The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-05-22
RIOTING IN ST. LOUIS
Strikers Quickly Dispersed by the
Police When Called Upon.
No steps Taken Looking Toward
Another Conference, and the
Strike Is as Far From Set
element as Ever.

number of ears in operation is con-
cerned. The ST. Louis Transit Co.
Saturday had in operation on IA OF
the p lines composing its system
about 80 cars. Before the strike the
Transit Co. had 500 cars in opera ion.
1t is declared by street car officials
that lack of protection of the street
car lines is one cause for this condi-
ton, and another cause assigned is
that the company has rot enough
men with which to operate more.
Because they fear collision with
the participants in the parade Satur-
day afternoon, the management of
the st. Louis Transit Co. decided not
to run any more cars on its lines
after 1890 o'clock Saturday. 1t is
intimated that this order may extend
over Sunday also.
st. Louis, May 2O.-The house of
delegates passed the bin to revoke
the franchises of the various street
railway companies in st. Louis be-
cause they failed to run their cars
in compliance with the terms of the
city ordinances.
st. Louis, May Clears were run
| Sunday on five of the lines of the st.
Louis Transit Co. without any inter-
ference from the strikers or their
! friends. The lines which were OPP
Grated were the Park, Laclede, Del
mar, Page and Spaulding avenues. No
i a. 70, 70, Ia
schedule time. They were run out of
the barns down to one end of the line
and back again. Sometimes they made
the round trip in about three-fourths
of the usual time. Sometimes it took
them nearly twice as long. The Off
Gals of the company paid no atten-
ton to that, however. Every car that
went out and came back unmarked
was considered the net proceeds of
notable achievement, and its crew re-
ceived greetings like those extended
to an only son on his return from a
long and weary warfare. There was
no outbreak of any kind during the
day. Two riot calls were sent in to
the police in the afternoon, but the
riots were far from being the real
thing.
the first disturbance was begun by
a balky horse who went on an indi-
yidual strike at the corner of 18th and
Chestnut streets. a large crowd gath
cred TO watch the progress of the ar
gument between the animal and his
driver. and when the horse finally
conceded the point at issue and passed
on, 1000 people were standing around
the corner utterly at loss for amuse-
ment. AS a substitute for the horse
the crowd turned its attention to the
crews of the Laclede avenue cars,
which were passing every few min
utes. They showered the crews with
epithets and deluged them with adj
vice. A riot call was sent to police
headquarters, and Chief of Police
Campbell, taking 20 men, hurried to
the spot, told everybody to ''move
on" saw that they did move on"
and riot No. 1 was over before it act
ually started.
The second disturbance occurred
few minutes later on Washington av-
enue, between 18th and 18th streets.
4 crowd of about 1,5OO people lined
both sides of the street for two
squares and began to jeer and boot
the train crews. The few policemen
on duty we're utterly unable to handle
the crowd, and unquestionably the
crowd would have been moved to
things more energetic than words if
another riot call had not been turned
in. Sergt. 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 most serious riot of the day
took place late in the evening at the
intersection of Tenth street and
Washington avenue, in the course of
which w. H. Steinbiss, secretary of
the National Building Trades council,
was placed under arrest, but released
| later. A switch had been thrown at
the street intersection, and when a
Bellefountain car loaded with passen-
gers came along it was thrown on a
/ dead wire and off the track as well.
When the train crew started to set
things to rights they were greeted
with showers of stones and compelled
to abandon the work until patrol
wagon loaded with police officers APP
peared on the ground in response to
riot call. They quickly forced the
crowd to dispense, making several ar
rests while so doing.
President Mahan, of the Street Car
Mems association, said that no steps
had been taken looking to a confer
ence between the men and the COM
pany. He was positive the men would
win in the end. The Transit Co.
claims to have full complement of
men. but this is denied by their own
employees.