The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-21
GALS But No RIOTS
ST. LOUIS STRIKE DEVELOPS SOME
EXCITEMENT ON VERY SMALL
PRETEXT
some or The Lines II USE
NEITHER THE STRIKERS NOR
THEIR FRIENDS INCLINED TO
MAKE TROUBLE
THE STRIKERS SEE VICTORY
President Mnhan, of the Street Car
Men, Is Sanguine They VIII
Win in the End-Places
for Old Men.

ST. LOUIS, May 20.-Cars were run to-
day on five of the lines of the St. Louis
Transit company without any inter
ference from the strikers or their friends.
The lines which were operated were:
Park, Laclede, Delmar, Page and Spauid-
ing avenues. No attempt was made TO
run the cars on schedule time. They
were run out of the barn down to one
end of the line and back again.
Every car that went out and came back
unmarked was considered as making q
notable achievement and it's crew received
greetings like those extended to an only
son on his return from long and weary
warfare. There was no outbreak of any
kind during the day. Two riot calls were
sent INTO the police department during
the afternoon, but the riots were very
far from being the real thing.
The first disturbance was begun by a
balky horse who went on an Individual
strike at the corner of Eighteenth and
Chestnut streets. A large crowd gathered
to watch the progress Of the argument
between the animal and his driver and
when the horse finally conceded the point
at issue, and passed on, the people were
standing around the corner utterly at
loss for amusement The crowd turned
its attention to crews of the Laclede cars
which were passing every few minutes.
They showered the crews with epithetS
and deluged them with advice. A riot call
was sent to police headquarters, and
Chief Of Police Campbell with twenty
men hurried to the spot, told everybody
to "move on" saw that they did move
on" and riot number one was over before
1t actually started.
ANOTHER RIOT CALL.
The second disturbance occurred a few
minutes later OF Washington avenue, be-
tween Thirteenth and Fifteenth streets.
A crowd of about 1,500 people lined both
sides of the street for two squares, and
began to jeeF and hoot the train crews.
The few policemen on duty were utterly
una bic to handle the crowd and unques-
tionably the crowd would have been
moved to things more energetic than
words If another riot call had not been
turned in. Sergeant Bowen at the head
of dozen men came quickly to the spot
and within ten minutes he had cleared
the street and restored quiet.
The strikers made the assertion that all
day long they had men along the differ
couraging every attempt at interference
with the cars, on account of the women
and children who would wish to ride
around the city on Sunday. No direct
acts of violence were offered during the
entire day, and although every car that
ran back and forth on the Laclede aVenue
line carried four policemen, and every
car on the lines from one to three they
had nothing to do but keep their seats
and ride.
WANTED MORE PROTECTION.
President Baumhon said during the
afternoon:
I'VE are running full handed on five
lines and could run on all of the others
If the police were able to furnish US pro-
lection for the crews and passengers.
On Page and Park avenues we have every
car running. On Delmar avenue we are
running cars every seven minutes. The
cars, before the strike, ran every six
minutes The Lacle6e avenue service IS
the same as before the strike, and on
Spaulding avenue we are giving about the
same service as on Delmar avenue"
President Baumhoff repeated what he
has said before that the company wanted
the old men back, but would not dis
charge the new men in order to make
room for them. The position of the com
pany, lie uhilOUnCtu, was uilCHdHS6u uibiJA
that point, and will remain unchanged to
the end. lie said the company would
operate additional lines tomorrow, but
would not say whether or not cars would
be run on the Vandevcnter avenue and
Jefferson avenue lines. On these two
lines most of the trouble has occurred.
THINKS MEN WILL WIN.
President Mahan, of the Street Car Mems
association, said that no steps had been
taken looking to a conference between the
men and the company. He was positive
the men would win in the end. The tran
sit company claims to have a full com
plement of men, but this is denied By
it's own employees. The conductors on
the various lines which were i'll operation
today said that the company had jus1
about one-half as many men as went out.
Something over 1900 men went out, and
the highest estimate made today by any
a