Norwich bulletin., 1910-02-24
Philadelphia Police Officials Admit Inability to
 Cope With the Situation
UNITED STATES MAIL CAR DERAILED
| bstruction FIaced Tracks-Mai Had to Be Trans ferred-state. Police, Who Are Expected This Morn ing, Are ways in the Saddle and Will Not Bear rifling With-Saw Service in Great Coal Strikes.
U. 8. Mail Car Dsrailsd and BsdIy
 Damaged.

U. 8. Mail Car Dsraiisd and BsdIy
 Damaged.
 A United States mail car was de- railed this afternoon at Germantown n avenue and Cambria street, in the section of the city where violence has been so prevalent. An obstruction had been placed on the tracks and the car. which was bound to the postoffius with a load of mail. was so badly damaGe ed that 1t had to be dragged to a nearby car barn mad the mail had to be transferred to another car.
 Rapid Transit Go. Statement.
 Later today the Rapid Transit com pany issued statement in which it is asserted that the strikers cannot and will not win" In part the state- ment follows: It
 There is no possibility of this the men who have engineered the events of the past three days.
 "The men who have stood by us and the new men who come to us may ba sure that we shall stand by them.
 There will be no settlement which includes taking back the men who have led and encouraged mob vic- 1ence."
 Riotsr. Sentenced.
 The law went hard today with some of the men and boys who have been arrested for rioting Elwood Carr. al- legged to have been a ringleader in a riot in the Kensington district, was sentenced to six years in the county prison. There were six counts aRains< him and he got a year on each. John Kline, who could scarcely understand the English language; was given two years and Ellis Atkins was given a was sent to the Huntington refornnA- tory for 13 months. for throwing mis- siles at a car and other boys and men were sentenced to two and three months each.
 -Jurors in Sympathy.
 While evidence against most of slis defendants was of the strongest char acter there was an apparent spirit Of sympathy among the jurors. In the case of Kline. in particular, after tho Rrdedef Ruried two o&S SrzaSs at psssinr car m required one hour for the jury Co re- turn a vertifct' of guilty. me 1ud@e was very much surprised ana in aA- dressing the .jurors said: This ,is net company aud its strikinG employees, but between law and lawlananeAs and rioting must be sternly repfessed.r
 State Police eiways fr tho Saddle, rT The state police, who were called upon today to do duty are considsFed as fine a body of men mopnted as can be found anywhere. Experienccd in police duties by much Service in vart- ous parts of the state, and. always in the saddle, they are ready ak all times to answer where trouble calls them.
 The police were organized Ave yeers ago under an act of the legislaturs nnd comprise four companies or piatoohs. Each company is made up of a, cap tain, lieutenant, five sergeants' and fifty privates. Each man before he became member of the force was compelled to undergo a- severe phyef- cal and mental, examination.
 Have Seen Much Service.
 The force is said to be made uP almost exclusively of men who have seen service In the federal army. The service equipment of the men consists of carbine, revolver of large critbre ard riot stick. The commander Is Capt. John c. Groome, who has the title of superintendent. Besides head ing the state police, he is cominander of the First troop Philadelphia City an aristocratic Philadelphia attached to the PennsyI- vania national guard. Captain Groomo saw service in the Spanish war and his cavalry troop in the two gret coal strikes.