The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1907-05-17
CAVE Them ROSES
Women Of San Francisco Showered
Strike Breakers With Flor
al Offerings.
RAN TWO CARS OUTAND BACK
Tie Up Sill Complete Except As
Strong Protection Is Afforded
by Poiice-No Passengers
Are Carried.

San Francisco, May 1O.-Roses and
carnations, instead of brickbats and
cobblestones We're features OF Friday S
run of two cars of the United Rail
roads, manney by 20 strllle-breakers,
from the car barns at Oak and Brod-
erick streets for distance OF three
or four miles through the business
and residence streets of the western
addition. Stirred to admiration by the
courage of unarmed strike-breakers
in operating the two cars in the mob
crowded thorOughfares, women all
along the route stood on door steps or
leaned from windows and waved their
han6kerchiefs, clapped hands. cheered
and threw kisses to the non-unionists,
as the police protected cars ran slow
ly by. On the return trop. on Sacra-
mento street, near Presidio avenue,
a young girl ran out from a florists
shop and tossed a handful of bright
red, long stemmed carnations to the
platform of one Of the cars. Lifting
their caps and smiling, several of the
men leaned far out and caught the
flowers. The cars were halted then,
while young women brought clusters
of carnations and roses from the shop
and offered them to the men. Soon
every strlke-brealer had flower in
his coat. The extra ones they tossed
to Assistant President Mutually. Super
intendent Chapman, Chief Surgeon
Coffey, Assistant Purchasing Agent
Finigan and other officials of the COM
pany. who were keeping pace in an
automobile with the cars. From a
bakery shop in the neighborhoed a
stout woman came hurrying breath
lessly, her hands full Of small cakes
hot from the oven. They We're de-
voured in a twinlIling by the uni
formed recipients, and she ran back
to her shop and brought more. But
the afternoons trip was not all cakes
and flowers. A haunting. jeering
bowling crowd of more than 1000
strikers and strike sympathizeTs jog
trotted for blocks along the sidewalks,
reviling the carmen, yelling freizied
threats to "get them YET. crying
"murderers," towards" and "scabs".
Now and then a stone or brick was
thrown but. the guilty manor boy
hidden in the recesses of the mob,
escaped detection invariably.
Though no shooting was witessed
by the police or the company officials
or newspapermen, who accompanied
the cars on their run, one of the mo-
tormen declared after the return to
the barn that shot was fired from
the sidewalk on Bevisadero street, be-
tween Golden Gate avenue and Meal
lister. In proof of his statement he
pointed to a clean cut hole in one of
the ventilator windows of his car.
The programme for Friday is to run
two cars through a more dangerous
section of the city than the western
addit'-'' In this event serious trou-
BILE is /. .ticipated
A non-unoin man was arrested
Thursday night by the police on the
charge of carrying a concealed wea-
pom.
Twelve of the non-union operatives
who were arrested Tuesday night for
shooting made affidsvits Thursday
that when taken to Jail they we're
severely beaten by the police and de-
prived of food, water and beds for
"a hours.