The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-20
But II Leads to a Lot Of
LaWlGSSneSS.
RlOTIkG IN SECOND Az -rUr,
HOOdunS StOrmGd Cars and Fought
the Police There,

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| nged to Stir Up Bitter Strife All Along
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| Oh.r Iine-Police Weld Their Clubs
| with , vu,,r,, Many u.ods A.. proL.,
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| Minor Outbreaks In Other Localities.
! I'll, s,r;l.o ,b,, Canaan, Nos,,r wor,.,n,n
| p,rsors ~ ia, Eri,,hts n, ,I,r ,br,,t.pod
| month npn tn hriuy uunu this town rn,nc ycs.
| ,,rI,y n,,,,;,,, A. . utr;Lo :, We n tn,,,
! mora ridiculous than that eupineered Inv Par.
| so,s ,,I hi. o,un, piros In RrootIy, II
| hy,,yrL hnrclv Ino mo, and yet IL
| turrnd III. whnl, ,,s, s,J, ~ tow, nnsiL,,
down. I, led f. ths cnnerey,,ion ~ ,h.,
lowlass and IN, cririnaI sIsmnnt ~ ina
! citv IN SnconI .y,nua and turr.d ,hot
,vanr, from ,.rd m onJ into , farce
| LottIogrn,nL ,,h,r, riot r,I,,l Thous,,Is -,
| man o,d v,,,,an r,,,,,h, cha n,,ino oh.tru,t.,j
! IN, rrnniny fare oss,nIt.J mnlovoes M lin,
| railroad nns.eryers who rode unon q mud
anal, ,thor win ennnI nl.osrre nisordsr ,mJ
! ,.w,o..uosu r,icn,J .r,rvuharo Moi ,r,.-
mob was dispersed by tho police. only to
gather again. and all the day and from dark on
! TO midnight tho city was .,,isgraced by sceL'r
| the like OF which New York has not teen "a
years.
The Job was cooked up at Parsone's heai-
| quarters. in 10Th street. after the so-cail.d
| dissatisfied employees meeting at Cooper
| Union on Tuesday night. committee. al
| leginH itself t" represent the EMPLOYEES OF tbs
| METROPOLITAN street railroad system and really
| representing very few discontented men WHO
| work Tor their living and a large Nun
| Der OF men discharged by the railroad
| company because they wouldn't work for
their living and Tor other reasons met Parsons
at his Office. At the time The Sun went TO
| press yesterday morning they were still IN
session. Parsons says that he was trying To
| prevent them from ordering tho strike.
and that so grent wcr" their wrongs that
he could not hold them PARSONS says
| that when they told him they wero
g"lnR TO strike. ne SAID lou are 10
ing this against my wRhes' ana mat ne
mad row with them then ana there. be that
as may when hhshy AZ 3;3o CLOCK IN the
morning inc STRIKE was ordereu PARSONS put
on ms coat. anu eaid he make IL tine strike OF
MS mo from that time on he spent MS timo
going around trying to increase the row he
hnd hroueht on ana 10 Smash the Peace OF the
| "ho" city 10 Sihlthereehs.
STRIFE ORDERED.
| II wos tbc bcIicf n, Parsons and his crowd
os If was The belle, Of Pines IN Brooklvn that
| MI they had to do was To sov +, the street mil
| way cmnloy.os "OuIt'" ami tbcv'L nuit and
| nj 4. 3O in ,h. morning thoy uosscd tbe word
| along They said thnv womb tie nm evcrv
| oIectr. rond in Now York ctv They e,id
that two-thlr,ls Of III. EMPLOYEES Of the Metro
| rolitou Stree, Halfway Company would be with
! Them md that thcy'd tcnch Mr. Whitney and
| Mr. VreclnnL ana thc storrho,dcrs Of IN, Nci.
rouolitop Comrnuy n lesson
| Tbcv sent their committees and walking
! dcIrpatrs H. tbr ynrious deunts NJ thc roiIro,I
| comnnuy ia tell IN, mon who were working
n ,''',',,,, w. ~, y" a' ',, w. ,., 49," ,.
pnst ,,,,i, wnrl; Tho mo, r,s,l, If ,h,ir order.
wos ,rnrnyimnt,ly mis-. rbcv sicr.rdrd in
er,Irinp ohout thir,y-lyc man away from
thn second uycnuc line onI IN fright
| e,,iur some thirty others so badly
| thn, thoy sent word 10 the ,lrnnt tia, thcv were
| too sick TO take ont cors Thcy s,,cccelca in
.r,icir., FORTY motormcn Of the Sixth avenue
line to amt y,o,l: for LITTLE while md for only
| n littIc while because most OF these went bnrL
| Thcvsurr.cljup II, cn,irjrptro ortLrro mon IN
| ami. their Jobs on the ll,;,h street road They
| .rcrcnLed I'm rutirinp seyun mu,orme, and
thr,c conductors tn uuit ticir ioh, on the
! Tirl,h oyroun rua md th1t's all tLry sue
| crc,l.,I in doing
! ThcyLld NOT get = mn, 10 Iravr the Fnur,h
| avenue road they did no. go. man to leave
! the Lemon avenue road nor the Broadway
| road nor the Ninth or C,lumhuS avenue rOn,l.
| nor the Lexington avenue road: nor did they
get n single recruit from any ono Of the twenty
! or thirty crosstOwn and other roads that are
CONTROLLED by the METROPOLITAN Street Railway
! COMPANY They didn't succeed in tying upa
| single line In short they succerdcd only in
| giving to the Iawlcss, criminal element OF tho
| city an excuse for getting together and dis
! turhing the Pence and making lie Unrnmiort-
| able :or the employee" of one Ere n the svS-
| tom and III" passengers who wnntc to ride on
| that line.
| f"'l'F Acl r""Mf'L''
| Tho strike AMI ic-un were TO take place at 8
| o'cio"k in the morning. Chief Devcry had
| been in Brooklyn al night looking after the
tough element OF that city and he hadn't any
! idea Of the Job thnt Parsons and his committee
were putting M on him. But he had men
watching he committee. and he got word be-
fore 4"'r'ork OF what was going to happen; The