The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-02-22

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company withdrew all cars. mobs eddied
and swirled in Kensington, often wreck
ing cars and beating the crews. II was
seldom that the police ever arrived in
time to save operatives from blow OF
a fist or a smash on the side OF the
! head with a brick
Rioters Rot Released.
The sation houses were crammed with
prisoners before noon. all OF whom were
held on charges of rioting. On this point,
! District Attorney Rotan has taken action.
| He notified the commanding officers at
ali police stations not release men ar
rested for rioting unless their bail bonds
were signed by a magistrate.
William Maloney. a strike breaker, i'm
ported from New York. was running a
Frankfort and Lehigh car north on Ken
sington avenue to-day when a brick came
from nowhere and fractured his skull.
There were 1900 men and women In the
mob, and they yelled delightedly when
they saw the motorman was badly hurt.
a woman deliberately threw stone at
the unconscious man. The conductor ran
forward and dragged Maloney back into
the car. It enraged the mob. Dozens of
men leaDed aboard the car, hammered the
conductor over the face and head with
their fists. knocked him down. and kicked
him, and left him senseless for the police
to take care Of
They wrecked the car and got away
before the police came charging up.
Another strike breaker got into serious
ltrouble also at Sixth street and Lehigh
avenue. He was the conductor OF one
of the two Glenside cars that We're
brought TO a halt by barricade Of iron
pipes that mob had erected across the
tracks. The motorman saw the barrl-
cade when he was block away. brought
his ear up with a jerk. jumped OFF. and
ran ike a coyote. The conductor stuck.
The mob caught him.
Here. I'll give up" he cried. and
laughed. lie was still grinning. his hands
in the air. when brick struck him on
the right temple. His skull was broken.
N00se Around His Neck.
A mob OF 5000. in which there were at
least 200 women, shrieking like harpies.
ipulled William Wills. a nonunion man.
from the motorman's platform OF a
Frankfort car. Lieut. Sykes galloped up
with squad OF cavalry and charged the
crowd. The police had their revolvers
out, and it looked as If there would be
shooting, Three of the mob had thrown
a rope around Wills neck, had noosed it.
and were preparing to swing him up TO
q lamp post The, pistols scared, them eff
and the policemen rescued the shaking
motorman.
! a crowd laid an American flag over the
rails OF Kensington avenue tracks. When
the motorman OF a car ran straight over
the flag, they yanked him of and beat
him.
While a car was passing the Baldwin
Locomotive Works. at Sixteenth and But
ltonwood streets, a bolt whizzed from g
window of the factory. smashed through
a window OF the car, and hurt a cir
badly. Her name is Ethel GodishaI OF
42l5 Baltimore avenue.
IN twenty-five or thirty serious fights
in all parts OF the city there were twenty
people hurt seriously to-day. and at least
forty or fifty more who got away from
the police and took their wounds home
The Rapid Transit Company reported
that 179 cars We're wrecked, and that 1,l5,
window panes had been smashed. Ac.
eording to its own figures, the company
ran to-day a maximum of 739 cars. be.
ginning early in the morning with %
cars and gradually increasing the service
up to noon. The number in service under
normal conditions is l.S0O
Say Few Cars Are Running.
The strikers deny that the company
had so many cars In operation. They
said that the most that ever ran at any
one time to-day was 200. and that about
$50 was the average. All cars were or
J dered of the streets al p. m, and every
| Iline in tho city was dead when darkness
fell The only part of the Philadelphia
Rapid Traction system that remained in
operation was the subway-elevated line
D. T. Pierce, for the company. said to-
night that 1900 cars would be operated
If there was sufficient police protection
but the police officials viii not let any
car leave its barn without at least two
bluecoats on the platform. The company
continues to assert that from 1900 Il
200 men remain loyal. but the best in.
formation cuts the number Of loyal mer
| TO 100, and fixes the number OF strikers
. at 5000.
J Pratt charges that the company ha:
brought in at least 1000 strike-breakers
The company denies it fatty, and says
that about that many were carefully
: schooled in camps of instruction in prep.
aration for the very trouble that broke
out
Little save noisy speechmaking came
out of the labor meeting at Labor Ly.
: ceUm Hall this afternoon. Pratt made &
long speech. in which he accused The
P. r. T. of bringing on the strike deIib.
: erately, and declared that the company
had spurned all propositions leading It
arbitration and fair agreement.
Bring Bail Mt Midnight.
At midnight John J. Murphy ant
others ef Pratt's friends. appeared at tn,
city hail with bail in the amount of $500
which had been fixed by Magistrate Cor
man. and an order for Pratts release OF
bail. Turnkey Bunner refused to homo
the order. Murphy tried to get to Clay
to Superintendent Of Police Taylor, and t,
Assistant Tim O'Leary, but the orders
were that nobody be admitted TO thei
Offices, Murphy had 10 leave the cit!
hall with the magistrates order in hi
pocket
Magistrate German has just advises
, US that we have grounds for a crimins
and civil suit against the city" said Muir
ply When q general strike is called
some of these puppets at city hall vii
. crawl. you bet"
The attitude OF the Philadelphia Rapit
Transit lies in these statements issued b,
two of the directors