The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-02-24
CARS AGAIN MOVE
AS RIOTS SUBSIDE
ooptinued from, Page One.

loaded rife viii stand behind the motor
man of every car 1t is known that the
National Guard are ready at an hours
notice TO entrain for this city The
governor has discussed plans already
with Mayor Reyburn and Clay.
Shotguns for Policemen.
Superintendent of Police Taylor. ex-
tremely angry. went, TO the Baldwin Lo-
connective Works in the afternoon and
gave notice that hereafter a squad OF
police. armed with shotguns. would be
kept outside the plant at the luncheon
hour The throwing of a missile, he
warned the superintendent, would be suf-
ficient cause for the police TO let fire
with buckshots Supt Yauclain told Tay-
lor that he would Identify, if possible, the
men who had brought on the riot, and
that they would be fired if found.
The fight at the Baldwin's was the most
serious of the day.
Along Market street there was a series
of rows all the afternoon. The trouble
started at Fifth street, where crowd Of
5000 attempted 10 wreck car and pun
mel the conductor and motorman. The
police came hustling from the City Hall
in two big automobile patrol wagons. |
They swarmed out and fell 10 clubbing
the rioters energetically. Five men were
sent TO the hospital with. broken heads
and one policeman had his cheek cut
open with a Jagged rock.
Another nasty fight was at Parkside
avenue and Fifty-second street. where a
gang of trouble hunters had barrlcaded
the tracks OF the Fifty-second street
crosstown line with building stone and
! lumber. When the police came UP to
guard a wrecking crew OF the Philadel-
/ phia Rapid Transit Company the mob
stubbornly held its place There was
more clubbing and more broken heads.
schools Ordered Closed.
An order was issued to-day by a COM
mittee Of the board Of education stating
that IL was not safe for girls of the
schools TO be on the street. and directing
that the high school at Seventeenth and
| Spring Garden streets and the William
Penn High School for girls at Fifteenth
and Green streets be closed. The chief OF
the bureau of highways ordered the
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the Philadelphia Electric Company 10
complete at once the paving OF all
trenches or else remove the stones that
have been dumped in the roadways.
Judge Davis, of the Quarter Sessions
Court, to-day sent one man to the peni-
| Tertiary for six years and gave two
others sentences Of two years each. FL
wood Carr, who led an attack on a mo-
torman at Kensington avenue and Cam
bria street and kicked the man savagely
in the face while he lay on the ground.
got a six-year sentence, and John Kline
and Ellis Atkins, convicted on similar
charges. were put away for two years.
Nineteen additional indictments were
found by the grand jury yesterday
against men nabbed in the fights of yes
| terday. All told the grand jury has IN
dicted more than fifty, and Judge Davis
course to-day does not hold much en-
enlargement for the indicted. After the
courts drastic action the strike leaders
sent out warnings 10 their men TO keep
out Of trouble If possible. Charges Of
rioting, melting to riot. and conspiracy
are pending against Boss Pratt himself.
| The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com
/ pany said ii had run more cars to-day
than yesterday. giving the maximum in
service as 60 1t gave the Frankfort dis
trict intermittent service, sighting every
inch Of ground. and opened up trunk
line which had been dead the day be-
fore, the fifth and sixth lines.
Differ on Programme.
Late tonight Pratt and his colleague.
John J. Murphy, had falling-out over
the matter OF calling a general strike.
Murphy has said for two days that a
general strike was coming and that
practically all the trades unions in Phila-
delphia were itching 10 take part in the
mix-up Pratt denied that a general
strike order had been issued by the Cen
! trail Labor Union, and said that the
order is being held in allegiance" Muir
ply repudisted Pratt's statement tonight