The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-15
CARS RUNNING IN PENSACOLA Soldiers Present to Pre-
 vent Disorder. SOME EXCITEMENT IN STREETS Four More Military Companies Governor Broward wili Go to seapert to Bring About Settlement of
 Trouble Between Company and Men.
SOME EXCITEMENT IN STREETS
Governor Browsrd wm Go to Seaport
 to Bring About settlement os

Pensacola, Fla, April 14.-(Special.) With squads of troops stationed at every street corner and lines of them on each side of the streets. cars or the Pensacola Electric Company were started this afternoon at 3 o'clock and operated on two of the city lines un- til nightfall, when all of them were sent to the car sheds for the night.
 The strike breakers wore in charge of the cars and although the strikers and their sympathizers lined the streets there were but few demonstrations. Throughout the afternoon however. the strike breakers were the target for cries of sscab" Issuing from the throats of several hundred persons who crowded the streets.
 The imported men apparently paid no attention to these jibes anl uncomp- limentary remarks.
 No attempt was made to operate the cars of the East Hill or Park lines which extend out into the suburbs. al- though the company officials stated that 1t was ready and willing to run these cars if the militia would afford the necessary protection.
 Half an hour after the cars started there was some excitement at the cor. ner of Paiafox and Government streets when police oficer arrested one of the imported men for violating the city laws by not sounding the gong at street crossings. The motor. man was not taken from his car, but his name was taken.
 When the car came to standstil and the officer went towards 1t a crowd of several hundred standing ir front of the government building i'm. mediately made rush for the car, but they never reached the car Seyera Of the mounted police officers saw ths rush of the crowd and riding rapidly sounded the assembly call. Within minute fully one hundred of the stat, troops were facing the crowd witi nxed bayonets. The crowd was easii, forced back, many of them rushing GU merely tp see what was to happen.
 Haf an hour later there was mors excitement, when one of ti1a-trnopari on Palafox Street. accidentally dis charged his gun. An immense crowt ran to the point but quickly returned | learned.
 A feature of today was the sym pathetic strike of the electrical work CTS employed by the company on iti | lines, both trolley and electric lighting The men gave notice Monday night that unless the trouble was adjusted they would strike out of sympathy, anc this they did at o'clock.
 | All VI Nhc ctElAS DfGdkeE8. are nov housed at the car barns, the forty wh, had been quartered at the police sta tion being moved by state troops thi. morning at 2 o'clock l- There was no trouble as the curfeV law had the effect of driving all of | the streets.
 Four more companies of militia ar rived early this morning, coming iron | Starke, Gainesville. Quincy an, | Apalachicola. This gives Colone Lefils, in command. 8 total of thirteel companies in addition to the GatlinI gun battery These men, about on | thousand in number are all bein, used, with the exception of on company held at the armory in reserve In patroling the lines of the railway,
 The plans for tomorrow are t operate cars on all of the city line provided there is not a nadjustrnent O | the differences, which will be attempt ed tonight by State Authorities. It Is stated tonight that Goyerno Broward will come here at once to set tie the matter