The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-24
MONTGOMERY CAR
 LINES BLOCKED
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 son, Bicycle PatroInnan D. T. Loe and | a representative of The Advertiser. and joined Mayor Teague, who was already 1 on the Square. mlngling in nervous
 manner with the large crowd that was waiting for the arrests to begin. l Mounted Ofacer Roberts and Cross
 land rode up about the same time, and 1 Bicycle PatroIman H, c. Evans came l on the patrol wagon, which was imme- l diately sent back to headQuarters, how ever, to join the other officers. Rounds-
 man Sweeney and Patrolmen J. L.
 and Huffman were also on the scene, l together with Special Officer .. F.
 Avant. making just thirteen officers an uniuclxy number for the street car
 men--yrho took part in the stopping or
 General Manager W. H. Ragland and ! Superintendent F. B. Royster of the
 Traction Company were on the scene. Mayor and the Police Chief. They l had been talking for only an instant,
 however. when. at g:4ol o'clock, Hign-
 land avenue car, NO; .z' came aown
 bel for the guidance of the races, or | any other indication that any attempt was being made, or would De made. 10 1 torrrian and conductor didn't seem to I care about the citys new law. i Police Chief Taylor at once placed
 Mir. Ragiand and MT. Royster under
 arrest, and advancing to the car. that
 had stopped but few paces away, he l personally placed the motorman under arrest. while Roundsman Sweeney went
 to the rear platform and arrested the conductor. These four men. Messrs. RagIand and Royster the officials of 1 the company, and J. l.. Bennett and l W. L.. Ingram, the employees, were
 escorted to the police headquarters by Detective Jackson.
 I F,1na TVnM Tied Down.
 Scarcely had the Highland avenue car been stopped when Belt Line car
 came down Dexter avenue. ana next i the Court street line. Other cars poured in from every direction, and
 Were stopped and the motorman and 1 licemen. Not one, of the cars had a
 semblance for sign, flor whites or
 flor colored people" as required by the ordinance. nor was copy of the ordi- 1 nance posted in any of the cars. as it's provisions require.
 Most of the cars were stopped on Dexter avenue, as they approached l from trips to the suburbs seventeen
 avenue within three-quarters of an ] hour from the time the first arrest was made Indeed, not wheel was
 turning on single car on any of the l lines of the city by 10:25 o'clock, the cars remaining motionless, parked 1 about Court Square, but remaining at | a respectful distance, as though fear. l ful of harm, from the fountain. Besides the seventeen cars on sDex- | ter avenue which extended back for distance of a block and half from i the Square, three cars were stopped by | the police as they came up Commerce street, three others on Montgomery
 street, just before reaching the Square.
 and two on South Court street, just before the fountain was reached. The only other car in service on any line,
 a small one on the Riverside line, was stopped at Madison avenue, on North Perry street, close to police headquar~
 ters.
 Fifty-Fuur Arrested.
 The twenty-six motormen and twen~ l ty-six conductors from these cars were escorted as had been General Manager i Ragland and Superintendent Royster,
 to police headquarters as fast as they were arrested, where the eases were docketed against them as rapidly as Day Sergeant Oscar McDade and Po- lice Secertary F " Parrish, Jr, could charge placed against each one was violating an ordinance adopted March 26, 1906, approved April 3, 1906, ac- asPsed nspy ApT Pg is This ordnanee l Is the franchise granted the Traction
 Company last spring, at the time of
 the consolidation of the two street car
 A number of friends of the Traction Company people were in the crowd, largely from curiosity, at the time the first arrest was made, and several of these volunteered at once to go to po- lice headquarters and sign the bonds of the arrested men. James S. Dowdell l at headquarters az long as the men were brought in, signing the bands of | both the officials and of every employe | but ., one; s,I. C. HsR1nnqn podgIl signed one Conner and Terry Richardson signed 1 another with MT. Dowldell, and Mir. I Conner and MT; Richardson signed one |
 The list of flfty-fSur men arrested | by the police, each of whom, officials | and employees, was docketed as street | land, F. B. Royster, J. l. Bennett. W. L. Ingram, B. P Goodwin. George Wal lace, F. p, Loe, c. c. Glass, !; p; Hat B. Peoples, W. T.; Lipford, s: E. Pat terson. L. s. Smile, J. Boggett, W, c. Brown, Irvie Howell, W. M. Shirley, | Mels A f F RaF5isGR B White 6 E 5aPtsIS Peabods, G U. c. Martin. w. o. strickland. J. H. GlasscOek. J, D Ggerry S. E S;,,SaSte Shores shepard Gardner. E. E, Hun man, o. B; Blocker, ". A. Penton, c. Bell. Sam McInnis, w. 3. spigener, c. R. Jordan, B F Gray, R. O. Cox. W. N. strickl and. NJ. E., Minto, M O.
 
 The cars that were held up on Dex- ter Avenue, as they. approached Court Square we're as follows: Car No. 72, Highland Avenue line; No. S7. Belt Line; No. 97, Cloverdale No 75 Belt Line: No. 70. Oak Park and Depot; No. 31, Washington Park-South Jackson Street. No. 5S, Cloverdale: No. 73. Per- ry Street-Wes End; No. 63. Riverside; | No. 77 Capitol Heights; No. 93, Clover dale: No. 33, Highland Avenue; No. S1, Washington Park; No. 7s, Perry Street. West End; No. S0. Oak Park; No. SS, Highland Avenue; No. s6. Pickett
 Those detained at the South Court Street entrance to Court Square were both of the Court treet-Union Depot { line. being Nos 55 and 84.
 The three cars stopped on Montgom- cry Street as they approached the Square, were as follows. No. S2 High land Avenue; No. 30, Wa hlngton Park; No. S2, Washington Park. The three caught and stopped on Com merce Street were as follows: No. 92, Perry Street; No 71, Belt Line; No. 90. Perry Street. The lone car stopped on North Perry Street, near police head quarters was car No. 33. of the River side line.
 Tue Court InteFpOneE.
 There was a long wait after the cars had all been stopped. Everybody was expecting something to happen, but did not know just what 1t would be. No attempt was made by General Manager Ragland to operate the cars, following the Mayors declaration that further wholesale arrests would ensue, but the !