Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-23
SHOP ID KILL.
Two Mn Fell After q NoIley
 From the Militia.
THE SITUATION IS SERIOUS.
The Third Brigade Held In Readiness
 by Governor Morton.

Miles of Trolley Wires Have Been Cut. and
 the LinGmcn Have Been Ordered Out,
 So the Prospect of Running Cars on the
 Tied Up Roads Is Not AssurinE-Raid
 Made on Strikers In Their Hall and Two
 Hundred Kept Prisoners For Awhile.
 Is Needed. but 300 New Policemen Will
 Go on Duty Today--Men Coming From
 Other Cities to Take the Strikers Places.
 BROOKLYN, Jan. 23-The first fatal shooting of the great StrillC took place late last night, when in an encounter with a few boys at the Halscy Street station of the Brooklyn City Railway company D volley was fired by the militia. Henry Aims of Now York city was fatally shot, q musket ball entering at his mouth and passing through his head Another man, whose name is Richard Mitchell, was wounded in the arm. Tho shooting had the instant effect of disperSing tho mob
 Tho ninth day of the tieup closed with out bringing material change to the situ- ation. It was n day of alarming rumors which fortunately proved to have slight or no foundation There were between day break and nightfall numerous brushes be. tween the police and militia on one sido and the strikers or headstrong, law defy ing sympathizers with their cause on the other.
 The linemen's strike, which was to have tied up the trolley lines more effectually than had been done by the strike of mo- tormen, conductors and other employees. was called off before it was fairly on, and later in the day the mandate of Master Workman Connolly was promulgated calling upon the linemen 10 abandon their situations.
 What influenced the strike manager tO call tho linomen $ strike off thus quickly and then to order it on again cannot now he told. The reason assigned for the lat ter act is palpahly but pretext The eff feet of this move which the strikers have compared to the playing of a high trump card. remains to be demonstrated. Tho developments of the day wcro not reassuring as q whole In spite of the fact that there are under arms in the city 5000 of the state soldicry and that 1, 800 police men are on duty, intramural traffic is suffering a virtual paralysis, in which all the industries of the city participate to a grt ater or lesser degree. Lawlessncss is rampant and altogether conditions are such as may we'll excite the gravest appre- hension.
 The disorderly element in the city has been largely recruited from New York and other cities, and has, as is usual in such cas, arrayod itself with the strik> CTS. n selfish advocacy of whose cause may afford a pretext for the pcrpctration of graver crimes than have yet marked the progress of the pending contest.
 Wants Nh More Militia
 Governor Morton has evidently become restiVe over the failure to restore order Ii was by his direction that Adjutant Gen eral McAlpin came hero from Albany to take close look at tho field of conflict General McAlpiu has returned tO Albany and will report to tho governor that Mayor : Schieren expresses confidence :n his abil- ity. with the police force and national guardsmen at present available to enforce the law
 ! That was the purport "f tho mayor re i Sponsc to the offer of tho adjutant general | to order to this city the Third brigade of : the New York state national guard, com 1 posed of companies in the smaller cities 0f 1 the state. Though the prOffcr was de 1 clined with thanks, the members of the several commands are under marching or 1 dcrS and can be concentrated in Brooklyn ! within a comparatively few hours should an emergency arise.
 i The police force is being recruited to the l utmost possible limit. The available list i of applicants was exhausted, and it was 1 determined to swear in for SpeCial duty | 800 applicants who had failed in the civil service examination. Thoso mon will be ! assigned to patrol duty, making an equal 1 number of eXpcricn ced men available fer 1 the protection of street railway property 1 and the suppression of street riots. The 1 members of the police boat squad have been ordered to duty on shore, which, 1 while it wcakCns the city at ono point, strengthens it at another.
 The operating of street railway lines has been in n measure experimental It has not been wholly satisfactory to the city and military authorities, nor has it in even comparative degree met the requirement. of tho public The admission was made | by the superintendent of one line who was l asked by the authorities to explain why, l with all the protection that had been ac corded, with two policemen to accompany every car and with soldiers to guard the power stations and carhOuseS, so few car. had been run, that the company was crip pied by tho lack of men capable of manag ing car. The inference from this ad, mission might be that the companies are waiting until experienced men can be
 
 schOoled to their duties.
 Street Car Companies at Fault.
 At all events, therr is strong feoling ir official circles that the street railway cor pOrations have not krp' faith for they have alleged from the first that if guaran
 ed protection for their property and fol the persons of their operatives they couiI operate all the cars upon all their lines
 On the other hand the managers e trolley lines may allcgc, with all fairness that the protection they have received i far from complete
 1 It has not prevented the frequent cut ting of wires or the stoning of cars as tho were making thoir runs It has not bee such protection, it might be urged, as in spires would he patrons with tho conf dence that they may safely travel to an fro in street railway cars. And right her the public might put in word to the ct feet that 1t is not conducive to menta tranquility on the part of those cOmpcllc to ride in trolley cars to reflect that bC tween noon and o'clock last night ther were no less than seven collisions of car with vehicles of one kind or other.
 Cars have been moved upon several line not hitherto operated since the strike wa begun. and 10 that extent there has bee progress toward a solution of the contrC versy that is vexing the public end paralya ing tho industries of a city of I. .000 900 iI habitants All branches of trade feel tn effects of the ticup The dry goods an department stores admit that their trad the last eight days has been 30 to 50 DO cent less than they had a right to expect would be- and one serious consequence is large reduction in the number of salespcG pie they were employing.
 The theatcrs are reported to Do takin in $5, GOO less each night during the COT tinuance of the strike than they would b receiving under normal conditions Eve the saloons complain of diminution trade
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