Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-11-02
RIoToUs CHAUEFEURs.

Police reserves we're called out late
Yesterday afternoon in New York to gull
riot started by the striking chauffeurs
of the New York Transportation Com
pany. The first trouble began at Thirty
sixth street and Eighth avenue, when a
motor car belonging to the company,
driven by Arnold Bien, reached that
corner, ard before long 500 chaufeurs
and 100 police were involved.
The police declare that the trouble was
started by young woman, who urged
the crowd standing on the street to break
up the police protection Of passing
automobile belonging TO the New York
Transportation Company.
"Wll you stand lhis? Go at them
like men, the woman is said to have
shouted. Instantly the cry sas raised.
sDown with the strike breakers. Kill
the police If they interfere" The crowd
surroundered the automobile and the
driver jumped from his seat and dis
appeared. A second New York Trans
portaton Company. msching appeared
on the scene about he same lime and
the mob turned lis attention TO this
also. Stones, stick and eggs we're thrown
from every direction. ln short time
reserves from two police stations reached
the scene.
The strikers had caused large coal
wagon to be placed diagonally across the
street, and when the automobile reached
that point a crowd of several hundred
men surrounded the car, pulled the
chauffeur rom the seat, completely
wrecked the car and filled the air with
stones and other missiles.
Two special officers on bicycles in the
employ Of the transportation company
drew their revOlvers and drove of the
mob. The reserves from the Thirty
seventh street police station appeared
on the scene, but this only seemed to
make the mob more desperate and the
police were charged up.
A roundsman was struck in the eye
with stoue and was so badly injured
that he was carried away. Five other
policemen were Lurt by flying missiles.
The police then charged the mob and
chased tie strikers to Thirty fifth street.
A rev automobile arrived to take the
wrecked machine back TO the garage.
| The two machines started in tow down
Thirty-sixth street to Seventh avenue,
where a crowd of 5000 men and boys
were coDgresated.
All the way from Thirty-eighth street to
Forty-third street and Broadway the
chaufIeurs aud machines were pelted by
stones. When the machines turned the
corner to 60 up Eighth avenue a delivery
wagon, purposely drawn across the street,
blocked their progress. The strikers
again stopped the machines, jerked the
chauffeurs from the machines and beat
them numerically.
Reserves from the Forty-ssventh street
station arrived and began TO club back
the infuriated strikers. The mob scat
tered and the automobiles started up
Eighth avenue again.
When they reached Forty-third street
one OF the mob threw a stone at one Of
the chauiIeurs, knocking him to the
ground. Deputies from the company's
garage with drawn reyolyers held the
crowd back. The reserves we're called
again. They dubbed right and left and
two strikers were arrested. Finally, un-
der the protection OF tie police, the auto
mobiles were taken back to the stables
by another chauffeur amid the boots and
cries of the drivers of every vehicle they
passed.