The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-31
FIGHT AT WALDORF
NON-UNION AUTO CAN DRIVER
STONED BY GANG.
Storm DOOR Of q Nearby JeweIry store
smashed Ell Orts 10 Break the Strike
start Many Rows VIA g~istrate Cornell
Sends One Prisoner 10 the Island.

Swell NheAAg ANON'
Sends One Prisoner TO n Island.
The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel was the centre
OF liz ely doings early this morning. when a
gang Of strikers tried to beat a ~non-union
auto driver who was passing through
Thirty-third street. The strikers num-
bered about twenty-five. They pelted
the ~non-union driver with stones and ma
terials from a building being constructed
at Thirty-third street and Fifth avenue.
Policeman Kupfrsin Of the Tenderloin
station hurried to the scene when he first
heard the commOtion. The strikers paid
no attention to him until he jumped onto
the box beside tho driver and drew his
revolver.
The people in the cab were Mr.. aud Mrs.
Robert W. Wilcox Of go Madison avenue
The owner was William Jones.
Before the driver could start George
DUEL, 81, a driver Of $50 West 10th street,
made a rush for the cab. and according to
Kuffrain, who had been watching this cab,
tried to yank Jones from his scat.
Frank Calm. a special policeman riding
on the box with Jones, prevented DUEL
from carrying out his intention,
DUEL then yelled, il was said:
Get at 'em. boys."
Then a dozen groups of -four or five Jumped
to Duell's aid.
BY the time the reserves arrived all the
cab windows had been smashed by flying
stones, but the occupants escaped injury.
Kupfrain managed to arrest Duell, who
was locked up in the Tenderloin station
on the complaint of Jones. Jones had
a cut on the back of his head. The occu-
Al r. =
station and c~orroborated Jones's story.
Sergt. Mccarthy sent -four policemen
out with the cab. Under this escort the
cab went TO tho Wilcox home. The police
men then accompanied the driver to the
barn at Fitch street and Eighth avenue
The bricks thrown at the cab broke the
glass in a storm door Of kIrkpatTicl;'s
jewclry store.
Mrs. Wilcox said she wanted IN make
personal complaint against kuPeraiH be
cause she thought a man detailed TO pro-
tect the cab should have had better success
than Kupfrain did.
Kupfrain said that il he had drawn his
revolver and had tried to shoot many inno-
cent persons would have been hurt. RE
said that he hung onto DUEL. and thought
that was all that was expected Of him.
Fourteen electric cabs driven by strike
breakers we're sent out yesterday morn .ng
from the garage at SiXty-s!xth street and
Second avenue with ten bicycle policemen
to guard them. A %hoot.ng, yelling crowd
followed but was kept at a distance by the
policemen.
Heretofore the strikers, when arrested,
have not worried. They we're ined and the
union stood for the money Michael O'Grady.
one OF the strikers. however. had a new
experience when he was arrai9ned in the
Yorkvllle court yesterday. He was charged
with throwing a stone at an auto. Magls-
trate Cornell sentenced him to the Island
under the cumul alive sentence ACT. He
gets five days for the first offence. Jane
j. Traut, another prisoner, was fined $40
for calling q striker a scaO.
While two strike breakers were being
escorted 20 the garage on East Sixty-sixth
street by four or five special policemen
an attack was made on them by a crowd
of strikers and sympathizers The new
men, one OF whom was badly beaten, were
having q hard time when a squad OF police
arrived. John Cuff Of 5l3 West Fifty-first
street and Patrick Coyle Of 500 West Forty
eighth street, were locked up in the West
Forty-seventh street station. According
to James O'Neill, one OF the special police
men, the man who was beaten was hit with
an iron bar. Some Of the strikers were in
a pedIer's cart in which a number OF stones
were found.
A large Sightseeing auto, which was
conveying twenty strike breakers to the
East Sixty-sixth street garage. backed
against a vehicle opposite the Studio Build
ing and rebounded against a lamppost.
The auto was crippled and the lamppost
was smashed. A number OF strikers came
rushing Ia all directions to the stalled auto
and began threatening it, occupants, who
jumped out and disappeared. The dis
abled auto was then towed to the garage,
The strike leaders spread reports to the
effect that James Farley was supplying the
strike breakers. This was denied both by
the company and by Mr.. Farley. The
strike leaders then complained TO Park
! Commissions Herman that the New York
TRANSPORTATION Company was using the
Central Park drives TO train their new men.
Mr.. Herman said that the Park WAS a pub
lie pleasure ground, but that inexperienced
men should not be sent there in charge OF
electric autos. Later he sent a letter to the
Park Carriage Company, which has the
franchise for driving electric autos in the
park and has a contract with the New York
Transportation Company, informing them
that no inexperienced drivers would be
llowed in the park.