Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-09
Several Men Clubbed by
Police; No Shots
Fired
State Troops Ready to Respond to
Call In Case There Is Further
BIoodshed at San
Francisco

O SAN FRANCISCO, May s.-Be-
@ lieving that the city is facing a
@ grave crisis Mayor Schmitz has
@ called together the famous COM
@ mittee of fifty which Mt his re-
@ quest took charge and directed the
@ affairs of the city during the dark
@ days following the earthquake
@ and fire of April 1S of last year.
@ The mayor tonight sent COM
@ munications to fifty representative
@ citizens requesting them to meet
@ at his office at 10 o'clock tOmOr-
@ row morning to discuss with him
O. the present industrial conditions
O in this city and to devise ways and
O. means for their ameIioration. (
O. Those who were summoned by the {
4 @ mayor are, with a few exceptions,
@ the same citizens who composed
9 the committee of fifty of April, (
@ 1906. James ID. Phelan, Rudolph (
@ spreckels, Francis j. Henry, NJ. H. (
@ de Young and several others of the 4
O old committee politically active (
@ against the mayor were not in (
O cIuded in his Invitations today. (
O. When the committee meets to- (
O Mayor schmitz will review the (
@ situation confronting the city and
@ ask the committee to cooperate
@ with him in settling the strikes
o and, bringing about Industrial
@ peace.
@ Those of the fifty who could be 4
8 interviewed tonight expressed
@ their intention of responding to
O the mayors invitation and said
@ they would willingly cooperate
@ with him in any way that they
o could to end the strife which has
O. already eliminated in serious riot
O ing and blOOdshed. {
@ @ @ @ @ @ %%~%%%%%@@%%% %%
BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, May S.-The po
lice for the first time since the com
mencement of the street car strike fur
nished actual protection this Afternoon
for two of the United Railroads car.
manned by twenty-one strike breakers
and as a result of this protection these
cars were run over six miles of tract
without the firing of a shot.
Four men, one of them strike break
err the other three members of tn,
Electrical Workers union, were in
tured. There was intermittent hurlins
of missiles by union crowds at various
points along the route and for two Of
three miles a mob of at least 1000 mer
and boys ran with the cars, yelling
calling epithets, daring the non-unior
men-fo get off the cars and fight ant
cheering vociferously whenever for ont
or another cause the cars were brought
temporarily to STOP
About twenty police, officers and pa
trolmen, led by Chief Dinan, some o.
them in automobiles. number mount
ed on horseback, and others afoot, ac
companied the cars. Assistant Presi
dent Thornwell Mullally. superinten
dent Chapman and other officers of tho
United Railroads. kept pace in auto
mobiles with the cars.
Select Another Route
The route selected was through tn,
better class business and residen
streets of the western addition and the
Richmond district, from the car barns
at Oak and Broderick streets to Stan
yon street, to the Diamond crossove
at Haight, to Page. to Divisadero, tt
Sacramento, to Lake, to Sixth avenue
to Clement, to the Eighth avenu
crossover and return by Fulton, Stan
yon, Hayes, Devisadero and Oak streets
The start was made at o'clock ant
the run was completed two hours later
From it's commencement to it's finisl
the police displayed decision, energ!
and determination in dealing with thu
hooting, bowling crowds. When neces
sity arose they did not hesitate to draw
their clubs and use them and as {
result number of heads were broker
but the cars came through.
The fact that cars were to be started
from Oak and Broderick instead o
from Turk and Fillmore streets did no
become generally known until after thu
noon hour, and the main crowds stayeC
around the latter point of congregation
until a few minutes after 2 o'clock
when two covered wagons containing