The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-02-03

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Numbero OF troops under arms $50
Expense to State per day. 50, 218
Waterbury, Feb 1.-The first real
disturbance in the Waterbury trolley
strike since the militia took hold of the
situation occurred tonight at the rail-
way power house in the Brooklyn dis
trict, where the Blues, a New Haven
company, were stationed on patrol. The
rain Of the early evening was succeed
ed after o'clock by a thick fog, which
rendered it difficult to distinguish OBJ
jects half block away. Taking ad-
vantage of the heavy fog, a gang of
hoodlums, supposed to be Polanders,
living in that neighborhood, gathered
on the sidewalk across the street from
the power house and aimed a volley of
stones at two empty cars which were
standing there. The windows on one
side of the cars were smashed from one
end to the other. Lieutenant Beebe
and the whole company of Blues made
a dash for the stone throwers, but in
the fog and darkness all escaped after
a long chase through back yards and
alleys.
About this time reports Of violence in
other parts of the city began to come
in, the fog evidently suiting the pur-
poses of the rioters and hindering the
efforts of the guardsmen. Every car
that came into the center of the city
between 9 and 10 o'clock had evidently
been attacked by stone throwers From
the East Main street line, the West
Main street line and the Naugatuck,
Oakville and Brooklyn lines there came
the same reports of occasional showers
of brickbats. The cars were hit in many
places, and some of the motormen and
guardsmen had narrow escapes from
injury. 1t was extremely difficult for
the men on the cars to locate the source
of the stone-throwing, and escape for
the rioters was easy in the fog.
One arrest was made near the high
school building, where some of the mil
itiamen are quartered. A man was
found tampering with a switch and ap-
parently attempting to throw it. He
The crowds in the business section
thinned out as the evening advanced,
but in the Brooklyn district, which is
looked upon as a danger center by the
authorities the number of people
thronging the streets rather increased
than diminished, and it was feared that
serious trouble might develop there be-
fore the night was over in spite of mil
itiamen ON guard.
No noteworthy disturbance was re-
ported in the neighborhood of the car
barns UP to 10 o'clock. Two companies
of the First regiment were stationed
there, one in front of the barns and the
other in the meadow in the rear.
William Seery, aged thirty-four
years. was arrested late tonight while
attempting, the police say, to cut out
the power from Dublin street to the
end of East Main street, distance OF
about three blocks. He was locked up
and his case will proba bly, be heard in
the police court tomorrow.
A report from the car barn was sent
in early in the evening by non union
motorman, who said he had been struck
in the face by stone, and that his car
was blocked short distance beyond
the car barn by distractions placed on
the track A company of guardsmen
under command of Major Bailey, of the
First regiment, was hurried to the
scene in a car, but they were unable to
find any distractions on the rail or any
indication of disorder.
The streets in the center of the city
filled up rapidly early in the evening
after the supper hour, and by o'clock
there were thousands in the business
section. On Monday nights the stores
are closed and ordinarily the business
mart of the city is quiet. The contrast
Tonight was marked. Through the
midst of the throngs the trolley cars,
with windows and doois shattered as
evidence of the work of Saturday
nights rioters, and the omnibuses run
by the strikers in opposition to the
conpany's traffic rolled busily along at
freouent intervals. The bus lines were
well patronized, hundreds Of people
riding in these conveyances, while the
cars did not fare SO we'll in business
way, A few passengers rode by trolley,
however. in spite of the rather menac-
Ing conditions.
A little Improvement in the temper of
the people toward the militiamen SEEM
ed to be indicated in the early evening.
Last night the soldiers were received
generally with Kisses, groans and jeers,
but tonight groups of men and women
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