Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-09

burned in the floor of the car. Later IL
was removed to the barns.
About eleven o'clock in the morning
car going north on Market street,
above Twelfth, sprung the trolley pole,
and the conductor climbed on the ROOF
to hold the pole against the WIRE.
While he was doing this, near the
south end of the market house, small
colored boy jerked the rope attached
to the pole, causing the conductor to
lose his balance and fall off. He was
not hurt, however. The colOred boy
executed a rapid retreat, and was not
caught During the morning brlcK
was thrown through car window, on
Main street, near Twelfth. All during
the day, and in almost every portion
of the city except in the business dis
trict, boys placed bricks and other
small Instructions on the track, but
it was tame sport, as even in the morn
ing cars run infrequently, and in the
afternoon, after two O'Clock, not at ALL
During the entire day but one car
crossed the steel bridge.
At the barns in the morning cars
Nos. 40, 81, SO, SO and % were started
out. in charge of non-union men. A
large crowd of men and boys from up
per Benwood and the lower end of the
city, had gathered in the vicinity, while
along the north bound track, as far as
Thirty-ninth street, all sorts of OBJ
structions had been piled upon the
track When the first car emerged
from the barn it was greeted with a
shower of missiles, and the following
cars received a similar reception, sew
Nf ho
being struck by eggs and decayed gar
bage. On the first run from the barns
north it was necessary for the men to
stop the cars at very frequent inter-
walls to remove distractions placed on
the rails, and whenever this was done
a crowd would gather aoout the cars
and epithets were freely applied TO
those in charge. At Fortieth street,
about half-past nine, a crowd CT about
forty girls employed in nearby fac
tory gathered about car which had
been stopped on account of an OBJ
struction, and asked the men to leave
the car, and after a confab of ten or
fifteen minutes duration the men
agreed to leave.
During the afternoon there was a
persistent rumor that a boy had been
run over at Thirty-eighth street, and
had lost a leg, but there was no truth
in the report.
Yesterday, with one exception. the
men employed at the street car barn
decided to stand by the strikers, and
quit work.
Last evening a delegation of eight
or nine of the new men called at the
Register Office and explained how they
happened to come to Wheeling. They
stated that an advertisement appeared
in the Chicago Daily News calling for
motormen to go to Jackson, Miss.
Those who responded to the advertise
ment were met by Mr.. McClain, who
afterwards accompanied them here, and
he told them there was no strike.
After the men had gotten on the cars
Mr.. McClain said the company had
changed its mind, and that the men
were to come to Wheeling. The men
say they were told dozen times there
was no strike, but when they got here
they found there was strike. They
announced their intention of returning
to Chicago as soon as they could re-
ceive transportation. One of this dele
cation was James A. Doyle, who was
engaged as an electrician. He said the
first news he had of there being a
strike was while the men were in
restaurant. Friday evening, when one
of them CHANGED to pick up an evening
paper This was about seven o'clock
that evening. The men stated that all
had left the barns of the Company but
nine, who had been locked in by some
one, and they added that one of the
nine had gone there for his satchel,
and thus got caught. Later last night
report from the barn was that nine
teen men were still there and that
twenty-siX had come altogether. Dur
ing the day the strikers claimed to
have induced several of the men sent
out with cars to quit, and that this is
at least partially true is certain, for
one car was abandoned on Market
street, in addition to the one which
caught fire on Twenty
street, and the one abandon
ed on Fortieth street The
strikers deprecate violence of any
sort. and hope that no one will inter-
fere with the property of the Company
in any manner.
Early in the morning the strikers be-
gan bus and wagon service from one
end of the city to the other, and from
the city to Bridgeport, and the patron
age was very good, for the first day,
particularly>from Benwood and the
southern part of the city up town. This
service will be greatly improved if the
strike lasts any length of time. The
vehicles run by the union charged a
five cent fare. the same as the street
cars, but the strikers complained last
night that some independent operators
of vehicles were charging ten cents, or
even a quarter, not giving back change
when a coin larger than a nickle was
handed them. The union rate of fare
is five cents. There will be wagon at
Tenth and Market streets at 4 :45 Mon
day morning for the convenience of
workingmen going south.
AS a matter of course the lack of cars
was a great inconvenience, and not
only interfered with the movements of
people, but also with business to a very
considerable extent, as the people
from the suburban towns and from the
extreme north and south portions of
the city did not pay the usual Saturday
visit to the retail district either during
the day or evening. The money thus
usually going into the channels of trade
via the retail stores in the centre of the
city was either spent in the neighbor-
hoods where people live, or shopping
expeditions were postponed until