The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-08-06


emerged from the zone Of flying bottles
and bricks the motormsn got UP and
guided 1t safely to the barn at Smith and
Ninth streets.
All tho afternoon Inspector Dooley
dashed feverishly Zip and down the line
in a shrieking automobile trying to ar
range the police reserves from FIVE pre-
cfucts in some sort Of al fighting front
But tie police seemed bit puzzled by
this real strike with real straight from the
shoulder violence Supt Dennis Sullivan
of the street car lines had asked for police
on the cars but Deputy Commissioner
Walsh had said no. Nevertheless cop
occasionally mounted a car in the stress
Just for ride" and one Of them had his
helmet smashed
BRICK HTS A POLICEMAN.
After seven cars. two of them full OF
passengers. had been stoned on the
Smith street line there came a moment
about q o'clock when a brick from the
vicinity Of the strike headquarters found
its billet In the nape of Sergt. Thomas
F. Dryers neck. The sergeant rubbed
the hurt place. scowlcd at the strikers.
who were hanging over their picket
fence and jeerinE. and ordered his cops
to charge Billies were drawn and tho
charge WAS ferocious. The cops storined
the headquarters on the second floor of
the building and drove every mothers &
son out Then the lawn was cleared and
the police went flying up and down the
street. driving miscellaneous citizenry
before them on the run. Dcnizens of
Ninth street who happened to be off their
own stoops were caught in the net and
supper was cold when some OF them
finally persuaded Serst Dwycr that they
really had homes they'd like TO go to
It was in this rush that the policemen
at last found tho heaps of ammunition
under the newspapers and confiscated
them. At the same moment two shots
were fired in McKenna's S saloon whom
nobody was able to discover.
The strike began at O'Clock yesterday
morning after an all night meeting and
vote at A. VI. 1t was figured by the
strikers that Saturday would he the very
best day TO start the demonstration. as
all the lines of the Coney Island and
Brooklyn Railroad Company are very
busy on Saturdays carrying tens of thou
sands to and from Coney Island and
Brighton Beach The company had ex
peoted a strike but hadn't been informed
a. TO the exact day. For a few hours
after dawn no attempt was made to run
cars. but at O'Clock fifty strike breakers
were escorted from Manhattan to the
Smith street barns and another batch
was taken to the barns of the Hamilton
avenue line.
THE pIEsr ATTACK.
The first car attacked was in charge
Of Motorman Harry Moore and Con-
ductor John Sherman. As it neared the
strike headquarters a swarm of ex-
employees and their ever present semi
juvenile volunteer assistants dashed out
and pulled the trolley pole Off the wire.
The motorman and conductor were chased
into a shoe store. Along came four
more cars and from sidewalk and lawn
poured bricks and bottles. The seven
policemen who were the total force on
hand at that hour drew their clubs and
then their revoivers. The five deserted
cars stood empty where they had been
held up until they were driven back to
the barn through another fusillade at
4o'clock in the afternoon.
MEN AND WOMEN DODGE MISSILES.
Early in the morning "A car that was
trying TO make its way from Coney Island
to Manhattan was stoned at Fourth
avenue a block above the strikers cita-
del II disgorged men and women. each
trying to shield his or her head with
hand or satchel. A brick hit james
Williams. who is "A painter and civil
war veteran. living on West Fifth street.
Coney Island Williams. who is 68 years
DID, pitched from the running board 20
the pavement while the car was going
swiftly. Sency Hospital ambulance
doctor set his dislocated right shoulder
and took him home.
At Smith and Sackett streets in Smith
street car bound for Manhattan We're
two young men who when asked for their
niokels grabbed Conductor Harry Nolan 5
it. Then they ran. Nolan wiped blood
from his eyes and told the motorman
to run his car to Carroll street. where
Nolan was patched up in n drug store by
surgeon from the Long Island College
Hospital.
BY midforenoon most travellers had
got wind Of the strike and were stunning
the Smith street and Hamilton avenue
lines. There was little bottle throwing
at the Hamilton avenue cars, hut there
was nobody TO run the cars. a. the com
pany a. we'll as the strikers was con
centrating it's efforts to keep cars moving
on the Smith street line.
BoMBARDED FROM THE BLOODY CORNER
At 2:l5 o'clock policemen had drifted
10 from other precincts until 1t was said
that there We're 200 along the Ninth
street stretch from the car barn to Pros
pect Park 1t was at that hour that the
first car since o'clock in the morning
appeared from tho direction of Man
haitian II was Crammed with pass an gers
just above the denatured GowaniIs a
bombardment began The passen gers
snuggled together. A brick or two from
the sidewalk few to pieces against the
car and fragments were scattered about
Most of the passengers sprang off when
the car reached the bloody corner where
the bottle throwers were thickest Among
the four who stayed on were two women,
one OF whom carried tennis racket
which she held before her face. Through
It all she wore a set smile. The car rode
through a tempest of bricks. stones and
bottles. The crouching motorman and
conductor both were hit. They were
game to go on. but after the car had
emerged from the worst Of the fire the
police stopped it.
On the front seat behind Shorty, the
strike breaking motorman sat a fiery
haired and faced young man. When the
car halted he hoped up and yelled over
and over in the face of the mob: LET every
one be quiet. Let every one be quiet y
But nobody was quiet, not oven the red
haired one when a policeman dragged
him to the sidewalk ana hnted that he
might be suspicious person The las,
person 10 leave the car was the girl with
the tennis racquet. Still smiling 81 strangely
and screening herself with the racquet
she walked swiftly away.