The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-16
ONE LINE KEPT
IN OPERATION
Chicago City Railway Scores
Partial Victory.
A
NO TEAMS WERE IN THE WAY
INDICATIONS POINT TO A LONG
STRUGGLE
NO TEAMS WERE IN The WAY

CHICAGO. Nov. 15.-A victory. tenn
\ porary at least. was scored BY the
management of the Chicago City
today. From early i'm the morning un-
I'll dark tonight the company succeed
ed in maintaining a regular service on
its Wentworth avenue line. which eN-
tends from Seventy inth street to the
down town district a distance Of eight
miles. The first car manned by
newly hired non-union crew, left the
car barns. guarded by dozen police
men. at o'clock. and was followed
four minutes later by another train.
The schedule was kept up all day,
and with the exception of two incipieut
riots at Thirty-6rst street. in which
several arrests were made. no OppO-
sition was offered by the former en-
plOyes of the company or strike sym
pathizers. Thousands Of persons took
advantage of this being Sunday and
gathered along the route, which was
patrOlled by tWO-thirds OF Chicago s
police force, but nearly everybody
looked on good naturally as the cars.
some of them half filed with passen-
gers, sped along without meeting any
interference.
Clashes With Police.
Twenty-Five cars in all were put into
the service. but the schedule was fire.
quently inherfered with by delays
caused by Instructions being placed on
the tracks and the ineNperience Of the
men in charge of the cars The most
serious trouble occurred during the
morning. when a number of arrests
were made. but clashes between the
police and the crowds that lined the
streets were frequent during the after
noon, and When darkness set in il was
not considered SAFE 70 send more cars
from the barn. The last car returned
10 the barns at 4.3O o'clock, and after
it had been safely housed the day.
work came TO an end.
More arrests were made during the
day than any since the strike was de-
clared. The most trouble was expert
euced between Twenty second and
Forty street. in the blocks
bounded by these thOrOue hfares crowds
OF men. women and children conEre-
gated. and. as the first cars passed.
hOOted at the police and nOn-uniOn en-
plOyes. This was soon followed by
more violent demonstrations Huge
barricades were piled upon the tracks.
stones We're thrown at the cars. and a
nd-to-hand conflict between the pO-
lice and the crowds followed in several
instances. Several patrol wagons
which had previously been called were
soon uleQ Win prisoners.
Caused a Panic.
one of the men arrested. who gave
his name as McQuade is SAID to have
placed "a cartridge of larzss caliber upon
the track near Harrison and Clark
streets. Thousands of spectators were
in the street at the time. and. believing
it was dynamite. became panic-strickeu
with fear as they dashed for places of
safety. Assistant Chief of Police
Schuettler. who was neaA at the time.
removed the cartridge and arrested
McOuade.
1t being Sunday. the absence OF tTaf-
fic teams on the streets lesscned the
trouble Of the police in the matter of
blOckades. but another source Of seri-
GUS annoyance was the great crowds of
idle sightseers and sympHthizers, who
were attracted by thousands 70 the
streets through which th- cars had TO
pass
During the latter part Of the after
noon. however. the interference with
the progress OF the cars had greatly
diminished. and many Of the cars were
half filed with passengers as they sped
along unmOlested.