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too. You get right of this car. Jim;


we're going home"
The passengers hooted. but Jim was
silent. He Just laid his controller on the
front seat. helped his wife of the car and
followed her in the direction OF dom este
felicity. Thus the company lost strike
breaker, who. according to his wife. had
been helping to break strikes in many
cities from San Francisco east in the last
year.
President s. W. HUH OF the Coney Island
and Brooklyn Railroad was at his Office
most of the day and went over the ground
OF the strike in an automobile. He had
no statement to make. AT the offices OF
the company. DE Kalb and Franklin
avenues. 1t was eaid that third OF the
regular number OF cars on all lines were
running. BY evening the company had
on hand 22S men In the Smith street and
the Franklin avenue barns. and to-day
they expect that the number will be 300.
They expect to start cars from these
barns at s o'clock this morning. and
expect a greater number of cars. If not
the complete quota. to be running.
Tho most exciting thing that happened
! to Franklin avenue car was when rioters
piled keg Of mills and railroad ties onto
the tracks at Coney Island avenue and
Newkirk avenue. blocking the car. The
crew took to it's heels and the mob filled
up the car with railroad ties and other
wise dismantled il. Some time elapsed
before the police arrived. and there was
forty-fve minute delay before the
car was moved. In that time no Franklin
avenue cars ran to Coney Island. but
they turned at Park Circle.
| Later on there was block OF twenty
minutes caused by strikers piling ties
across the tracks at Avenue and Coney
Island avenue.
The company said that few old en-
ployees had come back to work on the
| Franklin avenue line. One former en-
| ployec who had been discharged on the
Smith street limo was taken back. and four
have applied for work. The company
places the number of men on strike at 375.
Two cars of the Franklin avenue line
were stalled az the Park Circle at half past
5 yesterday afternoon by crowd of
rioters who intimidated the crews. The
cars we're flied with passengers who
quickly got of when they scented trouble.
Assistant General Superintendent Thomp.
son of the Coney Island line was there and
tried to persuade the motormen and con-
ductors of the cars to go ahead. but the
latter didn't care to take the risk. After
the cars had been there for several min
utes a third trolley came from New York
in charge of Motorman j. Dorian and
Conductor J. Smith Thompson ap-
preached them at once and ordered them
TO take the first of the stalled cars on to the
island Smith and Dorian had IA little
more grit than the other strike breakers
and agreed to take the job.
| Nnen tne strlkers saw Wnat was nap-
pening they piled into the front car with
out police intervention, but offered no
violence just then. Thompson with sew
eral of the strong arm men whom the
company has in its employ boarded the
car also to protect Smith and Dorian.
Nothing happened until the car got to
Kings Highway.
| The strikers aboard tho car selected
it as a favorable place to begin operations.
Some of them pulled the pole of the
trolley wire and cut the rope while others
began to smash everything breakable in
the car. Then they cut the bell ropes,
splintered the seats and broke up the fare
register. Conductor Smith was laid out
with blow over the head when he offered
to interfere. He was carried into drug
store several blocks away to have his
| wound patched up.
Meanwhile Suppt. Thompson and his
handful OF men succeeded in getting the
pole back on the wire and Dorian, who
| had stuck to his post started the car of
at full speed for Coney Island. At the
terminal Dorian was dragged Off the car
by a crowd OF strikers who rushed him
down Il side street. He turned up later
in the evening at the car barns on Ninth
street He said that he had broken away
from the strikers before they had time
| to harm him.
were left at Coney Island last night be-
cause there We're no crews to take them
back.
Several cars got started from Man
haitian for Coney Island and were halted
by the company at the Smith street barns.
out Of most Of their ride appealed to
Division Superintendent Acklsy, He told
each OF them that the company was doing
the best it could and handed to each a
nickel. advising them to walk up three
blocks to the B. r. +. Hamilton Ferry
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cars Of the rival company.
Mr.. Ackley said he had 1903 strike
breakers on the Smith street line and
expected forty more to-day. He also
SAT- that the line would get an early start
tnis morning No cars were run after
An official of the company said last
night:
There are S75 men on strike, and in
the car barns AZ Smith street and Ninth
street We have Guartered 225 strike
breakers. We expect eleven OF our striking
employees on the Smith street line 10
return TO work tomorrow We stopped
running the cars on the Franklin avenue
and Smit street lines to give the police
a oeanoe TO rest after forty eight hours
Of hard work. The police have acted in
praiseworthy manner, We had little
trouble to-day and do not expect much
more tomorrow.
This is the police list Of Yesterday 5
injured: Rose Cordelle. o Henry street,
Manhattan. possible fracture of the skull;
Lena Weisengrum, New Main street,
Yonkers. scalp would and possible frac-
ture of the skull Annie Konklin. 952 Dean
street. Brooklyn. and Margaret Shannon,
1877 Park place. each hit on the head while
sitting side by side, Herman Draher, 10
Grattan street. assaulted 10y four men
supposed to he strikers on Union street.
kicked in the abdomen and taken o Scney
Hospital; William Kirkel, 400 East Ninty-
second street. scalp wound; Michael
Brady. II years old, 0 Temple Court;
Sophronia Whelan. 1893 Pennsylvania
avenue. Newark. cut on left temple and
arm; Joseph Schwartz. conductor. 49,
East Seventy second street. struck on
the head by piece of wood torn from a
car scat; John p. Shea. policeman. bruised;
Mrs. Margaret shannon. 1877 Park place.
Brooklyn bruised by stones; William b.
Graves. motorman. 500 Brooklyn street.