The San Francisco call., 1896-07-28
ANGRY FEELING
AMONG CYCLISTS
They Complain of the Po-
lice and Manager
Vining.
PROMISES NOT KEPT.
Claimed That Orders Were to Be
Given to Stop the
Cars.
CHEF oRowLEYs DEFENSE.
He Denies Emphatica ly That Any.
thing Was Said to Him About
Stopping the Cars.

An angry feeling pervades the ranks of
the bicyclists who took part in Saturday
nights parade over what they consider
the unfair treatment accorded them =.
the Msrket-street Cable Company and the
police.
The managers of the demonstration say
that ample preparations had been made
for clear route and an uninterrupted pa
rade, but the contrary was the result.
They were neglected by the police, run
into by the cable and electric cars and an
noyed by hoodIums, so that at times there
was confusion in their ranks and the pa
rade had to be broken up before the end
of the march down town.
II. F. Wynne, who has taken a promi-
nent part in the movement for good roads
since Its Inception. said yesterday that he
went to Manager Vining of the Market
street Cable Comp and secured
promise that the cats would be stopped
along the route If the Chief of Police would
give orders to his men to see that the
promise was kept He went TO Chief
Crowley and the Chief informed him that
Manager Winnings orders would be carried
out by the police. He said that Chief
Crowley neglected 10 give orders TO his
men to stop the cars.
Chief Gro wiley was seen last night, and
he gave an emphatic denial to the state
ment that Mr., Wynne or any one else had
at any time asked him to see that the cars
were stopped during the parade, or men,
toned 10 HIM anything about Manager
Vining giving promise to that effect.
About two weeks ago. said the Chief,
"a gentleman called upon me and asked
that a platoon OF police in uniform,
mounted on bicycles, should be assigned
to head the parade 1 told him frankly
that did not favor the proposition. as l
looked upon it simply as an advertising
scheme on the part of the manufacturers
of bicycles. l promised, however, to lay
the matter before the Commissioners at
their next meeting.
''The meeting was held on Wednesday
night, July 15, and laid the matter before
them. They declined to accede to the re-
quest, believing as did that 1t was simply
an advertising scheme.
1.-TWO gentlemen called upon me the day
after the meeting and l told them of the
decision of the Commissioners, but prom
ised to have a platoon of mounted police
men at the head of the procession. / also
promised to have men along the line of the
procession and three or four men at Eighth
and Folsom streets, which they had re-
quested.
THAT was all that took place between
myself snd the representatives of the
demonstration. If any one says that any
thing was said to me about stopping the
cars during the procession, he says what
is absolutely untrue The word cars was
never mentioned, of that / am certain. If
any one had told me that Manager Vining
had promised to stop the cars / would
have been only too happy to have given
orders to my men to see that it was kept,
as it would have made things much easier
for the police
at has always been the custom of per-
in oh nf ~ h-fn q
promise from the manager of the able
company to me and have always seen that
het cars were stopped. But in the present
case nothing of the kind was done. l
have no power to stop the cars without
orders from the cable company.
ssThe cars are always stopped during the
parades on DecoratioRday and the Fourth
of July, but for other parades special per-
mission has to be asked from the COM
pany.
1.-The bicyclists may complain that there
were not sufficient police along the route,
but l did the best l could under the cir
cumstances NV experience of these night
not to leave the whole City unprotected
against the depredations of thieves and
burglars. People have left their houses to
go downtown and see a procession, and
as nearly the whole police force was there
also the result was that numerous COM
plants came in of houses having been
| broken into. That taught mesa lesson.
"I had as many men along the line of
route as l could spare with safety to the
City, and they did tue best they could.
About four-ffths of the crowd was COM
posed of women and children. and the
police could not be expected to club them
or use unnecessary force. The police did
all they could to subdue the hoodlum ele-
ment and arrested three or four of them.
''Just let me say that If those in charge
of the parade had chosen, as they ought to
have done, the north side >of Market
street instead OF the south, the trouble at
The Emporium would not have occurred,
as they would not have been compelled to
| cross the cartracks."