New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-17
BIG FORCE 1T 4BATTOIRS.
Lantry Has About NinetylPolic on
Duty-CcntraI office Men There.

DULY-C CHLTdC OUtCC HCH nae
There was much trouble and much more
trouble was feared. again yesterday in con-
nection with the local beef strike. In the abat-
toir district in First-ave. about Fiftieth-st,
Police Captain Lantry last night had over eighty
men on duty. He also had eight bicycle police
men, whom he said he intended TO send out with
the packers wagons when they went 10 deliver
meat TO customers. In addition. number OF
Central Office men kept the stree corners clear
and broke up the groups of disaffected strikers.
Joseph Patiene twenty-five years old of No.
344 East Fortieth-st. employed in the Schwarz-
schild & sulzberger company's plant as a non
union man. was assaulted By severa! unknown
men last night and is in the Bellevue Hospital
with two severe scalp wounds. His assaiants
escaped Patiene was returning home from
work Several men spoke 10 him. and he ran
toward his home. but one Of the men gained on
him. and when near him. struck him over the
head with a curved shovel The sides Of the
shovel caused deep scalp wounds on each side
of his head. 4 patrolman heard the cries. but
arrived too late to make any arrests
In the morning Timothy Kelleher twenty
eight years old. OF No. 403 East Forty second
ST. a striker. formerly in the employ Of the
SchwarzschiId & Sulzberger Company. was held
in $500 bail for three months in Yorkville court.
st. station said that Kelleher, while intoxicated
on Monday. created disturbance in East
Fifty-ninth-st. by attempting 10 stop team of
horses attached to a butchers wagon.
He was climbing on the wagon, when l
stopped him." said McGreevy.
What did you want to do on the wagon?'
asked the Court.
Just 10 speak to the driver" the answer.
He's one OF the butchers strikers" added
the officer. and ne meant no good"
Kelleher was unable TO furnish the bonds and
locked I'D.
It was said by H. H. Abbott. OF No. 80 Lib
erty-st.. counsel for the SchwarzschiId concern.
that on last Thursday when one of the
schwarzschId & SuIzberger wagons left the
slaughter house with meat for Luchow's. IN
Fourteenth-st., the wagon was attacked at
Forty-frst-st. and First-ave. and at Four
teenth-st it found that some one had lifted
the curtain at the back Of the wagon and
thrown carbolic acid and chIoroform on the
meat, making It totally unfit for use. The meat
was valued at $3.50. Mr.. Abbott said that if the
perpetrators could be discovered they would be
vigorously prosecuted. He added. however
that ne did not think the strikers were guilty
of the offence. but that some of their sympa-
thizers were.
At the Schwarzschild & Sulzberger office it
was stated that number of new men had ar
rived from the West. and more expected
The Amalgamated Association IL the after
noon sent a telegram TO Secretary MetcaIf of the
Department of Commerce and Labor. stating
that the association had learned that thirty Eng
lsh butchers were being imported 10 this coun-
try 10 work in the abattors here. They were
coming, the telegram said, on the steamship
Victorian. The telegram asked Secretary Met
calf to act
Authorities at the Schwarzschild & SuIzber-
ger Company laughed az the news when 1t was
told them.
At a mass meeting Of the strikers held at
Turtle Bay Hall, No $50 Second ave Thomas
". Morton. Of Chicago a member of the execu-
tive board Of the fremeu's union, predicted
confidently that the strike would be settled
within 1--WE days. There was a rumor among
the men last night that the strike would be set
tied within thirty-six hours. out this could not
be confirmed
The big packing concerns did considerable
concerns did none at al.
President BlumenthaI OF the United Dressed
Beef Company said.
We have all the men we want and more on
Monday two highly skilled dressers arrived here
from Chicago and were put to work. Our out
put now is between 300 and $50 cattle a day.
the normal amount being 500, which expect
10 reach to-day or tomorrow.
Frederick Joseph. of the Schwarzchild & Sulz-
berger Company, said that It had good day
yesterday. and killed more than two hundred
cattle.