The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-15
MUST NOT INQUEST THE CAR.
INSPECTOR M'KELTEY'S EXPLICIT
 ORDERS TO HIS CAPTAINS.

ORDERS TO HIS CAPTAINS.
 A Car Carrying Mail Will Leave the Post
 Office To-day For Flatbush and It Must
 Not Be Disturbed-Big Fight Last Night
 With Strikers.
 Brooklyn, Jan. 14.-A clash occurred at Iitih avenue and Twenty-th'rd street at 3'3O p. m. to-day. At that ront is the car-house of the Atlantic avenue The. President Norton ordered that a ar bearing the sign "Unitod
 States mall" be taken out and run ever the line. The motorman was qua 'ded by two pC Clicemen and the conductor " q sergeant. Surrounding the car house were 800 strikers. When the car l appeared they began hooting and mak- 1 ing th! eats. The car had proc 4eded about twenty yards when the strikers | closed in on it. The police were rem | forced by twenty-five other policemen statiol ed to keep order. They strCVe to | fight oft the strikers. When the strllS- l CTS saw that they could not get to the car the SC on the outskirts threw g. ones anG cubs. They disabled the car A la"ge stone struck Conductor Jackson ol the head, causing blood to flow fire e. | ly. Sc, Geant Powers then ordered that the car be taken back. By this time a small body of strikers had crowded be- | tween + and the car house. They were ar ed with clubs and the shower of | stcnes still continued. The police tr- | dered them back, but they refused to | obey. Some of the policemen drew td.ir pistols and Conductor Jackson | drew his.
 The strikers then retreated, clearing the way through which the car could be backed into the house. After the car | was safely housed the crowd closed on the entrance. No arrests were made. The large number of passengers com ing over the bridge tonight met with the same Inconvenience they encounter ed in the morning The crowd was all together too large for the number of trains provided on the Elevated. Some l of the people after paying their fares left the stations and started for their homes on foot A number of truckmen stationed themselves in front of the bridge entrance shortly after o'clock and shouted to persons coming from the bridge that they would carry them home for 20 cents. Some who lived in the upper part of Brooklyn availed themselves of the offer. At o'clock Inspector McKelvey notified several
 recincts that a mail car would leave the post office for Flatbush at 6;06 a. m. tomorrow and instructed the captains to have the men ready and to instruct them to watch the car closely and see that no' strikers in any way molested It.
 The police stationed in all the Court street cars to-day were Kept busy watching in all directions for missiles. One policeman while trying to prevent man from pulling one of the trolley poles from a car at Atlantic avenue and Court street was nearly mobbed by strikers. Several of his companions went to his aid and managed to beat off his assailants.
 Master Workman Connolly said to- night he was perfectly satisfied with the outlook, and that the company was as much to blame for the inconyenlence which the public suffered as were the strikers. The company brought the strike about by Licking out the men who applied for work Sunday night. lie said the strikers could hold out for few weeks at least None or them ap- neared q bit anxious or worried apout Inc outcome Connolly asserted that the trouble that occurred during the uay was not made by the strikers put py hot head sympathizers.
 Mr Connolly added that he alu ho+ think that the public would allow the railroad officers to import green men IIa to take the places of the strikers lie said it required little skill at times to run trolley car, and the people were not anxious to risk their lives by riding with new men, He also said that he intended to try to see that no violence was offered so that the railroad oIhcers could not trump up stories against the strikers. He said he felt sure the men would win.
 The tic up of all the street car lines had very perceptible effect upon the stopping districts in Fulton street, and dry goods stores were deserted. The | theaters, too, felt the strain.
 President Lewis of the Brooklyn City railway said this afternoons;
 "We have signed contracts with fifty | men to take the places of the strikers on the Heights road, We have long | line of men who want work, and just | as speedily as they can show their | ability to handle a motor they will be engaged. If the police will give us pro- tection we will soon run our cars"
 At the Flushring avenue car house a man was assaulted, MT. Lewis said, | because he' would not strike.
 HOwgate's Trial Postponed.