The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-01-24

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| William McGrath, twenty-six years o 81
| age, conductor, residing at NO l,oay
| Broadway, and Richard Lyman aged
thirty-six, a motorman, residing at NO.
| z Hinsdale street, were arrested for pun,
| ing down trolley wires at broadway ana
| Stewart street early this morning. FRANK
/ Brown, aged twenty -rour, STRUNG
motorman, was arrested at Fuiton Ferry
| this morning for making an attack Whiie
! drunk on the policeman stationed there.
| The wire cutting last night was more
| extensive than at any time since the
strike began. The wires on some OF the
| lines are so badly mut.lated that large
| force of men will be necessary to put
! them IN working shape. The wires OF
| the Third avenue and Troy avenue lines
were cut in several places. On the Third
avenue line whole sections of the over
From Sixtieth to F4fty-hfth streets not
q vestige of an overhead Wire OF TINS
| line was left. The feed wire. at this
point was also cut out. On the Ninth
avenue line, the supply wire was cut
out for several blocks. At Seventh ave-
| nue. and Sixty-ninth street, near the. old
stable of the Ninth avenue line, a whole
section of wire was ripped out and the
| ends of the wires grounded. At Twen-
| tieth street and Seventh avenue, the
| cross section on the curve at that point
line the wires have been cut nearly all
@''o''e 'sSY sYsTEMATIc CUTTING.
! President Norton, of the Atlantic ave-
night on Seventh avenue very exten-
sively. and that the repairing OF the
| wires VIII keep force OF men at work
| for several hours He. added, however,
| that he expected to have the line. IN
working order by noon, With regard TO
| the strike of linemen non his system,
| President Norton says his men old not
so out. The foreman of the linemen was
| persuaded by the strikers to quit, but
| the men refused to follow his lead. He
declares that he has plenty OF men, and
trf,o thn MT cd
| carloads of non-union men waiting at
| the Third and Atlantic avenue. depot
ready to be sent out on cars of the sys-
| tenn. He further stated that the COM
pany had all the men it needed, and
| that as soon as the wire system was
| put in order cars would be running on
IS N'A NoRToN's POSITION.
President Norton this morning issued
a formal statement containing his reasons
| for his refusal to entertain the PROPOSE
| ton of the men to arbitrate with the
| strikers. His main reason for the refusal
according to this statement was that
| SO far as the lines of the companies
which he represented were concerned,
| the strike was practically over and it
| would only be q matter of a few days
when the cars on all the lines would be
running as regularly as they We're before
President Lewis of the Brooklyn
Heights Company, made a similar state
ment. saying that the company had had
statement, the advertisement for addi-
| tional men appears in all the morning
papers.
Supt. Brier, of the Bush street line
denied emphatically that his hnemen have
struck. He asserts that his men refused
to obey the order to strike.
ATTACKED WITH STONES.
| The first car over the Greenpoint line
was started this morning. When the car
I reached point on Franklin street, be-
tween Green. and Freeman, a big crowd
hQ ia 01fh sod at lrnd ftn or
| with stones. Nearly every window in the
car was broken. A detachment of police
dispersed the mob. and the car resumed
reached it was decided to go no further
| and the car returned to Greenpoint.
The Ralph avenue road, of the Brook
started this morning. The tracks had
been piled with rubbish. but all OBJ
structiens were quickly removed.
avenue and Myrtle avenue e. lines-thirty
on each line-on about thre minutes
headway. The officials of the Bushwick
and Union street lines will not attempt
to start cars today. The Fifth avenue
| line of the Atlantic avenue system start
| ed out its first car for today at five
| o'clock.
| ing the company's depot at Fifth avenue
| and Twenty-third street. The militia are
| patrolling along the lines of several of
/ the roads watching for wire cutters, and
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| tody for indulging in this practice.
| STRIKERS attacked two men near Twen-
tieth street on the Fifth avenue road this
morning. but the police drove them off
| in short order. One of the non-union
men had been severely pounded
Everything was reported to be quiet
| at RtdgeWood this morning. AS far as
| could be ascertained a total of 165 cars
| had been sent out up to ten O'Clock over
roads comprising the various trolley sys-
| TENS of this city
4 A
eotonel sa,d dApPeton of the Seventh Reg
aa esn N 8rooEyn aa1 nnes Thers s
was no trouble of any kind and the
soldiers had good nights rest. Cars
police and militia, and there has been no
| chanGe in the assignments of the various
military companies in the Eastern dis
trict
| Captain John McCauley and Lieutenant
| M. P. Grealish of the Sixty-ninth Bat
headquarters at the Gates Avenue line
depot, at the corner of Gates and Ralph
avenues. Captain McCauIey. reports
1 everything quiet in his neighborhood and
all of his men are in good condition this
| morning.
Gates avenue line, states that all the
lines under his charge are running regu-
larly and without interruption. Some few
but no one had been injured. The lines
under his supervision are the Fulton
| street line, the Putnam avenue line, the
Flatbush avenue line and the Greene and
Gates avenue line. All the cars were
taken off at ten O'Clock. last night and
| not started again until this morning.
Superintendent Ober says the reason
| for this was the want of police protec-
| tton. Captain McCauley complains of the
/ poor accommodations provided for the
men of the Sixty-ninth Battalion The
| quarters are very. cold and cheerless,
of his company with quinine and whiskey
| last night to keep them from freezing.
| Aid From Boston.
| BOSTON, Jan. "a 1Ss5.-Practical aid
was extended to the striking railway
| employees of Brooklyn at the meeting of
| the Executive Board of Conductors,
Drivers and Motormen's Union, American
Federation of Labor last night and, al
\ though the strikers are all members of
the Knights of Labor the meeting unani-
mously voted to send $500 to the strikers
4 at once.
1t was further voted to recommend to
| the next meeting of the union that a
weekly assessment be levied on the or
ganization while the strike lasts, which,
| if adopted by the body, will bring up
ly. 1t was learned at the headquarters
Of the union that an agent who has
been trying to secure non-union men to
| take the places of the strikers had rot
been able to secure a man for the past
three days.
4 The Secretary of the Executive Com
m.ttee of the Central Labor Union last
| evening forwarded a protest to the pro-
prietor of a local hotel against the house