The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1895-01-25
THE STRIKERS LOSING.
Men from Western Cities En- Route
to Take Their Places,
THE MILITIA's SECOND VICTIM

Death of Thomas Carney, Who Was Shot
for Presuming to Look at tho Soldiers.
Foolish Strikers Arrested for Cutting
Trolley Wires. "..=5. ".".
BROOKLYN, Jan. 2b.-Judging by sur
face Indications the strike Of electric
street railways Is near It's end. Tho peace
of the city is not fully restored, and it will
not be so long, as the late employees of the
traction companies have hope Of forcing
themselves back into the positions they
held two weeks ago. To these men there
was ray of light In the decision handed
down yesterday by Justice Gaynor, Of the
supreme court of Queens county, In the
matter OF the application Of Joseph Loader,
q shopkeeper, for writ of mandamus to
compel the brooklyn Heights Railway
company to operate its lines in a manner
to meet the requirements of the public.
In the opinion of Justice Gaynor tho
corporation is held to be in default of its
obligations to the public, incurred by the
acceptance Of franchise for aspecifie pur-
pose; il is placed under the imputation of
having more regard for the profits Of
shareholders than for the convenience Of
citizens, and 1t Is declared to be the COM
paDy's duty to man its cars at whatever
expense may DO necessary. Today the
court is listening to counsel upon the ques-
ton whether the writ shall be peremptory
or alternative, or, in other words, whether
the company shall be required to engage
full complement of operatives forthwith,
regardless Of the questions of wages and
hours of labor, or whether 1t shall be di-
rccted to do the best it can under the cir
polr hn nj nj
tive, 1t will be seen, will be to leave affairs
practically as they are.
Should it be made mandatory an appeal
will be taken by the defendant company,
and 1t Is to DO expected that some judge
will be found who will suspend the writ
until the appeal can be heard. With these
facts in view it may be said that the vic!
tory the strikers have won is fabian in its
character.
Instances Of violence towG.d the new
men have been frequent, and quite num-
Der of arrests were made during tho day Of
men guilty of assaults. Several wire cut
ters also fell into the hands of the police,
and 1t is O notable fact that they were
strikers. Long stretches Of wire have been
carried away in some localities, and gen
eral disposition shown to injure the prop
erty of tho street railway companies as
much as possible. Tho fixing of the blanc
for this upon the strikers costs the people
dear in tho way of public sympathy.
Traffic is not yet continued through the
night, as It WAS before the strike. On
some lines cars were run in ms early as
o'clock. but on others they continued to
make their trips as late as 10 o'clock. Tho
streets generally present an appearance of
tranquility and the theaters, which have
felt the effects of tho ticup perhaps as Sc
verely as any of the business concerns in
the city, last night enjoyed measurable
return Of prosperity.
The most serious attempt to prevent the
running of cars over the Third aven ue
line was made ut Sixty fifth street and
Third avenue, where plot to burn out
the dynamos in the depot was nearly sue
cessful. 1t was evidently the work OF
skilled electricians. The wires were cut
and guy ropes were attached TO them, by
which they were drawn down and
grounded on the posts on the elevated rail
road. The scheme was however, discov-
cred in time to Illustrate the plan.
The lincmen on all the Atlantic avenue
lines struck work. This fact, and the
lack of passengers prevented the manage
ment from running the Seventh, Ninth
avenues and Fifteenth street cars at all.
Ten experienced trolley men who had
been brought from Pittsburg deserted tho
Flatbush avenue cars, Of which they were
In charge, In a body yesterday afternoon.
Altogether twenty-one men arrived from
Pittsburg and five stole away from tho
stables during Wednesday night.
Tho story told by the ten is decidedly In
terestlng. They were engaged, along with
the rest of the twenty one in Pittsburg, by
j. c. Kincaid, of 1877 Fourth avenue, Pitts.
burg Kincaid assured them that there
was no trouble here whatever, and gavo
them to understand that the strike had
been settled amicably. Thoy were guar
hnteed 81 for aday Of ten hours work, their
fare to New York, 1900, being paid by
the company. Their pay was to date from
their arrival here.
Tho first part of the bargain they al
iege, was carried out, but although they
had been here since Wednesday morning
they had not received cent. They were
taken to the Halsey street stables, where
the presence OF the militia and the general
aspect speedily gave them an idea of the
actual situation. They asserted that they
did not want to fill the strikers places,
but they were carefully guarded and could
ret get away.
They we're taken yesterday to the Flat
puFl hhGhAe blftblth. 1lCft luNl ntTt BlNth
cars to run out They acted as though ap-
parently satisfied, but no sooner had they
arrived at q safe distance than the leader
jumped off his car and nine motormen fol-
lowed. Policemen were seen later on tow
ing the cars homeward.
The Pittsburg men arc all married, and
say they are going back to that city as
soon as possible.
Thomas Carney, who was shot in the
battle of Hicks street, died yesterday his
was the second death from the bullets Of
the soldiers. Like the first victim, Henry
Ahrens, Thomas Carney was probably in
nocent of intent to interfere with the
troops or cars.
Dispatches from Plttsburg, Indianapo-
lis, Minneapolis, Cincinnati and other
cities say that men are en- route from
those cities to take the strikers places,
the agreement being that they are to re-
ceive az per day OF ten hours.