The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-02
WON'T TREAT VNH STRIKERS



on the p r. r. board OT.caaece0S against
ARBITRATION.
They will never sgras aOlaRtatFahon.
said the Mayor. i don't lznGw about q
avmpathotic strike. but IL IL IL coming
u will have 20 cOms. Suppose Il will
make more trouble. but WV are batter
prepared than We were. Thsnpokce forca
IL now like an army that has IpngthronEh
a campaign. The police have been stoned
and hootsd at and they have so rSdot thas
feeling Of fellowship between polfemen
and citi1ens. BY Saturday weg wiik have
1000 additional officers IEnifoGxned and
squippsd. There will be 100 Snonnted
men sworn in additionally. Tbssse mon
oh, We have been preparing fo< this
fight for months We won't havsAtrouble
gettlng men Tor duty.
There have bean runners. Mr. Mayor.
that receiversh!p will DO asked tor the
Oh said the Mayor. the jim ynies'
are At work again. The 'iimmieSF are
new kind Of germ, but it's the tame
old germ really except under q now
was on hand when Eve whispered Ipto
Adams ear in the Garden Of Eden THAT
the apples were good.
Mayor Reyburn aaId that the p. r. Y.
would not refuse TO take back strikelf
whose records are clean even though
ment expired last night nc ~ q clock. He
said he thought the company would
allow some leeway according to circum- |
stances. II ths men show a diapos,tion |
To come hack he believes the tins will !
be- eEtsndsd to a reasonable period.
Despite the Mayors opinion that the |
councils would back M a refusal to ar |
nitrate u became practically certain |
to-day that they favor preventing
general strike and possible bioodshed |
and destruction ~ property. OF the |
eighty-siN men in the councils. FORTY
three in each branch, a ma Jo-1ty have
announced that they want 20 take some |
action that will bring about peace. |
There will be- regular nesting ~ the
Common and Select Councils next Thurs
day night Conferences have been held !
IN which Presidents Hszlet and McCurdy |
nave taken pArt. and u 10 expected that az |
the coming nesting these Legislative |
b,di~s will be asked to adopt q set % reso- |
luiInns that will have bearing on the |
strike situation These resolutions az
outlined nv Councilmsn tonight will
suggest that the company's representa-
tives and the company's eSnployee~ meet
and discuss the subject Of arbitrAting
their differences.
senator James MoNichol and Recorder
NIlliam Ware are expected in Philadel- !
phia within the nexi day Or tw". and the
news tO-nl9ht was 49,. 60 botos
Penrcse viii he heading this way from
Washington IN a few hours To - II he can
do somsthing toward relieving the sitlia- |
tIon. II ~ expected that there will he a
"onferenc. among McNichol. Ware, Pen |
ros~ and Wolf. and that out ~ their con- |
ference will come the real solution Of the
problem.
mass meeting 81 business men 10
planned for Tomorrow night IN Musical
Fund Hall. at which speeches will be
made by the BUSINESS men who have
taken leading part in trying to bring
about arbitration. The meeting will be
participated IN by the minister's 81 the city.
The State conrtabie. left to-day a.
quietly a. they came. They were with
drawn tn I've put On duty az South Beth
lehem In their place will he detach-
rnent nj mounted policemen. no IN num-
her. most 81 whom are ex-cavalrymen
The Fsncible- were mustered out to-
day Their feelings we're soothed by
a letter from the Hon. Henry Clay Direc-
tor of Public Safety 10 Mayor Thurber
7 BraKser the director wrote:
Make known 20 the command my
appreciation 1t then ready and willing
Response 20 the call Of February q last
and commend them for the faithful. use-
ful aud efficient services which they
nave since rendered m aiding the EFFORTS
of the authorities III tho CITY 20 suppress
rot and prevent diEturban ces o; the
p~ace. the acknowledgment of which
~ - my pleasant duty 70 make
Inc Rapid Transit Company heard TO-
day of plot 90 blow up the subway
elevated road. the most important link
IN n companys system. Ibetective
kIlEore informed Magistrate Beaton that
two pockets of the strikers confessed To
him that there was a plot To dynamite
the elevated structure. Magistrate
Bsaton held the men for further eNamiHa-
ton despite the request Of their attorney
that they be sentenced AZ once To a years
imprisonment. Their lawyer admitted
that kIigore had testified trlthfullV. hut
he sald his clients were drunk at the time
and not responsible Tor What they might
have said
The transit company was sufacieutly
alarmed by the revelation to harrison tho |
sixty ninth street terminus OF tho line. |
Armed men are patrolling the property. |
Searchlighfs play constantly after darn |
upon all the al Jacent territory and loaded |
guns stand az hand to repel invasion
Cp To date there has been mo- trouble |
az the elevated terminal where the West |
Chester cars run into the same station |
A. the elevated lines. and there have |
been no rumors Of war or threats %
INVASION. but the place IL fortified never |
thels~s and nearly 40 policemen. specials |
Five big searchlights have been |
mounted Four Of them are on the four |
sides OF the car harm and the nth. a
powerful apparatus tit for a battbeship, |
sta nds on a special frame tower erected |
for the PURPOSE on the barn root Five |
men are stationed there after dark. and |
while one man swinep the light around !
the woods and Open strptchaa near by
four Others watch through loOpholes 20
hiding behind trees or rocks. Inahe tower
is an alSrn system by means % which
the garrison can be called
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