Evening journal., 1910-02-21

BY United Press Leased Special Wire.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 21.-Follow-
ing the violence on Sunday. the city
is today swearing in 5000 extra po-
lice. Mayor Reyburn has issued a pro-
clamation instructing that the riot act
he enforced and that the public peace
be preserved at any cost.
Two hundred thousand persons walk
ed to work this morning in drizzling
rain. In Kensingt ton il is estimated
that there is one hundred thousand
workers idle today, they refusing to
patronize the car service. In that dis
trict the greatest riots occurred yes
terday.
Early this morning c. .. Pratt, ma
tional organizer OF the Amalgamated
Carmen's Union issued a statement de-
claring that the call for 1000 extra
police shows that the Rapid Transit
Company is beaten. He declares that
his union men. numbering $500 will
don police uniforms and preserve order
If Reyburn will call upon them.
Shortly after o'clock this morning.
rioting was resumed in several Sec
tons Of the city. Responding TO riot
calls police suppressed the disturb
ances before any real damage was done
TO cars or crews.
on the Lancaster avenue division,
police are handling the controller under
the direction Of the non-union motor
men.
Twenty Policemen Injured.
During last nights rioting twenty
policemen and over fifty citizens were
injured. over a hundred arrests were
made.
According to figures given out by the
transit company today. 297 cars have
been damaged. three burned. and 260S
car windows broken.
Today's rioting began with an at
tack on a car at Kensington and Le-
high avenue where a mob. using bricks
and cobblestones. broke every window
i'm the car. The vehicle. manned by
four policemen protecting the crew
carried no passengers. The police
charged the crowd which dispersed
without further trouble.
Two passengers were sent TO the
Episcopal Hospital as the result of ar
attack on a car at Cambria and Ken
sington avenue A mob of more thar
a thousand, broke all the windows OF
the vehicle tore away the iron gates
and attacked the passengers and crew
Notorman. conductor and passeng err
were dragged to the street and beaten
The mob was not dispersed until
, riot call had been sent to the city hal
which brought reinforcements.
Police Club a Mob.
Later in the day the police had L
use their clubs on a crowd which at
tackled two cars at Kensington avenu
and Huntington street. Although bot
vehicles were filled with policemen
they were stoned from the sidewall
and the roofs of houses, until forcel
TO stop. Cars were being run at NOR
frequent intervals in this section, bu
carried few passengers. Drivers o
wagons are aiding the rioters in OBJ
structing the tracks.
Strike Breakers From New York.
According to union men. $50 strike
breakers were imported from New Yor
last night and eighty Of them deserte
at Franklin Junction. They also declar
that thirty crows OF Keystone Union me
quit their cars.
Charles o. Kruger, president of III
Transit Company, denies emphaticall
that strikebreakers are being importe
under guard and asserts that the CON
many is using its own employees only.
II was announced at the companys OF
fees that service on the subway-elevate
was practically on schedule, and TO th
the strikers replied that power house en-