The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-13
Chicago Street Cor Strikers
Open Second Day
With Preparations for Hard
Fight at Every Point.
EQUALLY DETERMINED
The Company Secures Protec-
tiOn of the Police.
Mail Cars Continue to Make
Trips Unmolested.

Chicago, Nov. 13.-Worse rioting to-
day than before was the expectation
with which both sides in the big street
railway strike started this morning.
Lines of union pickets were thrown out
at various points, especially in Went
worth avenue, while the non-union eu1-
ployes assembled at the barns of the
Chicago city railway. At the same time
hoodlum element. whose work is dis
avowed 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 q
desperate attempt to start cars with
heavily increased police projection.
Unlike yesterday it was expected that
a picked force of police would be aboard
each car started this morning, heavy
detail 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 a dozen
patrol wagons were massed at xhe
southern terminus of one of the main
electric lines at Seventy-ninth street
and Cottage avenue early in the morn
ing and at o'clock the wagons started
towards the business district leaving
squads of police at intervals along the
line where trouble was anticipated.
Pickets posted by the strikers were also
on hand in numbers at the various
barns and watched the preparations be-
ing made to guard the cars. Patrol
wagons filed with police were made
ready to proceed beside the cars.
While the crowds were on tiptoe on
expectation along the Wentworth ave-
nue. electric line, two mail cars were
started on one of the principal through
cable routes on Cottage avenue, which
| is direct parallel of Wentworth ave-
nue., but is half a mile distant to the
east. The mail cars made the entire
trip from the outskirts. of the city 10
! the business center and return without
the slightest Interference.
Considerable interest attached to the
movement of the mail cars for the rea-
son that any application to a federal
tribunal would most probably be to pre-
vent the mail service being interrupted
1 by acts of violence. THE state courts
on the other hand would be appealed to
| il leaving out any question of the mails
an injunction should loe sought solely
1 to prevent interference with non-union
traction employees enfleavoring to re-
establish passenger service.
Two cars on Wentworth avenue left
the Seventy-ninth street barns at $40
a. m. in charge of Polio Captain George
w. Shippy. Fifteen policemen were on
board each car. Captain Shippy's plan
was said to be to carry on the cars
any persons arrested for committing
violent acts, thus making me alleged
disturbers equally with the police the
! target for bricks and stones meant for
the non union train crews.
Precautionary measures by the polica
today were apparently much more COM
plete than during khe teamsters' strike
some months ago. when the city's traf-
! fic was more than once brought almost
| to Standstill. BY 9:15 a. m. the cars
| under command of Captain Shippey had
passed Forty-thirei street running Slow
| ly between dens9 lines of strikers and
! their sympathlzers who tried to keep
pace with the patrol wagons. No stones
were thrown but there were jeers and
cat calls for thIas police and train men.
There were cries of Garter Harrison
| will never dare face the south side
again" The presence of police on the
| cars evidently with the approval OF
Mayor Harrison appeared to greatly ex-
cite the anger of the crowds. Ten cars
in all started on the trip toward the
| center of the citv within a half hour
all on the Wentworth avenue electric
! line Nonunfon crews manned the csrs
and each car after the first was in
charge of lieutenant OF sergeant and
u policemen.
Though there was much excitement
and the streets were thronged with peo-
pie, little actual trouble was expert
! enced by the leading cars on the Went
worth avenue line during the trip to tha
business district. The cars started on
the return trip on almost schedule tirSe.
Four teamsters were arrested at inter-
walls along the way for attempting to
block the way and were put aboard tbs
cars Assistant Chief of Police Schut-
tier accompanied the leading cars down
town and back Five union men board
ed different cars soon after the start.
paid their fares and during the round
trip used their influence to avert vio-