Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1910-02-21
The Strike In Pr iIadeIphia.

nIhaeipuia, reOs I.-DuliDS iaet
| nights rioting twettj policemen and
ever fifty citizens we're injured. Over q
tu adred arrests were made.
On the Lancaster AVerus division
police are handling the controller under
the direction OF the nor u mon motormen.
Shortly R!t.r eight O'Clock this MORE
Ing rioting ives retuued in several sec.
tons of the city. La .esponse 10 riot
calls police suppressed tie disturbance
before any real damage was done to cars
or crews.
Today's rio.icg began With en- attack
On car at Remington ADD Lehigh AVG
ru.s where mob, using bricks and
cobblestoues, broke every window in The
car. The vehicle, manned By four po-
licemen protecting the crew, carried no
| passengers. The police charged the
crowd which dispersed without fnlt1er
tx u5le.
Two passengers we're cent to the Epis :
copsl Hospitsl as The result of an attack
on car at Cambria and Kensipg!oo
Avenues. A mob Of more than thtus-
and broke all the windows Of tbs vehicle,
tore away the iron gates, attacked t1e
passengers snd crew. Motormsu, coI-
dactcr and passengers were dragged to
| tbs rsets and beaten. The mob was
| not dispersed until q riot call had been
| sent to the city hall which brought rein :
| ments.
Later in the day the police had TO use
their clubs on cIowd which attacked
Two cars at KeusiDg.on Avenue snd
HUI 3tingdon street. Although both rehi.
cles were filled with policemen, they
we're stoned from the sidewalk and from
the roofs OF houses Il ill forced to stop.
Oars we're beirg run at more frsqne' t
intervals In this section, but carried few
passengers. Drivers of wagons are aid.
Ing the rioters In obatructing the t:a-ks
Philadelphia, Feb. 81. The attempted
lypching of me tormsn by an inturiated
mob in Kensiugton, shortly before noon
,day, resulted in the irjuring OF fo!ty
| rioters by police who rode doHn the mob.
| 10 answer to riot calp. In,uriatsd s3m-
pethizsrs, maddened by the importation
OF ke-breskers, attacked car a. the
ccruer of KensiDgton Avenue, and u
| streets, dragged the motorman AID coz
| Guctor from thalr posts, pulled the four
policemen guarding them of the car, and
while number held the officers t'era
ran the me ,rman to lamp post, threw
rops around his neck and we're or the
point OF lypehing him when he was
rescued 10 thrilling manner By moutt-t
police Lieutenant Styles. B-aten nLtil
| he was hsrdly able to stand the motor.
mau pleaded piteonsly With the mob to
spare bis Life. Sykes, In answer t, the
| fret riot call, came dashiDg artu I'D the
corner. and realizing tbs seriousness OF
he 81 uation, charged bis horse directly
t, the crowd sweI II back full speed
| Grabbing the motormsn as he sHel by
he dragged him several hundred feet With
a clu on his coat collsr and tten
hurled him safely into cigar store. The
| mctormep, seoiousls Injured, was after
wards hurled to hospital.
The crowd then st acked The conductor
dragging him to the sidewalk and
trsmplsd hin il ~ Inconsistencies. He,
too, vas removed to hospital in SCI :
Ii.u, coud tor. The rioters then attacked
the car and wrecked it beyond repair.
B; this time the second riot call had been
sounded and reserves swooped down oD
the mob ipjd,ing forty of them, three Of
" hon, 1t is feared, will die. Twenty
arrests were made.
Du,iug the noon hour workmen OF the
B .ldwin Locomtt.vn Works made al
tacks on cars of the Fifteenth street line.
Many of the cars carried women psssen-
gerg. Two OF them we're stu < With
DO /, and bricks torn from tho pavement
Policemen With drawn levolyers mount
ed to the roofs OF the cars curing HE
| hour.
New York, Feb. 2l.-About 400
rotormen gathered here by the agents
of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com
pany have left for Philadelphia and be-
fore the day Is over 1t Is expected 400
mora will be sent the Quaker City. The
ageIts of the company expect 10 ship
2, 900 stdke breakers iu all.