Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-23
CALL TO WORK ENDS
FIGHT WITH POLICE
Whistle Blows and Strike
Sympathizers Abandon
Prospects of Victory.
LOCOMOTIVE WORKMEN
HURL HEAVY MISSILES
Spend Lunch Hour in Batting Pas
sengers and Car Crews.
WAITING ROOM IS DYNAMITED
Carmen Say It Is Put-Up Job, and
Deny Charge That They Commit
ted Outrage-Maj. Brazier
Explains.

PHILADELPHIA. February 23.-whh
the exception that much less disorder was
reported. the street car strike situation I'm
Philadelphia has undergone little change
since yesterday.
Under heavy police protection the Phil
adelphia RapidTransit Company. is operat-
ing limited number OF cars on all its
lines running 10 the center OF the city
The service is uncertain. and the public
is not patronizing the cars TO any extent
for fear of injury from brick or a bui-
let
Noon-Hour Troubles.
What came near being a serious affair
Baldwin Locomotive Works. where IOOOo
workmen were turned loose in the heart
Of the city when the whistle blew at
12 O'Clock
As these men were returning from their
MONDAY meal they oongYegated at 18th
and Spring Garden streets a hundred
yards from the United States mint, anu
hooted passengers and crew of every ca
Garden street
The intersection became blocked. The
riot caH was sent in
Mounted police in a few minutes came
gaioping up and drove the great crowd
east on Spring Garden street and into
Broad street, the city's main thorough
fare. While this was going on there
came from the windows Of the shops a
bars and almost everything that goes 10
make up locomotive except the heavier
parts
Whistle Ends Strife.
With this flank movement in their sun
port the rioting crowd became bolder.
The police realized they were in for a
battle
Out came the revoivers of the mounted
men and the half hundred foot policemen.
A general fusillade of revolver shots rang
through the air. Every policeman kept
his nerve, and under direction of the
lieutenant in charge pointed his revolver
upward.
The shooting scared only a few Of the
men. There was no general break for
cover 1t seemed TO be more of happy.
jeering crowd than a mob bent on ven
geance, and they slowly retreated
Suddenly there belched forth the
hoarse roar Of Baldwin's great whistle
There was a general break for the en-
frances to the plant.
In two minutes every man was with
In the confines of the works. The po-
lice marched OF. The engineer who
witnessed the affair remarked with a
laugh
Il can do more with my whistle than
all the cops in Philadelphia"
When it came TO counting the casl-
alties it was found that one man nad
been injured on the foot
Three dead. two lying at the point of
death in hospitals and more than a
thousand persons injured is the toll ex-
acted by the reign of lawlessness which
has existed in this city for three days.
Unlike preceding days, this morning
opened bright, with just enough crispness
in the air to make one feel like walking,
whether or not 1T was matter Of pref
erence.
More Cars to Be Run.
At o'clock the traction company an
nounced that it had 554 cars In operation.
or thirty-seven more than at the same
hour yesterday. This number, it was
stated. would be increased during the
day to $40.
The company also announced that il
had enough men to man /, 400 cars If the
city could provide sufficient noIice nrotoc
tion.
As one and two policemen are on each
car, the company says the city is not in
a position to furnish protection to all the
cars and at the same time take care OF
the general police situation The number
of cars normally operated is 1S00
The traction company opened it's
Frankford line for the first time since
the strike started. A company Official
said that four or five important lines
ma he in ion, iclf