Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-07-22

lin charge of the Bridgeport strike,
to come to this city at once to take
charge. Vice President Johnson was
expected on Monday, but develop
ments in the Bridgeport strike kept
him busy In that city.
Mayor Garven Under Fire.
Mayor Pierre p. Garven was made
the target for an attack by one
striker. who shot at him yesterday
/ afternoon. The Mayor, with William
Il Cronin, nephew of Commissioner
! Matthew T. Cronin, was riding in an
auto to the Standard Oil Company
i plant. While the auto was proceed
! ing along East Twenty-second street,
| in the Hook" section. it was fired at
/ several times.
: The top was punctured by bullets
in several places. One of the tires
! was hit and blew out with a loud
bang. Mayor Garven haped from the
auto and got away in the opposite di-
rection to which the auto was bound.
| He went Immediately to the Muni-
| cipal building at Twenty sixth street
! and Avenue c.
! once Mayor Garven, who is coun-
sci for the Standard Oil Company,
| left the auto. 1t was allowed to go
unmolested with Cronin driving it,
| He got through all right.
\ The telegram which Secretary
| Gilderseeve sent was prepared after
| he had held a conference with the
! leading members of the city Chamber
| of Commerce. They apparently came
to the conclusion that the strike had
got beyond the control of the police
and the sheriff's office TO cope with 1t.
In his message to Governor Fielder
Mr.. Gildersleeve said
Governor James F, Fielder, Sea
The Chamber of Commerce of
the City of Bayonne. representing
all of the principal manufacturing
| industries of the city, urges that a
sufficient force of the State troops
! be sent here at once to restore
order and protect lives and prop
erty. At this moment disastrous
fire is raging in the yards of the
Standard Oil Company, claimed to
be the work of incendiaries
The situation is very serious and
beyond the control of the local
authorities. 1t threatens to in
volve other important industries
| in addition to several that are now
affected.
(Signed) A. c. GILDERSLEEVE.
Secretary, Chamber of Commerce.
Tank Cars Set Anre.
Four other fires, said to be in
cendiary and to be the work of
strikers or sympathizers with them,
broke out during the day. Most
serious Of all the fires was that of
the tank cars. which were really five
! in number. At that number of points
in the yard fun of cars flames seized
the cars and the fire department had
its hands full to fight the flames.
Their efforts had no appreciable eff
feet, except in saving some of the
surrounding cars. The flames from
the oil-flled tanks flared high in the
air and could be seen for miles Calls
were coming in from all quarters TO
Bayonne police headquarters inquir-
ing about the fire.
The first of last nights fires was dis
covered about p. m, in the pump
house of the Standard Oil Company
in the yards near the tank cars.
This is the end OF a pipe line from
the tanks of the company, and from
I il oil is pumped into the tank cars.
! When the iire broke out there was
= no yard flre-fghting force to take
care OF ii, since all of the men were
< ON strike. For some reason no alarm
e was sent i'm and it was allowed to
burn to the ground
More Incendiary Fires.
The second fire to occur at the plant
was when two blazes broke out
. simultaneously in a long line of tank
cars located on a spur of the Lehigh
| Valley Railroad near the Standard
= | plant Each of these cars was about
n | twenty-five feet in length and con-
/ tained about $50 barrels of oil. One
box car filled with shingles and lum-
Der also caught fire.
4 These two cars were located about
one hundred feet apart in the string
II . - al -Rt
at1re, and the police and officials OF
the plant are confident that some OF
, the strikers or their synpathizers
have some knowledge of their origin
The fire had gained headway rap
- idly and although the firemen were
e called to the scene Immediately they
Il could not cNtinguish the flames, but
= they managed to keep the flames from
: spreading to the other cars in the
train,
: Fire Threatens oil Tank.
n Another fire which threatened ia
: spread to the big oil tanks of the
company broke out late last night II
a solitary tank car on siding. i
stood barely twenty-five feet from
one of the tanks and grave fears fol
a general conflagration were enter
tanned.
A raid was made by a half dozer
drunken strikers ON trolley car OF
the "jigger" line on Twenty
street late yesterday afternoon. Three
on the front and three on the rea'
" platform ordered the motorman anC
Ir conductor to stop the car. Some of tn,
men drew revolvers. The fifteen pas
., sengers were compelled to get out OF
the ear and the strikers lifted the
II seats with the idea that police ol
strikebreakers might be concealed un.
IT derneath.
Car Lines Quit Running.
The result of this attack was tina
the car line stopped running. A few
hours later the mob pulled up 10
of gas mains that were shortly L
have been laid in the street across
the roadway, effectually blocking al
: traffic.
\ Sheriff kinkead, accompanied b,