Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1899-07-22
STRIKE SPREADS.
All Manhattan's Police Engaged
in Maintaining Order.

in Maintaining Order.
RIOTERS USE DYNAMITE.
! Scenes sOfViOlence and Scores OfPeO-
pie Injured-M -MOtOrmen on Eighth
Avenue Line Leave Their Cars
Dynamite Outrage u Severe Set
back-A Hundred Arrests Made
and More Than That Number
Clubbed Into Quiescence-N1Ore
Forcible Measures Necessary -
Other Strike Notes.
New York, July 20.--Without au-
| thority from the labor organizations OF
which they are part, motormen on
some of the lines of the Metropolitan
| Street Railway company precipitated
yesterday a strike in Manhattan. The
strikers gained many recruits during
| the day, and the lines of the company
are considerably embarrassed. No at
tempt was made to tie up the Broadway
cable line and it's various branches.
| President Nreeland of the Metropolitan
Street Railway company declares there
| is no strike. and defies anybody to tie
up the company's lines. Practically
all the police in Manhattan are now on
| duty in connection with the strike.
Large details of bluecoats were sent to
the car barns scattered along the streets
| likely to be the scenes Of disorders in
connection with tie-up.
The center Of operation in Manhattan
! was on Second avenue. The excite
ment in Brooklyn centered in the vicin-
ity of Irlirty-s!Xth street and Fifth ave
nue., where early in the morning dyna-
mite was used in an attempt to bloW
down the elevated structure.
| The roting that took place in Man
haitian yesterday afternoon and last
night was of a serious nature, infinitely
| tiercer than any that has taken place yet
in the borocgh across the river. Scores
If people We're severely injured in the
| Second avenue district. Last night that
great thoroughfare was crowded with
jeering, bowling mob, almost from the
Bowery to Harlem. The great tene-
ments gave forth their workingmen resi-
dents, who backed up the strikers in
many fierce struggle with the police,
ynd with the men were many women and
still greater numbers of children. They
stoned every car that passed over the
tracks: they hurled stones and chunks Of
iron and vegeta bles of q variety of nature
from the roofs of the houses and the win
dows; they barricaded the streets with
paving stones, tore up the street irons,
| l,t,~ &I,1 .,,-t,
and blocked the thorOughfare. They
had many hand-to-hand conflict with
the 600 patrOmen that had been placed
along the line. OF the injured, the exact
number cannot be known. Several po-
licemen were removed to hospitals with
broken bones and torn scalps. At least
one striker or strike sympathizer had
his skull fractured. A boy ais had his
skull fractured. Innumerable passen-
gers on the cars received bad wounds.
and it was impossible for passengers on
Second avenue to go much above Four
teenth street.
1t was the hope of the strikers to make
deep impression by their success in
Second avenue, and SO far as rioting was
concerned they and their sympathzers
made it.
On the other lines throughout Man
haitian the strike was not at any time
prominent during the day. Last night,
however, the mOtOrmen on the Eighth
avenue line to the number of 100 or more
organized and declared Il strike. They
thereupon set about to persuade their
fellow workmen to leave their cars. ard
with sutlic lent success to have cars run
nng on only an hourly schedule before
Midnight. Today, they declare, Eighth
avenue also will be tied up. The Of
ficials of the Sixth avenue made the
statement that the cars on this avenue
were moving about the same as ever.
Madison avenue, Lexington avenue
and Fourth avenue We're but little af-
feoted, but more is promised.
In Brooklyn the strikers made some
gains so far as the diminishing of trolley
car traffic was concerned. Fewer cars
were running on the lines.
But the dynamite outrage in the early
morning hours was undoubtedly Sc
we're setback to the strikers. The police,
in connection with the blowing down of
the elevated columns, moved rapidly and
made more than a score of arrests, 16 of
the men being held by the courts. The
strikers deny any knowledge of the
dynamiting, and General Master Work
man Parsons has offered a reward of $500
If it can be proved that a striker is re-
sponsible for 1t. President Rossiter Of
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company
has offered reward of $1,000 for the con-
viction of the perpetrator.
Severa, thousand policemen are guard
the compa MES involved in the strike. The
the companies involed in the strike The
police arrangements to take care of
rioters have been excellent so far, but
the surging mobs on Second avenue last
night were too much for them. More
than 100 arrests were made and prob
ably as great a number of persons were
injured by the free use "f the night
sticks, but even Chief Devery believes,
together with his inspectors, that more
forcible measures than that will have to
be adopted. New York has not seen such
rioting in many day.
At 1920 last night all operations on the
Second avenue line were suspended.
None of the officials of the company
would assign Il reason for withdrawing
the cars, but the strikers claimed that
the company did not have men enough to
run them. The last car was housed about
| lO.oO anu ii nedNy 6udIu VI policeiieh w as
put about the power house.
At TOO clock half of the cars were taken
of the Eighth avenue line without warm
ing, and at II o'clock all the cars save
eight were taken off. and these were run
on an hourly schedule. No arrests were
made in connection with the strike on
this line and no acts of violence were re-
ported. The strikers promise that today
they will have all the men out on Eighth
avenue. The cars on the Sixth avenue
lines ran all evening on schedule time.
each car escorted by two policemen. The
cars on both the Madison avenue and
Lexington avenue lines were run with
but very little interruption. The officials
declared that all of the men were al work,
and that there was no possibility of
strike there.
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