The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-22
INCIDENTS OF THE DAY.
Relief for Strfkers-Many Cars Run
with New Men.

BROOKLYN, n. Y, Jan 21.-The depot
OF the Third-avenue railroad, at Third ave-
nue. and Fifty-sixth street garrisoned
to-day by Companies +, G and X, of the
Twenty-third Regiment. Captain Thorne.
of Company F. was in command. The de-
tachment numbered $50 men. Companies H
and / were quartered in the power house
at Second avenue and Fifty-second street.
The strikers, to the number of a couple of
hundred, held continuous meeting at their
headquarters in the Pequod Club, Third
avenue and Fifty-fifth street. A commit
tee of citizens appointed last night waited
on all the storekeepers in the vicinity to
ask for donations for the strikers. At
o'clock this evening $3.50 in cash had been
subscribed, besides barrels of potatoes,
sacks of flour, tea, coffee, bread, toma toes,
meat and all kinds of groceries. The Pc
quod Club resembled large grocery store.
and the citizens committee was kept busily
engaged distributing the supplies to the
men and their families. The men claim
they are in a position to hold out for six
months.
Before daybreak this morning the over
head wire on the downtown track was cut
Repair wagons came on the scene at
o'clock in the afternoon, and after
hours work the wire was put in working
order. 1t was announced at 4 o'clock that
no effort to make a trip would be made
tonight.
Riotng had been expected at the stables
of the Atlantc-ayenue road at Fourth ave-
nue. and Twenty-fourth street, but quiet
prevailed during the day. The scene pre-
sented a more animated appearance than
that at the Third-avenue depot. as large
crowd was in evidence during the day, but
no disturbance took place. The company
ran twenty-eight cars, the service being
considered fair. In addition to the 230 mil
of police, under command Of Captain Clay
ton and kenney. A dense fog set in dur
ing the afternoon, and at s O'Clock it was
announced that no cars would be after
o'clock till Tomorrow morning.
Elmer p. Vandyke, aged twenty-four
years, member of the Sixteenth Regiment,
fell from the second story of the Thirteenth
Regiment armory at Flatbush avenue to
the roof of the Long Island railroad depot
this evening and suffered compound frac-
ture of the skull
East New York was quiet all day 1t had
put on military appearance by the addi-
ton of a battery of artillery to the infan-
try forces stationed at the Alabama-avenue
depot of the Fulton-avenue railroad and
old inhabitants were put in mind of the
time when a. recruiting camp was sta
toned there about thirty years ago.
NEW MEN AT WORK
Everything seemed quiet on Sunday night,
and the only evidence of disorder noticed in
the morning the cutting OF the trolley
wires on both Fulton street and Broadway,
near the Manhattan railway crossing
These were repaired before 10 o'clock, and
fifteen minutes later the first street cars
were sent down toward Fulton ferry. They
found no obstruction in the way, ana
though they occupied somewhat more than
the schedule time, continued making reg
ular trips up. to half past o'clock in the
afternoon. New men were received at in
tervals during the day, the largest number
arriving at 12:15 p two cars the
ond nineteen men. Men sufficient it was
first thought to man twenty cars. On ex-
amining them however. it was found that
there was g. surplus Of conductors. The
superintendent thereupon telephoned to the
main office for ten additional motormen
which enabled him. during the afternoon,
to put thirty cars the line. This required
the withdrawal from the avenue and the
streets near the depot of the policemen
stationed there in order to place two men
on each car, and Captain Gorlan called for
reinforcements, which he received from
the fifth and nineteenth precincts. Cant.
Lewis Wendel's First Battery of the Ma
tional Guard, escorted by two companies
command of Captain Rhoads, arrived and
relieved Major Quick and his battalion Of
uars tne forty-seyentn IN regiment; The maneu-
quickly executed, and when completed the
posture. was quite warlike. Four cannon
were planted SO as to rake every avenue
of approach to the depot. The crowd was
kept back two blocks by the mounted po-
ularity, of their duties until night ap-
preached, when a large fire was kindled in
the square, and precautions were doubled
TO prevent any surprise or any stone-
throwing from the neighboring houses or
from the elevated road. which crossed the
The officials OF the Brooklyn, Queens
County and Suburban railroad informed
Gapaa Cap ha taa rIy e. s3on tSv ,s he men
out @ and sent down Fulton avenue n Dasuar a. far
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