New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-02
Two Trolleys Stoned
Back to Barn-Third
Interned Here.
CREWS BEATEN;
19 ARRESTS MADE
Traffic Auto Drivers Block
Lines - Mayor Halts
Mt. Vernon Riot.

The Yonkers Railroad Company at
tempted at noon yesterday to resume
operation Of its cars on rails rusted BY
three weeks of disuse.
From that time until 5 o'clock in the
evening, when the company hoisted the
white flag, the ordinarily tranquil sub
urban city was the scene of rioting.
A vast crowd Of sympathizers. in
Guiding many women, participated in
the disorders. Practically the entire
Yonkers police force OF 200-odd men
was rushed out on riot duty, but clubs
were futile against the storm Of bricks
and bottles that rained on each of the
three cars sent from the barns. Only
one got as far as the New York City
line, and that never got back to the
barns.
Cane Leads Attack on Strikers.
Leslie Sutherland, vice-president and
general manager of the company, with
a silk hat for a helmet and cane for
sword, generalled the operating
forces. He detailed Henry Frisbeck
and Edward Daley, starters, to take
out the first car. The two were chosen
because of an ordinance requiring that
car crews have at least fifteen days'
experience on Yonkers streets.
IL was few minutes before noon
when the car rolled from the barns,
and the streets were thronged with
crowds returning from church. At
Rivcrdale Avenue. q block away, sta
tiorary crowd of l,000 blocked the
Mai:l Street intersection.
Frisbeck, Gagged in by wire screens,
was Mt the controller. Daley, SINH
larly protected, was at the coin box
at the other end of the car. There
were six passengers at the start OF
the trip. but the coin box was empty.
The passengers were policemen.
According to its signs, the car was
going to connect with the subway at
Van Cortlandt Park. Its first stop.
made of necessity at Riverdale Ave
nue.. since the crowd did not bulge
at the clang of the gong-was destined
to te the end Of the trip.
Conductor Hurled to Street.
A large man banged on the door at
Dailey's erd. In the absence Of or
dcrs against taking passengers, Daley
swung the door open. The large man
cli.hDed on the platform.
Fare, please" chattered Daley.
holding out his hand.
The large man grabbed the hand and
yanked, and an instant later the acting
conductor was being used as a com
bination football and punching bag.
The policemen few 70 the rescue Of
Daley, which gave the mob oppor-
tunity to drag Frisbeck from his post
Those of the strike sympathizers who
could not claw in close enough TO get a
punch or kick at the captured crew
began to throw bricks and whatever
else came to hand Every window in
the car had been broken by the time
Mr.. Sutherland arrived in his motor.
He attempted TO harrangue the mob.
But, although no attempt was made to
harm him, he failed to get an audience.
DALEY and Frisbeck had had enough,
and lineman finally was called to run
the car back into the barns. The crowd
let II escape, DclleN iHb N"' N""P""'
would call quits for the day.
Within a half hour. however. an
other car started over the same route.
This go. as far As Getty Square, two
blocks away, where the mob was wait.
ing. In the meantime the crowd had
tripled in size. John Walsh and Frank
Buzzard, non-union starters, serving re-
spectively as motorman and conductor,
met the fate OF Frisbeck and Daley.
The small police guard again was help
less.
Second Car Driven Back.
Again bricks flew, and the second car
was as much of wreck rs the first
when it regained the shelter OF the
barns. 80,
At 3 o'clock Mr.. Sutherland, still un-
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