Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-07-21
POLICE HAVE NEW YORK STRIKE
WELL UNDER CONTROL.
SECOND AVENUE is QUIET
HOLDING OF -FOUR MEN FOR FELONY
HAS A sOBERING EFFECT.
Mob of Striking MotOrmen Tried to
Wreck an Eighth Avenue Car
Last Night-It Looks as If
Brooklyn Strikers Are
Beaten.

NEW YORK, July 20.-A crowd of strik-
ing motormen Of the Eighth avenue line
late this afternoon attempted to wreck a
| car at One Hundred and Thirtieth street
and Eighth avenue, after driving the mo-
| torman from the platform. A mob had been
lying in wait and climbed aboard when the
| car stopped to take on woman. They
seized the motorman and tore the con-
troller bar out of his hands. The strikers
then proceeded to smash the switch box
above the platform with the controller
handle and a man with a crowbar battered
| the controller to pieces. A crowd gath
cred and a bicycle policeman went to the
| rescue. Other policemen arrived about the
same time. They broke through the crowd
and attacked the strikers, arreSting sever
al of them. A great crowd followed. jeer-
ing and threatening the policemen, but
were driven off by patrolmen along the
way. The disabled car was pushed along
to the car barns and laid up for repairs
The cars on the Eighth avenue line
moved along with perfect regularity after
dark tonight. The schedule was main
| tained throughout, and there was no evil
dence of a strike in this direction. At the
stables of the line, Forty-ninth and Eighth
avenue, order was maintained. Inspector
| Thompson had charge of the police ar
rangements. AT o'clock he sent out
policeman on every car, but more as
precaution than a necessity.
| The cars on the Sixth avenue line con-
| tinued to run on regular schedule time
after nightfall. At no place along the line
was there any evidence of a strike.
| Inspector Thompson, who commanded the
police at the Sixth avenue stables, Sixth
| avenue and Fiftieth street, began at s
| o'clock to furnish police escorts. He sent
one policeman out on every car, although
he said he did not think this was really
needed.
| Second avenue, the storm center of last
| night, was so vastly improved from the
view point of order and observance of the
law tonight that a stranger would have
been unable to detect the existence of a
strike, except, perhaps, from the large
number Of policemen on guard. The ave-
nue. was thoroughly patrolled. From
Eighth to One Hundred and Sixteenth
street 800 policemen were constantly on
the alert, and wherever riot lifted its head
| g. dozen men were on hand with heavy
clubs to strike it down. The result was
immediate and marked, and conditions ap-
proximately normal existed Only on two
or three occasions in the early part of the
night did the crowds show any tendency to
repeat their demonstrations of the night
| before
The fact that four men had been held
| by various magistrates during the day
to answer for felony and the announce,
| to try to give each of these four men a
| long term in Sing Sing made the deni-
zens of the tenements more careful. Then,
too, the novelty of the strike had Worn
away and the refusal Of Mr.: Parsons and
Mr.. Pines to make good their promises of
| Wednesday to tie up the lines tight had a
|
There was some yelling at the men on
| the cars and occasionally fragment of a
out of tenement window, but in general,
Second avenue was very quiet.
The. insulation In the conduit of the
tween Sixty-ninth and Eightieth Streets
A piece of wire thrown into the slot either
by accident, or with design. became en-,
the spring of the plow. This was let down
so that the insulation was scraped off.
| There was a beautiful pyrotechnical dis
play for ten blocks and at places the
flames shot ten feet in the air. The fire
| burned itself out.
| At the strike headquarters of the Second
men and twenty conductors had joined the
strikers during the day, making a total of
500 out on that line. The strikers claimed
not to have lost a single man. The cars
on this line were running on a schedule Of
| from ten to eight minutes between the
hours of Z o'clock and midnight.
Grand Master Workman Parsons head
| quarters extending an invitation to the
presidents and secretaries of $50 labor or
ganizations in Greater New York to at
tend mass meeting to be held at Grand
Central palace tomorrow night in the in
| terest of the strikers.
The strike situation in Brooklyn is prac-
| tically unchanged. Few cases of violence
were reported, and the only excitement was
caused by the arrest of Thomas ]. Casey.
q. former division superintendent of the
| Nassau line, on the charge of at
tempting to interfere with Homer L.
Dean, an inspector of the Brooklyn Rapid
| give his age address or any other particu-
lars. accused Casey of having interfered
| with him on July 16 in the performance of
his duties at Thirty-ninth street between
Fifth and Sixth avenues, while he was en-
| gagged in taking out one of the company's 5
cars. and urged him to join the strike.
| Casey was arraigned in the Adams street
police court and admitted to bail pending
his examination Tomorrow.
| Much speculation was induged in regard
ing the outcome of the disagreement be.
tween Albert Johnson. former president of
the Nassau Railroad Company, and MI
Rossiter, president Of the Brooklyn Rapid
that Mr.. Rossiter had accused him on
Wednesday of 'nstigating the plot to
avenue road, and spent a large part Of
| the day hunting up evidence to substanti-
ate what he had heard. He was closeted
street stree police coz court during the afternoon,
but neither Mr.. Johnson nor Magistrate
Brenner would make a statement.
| During the afternoon more than 100 Of
! the strikers put in an appearance at the
| companys Office at Montague and Clinton
streets. where they turned In their badges;
! punches and other railroad property, and
| after signing papers which severed their
connection with the company, were paid
OFF At the strikers headquarters, Gran
ada hall on Myrtle avenue, large num-
| ber of the strikers were paid strike wages
at the same rate paid by the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Company for ten hours
work President Rossiter stated positive
ly to-day that none of the striking. en-
| who would report for work by tonight.
The strikers say they have no seceders
| from their ranks. While they are keep
ing up bold front and claiming they will
win eventually, it looks as If tho strikers
| are beaten. Among the ranks of the strik-
| ing motormen and conductors 1t is alleged
there are several spies who keep the COM
pany and other authorities informed of the
| actions Of the men, In order to make the
strike successful, it would be necessary
to get the elevated locomotive engineers
out There is no likelihood of this happen
| ing, as the engineers are well satisfied with
| the promises and assurance given them by