Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-21

NEW YORK, July 20.-A marvellous
change has come over the strike as
pect in this city. Last night there
was rioting from one end of Second
avenue to the other. There was prom
Use, too, by General Master Workman
Parsons, of a complete tie-u2 OF the
trolley lines in Manhattan with its
consequent inspiring effect upon the
Brooklyn strikers. A general tie-up has
not come by any means in New York.
There was little or no rioting on Sec
end avenue to-day or tonight. The
cars on that line ran throughout the
day almost as they had run previous to
the strike. The Eighth avenue line
which the strike officials last night
promised would be dead to-day was
moving right on time with only a
hitch now and then far up in Harlem,
where few roughs had a clear field
to run.
There is no strike on the Madison
avenue line schedule meeting OF the
car men of that line having fzled out
tonight. Practically no trolley line
in New York is affected save the Sec
ond avenue.
So many heads were broken on that
busy thOroughfOre last night and so
many arrests were made which the po-
lice officials declare will be dealt with
severely by the courts, that the crowds
OF strikers and sympathizers on the
avenue failed to materialize tonight
Only now and then was any attempt
made to hold up car and the police
dispersed the would-be rioters with as
much energy as ever and with much
less difficulty.
In Brooklyn the Rapid Transit Com
pany put on several hundred new men,
Or haze them ready for duty, and in
a general way the cars on the affected
lines in that borough ran on good time
with what seemed to be a fair increase
in passenger traffic.
General Master Workman Parsons
has called mass meeting for to-mor-
row might, at which he hopes to have
present representatives of $50 labor or
CARNATIONS OF Greater New York. To-
night he, together with District Master
Workman Pines, addressed number of
meetings held by the local assemblies
in Brooklyn in an endeayOr to have the
men work more in unison to extend the
strike in Brooklyn.
Michael Kelly, secretary of District
Assembly 40. X. of L., to-day sent a
formal complaint to State Factory In
spector John Williams that the ten
hour law was being violated on the
Metropolitan railway system in this
city.
Secretary Kelly offers to furnish ey-
idence in regard to the matter.
A crowd of striking motormen of the
Eighth avenue line late this afternoon
attempted to wreck a car at One Hun
dred and Thirtieth street and Eighth
avenue, after driving the motOrman
from the platform. A mob had been
lying in wait and climbed aboard when
the car stopped to take on a woman.
They seized the mCtOrman and tore
the controller bar out of his hands.
The strikers then proceeded to smash
the switch box above the platform
with the controller handle and a man
with a crow-bar battered the con-
troller to pieces. An immense crowd
gathered, and a bicycle policeman
went to the rescue Other policemen
arrived az about the same time. They
broke through the crowd and attacked
the strikers, arresting several Of them.
A great crowd followed, jeering and
threatening the policemen, but were
driven off by policemen who came 10
the assistance of the roundsman and
his patrolmen along the way. The
disabled car was pushed along to the
car barns and laid up for repairs.
The strike situation in Brooklyn is
practically unchanged. Few cases of
violence were reported and the only ex-
element was caused by the arrest of
Thomas J. Casey. former division SUI
perintendent of the Nassau line on the
charge of attempting to interfere with
Homer l.. Dean, an inspector of the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company.
Dean, who refused to give his age, adj
dress or any other particulars, accused
Casey with having interfered with him
on July Is in the performance Of his
duties at Thirty-ninth street between
Fifth and Sixth avenues while he was
engaged in taking out one of the COM
panys cars, and urged him to join the
strike. Casey was arraigDed in the
Adams street police court and admitted
to bail pending his examination to-mor-
row.
Much speculation was INDUCED in re-
garding the outcome OF the disagree
ment between Albert Johnson. former
president of the Nassau Railroad Com
pany. and Mr.. Rossiter, president of
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company.
Mr. Johnson had heard that Mr.. Rossi-
ter had accused him on Wednesday of
instigsting the plot to wreck the ele-
waited structure of the Fifth avenue road
and spent a large part of the day hunt
ing IN evidence TO substantiate what
he had heard. He was clcseted with
Magistrate Bremen at the Adams street
police court during the afternoon. but
neither Mr. Johnson or Magistrate
Bremen would make a statement
During the afternoon more than 100 OF
the strikers nut in an appearance at the
eompany's offices at Montague and Csiften
streets. where they turned in their badges.
Continued On Second Pa.e.