Waterbury Democrat., 1903-01-15
Manager SeWell Made a Pretense al Starting Traf-
 fic By Running Two Cars On One Line.
VERY FEW PASSENGERS AND NO TROUBLE
Crowds the Center Watch the Running of the Cars Back and ForthMen Placed in Charge of Cars Seem to Be Green
 at the Business-One of Them Tried in Vain to
 Run His Car With the Switch Thrown Off,

here to take the place of the strikers
 DC or tho Kind to encourage pat
 ronage on the trolley system. A
 more woe-begone looking lot it would be difficult to find. But during the short
 time they were in detention in the power house they underwent a change,
 so that when they went up Bank
 street on a car some of them had col I lars and ties. The presumption is that these articles of civilization were
 the gift of MT Sewell, for he is great
 stickler for appearances. It was he
 who kicked" about the men wearing
 sweaters on the cars. But according
 to his own statement "some of them
 eat only once in two weeks and are
 glad to get it then.'
 Twenty-Five more men arrived last
 evening on the Naugatuck division and
 were marched from the depot to the car
 barn under police protection with De l tective Dodds at the head. They l were no better nor cleaner looking
 than the batch that arrived yesterday
 afternoon. This makes about eighty l men in all
 But all of them have not remained.
 Already assertions have taken place |
 always do, for in all such cases scores
 of men are hired who make business
 of being picked up and in this manner they ssee" the country. Union men are among them also, for the purpose
 of causing assertions and making l trouble in every way possible for the
 company. Over dozen have gone l already.
 Last evening while the streets were thronged with crowds waiting to see a
 car come along, the new men were re-
 hearsing their parts under the direc- tion of MT Sewell and Mir Wales, at the car barn. Up and down the short and aevel track, so much unXke the steep grades and quick curves that are to be seen in all parts of the trolley l system here, the men went with their cars It was a poor school. It was like learning astronomy in cellar with a cats eyes for the stars. A crowd was outside. Once in while l it was found necessary to quickly open the gates of the barn to save them | from being crushed to pieces by a 1 headstrong and rebellious car. 1t is l said that one man drove his car to the verge of the steep embankment on the | golf links. Police were stationed on 1 the street 10 give protection, but no
 unseemly conduct took place. Late | into the night this school for trolley l 1'an was in session. and when 1t closed
 MT Sewell was happy and tired. so was l MT Wales. It was an exciting dav I for both. While taking his carfull
 of non-union men to the car barn yes l terday MT Wales was pale as a ghost. MT Sewell was. on I the front platform of the second car,, but not at the motor, as Mir Wales was. He also was excited hut he kept his temper. When vehicles of all kinds came near crashing into him l he did not budge. When a furniture wagon almost toppled over on the car he merely withdrew. When coal cart driver backed his cart up to the side- | walk and stood his horse right in the l center of the track and then went to get refreshments for himself leaving l the car stalled for fully thr4a minutes, | MT SeweIl held his place looking as calm as possible. but he was dis | turbed and chafed by the coal mans aggravating act.
 ] Che of the incidents of the day was | the vigorous kick registered by Dr Cooley's handsome saddle horse against l the running of the cars by non-union men. About 10:30 o'clock this morn | ing the doctor was hurrying westward as fast as his steed could carry and had reached the railroad crossing at Mattatuck and West Main streets when a trolley car bound for the center turned the bend in the street near the Manhan canal. The doctors horse has been about town for years and never before took any particular notice of the street railroad cars, but on this occasion he pricked up his ears, stepped i to one side, snorted, stood on his hand legs, then came down on all fours, and just as the car was passing by threw his heels backward, coming within an ace of hitting the motorman. The doc tor worked like beaver to control the animal but 1t was no use. The more he pulled the more the black charger plunged and acted as if he wanted to demolish the car and the man on the platform. Finally Dr Cooley succeeded in getting the horse headed up the rail- road tracks and the car passed on. There was one woman on board and the way she sat would lead one to be- lieve that she had stepped on without giving the matter any thought. Any way the lady was not anxious to show her face, but people saw her just the l same. Shortly after the run in with the horse and while crowd was still splitting their sides laughing at the af- fair. woman raised a window in one of the blocks. thrust her head out and eveing the passenger scornfully shouted "Scab! Scabp' at the same time swing ing viciously backward and forward a dust pan which she held in her right hand. The second exhibition created a bigger laugh than the first Whether the woman knew that she could be ar rested and fined for using the word "Scab" in that way is something it would be hard to tell. bun 1t might not be amiss to state at this time that in the eyes of the law it is a breach of the peace and folks should be careful about mentioning the word too loud.