The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-20

I.
One Of S"t tie S MSropg nS nsr"stoPs e Pdg
clothes was on the sfcw3jE n }" ts sx
wagons in the stable came, W the avenue on
the dead run, In it was Cant. Martens with
bel! warned the, crowd and IT fed wildly. Tho
police could only get within nightstIck reach
OF three OF four men The spike was removed
Hall an hour later the slot was again spiked
ths t time but ut the had be
andpounded considerably before i would take
TO the sidewalk. Nosooner had the police ley
tho place. however, than the crowd swOop"d
back again and piled the tracks with stones
CENTRE or TURMOIL.
This sort Of thing went on n, at A. rS2nts sS Or
eight blocks on ether SiIe 0I ,he Sime'y n
more serious outbreak directly in front OF the
barns at about o'clock. Capt. Aontson went
tho crowd back 10 Ninety first street. Most Of
s sS BACK to- ssssd avenue enc S S
the streets above the barn. The discharged
men who were running the . strike had two
NTH street and Second avenue Ind the other
in saloon at 10Th street. Somebody brought
word 70 the 10Th street saloon that the police
lyn men. The news spread rapidly -,
tho Brooklyn cops" was the message shouted
w and down tho avenue and in at saloon
doors II created great
half OF them little boys under ii years old.
marched down the avenue, The little h!ocYs
eli II rsS yh o EFro %
we're 9gy two or three men on , zach c3rHSr
crowd go by them In silence. But at lG'th
streeU, there were ten or fifteen men who had
up hs f 4ey sTT hn
as their legs would let them when these men
started forward gripp'ng their clubs. some OF
minutes more It was demonstrated to the iuIl
satisfaction 81 all concerned that Brooklyn
about using his locust club than is "a Manhattan
policeman in Brooklyn. Each policeman picked
ont one and S"a, hin end e"2teh him
other man to whom pain had not lent wings
and reneated the dose, About fifteen minutes
looking committee meeting on the 18th street
corner. Informal resolutions were passed
bringing Of BROOKLYN policemen to Manhattan
was capialistic outrage, and that the Man
haitian public had been grossly aud criminally
deceived as the disposition and manners of the
same.
DESERTED HIS CAR.
Frank Lnlly. the motorman OF q chr that left
the barns. going uptown, at little alter noon,
stopped his car In the middle OF the junction Of
the 10th street nnd, Second avenue lines and
The company told him to eI 60 ahead No., said
y hanGe s OF r2h ss on hns
Il won't" said Lally, and handed the lever to
striker standing beside the car. and tried to
step down himself. The STRIKER got away with
the lever, but Laly WIS restrained. He was
taken to Inspector Cross NJ the barns The
| inspector said that it was perfectly clear that
| ially had merely gone out to block the line
| and make trouble, and ordered that he be
| locked up On charge Of disordrrIy conduct.
spectors started down tho avenue o. a car an
was stoned at the direction q dis Hanged
dropped Off the car to 60 hack. Lester ran
after him. cursing him. The iipsIcctor went
liceman AJAX whitman Of the bicycle squad.
Ajax and the Inspector and ten or fifteen
policemen went back I" place, where Les
there was not singj" man who looked as il
he had intelligence enough To run notor.were
| Safeguarding the motorman 81 the car on
which the Inspector hal started down town.
| There was sharr fight between tn" policemen
noremdn io drew hdir revoSers Then The MOB
yatei pillars, awning posts ana even blank wall
rrirhbt J, Nm Ajax iooks insieniiesni,
on lin at the corner OF Ninety fourth street.
| For five whirling. punching, whs"kinK minutes
legs and banged him with his knees in the
IAN Tnd Am finally hFeT lin int The 5ss
followed with limping and dazed alacrity.
| The polio" e. anrd nHt the Ninety-fith street
| charges IN the street. several times. A squad
81 i've or six would 90 to each door and club
! their way 10 tho bar, no man could get ont
| without being dubbed by at least six police
At Ninctr-spconl street during the after
noon II pickle II nufacturers wagon loaded
with kegs of salt curumbcrs and pigs feet was
seized Ivy mob and turned over on the tracks
spilled. Hundr"d, Of small boys gathered VI
all they could carry. When the next ear came
aIo1g me p9ss"HgrTs were n rHtsd with titEle,
| rescue. In all such spots ii was clear TINT the
police wore perfectly efficient but there wer,
| not enough VI them.
SMALL BOYS ANNOY THE POLICE.
The small boys were ,rerpeyirC feature Of
we're undrrds and hundreds q them in gangs
two or three blocks apart all the way from
l2oth strocI 70 forty-second street They
filled the sidewalks behind them and eGget
them on They screamed and And Yelled ut thS
ssTS s 1noo of h:m thpsS havos i
pulling up tho small Iron lids over the holes
sunk Into the trolley tunnel every twenty o.
frames stop 4 car most eircctually aud often
damage it ,S,Sriouslyi The G@.iIre had the "
ran ike ferretH. and wcro protected by The
crnwds at every opportunity.
rostion ' TO niure and delay tn. cars as muci
as they could The policemen who rode or
the cars. one on each end. were Kept busy run
ming out into the street threatening truckmer
with arrest /. they did not turn ont. This sort
Of delay accounted in q great measure for tht
running Of the ears in lunches
People who saw the disturbances in Brook
Ign on Sunday and Monday and saw tn" Sec
ond avenue lights yesterday Afternoon com
pared them this way The Brooklyn crowds
were down on the mOtoruen and the cOnduc
tors They wanted to sctre them or take then
from the cars. They tried to block the line
Thcy showed no harl feeling toward tn,
police. But the Manhattan crowd on SerOnC
avenue wants fight much moro than II want
to iutmld7tc mOtOrmeu and conductors |
wants excitement. II wants to disable police
men and to make them afraid nud to see then
run, II wants to smash cars and hear the glas
rattle"
The police sent men along Second avcnu,
late in The afternoon to tell landlords to loci
the ecuttlcs leading to their root, and TO al
Wis" their tenant, 20 keep their windows closed
The locking Of tho scuttes was to keep tn
roofs clear Of cOhb!cStonD thrUwcls ard to gu
OF the mcAus OF escape OF Incn who wer
cha.cd into tn" houses from the street Saloon
Keepers wore strongly advised to close thrl
places NJ dark. They wore told that thci
placed would he allowed TO 10 very little husi
ness during the night II they tried to kec
Open,
Several hundred cots were set UP in the Sec
ond avenue ear barns for tn" motormcn an,
policemen to usp uiQht. The mon VIII,