Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-03
UNEASY ABOUT POPE LEO'S HEALTH.
MANY DEPUTIES IN TOWN.
Protecting Trolley Company's Prop
 erty-No Change in Situation.

erty-No Change in Situation. There is no change in the strike situ- ation to-day, except that there seems to be more strangers about the streets than ever before. Most of the new faces belong to deputies and if they keep coming the strike breakers and limbs of the law will soon be in the ma jority about town, so that really Wa 1 terbury is having quite a costly strike. A strike breaker was hit with stone on South Main street car receiving a cut which required a couple of stitches. Some say he was struck on the car while others claim he was removing some iron bars from the switch at Benedict & Burnham's when he was i struck.
 I s'No trolley for me-" said Andrew Mack this morning to policeman who , pointed out to him an electric car in Exchange place as ready mode of conveyance to the railroad station.
 MT Mack preferred carriage and
 walked to the corner of the green and hired cab.
 The lights were in bad shape last
 night and in consequence complaints | l quarters of the city. The company l has lots of protection now, but 1t can not find men to do the work. Inas-
 much as the contract to light the
 strets of the city expired last
 Sunday and has not been
 renewed, it looks as if the authorities
 have no voice in the matter at the present time.
 u, ...o.a.,.o ee nasoa,. rroroy, Y,rn I vented a row on Bank street, near Por-
 ter street, last night. Three neigh I bors were standing on the sidewalk
 when the conductor of trolley car,
 thinking they were looking at him,asked ! them what they wanted The fellow was in the act of stopping the car to walk over to the men when the officer happened along and told him to get
 onto his car and not be hunting about for trouble.
 Three of the Waterbury trolley strik
 CTS, the spokesman being Al Williams,
 were in this city yesterday negotiating
 with s. A. Miner on Allyn street for
 the purchase of steam automobile
 wagonette made by the Mobile com
 pany of Tarrytown, which they intend
 to put on in Waterbury in opposition
 to the trolley cars The machine will
 seat eight persons, besides the operator
 and is propelled by steam generated by
 gasolene. The purchasers expect to
 complete the trade to-day. The ma ] chine has been used little and cost originally $2,400. It is the same pattern
 machine as eight in use running from
 New York to Tarrytown, N. r. If
 the strikers buy the machine it will be
 shipped by freight to Waterbury, Hartford Courant About 7:3O o'clock Supernumerary Officer McGlynn was informed that the
 motorman on a Bank street car was
 brandishing gun and threatening to
 kill some one. The officer inquired into
 the matter and was informed by the
 man that the revolver was behind the controller. The officer picked it up, put it into his pocket and came up town on the car intending to have the trolleyman arrested. The chief hap
 pened to be in Exchange place at the . time, and after hearing the evidence concluded that there was no case against the fellow. Anyway he was
 not placed under arrest. It seems trol-
 leymen have the same right to keen pistols in the car as private individ-
 uals have to have them in their homes. Whether 1t Is because the cars are said to be the abodes of the men who now operate them or for other reasons has not been made known.
 The strikers executive committee is- : sued the following statement to-day: This is the fifty-second day of the
 strike and matters remain practically l unchanged. We have so far held over
 one hundred meetings, and every man l out on strike has been accounted for : each time we called the roll.
 !: Who has not heard of Mark Hanna : Who has not seen him pictured in the 5 comic papers as bloated bond d-hoIder and arch enemy of labor? And yet fl appears that he has been uninstly : treated or has become imbued with , ideas directly opposite to what he for. merly held. Mark Hanna, as presi- dent of the Cleveland Street Railway ! Co, of Cleveland, Ohio, has signed an agreement with the Cleveland branch , of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees. If any
 body in Waterbury or Philadelphia or !. anywhere else doubts the truth of our , assertions, we have the fac smile of , Hanna's signature to the agreement to prove that we are correct
 And of course everybody will be 7 eager to know what Mark Hanna and the trolley men signed an agreement to : do. In the first place both agree to 5 deal with each other through their l proper officers. In case an agreement cannot be reached in that manner, both sides agree to leave the difficulty to ar
 bitration by three disinterested per- . sons. When the company discharges , an employe, 1t agrees to notify the sec. l retary of the trolley union, which the company recognizes. From nine to ten hours constitutes days work, to | be completed in twelve consecutive 2 hours. Wages to be as follows: For
 all motormen and conductors, first Y year, 20 cents per hour; second year 9 cents per hour; third year, B cents
 per hour.
 We do not think it necessary to make
 any comments on the foregoing We