Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-29
PLUCKY GIRL IN EVERY HOLE.
Except Two, and They Held 3 Plucky
 Woman and a Boy.

Woman and a Boy.
 For five hours to-day, says the Sun, residents of Waverly Hill fought a gang of men sent by the Huckleberry company to erect poles for the. new trolley line it is building to connect New Rochelle with White Plains. They prevented the company from making the connection it desired.
 The fight took place on the White Plains road in front of the properties of Victor Lrlikert and Matthew Horan, and their wives and children aided in defeating the company's employees.
 MT Luikert, who is the town butch CT. was away from home this morning when a gang of fifty Italians appeared and began to dig holes in front of his house.
 The butchers wife saw them from a window and rushed out and ordered them to stop. The contractor tried to argue with the woman, and at the same time keep his men digging, but Mrs Luikert sprang into a hole and l'shouted to her boy:
 Quick, Jimmie; go and get Kittie, Maggie and Mamie.''
 The children came skipping across the lawn and Mrs Luikert seized them and put each of the little girls in a hole. Then she put Jimmie in one and leaped into another herself. Now" she shouted to the contrac tor, T defy you.'
 The contractor tried in vain to per suade the woman to take the children out of the holes and let him set up the poles. After arguing half an hour he sent to Tuckahoe and summoned Con- stables Charles Lombordo and Charles Gorden. When the constables arrived and saw the condition of affairs they refused to interfere. Instead of help 1 ing the contractors they exhibited de- cided sympathy for Mrs Luikert. The contractor, after telling the constables that they were a lot of chicken-hearted hayseeds. moved his men further down the street, leaving the Luikert family victorious.
 The next attempt to set poles was made in front of the house of MT Horan, formerly receiver of taxes. The old man was full of fight. He swore and hurled stones at the Ital- l ians until they took to their heels. Then he rushed after the contractor with a big stone in each hand. The constables advised MT Horan to refrain ! from violence,
 The Italians succeeded in digging i three holes in front of the, Horan house and were about to set poles in them when the old mans three daugh- ters, one of them a school teacher in l Tuckahoe appeared and, following l the example of Mrs Luikert he inter- rupted the work by putting the girls ill the holes.
 1 The Italians then dug new holes, but as soon as they completed them the Horan girls, led by their father. filled them up with dirt. The contest was kept going for a couple of hours, and the workmen did not set a single pole
 The foreman, after telephone con- ference with President Edward Maher of the railroad company, abandoned the work, and the men moved off It is said that President Maher told the foreman not to antagonize the resi- dents, that he would put ae line line through in another way. ~
 People along the White Plains road have stationed guards in front of their premises, as they fear that the men will return and build the trolley road in the night. The gap at Tuckahoe is the only one that exists in the whole six miles between White Plains and New Rochelle. The company expect ed to have its cars running by next 1 Sunday. <~<s