The sun., 1895-01-17

NE we DO ,p not care 70 d.eHss now We hope that
Secretary BoRardus said The company oc-
nnrst day oi ihIs dsht. Tho segticfSsn o. tSS
board OF Arbitration called on the officers and
position was stated plainly, The trouble Is al
rialt 70 regulate that" O,' ,,''-. - .,,s ,
Has IL agreed to conccde anything on this
There is nothing TO concede. II is plain
business proposition .9 whether or not tho COM
apsEtr r,-,.
| will the company give In on any polntf
has nobody e give In To-" a.. ,.
THE men who have been employed by this
company are to have permanent places; We
| themselves and no matter what comes VIC pro-
pose to keep keep our ayreement M with those men" (.
sumed that IL any proposition was made by the
company TO the Hoard OF Arbitration to be pre-.
| the men were accepted. and IL they would go n
| step further and agreo to the company's plan OF
for might return to work. From the talk of va
rious people IL was pretty plain that the conces-
the 81. George Hotel were First. as 10 the de-
mand for an increase of wages; second. as TO
| the contention about standing time. and third
as to reduction in the tripper proposition that
would permit the company to run one-third bird
insisted previously on one-quartcr trippers aud
three-quarters regulars.
:, President Norton's ONCE is at the corner of
| Third and Atlantic avenues. He was expecting
the Commission, when Mr.. Feeney sent word
that they they Were coming comm The &c conference lasted
iooked HId very grumpy when they & SHms ont Nor
:. MOI less" he taid. He wouldn't even con-
| sider any propositions that were made"
II was learned that at the conference the con-
cessions the men were willing to make were pre-;
what the Presde1t and drectoSs e OF i the Brook
lyn Heights Railroad had said. When the
| Commissioners that it didn't alter the situation
at ali. He had given his men until IL o'clock
come when he wanted them. and now, he didn't
want them II any, Of them came back as in.
dsduss they might be hired or they might
We dent want any concessions from coG our
no m Iseeys 20 af sons Shead
4 Thsrs 4 RoshPRs e sFSrse s
stance Of Mr. NSr.sns talk and M it. was l Why he the
had talked with his board Of Directors about
they arrived at he would not tell any one, except
the members of the Commission, and they kept
they went to the 81. George Hotel and met the
Executive Committee of the strikers and re-
It was stated that President Lewis had re;
fused absolutely to arbitrate anything, but had
dent Norton had refused to recede from
and and that ' President A Partrdso % had entsrtainsd
the propositi2Es OF the men and would be heard card
sn 1af slsS ssnse
nd President paTtrldge and labqr p With him him.
there
"eisls r. sS .. cSSs Sonsa It s,ys Tss
have made 70 sSncss;on he said but ot
tSem,s Mr.. Fteney said he thousht the men
Just when President Norton of the Atlantic
q his y nS ts
known: but he announced very early that he
would only try to open the Fifth avenue branch.
there would be sufficient number Of police,
Fifth avenue. where the trouble occurred Tues
day, TO enable the running of as many cars as
men to guard the depot and the cars as they
| were leaving 1t and coming in, the Commissioners
car car that Mr.. Norton @ wanted 70 '' run. - .'
For a long time before o'clock crowd was
Street. and it was expected that there would be
renewal OF Tmesday's trouble and perhaps 9
Goo persons around when
| Welles sent his reserves to arrange things for
II
were going about telling everybody that there
be mo no trouble; that t at The first sf OF
any trouble ut all would injure the cause OF the
strikers It wes probably this advice that made
marched ma along the street and ordered the crowd
TO disperse; The greater number went up side
from the stable. Inspector Mclaughlin, who was
mounted men. under the command OF sereeants
| Healey and Cole. TO act as escort. and q police
one one on the rear. Three Of the mounted men
rode in front and one on either side OF the car
blocks OF the Journey After that for the next
four or Ave blocks the men along the street oo-
Rana up y'ea Win 1e ohs
mounted escort left the car eight blocks from
Was sa4ted out This one they as
far as Seventeenth street. where the crowd
out and they went SSsn snd SSt q Ss
fore 1880 in the morning, ., l.,
Car 20; the first one which started. was In
charge OF Louis Martin, motnrman VINO came
from Newark. The ofiicals OF the company said
he was an experienced man. He got as far as
lfYeIy gait gait When 's' iraaE i driven sS Sy PatTicE
Madden started across the track. In moment
was was thrown on and hurt and the front Of the
car was smashed in. Martin Just escaped
who was on the front OF the car with him. was
thrown on and his right arm was bruised and
The .inotorman on one Of the cars was John
Gottschalk. He was one OF the former employees
OF the company and the only one who deserted
the strikers. he made up his mind e in the
his wife about u, He had made 1--WE two
trips to the ferry before she learned
wives Of some OF the strikers who called to see
| her about it. She started right on for the sta.
| bles. She learned that her husbands car had
| gone up the road and she walked up by the cem-
etery 10 meet IL. When it came along she stopped
| H. got ON and paid her fare. Just before Il
| reached the stable she opened the front door
| and began Ia plead with her husband TO quit.
| He said they had 10 have money 10 live and the
work was there and II was his business 10 take u;
| Come home with me. John, she sad. wen
| be true 10 the union IL we starve together
| But John didn't see IL that way. The police
man on the front Of the car was going TO hustle y,
| that quickly and made him leave her alone.
| She rode over the line with the car and renew
| cd her pleadings occasionally, but without sue
! cess When tile women OF the strikers families
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