The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1899-07-27
THE NEW YORK STRIKE.
A Crowd Attempted to Wreck Car 1t
130th street and Ssh Avenue-Con-
troller BATTERED to iiece%

trolier BATTERED to iieces.
NEW YORK, July 2i.-A crowd o
striking motormcn of the Eiyh
avenue line late Thursday afternoon
attempted TO wreck a car at One Hun
drcd and Thirtieth street and Eighth
avenue, after driving the rnotormar
from the platform. A mob had been
lying in wait and climbed aboard
when the car stopped TO take on n
woman. They seized the motorman and
tore the controller bar ont of his
hands. The strikers then pro-
ceedcd to smash the switch
box above the platform with
the controller handle and man
with crowbar battered the controller
to pieces An immense crowd gather
cd, and a bicycle policeman went to
the rescue. Other policemen arrived
at about the same time. They broke
through the crowd and attacked the
strikers, arrcsting several OF them.
A great crowd followed jccring and
threatening the policemen, but were
driven off by policemen who came to
the assistance of the rOundsman and
his patrolmen along the way.
The cars on the Eighth avenue line
moved along with perfect regularity
after dark Thursday night. At the
stables of the line, Forty-ninth street
and Eighth avenue. order was main
taincd. Inspector Thompson has
charge of the police arrangements. At
s o'clock he sent out policeman on
every car, but more as precaution
than necessity.
The cars on the Sixth avenue line
continued TO run on regular schedule
time after nightfall. At no place
along the line was there any evidence |
of strike.
Inspector Thompson, in command of
the police at the Sixth avenue stables,
Sixth avenue and Fifticth street. bcran
at o'clock to furnish police escorts
lie sent one policeman out on every
car, although he said he did not think
this was really need.
Second avenue, the storm center of
Wednesday night, was Sc vastly i'm
proved from the view point of order
and observance OF the law Thursday
night that a stranger would have been
unable TO detect the existence Of n
strike, except, perhaps, from the large
number Of policemen on guard. The
avenue was thoroughly patrollcd.
The insulation in the conduit OF the
Eighth avenue line burned out Thurs
lay night between SiXty-nInth street I
md Eightieth street. y piece of wire {
brown into the slot either by accident
'r with design became cntangled in {
he plow of 4 car and looscncd the 7
pring OF the plow. This was let down c
o that the insulation was scraped off.
here was beautiful pyrotechnical dis O
lay for ten blocks, and at places the v
amcs shot ten feet in the air. the fire v
urning itself out. C
At the strike headquarters of the
econd avenue line it was claimed that c
motormcn and 90 conductors had
)incd the strikers during the day, u
laliinG n total of 500 out on that line. II
he strikers claimed not to have lost
ngle man. p
NEW YORK, July 22.-Thcre were 81
,arccly any indications of a street 81
lilway strike in Manhattan borough
riday morning. Cars on all lines af- II
ctcd ran apparently on schedule
me. &C
In brooklyn about go per cent. of ai
Ie regular number of cars were in III
'eration, but carrying only one-haf
&c usual number of passengers. al
NEW YORK, July 24.-The trolley
r strike, both in Manhatten and 81
'ooklyn seems to be practically at an III
d. General Master Workman Par
ms says it is not Sunday and at at
,eting of the Central Federated
ion he launched scheme for a new ie!
Dor political party and at the same
ne nrged upon the delegates of the IN
rious trades unions in Greater New We
rk the expediency of contributing co
2 fund to aid the strikers and the on
legatcs promised their financial Jul
)port. WI