St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-22

broken.
At the HaIsey street depot
car was pelted with stones and sticks.
the windows broken and the woodwork
smashed. The two police guards fired
their pistols into the crowd, which dis
perSed. Whether or not any one was
struck is not known. Under such con-
ditions it was deemed advisable to
abandon for the night attempts to run
cars OH any of the tied-up lines, and by
4 80 o'clock all the cars were housed.
Men TO take the places of the strikers
are being engaged in other cities and
from the unemployed OF Brooklyn. One
hundred new men were received at the
Ridgewood car house OF the Brooklyn
Heights company today, and smaller
numbers of men were received at other
depots The hiring of inexperienced
men has given the strikers and their
SympathiZers an argument which Is
being used to influence public opinion,
as is shown by the proceedings in the
board of aldermen and board of super
viSors already mentioned. With all the
companies have been able to do, only
small fraction of lines, perhaps not
more than one in six, have been oper-
ated at ALL and on those which have
been nominally i'll operation the last
few days not more than half the usual
number Of cars have been run.
Einemcn to Strike.
The ranks Of the strikers Will prob
ably be recruited tomorrow by the line
men, who until now have remained IN
the employ of the company. They
number about 600 and may be classed as
experts. Their sympathies have been
with the strikers throughout. They
have thus far responded 10 all calls to
repair wires cut by the strikers or their
allies. Now, h0wrver, they say that 1t
is evident that the company is waglng
a merciless warfare upon those who
went out last Monday, and they profess
to fear that some day their turn may
come to suffer for what they call capt.
talistic oppression. They have let it
be understood that tomorrow they will
not 90 ont to repair cut lines. even at
the risk or dismissal. They will not
strike, they say; they will merely ie-
fuse to perform the work required Of
them and put upon the companies the
oEus of diScharging them.
The attitude of the civil authorities is
a factor of considerable Importance.
Mayor Schieren has consistently used
all the powers of his office for the
maintenance Of order. By his direc-
tion the police force has been practi>
calIy at the disposal OF the street rail-
way companies for the last eight days.
The men have been called upon to DO
extra Cuty during all that time and the
arduousnesS of their service has told
severely upon them, considerable
number having been temporarily In
capacitated for duty. 1t has been
charged in some quarters that the police
have evnced too much tenderness for
the rioters. Police Commissioner
Wells has invited anyone that has evil
dence of this to lay proofs before him,
and he promises to make summary
work of any officer found to have been
derelict.
Hostile to the Companies.
In the board of aldermen this after
noon a resolution was introduced by
MIR. Cohen which proposes to oblige
corporations operating street railways
by electricity to employ as motormeD
only such persons as shall have passed
Il satisfactory examination as to their
qualifications. Aid. Guylfoile offered
resolution calling upon the state legis
lature to increase the license fee for
each street car from $50, as at present,
to 500. No action was taken upon
either Of these resolutions. The board
voted, with not one dissenting member,
in approval of memorial signed by
about sixty property owners, which
calls tor measures which shall compel
street railway companies to operate the
usual number Of cars upon their lines
or else request the attorney general to
bring proceedings for the annuinent of
their charters.
A resolution expressing sentiments
similar 10 those of the memorial was
unanimously adopted by the board of
supervisors. The executive committee
of the strikers was today called before
the meeting 10 tell the story or the
employment of incompetent motormen,
which, it is held, imperils the safety of
passengers, pedestrians and those driv-
ing upon the streets of the city. These
several official acts are, of course. calcu-
lated 10 give encouragement to the
strikers, whose champion, Maj. Nc
Nulty, not disheartened by the failure
of his move in the same direction last
week, made application to Judge Cullen
today for an order upon the street rail-
way companies to show cause why their
charters should not be forfeited for
failure to keep their severel lines i'll
operation. Maj. McNulty Is merchant
who alleges that his business suffers by
reason of the suspension of street rail-
way traffic.