New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-21
erprvrps RETURN DESERTED CARS.

cprrS NOrORMEN AND CONDUCTORS LEI HELM
posrs AND OLD EMPLOYEES TOOK THE CARS
p.cE TO THE sTABLEs-A SMALL
FIGHT IN MYRTLE-AvE.
,,o >vr,,e-ave line was one that the companies
.-,.a 20 open yesterday. Early IN the aiter-
noon a guarded by ponce hdu ,N,. =, noo,or
ct when II became stalled from lack OF pow,
:, houI,ng mob led by Andrew Londel. OF NO L.
c.,ds-st quickly surrounded the car, on the pat
form of which policeman haneu Mains
ton OF the First Precinct. and non-uh'oh "o'o'
~ The policeman warned Londel TO keep away.
ondeI hit the officer in the face. knocking MI"
doun Harrington whistled for help. and as soon
"a II came Londel was overpowered and taken 10
,he First Precinct station The car shortly after
ward went on its way
About the middle Of the afternoon. on the N.Y.
t,e.ave line the strikers induced the motormen
ord conductors Of nine cars all In one string 10
desert their cars near Nostrand-ave. District Su-
perintendent Smith was sent for and recoghzed III
the crowd that soon congregated huihoei vi
former employees. with nearly all OF whoH ne ~
popular He made the crowd a little speech, say
ing that he helpless. and asked for voiun-
,eers from the strikers the cars back 10 the
carhouses. In less time than two minutes strikers
were in charge OF the cars. and great shout went
I'D as the procession OF cars started Nheh 'he
cars were run into the carhouse there were a num-
her of ron-union men present The strikers IN
duced the non-union men to go with them. All
repaired TO a nearby hall and made merry. One
of the new conductors told the strikers that the
company was paying all the men that could be
engaged SO a day. and that conductors had 81 In
change on starting out on their trips
The motorman of Putnam-ave. car that left
the bridge at II O'Clock in the forenoon. had In
structons to take the car to the'carhouse at fui-
ton-st. and Tompkins-ave The motorman ana
conductor made mistaks ana run me car cra1
the car so far astray they closed In on II witn Il
rush. The motorman and conductor He'd Tor thclI
Roach II they could run the car BACK TO wheTe II
strikers wore big * OF L." badges on their
breasts. AS the car. escorted by several hundred
In Charge OF detachment of the 18th Regiment
guarding the premises. drew his men up ID nm and
Roach told the Major the situation, and the
strikers ran the car into the carnonse anna tne
well-known and influential citizens of that locality:
handled by mounted policeman 40. l5i. on Nos
trand-ave., yesterday afternoon lie was MT on
The affair w nne Witnessed by Alfred Gelman Of
NO. 14o Clifton Place. and James Wallace, OF NO
Ayoy: who says that he did nothing that would
war ran the attack made upon him McAvoy says
lay his case before Police Commissioner Welles.
stalled &c aSn Sy sfee conr at
%ssae eeea large crowd Of strikers @
stones Policeman Ryan who was on the front
platform was struck The crowd grew larger and
the Third. EleNentn ana Fifteenth precincts
sent 10 the scene Immediately. They cleared out
the whole OF Hamilton-aye, from smith 10 Court
ct, and the disabled car into the stables at
BUSIEST.
The wires OF the Fulton-s road were cut at
Stone-ave before daylight yesterday morning and
at O'Clock wires on the same route at Sackman-
st., were found severed and suffering on the
tracks TIE repair wagons patched up both the
breaks without serious difficulty
WILD RUMORS AT HOTELS AND CLUBS
EXAGGERATED STORIES OF THE ALABAMA-AvE.
FIGHT-srRIKERs SAY THE ACTION OF THE
MILITIA WAS UNwARRANTED.
The news OF the pitched battle between the strik-
ers and the Guardsmen, which took place on Sat
urday night at the Alabama-ave. station OF the
brooklyn City Railway spread with great rapidly
through Trolley Town" AS the rumors flew they
grew. and they carried wild CONSERVATION into the
homes OF those whose brothers and fathers and
sweethearts were out in uniform. At midnight IL
was announced in OF the big hotels that seven
men had been killed In the first charge made by
Company on the mob, and that the loss OF life
during the succeeding six onslaugh,s had not been
estimated. At the clubs and other hotels the same
Wild rumors were prevalent. and 1T was with the
greatest difficulty that anything like correct re-
port could he fair