New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-10-16
STRIKERS MEETING
RAIDED BY POLICE
HUNDRED OFFICERS OUT
FOR STONETHROWERS.
General Bingham Complains to
Grand Jury of Ta.rcab Riots
Magistrates Blamed.

Fourteen patrolmen in uniform and PLAIN
clothes broke in on meeting or the strlklhs
chauffeurs at their headquarters in Washing
ton Hail. Eighth avenue, near 4ith street. lasI
night and made arrest The meeting was
orderly and the were conducting the rou-
tine business OF their union when they were
surprised by the police patrolman got into
the hall while the meeting was going on ana
then ran to the street, where he blew his whs-
tie.
Rushing up the stairs, the police found the
door shut. and when they tried to force it In
John Madden one of the strikers held II
against them. When he asked the police what
they wanted he thrust aside. 1t is charged
that he struck at of the detectives, and ne
was taken to the West 47th street station on 4
complaint of resisting an officer President
Murphy of the chauffeurs' union spoke to the
men on being orderly and it was while he was
speaking that the police gathered outside 1or
their raid. No one permitted to loiter near
the strikers headquarters during the day.
John Craven secretary of the union invited
the policemen to tell theNetrikers from the plat
form Just how they should act The policemen
however, refused the offer.
A taxicab belonging TO the New York TaXlcao
Company and III charge of Joseph Harris or No
80 Vesey street ran into an L pillar at Ihlrd
aveI Ie and Tooth street late in the evening"
while being sent northward on the avenue with
man and woman as fares. The taxicab was only
slightly damaged. but before the chauffeur could
extricate the vehicle he found himself surround
ed by a crowd that began to Jeer ana thro"
stones
John Curry a special officer. was on the seat
beside Harris He tried to disperse the crowd.
but the men only laughed at his efforts and be
gan to throw missiles at him. The man and
woman in the taxicab opened the door and He'd
The situation had become serious by the time
Patrolman German. of the East 1O4th street sta
ton, reached the scene. Superintendent hreh
of the New York Taxicab Company appeared at
the same time. German sent call Tor re
serves Captain CCrCCran and number OF
natroIuen from the East 1O4th street station re
sponded and dispersed the crowd, which MINI
bered by that time about four hundred
One hundred patroIInen from other precincts
were sent TO the West Both street station last
night and instructed by Inspector Steinbruck
and Captain Murphy to make thorough search
for big black pirate" touring car with five
men in it. that has been an annoying feature Of
the taxicab strike.
The management of several hotels including
the Plaza the Knickerbocker. the Marlborough
and the Victoria, complained TO Commissioner
Bingham that five men in an automobile had
thrown stones through the windows of their
houses and then escaped in their car at forty
mile rate The Commissioner was told by his
inspectors that it was impossible for the police
TO CAPTURE the men because of their fast ma
chine.
A few DAYS ago Inspector Walsh caught big
red automobile with its occupants, who, it was
charged. operate ted in the same way. They were
discharged by a city magistrate, but the police
held their car Commissioner Bingham de-
te~mined to catch the men and assigned the
hundred extra men to the district where the car
is most likely to operate.
commissioner Bingham told the grand jury
yesterday about the violence which had accom-
panied the strike of the chauffeurs, and as re-
suit of his visit it rumored that indictments
would be returned in connection with the case
this morning Commissioner Bingham is dis
satisfied with the manner in which the cases of
the men arrested for assault have been handled
in the magistrates courts. He says that the
continual delays before arraignment and hear
ing encourage the men to violence. The assault
and probably fatal injury of a chauffeur on the
East Side on Wednesday night caused the in
CURRY by the grand jury
Not much violence was reported through the
day Il Brown aborer, was accused of
iee1ing at some of the chauffaurs near the 62d
street garage. a taxicab driven by Charles E.
Husbands ran into an elevated pillar at 34th
street and Broadway in the morning, and Will
lam Tidoli, a special officer was thrown to the
street At the New York Hospital it was found
that his skull was fractured Husbands was not
hurt.
.-lexarGer Fielder. who was accused Of kick
ing Charles Reid. a chauffeur, while the latter
was cxtinguishing q fire under his on
Wednesday, was held in .,oO for trial. Three
men were fined 50 for yelling "Scab"