The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-07-21
TROLLEY STRIKE GROWS
Strike Ordered oD the
Metropolitan.
LOOKING FOR ANARCHISTS

The strikers Cause Strengthe ned by
the Tfe>up Of the Metropolitan Hoad.
Men Arrested for the .ExpIOsion on
Fifth Avenue CHARGED With Using
Dynamise-Repeated Riots on second
Aveuue-Conhicts Between POlices
men aud Rioters.
New York, July 18.-The Brooklyn
trolley strike is still on, and in all like
lihood there will be no end to the labor
trouble for several days to come. The
striking motormen and conductors are
very earnest, and they clam that they
are gaining ground.
On the other hand, the representa-
tives of the Brooklyn Traction Com
pany assert that the strike is only a
nominal one, and that from tonight on
they will experience no difficulty in
running their full complement of cars.
The company did not run any cars
over it's various lines after dark last
evening, but resumed traffic shortly
after 5 o'clock this morning. Numbers
of cars were run over the several lines
but the time schedule was not lived up
to on any one of them, and fair es-
innate of the rolling stock in operation
would be about &C per cent. No cars
were run over the FlatbuSh avenue line
to Brighton beach.
During the day the police made sew
eral arrests of persons who interferred
with the progress of the cars on the
Nassau lines, but no serious outbreak
occurred until after o'clock. A small
riot occurred few minutes after 6
o'clock, in which two men were pain
fully, but not seriously hurt A mob
of some 400 persons attacked a Fifth
avenue car on its way into the city
at Sixth street and Fifth avenue and
MOtorman A. Latham and Conductor
w. F. Mhcahey were pulled off the car
and badly treated. Latham had his
arm broken, and Mulcahey received a
fracture of the nose.
Master Workman Parsons and Dis
strict Master Pines were very confident
that the strikers would win the fight,
but, judging from the number Of cars
in operation today, the assertion of the
railroad managers that the strike would
fizzle out seems to be we'll founded.
New York, July 19.-At an early
hour this morning the report was
brought to police headquarters that an
explosion had occurred on the Fifth
avenue elevated line, Thirty-sixth
street. The entire line was blocked.
AS serious riot occurred on Fifth ave-
nue. earlier in the evening the police
authorities at headquarters feared that
the explosion on the elevated line was
the work of the strikers.
THE SITUATION AT CLEVELAND.
Cleveland, o., July 18.-Whether or
not the quiet that has prevailed today
precedes a storm to come in the railway
strike is the question that everyone is
asking. The strikers are pursuing diff
ferent tactics from those followed in
the former strike. They are not inter-
ferrirg with the no-union men who are
operating cars, nor will they tell what
their plans are. The officials OF the
Company also refuse to talk, but they
operated cars on several of the lines to-
day under police protection, without
molestation. Preparations are being
made to resume operations on other
lines, and it is apparent that new .1en
are to be secured as rapidly as possibly
to take the places Of the strikers.
New York, July 19.-The strike order
ed this morning on the lines of the
Metropolitan street railway in New
York infused new blood into the strike
in Brooklyn nd did not tend to improve
matters.
The arrest Of twenty-One men charg-
ed with conspiracy TO destroy the ele-
waited railroad this morning at Fifth
avenue and Thirty-sixth street, had lit
tie effect on the public, although it was
expected that public sympathy would
turn against the strikers.
The car service was very poor. In the
earlier part of the day IS per cent. OF
the cars of the Brooklyn Heights sys-
tenn were operated, but this was lessen
ed to a considerable extent later in the
day. On the Nassau lines cars worked
on half headway all day.
CHARGED WITH USING DYNAMITE
The twenty-one men who were ar
rested were arraigned in the Afternoon
Magistrate Brenner. They were repre-.
sented by counsel, who pleaded no.
| guilty in their behalf and demanded ar
immediate hearing. The origina
charge of vagrancy on which the mer
had been held was dismissed and they
answered to a charge of conspiracy
| substantiated by the affidavit of Will
| liam Ashby, an investigator" who de.
posed that on Monday evening he had
| attended a meeting at Carberry hal
and that there was talk of buying dy
Mantle, the use of the dynamite 10 b'
/ contingent on the action Of the engi
neers of the elevated railroad concern
ing the proposition to strike. II th'
| elevated employees refused 10 go out
| somebody suggested dynamite shoult
| be used TO blow them up. SUCH re
| marks, said Ashby, were followed by
| We will!'' I'VE will" Ashby further
stated that he saw OHara and thre.
| others leave the hall, saying they haf
| the stuff with them and that they hat
in their pockets packages rolled UP IL
brown paper. looking like dynamite