The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-02-25
State COnStabuIary
Reach Philadelphia.
SOLDIERS ON CARS
Stern Mounted Men Have
Orders to Shoot to Kill.
HARD WORK TO STOP RIOTING

Philadelphia, Feb. 24.-Two hundred
clean cut, square jawed, fighting men
of the Pennsylvania stabulary ar
rived here today under Captain Jack
GroOme to stamp out civil war in this
city.
These lean. hard men on lean hard
horses have spurred into angry mobs
when they We're outnumbered 100 to l,
when dynamite was smashing freight
ears and bullets were whisting all
around them.
Mayor Reyburn and Henry Clay, di
rector of public safety. called fol
Groome and his cavalrymen because
their own police force was limp and
worthless in the face of the murder.
ing, burning and clubbing that have
caused in four days the death of fouI
persons. millions of dollars of loss Ia
the Rapid Transit company in the
burning and wrecking of 500 cars, in.
juries to hundreds of peaceful citizens
and brought about a condition little
short of anarchy.
The constabulary is depended upon
20 break the backbone of the strike,
and they were projected on to the
firing line as soon as they arrived
When they are ordered TO shoot they
shoot 10 kill. a habit of theirs that
strikers in this state realize to n dead.
ly certainty. The news that they had
hni hor oh i,,
vile. Wilkesbarre. Punxsutawney and
Greensburg was the gloOmiest infor.
nation that Strike Leader Pratt and
his 5000 angry conductors and mo-
tOrmen could possibly have received.
Backed by the carbines OF these
rough riders, the Pennsylvania Rapid
Transit company viii attempt to run
1,2O0 cars. reinstating service in the
districts where violence has been most
prevalent and where loyal employees
have been injured by the score.
Strikers are talking openly about us.
ing dynamite. On every side threats
are made that Jack GroOme's men will
carry out of town good deal more
lead than they brought in. There is
a Tightening of interest and renewed
tension of feeling all over the city.
Despite the constant assurances to
the strikers that the Rapid Transit
company is whipped and that it will
have to give in utterly or agree to
satisfactory compromise, the company
does not intend 10 give way an inch.
The coming of the veteran fighters
under Groome means that Pratt and
his followers will have TO battle OF
quit, one Of the two. Pratt says that
II will be general strike, that his
men will never submit to being cor.
raled and cuffed by the state police
and that the constitutional rights of
peaceable citizens are being invaded.
The authorities say that if the state
cOnstabulary find the job too much
Governor stuart viii send 10000 mi.
litiamen into Philadelphia and that II
necessary soldier with q loaded rifle
will stand behind the motorman of
every car.
The national guard are ready at an
hours notice to emtrain for this city. f.
The governor has discussed plans al. |
ready with Mayor Reyburn and with
Henry Clay, the police commander.
Groome's four companies have been |
detailed 10 the sections Of the city |
where the company has suffered most
loss in cars and me,1. There will be
no hesitancy on the part Of the state
police to crush r.Oting in the best way |
that offers. If mobs fail to dispense on
order the constabularies have orders
10 shoot TO kill. and they have the rep
utadon of hitting their mark.
The worst riots Of the strike occur-
red at the Baldwin Locomotive works
AT Broad and Spring Garden streets.
That plant has been the retreat for
four days OF hundreds OF men who
fought the police from cover and bonn
barded the cars of the transit com.
pany with bolts and scrap iron.
A crowd OF 400 employees OF the
Baldwin plant marched TO Thirteenth
and Spring Garden streets and blocked
northbound car. The motorman saw
he was In for il, but he stuck to his
controller. a shower of bricks and
stones crashed into the car, knocking
the mOtorman down aud injuring the
police guards.