New-York tribune., 1906-08-17
q speedy hearing. In commenting or the case
the magistrate said:


cars ~ NP'A u 'i'o
L am Informed by the public press that you
a hsn with joy an opportunity OF getting deci-
sioh other than the one OF Judge Gaynor. which
YOU nave elected to ignore. The District At
coIhey IN our county says that the prosecuting
oh1cer holds the decision of Judge Gaynor as
nnaL therefore suggest that a special
Term or the Supreme Court is sitting, that
d wit OF habeas corpus against my commit
lneft TO attest the whole question be sued out
viii send all the papers TO the Special Term:
the defendants can remain here until your pa
pers are perfected; will communicate with the
District Attorney
want TO say 20 the people of Brooklyn that
the law will be enforced that the people of the
State OF New York will demand respect for the
law, and that rioting must cease to-day. and
that all cars that were running upon Sunday
Island.
BY virtue OF the statute which directs the
magistrate 10, will take the necessary action
~ the Police Department is unable to see TO 1t
that cars are run. and that passengers upon the
cars are protected from their starting point TO
their destination
After Magistrate Higgnbotham had set the
nearing for this afternoon, one of the counsel
Tor the prisoners said that he didn't want any
favors shown TO his clients but that they should
be treated like any other prisoners The magis-
trate who had intended to parole the officials.
said he would comply with the lawyers request
by holding them in 81. 600 bail each.
ORDINANCES DUG UP
A question arose last night over the discovery
OF an old ordinance by which the Acting Mayor,
1T was thought. could stop the violence on the
cars and end the trouble. It was pointed out
that the ordinance gave the Mayor the power
to have a in charge of car removed for
certain misconduct 1t reads:
The Mayor shall have power. upon anv COM
paint made 10 him. TO require any car conductor
or driver to appear before him. upon notice of
at least twenty-four hours. ana if, upon in
vesugation and examination of witnesses he
shall adjudge that said conductor or driver has
neen guilty OF insolence. eXtortiOn, reckless or
improper conduct, he shall notify such deter
mination to the president of the company in
whose employment such conductor driver
may be. and thereafter such conductor or driver
snali not act as such without the permission
of the Mayor.
Another section requires that drivers of cars
shall have licenses which the Mayor may revoke
any time he may deem it expedient.
These ordinances were printed last Friday in
"The City Record it being a matter of form TO
print them every year. Some are old and have
been carried on the lists merely through failure
OF the Board Of Aldermen to have them for
mally rescinded. They all stand as law. how
ever, and it said by that under the
sections quoted the Acting Mayor could have
brought Brooklyn Rapid Transit motormen and
conductors before him, and examined them. If
found guilty Of disorder he could have dis
missed them by revoking their licenses.
"B r T. REFUNDING IS"
Several jokers on the curb market began TO
bid up Brooklyn Rapid Transit refunding 5s'
yesterday A. J. Smith. a curb broker. was the
chief joker. He got into the market. and with
vigor started in TO bid up Brooklyn Rapid
Transit refunding 5s" Several OF his friends
who had been tipped off, by him. Immediately
sold him these mythical securities. Smith bid
them in at 1. Within ten minutes he had
bought in about 10000 of these alleged securi-
ties
Many other brokers. not knowing the game,
got in, and the bidding for the new securities"
became spirited. In a short time Brooklyn
Rapid Transit refunding 5s' run up TO 215.
Smith bid in in all about 10000 of the securi-
ties. when representative of a curb firm offered
TO take the entire issue any part Of it at 2.
This announcement broke the market as far as
that security was concerned. Mr.. Smith then
announced that the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
refunding 5s' were the rebate tickets which the
company is about to issue.
QUIET ALONG THE CULVER.
There was practically no disturbance along the
Culver line yesterday. In the afternoon several
Central Office men appeared and arrested Su-
perintendent Maybury for assault. The warrant
sworn out by Edward Trainor Of No 12
Reid avenue, who alleges that he was assaulted
Monday.
me business men OF COney Island nave Deen
hard hit by the fight The total loss at the
island since last Sunday is estimated to be more
than S2O0OGO The attendance was decidedly
less than the rainy days at the beginning OF
the season Surf avenue. generally crowded
from curb to curb, has looked deserted as
a Boston street after nightfal
Among the heaviest losers is Bostock the AMI
NAL man. He says that his receipts have fallen
off from 80 to so per cent because Of the trouble.
while similar reports are made by all the other
amusement people.
Everybody living in the Gravesend district has
been much discOmmoded by the suspension of
the trolley system. These cars drain the East
New York district not touched by the elevated
lines. and the suspension Of the service has made
IT difficult for many go TO and from work.
Another complaint is made by the builders
along the Culver line Their lime barrels, bum
dies of laths and all easily carried material have
been disappearing Investigation showed that
the police had been halting the elevated trains
in the early hours of the morning and loading
up the front platforms with everything they
could get TO build bonfires at Kings Highway
and Kensngton.
Twelve persons in of a Culver line ele-
waited train refused TO pay a second fare about
o'clock, and the car was detached and switched
onto siding at Gravesend. About two hundred
and fifty patrolmen stood around the car TO keep
# from being smashed. but the marooned pas
sengers started a concert with mandolin and
a violin. The greater part of the night was
whiled away in that manner.
Neither Sheriff Flaherty nor Magistrate Fig-
ginbotham went down TO the scene OF trouble
Several under sheriffs were there with sheaf Of