The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-28
Cars Run on ALI Lines and the
Struggle Is About Over.
SOME TROLLEY MEN ARE DESTITUTE.
Leaders Of the Employees Who Struck for
Better Pay Say the Companies Are
Still Badly Crippled.

| the history of Brooklyn was in progress.
! Church members had to walk to church in
many instances or take chances on the
! enormous crowds which took possession OF
| the cars. Otherwise there was perfect
| calm. Large crowds assembled around the
| depots, where military guards are sta
| toned, but there was no violence there
and the bantering that troops received was
| of good-natured kind.
| Those in position to draw conclusions
! from facts and draw them without preju-
| dice say that the strike is about ended.
The companies seem to be in position to
| run their cars. They are not skillfully OPP
Grated and throughout the day there were
MANY collisions and much coming to-
| gether, but no accident of a serious nature.
| The number of cars operated to-day was
| slightly over the number running yester-
day. Some were without some of their
windows and others running with dissi-
| pated looking motor-boxes and badly
twisted dashboards, but most of them were
carrying 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 to-day. Many of the
inhabitants of that locality are of a turbu-
| lent character and would, the police say,
do mischief, if only for the sake of making
trouble. The railroad companies have now
become able to operate their lines after
dusk and will, if no serious disturbances
are made in the future, soon be running
them all night, as they did before the
strike began.
The quietness of the strike has been
brought about by the strike leaders, who
have pointed out to the men the folly of a
riotous course. They explained that the
State could supply two militiamen for
each car if they were needed and that
mob rule would soon be overthrown by
| bullets and bayonets. The men heard and
understood the requests of the leaders and
will carry them out. Starvation already
confronts many of the families of strikers.
The men were not well equipped fnan-
cially when they decided to stop work
and the bulk of their funds has been used
for the transportation of non-union men
to cities from whence they came to replace
the strikers. This alone has cost the strik-
ers many thousands of dollars. Store
keepers have been very considerate, but
now that they see the strikers are being
replaced by men from other cities they are
10th to give credit and the wives and chill
dren of the men out of work are going
hungry. Landlords, too, do not enter into
the merits of the situation between the
strikers and the companies and promises
to pay when the strike is ended do not cut
much figure with them. The demand for
food and for rent, however, crippled the
resources of the strikers and many of
them are in sore straits. It was reported
that all the Knights of Labor in Brooklyn
would go on strike, but no credence can be
put in the rumors.
The saloons throughout Brooklyn were
kept tightly closed to-day, in obedience to
a special order issued by Mayor Schieren
and a threat made by Superintendent of
Police Campbell 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 had re-
ceived more than 300 applications from men
claiming to be efficient motormen and con-
ductors for positions. Many of the men
now on strike are represented as applying
for reinstatement. President Norton of
the Atlantic avenue road directed things
by telephone from his home.
$50 far as the Atlantic-avenue road is
concerned" said Chief Clerk Kennedy,
the strike is over. We have more appli-
cants for work than we have positions. At
least 100 cars are out to-day and our Sun
day schedule only calls for that number
out of 1907
elbow about the linemen2' was asked.
ave have all we need. The power-house
men are not going ont. That l can say
positively; and no wires are being cut"
Ex-Committeemen Giblin and Best went
to Philadelphia to-day to confer with
Grand Master Workman Sovereign. AT
the strikers headquarters it was admitted
that these representatives were on an i'm
portant mission, but the exact nature of it
the strike leaders refused to divulge The
report, however, that they had in view the
calling out of the entire Knights of Labor
in Brooklyn gained considerable credence.
Master Workman Connolly said the report
that he intended to call off the strike was
untrue in every respect.
"The companies" he said, shave not by
any means all the men they want or need.
They are badly crippled, for all the men
now in their employ would not be sufficient
to operate the roads in the manner they
were operated before the strike.'
Mr.. Connolly also said that it was not
true that the men in the power-houses
were to be called out
Early this morning Company G of the
Seventh Regiment was obliged to dispense
a crowd of 500 persons. Thomas McCrary,
striking motorman, was discovered plac-
ing stones on the track. A crowd gathered
and jeered at the officers. McCrary was
arrested in spite of their protests.
Moses Brown, special policeman, was
terribly beaten and his shield and club
taken away from him by a mob in saloon
which the officers entered this afternoon.
Brown had been drinking during the day
and was abusive.
The members of the Seventh Regiment,
stationed at New York, are calculating on
receiving orders at 10 o'clock tomorrow to
return home. They base this anticipation
on the fact that rations for but two more
col c Hpliuorad To