New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-18

were made by the police
There were lively scenes around the car-shops
ana headquarters Of the railroad at Halsey-st
ana broadway, and for several blocks awav
Large crowds were massed in Broadway at the
head OF Halsey-st and ali sides Of the car
SHOPS Another big crowd gathered at Halsey-
ST. ana Ralph-ave- about five blocks down the
line. and the police We're numerically too weak
TO disperse II. The cC,npany's attempt to run
cars was anything except success 1t can also
he said that the strikers themselves took little
or no part in the disturbances and only a few
OF them were arrested.
The company did not attempt to start any Of
its cars until late in the day.
POLICE EARLY on HAND.
The police Were early hand under the
personal supervision Of Inspector McKelvey
Forty-eight under Captain Dunn and Ser
geants Williams. Withers and Barr were de-
tailed around the car-shops. and also ten men
from the Seventeenth Precinct under Sergeant
Rooney. and twelve mounted men. under Ser
geant Harmer. OF the mounted squad. Captain
Short, of the Fifth Precinct. was also present.
The Halsey-st. and Putnam-ave. line Is four
and quarter miles long 1t begins at Fulton
Ferry and runs up Fulton-st. to Putnam-ave to
Nostrand-ave, and then TO Hasey-st., to Broad
way. Every block along the entire line was
patrolled on each side of the streets by two
more policemen. while mounted Police and patrol
wagons were constantly passing up and down.
The first car which the company started over
the line went from downtown. 1t was Flat
bush-ave with a sign. United States Mail"
on it, 1t carried no mailbags. however, but a
load Of newly engaged employees. who taken
to the carshops. This car. with the
crouched on the floor. run into the carshops
at Halsey-st. and Broadway.
At 12:4o the first car from the shops sent
down the line. 1t escorted by several
mounted police. but before it had gone half
a dozen blocks II stoned Several more cars
followed at intervals. but no determined effort
TO stop them was made until the twelfth car. No.
1884. in charge Of Conductor Stead. sent out.
1t had gone only a short distance when II looked
as If it had passed through a cyclone Several OF
the windows were stove in and its sides and
woodwork had dents which no paint will ever
conceal Broken glass covered the seats. while
stones and bricks were strewn the floor.
Only one passenger was in the first car assaicd
and he quickly got out when the stones began To
fly through the windows. Nearly all the stoning
of the cars and the rioting took place near the
carshops.
A FEW ARRESTS.
James Kelly. aged thirty-seven. Of No. Nc
Douga-st.. arrested in the act of stonng "A
car in Halsey-s;.. and locked up.
At 1:25 p. m. Charles Fitzsimmons
rested for throwing rock at Policeman Young.
His pockets filled with stones.
Philip Cody. twenty-three years old. OF No.
1868 Broadway. was arrested by Police Sergeant
Stacum. He was among the rioters VINO at
tackled a car In Halsey-st. between Nostrand
and Marcy ayes.
was arrested for stonng car near the car
stables.
John Flanagan. aged twenty-one. OF No. 800
Jefferson-ave.. former conductor OF the Haisey
ST. line. and Michael Calan. thrty-one, OF No.
1855 Broadway. also former conductor. were
arrested by Policemen Landman and Lelder.
They boarded a car in Halsey-st between Nos
trand and Marcy aves.. and struck Conductor
John Fox the head with club INJECTING a
bad wound They were hustled away In patrol
wagon. and the injured man was escorted by
the police to his home.
Frank Cunningham. thirty years old. OF No.
1877 Madison-st was arrested FOR throwing stones,
and James Malone was also taken into custody
for assaulting John Taylor foreman OF the Brook
Ign City Railroad Company's motor shop. Taylor
had a bad cut over the eye, and was covered
with blood.
j. b. Foster. thirty-three OF No. 2i3 Hudson
ave. a conductor on Halsey-st car. was
struck on the head by rock and received
severe wound. Several other Inotormen and con-
ductors received slight injuries
Early In the morning Charles Buckley. a
rnotorman on the Flat bush ave line was leaving
his home No 637 Halsey-st. with his father.
to go 10 his work. he was set upon by crowd
Of strikers and badly hurt. He was taken home
There were only eighteen cars sent out by
the company all day making about one trip each
They stopped running at i:3O D. IN. There was
then an exciting time getting the motormen ana
conductors from the carshops to the elevated sta
ton. They were taken in police patrol wagons
to the Gates-ave station OF the Broadway ele-
waited road. Even the patrol wagons were stoned
The starting foreman. Hall. Of the Halsey-st
line, said the company would try 10 run nifty cars
to-day beginning at $50 a. m. As far as could be
yesterday. however the company had few
capable motormen
THE CAR ATTACKED.
An outbreak that for the time looked formid-
able occurred on the FIatbush ave. line a. 1:l5
y. m. near the reservoir bluff. car going
toward Flatbush was stopped by a crowd Of
strikers and hoodlums numbering about 200, who
surrounded it and begaa yelling. XIII the
scabs." Save your wives and children" There
only one policeman. Thomas Kelly. on the
car and he whistled for help Sergeant thinner
man, Of the Twenty-third Precinct, in charged OF
the mot nted squad, dashed to the rescue. AS
soon as they galloped up. the crowd broke and
retreated UP the bluff. firing a parting volley Of
chunks Of ice and frozen dirt at the car and the
police as they retreated The conductor and
rnotorman were 50 frightened that they were
with difficulty persuaded to remain on the car
A detail OF policemen took possession Of the blun
and drove the strikers away.
Another outbreak occurred on the F1atbush-
ave line at 2 O'Clock. resulting in the arrest OF
Martin Nolan. the driver or brewery wagon
FOR O'Keefe & Doyle. for obstructing the tracks.
Nolan is an outspoken sympathZer with the
strikers and showed II yesterday He backed two
wagons across tne car TRACK anu HOulu
not move when the car manned by green hands,
came along Three hundred strikers hemmed In
the wagons. crying Down with the scabs'
Sc rgeant Healy, in command or the fighth Pre-
cInct mounted squad. responded to the call for
bain and dispersed the strikers and their SYM
pa nrnwd ~ men next rushed upon the plat
form of car No. LIZA and tried to throw Conduc-
tor plenshow over the dashboard. but he was
aororeiIed IN go TO the assistance Of his brother
oFicer ON the front platform, who was protecting
the notorman from similar attack Mean
while Plenshow was again attacked ana Knocked
dnun and kicked He was again rescued by other
oaicers who had arrived. and who drove the
crowd back to the sidewalk. when the car pro-
~.O,a1 -, tie uav without further interruption.