New-York tribune., 1910-12-01
M0BS WRECK TAX|CABS;;
CHAUFFEURS ATTACKED
Rioting Centres About Long Acre
Square-BriCks Hurled and
Machines Overturned.
HORSE VEHICLES ATTACKED
Simultaneous Outbreaks Trouble
Police-Inspector Schmitt-
berger in Midst of Dis
order-Two Arrests.

crowd OF about one hundred strikers ana
sympathizers descended on the taXicabs
in Longacre Square. and for more tha n
an hour the reserves from the West 4ith
and West 6Sth street stations had all
they could do to disperse them. The
strike had assumed such alarming
phase that Chief Inspector Schmitt-
berger, who took charge of the situation
shortly after the rioting began, issued
orders to the police to see that the prog
ress of the taXicabs was not interfere6
with. The reserves from the two sta
tions were kept on the jump for several
hours answering hurry calls
According to some of the patrolmen
the rioting last night was the worst they
mad seen since the strike began. The
first victim was l.. Freedman, chauf-
feur. of No. 500 East Houston street.
He had just turned into Broadway and
sd street, when a mob made an attack
and wrecked the machine. Patrolman
Hayes. who was on the seat with the
chauffeur. dispersed the crowd when he
drew his revolver. A man who said he
was Frank Lambert. a chauffeur. of No
10 West 9th street. was arrested. In
the mems night court Lambert was held
in 81 200 bail for examination on
charge of inciting a riot.
Bricks Fly Through Air.
4 second prisoner who had been ar
rested in the fracas at Seventh avenue
and 51st street and who described him
self Richard Thana, of No. 729 Eighth
avenue, was arraigned on charge of
cisorderly conduct and held in $500 for
examination. Patrolman Geiselberg, of
Traffic Squad A. said the prisoner
had thrown bricks and that one of the
missiles had struck James Gordon, of
No. l53 West SD street, fare in the
machine.
AT 55th street and sixth avenue a
crowd. after breaking every window in
machine. set upon the chauffeur. who
was finally rescued by a mounted patrol
man. Other outbreaks occurred at 51st
street and Seventh avenue, 47th street
and Broadway, and 10th street and
Broadway.
The mob then attacked an unguarded
taxicab in front of the Hotel Somerset
No. $50 West 47th street. The chauffeur
in trying to prevent the wrecking of the
machine was roughly handled.
Two cabs were overturned in front of
the University Club, No. West saith
street, by five men believed to be
strikers Several clubmen said they
50 the five men approach the cabs and
overturn them. The drivers managed
to drag the horses to their feet and
right the vehicles, but the two cabs had
been damaged to the amount of 800
A man who gave his name to the police
as Mr.. Cozzens, of No. 307 West S7th
street, had a narrow escape from injury
last evening. He was in a hanson cab
ticed a mob following them! As he
aIighted at I'D street and Broadway the
cab was overturned and the horses in
jured. Ferguson was rescued by the
police.
Machine Wrecked; Passenger Cut
The rioters next turned their atten-
ton to a taxicab at Sixth avenue and
9th street, driven by James Page Be
fore the police could get to the spot the
machine was wrecked and Page badly
battered. The machine belonged to the
Moulton Stable.
Although there was policeman sit
ting on the seat of a New York Trans
portation Company's taxicab as it passed
along Fifth avenue last night near sd
street. stone was hurled through the
glass window. The two men in the taxi
cab said they were Richard Stockson of
Princeton. and DR.. Brown, of the same
ont hob nd
by broken glass He refused to have an
ambulance called. and the man with him
patched up his injuries in drug store
near by, after which they re-entered the
cab and Wer- driven to a theatre
Chief Inspector Schmittberger. realiz-
ing that the strikers would probably
continue their onslaught after the thea
tres We're out. visited the West 41th
street and 6Sth street stations last night
and issued special instructions to the
lieutenants. He said that if persons in
terfered with the progress of the taxi
cabs the police should take immediate
action and lock them up on charge of
rioting.
The committee representing the strik-
ing chaufTeurs which met committee
of the employers on Tuesday called on
Mayor Gaynor yesterday. At the con-
ference on Tuesday the employers sub
mitted new proposition to end the
strike, which the strikers afterWard re-
fused to accept. and the members of the
committee which called on the Mayor
yesterday said they would prepare a
counter proposition.
This counter proposition was ratified
at a meeting of the strikers in hall at
No 81: West 41th street. The chairman
of the committee said after the meeting
that Mayor Gaynor had promised to
bring about another conference with the
employers to-day to consider the coun-
ter proposition, and he believed the
strike would be settled. The chauffeurs
want TO wear their union buttons and
demand a provision that in the employ
ment of chauffeurs union men be given
the preference. A scale of wages is also
provided for
FORCED TO PAWN HIS COFFIN.
Atlanta, Nov. 30 The high cost of living