The sun., 1908-10-06
TAXICGB FORT STRIPPED
BEDS AND STOVES FOR A SIEGE
= HAVE TO 90.

FOf tne EITe buabpb Day ulC ohEbbp WIN
Not Do as HoteI-C Chsunonr's Teeth
Knocked Out In 9 FraeasTPeaCe
Try FsiIs-AnOtlaer Due To-day,
An unsuccessful attempt 10 settle the
strike Of the New York Taxioab Com
pany chaufeurs was made yesterday
at conference between committee OF
the strikers and representatives OF the
company. II Ia understood that the de-
mhnds were boiled down TO recognition
of the union. TO which the company would
not agree. There will be another oon-
ference to-day.
VThe company, which has been pre-
pairing to stand q siege against the strik-
ing drivers by fitting up the headquarters
at ~ West SiSty-seoond street with sleep
ing and eating accommodations. got a
shock last night when Battalion Chief
William T. Begin Of the Fire Depart
ment. Inspector Walsh and Capt. Reidy
of the West Sixty-eighth street police
station looked the camp over and ordered
all the cots and cook stoves removed.
Chief Begin is head of the board Of
safety that was organized az the time OF
the Iriuuois Theatre fire.
The inspection party found about i?i
cots, several gas radiators for heating
purposes and eight or ten gas cooking
stoves. They also found number OF
tables in course of construction.
The sleeping accommodations were
on the rear OF the third floor OF the
building and the tables we're being put
up in the front part OF the place on the
h,,tI inn ia ffs,tr afnFu
brick structure and was once used ss a
stable.
Chief Beggin and his companions found
that the place was not provided with hre
escapes and that there was only one stair
way leading 10 the upper floors. II was said
that the attention OF the Police and Fire
departments was called to the taxicab
oompany's fort by some OF the striking
drivers.
Men and boys tried to burn a taxicab
driven by Charles Harris. strike breaker
OF 1928 West 123d street, when 1t broke
down in West Thirty-sixth street opposite
the Mills Hotel in the afternoon. Morris
Waaz, another taxicab chauffeur, took
Harris's machine in tow toward Broad
way. At Thirty-third street and Broad
way the machines were halted and stoned
by another crowd. The police smashed
the jam. Philip Pollner OF 800 East
Thirty first street was arrested for as
sault and Harris for running car
without any license.
The whole outfit then adjourned to the
West Thirtieth street police station.
Right in front of the station house the
crowd again attacked Waaz and knocked
out two OF his teeth before the police
could rescue him.
A strike breaker in charge Of taxi
cab and the special policeman who accom-
panied him were forced by a gang Of
strikers to desert their car at Forty
fourth street and Ninth avenue. Along
came John Mack, striker, drunk. John
recognized the taxicab and saying I'm
an honest man, am he mounted the
seat and fooled the machine swiftly up
Ninth avenue.
There were plenty Of trucks. but the
chauffeur lodged them. He made letter
s around two elevated railroad pillars
to avoid running over a dog. zigzagged
to the other side Of the street to escape
store wagon and put on more speed.
Into Sixty-second street he turned at a
rate of twenty-five miles an hour, dart
ing between a policeman and a truck.
and brought tho taxicab to sudden stop
opposite the garage OF the New York
Taxioab Company. To his disgust he
was arrested. after turning in the taxicab
| for ntoxication, disorderly conduct and
speeding.
Just before the strike President
Allen OF the company said. Mack was
one out OF forty-one chauteurs to each
OF whom we made a present OF gold
watch because they had been year in
our employ
Another man arrested yesterday was
the driver OF q sighteeeing auto which
was standing opposite the Metropole
| at Broadway and Forty second street.
He jeered strike breaker who was going
past in q cab. The private policeman
sitting beside the strike breaker jumped
out and dragged the driver OF the sight.
seeing auto to the pavement. He showed
melting to riot,
Another taxicabby, Charles Hamilton,
had a passenger who wished to get out
at Third avenue and Twenty-eight
street. While the man wss fishing out
his money q crowd attacked the taxicab
with stones. Special Policeman James
Flynn jumped Oh; ~ Adam Fink OF Sos
|
the car and was doing all sorts Of damage
to IL hen Hamilton put on power. dumped
out Fink, and headed for the East River.
He ran past Bellevue Hospital to the
edge OF the East River, where he stopped
the car and himself jumped into the water
TO escape the bricks thrown at him by
the pursuing crowd. The hospital folks
turned in call that brought the police
reserves, who resued Hamilton and took
him to the hospital to have some cuts
dressed. The reserves then went back
| to Third avenue and rescued Special
Policeman Flynn. who was In hat store
defending himself. Flynn and Fink had
TO be taken to the hospital. Fink later
was locked up.
Edward Sharp Of l04 Third street. Long
Island City, was run down and badly
| injured by a taxicab driven by strike
breaking chauffeur while crossing Thirty
fourth street near Fifth avenue yester-
day. He was taken to the New York
Hospital. In the Jefferson Market court
MAGISTRATE Harris held the chauffeur.
Winship Shaw Of SIS West i6lst street,
I In $500 bail. Traffio Policeman Preaiey,
who made the arrest, seif that Shaw
apparently had little control over his
| machine.
William Mahoney Of 2ie East Thirty
sixth street, the special policeman en-
ployed by the New York Taxicab Com
| nanv Who Rhot a bow in a strikers riot