The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-18
THROW ACID ON POLICEMAN
sTRTkERs OhJEtT TO ms TAN.
ING 4 rHu FFEtR NOME.
Yellow the Pair Frsu the Garage and sur.
round Them the Gep d Harmed
lLttie-A Ftfth Avenue Parader <r'
rested Roth sisirs san Hold Firm.

rested Both s,sirs san Hold Firm.
George Cox-n worked a; the New York
Transfer Company's s;ables at Forty
ninth street and Eighth avenue yesterday
As a strike breaker. and when work was
through Policeman Patrick Connolly OF
Traffic Squad A was detailed to accom-
pany him home to 90 Fast SiSty-tifth
street Twenty men followed them aboard
an Eighth avenue car. Eventually the
party reached Fifty-ninth street and
Third avenue. and there others joined th"
gang Of twenty.
Connolly hurried his man up Third ave
nue. Al sixty fifth street thu two wer"
halted and surrounded. Connolly told
the crowd what would happen n they
were ugly They booted. and Connolly
drew his revolver to protect the chauf-
feur who said he was frigh; ened on ac-
count of his wife and children
When the pistol cam. out somebody
threw a milk bot,l. filed with acid IL
struck Connolly on the leg The acid
spilled over his trousers and socks. and
began TO eat into his clothes and burn
his leg
Connollys pistol sho, brought other
policemen. who helped get the chauffeur
TO his home Connolly was no; seriously
burned He was sent TO CoXen's home
, TO stay on guard.
-Four hundred men. some of whom
were striking chauneurs. gathered At
the plaza at Fifth avenue and fifty-ninth
street yesterday and tried TO parade.
Although they refrsined from stone
throwing such as occurred there the day
before. they sought TO make II unpleasant
| for tax,cab- They shouted -Scab, and
/ other epitheis whenever a taxicab came
along with a policeman on the seat with
/ the operator
/ Mounted policemen rode into the crowd
and ordered everybody To m1v'' along
One man refused TO move and Policeman
Walsh arrested him The prisoner was
George Lane. Jr Of NJ East Seventy
seventh street In the iorkv'lle I'olic-
court ha told Magi~Irats Houss that he
was chauffeur and had 1ni, w5r" When
told that a policeman would ride on M,
taxi The Magistrate fined HIM $40
for disorderly conduct. Luke Poole.
a striking chauffeur who wac held over
from "Wednesday. also WAS fined ~" on a
disorderIy conduct charge
Andrew Philipeck Of 80 West Forty;
eighth street "A strike breaker employed
by the New York Transportation Tom
pany. waS set upon by crowd OF men
a, Eighth avenue and Forty eighth -'r'"'
Of policeman and Philipeck was attended
nv a s,irseon from Flower Hospital
Ms no-., was broken and he had cuts and
bruises
Both tides in the raxicah strike decided
y.-ser,iay not 10 rec.da from the position
Inv have taken. the chaIreur- union
declaring tina, IN. -srik. viii conrinu.
for the closed ~hop and the taNIcab 'o'f'
rsan,e. standing rat on the open shop
proposition
F,.t ,,fNfv IN
nv rh. REPRESENTATIVE OF the State Boa ri
II Mediation and Arbitration To bring
about a conferanca betw.en committees
. Of both .ides in the hope that middle
ground mi gh, he reached They wers
told by Charles " Forster. treasurer NJ
the rha,,fYeurs union that n was for IN.
comnan,as 10 make a new proposition
the strikers would no, consider the np-r
shop The members OF the state boarc
then went 10 President Allan laNox nj
m. vex ork Motor Car owners Assoc
: citation. bur Mr. I~Sow -aid that the as-c
. cia,ion in making the same Offer to 'h'
chauFsurs thar the express strikers a.
ceprei had said lie la-t word Jam"
NrNanus one ~ IN. would b.. rreciiat cr-
aid Ia.t night Apparently IN. dad
lock cannot he broken We should lik.
to 500 IN. strike ended in IN" interests NJ
p.ac. bu, TN. ATTITUDE ~ both sides hs
BLOCKED. our efforts
'rw was easier 10 lend ont cabs Yesterday
hut comparativ.ly few PERSONS cared &
ride in = machine IN which uniforms
policeman was seated or that was .+corf''r
. bv a policaman. not 10 speak of rh. chnnc
81 being hit by a fiying brick All the com
panin~ reported an Improvement IN IN =
, service
For rho fire, time IN several davt cab
:, were operated hy rha New York Trans
i portarion Company Richard " Mead"
f.. president - the company. said w" ha'
, hfreen mon running machines to-day. Al
our own employees and could have ha'
the others had LEI fher LICENSES late" an