The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-02-24
POLICEMEN GUARD EACH
CAR ON ITS ROUND TRIP
Almost Continuous Disturbances Oc-
cur i'm the Shopping District and
Locomotive Works Is Scene
~ of Much Rioting

Philadelphia, February 23-The po-
lice officials of this city today virtu-
Z ally acknowledged their inability to
cope with the present strike situation
when a request was made of John c.
Groome, superintendent of the state
police, that 200 members of his COM
mand be brought to this city for police
duty.
This request was made notwithstand-
ing that serious rioting was less fire.
ouent today than on any day since
the strike went Into effect. The state
police are expected to reach here to-
morrow and will doubtless be sent into
the Kensington district, where the
state Fencibles had such an unpleas-
ant experience yesterday.
For the first time during the pres
eut struggle the Rapid Transit COM
pany succeeded In running it's cars un-
Ill 6 o'clock on the Frankfort line,
which penetrates this unruly territory.
AL that hour cars on all lines were
run To the barns.
-Four policemen guarded each car on
the Frankfort line and the pick of
the citys detective force patrolled the
route all day in automobiles. These
men succeeded in restoring a semblance
of order where the State Fencibles
had failed on the day before Wien
ever group of men formed anywhere
on the street the detectives rushed
them kand followed the ring leaders
even into houses until they captured
them.
In spite of the vigilance of the po-
lice many car windows were broken
by missiles thrown from windows and
the company was finally obliged to send
its cars along this route with sheet
iron windows in place of the usual
glass panes.
While the police w9e busy keep
ing tracks clear for the lines In Ken
sington the lines in other parts of
the city were run on much reduced
sch edules and on several of the West
Philadelphia and downtown lines no
attempt was made to run cars all day,
although these sections were compar-
atively quiet The shopping district
on Market street, In the heart OF the
CITY, was again the scene of almost
continuous disturbances, especially at
the noon hour. No one was seriously
injured. however.
Serious Disturbance
Baldwin's locomotive works was the
scene of a serious disturbance during
the lunch hour Of the hundreds of en-
= ployes One employe was shot ic the
foot and about so shots were fired at la
borers who sought refuge on the upper
floors of the buildings and hurled ncts
and bolts at the policemen who were
guarding cars in this district. Every time
a head appeared at a window it was the
target for a bullet from a policeman's $
revolver The I o'clock whistle signal
ing the expiration of the lunch hour
bought hostilities to a close.
The city high schools, which are at
tended by pupils from all sections Of he
city, ara located near the Industrial plants,
which have been bombarding the cars
with bolts In order not to endanger
the lives of the pupils who would lie
forced to ride on the cars, the board of
education today decided not to open the
two schools for girls during the remainder
of the week.
Leading clergymen of the city held a
conference today to discuss means for
bringing the strike to peaceabIe termin-
alton. The result of their deliberations
was not announced.
kilograms were sent to President Taft
and Senator Penrose by the officials of
the street car mems union today, saying
.
for operation\ of mail and newscape,' cars
~ was done throughout last strike. Com
pany refuses to allow union men to con-
tinue to operate mail cars and has today
forced them off their mail cars by sum
mary discharges Interference with mail
operations, therefore, comes from the
company and not from the strikers
Mail Car Derniled
A United States mail car was derailed
mt.
at Cambria street in the section of the
city where violence has been preva-
Int. An obstruction had been placed on
the tracks and the car, which was bound
to the postoffice with load of mail. was
70 badly damaged that 1t had to be
dragged to a nearby car barn and the
messengers transferred to another car.
Late today the Rapid Transit company
issued statement in which it is claimed
that the strikers ''cannot and will not
win
In part the statement says:
There is no possibility of this company
compromising on any bass-with 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 be GER
tain that we shall stand by them.
''There will be no settlement which in
aludes taking back the men who have
led and encouraged mob violence
The heavy hand of the law pressed hard
today on some of the men and boys who
have been arrested for rioting. Elwood
a Carey, alleged to have been a ringleader
m riot in Kensngton district was sem
fenced to six years In the county prison.
~There were six counts against him, and
1he got a year on each. John Kline, who
could scarcely understand the English
language, was given two years, and Ellis
Atkins was given similar sentence.
17-year-old boy was sent to the
Huntington reformatory for 1S months
for throwing missiles at car and other
boys and men were sentenced to two and
three months each In prison.
Evidence Very strong
vxAils the evidence against most Of