Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-24
POLICE UNABLE
TO COPE WITH
STRIKE RIOTERS
Quaker City Officials En-
list Assistance of State
Constabulary
STRIFE CONTINUES
Efforts Today Will Be Di-
rected Towards MobS
of Kensington
STRIFE CONTINUES
ASSOCIATED Pressl

| I OI IIllS CITY LOudy NlTlu-
= ally acknowledged inability to
cope with the strike situation, when a
request was made of John c. Groome,
superintendent of the state police, that
| the 200 members of his command be
brought to this city for police duty.
This request was made notwithstand-
ing that serious rioting was less fire.
quent today than on any day since the
strike of the street car men began last
Saturday. The state police are eX-
pected to reach here tomorrow morn
ing and will doubtless be sent into the
Kensington district.
| Efforts of the police tomorrow will
| be concentrated in clearing the Ken
sington district of mobs.
| For the first time the Rapid Transit
company succeeded in running it's cars
until o'clock on the Frankford line,
which penetrates this unruly territory
! At that hour cars on all lines were re-
| turned to the barns.
Four policemen guarded each car
! and detectives patrolled the route all
| day in automobiles. Whenever group
Of men formed detectives rushed them,
and even followed the ringleaders into
the houses until they captured them
In spite of the vigilance of the police,
many car windows were broken, ana
/ the company was finally Obliged TO use
sheet iron windows in place Of glass
panes.
Police Clears Tracks
While the police were busy keeping
tracks clear for the lines in Kensing-
ton lines in other parts of the city
were run on much reduced schedules,
and on several of the West Philadel-
mia and downtown lines an attempt
was made to run cars all day, although
these sections were comparatively
quiet.
The shopping district on Market
| street was again the scene OF almost
| continuance disturbance, especldiiy az
| the noon hour.
Baldwin's locomotive works was the
scene OF a disturbance at noon. One
employe was shot in the foot ana
about fifty shots were fired at laporers
| who sought refuge ON the UPPER floors
of the buildings and hurled Dolts anu
j nuts at policemen guarding cars.
Every time head appeared at
| window It was a target for Dullet
from policemens revolvers. on one oc-
casion a Whistle signaling tho eXplra-
tion of the lunch hour, brought hostli-
ties to close.
Company Issues Statement
Late today the Rapid Transit com
| panv issued a statement in Whlch II ls
| claimed that 1.-The strikers CANNOT anu
will not win." In part the statement
follows:
"rhere is no possibility Of this COM
pany dealing on any basis with the
men who have en- ieered e events
of the last three days
The heavy hand of the law pressed
hard today on some of the men anu
| bows who have been arrested Tor rlot-
ing FlWood Carr, alleged to have peen
| liz Jo,- tn q
| ton district was sentenced to SIX years
IN the county prison. John Kline was
given two years and Ellis Atkins
Similar sentence. A 17-year-old boy
was sent to the Huntington re1oriiia-
tory for thirteen months FOR throwing
missiles at a car ana otner poSe +braa zee
men were sentenced to two or three
months each.
cIereymen Discuss Situation
Leading clergymen of the city held
a conference today to discuss means
Of bringing the strike to q peaceapie
Termination. Archbishop Ryan, head
of the Roman Catholic faith in TINS
citv. Bishop L. B. Wilson of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, DR.. Floyd
Tompkins. a prominent Protestant
| Eniscopalan: Rev. l.. B. Hafer, a wen
known Lutheran, and Drs. Joseph
| Krapof and Leon Elmieh, rabbis OF
the most prominent Jewish synagogues'
were leaders of the conference partlcl-
pated in by forty-elergymen. me re-
suit of their deliberations was not an
nounced. .,,4
| Teleqrams were sent to President
TAFT and to Senator Penrose by the
officials of the Street Car Mems union
today saying:
"IJnion men on strike here offer SER
vices for operation of mail ana news
paper cars as was done throughout last
strike. Company refuses to allow the
union men to operate mail cars and
has TODAY forced them off their mail
cars by summary discharges. Interfer-
ence with mail operations, therefore,
comes from the company and not from
the strikers"
Fencbles Victim Of Jokes
The placing on guard of the state
fencibles along Lehigh avenue yester-
day is admitted to have been mis-
take The members of this organiza-
tion. which enjoys the use of city
armory, are mostly very young men,
some of them mere boys.
They were placed all along the street
and when the residents of the great
mill district of Kensington heard of
the arrival of the young soldiers they
turned out in force to greet them.
| Practical jokes of every description
were played upon the members of the
fencibles. Some were partially stripped
of their clothing and after their arms
had been taken from them were chased
IN and down the streets by bands of
Young roughs. The girls of the dis
frict collected the brass buttons from
the uniforms as souvenirs.
The third death as the result of the
conflict between the police and the
strike sympathizers occurred today
when John Heugh, IS years of age,
died in the Samaritan hospital. po-
liceman who was protecting motor
man saw boys throwing stones at the
car He opened fire at them and one
bullet struck Heugh in the neck.
Heugh is the boy who in ante7mortem
statement to the coroner sald ne was
one of an organized gang of $50 carpet
mill employees who had agreed to as