Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1915-06-16
One Line in Receivers
Hands Will Be Operated
by U. S. Officials.
ACID BOMB, STONES
HURLED AT TRAINS
Extend Service, Says Company presi.
dent Strikers JSe Field Glass 10
FamiIiariZp Themselves with
Strike Breakers.

Chicago, juno 15.--Ono I>'ch of
the Chicago 81" system was taken out
Of the strike emhroglio by federal
court order this aftcrnoot.. and tonight
Mayor William Hale Thompson. hG
special strike committee of five mem
hers appointed by council order Mon
day night. the heads OF the unions in
viewed. and the heads of the street
car companies locked themselves in
Mayor Thompsons office with IT,, an
nouncement that they would come
out when an agreement had been
reached"
These two Developments were the
most important in day Of stirring
events in the street car strike. IN
volving 1880 motormen and con
ductOrs
The court order came from Federal
Judge kohlsaat and affects the Old
Park branch Of the elevated. The
branch is in the hands Of receiver
Of the U. s. court and Judge F.ohlsaat
ordered him as receiver to operate
the lines. The receiver at once com
FABRICATED with Rritton |. Budd, presi-
uent of the Consolidated Elevated, AID
'faiGs viii start TO run tomorrow
morning at $40 Federal deputy
marshals will be on each train and
any interference with the operation,
it is said will he construed as con-
tempt of court by Judge kohlsaat and
may result in court action against
the heads of the union if it is proved
that the interference is by union men.
Should the deputy marshals prove
unequal to the situation, it is proba-
BILE that federal troops will be called
in as was done in the great railroad
strike in 1884.
The meeting in Mayor Thompson's
office started in earnest at o'clock.
During the afternoon the mayor held
separate conferences with the union
men and the surface and elevated
company heads. At a late hour the
meeting was still in session.
Chicago, June ia ten-minute
service Was maintained for ten hours
on the az" lines today, from Wilson
avenue, on the north side, to 6lst
street. on the South side, and approx
mately 5000 cash fares taken by the
regular company ticket choppers who
opened their windows at all express
stations along the line.
No effort was made to continue the
service after dark, but President Budd
announced that it would start again
tomorrow morning with a possible
extension to other lines.
No attempt was made to operate
surface cars.
Strikers or their sympathizers made
more determined efforts to paralyZe
the makeshift elevated service than
on Monday, the first day of the strike.
Stones were thrown with great fire.
auency. A determined effort was
made to wreck one train and an ACID
bomb, thrown from a roof, threaten.
ed serious injury to a number or
passengers on another. One report
was made that Wilson avenue train
had been fired upon at Chicago ave-
nue., but investigation proved that IL
was a thrown bolt and hot
bullet that entered the car.
At the Wilson terminal and all along
the line, strikers watched the cars
and the car crews through held
glasses, but attempted no violence:
They insisted that they merely wanted
to familiarize themselves with the
faces of the men now running the
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