The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-11-18
THE INJUNCTION PAPERS.


p. w. Gallagher. Notary Public.
THE INJUNcTION PAPERS.
The shades Of night were falling fast
when Deputy Sheriffs T. f. Price and
Frank Ryan reached the scene Of
trouble to serve the injunction papers.
With them on the car were General
Manager Frank Silliman. Assistant
Manager Herflicker. Division Dispatch
er Giles Schank Of the Traction Com
pany; Horace E. Hand, attorney for
the company, and seven employees, taxi
en- from the stranded street cars. As
the car, No. 202, rounded the curve on
the northern side of the obstruction
and came to standstill at the branch
tracks of the Delaware, Lackawanna &
Western Company, which marks the
borough line. the seven blue-coated and
nickel-numbered employees made quite
showing in the eyes of the twenty
or 30 men from Taylor. who had taken
1t upon themselves to prevent the cars
passing. A big torch was burning on
the pile OF railroad ties. and by the
light Of this Deputy Price read the
papers of Injunction to Street Com
missioner Benjamin Llewellyn.
AS Deputy Price read the paper
crowd of the Taylor people. consta bles.
councilmen and citizens gathered
around to listen. This Is your copy"
said Deputy Price to the street COM
missioner after he had finished the
reading. Llewellyn refused to touch
the paper. He didn't care what the
judge said. he was there to stop the
cars, and he was going to do 1t. From
the crowd around there Were answer
ing cries of that's right" you can't
get through" lets see you touch these
ties" ETC., etc. IF you do not submit
peaceably we will use force" said Mr..
Price. At this the street commissioner
disappeared, but the cOnstables and
citizens We're more obdurate.
"Mr. Price" asked Attorney Hand.
1--WE can clear this obstruction, can't
we?"
Yes" replied the deputy, and the
seven street car employees began to
throw the ties from the track.
Here's where the real trouble start
RESISTANCE OFFERED.
During the time Of the reading of the
writ at least fifty people, most Of them
men, had collected. Some were drunk,
Others were sober, but all believed that
the borough was being unjustly
"downed," and bitter feeling was
ready to show itself. The seven Trac-
tion company men pushed through the
crowd and attempted to lift the ties.
ANot cAClulIhSu oue
you shan't take them off. Come.
boys" calling to his fellow officers,
"come; we'll see If they'll take 'em
off," A dozen men jumped on the heap
of ties, menacing those seven employees,
and every constable-there were five
present-had his billy" out and was
ready to use it. The seven employees
grabbed the ties while the borough de-
tenders began pushing them away.
Thn 70 tvIoi1
their clubs, but no sooner had a tie
been removed to the road side than 1t
was again placed back on the track.
Great excitement prevailed. Every
body seemed to be shouting and the
crowd Of sympathizers. now into the
hundreds, were encouraging the men
who dared defy "the BUFFERS" as one
man called the company's force. In
vain did Deputy Price threaten to ar
rest any man who interfered with the
work Of removal. At one time. the
most exciting Of all, Jim" Powell.
saloonkeeper. whose place is nearby.
was standing on one of the cbstructing
ties. Deputy Price ordered him to
move; he refused. Deputy Price then
drew his revolver and pointing 1t di-
rectly in Powell's face. the command
was repeated Powell went. Constable
John Hover Immediately took Powelrs
was pointed. Hover did not finch.
He looked right into the barrel Of the
pistol and said he'd be doomed II he'd
bulge The tie was lifted from under
his feet. This pistol incident increased
the feeling among the defenders. They
asked what right had "he to pull that
gun?" and wanted Powell 30 "have
him arrested for carry concealed weap-
ons."
Thomas Powell, another constable,
arrived on the scene after the big stone
had been removed and the post taken
out of the ground. BY his influence the
defenders took fresh stand, and the
Traction Company people decided that
they had better wait until Burgess
Griifiths arrived and settled matters.
before running the cars through. To
this the constables acquiesced. When
the burgess arrived he ordered the men
to get off the tracks, and at els o'clock
car 203 passed over the line. At II a. m.
O'Clock, when the company people at
tempted to clear the tracks one of the
constables. Dick Morris, was injured.
The big stone fell upon his foot squeez-
ing 1t badly.