Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-20


tracks of the Second avenue line at
Ninety fourth street, only two blocks
from the depot of the road early this
morning, but the police arrived on the
scene before any damage had been
done.
Commissioner Delehanty, of the
state board of meditation and arbitra-
ton, said to-day that the board stood
ready to meet and try to adjust the
difficulties between the railroad men
and their employers as soon as both
sides asked for their services.
General Master Workman Parsons
said to-day that while he had advised
against strike to-day in New York,
ne would stand by the men to the last.
Il advised delay for day or Two,
he SAID. but now the strike is on l
will make it the fight OF my life. TO
sustain the men in compelling an OD-
servance of the ten-hour law. and the
redress of other grievances. Now that
the men have determined TO act the I'M
portant issue that will most interest
organized workingmen is to secure for
the railroad employees not only an OBJ
servance of the ten-hour law. but the
1ignt to maintain an organization, With
out any special reference to what ma
tional organizations their union may be
attached"
AT One Hundred and Sixteenth street
a spike was driven in the trolley slot
and the road blocked. The same thing
was done later at One Hundred and Sec
ond street.
Frank LAZY, motorman, was in
duced to quit work at One hundred and
sixteenth street and Second avenue.
The motor handles were stolen and the
road was stalled until assistance could
be obtained from the depot. A squad
of police came up and charged the
crowd with their clubs, dispensing the
strikers right and left. One officer
had his uniform torn in the scutfie.
He arrested LAZY for disorderly con-
duct.
A car was held up at Second avenue
and One numbered and twelfth street
by a crowd of men, women and chill
dren throwing distractions on the
track. AS the car was stopped a show
er of stones assailed the crew and a
policeman who was on the front plat
form The officer was hit by two
stones, one of them cutting him. The
crowd was dispersed by a relief force
of police.
If the strikers wanted to make
plenty of work for the police and at
the same time get into district where
they could depend on popular sympathy
they made a wise selection in taking
the Second avenue line for the prin-
cipal fight of the strike.
Several times during the afternoon
the police were called upon to quell
riots in Second avenue, but none was
of serious import. The real trouble
did not begin until the thousands of
working people who live along that
great thoroughfare came home from
work.
BY seven 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 with a dense mass of people ali
eager for trouble. Captain Donahue,
of the East Sixty-frst street station,
earlier in the evening had sent 12.
squad of men to keep the PEG
of the middle of the street so ~ 20.
tampering with the slot nights 4712.
But his men were like so many 9 rs.
on a river when the tide is strong !. ~
they were tossed hither and thither
They used their clubs with all their
power, but only resulted in angering
the crowd so that little discrimination
was shown between the police and the
carmen when bricks were thrown. At
about s o'clock a great crowd gather
ed between Forty-second and Forty
fifth streets and attempted to over
throw the cars that came along about
thirty minutes apart.
Policeman Owen Conovan, who was
on car bound south was hit on the
head with brick and knocked off his
seat to the pavement. His left eye
was almost knocked out. He was TAX
en- to the Flower hospital
Louis Minkus, a nine-year-old boy,
got IN front of a policeman's club and
IN the excitement the bluecoat made no
distinctions. The boy was knocked
over and was carried home with bad
scalp wound.
Mike Sheridan, a sympathizer of East
Forty-second street. was taken home
with fractured skull. A sergeant and
forty reserves were gotten out on the
double quick and dispersed the crowd,
making a number Of arrests
Another crowd got together in a mo-
ment or two at Fifty-ffth street and
Second avenue and when a car bound
down came along it met perfect Show
er of bricks, stones and other missiles
thrown from the street, the windows of
the flats and roofs. The women were
perfect furies. While a car was passing
Seventy-second street, with Policeman
Gallagher as an escort, score or more
of the mob tried to board it to take off
the conductor and motorman. Gala
CHER got off and drawing two revolvers
walked ahead Of the car, clearing the
track, the mob retreating sullenly
Some one threw a brick and hit Gala
CHER in the leg, cutting him badly
Twelve mounted policemen came down
the avenue to the rescue and dispersed
the crowd for the taSe being.
Inspector Cross, Inspector Harley and
Inspector Kane were in charge of the
police at the Ninety-sixth street stables
of this line. They had 500 policemen at
the stables and distributed along the
avenue at various points
The cars coming into the stables from
down town looked as if they had run
the gauntlet of Balaklava. Windows
were broken and sides dented in and
more than one motorman left his post
with the statement that he had all he
wanted.
One car which had III fares and
g, L