgement McAlpin, the military
and personal friend of Governor Morton,
at a conference with Mayor Schieren, Police
Commissioner WelIes and Corporation
Counsel Mcdonald, offered to call out the
Third Brigade, n. Y. N. c., to effect the
restoration of order. He was assured by
the Mayor that at present there is no occa-
sion for calling out more troops.
Master Workman Connolly says he
ordered out the linemen because this
action was necessitated by the action of
the soldiers at o'clock this afternoon,
when company of the Seventh Regiment
surrounded the hall at the corner of
Myrtle avenue and Palmetto street A
squad entered the hall, seized the books
and papers of the local assembly which
has its headquarters there.
There were many rumors flying about
Ridgewood all day, but no really exciting
incidents till about 3 P. NJ, when cars were
started on the Gates-avenue line. Two
shots were fired, one by policeman and
one by National Guardsman, to enforce
the order issued by the police authorities to
keep every window closed along the line of
the road. But one missile was thrown at
the first car. piece of friedrich from the
inside of store, which smashed a window,
but did not iniure any of the occupants of
the car.
With the exception of the pickets, the
militia were drafted into the depot and
quiet was restored, a mass meeting at the
Labor Lyceum in Willoughby avenue at
So'clock drawing off the strikers from the
neighboorhood occupied by the police and
the militia.
The work of the linemen was finished at
o'clock in the afternoon. The construc-
ton wagon, labeled on both sides *. of
L., reached the Ridgewood depot few
moments after, so at 10 A. n. assembly"
was sounded and the three companies of
the Seventh Regiment, B D and G, under
command of Major Abrahams, marched
out and occupied all the streets branching
out from the junction of Mill avenue and
Palmetto street.
After the first company marched out,
truck laden with new men, accompanied
by four officers, dashed up, and as it was
rnladen the driver was taken into custody
for causing a fatal accident on Gates
avenue, near Bushwick avenue. To avoid
any possible attack he had driven at
furious pace, and overtaking light wagon
dashed into it, throwing the occupant out
into the street and fracturing his skull.
The injured man was taken to st. Johns
Hospital, and the driver of the truck to the
Evergreen-avenue police station.
The next incident was a startling one.
Car SAL of the line arrived from downtown
with about thirty men on board, Sergeant
Sheldon with four patrolmen carrying
drawn pistols on the front platform Cap
tain Kitzer and four men made a similar
display on the rear. When the car stopped
the captain noticed four or five men on the
elevated railroad track Pointing his re-
volver at them he shouted: Come, get
off from that track, we are through
monkeying. Get off or we will show YOU
we mean business"
The military also ordered them away and
the men left the structure. The platform
and stairs were also cleared. AS the second
company of the Seventh Regiment swung
around into Palmetto street the great
crowd of strikers in front of their head
quarters, Odd Fellows Hall, scarce half
block away, suddenly melted, large num-
Der running around into Irving avenue,
but about 200 crowded into the hail.
Then at signal the line of men in blue
stretched across the street advanced at
double-quick time past the hall doors,
which were at once closed and locked by
the police, and the men were like rats in a
trap, secured until all the cars were sent
out and brought back to the depot. in a
space of a little over two hours. When
the troops reported all ready car 541.
which had been brought up with men as
stated, was started down the line with two
two conductors, two policemen
and three reporters on board
Just as the start was made an officer of |
the Seventh Regiment saw several persons
in an open window in the second-story
window of hotel opposite the depot. He
ordered it closed. The order was not in
stantly obeyed, so he fired shot into the
air, and the window was not only cBOsed.
but all the faces disappeared.
During the massage of the car down the