The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-02-02
town and Graham avenue lines to de-
sert
MANY CARS RUNNING.
Brooklyn Troliy Car Tie-up Gives EVi-
deDce of Hreaktn-.

the scarcity of cars today one would
strikes in the history of Brooklyn was
in progress. The church members had
to walk to church in many instances.
or take chances in the enormous crowds
which took possession of the cars. 9th
erwise there was perfect calm. Large
crowds assembled around the depots |
where military guards are stationed. |
but there was no violence. Those i'm a /
position to draw conclusions without |
prejudice say the strike is about ended. |
The companies seem to be IN posi- !
ton to run their cars. They are not
skillfully operated, and throughout the
day there We're many collisions, but no
accident of serious nature. The num-
Der of cars operated today was slightly
over the number running yesterday.
Some were without windows and others
were running with dissipated looking
motor boxes and badly twisted dash
boards, but most of them werS "arrying
passengers without mOlestation The
companies did not venture to open any
new lines, nor did they seek to run
their cross town line of cars through
the Erie basin district today. Many in
habitants of that locality are of tur-
bulent character. The railroad compa-
MES have now become able to operate
their lines after dusk and will if no Sc
| rious disturbances are made in the flu
ture, soon be running them all night, as
they did before the strike began.
MOB RULE STOPS.
The quietness of the strike has been
|
have pointed out to the men the folly
of a riotous course. They explained that
the state could supply two militiamen
for each striker if they were needed
/ and that mob rule would soon be over
thrown by bullets and bayonets. The
men heard and understood the requests
of the leaders and followed them out
| Starvation already confrOnts many of
| the families of the strikers. The saloons
throughout Brooklyn We're kept closed
today in obedience to special orders is
sued by the mayor and threat made
by the superintendent of police that he
would vigorously enforce the order.
President Lewis of the Brooklyn
Heights company did not come to his
office this morning, nor did any other
official of the company. During the day
the statement was given out that the
company has received more than 200 APP
plications from men claiming to be eff
Client mOtormen and conductors for po-
stiOns. Many of the men now on a
strike are represented as applying for
reinstatement 80 far as the Atlantic
avenue road is concerned" said Chief
Clerk Kennedy. the strike is over. We
have more applicants for the work than
we have positions"
Ex-COmmitteemen Giblin and West
went to Philadelphia today to confer
with General Master Workman Soy
ereign. At the strikers headquarters
it is admitted that these representa-.
tives were on an important mission
but the exact nature of it, the strike
leaders refused to divulge. The re
port, however, that they had in view
the calling out of the entire Knights OF
Labor in Brooklyn gained considerable
credence.
STRIKERS MASS MEETING.
A mass meeting of the strikers anC
sympathizers was held this Afternoon
at the Athenaeum. Henry George wa!
the chief speaker He said if tn,
municipality owned the roads and taxed
land values the railroads would be fire,
to the people.
Congressman Jerry Simpson who al
so spoke, urged the audience in tn,
future to vote the populist ticket On,
of the principal planks in the populis
platform was the ownership of rail
roads, telegraph and telephone line
, by the government.
F Resolutions We're adopted denouncin;
the heartless and avaricious corpora
tiOns for having thrown the entire com
munity into confusion, involving i'm
mense pecuniary loss and pauperizin,
| a vast number of people; sympathizinj
| with men in their efforts to secure liv
| ing wages and reasOna BILE hours of la
| Dor; demanding that the attorney gener
! al of the state begin proceedings to an
nul charters of railway corporations AM
, | that. upon forfeiture of said charters
, | all city railroads should be operate
, by the city Of Brooklyn, or by re
spOnsible lessees, under stringent regu
q | latiOns for the benefit Of the people o
| Brooklyn.
This morning the militia dispersed
, | crowd of 500 persons. Thomas Nc
c Crazy, a striking mOtorman, was dis
covered placing stones on the track 4
>. crowd gathered and jeered at the OF
@ fcers. McCrary was arrested in spit
. of protests.
= Moses Brown, a special policeman
was terribly beaten Dy a mob in a sa
loon which the officers entered thi
afternoon.
, GAYNOR'S RULING.
In his decision in the trolley electri
> car strike, Judge Gaynor reasserted tn
Il principle enunciated in his earlier dc
? cision in the case and ordered to issu
oil tfrr,