The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-07-27
The NEW YORK STRIKE.
A Crowd Attempted to Wreck q Car at
13Oth street and Sth Avenue-Con-
troller battered to Pieces.

New YORK, July 21.-A crowd Of
striking motormen of the Eight
avenue line late Thursday afternoon
attempted to wreck a car at One Hun
dred and Thirtieth street and Eighth
avenue, after driving the motorman
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 controller bar out of his
hands. The strikers then pro-
ceeded to smash the switch
box above the platform with
the controller handle and man
with a crow bar battered the controller
to pieces. An immense crowd gather
ed, and bicycle policeman went to
the rescue. Other policemen arrived
at about the same time. They broke
through the crowd and attacked the
strikers, arresting several of them.
A great crowd followed, jeering and
threatening the policemen, but were
driven off by policemen who came to
the assistance of the roundsman and
his patrolmen along the way.
The cars on the Eighth avenue line
moved along with perfect regularity
after dark Thursday night. At the
stables of the line, Forty-ninth street
and Eighth avenue, order was main
tanned Inspector Thompson has
charge of the police arrangements. At
8 o'clock he sent out policeman on
every car, but more as precaution
than necessity.
The cars on the Sixth avenue line
continued to run on regular schedule
time after nightfall. At no place
along the line was there any evidence
of strike.
Inspector Thompson, in command of
the police at the Sixth avenue stables,
Sixth avenue and Fiftieth street, began
at o'clock to furnish police escorts.
He sent one policeman out on every
car, although he said he did not think
this was really need.
Second avenue, the storm center of
Wednesday night, was Sc vastly i'm
proved from the view point of order
and observance of the law Thursday
night that stranger would have been
| unable to detect the existence of
strike. except, perhaps from the large
number of policemen on guard. The
avenue was thoroughly patrolled.
The insulation in the conduit of the
Eighth avenue line burned out Thurs
day night between Sixty-ninth street
and Eightieth street. A piece of wire
thrown into the slot either by accident
or with design became entangled in
the plow of q car and loosened the
| spring of the plow. This was let down
SO that the insulation was scraped off.
There was beautiful pyrotechnical dis
| play for ten blocks, and at places the
| flames shot ten feet in the air, the fire
burning itself out.
At the strike headquarters of the
Second avenue line it was claimed that
10 motormen and 20 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.
| New YORK, July 22.-There were
scarcely any indications of a street
railway strike in Manhattan borough
Friday morning. Cars on all lines af-
fected ran apparently on schedule
| time.
In Brooklyn about 80 per cent. OF
the regular number of cars were in
operation, but carrying only one-half
the usual number of passengers.
NEW YORK, July 24.-The trolley
car strike, both in Manhatten and
Brooklyn seems to be practically at an
end. General Master Workman Par
sons says it is not Sunday and at a
meeting of the Central Federated
union he launched a scheme for new
labor political party and at the same
time nrged upon the delegates of the
various trades unions in Greater New
York the expediency of contributing
the fund to aid the strikers and the
delegates promised their financial