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MORE CARFARE RIOTS. .
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Continues
to Charge Ten Cents For
Ride to coney Island.
PASSENGERS THROWN OFF.

One Man Hurled Into a Ditch-Wo-
mans Body Found In Coney island
Creek-"kill Him!" Cries Company's
Lawyer, Jumping on Man Who
Wouldn't Pay Second Nickel.
New York, Aug 14-Complication
growing out of opposing orders and
opinions by public and by corporation
officials and disorder, which at times
threatened to become acute owing to
the determination of the people, marked
the situation in Brooklyn arising from
the decision by Supreme Court Justice
Gaynor on Saturday that the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit company has not right
Coney Island. Conditions were not
much clearer than they were on Sun
day, though more quiet owing to the
activity of the police and less travel.
At times, however there were repeti-
tions of the disgraceful scenes of Sun
day, when thousands of persons were
brutally elected from the cars, many
were badly hurt, cars were stalled for
miles, officials of the road were ar
rested and 10000 passengers had to
walk part of the way home or spend
the night outdoors.
Edward Traynor refused to pay an
extra fare at Coney Island at Neck
road and Gravesend avenue. Six in
spectors picked him up bodily and
hurled him from the platform of the
car to ditch at the roadside. He
landed on his back, sustained severe
internal injuries and was taken to the
Emergency hospital, Coney Island, suf-
fering intensely.
Baby Seized as Hostage.
A woman with a baby in her arms
refused to pay the extra fare. A
sweaty inspector with dirty hands
snatched her baby from her arms and
announced that he would keep 1.-THE
kid" until she paid her fare.
The body of victim Of Sundays
riot was found crushed in the Coney
Island creek. The body was identified
by members of her family as that of
Miss Fannie Sabrinsky of 113 Belmont
street, Brooklyn. Coroner's Physician
HartLng after the autopsy said that
the girl had died from fractured
skull and not from drowning. The
same car that threw three women from
the bridge over the creek is supposed
to have killed Miss Sabrinsky.
Kill himr' yelled Colonel Timothy
Roberts of the legal department of the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit to five in
spectors who were beating Jacob
Greenblatt of 46 Chester street, Brook
lyn, at Gravesend avenue and Neck
road. Greenblatt had refused to pay
an extra fare.
The inspectors were pounding Green
blatt when Colonel Roberts dashed
into the crowd, seized the covering
passenger, grabbed him by the throat
and dragged him to the gutter. There
he threw him down on his back, knelt
on his chest and choked him until he
was almost insensible.
When Colonel Roberts, who appeared
to be half crazy with rage, let Green
blatt up the man dropped in dead
faint Sergeant Callahan, who was on
hand with twenty policemen under ex-
plicit orders to protect passengers
from brutality, instead of arresting
Colonel Roberts arrested Greenblatt
my men have a right to kill any
body vino refuses to pay his fare, and
the courts would sustain them," yelled
Colonel Roberts.
At one time cars were stalled for a
mile or more at Neck road. Later the
company relieved the situation by TAX
ing off all trolley cars on the Culver
line, where the worst trouble had oc-
Cured
coler Advises Nonpayment.
During the day Borough President
Coler issued a manifesto advising all
citizens to refuse to pay the extra
fare. District Attorney Clarke of
Kings county detailed an assistant to
hear complaints of i'll treatment by the
company's employees and announced
that prosecutions would follow every
| proved case of maltreatment.
Acting Police Commissioner Waldo
revoked the licenses of the Brooklyn
| Rapid Transits special policemen and
declared that the public would be pro-
! tected.
This was offset and complicated to
some extent by an official opinion by
Acting Mayor MCGOWAN after con-
ference between him and Corporation
Counsel Delaney that the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit company had the right
to refuse to carry persons who refused
| to pay second fare and the COM
| pany's employees might use force in
case of resistance.
Meantime the company through its
counsel, ex-Justice Edward w. Hatch
issued statement defending the right
of the company to charge ten cent
| fare to Coney Island. He held that the
| question of fare was not involved in
the case which came up before Justice
Gaynor, but that a prior decision of
| the appellate division of the supreme
court relating to this phase of the
double fare question had not been
nullified J. F. Calderwood, vice presi-
dent and general manager Of the COM