The San Francisco call., 1899-07-27
CLEVELAND
STRIKERS ARE
UNDER CHECK
The Suburb of Brooklyn Has
Apparently Become the
Storm Center.
ONE CAR MoBBED
Mayor Farley Assumes Police Au-
thority forthe Whole County and
Leaves Phelps in the Cold.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

CLEVELAND, July 26.-The. storm
center of the street railway strike mas
according to the authorities, settled III
Brooklyn, a suburb connected with
Cleveland by a long high bridge. AT
noon $50 employees of the Born steer
Range Company blockaded a car on the
bridge and dragged the motorman ana
conductor from their posts, ln1nctinS
injuries more painful than serious.
Soldiers on guard at the barn ABOUT
half mile away hurried to the scene
but the rioters had taken refuge IN the
factory, which stands under the ap-
proach to the bridge. The factory was
surrounded and the premises searched'
but there was no clew by Wh1ch the
guilty ones could be picked out. SO tney
bent their efforts in assisting the
blood-stained motorman and conductor
to move the car, most of the windows
of which had been broken by stones.
General Axline, in command of the
troops here, in order to personally view
the situation, took ride to-day on an
Orange street car. He was in civilian
dress and the car was stoned at Varl-
Gus intervals all along the route. "A
rock came near hitting him. The gen
erai took other trips through the
troubled districts, but declined to give
his view of the situation.
The vigilance of the guards Whlle
daylight aided them prevented trouble
of serious nature. Preparations Tor
mass meetings at various points were
made during the day. 1t is expected
that a large one will be held in Monu-
mental square, in the heart of the city,
tomorrow night, unless the Mayor pro-
hibits it. In preparation for one. a
platform was to-day erected in Brook
lyn to protest against the action or
Mayor Farley of Cleveland, who has
assumed, under the authority of an al
most forgotten statute, supreme police
power in Cuyahoga County. This
leaves Mayor Phelps of the suburban.
together with his constabulary, shorn
of their power, and they do not like 1t.
The two Mayors are not on the terms
that existed between the stored Gov
ernors of the two Carolinas. The SOL
diers and Cleveland's Chief Executive
special police in Brooklyn are not al
lowed to use the public hydrants TO get
water it is said, and upon various oc-
casiOnS bayOnetS were of necessity
used to convince the ShopkeeperS that
it was wisest to sell soldiers what they
wanted Mayor Farley to-day mailed
Mayor Phelps a letter, in which he de-
clared that if the Cleveland cohorts
had any more trouble about getting
water Cleveland, which pumps the
water to the suburb, would at the pres
ent abrogate the truce and let the Whole
hamlet go thirsty. Mayor Farley also
issued a statement to the strikers, In
which he said a man who was more
loyal to his labor union than to himself
and country, was a coward and bad
citizen.
Cars were run on twelve lines of the
Big Consolidated to-day and on most of
the lines last night. President Mason
of the National Union of Street Car
Employees, in an interview to-day de-
clared that as the Street-car company,
according to his information, was los
ing thousands of dollars every day. the
strike would have to be settled soon
upon advances made by the company.
In the face of this President Everett
to-day again told the Board of Arbitra-
ton that the company had nothing to
arbitrate. The board is unable to take
action looking to a settlement in view
of the attitudes of the opposing forces.
The task of distributing the soldiers
was to-day completed by General AK
line Many of them were sent out to
Newburgh, which includes the turbu-
lent section of Broadway, to Pearl
street and to Windemere, where the
street car company has the more valu
able part of its property stored: A COM
pany was sent to COllinwoOd also.
Mayor Farley declared that he would
suppress violence if he had to call out
the entire National Guard of Ohio.
A boy was shot by non-union con-
ductOr, but whether or not the bullet
was an accidental one the police have
not yet determined. Frank Wright,
boy 13 years of age, was sitting on the
front porch of his home at SO AMMAN
dale avenue when an electric car came
along Although there was no dis
turbance in the neighborhood at the
time it is stated the conductor, who
stood on the front platform with his
motorman, carried a revolver in his
hand. Suddenly it was discharged and
young Wright gave a cry of pain. The
bullet had entered his right leg just be-
low the groin. The car ran on to Euclid
avenue and ran into the barn. When
the police arrived the conductor was
not to be found.