The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-23
A NEW WEAPON.
Strikers Throw Red Pepper in
the Soldiers Eyes.
Merchants Solicit Contributions
for Strikers.
PL AY ING w AR
That is What They Are Doing
at Brooklyn.
There is Little Change in the
Situation Today.

BROOKLYN, n. Y. Jan. 23.-This is the
tenth big day of the strike and still the
result hangs in the balance. The rail
road companies can operate their lines
so far as the mechanical arrangements
go, but up to the present time they have
secured only about 400 new men to take
the places of the strikers. 1t is costing
them a large amount of money to do
this and they have TO pay the eXpe nses
of the men to Brooklyn and offer enorm-
GUS sums of money to held them here
They are coerced into leaving the city
and the conductors after they have col
lected days car fare are often pulled
from their cars and robbed of
every cent of the company's
money which they have collected.
The men who came to Brooklyn at the
compauy's expense. and are induced by
the strikers not to work, are lionized.
They are fed and filled with whisky. and
when they are. full they join the ranks
of the mobs, and are really the most bois
ferrous of the disturbers. When they find
out the true condition of aft lir5 here
for the companies recruiting sergeants
are not as honest and explicit in their
statements as they might be sometimes
| they go to the Offices of the railroad com
pauies and demand their expenses back
to the cities whence they came, and this
! is never denied them.
Some of the men have come on here
| from places as far distant as Buffalo,
Chicago and Cincinnati. Despite the
assurances of Mayor Schieren that the
military force in Brooklyn is sufficient to
do all that is required of it, it is believed
that he has made d request that addi-
tional troops be held in readiness for an
| emergency.
| Every part of the city where the troll
! ley cars run is patrOlled by the militia
They are everywhere massed in large
numbers within five minutes notice of an
outbreak. The police are thus enabled
to attend to their proper duties.
Still Cutting Wires.
In every quarter of the city wires were
cut during the night and the stables and
power houses of the companies were sub
jected to desultory bombardment of
| stones
Yesterdays History Repeated.
Excitement was begun at Fiftieth
street and Third avenue at 9:20, when
wagon load of about dozen non union
men arrived there in charge of troop A,
of New York, under command of Lieut.
Bagley. About mile below the depot
on Third avenue, large trunk of tree
was taken from the track. At Fifty first
street aud Third avenue, the strikers
Headquarters, d lot of stones were thrown
at the troopers and the wagon. The
troopers charged the mob and drove
them back into their headquarters and
down the side streets.
Until o'clock this morning the num-
ber of cars in operation was about one
half Of that Of yesterday.
Rioters had a run in with the militia
at Fifth avenue and Twenty yfourth
street and one of the militia men got IL
black eye. The rioters numbered only
about fifty One hit militia man in the
face with brass knuckles.
A New Weapon.
Red pepper is freely used by the riot
ers and many of the police and soldiers
are suffering from sore eyes. The stuff
in thin paper is hurled at the soldiers,
| and if it breaks anywhere around the
: head the militia man suffers great pain
! for a while. Fortunately most of these
parcels have missed their mark, but the
soldiers dread them more than bullets.
The wires are in a worse condition to-
J day than they have yet been during the
1 strike There seems to be no means oi
, detecting the men in the act of cutting
, the wires.
The first car that has run over tbs
: Myrtle avenue line since the strike began
3 ten days ago was started at9 o'clock. The
a railroad company has been hiring new
men for several days and housing them
at Ridgewood. AT $3.50 squad of police
men escorted twenty-five of the new EN-
ployes to the car barns.
9 The fact cars would be started this
morning caused crowd to gather IN tht
o vicinity. As the new employees emerged
2. into the street they were greeted will
d derisive cries Major Abrams at once
8 ordered his men to charge, and a genera
d stampede followed, the crowd fleeing il
o all directions. 1t this iuncture two me-
made their appearance upon the trestl
= of the elevated road directly overhead
r They were in front of the locomotlv
n and their appearance was suspicious
j. "Come down off there" yelled Majo
Abrams.
ssCone Down. Til Shoot"
! "Oh, we're all right" came back th'
q answer from one of the men, while bot
q refused to stop.
- 'sCome down or I'll shoot" commands
= the major again, more sternly The me
- gave utterance to something the maio
ia could not understand, but refused
; bulge.
II give You fair warning. Come down
o. or I'll shoot"
e At the same time five of the major
"a men advanced with elevated musket
70 The command from the determined of
20 cer backed up by the action of his me
h had its effect, as the strangers fed bac
r upon the platform
Grand family matinee at The Bic