New-York tribune., 1899-07-20

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| entv-fourth-st. and Louis Smith. eighteen years
old. a laborer. Of No 800 East seventy-third-st,
were arrested in the same neighborhood on a
| similar charge and locked UP.
CAPTAIN SCHMITTBERGER's FIGHT.
| Captain Schmittberger. who is on duty al
Second-ave. and Nnety-second-st.. was roughly
handled by a crowd at Eighty-eighth-st ana
Second ave. last night at 10 o'clock. lie was
driving down the avenue when he encountered
a barricade Of paving stones at Eighty-eienth-
at There was big crowd standing about Cap
| tain Schmittberger ordered them to disperse
| His club had fallen out of the wagon few mih-
utes before and he was unarmed
! Several OF the mob. not knowing who ne was
| advanced on him. and he was struck seVerai
| times on the chest He defended himsen WIFI
| his fists and retreated to the sidewalk Ihere
he received a blow on the side OF the heao winch
almost staggered him. Just then the driver OF
| the wagon handed his revolver TO the captain
He fourished 1t. and threatened to shoot the
! fret man who raised hand The crowd hastily
| dispersed
| Thomas G. Singer thirty-nine years old, or
! No 300 East One-hundred- and d-second-st., VINO
| described himself as a weaver was arrested at
| Ninety fourth-st and Second-ave. last evening
Singer was talking TO a big crowd that hau
| gathered to listen to him. He discussed the
strike from his point of view, and caused goou
| deal OF excitement.
| At 10 o'clock a squad Of policemen dispersed
! the crowd that had been hanging around Astor
| Place all evening The cars of the Second-aVe
| line were hailed with a furious bombaroment as
| they passed Eleventh-st. number or boys hau
gathered on the roof of the building at Eleventh
! st and Second ave. and had big pile or stones
and other missiles which they threw at the
| cars. When the police reached the roof the boys
| had disappeared.
THE FIRST ACTS OF VIOLENCE.
The opening act of violence in this borough
occurred on the Second-ave. line.
| At 4:3O o'clock yesterday morning, soon after
| the strike had been declared. gang of men ana
| boys and some Of the striking motormen, gain
| cred lot Of stones and rubbish which they
| placed on the southbound track at Ninetieth-st
| and Second-ave., and when the car came up II
stopped and the crowd tried TO drag the crew
| TO the street. A fight followed. Captain Brown
| AT the head of twenty-five policemen, rushed 10
| the assistance of the men. With their heaVy
| night sticks they dashed into the MIDST OF tne
| mob and hit at the heads of the crowd sparlhs
| no one Under this heroic treatment the mon
| dispersed and the proceeded unmoested
| At 10 o'clock yesterday morning disturb
| ance occurred at SecOnd-ave. and One-nuh-
| dred -sixteenth-st., where transfers are is
| sued There always large numDer ol
| people at this corner. Some strikers drove
| large spike into the trolley slot, and the nrst
! car that came along brought to sudden
| standstill. The strikers began hooting ana yeii-
! Ing and soon crowd OF l,OOO people coiieCteu.
| The crowd swarmed about the car. Drag
them off the dirty scabsi' yelled the strikers at
! the motorman and conductor. The angry races
! of the men intmdated the motorman. and win
/ n frightened cry he leaped from the PLATFORM
rushing away through the crowd. The two
| policemen on the tried to make him stay
| but he down the street, cheered enthusi-
| astically by the crowd They then turned thelr
| attention to the car, and pelted 1t with stones
and tin cans The conductor and the TWO
policemen were unable to cope with the crowd
that now had become aggressive. some one
telephoned to Inspector Cross, who had charge
of the police at the barns. He sent Captain
Albertson and dozen policemen TO the scene IN
patrol wagon. When they got there they
filed out of the wagon and dashed into the
crowd, laying their night sticks heavily on the
heads to right and left. The rioters scat'ereu
like frightened sheep.
The wrecking car came up soon after and re-
moved the spike out Of the slot Traffic was
then resumed.
STRIKERS LEADER ENCOURAGED.
Joseph Devery the leader OF the strikers on
the Second-ave line, said last night at the
strikers headquarters at Ninety-ffth-st and
Second ave: .'Al runs on the Second-av line
from No. TO 100 are off. The men are COM
ing out all the time. There are now l3O motor
striking on this line ana tO-nlgnl tnele VIII
not be wheel turning on the road. If any cars
are run they will he manned by green men,.
About noon Frank Lally. motorman on an
eastbound of the One-hundred- -and-six-
| teenth-st. crosetown road halted his car in
| Second-ave.. right across both tracks. crowd
gathered. while Lally removed his levers and
| stepping down, said. II guess I'll quit"
Inspector Korb ordered Lally to move the car
| On his refusal to do this KOrb told Laly to de-
| liver up his levers. In the mean time some one
| in the crowd had stolen his levers. and he could
| cd n
| O'Keefe of the Sixty-frst Precinct. Brooklyn
| who took Lally before Inspector Cross, at the
| Ninety -siXth-st. car barn on hearing the story
Inspector Cross had Lay sent to the Eighty
| sixth-st police station, where he was locked up
WOMEN LEAD AN ATTACK.
| At o'clock in the afternoon a small mob as
sembled at Ninety -ffth-st. and Second-ave in
| the twinkling Of an eye. People seemed to
| spring up as by magic. and In one minute at
| least seven hundred had gathered 1t seemed
| like a preconcerted action Women with sticks
| and rocks in their hands led the crowd toward
the Ninety-sixth-st. car barns, where there was
| a throng Of policemen and many cars. For
| few minutes the policemen made no effort to
| stop them. but finally charged the crowd
Women were pushed this way and that as they
! shrieked out their curses and exclamations OF
| derision at the police the motormen ana the
| conductors The police pursued the crowd for
| two blocks along the various streets. and many
| spectators were clubDed. - ,
A DISTURBANCE AT ASTOR PLACE.
A crowd of about thousand persons in
| Guiding many strkers-the rest friends. relatives
| and sympathizers of The striking men-gathered
| at Astor Place and Broadway about o'clock In
| the afternoon. At every motorman and conduc-
| tor who brought in from Fourth and Sec
| ond aves. they hurled their favorite epthet-
| "Scabsr'
! The boisterousness and boldness of the crowd
| became such after a while that Captain Chap
| man came over from the Mercer-st. station with
| fifteen men and charged the crowd The people
| dispersed wildly running up and down Broad
| way and into Lafayette Place and the adjoining
| avenues.
The Captain then told the men not to allow