The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-18

They have seen me in the power houses,
IN the barns and along the lines"
He was again interrupted by shouts,
Jeers and Kisses.
I'VE want an agreement" "Sign an
agreement, could be heard in the din.
That's lie," was shouted again.
The president told of the beginning of
the strike, and the measures he had
taken. Yesterday all the cars went al
most on schedule time" he said
That's a lie," was shouted out, and
again there was kissing.
II don't need to ask you to believe"
he continued. you know whether it is
true or not. Today all the lines are run
ming on nearly the regular schedule"
He endeavored to talk, but scarcely ut
tered a sentence without being jeered
and hissed, and. finally, as he told of his
dealings with the men and his desires
to aid them. there was a din that lasted
for fully quarter of an hour. After
1t was over the president said he had
come to the meeting to restore harmony
He declared he would take the men back
and not hold their action against them
He gave them until o'clock to return,
and said if they did not come back to
work they would be discharged.
MR.. ROSSITER COOL.
'We'n never come back was the re-
ply in shout from the house. Drag
him DOWN. Kill him.
The speaker was smiling while Babel
reigned, and finally he was escorted
down stairs and through the mob out
side that shouted for his life. He en-
tered a carriage with his party and was
driven to the barns around the corner,
where the party boarded the
car Ampere The crowd made a rush
for the car, but was driven away Then,
with Mr.. Rossiter on the front platform,
the coolest man about, the car went to
Church street, in Flatbush avenue, and
was switched off towards the Thirty
ninth street ferry. AS the car moved
off someone hit President Rossiter with
the core of an apple.
During the excitement attendant upon
the presidents departure two cars ar
rived at the barns on the Flatbush ave.
nue. line and were attacked by the mob
The police, however, charged and drove
them back
Some twenty strikers took advantage
of the excitement in the vicinity of the
barns to obtain stones, bricks and other
things from a new building, and they
scattered debris for half a block along
the car tracks of the Flatbush avenue
line, below Church street.
When a car came along towards the
barn the strikers rushed for it. One
aimed a blow with a heavy iron bar at
the motorman. He jumped into the arms
of the strikers and was roughly han
died until he said he would strike. The
conductor was pulled from his place also,
and agreed to strike
The next car was guarded by four po,
licemen, and these resisted the attacks
of the strikers until a detail of fifteen
men was rushed from the Grand avenue
station. These soon charged the crowd
and drove it back.
aHnT-EN6T-NIU- ON GADo
With the exception of cars from the
Nassau line all the other cars Of the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit company ap-
peared to be on time at the Manhattan
end of the bridge between the hours of
5 and o'clock tonight-the rush hours.
The public patronized the cars literally.
The only evidence of trouble during these
heavy hours Of traffic on the west end
of the Brooklyn bridge was the presence
of policeman in uniform on each car.
The traffic fell off rapidly after o'clock
in the evening. At that hour cars were
running regularly on the following lines:
Fulton, Putnam avenue, De Kalb avenue,
Smith street (Coney Island, Ralph ave-
nue., Third avenue, Myrtle avenue, Green
and Gates avenues and Flushing avenue.
At o'clock 100 Manhattan policemen
came over for a short rest. They were
under orders to get back to their posts
in Brooklyn at 10 or II o'clock. They re-
ported everything quiet when they left
BROOKLYN,