Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1903-11-17
Chicago Street Car Com
pany Runs More
Cars.
NEW LINE is OPENED
Mayor Harrison is to
Meet With the
Officers.

Chicago. Nov. 17.-The City Railway
company started five trains on its Cot
tage Grove avenue cable line from the
| Thirty-eighth street barn for the bus
mess district at 10 today. \ heavy
| police guard attended each train.
Gripmen are being protected by
heavy wire screens. while thousand
patrolmen guarded the lines and kept
the crowds moving. The Wentworth
avenue service was continued prac-
tically on the same schedule as yes
terday.
Cars Obstruoted. Shots Fired.
Chicago, Nov. 17.-Cottage Grove
cars traversed the entire route with
out serious difficulty. Those on Went
worth avenue, however, were less for
tunate. Many switches were found
spiked. necessitating frequent stops
and delays, and Instructions of var
ious kinds were placed on the tracks.
Occasionally shot was fired at car
as it passed or brick or piece of
iron thrown through the windows, but
no persons are reported injured.
Mayor Wants Meeting.
Mayor Harrison today sent re-
quest to have representative meet
with the mayor and a committee of
aldermen this evening in an endeavor
to discover means by which the strike
can be brought to an end.
President Hamilton this afternoon
accepted the invitation to meet Mayor
Harrison and the aldermen this even
ing.
No Hope of Arbitration.
Chicago, Nov. 1T.-sAH hope of arbi-
tration for the Chicago City railway
strike was abandoned when General
McCulloch said: Nobody connected
with this company is thinking about
arbitration" Business Agent NJ. II.
Collins, of Electrical Workers union
No. o. informed Manager McCullOch
that he had been instructed to call
strike of all members of that union in
the employ of the City railway and
that he had ordered Il strike. All the
union members quit work as soon as
the announcement of the business
ngent was made to them.
Teamsters Help the Strikers.
1t became evident at noon that the
sympathetic attitude of the teamsters
toward the strikers was more prOmi-
nent than at any other time since the
strike began, and numbers of the driv
erS of trucks, express wagons and rigs
had planned to make as many block
AIDES as possible in the downtown dis
trict. Sergeant Ryan, of the Central
detail, sought to solve one phase of
the difficulty by ordering that no team
sters be permitted to turn into Clark
street. ''Teamsters have gone blocks
out of their way, ssaid Sergeant Ryan,
so as 10 blockade cars here
Confidence in the Early Hours.
Relying upon the abundant police
protection assured him. aud feeling con-
fident that the murmuring teamster
sympathizers would not dare to carry
into execution their alleged plans of
blockading. General Manager McCul-
loch, of the City railway, decided to
mark the fifth day of the strike with
a plan for running Wentworth avenue
trolley cars on a regular schedule.
Twenty-Five cars left the barns, and
after maintaining high rate of speed
to Thirty-ninth street, worked their
way through the jams that occurred
at various downtown points and car
ried more passengers than at any time
since the strike was precipitated.
Tracks Are Again Blocked.
But by the noon hour the police had
been compelled to arrest many team
sters who had formed temporary block
AIDES by taking their heavily laden
wagons upon the cars tracks. Incipient
riots marked the progress of some of
the trolley cars in Clark street be-
tween the Twelfth street viaduct and
Van Buren, street and two attempts
to derail cars by propping up switches
had been foiled by the keeness of the
motormen's eyesightl
Had to Use Their Clubs
The plan for regular schedule for
the big trolley coaches disappeared.
Once the bluecoats had to club back
the throngs of strike sympathizers dur
ing the skirmish at Polk and Clark
streets At Thirty-ninth street and at
other points along the line of street
car operation many citizens verbally
denounced the police and a growing
bitterness between the citizens and the
bluecoats was remarked. So the fight
was waged ali day, and the cars were
kept running, but passengers had a
very strenuous time. At night the cars
were again taken off.