The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-01-23
BROOKLYN QUIETER
Cut in Many Places,
But Linemen All At
Work.
NUMEROUS CARS RUNNING
Assault on q Motorman = Wire
Cutters Caught-W Wounded
Man Dies.
NUMEROUS CARS RUNNING

BROOKLYN, Jan. %. 1S95.-Everything
was quiet at the car stables and power
houses of the trolley roads uD to nine
O'Clock this morning, but the police seem
to think there will be trouble before the
day IS over. 1t is evident that the au-
thorities are especially apprehensiYe Of
trouble at the Twenty-third street and
Fifth avenue barns of the Atlantic Ave
nue. Railroad Company today, and addi-
tional police are being sent to that point.
Last night one hundred policemen and
militia companies E. 1, H, C, D and B,
of the Thirteenth Regiment and Company
B, of the Twenty-t y-third<Regiment, slept in
the cars at this barn. Cars are running
on majority of the roads this morn
ing, but the companies are greatly ham
pered by the extensive wire cutting
which the strikers indulged in during the
night 1t was intended to start cars on
the Third avenue line this morning, and
75 non-union motormen and conductors
were on hand ready TO take out the
cars, but the wires were found to have
been cut at several points along the line
of the road. The wires on the Bergen
street line were cut in one or two places
At Troy avenue, between Herkimer and
Fulton streets, the wires were badly
mutilated, and the large cable or feed
wire running through Halsey street and
Nostrand avenue is broken The Brook
1yn Heights Railroad Company deny that
their linemen have struck, and claim
that they are all at work this morning
repairing the gaps made in their trolley
wires by the strikers over night.
ONE SCOUNDREL CAUGHT.
Burnett O. Connor, twenty-seven years
of age, of No 23S South Ninth street,
was arrested early this morning for cut
ting wires at Third avenue and Fifty
second street.
George Mcvey, twenty-seven years of
age, of No. 1881 Gates avenue, was ar
rested at 2:3O o'cock this morning,
charged with attempting to cut trolley
wires at Gates and Hamburger avenues.
He had thirty-five feet Of rope in his
possession.
The militia are p:cketed along the
Ralph avenue line this morning, and a
number of workmen under guard OF
squad of soldiers are cleaning the tracks
of the distractions which were placed
there by strikers during the night. They
mainly consist of stones, timber and
building material taken from unfinished
buildings in the vicinity of the line.
TEN MINUTES HEADWAY.
The first car on the Seventh avenue
line started out at six O'Clock this morn
inc. The cars were run on ten minutes
headway early in the morning, but later
on the cars were run every fiye min
utes. Sixty policemen, in addition to the
militia, are guarding the depot at this
point. The non-union men employed on
the above line slept in the cars and in
the barns of the company last night.
A commissary department has been or
ganized by the company, and men ate
their breakfast in the company's barns
this morning.
nue. and also on the Fifteenth street lines
at about 1880 o'clock, and, as far as
heard from, the cars were not interfered
with.
Shortly before nine o'clock fifty non
union men were brought to the Myrtle
avenue depot, as it was intended to run
cars on this line today. When the men
began to hoot and jeer at them. Com
pany G of the Seventh Regiment, sta
toned at the depot, charged the crowd
and dispersed them without trouble.
The Myrtle avenue line was opened
up about nine O'Clock this morning.
Three policemen guarded each car, and
soldiers were stationed at all cross
streets for distance of thirty blocks
from the depot. Every window was or
dered to be kept closed. and no one was
allowed to stand in the street. The ear
went on it's way down town without
molestation.
HOW ABOUT THE LINEMEN?
At ten o'clock it is reported that the
lnemen have refused to repair the wires
on the Gates avenue line. Superintend-
ent Goodwin of the railroad says they
have struck. Master Workman Connolly
denies that he has ordered the hnemen
strike, and says that he has given no
orders to that effect.
A report comes from the depot at
Third avenue and Fifty-eighth street, at
ten o'clock, which says that the crowd
of rioters gathered in front of the de-
ed to do so. The cavalry were ordered
to charge them and they fled in all di-
rections.
The Hicks street line started cars over
in ten days. When the first car had
reached Fulton street the windows had
been broken by missiles thrown at it.
Neither the motcrman or conductor were
down town all right. The first car for
the day over the Gates avenue line
passed down Myrtle avenue at nine
o'clock. The running of Gates avenue
ears on the Myrtle avenue line was neces-
STATED by the cutting of wires on the
Gates ayeue line.
RIOT AT FIFTY EIGHTH STREET.
Twenty cavalry1nen of Troop A charged
a crowd of rioters with drawn swords
at Fifty-eighth street and Third avenue
at nine O'clock this morning. Twenty
men of Troop A were detailed to escort
fifty non-union men who were sent in a
car to repair damages ard remove OBJ
structions from the Third avenue line,
which was to 5e cpS-.,G t-..s morning.
Stones were thrown at the car by a
crowd of strikers and their sympathizers
at Fifty-fifth street. The troopers rode
the people off the pavement and follow
ed them on the sidewalks. The cavalry
men struck right ard left with sheathed
swords and the crowd scattered. In a
few minutes the crowd gathered again
This time the charge was ma e with
drawn swords. and the rioters fed from
the vicinity,
tons at 6:54 o'clock, and by eight O'clock
rine cars had been sent over the road.
Three cars had been sent over the Sec
ond street line by eight o'clock The
first car to leave the car stables on
that line started out at 7:S0 o'clock. Cars
are being run out today on the Sum-
ner avenue line.
Traffic on the Halsey street line s en-
tirely suspended this morning. The strik-
ers did such effective wire cutting dur
ing the night that the company found
itself absolutely powerless to start it's
cars.
MOTORMANs ASSAULTED.
Among the incidents of the early morn
ing was an assault on non-union motor
man by a number of str kers on his
way to work. He was badly cut about
the head and neck. His Assailants es-
capped. Henry Weiant private, in Com
pany K, Twelfth Regiment drSpps d