The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-17

Chicago, October 1~2.-Constant scenes
of disorder over a district approx
mately fifty square miles in extent, ie-
suited today from the inauguration of
q, strike by the employees of one of the
two principal surface street railway
companies in Chicago. All along the
lines, wherever cars were started.
strike sympathizers made desperate
onslaughtS or the crews. beginning at
dawn of day n continuing as loag
as cars remained on the tracks. The
tie up was made complete.
A number Of ears were wrecked, and
that no person was killed is no fau..
of the rioters. One m Ia had his back
broke and the first shot OF the strike
was fired at Wentworth avenue and
West 69th street, where a mob of sew
eral hundred persons tried to hold up
a train
Excepting a few dozen pasSenge4s
who had to flee from the cars. the three
hundred thoUsand daily patrons Of the
company were forced to all sorts of
other methods in order to gef down
town and back.
With faces and hands bleeding from
the attacks Of the strikers. motOrmen,
g1ipmen and conductors who tried to
run trains returned to the barns ana
refused to go out again unless The
trains bore platOons OF police or patrol
wagons were alongside.
The police confined their efforts TO
GGeing that the passage of cars from
the barns was un~Obstructed and that
crowds in the streets were quickly
cleared. This was done under orders
from Mayor Carter H. Harrison, whose
announced purpose WaC to preserve an
impartial attitude, taking SIDES neither
for nor against the strikers or the
street railway company. which though
known as the Chicago city railway is
a private corporation. the lines of
of which extend through the south side
of the city radiating from the business
center.
Developments regarding the attitu le
OF the municipal administration
hinge largely upon a new official, Her
man F.. Schuettler, who today under
appointment from the mayor assume
the duties of assistant chief of police.
Schuettler will be IN direct charge of
police arrangements during the con-
test. Schuetter is the nan who track
ed and arrested Anarchist LOUIS LinSg.
after the Hay market riot and Subse-
quently sent AdOlph Luetgert. the
wealthy sausage mar to die in the
penitentiary under conviction for vile
murder. Schuettler has a remarkable
record for personal daring and astute-
ness.
Possibilities for federal Intervention
under certain contingencies are beng
discussed. The situation in this respect
! was outlined today by Postmaster
Coyne. He said:
."Thue far there is no cause for
alarm as to the mail service 1t Is true
t,o;,oc 1ox,o hnnn In1o yn1 h1tf tho r iC
not serious enough to report to Wash
ington. The street car company owns
the mail cars and by contract is obliged
to run them IN separate trains and
deliver mail at specified points. There
is no ground fer objection against the
company's sending out mail trains be.
tween passenger trains. What else can
the company dc? If serious delay oc-
ours we will report the fact to Wash
ingtOn and act on instructions from he
postal department."
Before nightfall. President D. G..
Hamilton, and General Counsel Bliss
Of the railway company, after endeav-
Oring to operate cars in defiance of the
strike of its trainmen. after
a conference with Mayor Harrison that
the attempt would be abandoned for
the day. The railway officials declare
that thirty per cent of their en-
ployees are loyal and that if accorded
Sutnc1ent protection Dy lne ponce uS-
partment they VIII be able to man II
to operate their cars. A further effort
to run cars, each car accompanied by a
squad Of police in a patrol wagon will,
it is expected, be made tomorrow.
The strike is the OutgrOWth of per-
sistent efforts for increased wages and
exclusion of nOn-union employees.
Today about 1900 men, practically the
entire force of the wage
earners, were idle. The number of
men at any time running cars being
but a small fraction of the number
usually at work. The company's Ste
tionary firemen, who have also pre-
scented demands upon the company for
increased al and to whom he
trainmen looked for assistance, have
decline dto go out.
Derogatory remark regarding 1he
union by an armed non-union enl-
ployee of the company caused a riot at
36th and State street tonight. h mar
was chased into the engine house
nearby and before the police could
reach the spot a moi of 1000 persons
surrounded the place. bowling for the
life of ~therefugee. A squad Of police
men. alter great difficulty. Quelied the
disturbance and removed the man to