The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1910-03-12
TOM SHARP, The Painter
Elite Building
Phone 397
ONE DAYS
BRAWLING RECORD
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mors that 600 strike-breakers had been
brought to the city. These rumors
were emphatically denied by officials
of the Traction Company. On the con-
trary, it was declared, the company
had rejected proffers of assistance from
Louis Beroff and Sam Cohen, profess
sional strike-breakers
Instances not unlike civil war mark
ed the street disorders.
At Ninth and Mifflin streets the ma
sonary of the new Southwark School
was torn down, and the stones were
heaped in the car tracks. The assault
ants hid ranger-like, behind stone
piles, and at a given signal rose and
smashed passing cars with rocks. An
eight-year old boy who was riding IN
one of the cars was struck by rock,
and his skull was fractured, while a
policemen who attempted to rout the
crowd was felled with a cobblestone.
A squad Of policemen using heavy
street stamper as a battering ram,
crashed their way through the heavy
doors of Shimt's Hail, Eighth and Nc
Kean streets, from the second floor OF
which striker sympathizers had sno-
wered bricks, stones and water on
the officers. A desperate fight ensued
on the stairway of the hall. Chairs
and tables were converted into weap-
ons. A dozen arrests were made, ana
a score of the participants were treat
ed for scalp wounds at hospitals and
drug stores.
Two cars were derailed at Fifth ana
Wharton Streets, and one was toppleu
over. Here, Charles Sieruphilit, a
policeman of the Fifteenth and Snyder
avenue station, was struck by flying
brick and rendered unconscious
At 23d and Lombard streets a girl,
Mary Delvin, of 251S Waverley street,
was shot in the leg and her mother was
shot in the arm. Members of the crowd
clambercd to roofs of houses and hurl-
ed the chimneys, brick by brick, upon
the policemen below. Several of the
policemen were rendered unconscious
and others were knocked down,
Threats to blow up cars were made
in Germantown. A crowd of 1000 per-
sons who congregated at the barns at
Carpenter and Germantown avenue
loaded the track with dynamite signal
caps. People fed the cars in terror.
In West Philadelphia several cars
were smashed, and the accident wards
of the several hospitals across the river
were kept filled for the greater part of
the afternoon.
Lehigh avenue was the storm center
from which disorderly crowds spread
to all parts of Richmond and Ken
sington. At Fifth street and Lehigh
avenue and on Somerset street, in the
same vicinity, the crowd attacked a
stalled car. The motorman was beat
en- into insensiDilityy, and a brick
struck a policeman who went to his
rescue.
At Lehigh and Kensington avenues
crowd derailed, overthrow and burned
a car, and in so doing injured a woman
seriously. At sixth and Diamond
street the crowd had increased to al
most 5000 persons, and the police N
the Fourth and York streets station,
were powerless before them.
Three Keystone Union men sought
refuge on the steps of the Carnegie
Library, at Sixth street and Lehign
avenue. Stopping but a moment in
their flight from the Infatuated crowds
of sympathizers, they armed themsel-
yes with stones and clubs and helu
the leaders Of the crowd at bay until a
fire engine arrived and scattered the
crowd by means of three heavy streams
OF water. A patrol wagon took the
Keystone men to the station house,
where they were protected.
c. o. Pratt, the strike director, was
followed through the city by shout
ing throng. With him were Peter Dris-
coll, the president of the local union,
and John J.. Murphy, the president or
the Central Labor Union. The party
stopped and made speeches at the Ger
mantown, the Richmond street and Al
leghany avenue, the frankfort and the
Second street and. Wyoming avenue
barns, and at each place was greeted
At the close of the day the company
declared that 1900 cars would be OPP
Grated today