Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-05-20
Strikers Statement Tells Funny Story About Bridgeport Girl
THAT WAS NoTAwoMAN ATALL

The Statement Also Reads the Riot
 Act to the Trolley Company-Bridge-
 port Trolley Cars Running To-day
 Deputy Sheriffs on the Thirty Cars
 That Are Being Manned-The Law
 Breakers to Be Brought Before Su-
 perior Court At Once.
 The strikers executive committee is- ; sued the following statement this af- &ernoon:
 ''This Is the 130th day of the strike, and once more we submit our daily statement to the public. Nothing in the way of a settlement has devel- oped since our last statement, although We invited a conference with the con- pany with a view to having this un- pleasantness done away with.
 "Of interest to local merchants is the following quotation from one of our country's most famous papers: Tn promoting the welfare and increasing the wages of the great body of work ingmen, we promote the welfare ana increase the prosperity of all legitimate merchants and business men, Contin- uing, the editor of this great paper says: The success of every street car system is made by all the inhabitants of the city. Every woman who brings a baby into the world in a great city adds so much value to the stock ot that city's street railroads. She 1n- creases the gross income of that rail road by about $3.65 year with each child to which she gives birth. There fore, the street railroad should first or all subserve the interests of the public that gives the road it's value. Next 1n importance comes the human beings that work on the street railroad, the conductors, motormen, gatemen. grip men, engineers, etc. The part of the editorial of interest to our merchants here takes for example road having 2,OOO men working for it. who are in creased $1 & day, or $2,000 daily added to the living money of the workers. Says this great editor: Every dollar of this goes into the hands of the mer- chants, the builders or the savings banks. If the men had not got that increase in wages, what would have become of that $600,0O0 a year? If that money were not distributed among the people in the shape of good Ameri- < can wages for good American work. 1t would go to build big race tracks, where fhieves HSd gamblers are manu- factured. It would go to buying fool, ish bogus antiquities that no man needs. It would go for building ridicn- lous and uncalled for palaces where human mushrooms without a sense of /, humor initiate in their idleness the ac- tive types of the past This is only a small portion of the editorial which appeared yesterday in the New York American. -.
 ''The reason why we have issued our daily statement giving our side of the case authentcally can now be ex- plained. Perhaps everybody in Wa terbury, who reads the papers, has read about a Nellie McMahon," who has been lauded as heroine because she rode on the cars in Bridgeport last Sunday and was severely @ in jured by stones. ''Nellie'' was man. Nellie was disguised as woman, however. What object there was in adopting the garb of a woman and boarding the car can easily be. inferred. Another man disguised similarly has since been discovered. And yet the great press of Connecticut was so busy e'tthrowinS it 1nto' Mayor Mulvihill that it did not have time to investigate this big fraud and stick pin into the bubble of 'Nellie McMahon's" fake fame.
 'sThe Bridgeport trolleymen have Gdopted unique method of finding out who are their friends during the strike. Several of the men have arm cd themselves with snapshots and are daily taking pictures of the strike breakers and the passengers they car ry. This system has scared some of the strike-breakers. Yesterday car came along down there and the motor man and conductor saw the snapper pointed at them. N The picture was ta- ken, but the strlA >sbreakers didn't know it, and the me torr1an stopped 4f1e car and both men in charge turned their backs on the photographer. They 7 remained in this manner for ten nin- utes, blocking the line, but the pho tographer was stayer, and finally, pulling down their hats over their ears and doubling up as small as possible they went on. their way, while the art aSt went on and developed his picture
 we understand Jay Woods has E seen the error of his way in returning to the bosom of the trolley company and is.now repenting. We are told on authority that he unhesitating1y and decisively planes Miles C.. Booth, an. other returning son, for his present re- morseful state, on the ground that Booth promised him rosy time if he went back, whereas all he gets now Is what the out of town strike-breakers don't want or won't take"
 Bridgeport, May 2O.-Cars manned by non-union men and guarded by deputy sheriffs were run again to-day on q number of lines of the Connecticut Railway Lighting Go in this city. No disturbance was reported during the aarIxy morning Following ont the pro-