Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-03-24
CHIEF OF POLICE EGAN SENDING OUT POSTAL CARDS.
Reward For Mendelssohn Mur-
 derer Is $13,65o.oO.
CARDS SENT TO MANY PLACES.

&AnOS 0GN4 4O MAN A&ASA0s Manager sewell to Meet Trolleymen
 In Bridgeport Thursday - Colonel
 Burpee's Handling of the Legal End
 of the Case Strikers Issue Their
 Daily Statement.
 General Manager Sewell has call to meet the trolleymen at Bridgeport, Thursday, but he does not seem to think it means anything that will lead to trouble. MT Sewell appeared Ill good humor to-day and acted as if he felt like a man that had been in race and won out Colonel Burpee looked cheerful, too-he always does-anu walked to car in Exchange place with the same unconcern as he used to wear when there was nothing unusual OH.
 Judge Burpee has been a great help to the company in this fight. He con dneted the campaign with consummate skill and yet managed to go about his business and receive callers as though he was not a party to the most serious labor trouble that ever occurred Ill Connecticut. The colonel met those { who didn't have much sympathy with his side of the question with open arms and talked to them in a fartherly way, just as he invariably does when he calls upon the city boards, and while winning them to his way of thinking too often get the notion into their heads that he is working for Water bury instead of for any particular client. Why, if you met Colonel Bur- pee in his private office and saw him tilt back his chair, put his hands on the arm rests and then look you square i'll the face and hear him state the com panys side of the case, you would be almost persuaded that he meant every word he said. Yes, the colonel has very winning way, so much so that when he gets you under his magnetic influence it is hard to resist his power. His tact has been noticeable at every stage of this strike, and those who know him can tell his footmarks, no matter how securely they may be GOV cred up. Many claim that the gallant colonel met his match in the strikers executive committee, and feel that If nothing had occurred to disturb the public peace all his sophistry wouldn't have saved the company from being forced to capitulate long before this hour of the day. Colonel Burpee has great faith in the newspaper reporters and often goes to considerable trouble to help them. He doesn't care what the reporters write so long as it is fa- vorable to the trolley company Do you see ,? The colonel is not llnmihdful of the fact that public sympathy is with the strikers. but he has a way of brushing remark of this kind to one side that one would be puzzled to know whether he meant to deny or affirm it.
 The strikers executive committee Issued the following statement this af- ternoon:
 What we have been expecting for some time has happened. The Bridge port trOlleymen have made formal de- mandS upon the company, similar to those presented by us. and the general manager will give the committee hearing on Thursday. Our Bridgeport brothers have been put off again and again on their request for conference, and finally became tired. threw down the gauntlet and presented their de- mands to the company. The result is that they will be given a hearing on their grievances next Thursday, the re suit of which will be watched with great interest in this city The ac- HUH VI 'llEc DIluRepOIG II0u uOPS 1lOC verify the statement of the general manager. who jokingly stated to re- porter yesterday that they were "a hap py and contented lott
 Now that the fine weather is ad- vancing with rapid strides. we have prepared to get down to business con- cesnfng our automobile lines. Look out for our flying squadron" in the very near future. We are now nego- tiating for fleet of them, each one of which will comfortably carry from twenty to twenty five passengers.
 We notice that a representative of the company is quoted as stating that two of our men answered the company's summons to return to work early in the strike. We would like to have that paper find out the names of those two men. This information is cer- tainly news To us, as we have counted heads and find all our men standing on this, our seventy-third day of the strike. shoulder to shoulder with un- abated determination and just as wig orous as they were when we went out on January eleventh last ts
 "BOss'' Farley and Superintendent Wales occupied a box at the Jacques theater last night. The New Yorker enjoyed the show very much.
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