Waterbury Democrat., 1903-02-03
Strikers Issue Their TWenty-fOurth Statement and
 Remain Firm.
THEY POINT TO COL. BURPEE's MANY POWERS
Regret That the Aldermen Split Political Lines Apponmen of Committee Roughly Used in the Brooklyn Dis trict This Morning Soldiers Unable to
 Capture the Disturbers

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 pear good in print, and at the same time struck him several blows. The conductor retaliated and gave the sol- dier a blow which knocked him off of 1 the trolley car. He was not injured however.
 A member of one of the Hartford companies stated to-day that nearly every officer of the Carpenters union of that city is a member of military company and they are doing duty in this city. It is said that about three fourths of the soldiers are union mem i Robert Enslxo, a member of the New Haven trolley mems union, is t naeu- Der of'the Sarsfield Guards, under the l command of Captain Donovan, and is doing duty in this city at the present time. Ensko is a private, but IS des tailed as q bugler and therefore dods
 not take an active part as it were in guarding the city, or rather the trolley
 lines. It is said that four or five cth- CT members of the New Haven union
 are also members of the militia and
 are doing duty here X l This morning about 9:3O there was
 some commotion about the Auditori-
 um, where the First regiment is quar1 tered. A couple of trucks were drawn
 up against the sidewalk taking on sol4s diers' kits, ovens, wood and whole
 lot of other stuff The crowd of spec-
 tators thought the military were po- l ing away from town, but the fact was that the men at the car barn were be ing relieved. Each company takes its own outfit and the loading of tho
 trucks gave the idea the men were
 leaving town.
 l Colonel Schultze's men had qi1fet night. They were quartered at the l car barn. Only one report of trouble licame to them during the night The I men in charge of car on the Oakviile l line reported having been stoned. They I said they were hit and that obstruc- .tions of every kind were laid on the
 track. The officer in charge of the men at the barn inquired into the mafnl ter, sent squad of men in a car 1lp the line and examined it carefully and all about it, but could find no one. not Ieyen a. boy or the trace of any ob- structions whatsoever. Then the offi-
 cer asked the men who were on the car if they were badly hurt and they said they were. The matter was hardly
 worth speaking about They bore no signs of having been attacked.
 Colonel Schultze was asked this
 morning how he liked the town and the people and if they were using him an right The town is all right said |fhe gruff colonel, ssand the people are
 all right, too, but there was something
 in this mornings paper, tue Republican think it's called,'' and he looked irl-l I quiringly at the Democrat reporter
 who told him that was the name of the morning paper. Well that had something this morning stating that some of my men stoned car. Thafsx
 nothing but damned lie, and t1aat;s all that can be said about it, agsharf
 is probably something to it, neverthe- less, said the reporter ssNot q bit of it" insisted the colonel. "A suirad of men we're going on a car and one of Ethem dropped bayonet-weII. I flor,,f know exactly how, it happened. Ma- jor Moran knows all about it. Buf .| anyhow, this man in some way accf-
 dentally broke window, but as for
 stoning car there is not word of
 truth in the published statement, not
 q word. The men were getting into the car, crowding in, suppose. ana the window was accidentally broken Probably the man knocked his bayonet
 against it or his elbow, I can't say
 how it happened, but not a stone was
 fired. Why, it's nothing but q lie.'
 There was little excitement in tl1e Brooklyn district this morning about 10:30 Four cars were stoned within
 half an hour and several car windows
 were broken. In one or two casee
 the stones were thrown by boys, but I in the other cases men who are part of the foreign population did the work. Cars were being stoned so frequently that complaint was made to the mili- 5 tary boys stationed at the power
 house. Thereafter squad of sol-S diers, about six in number, would :l board the cars at the power house. ride to the end of the line at Porter
 street and back again to the power
 house. The first car on which the l. members of the militia rode WAS
 stoned on Bank street. opposite James
 street. The soldiers jumped off and
 ran through a driveway leading to the
 rear of the building occupied in part by the Lithuanian Independent Political club, but they were unable to capture
 or even to see the stone throwerS. Sev-s eral soldiers stated to Democrat re- porter today that something struck
 one of the Brooklyn cars this morning
 which sounded like a bullet. They
 would not say positively that it was a l bullet. One of them said that it might have been a shot from an air ri-S l ffe Bank street, above Riverside
 street, was pretty we'll lined with peo- pie all morning. Shortly before noon
 a whole company marched to the
 Brooklyn district and did duty during ] the noon hour.
 GoRMAN IS ILL.