The sun., 1896-09-26
STOLE Il MARCH ON GLEASON.
A Trolley Company Dehes the Ross Mayor
and His Police In Spite OF 100 Arrests.

A Trolley Company Dehes the Rose Mayor
and His Police In Spite OF 100 Arrrsts.
Patrick Jerome Gleason. Mayor OF Long Island
City. and the New York and Queens County
Railway Company have been at war for several
months. Mayor Gleason interpreted the fran
chise of the company to mean that they must
keep the streets through which their lines pass
in the best kind OF condition. and he ordered
that It be done. But the company had a
grievance against the Mayor. He had refused
TO grant them n permit to relay certain por-
tion of their tracks. and 1t was the general be-
lief that the company held Off the work on the
streets as means OF compelling the Mayor to
grant tho permit TO relay their tracks at the
foot OF Fulton street and at Fulton street and
Broadway. in the Astoria section of Long lsl-
and City. Once the company attempted to lay
tracks Mt Fulton and Broadway, but the police
promptly arrested the gang Of workmen and
the work was stopped. So the matter hung fire.
The trolley company went to work among the
Aldermen who constitute the Highway Com
mi,tce, with the result that few days ago they
got the longed-for permit. Gleason heard OF
1t and was angry clear throuG h. and his diamond
battle axe glistened ominously. The very next
day the permit was revoked.
Then the Mayor deemed y time for him to do
something decisive, too. The result was that
commissoner Coz ] nP Of Public Works. saying that il
the streets under their care were not repaired
work done himself and then send the company
the bill. There was no mistaking the tone OF
the letter. It meant business. But the trolley
company thought they saw chance TO kill
two birds with one stone;
About o'clock yesterday morning gang of
work men under Foremen Dinan and Metzgar
assembled at tho foot of Fulton street and
started ripping M tho Belgian block pavement
White passed the gang he nearly lost his breath
on observing that the men were tearing up the
N Lot nf rnr rvaI M
Hold on there" said White. What are
For answer Foreman Dlnan showed him tho
letter from tho Comm'ssiGn,ess 9f @ @r9bic Works;
not rel repairing W the street, you're fixing your
tracks" Thereupon he arrested Dinans and
tbs na wS Of 5ssr ho sa@
the whole gang OF yen be run in"
:, But they didn't quit and when R1undsman y,
the scene, no found pretty nearly oil OF tho old
tracks NJ and the new switch almost down;
forty men marched TO the First l'rcci met
station house. About five still remained at
General Manager George Chambers was noti-
fed and he sent to WOodside, where Engineer
Edward E.Wentworth and Chief Lneman G: T.
StralIsberg had n gang OF men working on the
wires HIS orders were to bring mn that gang
immed ediately. which was done. They came IN
special trolley cars. and instantly began work
Ing NJ the haif-lnd switch. Meanwhile the first
set OF men had been arraigncd before Justice
foremen, whom he held To appear before him
this morning, AS the men returned to resume
work they met the new gang. in charge or u di-
minutive policeman with big mustache, on
their way To tho station house.
The old gang resumed work and were prompt
ly rearrcsied. A they made their second trip
to the station house Wentworth and Strausberg
and their men were being released; That op;
Grafton was repeated five times. But for all
that tho company succeeded In laying their
switch as they Intended.
There Is more work 10 be done, some Of the
old tracks having 10 be taken up. and the com
pany officials declare that they will accomplish
that by Tonight The extension OF the track at
broadway. according TO General Manager
Chambers. will be laid in n day or two. Mayor
Gleason to the contrary notw lthstAnding. One
hundred arrests were mais In yesterdays de-
flance of tho boss Mayor, and the cases against
the leaders will probably be pushed to the ut
most