The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-29
STRIKERS HAVE GIVEN IN.
THE MEN SAY IT IS IN THE INTER
 EST OF PUBLIC SAFETY.


 That None is Needed--A Car on the Gates
 Avenue Line Derailed by Mob and the
 Conductor was Knocked Down and
 KiclSed-POIioe Obliged to Use Their Re
 volvers and One Man was Wounded-The
 Police Also Cleared Odd Fellows Hail,
 the Strikers Headquarters.
 Brooklyn, Jan. 2S.-The trolley strik- CTS practically surrendered to the com panies this afternoon. A formal state ment to the public was issued by the executive committee and the men ten dered their services to the presidents for $2 per day for motormen and con- duotors and $1.5O per day for trippers, pute. The men say that the move is made in the interest of public safety and quiet and that the non-acceptance of this offer will be followed by an application for peremptory manda- mus against all the lines.
 The presidents will probably adhere to their former position of refusing to treat with their men in a body.
 w HGil lUlu llldl IL lc QlNl HUI ItplS favorably to their offer the strikers threatened to apply for a mandamus against the company, President Lewis replied: Let them go ahead and get that maNdamus, if they are in such, a hurry. We are operating more cars to- day than any time since the strike began and perhaps they will not find it so easy to secure a mandamus as they think
 President Lewis also said that yes- terday he operated 60 per cent of the usual number of cars on his lines and the receipts were 20 per cent. of the normal. He said that this showed that no mandamus was needed as the com pany had more cars running that there had been any demand for. Later he said that this afternoon all the lines of his company were in operation,
 At F o'clock the people received word that five non-union men had been cap tured by strikers and were held pris- oners in Odd Fellows hall on Palmetto street. The men were said to have been injured in scrimmage and were having their wounds dressed. A squad of police was sent to the rescue of the five men,
 A car of the South Fourth street and Bushwick avenue llne was shot at twice this morning while passing along Bush wick avenue near Siegel street. One bullet was imbedded in a post of the car, and the other went through a win dow A detail of police was afterwards sent to the spot to guard the cars.
 At 1920 o'clock gang of strikers held up car of the Nostrand avenue line at the boulevard. A detail of police was sent to the scene and three of the strik- CTS were arrested.
 Forty deputy sheriffs who have been working under Sheriff Daht at Mas peth preserving order at the car stables struck at 12 o'clock to-day. They said that they did not intend to work twenty four hours for $2.5O per day. There are now only twenty deputy sheriffs on guard, and Sheriff Daht says he will fill the places. No cars were run from Maspeth to-day.
 President Norton of the Atlantic ave- nue system contemptuously spurned the offer of his old men to return and threw their letter in the paper basket. He said later that the places of every strik- CT had been filled.
 President Lewis sent reply in which he informed his old men that he would take them back as individuals upon his own terms as long as he had vacancies to fill.
 President Wicks replied also offering his men, as individuals, what places re- main.
 At 8 o'clock tonight a car of the Gates avenue line left Ridgewood depot | e.. where 1t was assailed by a mob. Two l men who had been riding on the plat l form threw the non-union conductor ] down and kicked and struck him. The | police used their clubs, but the crowd | was too much for them. They finally | drew their revolvers. Sixteen shots | were fired. The non-union motorman | of the car was hit in the leg by a bull let aimed at his assailants. He was taken to a hospital
 The police arrested Charles Darrow, a striking motorman. He had a bad | scalp wound, said to have been caused by the butt of policeman's revolver. | Half dozen others in the crowd had wounds on their heads The crowd ran into odd Fellows hall, the strikefs' headquarters. The police followed and SiCepAS SA SiiO Aie1ilJ CluDDlIS IlSTI dHu left.
 Tonight, for the first time since the strike opened, cars were run after 10 o'clock. The principal lines of the three systems affected by the. strike ran a few cars until midnight
 Of the 7,OO0 men who went out on strike January IA there are places left for less than one-third. It is not at all certain tonight that these will accept. The strike leaders declare that the strike is not over, and that they rendered their services in order to remove all questions as to the ability of the roads to obtain men and thus furnish a new basis upon which to apply for peremp- tory mandamus against the companies. The men say they have funds and will fight the companies by process of court and by boycott until the companies give iu.
 The strikers under advice of counsel have decided to move before the attor- ney general for the forfeiture of the charter of the Brooklyn Heights rail- road This is the company against