The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-20
POLICE OF NEW YORK FIND 1T
DIFFICULT TO CONTROL THE
UGLY SITUATION
SYMPATHY is WITH STRIKERS
OFFICERS ARE KISSED BY THE
MODS AND ROUGHLY HANDLED
AS WELL
MANY PERSONS ARE INJURED

Out With a Brick - Many Others
Struck by Missiles - NOn-Union
Men Roughly HandIed-BOy Bad
Iy Hurt by Policeman - Riot
without Precedent in BROOKLYN.
NEW YORK, July 19-The strike or
dered this morning on the lines of the
Metropolitan Street railway, in New
York, infused new blood into the strike
IN Brooklyn, and did not tend to improve
matters. The arrest of twenty-one men,
charged with conspiracy to destroy the
elevated railroad, this morning, at Fifth
avenue and Thirty-siXth street, had little
effect on the people, although it was ex-
pected that public sympathy would turn
against the strikers. The car service is
very poor. During the afternoon IS per
cent of the Brooklyn heights system was
operated, but this was lessened to a con-
siderable extent later in the day On the
Nassau line cars Were worked on half
Roadway all day. This embraced Fifth
and Seventh avenues and Douglass and
Bergen streets. The scarcity of passen-
gers on the Nassau cars leaving the foot
of South Eighth street for Canarsie
Hamburg avenue and Brownville, was
more noticeable than any day since the
strike began. The traffic on FIatbush
avenue, running as far as Vernon ave-
nue., was paralyzed. On the Greenpoint
and cross-town line hardly more than
half as many cars We're run, COMPARED to
the number operated yesterday Along
Franklin and Manhattan avenues the
was
turbances occurred. Only a few Conev
Island and Bergen Beach cars were run
ming, and Brighton Beach was isolated
SO that the Casino had to be closed and
the musicians dismissed.
SPOTTER IN THE HALL.
The twenty-one men who were arras+
ed at Carberrys hall, at tho go -
Atlantic and Rockaway ,,vanuas 1,oUa
arraigned In the aftern~on a. 49, 49,
street police court beforo NIoot lN+sall-S
Bremen. They v~.ra rarroso,,+,Iz 19=,
sei VINO pleaE-ed not guilty in their be-
go r -n demanded an immediate hear
rs. lie original charge of vagrancy.
oit y Mich the men had been held, was dis
Kissed, and they answered to a charge of
conspiracy substantiated by the afffda-
Wit of William Ashby, an Investigation >,
who deposed that on Monday evening he
had attended a meeting at Carberrv hall
and that there was talk of buyiny dvna-
mite, the use of the dynamite to be con-
ungent on the action of the engineers of
the elevated railroad concerning the prop
oslton to strike. If the elevated en-
ployes refused to go out somebody sug-
gested dynamite should be used to blow
them up. Such remarks, said Ashby. were
followed by I'VE will!'' I'VE wiur'
Ashby further stated that he saw
y Hara and three others leave the hall.
saying they had the stuff with them. and
they mad in their pockets packages rolled
IN brown paper looking like dynamite.
Inc prisoners counsel caused a sensa-
sion when he said:
Your honor, I admit a consniracv b,,+
1t is a conspiracy by politicians and the
police to deprive these men of their Iih-
erty." -"
Magistrate Bremen overruled him and
heId the prisoners in borEs of $3.50
PRISONERS DENY GUILT
OHara, the man, who, as it has been
stated, carried dynamite, stated last
night that he and his companions had
nothing whatever to do with the dvna-
asleep III Carberry hail while waiting for
the returns from the sympathetic meet
ing at cooper Union and were asleen AT
the time the explosion happened. The
Hrsl they knew of the explosion was
when they were aroused by, the police
ME the police looked upon the ex-
plosion as dismal failure, in so far &C
it failed to accomplish its evident mr.
pose, they are not overlooking the pos
slbility Of anarchists being concerned in
last nights plot, and the neighborhoods
supposed to be frequented by men of an
archistic tendencies are being CLOSELY
watched
lines shut down early in the afternoon.
and the entire Nassau system was run
under one-third schedule
-Four hundred and fifty police were
transferred from Brooklyn to Manhat-
tan borough tonight, in anticipation of
trouble with strikers on the Metropoli-
tan Street railway system.
SERIOUS RIOTING.
Several times during the afternoon the
police We're called upon to quell riots in
Second avenue, but none were of serious
import: The real trouble did not begin
until thousands of working people who
live along that great thoroughfare came
home from work. BY o'clock Second
avenue, from Tenth street to the stables
at Ninety-siXth street, and even as far
as One Hundred and Tenth street, was
filled, and on both walks was a dense
mass of people, all eager for trouble
Capt. Donohue, of the East Sixty-tirst
street station, earlier in the evening. had
sent out squad of men to keep people
out of the middle of the street, so that
no tampering with the slot might occur
But his men were tossed hither and
tl1ither. They used their clubs with all
their power, and the only result was to
anger the crowd, so that little discrimi-
nation was shown between the police and
the car men when bricks were thrown
AT about s o'clock a great crowd gath
cred between Forty-second and Forty
fifth streets and attempted to overthrow
the cars that came along but thirty min
utes apart Policeman Owen Conivan,
who was on a car bound south, was hit
on the head with a brick and knocked of
his seat to the pavement His left eye
was knocked out. He was taken to the
Flower hospital.
Louis Mankus, a nine-year-old boy, got
in front of policeman's club, and in the
excitement the blue coat made no dis
tinction. The boy was knocked over and
was carried home with a bad scalp
wound.
Mike Sheridan, a strike sympathizer
Of East Forty-second street, was taken
home with a fractured skull.
4 sergeant and forty-eight reserves