The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-22

was announced no cars would run after .
o'clock until tomorrow.
Elmer P Van Dyke, aged Is, a member
of the Sixteenth Regiment, fell from the
second story of the Thirteenth Regiment
Armory at Flatbush avenue to the roof of
the Long Island Railroad depot to-day and
sustained compound frature of the skull
East New York was quiet all day. 1t
had put on military appearance by the
addition of battery of artillery to the in
fantry forces stationed at the Alabama
avenue depot of the Fulton-ayenue rail
road, and old inhabitants were put in mind
of the time when a recruiting camp was
stationed there about thirty years ago.
The only evidence of disorder noticed this
morning was the cutting of the trolley wire
on both Fulton street and Broadway.
These were repaired before IL o'clock, and
fifteen minutes later the first cars were sent
down toward Fulton ferry They found
no obstruction in the way, and though they
occupied more than the schedule time they
made regular trips until 4:30. New men
were received at intervals during the day
which enabled the company during the
afternoon to put thirty cars on the line
avenue and streets near the depot of the
policemen stationed there in order to place
two men on each car. Captain German
called for re-enforcements, which he re-
ceiyed from the Fifth and Nineteenth pre-
cincts.
The msneuvers necessary TO protect the
depot were quickly executed, and when
completed the position was quite warlke,
four cannon with quiet significance being
planted so as to rake every avenue of ap-
proach to the depot. The crowd was kept
back two blocks by the mounted police,
and there was little to disturb the regular
ity of their duties until night approached,
when large fire was kindled in the square,
and precautions were doubled to prevent
any surprise or any stone-throwing from
the neigh boring houses or on the structure
of the elevated road which crossed the
place diagonally.
The officials of the Brooklyn, Queens
County and Suburban Railroad informed
Captain German that as soon as the men
they had engaged had arrived they would
open the route. One car was then brought
out, and sent down Fulton avenue as far
as TOmpkins and returned about half-past
3, loaded with men, some OF whom were
expert motormen. They were soon ready
for work At 4 O clock the first car for "a
full week or more was started down Broad
way. 1t was unmolested, but at every
switch had much difficulty in progressing,
as the switches were all frozen. Large
crowds assembled at these places, notably
at Summer and Reid avenues, but beyond
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new men were not interfered with. Six
cars in all were sent out. All of them re-
turned safely at 6:10, and not q stone or
other missile was thrown at them on the
route. No cars were sent ont after half
past 5 o'clock ON this line, and all the new
men are held in the depot to prevent the
strikers coaxing them away. One of the
members of the strikers board said:
THE hnemen have determined 10 refuse
to make the necessary repairs TO wires
when called upon to do SO by the COM
! panieS. This action by the inemen is
equivalent to their striking"
As trollty-cars 1900 and 1920 OF the Gates
avenue line, in charge of Motorman Theo-
| dore Alter and William Essel, were pass
! ing through Gates avenue near Central
avenue at $50 this evening they were as
sailed by fusillade of stones from the
housetops and the windows on both sides
of the avenue. The crowds which lined
the sidewalks joined in the attacks and
sent Volley after yolley of stones into the
cars. Patrolmen George Shanckleton
| Dennis Bush and James l.. Coolihan were
| severely injured Coolihan's nose wa:
broken and Bush and Shanckleton re
ceiyed several Commissions about the face
The car was stopped, when the stone
throwers ran away. The policemen:
wounds were dressed by an ambulance sur
geon in the Ninth Precinct, to which sta
ton the injured were conveyed.
At $40 P. NJ. as a car of the Halsey-stree
line was being taken into the depot a
Broadway and Halsey streets, mob o
over 1000 men and boys gathered anC
threw stones at the car, smashing all tn,
windows. The two policemen on the ca
got off and fired their revolvers at the mob
but so far as could be learned no one wa
| injured. Pickets of the Seventh Regimen
stationed there made repeated charges anC
finally drove the crowd back.
The ranks of the strikers in Brooklyn to
day were swelled by the addition of gang
of tramps and loafers from New York. Al
day through the rain and fog these hood
lums tramped from New York over tn
Brooklyn bridge, bound for the poin
where instinct told them there woult
likely be more trouble. 1t is estimated
that during one hour this morning 500
persons crossed the bridge by way OF TIA
promenade.
While three cars on the Gates-avenu
line were on their way downtown at 6:3
o'clock this evening they were surrounded
by a bowling mob at Gates and Stuyvesan
avenues. Missiles of every description
were hurled at the men in charge of tn
cars and the police who were escortini
them. A portion of the mob had gatheret
on the houses in the vicinity and from thi
vantage ground bricks, taken from chin
neys, were hurled with terrible effect OF
the police, several of whom were badly in
jured. Emboldened by the fact that tn
latter were comparatively powerless t