Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-27
Cars Were Stoned Several Times
 Last Night.
CARTRIDGES PLACED ON TRACK

CARTRIDGES PLACED ON TRACK Officers on the Cars at Time Gave
 Chase, But Could Not Catch the Of
 lenders = Strikers Answer "Mer-
 chant" a Person Who Wrote Them
 Letter-Open Cars on Some Lines
 To-Day-Resul of the Conference in
 Bridgeport.
 The trolley cars ran into whole lot of trouble in the eastern section of the city last night. They were stoned and railroad and torpedo cartridges were placed on the tracks. The strike-break- CTS on that line were in an anxious state of mind all night while the cars were running. The first trouble began at 6:45. A gang of boys who were in lot on Wolcott street threw stones at car passing along East Main street, short distance beyond the Sacred Heart church. One or two of the car windows were broken. Officer Me Evoy, who was in the car, gave chase to the boys. He ran up through the lots onto Wo1cott street. but he was too late. The boys had made their es- cape. About 2 :45 there was loud ex- plosion as trolley car passed by Orange street. A lady passenger who was on the car was considerably fright ened. The explosion was caused by q torpedo cartridge which had been placed on the tracks. Between s and g o'clock powder and railroad cart ridges were placed on the tracks on East Main street at place between Hackett's saloon and the residence of Sergeant Pagan of the police depart ment. Officer Lawlor was on both cars when the explosions occurred. At the first explosion the car was filled with smoke. Officer Lawlor made an investigation, but could not discover the perpetrators of the lawless acts. Later in the evening Special Officer Flynn stationed himself near the scene of the trouble and there were no fur ther acts of violence.
 The trolley company is out to-day with open cars, but there does not ap- pear to be any more using them than patronized the others. The day was rather blustry and the dust made rid ing on the open coaches rather un- pleasant, So that the rush for seats was not as great as in former years, when everybody used to want to have ride in the open cars, especially in the even ing, when it was nothing unusual for whole families to have an outing on them. Some day when the strike is settled we'll witness such sights again.
 fresh batch of cards was strewn about the streets to-day containing the names of several business men. The ones put around some time ago were headed with the statement that the firms mentioned thereon had been pro- nounced unfair to organized labor. This is omitted in the latest edition. the heading simply stating This Is It.'' The card contains few names In ad- dition to those printed on the first one, and while nobody appears to know where they came from. still 1t would seem that nearly everybody has seen one or more of them.
 There is one employe of the trolley company, conductor. who is very fond of partaking of the tempting glass, no rather bottle, while on duty. If Manager Sewell does not believe In@ I'd i,1 the vicinity of the switch on Bank street in front of Plume & Atwood's s some morning about o'clock. As the car waits at the switch for the car from Brooklyn. The conductor pulls out cigarette, takes two or three puffs out of 1t, looks around to see if any person Is looking, then pulls out 8 bottle of whiskey, perhaps it is wa ter, which is nicely wrapped up in a newspaper. and takes few mouthfuls of 1t. Sometimes he is joined by the motorman. This morning the above happened about o'clock only instead of smoking cigarette first, he ate an apple. The same thing has been going on for many days and it is rather strange that the trolley officials have not discovered it. Some of the former employees could not have done 1t for so long time without having been dis covered and punished. It is no un- common sight to see the conductor standing on the rear platform of a Bank street car smoking cigarette or a cigarette.
 A lady who is we'll known resident of this city, whose husband holds the position of paymaster in one of the To- cal manufacturing concerns, returned from visit to Meriden a few days ago. On the day of her return the weather was very stormy. She is ac- customed to ride on the trolley cars and so she thought she would wait in a grocery store in the eastern section of the city until car came along. She walked to the store and informed the proprietor of her intention. No, madam" he replied, you cannot wait for car here. This is no waiting sta ton for the car" But I will wait here" the lady replied indignantly. ri you do I'll be compelled to remove you by force" was the grocer's rejoinder The woman was highly indignant and still DrotaSted Finally she went oIIt