Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-24
NO ANSWER Received
FROM EITHER SIDE YET
State .Constabulary Arrives and u
Assigned to Duty.
CONDUCTORS HIGH HANDED
Mayor Arrests Two Men CAUGHT bv
Him Placing Barricade Over Car
Tracks-Harsh Punishment
for Rioters in Court.

Attorney General Wickersham, acting
upon Instructions from President TAFT.
has directed the United States .ttor-
nes mt Philadelphia TO report at his
earliest convenience whether there has
been any interference with the United
States mails during the strike Of the
street car employees
PHILADELPHIA, February 24.-The
first open move to bring about a settle
ment OF the street car strike in this city
was made today, when a committee, COM
posed OF clergymen of many denomina-
tions. offered their plans 10 the company
and the strikers.
The first plan calls for a board Of arbi-
tration 10 be composed of two judges,
two clergymen. two business men and a
seventh member TO be chosen by the
other six. IL is proposed that each side
select three arbitrators.
IL this plan does not meet with an
progal the clergymen suggest that q
board OF arbitration be agreed upon. to
be composed Of the state railroad COM
mission and four other persons, two to
be chosen By each side.
\ letter embcdying these pians has
been sent 10 Charles Q. Kruger. president
Of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com
pany, and 70 {. O. Pratt, leader OF tine
strikers.
No Reply Received Yet.
No reply to the communication has yet
been received by the clergymen.
From the beginning Of The trouble the
strikers have been willing TO submit their
grievances to arbitration. The company
has insisted there is nothing to arbi-
trate
Among the clergymen in the movement
to bring about a settlement are Bishop
Wilson Of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, Rabbi krauskopf and Archbish-
op Ryan. Tcday's action is the result Of
a meeting OF the churchmen yesterday.
A man was arrested in the northern
part of the city today on a charge of at
tempting TO dynamite cars. 1t is alleged
that he confessed that he and several
other men had planned to blow up cars.
In the confession the man is declared
to have said that little bags OF explosives
had been secured and lots had been
drawn as to who should place them on
the tracks.
The police today requested all dealers To
refrain from selling firearms until the
strike is over.
Differences of Opinion.
The Philadelphia Rapid Transit Com
pany claimed at S o'clock this morning
that 1t was operating one hundred more
cars than at the same hour yesterday,
when 55i were on the street, according
to the company's figures. The strike
leaders deride this assertion. and declare
that at O'Clock considerably less than
half of 100 cars were running.
The company, though il still declares
it has employed no strike breakers had
imported men on its lines today. They
have no caps or uniforms They are
jeered and hooted by crowds on the
street.
a high hand. being inSolent to passengers
and failing to register more than one
fare out of five collected. Slight men
have even been refused change on proffer-
ing more than the fve-cent fare.
The abuse of these men led to a pretty
disturbance at 44th street and Parkside
avenue. crowd there hurled bricks
at passing cars. until police reserves
reached the scene. Several arrests were
made.
A crowd of sixty men and boys attacked
a Darby at sid street and Wood
land avenue. Two policemen on the plat
form used their riot sticks and revolverS.
They fired a dozen times. one bullet
whizzing through a Wan't hat. He es-
capped death by half an inch.
There were fifteen passengers in the
dndO han ind S~p>,>
ped to the floor as stones. bricks and
other debris crashed through the win
dows. The motormans face was cut BY
flying glass.
Mayor Makes Arrest.
Mayor Reyburn made his first arrest
while inspecting the streets after leaving
city hall early this morning. Two men
placing sewer pipe on the car tracks were
found at their work by the mayor. Aided
by Detective McFadden. he held the men
until a patrol could be summoned. They
were locked up.
The men were taking the pipe from .
building operation and placing It on the
car tracks on Girard avenue west OF
Broad street. The barricade was half
completed when the mayor rode up In
an automobile.
The mayor and Detective McFadden.
who is known the mayor bodyguard.
Sprang from the car and seized the law
breakers The chauffeur was told to teie-
phone to the police and a patrol relieved
the mayor OF his prisoners.
No Interference With Service.
Cars are running without interfer.
ence along Frankford, Kensington and
Lehigh avenues today, and to guard
against disturbance a big detail Of
IL
yesterday. But few people are riding.
Yesterday the Rapid Transit Com
pany renewed its Frankford avenue
trafic by way of the Lehigh avenue
service. Today 1t made another stsp