New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-10
NOISY, BUT NOT VIOLENT.
POLICE KEEP ITALIAN STRIKERS WELL
IN HAND.
NUMEROUS GATHERINGS BROKEN "
THE poMcE-THREArs OF DEATH AT
ONE MEETING AGAINST ANY MAN
RETURNING TO woRK-A
FEW OBJECTIONS

RETURNING ~ WYNN
FEW OBJECTIONS.
The 200 Italian laborers on the '.,u no.
reservoir work who went on strihe vi ., q.
eause they wanted 81 so day ihs'oau - -,
| wond not 20 back to work yesterday mo, n'Ne :
| though there were Few oeiec'io.' paa,ord
strikers, ranks They remained about peu,o,'
81, ard IN Tho immediate vicinity OF the iesei
-, III r,ebt and were noisy at times but they
a,d not make much trouble. although thes w
meetings in which they threatened .~.od
sorts OF damage and wreck train II II Sc. t.
ont They also at one meeting iii"oe ia
,hot ~ any man returned to work they "ou,u
IN 10, The Rev Charles ]. Holt. OF 81 james
En,.conal Church, Fordham. exhorted the mon
60 r.turn to work yesterday morning Out '".'
would not do So Three hundred OF them mas
y ,,rd ~ baIf-hearted attempt TO get into 'hc
reservoir I'm the morning ana get the o."e' -
ou, but CAPTAIN schmittberger drove the ehtiio
gang away alone beating some OF theh WIN MS
club. -. rau,s
- ,en,esentatiyes slept all night In the dig
house I'm which the contractor, j. B' McponA'o,
has his offices. The Captain hau hun"oe' W
nolicemen with him, to be ready IN case 'he' w"
needed outside. In the open, awake ana oii eua..
oil night in all parts Of the work were sersea"'
cn.,ne, ana about a hundred policemen. There
were several policemen about the dynaii'e mas"
,os hut no one came near them at any u"ie
in the night morning .o,,.
The contractor. Mr.. Mcdonald, appeareu 49,
ton minutes after o'clock. he ana soii'o W.
mon boarded train, and me engineer was VI
70 go TO the end Of the road, at East :.
The start was made and without moestatioh u
- 80 .,d r,eetns with only few Italians
,,ho ro,de no demonstration, the train was run "
rast chester Policemen were stationed al e
the railroad track as the train went a'os
Mcdonald and the empty cars IN whicn po"N
GOOD hut II vas q wholly uneventfui uip
rbero are two hundred men still at WORK IN 'he
, s,cIud,ng the skilled workmen such as
engineers drillmen. etc, none OF "hoih wen ~,
An et,emnt was made yesterday TO get these men 10
Io,n the strikers Three hundred ltaliahs' rev
with picks and shovels went down 10 the reserve.
and got somewhere near the men VINO hao rsiuseo
70 ,oIn the strikers They exhorted them to come
ont hut the men would not do So IL was only
few minutes later that Captain schmittoerger ap-
naared The officer drove up In carriage lie
had a club with him. but there was no other police
man near He got out OF the carriage ana yeheu
AT the Italians move off the grounds Ihey $1,000
for a few seconds, but he ran at them ana ciuppeu
a few of them and all broke into run and scat
tered .
Several times in the morning gatherings Of the
rnen TO the number at times of more than hun
dred tried to swarm into the reservoir grounds 10
get TO the other men that they could tax TO
them but were driven back by the police, though
little force used. Inc strikers uiu not attempt
to use picks or shoves any weapons at any
time
About 7:sO o'clock Mcdonald gave the order to
start out the first trainload of dirt 10 be dumped
Italians got $ close the track they could
without being interefered with by the police who
lined the road The train was filled with dirt and
each car and the engineers cab had policeman
aboard. The strikers jeered and hooted. but at
tempted no violence Several other trains sent
| out, with the same result.
Later the police force increased by the ar
rival OF two men from every precinct In the city.
squad sent. after the arrival Of this detacn-
ment. the settlement in the grounds, where
| many of the live with their families. The
u, homes novels, one-story frame shanties Some
| of the men had gone there to see their families.
The police went into every house and drove all
! the ment out making them leave the settlement
| 0nd grounds altogether. One woman resented the
| entrance Of Patroman Lyman, of the East One
! hundred-and- twenty sxth-st. station. and at
| tackled him with a shovel. She tried to hit him
but the shovel was taken away from her. She con
( tlnued fight and bit and scratched the police
man. who finally subdued her. and she was forced
| to retire TO her home. Hyman was not hurt.
About fifty of the strikers went back TO work
at the original place of the strike yesterday af.
! with the whole number Of the men on the strike
but II is an indication that the strike is breaking
| up. The striking Italians vigorous ever
| and II is thought that some trouble is imminent
The police broke up frequent gatherings about tbs
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