The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-01-26
GENERAL STRIKE NEWS.

BROOKLYN, N. y, Jan. 70, lSS0.-lI Is
reported this morning that the strikers
are now resorting TO incendiarism to aid
them in their efforts to cripple the troll
ley companies. Early this morning the
depot of the Furman street line was set
on fire in some mysterious manner, but
the flames were discovered before they
had made much headway and were
speedily extipguished. The police We're
kept on the jump during the early morn
ing hours following up wire cutting
squads of strikers. The destruction OF
wires were even more extensive than
on yesterday. Hardly line escaped from
the raids of these wire cutting bands.
Among the lines whose wires suffered
the most were:-The Crosstown line,
Ralph avenue line, Myrtle avenue line.
Greenpoint line, Flushing avenue line,
Bushwick avenue line. Grand street line,
the Lorimer street line and the Fulton
street line. The wires of the lines were
mutilated to such an extent as to wholly
disable them for hours. Shortly after
midnight this msrning the police came
on number of wire cutters on the cor
ner of North Third street and Bedford
avenue, and succeeded in arresting eleven
member NS the gang. The officers were
compelled to draw their reyolvers to
compel tRre men ~ submit to arrest.
their escape. The men arrested were
taken to the nearest station house,
where they gave their names as fol-
James Tenant, John Keller, George
Dorian, Bailey Whitegan, Osburn Mac
kay, John Dempsey, Charles Bennett,
James Forester, Patrick j. Kelly, Philip
Brady and Frank Kelly
The men will be arraigned in court this
afternoon.
The storm of last night and this morn
Ing added materially to the difficulties
the trolley lines had to overcome in
operating their lines Fewer cars were
terday. Street car sweepers were sent
out as soon as the wires were. sufficient
" repaired to clear the tracks Of the
sweepers were all guarded by half
dozen policemen. The strikers congre4
gated in the vicinity of the Ridgewood
stables, and became SO obstreperous dur
ing the early morning that the police
charged and dispersed them. Many of
them took refuge in the saloons in the
neighborhood, but these were disIodged
by the police. who freely used their clubs
and many sore heads resulted. The police
also raided the strikers headquarters.
the onslaught of the police, and the lat
ter were compelled to draw their re-
volvers and fire number of shots over
the heads of the men before they dis
A sCoUNDRELLY EX-oFFICER
John f. Shea. formerly a special Off
Ger. was arrested at Ralph avenue and
Monroe street shortly after midnight.
He was caught in the act of pulling down
overhead wires at that point. Shea had
succeeded in escaping. Several other ar
rests of wire cutters were made at diff
ferent points throughout the city and in
some CT the outlying districts Up to
ten O'Clock this morning no serious trou-
Die had been reported at police head
quarters. President Lewis, of the Brook
lyn Heights Company, said this morn
new hands since the strike began OF
this number, 800. he says, have been
standing this detection, the company has
enough to run ell its cars on regular
scheeule time. President Lewis further
stated that applications for positions as,
notormen, line~ IN and conductors have
been actually Juring II during the last
Few days, and among the applicants are
many of the old hands. The Oldest con-
ductor in the service of the road, who
cult when the men went out, is among
NORTON sANGUINE.
President Norton Of the Atlantic ave-
nue. system takes. a sanguine view of the
situation. In an interview with a United
all but few of its system OF lines were
in operation. Those upon which no cars
were running, he said, were crippled be-
cause of wire cutting, during the night.
Sackett street and Hicks street lines
Repairs, however, he declared, were being
rapidly made on these lines and cars
would be running on them by noon. He
further stated that thirty cars were sent
out on the Seventh avenue line this morn
ing, twenty-seyen ON the Fifth avenue
line, ten on the Ninth avenue line, six
on the Fifteenth street line and six on
the Butler street line The company
would, he said. send out fifteen cars on
the Bergen street line, five on the Hicks
street line and five on the Sackett street
line as soon as the wires on those lines
were repaired, which would be about
noon. Mr.. Norton declared that the COM
pany now had all the non-unon men it
wanted and had no use for the old men,
whom it now considered in the light Of
20. comment on the stand taken by the
knights of Labor in their demands IN
the company He said their position in
many respects were Ridiculous They
demanded he said among other thin gs
they be allowed to dictate the number
of tripDers to be sent out by the COM
pany, and also that they be allowed to
arrange the schedule for running cars.
This latter demand he characterized as
preposterous, and said such a concession
would be equivalent to allowing the men
to have their way In the matter of oper-
The ofiicials of the Brooklyn Heights
road said this morning that cars were
running on all but two Of the lines of
the system These were. the Myrtle ave-
nue. and Gates avenue lines
On the other five lines OF The system,
they said. the cars were being run as
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