Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-06
Police Are Kept Busy.

In the four hours from to . O'Clock
this afternoon when the strikers demon
stration was in preparation and in course
of execution the police at many points
had their hands full controlling the
crowds and keeping a sembance of
order
For the most part, however, the dis
orders were patiently not the outgrowth
of any deliberate plan to make trouble,
but were the inevitable result of the
presence on the streets OF an exictable
crowd confronted by formidable police
power under instructions to keep the
peace at all hazards.
AT isolated points hotheads in the crowd
let their feelings run away with them
The police had to use forcible measures
1t was on. Walnut street that the first
outbreak occurred. The sight of trolley
cars proceeding leisurely out that thor
oughfare 'angered the vanguard of pa
raiders near Independence Hall. stone
was sent throgh the window OF one of
the cars.
Every car that came along ran the
Gantiet There was a running fire of
stones. of wood and other missiles, which
terrified passengers and crews
TO escape the missiles motormen threw
on full power. Their cars went fiying
out of the way. with their occupants ly-
ing on the floors.
Men and Women Felled.
The worst outbreak occurred at 9th and
F'ilbert streets. in the heart % the city
where the police mobiized in force to
make an impression OF the crowd There
was battle which frightened onlookers
No previous disturbance of the strike
compared with this in magnitude and in
tensity Men and women. felled in the
onslaught of the police, lay all about
the streets and sidewalks and scores were
cut and bruised.
Subsequent to the Filbert street dis
turbance there was another i'll Washing
ton Square. The crowd turned on small
force of policemen. knocking one of them
down and breaking the club of another
over its owners head.
In the miX-up that followed, the men in
the throng helped themselves To eggs
produce, canned goods, everything they
could get their hands on, from nearby
stores, and pelted the policemen with the
missiles. 4 mounted squad dispersed the
mob.
All during the march of the strike svm-
| their windows smashed and the passen-
gers and crews forced to take refuge
from flying missiles by lying PROSTATE on
the floors.
ranks of the disturbers One man, who
was placed in a patrol wagon made a
spectacular leap 10 freedom
One of those in custody is a young
to be secretary of the Union of Ladies'
| Shirt Waist Makers and prominent in the
recent shirt waist strike.
/ Colored Police in Danger
Driven away from Independence Square.
several thousand persons congregated in
Washington Square nearby \ man
mounted on the shoulders of several 9th
| ers and started TO harangue the crowd
A detail of mounted police dashed
| through the arChways of Independence
| Hall and into the throng. The crowds
| scattered right and left before the horses.
The orator was tumbled off the shoulders
of the oher men and swallowed up in
the crush.
Several minutes sharp work with the
horses and clubs served the police to break
I'D and dispense the mass A number OF
| colored policemen aroused the ire of the
crowd and Superintendent of Police Tay-
lor, fearing further trouble, ordered thNn
| away.
A detail of mounted police. sent 10