The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-12-28

| the crew to desert and come up into
headquarters. A crowd In the head
| quarters, which inclueed o number of
letter carriers, motioned and yelled for
the crew 10 come up. The police were
standing by, but as they were not
aware of any law preventing citizens
| from getting aboard a car and talk
| ing as much as they wanted to, they
made no effort to interfere.
The crew were obdurate. They said
they would quit in the morning, and
| SO on, but the strikers wanted them
to quit then and there. Up on the
front platform some over-zealous
strike sympathzer caught Superin-
| tendent Patterson by the legs and
| pulled him off the car and into the
crowd. He had no sooner struck the
pavement than he was dealt stun
ming blow on the forehead that knock
| ed off his hat and caused him to reel
for an instant.
PROTECTED PATTERSON.
One of the biggest Of the strikers,
Ed Pentley, and his brother Joe, who
is also good-sized lad, forced their
way through the crowd surrounding
the superintendent, and, throwing
their arms about him from either side,
protected him from blows while they
fairly carried him onto the sidewalk
and into O'Connor & Walsh's saloon.
They then rushed him through the
back door and escorted him safely up
Railroad alley to the company's Of
fees. He shook hands with his res
cuers and thanked them heartily.
The strikers missionaries were us
ing mild force to urge the two mem
bers of the crew to desert, but they
remained obdurate until they saw
Superintendent Patterson go off the
car, when they allowed themselves to
be taken into strike headquarters. The
crowd sent up q great shout when the
crew deserted, but the strikers did not
iubilate over their converts very long,
for one of them was discovered to be
a New Yorker who had pretended to
be converted the night previous, and
who was dispatched to the company's
office to convert his "brother," who, he
said, was one of the newcomers, stayed
there and took out a car in the morn
ing. Last evening they protested that
they were not only willing, but aXious,
to go back to New York, and would
start at once If furnished with fare.
The strike committee told them to
wait about headquarters and they
would consider their case.
When the car was deserted on the
avenue, several of the strikers boarded
it, replaced the trolley and kept the
crowd away from it until the Dispatch
ers came down from the company's
Office to take 1t to the barn.
The crowd continued to ieer as the
car pulled away. and the urchins fol-
lowed it until it left the avenue. Two
of the windows We're broken by the
missiles, but otherwise the car was
uninjured
This sort of thing in milder form
and with numerous variations was
continued all day long, on Lacka
wanna avenue, between the 7 and
Wyoming avenue. The boys did the
active mischief. The men stood around
to see that moral support, at least,
was not wanting.
BLOCKED THE SWITCH.
All the corner OF Lackawannn and
Washington avenues, the switch was
thrown against the car and when
the motorman ran ahead to turn it
the crowd that had collected stood on
the switch and would not let him ap-
proach \ police officer came along
after time and the crowd allowed
the car to proceed.
At the switch in front of Santer'S
car was standing with its forward
wheels just clearing the latch. A boy
turned the latch, and when the cay
started up, the rear truck took to
the switch, causing the car to he
thrown slantwise, and giving it bad
wrench.
Several times during the day Il car
came along with a few passengers
aboard. The strikers boarded ii, APP
pealed to the passengers to get off,
and in no instance was the appeal in
vain. The passengers We're all stran-
gers and had evidently just come into
to the -city. The strikers offered to
provide these passengers with {. free
bus ride to whatever point they
wished to go. 4
The company would not give out
any statement of the number of men
it has or the number of cars moved.
The strikers claim that out of the
seventy so far imported, fifty-five
have been corralled and sent back or
furnished with employment other
tHiH tHJL WHICH lHcS culiie LUZ.
Out OF the fifty-three who came in
at 8 O'Clock Wednesday, night,
twenty-thr have been sent home and
three furnished with positions. Only
eleven of them reached the cOnpany's
office, according to the reports brought
in by the strikers scouts. The others,
the strikers say have scattered
throughout the city to ply their var
ious avocations The converted New
Workers. say that n large number of
the men who came with them are
notorious criminals from the Bowery
and that they did not intend at any
time to work ON the cars here but
simply came along to get free ride
to new fields.
The six men who came in from the
west at LAO yesterday morning, are
breakers from st. Louis. The strik-
ers We're not able to locate anv of
these yesterday. They We're kept in
the company's offices all day.
TWO MORE SENT BACK.
Two men, giving their names as G.
l.. Knapp and II. II. TroXell, and their
residence as Williamsport, arrived
yesterday morning, and We're cprraled
and sent back by the strikers They
claimed they came here in response to
telegrams from the Scranton Railway
company.