New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-12

IL the men prove efficient they VIII get
permanent employment in the depart
ment After visiting the armory yester-
day Mr.. Edwards made a tour Of in
spection of Manhattan, The Bronx and
Brooklyn. He said that in Brooklyn
especially he had found things in excel
lent shape. Mayor Gaynor remained in
his Brooklyn home. No. 20 Eighth ave-
nue.. all day. instead of going as usual,
TO spend the week end in his country
home in st. James, Long Island. Mr..
Edwards furnished him with news of the
strike through Secretary Whitney but
did not see him.
Commissioner Edwards has detectives
on the trail of trouble makers. with in
s'"uctions to watch especially any per-
sons who attempt TO make the sweepers
joi. the striking drivers. The executive
Offices of the Street Cleaning Depart
ment are on the fourteenth floor of the
Park Row Building on each of the
floors, from that floor down to the
ground floor. several patromen are on
nuty these days TO look after "cranks"
or any other suspicious persons. At
each of the stables OF the department
curing the night two patrolmen are
stationed, as threats to burn the barns
had been made.
serious trouble in Tenth avenue. no.
tween 18th and 10Th streets. Was ayerted
only by the police firing their revolyers
over The heads OF a riotous crowd Of
nearly two thousand, among whom were
many women and boys. From roofs and
windows on both sides Of the street
stones. bricks, bottles and all sorts II
missiles were hurled down upon the DO
lice and the strike breakers from Stable
j. Harold Dunn, strike breaker from
Chicago, had his head cut and bruised
Joy a brick lie was taken to the New
York Hospital
Police Hemmcd in by Mob.
In addition to the fusilade from above
the police and the strike breakers found
themselves hemmed in by menacing
mob. Four new drivers. with their help
ers' two mounted and eight foot patrol
men stood at bay until the crowd came
within arms length when the police
drew their revolvers and fired in the air.
The crowd fell back and the mounted
men, squirting their horses and flourish
Ing their guns. made a passageway 10
the outskirts of the mob. The strike
breakers escaped
Ten carts. each manned by three strike
breakers and accompanied by twelve pa
troImen, six of whom We're mounted left
the department station in East 18th
street and passed through East nth
street TO First avenue. At that point
a shower Of missiles rained down from
the roofs upon the little procession. while
hundreds Of strikers and their friends
attacked II in the street. Three of the
carts were deserted by their crews.
Reserves were summoned, who with
clubs and guns, threatened the disturb
ers. The police escorted the remainder
Of the strike breakers to Second avenue,
where they were attacked by nearly
thousand men and women. The women
were more reckless and savage than the
men.
The shouting and the tumut attracted
crowds from all the intersecting streets
of the neiGhborhood. Men and women,
with bricks. stones bottles and other
missiles in their hands, could be seen on
the roofs OF the buildings for a distance
al several blocks. but the very size of
the crowd proved in a measure pro-
lection to the police and TO the quaking
strike breakers. as every one of a bel
l;gerent mind was afraid to throw any
thing. for fear it might hit a striker or
one of his sympathizers.
The police realizing the seriousness Of
the situation. again made the streets
ring by firing their revolvers in the air.
Then they blew shrill blasts on their
whistles and ordered the strike breakers
to form a street barricade with their
carts. Behind these the little party took
refuge. For "A half hour all traffic was
stopped in that section Of the street. but
finally the reserves galloped up. urging
their horses through the dense masses
and beating them back with threat II
club and gun. An Italian girl young and
beautiful. implored, in broken English,
the strike breakers Is. desert their posts.
but neither her eloquence nor her beauty
moved the men. who for long time had
been hungering for a job.
Crowd Routed from Roof.
Six carts guarded by ten patrolmen,
vAre surrounded by bowling mob at
Third avenue and East 18Th street. Thomas
Drucker. Of No Si6 East 18th street. tried
20 put the strike breakers 60 fight with an
empty ashcan His friends restrained him.
bat he escaped from them, and, followed
by "a score of men and as many boys. he
went up TO a roof, whence he and they
threw bricks taken from chimney down
az the police and the "scabs." Patromen
finally drove Drucker and his companions
from the roof.
-Four strikers were fined s. each yester-
dav I'm the Yorkville court. They were
charged with attempting 10 incite not
The men were arrested at First avenue
and lst street, where five hundred persons
had Gathered around a Few strike breakers
Ellsworth Gold, seventeen years old who
sasd he was sailor attached TO a United
states training ship at the Newport navy
ara Was charged n the Morrissnia court
with having struck Patrolmsn Schmidt
with a brick during a strike disturbance
re was held for further examination
=. Ae Yorkyiile court Thomas henhey