Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-11-13
The Hoodlum Element is Busy
 at Many Points
PICKED POLICE PATRoLLlNG

And Patrol Wagons in Readiness oA
 Every Corner-F'ifteen Policemen
 Riding on Each Car-Culprits Also to
 Be Put Aboard Cars and Get Their
 Share of the Missiles Should Any Be
 Thrown.
 Chicago, Nov 13.-Worse rioting to- day than before was the expectation with which both sides in the big rail- way strike started this morning. Lines of union pickets were thrown out at various points, especially i'll Wentworth avenue, while the non-union employees. were assembling at the barns of the Chicago city railway. At the same time hoodlum element, whose work was dfsavowed by the strikers, began to gather along the more prominent crossings. The activity of the strikers and their sympathizers was due to news that the railway company would make a desperate attempt to start cars with heavily increased police protec- lion.
 Unlike yesterday. it was expected that a picked force of police would be aboard each car started and that heavy details of patrolmen on foot would guard the street railway lines, while at points a few squares apart patrol wagons would be stationed.
 Several hundred police and dozen patrol wagons were massed at the southern terminus of the main electric lines at Seventy ninth street and Went worth avenue early in the morning, and at 8 o'clock the wagons started to- ward the business district leaving squads of police at intervals along the Mle where trouble was anticipated. Tickets posted by the strikers were also on hand in numbers at the various barns and sullelsly watched the pre-. parations being made to guard the cars. Patrol wagons filled with polices made ready to proceed beside the cars.
 While the crowds were on tip toe of expectation along the Wentworth ave ISe electric line, two mail cars were started ,on one of the principal through cable routes, Cottage Grove avenue, which is direct parallel of Wentworth avenue, but is half mile distant to the east The mail cars made the en- tire trip from the outskirts of the city to the business center and return with out the slightest interference.
 Two cars on Wentworth avenue left the Seventfeth street barns at $40 a. m. in charge Of Police Captain Shippy. i Fifteen policemen were on board each car. Captain Shippy's plan was said to carry on the cars any persons arrest exl for committing violent acts, thlls making the alleged 1isturbers equally with the police the targets for bricks and stones meant for the non-union train crews.
 Precautionary measures by the po-. lice today were apparently much more complete than during the teamsters' strike some months ago, when the city's traffic was more than once brought almost to a standstill. By 9:15 a. m. the cars, under command of Captain Shippy had passed Forty third street inning slowly between dense lines of strikers and their sympathizers. who tried to keep pace with the car and the escort of patrol wagons No stones were thrown, but jeers and cat calls were hurled at the police and trainmen. There were cries of Garter Harrison will never dare face the south side again" The presence of DO lice on the cars evidently with the ap-
 
 greatly excite the anger of the crowds
 Ten cars in all started on the trip to. ward the center of the city within a half hour. all on the Wentworth avenue electric line. Non-union crews manned the cars and each car after the first was in charge of lieutenant or ser geaflt and twelve policemen.
 Though there was much excitement and the streets were thronged with people there was little actual trouble experienced by the leading cars on the Wentworth avenue line during the trip to the business district. Four team sters were arrested at intervals along the line for attempting to block the way. Assistant Chief of Police Schuetler accompanied the cars down and back. Five union men boarded different cars and paid their fares and during the round trip used their inf1u- ence to prevent violence. As the cars passed Harrison avenue the police had 10 charge the crowds of men and boys, At West 1st street heavy rocks were thrown from the tops of flat buildings on the roofs of the cars. The motor men put their cars to top speed to es- cape the stones.