The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-07-27
WAR OF MAYORS.
Officials of Cleveland and Brooklyn
Clash Over the Strike.

Clash Over the Strike
Cleveland, O., July 27-The storm
center of the street railway strike has
according to the authorities, settled in
Brooklyn, a suburb connected with
Cleveland by a long high bridge. One
hundred and fifty employees of the Born
Steel Range company blockaded a car
on the bridge and dragged the motor
man and conductor from their posts, in
ficting with their fists and other weap-
ons injuries more painful than serious.
Soldiers on guard at the barn about
half a mile away hurried to the scene,
but the rioters had taken refuge in the
factory, which stands under the APP
proach to the bridge. The factory was
surrounded and the premises searched
but there was no clew by which the
guilty ones could be picked out, so they
bent their efforts to assisting the blood
stained mOtOrman and conductor to
move the car, most of the windows of
which had been broken by stones.
Gen. Axline,in command of the troops
herein order to personally view the sit
uation, took a ride on an Orange street
car. He was in civilian dress and the
car was stoned at various intervals all
along the route. A rock came neGr
hitting him. The general took other
trips through the troubled districts, but
declined to give his view of the situa-
ton.
The vigilance of the guards while day
light aided them prevented trouble of a
serious nature. Preparations for mass
meetings at various points were made
during yesterday. 1t is expected that a
large one will be held in Montan square
in the heart of the city tonight unless
the mayor prohibits it. In preparation
for one, a platform was erected in
Brooklyn to protest against the action
of Mayor Farley, of Cleveland, who has
assumed, under the authority of an al
most forgotten statute, supreme police
power in CuyahOga county. This leaves
Mayor Phelps Of the suburb, together
with his cOnstabulary, shOrn of their
robes Of power and they don't like it.
The two mayors are not on the terms
that existed between the stored COVER
nors of the two Carolinas. The soldiers
and the Cleveland chief executives
special police in Brooklyn are not al
lowed to use the public hydrants to get
water, it is said, and upon various oc-
casiOns bayonets were of a necessity
used to convince shOpkeepers that it
was wisest to sell soldiers what they
wanted.
Mayor Farley has mailed Mayor
Phelps a letter in which he declared
that if the Cleveland cohorts had any
more trouble about getting water,
Cleveland, which pumps the water to
the suburb, would abrOgate the truce
and let the whole hamlet go thirsty.
Mayor Farley also issued a statement
to the strikers in which he said that a
man who was more loyal to his labor
union than to himself and his country
was a coward and a bad citizen.
Cars were run on u lines of the Big
Consolidated yesterday and on most of
the lines last night. President Mahon,
of the National Union of Street Cas-
employees, in an interview declared that
as the street car company, according to
his information was losing thousands
of dollars every day, the strike would
have to be settled soon upon advances
made by the company. In the face of
this President Everett again told the
board of arbitration that the company
had nothing to arbitrate. The board is
unable to take action looking to a set
Element in view of the attitudes of the
opposing forces.