The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-14
ALL PERMITS ARE REy!e.s:ssED Special Policemen Are
 Withdrawn. DISTURBANCES AT c0NEY Passengers Refuse to Pay Two
 Fares. Decision of Justice Gaynor That Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company Can Collect But Once causes
 Incipient Riot.

New York. August 1s--As a result of the disturbances amounting in some instances almost to a riot on Coney Island cars of the Brooklyn Transit | Company yesterday, when several thousand persons were elected from cars when they refused ao pay ten ! cents fare. acting Police Commissioner Waldo today revoked permits grant in gthe company power to employ six- ty speciAl policemen. who assisted in puttnig of the cars passengers who re- fused to pay the double fare.
 These special policemen wore uni forms almost identical with those of regular policemen. They were station ed at points along the line where the second fare was collected
 Those who refused to pay and in sisted on continuin gtheir journey were seized a dnforcib;y elected. Jus ruled Saturday that the Brooklyn Rapid Transit had no right to de- mand a double fare. Mir. Wlado said todd ythat the five cents fare ruling will be enforced
 The police department" he said. of hte Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com many who assaults a citizen. The po- lice will deal with them just as any 1 other yiolators of the law would be dealt And as many of the compa- nv's employes will be arrested as seems necessary"
 I. F. Calderwood, vice president Rapid Transit Company. said today that tn ecompany will do business the same as before the court ruiign was made. The company will collect the second fare. he declared.
 1 On scheduied Time.
 The disturbances on the coney Is- land surface ear and elevated trains that Deputy Police Commissioner o'Keefe and the Brooklyn police look ed forward to yesterday because of Justice Gavnor's statement Of Saturday | that the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Coni- pan vdid not have a right to demand double fare to the island. took place
 They lasted from early hsoahins un- til today. when the overwfought nerves nerves of the people permitted A panic following shooting affray in | which four persons were dangerously injured bv an unknown man, who es- caned At daylight oelated ones were still making their way 10 the citv
 More than a quarter of a milton people started to Coney Islan dduring the day and most of them got there. but 1 only aftey they had passed throurb l trying experiences. And while this | enormous crowd was fighting It's way to the pleasure resort-incidentaliy making the record day of the sumnler- l cars were stalled in lines tha textended for miles. while the Brooklyn Rapld | Transit inspectors argued and pleaded | with passengers to pay the second fare | and finally winded up by dragging the obstreperous passengers from the cars and throwing them Into the strets by | thousands. | all .at.t ] of 250 special policemen and a corps of inspectors. A similar number of regular policemen were on hand to pre- serve order but failed to doso
 Effected From Cars. Men, women and children were forci. | bly elected from the cars: from 50.00o to 75.00O were compelled to malk for distances of from one to three miles | The first steps were taken In scores of damage suits and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Representatives dified Deputy | Police Commissioner OKeefe of Brook lyn.
 . Lawyers and lawyers clerks swarmed about the points where passengers were put off and took the names of wit | nesses.
 As an outcome of the days doing, a committee of citizens is being form ed in Brooklyn to enforce Justice Gay | nor's ruling. Sheriff Flaherty of Kings | County was informed lite last night of the purpose of the committee and that the committee intended to call on him as sheriff to protect them as citizens in uphoding their rights.
 Sheriff Flaherty said;
 l q have not been requested to act as vet and l Nave not taken the matter under advisement. If such demand was made and felt that I should act. my force of deputies is so small that | I woud be compelled to call upon the Governor of the State to give me some militia.
 A continuous progress along the main lines of travel was made. As a re- snlt of 1t. two women were injured, one | so seriously that she may die; another woman and child came so near that ! hundreds of onlookers turned their | faces away in horror innumerable per | sons were bruised and several were ar rested on charges of assault.
 coIer Put on Car. Among those put off trolley cars was President Bird s. Coler of the Borough | of Brooklyn MT. Coler went peace | ahlv enough after the "bouneer" had technically assaulted his wife by tax | ing hold of her arm MT. Coler then | addressed the crowd and told them I far this that the real trouble started, l but what Mir. Coler nad sald was py no means the cause of the disturbance that followed. for he addressed but few. people comparatively.
 The police took an active hand in the trouble in the evening by arresting | two Brooklyn Rapid Transit superin- tendents and three inspectors and | nootorman or two for not moving the | cars, Blocking the highways was the | charge.
 Al 12:4O o'clock this morning police | activity took on a still more active | form when cars coming from the island | on the Culver route were halted at | Avenue F and Gravesend Avenue, the conductors started in to collect the second fare. The inspector Donald | O'Keefe and several Brooklyn Rapid Transit inspectors were gathered at | this point Several passengers refused | to pay the fare and the inspctors piled onto the car and began to drag them off
 Deputy o'Keefe gave orders to the