The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-11
OUTLOOK BAD At
SAN FRANCISCO
Opinion Growing That the
Street Car Strike win Have
to Be Fought Out.
PEACE COMMITTEES FAIL
IMPOSSIBLE TO RUN CARS WITH,
OUT PROTECTION.

San Francisco. May 10.-The street rail-
way strike has developed into a fight TO
finish. Neither side is willing to accept
arbitration and the citizens committees
appointed to secure industrial peace have
been unable to find any basis of settle
nent. 1t has been demonstrated that the
present police force is Inadequate and
that stronger measures will become neces-
ssry to insure a general resumption of
service If the struggle is conducted on
present lines.
Police Would Not Consent.
The wish today OF the United Railroads
OFFICIALS was to run a string of cars from
the barn at Oak and Broderick through
me burned district and north on Market
street TO the Ferry building, but the con-
sent OF the police department could not
be obtained. AS compromise two cars
were run as far into the burned district
as Larkin street, being operated on Oak,
Stanyon, Page, Devisadero and Suffer
streets. This route was covered twice.
On the first trip mounted police acted as
outridsrs, and more than a score of pa
trolmen rode in an automobile, but no vio-
fence was offered by the crowds ON the
second trip the mounted officers were
Withdrawn as an experiment, to deter
mine the temper OF the crowds; missiles
were hurled from buildings and several
persons were injured.
FiSHtJ VI OtFihc-RTedkerSs
Assistant to ehe President MulIaley said
today that he had several hundred strike
breakers. mOtormen and conductors, quar-
tered in the ecmpany's barns and that
they are competent to operate practically
me entire street car system. Mayor
Schmitz said the police department as
competent to cope with the situation 4"
Ch1ef OF Police Dinan said mis- men will
preserve order. Meantime the population
OF San Francisco is deprived of a street
car service, subjected TO the alternative
OF walking or paying five prices for an ex-
ecrable wagon service.
Problem to Be Solved.
Reduced to an arithmetical aspect the
problem is simply this: IL fifty police are
s Iseant 10 afford safe conduct to two
street cars daily over six miles of tracks
when no passengers are carried how shall
2d1 cars be operated in passenger traffic
over go miles OF tracks with a total OF
ON! 'vs police, not more than half Of
whom can be on duty continuously?
That the running of two or three cars
day may constitute the entire street car
service for a city OF 10000 people for an
Indefinite time is perfectly apparent IN
less an adequate protective force is sup-
piled.
This afternoon the first car trim was a
pleasant one. In passing the Majestic ho-
tel at Suffer and Cough streets women
in the streets threw arms full of flowers
from the windows of the hosiery into the
street. They were picked up and distrib-
uted among the unarmed strike-brpaaker,s
operating the two cars. At various points
particularly Van Ness avenue and Sutter
street. citizens stood up in automobiles
and wagons and cheered the non-union
men Justify, clapped their hands and
waved their hats. The men acknowledged
these salutes by touching their caps.
Hundreds of women appeared at windows
and upon doorsteps ana waved handker-
chiefs TO the car men.