The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-12-26

| Well-directed missionary work on
the part of the strikers resulted in, a
strike among the men brought or
from Syracuse to take their places,
| and as a consequence only two cars
| were run yesterday, and these We're
| manned for the most part by company
| officials.
Fourteen men all told were recruit
ed by the company in Syracuse. One
of these quit Immediately after reach
| ing the city and learning from the
strikers missionaries the conditions
existing here as they saw them. Be
fore l. o'clock Monday night nine
others were won over by the strikers.
and after enjoying a very merry
Christmas eve as guests of the eNecu-
tive committee, left for Syracuse on
the 4:i0 q. IN. train.
Another of the imported men threw
up his job and entered suit against the
trolley company for his wages and the
price OF return ticket. He said, the
agent who hired him assured him that
there was no trouble here, and thar
if upon reaching here he did not find
everything satisfactory he would be
paid off and given q ticket home He
could have his fare paid by the strik
ers' committee, but he declares that he
will walk home before he will take
a cent from the strikers treasury.
His name is Clyde Orringer, and lie
is n carpenter by trade.
HE LIKES SCRANTON.
Another quit work at the solicita-
tion of the strikers, but declined to
..1
liked the looks of Scranton and would
stay here for II while. He assured
the strikers, however, that he would
not go to work on the cars.
Three new recruits from Syracuse
arrived early yesterday morning, and
are being cared for at the company's
offices. There was q report prevalent
yesterday that twelve men had been
brought into the city during the night
by the company and quartercd at y
small hotel. The strikers scouts AT
the stations did not credit the story,
and when other scouts made thor
OuSh search of the city without find
ing any trace of the reported new
comers, the executive committee ba-
came satisfied there was nothing in
the rumor.
AT Q o'clock last night another batch
of imported men arrived over the Della
ware. Lackawanna and Western from
New York city. There We're thirty-one
in the party and they We're in charge
of a man named Weiner. The strikers
learned of their coming and gathered
at the station in large numbers. \
crowd of three hundred spectators also
assembled.
When the importations We're led out
of the station and taken to the Scran-
ton house for lunch, the strikers mis-
sionaries followed them. went among
them and proceeded by quiet argument
to convert them. Seventeen of the
thirty-one quit on the spot and ac-
cepted the strikers offer to keep them
over night and pay their way back to
New York in the morning.
The seventeen converts We're marched
up to the strike Headquarters in the
Grand Central hotel and taken in
charge by the executive committee.
The other fourteen followed the lead
of Special Agent Sweeney to the troll
ley company's Office at the upper end
of the same block and We're slowed
away in the improvsed bunk room.
CHEERS AND JEERS.
The crowd cheered the men who
turned into strike headquarters and
1eered the fourteen who went to the
railway company's offices.
A telephone message sent from the
latter place when the crowd began to
make noise brought Chief Robling and
a squad of patrolmen to the scene with
the patrol wagon Their services wera
however, not required AS a precau-
tionary measure the chief had the
crowd disperse.
One of the New York men, William
Walters, made a. speech to the crowd
from the entrance of the Grand Cen
trail. He said he and his comrades
came here with no knowledge of there
being strike in progress. The agent
who recruited him, he said, told them
they We're wanted to work on new
road In Scranton nnl that tha,, ,,,,nIl