Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-17
Big Conflict Now on with Street
Railways in Brooklyn.
ONE BOY FATALLY INJURED
Violence " Not 10th Paroles
Confident rranic Materially Inn
prdcd statement oT Dispute.

been reported and the police seem To
have perfect control uf the situation.
Many Of the cars were manned with
green hands OnciulH VI the company
claim that they viii be- able 60 run
more car. on all lines than We're run
yesterday.
Brooklyn was quiet last night, at
though 5000 policemen had their
hands fun earlier IN the day. The first
day Of the street car strike developed
the fact that a very large portion III
brooklyn Rapid Transit company cm-
ploycr. white they may hc d,ssnus-
He'd with their treatment. are not viii.
Ing 20 strike. The good viii VI the
brotherhood Of engineers ON the
brooklyn clecatcd roads toward the
strikers Is no secret II has been said
that the Metropolitan ST. Railway
company. of Manhattan. IL planning 90
send men 10 help the Brooklyn come
pany. and this action may lead 60 "a
strike OF the Metropolitan employees
Wei Informed persons take no stock In
this report, The veteran labor leaders
uf New York. while they Hymputhlzc
with the strike. are not altogether
pleased with the situation. They say
that the Brooklyn men were not Well
enough organized and the urgunizu-
ton " the railroad men on Mauhat-
tan Island IL still more defective. The
conversRtiye trades uuloniHts have
never worked quite smoothly with the
knights % Labor. and the Knights "
Labor are the ou'y body Involved In
the strike chief Arthur, Of the Broth
crhood of Locomot tive Engineers, hay.
INK forbidden the RroJklyn Elevated
Railroad engineers To strike, The
Brooklyn Rapid Transit company says
that 1000 men struck the Knights "
Labor leaders say i.s00 The company
says u viii resume full service to-
day.
only one person was seriously wound
ed In Sundays stone throwing, Peter
speda. a messenger " years old. who
was struck by stone while riding on
a Green Point car. ~ expected TO die.
The stones we're hurried at the non
union motofman ana conductor, but one
OF the missiles struck the boy over the
right eye fraoturing the skull.
When the strike began, one motor
man, Charles Hill, 81 the HHlBey
avenue line. withsto0d the 1eers NJ the
mob and the appeals OF His fellows and
ran his car for one round uip. His
wife. on Hill's run TO the barns, begged
him To- quit. on his next trip. while a
mob threatened the motormnn with
personal Injury, Mrs, Hill, fearing Tor
his life. threw herself PROSTATE on the
tracks ~ front Of his car and told him
10 Kill her n he must continue IN peril.
MotorInnn Hin picked her up, kissed
her, ran his car to the barn and struck
forthwith.
seventy hrakesmcn on the Brooklyn
Elevated road, controlled by the Brook
Ign Rapid Transit company struck IN
NtNH FfstII4N -
pecting the engine drivers to follow
them. The engine drivers were waiting
for an order TO strike 20 come from
chief Arthur but Instead an order
came directing them 10 remain at work.
When this became known, the brake
men wont back TO work, after having
been away from their trains less than
three hours. The running Of trains WAS
not interferrd with by the short strike,
other employees ~ the road taking the
brake'nen'R places.
Men In the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
company thought out a scheme to opcr-
ate rui1 to Brighton Beach, II was Ia
have the Kings county elevated send
trains to the beach by way Of Franklin
avenue. This was made known to OH
cials Of the IL" road, who In turn CONE
inundated with the tralnmRstcr az
East New York, Az each train drew
up at the eastern parkway station In
East New York, the trainmnster asked
the engine driver " he would run
train TO Brighton Beach. This was
promptly refused In each case ON the
ground that the Brighton Beach road
was not part OF the -" system. The
scheme was abandoned
General Master Workman Parsons
had an interview with Police Commits
sioner Jacob Hess Mr.. Parsons COM
planned that the action of the Huthuri-
Ties In policing Brooklyn with immense
forces Of police taken from precincts
outside Ut the borough was unCallrd
for. when the peace had not been brOk-
On, or proof that such was Intended lie
asserted that such action could not be-
Justified unless II was Intended TO mako
ID manifest that corporations utilized
the police force To the dctriment OF the
people, and declared that II was CIl-
culated IN bring constituted authority
into dlsrcpute.
Commissioner Hess agreed TO some
extent that the employment OF police
IN such n capacity was not right, but
said that u was mover Intended 10 use
the police except tu Keep the peace,
An observation that large bodies OF
the police had been slowed In hiding
In the various depnts OF the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit system brought about
the conversation,
In the memorable BROOKLYN trolley
=
men turned out. II began, Ike thu
present one. In relatively orderly
manner on the fourth day serious
trouble began and several carH were
stoned. The police We're pnwerless %
deal with the situation. Riotinr be-
came general, and the first ana second
brlgadvs VI the National Guard had Co
be called out. This was on January
18Th, The mob defed the guardsmen
and was fired upon, two men being
Killed. There were also several bayonet
charges which resulted In blOodshed
Two attempts were made 10 burn tho
ear barns on Vanderbilt avenue. but
were frustrated by the guardsmen.
There was some savage lighting In the
streets before the rioters We're sup
pressed. The troops occupied the
streets from January l9th until Janu.
airy 3lat. Some Of the strikers We're
taken back by the Brooklyn Heights
COMPANY. Most OF them. however. went
over Ia the Nassau company, which
lately was absorbed by the Brooklyn
Heights company, and II Is among
these men that the present trouble IL
said to have originated
About two-thlrds OF the cars on all