The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-21

New York. July 20-A crowd of strlkns
motormen Of the Eighth avenue line late
this afternoon attempted TO wreck car
ut one Hundred and Thirtieth street and
Eighth avenue. after driving the motormau
from the platform. mob had been lying
in wait and climbed aboard when the car
stopped TO take on woman. They
seized the motormon and tore the control
Ter bar out OF his hands. The strikers
above the platform with the controller
handle and man with clawbar hat :
tered the controller 10 pieces Policemen
dispersed the crowd and made several ar
rests. The cars on the Eighth avenue line
moved along with perfect regularity after
dark tonight. At the stables OF the line.
Forty ninth and Eighth avenue, order was
maintained. The cars on the sixth ave-
nue. line continued TO run on regular sched-
ule time after nightfall. AT no place along
the line was there any evidence of a strike.
On both these lines n policeman accom-"
panied every car but more as precau-
ton than as a necessity.
Second avenue. the storm center of last
night, was vastly improved from the view
point OF order and observance OF the law
tonight On Second avenue from Eighth
street to one Hundred and Sixteenth
street, 800 policemen were constantly on
the alert and wherever riot lIted Its head
a dozen men were on hand with clubs TO
strike it. down, The result was imme-
date and marked, and conditions approx.
lmately normal existed, The fact that
four men had been held by various magis-
trates during the day and the announce
ment of the police that they Intended to
try TO give each OF these four men long
term in Sing Sing, made the denizens Of
tho tenemcnts more careful. Michael kel-
iy, aecreiary OF district assembly No. 40.
knights OF Labor. today sent formal
complaint to State Factory Inspector John
williams that the hour law WAS being
violated on the Metropolitan railway sys-
tenn in this city. Secretary Kelly oilers
TO furnish evidence In regard TO the mat
ter.
At the strike headquarters of the Sec
ond avenue line II was claimed that ten
molormen and twenty conductors had
Joined the strikers, during the day, maxi
ing a total OF 500 out on that line ihoI
strikers claimed not 10 have lost single
man. The cars on this line were running
on a Roadway OF ten 10 eight minutes bo-
tween the hours OF and midnight.
meeting Of the Madison avenue strik-
ers scheduled for tonight was not very
successful Delegates from other lines
were expected 10 report, but less than
fifty motormen went TO the hall Several
special committees were sent out TO induce
the motormen and conductors on the cars
running to join them. but almost In every
INSTANCE these men refused to do 30. Thcy
were not injured in any way and the cars
run regularly.
There will be a mass meeting tomorrow
at Grand Palace hail.
Six Madison avenue strikers were ar
rested at 1920 O'Clock this morning as
suspicious persons. The men were taken
To Madison avenue and Seventy ninth
street. A number Of motormen and con-
ductors on late cars reported at the
Eighty sixth street stables that com
mittee" OF the strikers had boarded the
cars and tried 20 intimidate them into
quitting after having tried peaceful meth
DDS In vain.