The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-17
Intervention.
Carter Harrison Takes Steps to
Stop Strike.
Asks Street Railway Officials to
Meet With Him.
A SHOT IN THE DARK.
Unknown Person Fires Into
EnglewOOd Police Station.
Bullet Narrowly Missed the
Sergeant's Head.
GROWING DISORDERLY
Strikers Beat NOnuniOn Man
and Ship Him Out.
Burn a Wagon Load of Bedding
in the Street.
Unknown Person Fires Into
EnglewOOd Police Station.
Bullet Narrowly Missed the
Sergeant's Head.
GROWING DISORDERLY
Strikers Beat NOnuniOn Man
and Ship Him Out.
Burn a Wagon Load of Bedding
in the Street.

Chicago, Nov. 17.-Mayor Harrison
today, acting under a recommendation
of the city council. began an attempt
to mediate in the differences between
the Chicago railroad company and its
striking employees. The mayor dis
patched a letter by special messenger
to President Hamilton of the street
railway company asking that Mr..
Hamilton and such representatives of
the company as Mr.. Hamilton might
desire meet with the mayor and a
committee of eight aldermen this
evening.
At this meeting the mayor will en-
deaYor to discover a means by which
the strike can be brought to a quick
end.
President Hamilton, of the street
railway company replied this after
noon accepting the invitation to meet
Mayor Harrison and the committee of
aldermen.
General Counsel Bliss of the city rail-
way, this afternoon gave to the state
board of arbitration his long expected
letter He automatically evades the
boards proposition to submit the strike
situation to arbitration. The board in a
reply framed Immediately upon receipt !
of Colonel Bliss letter renewed its offer
to step into the breach and apply the
balm of official arbitration and asked
him to further explain his attitude
which the reply stated was not clear.
FIRE INTO POLICE STATION.
Chicago, Nov. I-While the city
council last night was engaged in de-
bate, sometimes bitter, over the rela-
tlons of the police to the city railway
strike, While the aldermen were order
ing that Mayor Harrison's authority
for placing policemen on the cars be
explained by the corporation counsel,
and while finally the council was voting
its confidence in the mayor, violence be-
came general along the Wentworth ave-
nue. line. One non-union car man who
Nentured out of the company's barns
was set upon, presumably by pickets,
and given chance to leave town. He
hesitated in his answer and was beaten
up, thrown in a box car and the door
locked. The car was a part of a de-
parting freight train. He was carried
away, his wounds not dressed.
A wagon load of bedding intended for
the barn barracks was saturated with
oil and burned at the Thirty ninth
street corner.
A shot was fired into the Englewood
police station from the darkness, the
bullet narrowly missing a desk SER
geant'S head.
The Cottage Grove cable system was
put in operation this morning, with five
trains under police protection and the
running of the Wentworth avenue line
was continued
One thousand policemen were dis
tributed along Cottage Grove and 300 on
wentworth avenue.
ANOTHER LINE OPENED.
Chicago, Nov. 1.-THE Cottage ave-
nue. line was the scene of much of to-
days strike activity. This line which
parallels the Wentworth avenue line a
mile to the eastward, has been entirely
tied up since the inception of the strike
except for the operation of mail cars
The line traverses the business district
by way of Wabash avenue entering
Cottage avenue at Twenty second
street and penetrates an extensive resi-
dence portion which has no other trans
portation facility Of easy access.
The Wentworth avenue service was
continued today on practically the
same schedule as yesterday Twenty
nVe cars were operated on five min
ute schedule. A number of pistol shots
near the car barn at Thirty-ninth
street and Cottage Grove avenue
startled the non-union employees
housed within. For a short time the
strike breakers believed that an at
tack was being made upon their
stronghold. The shots proved to have
been fired by men who brought two
wagon loads of supplies into the barns
ana VINO had been molested by pickets
In an attem0t to block the delivery
When the wagons were within half
block of the barns pickets halted the
drivers and demanded that the teams
turn around and drive back. The drivers
Immediately opened fire when threats
were made and drove quickly to the
barn. After unloading the provisions a
they returned to the company's head
quarters followed by brigade of union
pickets.
Five trains left the barns near Thirtv-
eighth street on Cottage Grove avenue
for the down town loop at 9.45, a heavy
police guard attending each train The
gripman in each car was protected from
possible injury by heavy wire screens,
while a force of nearly 1000 patrolmen
guarded the line and kept the crowds
moving. Wagons were hurried along
and kept off the streets so far as possi-
Bile.
The initial cars on the Cottage Grove
avenue line traversed the entire route to
the center of the city without serious
difficulty. AS a result the street railway
officials claimed practically to have
mastered the strike on a second trunk
line. the first to be brought under con-
troll being the Wentworth avenue cleo
trio line.
As yet no cars have been run after
dark and passenger traffic has been ex-
tremely light Perfect order on the part
of the strikers and the street crowds
marked the resumption of service on
Cottage Grove avenue. Superintendent
WeatherwaX announced that regular
service would be instituted tomorrow.
On the Wentworth avenue line today
heavy couch dropped in front of a
swift moving car by two men almost
caused a smash up at West Forty first
street.
Switches were spiked all the way from