The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-02
ROWS IN AUTO CAB STRIKE.
POLICE KEPT BUSY QUILTING
THE RIOTING DRIVE RS.
stone Cuts n Polieeman's Ear -ElEht Ave-
nae scene Of Many Disturbance
President Or the Cab Company says
He Only Lacks Police Protection.

nue scene OF Many Disturbances
President or the CAb Company Says
lie Only Lacks Police Protection.
The fourth day of the attempt to break
the strike OF the auto Cab drivers by the
New York Transportation Company yes
terday was marked by riotink and disorder.
The trst electric cab left tbs garage at
Eighth avenue and F~orty-ninth street at
10 in the morning, containing as a passenger
Miss Nellis, a stenog rapher, employed by the
company. No account of any mishap
10 it came in.
Roundsman Frank J. Dunn of the West
Thirty-seventh street station was badly
injured in the afternoon by strikers while
with a number of reserves be was trying
to break up a riot at T~birty-sixth street
and Eighth avenue. He was struck near
the right eye with a stone and his right ear
was nearly severed by a sharp piece Of
rock. The trouble came when a hanson
driven by a strikebreaker came down
Eighth avenue followed by two special
policemen on bicycles.
A crowd gathered and the driver fed,
The crowd surrounded the cab and began
to wreck il. The reserves we're then called
for from the West Thirty-seventh street
station. The crowd threw stones, one of
them catching Policeman Dunn Just d
the right eye. Another stone struck him
on the ear. The reserves OF the West
Thirtieth street station then arrived and
charged the crowd.
just then another electric cab appeared.
driven by Arnold Bein. a strikebreaker
A rush was made for him and some Of the
crowd climbed on the cab. Bein kept to
his post and tried to drive the machine
but was forced to Jump OIL and run for his
life.
The police tried several times to make
arrests of leaders in the riot, but they were
pulled away and the mob was dispersed
without a single arrest.
BENJAMIN j. Smith. a restaurant keeper
Of 3O5 West I35th street, said yesterday
that his brother Terence. Is years old, is
held in the garage on Eighth avenue and
that he would appeal TO Magistrate Mayo
at the West Side Court for an order for the
release of his brother. His brother, he said,
had gone to the garage on Monday in answer
to an advertisement and wrote TO him after
ward saying he could not get out. As a
matter OF fact. the new men are boarded,
lodged and trained N this garage, where
they are under police protection.
Richard Butler. who is treasurer Of the
Chauffeurs' Union. was arrested for using
abusive language to Harry Logan, a new
driver. He was held in the West Side court
by Magistrate Mayo in $500 bail for further
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A riot took place late in the afternoon at
Eighth avenue and Forty-seventh street
where a crowd Of strikers and sympathizers
dragged a strike breaker from an electric
brougham. The brougham crashed into a
lamp post at Forty-sixth street. where il
stopped. A number Of special policemen
were on hand. and one Of them, Robert
Sanders. was being badly used when two
bluecoats with revolvers came up anu made
the crowd back away. 1--WE arrests were
made.
Frank Moore of 50 Washington place. a
striker, was held in the West Side court in
81 900 bail for examination to-day. He was
accused OF assaulting Arthur Fox. one Of
the strike breakers, on Tuesday, at Broad
way and Fftieth street. Fox saws he was
struck by Moore on the head with an iron
bar. The assault was witnessed, he said.
by a crowd Of people.
President Meade OF the New York Trans
portatOn Company said last night that he
could put seventy men on the electric cabs
at once il they could he protected. He
did not want to subject the men to I'M
necessary danger. About ten cabs were
sent out in all, containing strikebreakers.