The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-01-21
MILITARY PROTECTION.
Twelve Thousand Troops Under
/ Arms at Brooklyn.
no SIGNS OF COMPROMISE NOW.

The Strikers Demand the Reinstatement
' of All who Have Gone out, but This
\ Demand the Omoials of the Company
! Decline to Accede To.
BROOKLYN, n. Y, Jan. 21.-Every eff
Bort TO settle the strike of the trolley oper-
/ ives has ,en without satisfactory re-
Euits. The strikers, through their execu-
hive committee have made concession
hfter concession, and the only point upon
(which they stood out was that the COM
f,nies should re-employ all their old men.
his was fatty refused by the presidents
bf the oompanies at the conference with
Mayor Schiren yesterday afternoon at
(which were present Messrs. Connolly, Best
hnd Giblin, of the strikers executive com
mttee, and Presidents Lewis, Norton and
Wicker, of the Brooklyn Heights, Atlantlc
and Brooklyn and Queens County systems
of trolley cars, respectively President
Lewis made 1t a point that he Is In honor
bound to retain the men he has employed
eince the strike began. This the strikers
will not accede to.
Yesterday was day OF great disorder.
[The city is virtually under military rule.
Streets are blocked against pedestrians by
Soldiers, and anyone who stops TO argue the
point is told to walk around the BLOCK,
and a glistening bayonet is held within
two inches of his face, Thousands OF curl
bus citizens hocked to the scenes OF the
riot and helped to swell the crowds that
gathered to do mischief. The green hands
had some rough experiences all through
hhe day, and breakdown of any kind was
the signal for the formation of savage
mob and for the rapid demolition of all
the glass work in the car. On the Court
street and Fifth avenue lines fully half the
cars are in a very dilapidated condition.
The various mobs that gathered at the
car stables and all those along the tracks
Iof the tied up lines contained $4,000 people.
| pThe switches were broken and obstacles
heaped op the tracks; wires were cut at
various points, and on the whole the day
was full of petty annoyances for the rail
road companies. Motormen abandoned
their cars at various points, and in some
Instances left the city as soon as they pos
sibly could, so serious did the situation
seem. Blood was split in quantities, but
no one was seriously injured.
At noon a detail of sixty men from each
of the companies of the Fourteenth regi-
hment under command of Captain W. l..
| Garcia relieved the first battalion of the
Thirteenth regiment, Major Cochran, and
after the guard was posted, preparations
| were made for starting the cars. Twenty
two motormen were reported as ready to
| start, but only ten cars were sent out, The
ground in the immediate vicinity was
quickly cleared, a small detail working the
| crowd back to the eastward, and a couple
of mounted police working them into the
opposition direction. The little force sue
ceeded admirably, which showed that but
few belligerents were present.
| At :45 D. m. ten cars We're ready, and as
the clock struck both civic and military
forces made the move. A car rolled out OF
THE shed and was switched on the track
leading down to Fulton ferry. 1t was sur
rounded by twelve guards under Lieuten
ant Little of Company E, Fourteenth
regiment, and preceded by Sergeant Rein
els and six mounted policemen began iti
tourney. Captains German and Ennis
with hundred patrolmen followed. The
military halted in their picket line, anG
the police accompanied it down the ave
nue.. The other nine cars followed at in
tervals of few minutes.
All went we'll for thirty minutes, wheI
the police reserves were seen to halt. A
detachment was then sent ahead in thC
patrol wagon at full speed. The mob hat
taken possession of the building in from
of row of brick buildings under con
struction and hurled it over both tracks
, There were many women and children il
this mob, and a scene of turbulence wa!
enacted, lasting long time, after the OBJ
stacles were removed, as the strikers il
the meanwhile had succeeded in securing
the desertion of four motormen.
A second block occurred near SaratOo,
, avenue and the cars were ordered back tt
the stable all reaching East New York il
a somewhat battered condition, with tn
exception of one, the latter being takel
back by a striker, who had big placart
on his breast bearing the inscription "K
of L." He was cheered all along the line
At o'clock several shots were fired at
car at Fifth avenue and Twentieth streets
! the bullets passing through the window
, and imbedding themselves in the wood
work. No arrests were made.
Mayor Schiren last evening issued
proclamation requiring ''all person
within the limits of the city to refrai
from unnecessary assembling in th
streets, squares or in public places of tn
city during the present disturbed cond
) ton"
At . p. m. there was great excitemen
on Broadway in the eastern district be
tween Moor and Flushing avenue A Sun
ner avenue car was attacked by a mol
, and Captain French, of the Nineteent
precinct was struck in the face with
brick thrown by some one in the crowd
The police are of the opinion that tn
brick was not intended for Captain French
and that the missile was not thrown b.
one Of the strikers, but by one of the sym
pathizers.
None of the cars on the lines where tn
strike is in force were run after o'clool
last night in response to the request Of tn
police authorities. 1t was feared that al
outbreak might possibly occur in East Ne,
{ York, where the mob and the militar
clashed Saturday night Reinforcement
were sent there yesterday, and it was rC
ported that the First brigade of the N. G
! S. N. Y. had been ordered to report at tn
armories in New York, equipped for fiel
duty. At the military headquarters in th
hall Of records here nothing was known c
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