The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-22

ton planes the TdllFUdu OlilSl14o tON s state of affairs, attributing 1t to ther stubbornness, and asks the board to eN- press disapproVal of the attitude anu conduct of the railroad companies ana also calls for the examinations Of men who are to act as motormen. It re- ouests that a license board of three per sons be appointed to examine candidates for motormen, the board to consist or two members of the common council and one man to be appointed by the mayor. It also requests the legislature to take up the question of licenses.
 Alderman Gilfoyle presented petl- tion signed by sixty petitioners charg- ing the Brooklyn Heights Railroad com pany, the Atlantic avenue system and the Queens County and Suburban com pany with failure to operate thelr lines for seven days and reciting that during the time a large portion or the police force of the city had been em- pIoyed to protect the interests ot sald companies, thereby leaving portions or the city without adequate protection upon the pretence of such companies that all of their lines would be run as usual if protection were afforded, that after a large force of militia had been ordered out under the same pre- tence, the heavy expense of which that city must bear, said companies had failed to keep their promises, and that the conceded cause of this paralysis or trouble was simply question between said companies and their old employees as to wages and time, which coulu not absolve the companies from thelr obligations to the public. The petitlon- CTS asked the aldermen to take such measures as would immediately compel said companies to operate the usual number of cars or else request the at- | torney general to commence proceed | ings for the annulmnt of their char ters.
 The following was adopted:
 Resolved. That the communication | just read be approved by this common council and that the city be directed to transmit a copy to the attorney gen eral of the state, with a request from | the board that immediate action De | taken thereon.
 | About D. m. the police were called | in and the militia took charge Of the | various car houses and property of the l traction companies. At the Halsey street stables companies c, and K | Seventh New York, were stationed | Captain Palmer placed twenty picked men, sharpshooters at Howard avenue and Halsey street where a crowd oi l about 200 jeered them and threw stones l and other missiles. At about 10 o'clock
 the men fired a volley, presumably into the air. About twenty shots were fired but so far as can be learned no one was hurt. The mob quickly dispersed. Or Broadway and Halsey street, just pre- l vious to the firing at the other end oi the block a mob of about 1000 persons | congregated. A number of the Seventh: men formed line and made bayone l charge, after having been stoned from
 the housetops. The mob fled in all di
 rections. It slowly congregated again
 but was much quieter.
 All the muskets of the members O l the Seventh regiment stationed at the
 Halsey street stables tonight were loaded with ball and cartridge, and the
 men seemed determined.
 A car on the Fifth avenue line this
 afternoon was surrounded by mob
 A detachment of the Thirteenth regi
 ment, under Major Cochrane. charged
 the mob with fixed bayonets, and thi
 crowd scattered. August Brown re
 ceived a bayonet wound in the hip.
 At 10 o'clock tonight a guard O
 Company I, Twenty-third regiment, a
 Fifty-eighth street and Third avenue
 fired a shot at striker who threw {
 stone through a window of a house 1T
 which squad of soldiers was stationed
 No one was hit.
 Rain and fog prevailed all day and tn
 troops had a most disagreeable time O
 it. apart from the various disturbances
 which gave them trouble. All cars wer'
 stopped shortly after dark, instead 0
 being run until midnight, a planned.
 Late tonight President Lewis said
 eve will have from fifty to seventy-fiv new men at work tomorrow. We vii
 open the Gates avenue road if it i
 necessary to line the road on. botl
 sides with troops. Another importan line will also be opened. Altogether
 expect to have 200 cars running to morrow I was waited on by severa committees during the day who desiret to compromise matters, and I told then
 1t was too late"
 At midnight everything is quiet.