The evening world., 1916-09-16
LONE POLICEMAN
QUEllS CAR RIOT
AND ARRESTS 8
Handles Mob That Seiles and
Tries 10 Wreck q Third
Avenue Trolley.
NUMEROUS OUTBREAKS.
Mattress Hurled IN Tracks,
Windows Smashed By
Bricks from Roofs.

strkins motormsn ana Conductors
and their nlmpaihissrs ,auHsd out.
breaks ~ disorder ~ day alonE the
surface car lines shich lndiraisi 10
the I,olieo that the incfea~ in tho
enumbef of cars fun and tho repairs
~ many desor,ions from their ranks
had created much dlAsausfaetion,
Eight striking mo,orrnsD boarded
northhound Third Avenue car
downtown at . o'clock aud paid their
fares They hep, quiet un,il there
we're no other pass. myers on tho car
and then began calling TO the crew
of the car and grew gradually abu-
sivs until at ON. Hundredth street
and broadway they divided ana
made a rush for each end Of the car.
Policeman Rempe. on the forward
platform. fought hts way into tho car
and made prisoners % the eight
Nearly all of the windows Of tho car
were broken In the night.
Remps could not leave the car. 90
he had ~ switched To the south
bound TRACK and run back to the
barns at Tenth Avenue and Fifty
third street. He then took the
prisoners to the West Forty seventh
Street station. charging them with
malicious mischief. interfering with
the operation OF q railroad. resisting
. policeman and disordsriy conduct
Twenty-Five strikers boarded .
northbound Third Avenue car At
Third Avenue and One Hundrcdth
street In the forenoon and entered on
n noisy argument with the crow. who
refused to quit the car. In front
of the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth
street barns the invaders alighted
and stood on the tracks until. police
men coming to tho aid Of the guard.
ordered them to clear the way. They
piled into One Hundred and
Twenty NTH cross town car and rode
away.
The motorman and conductor Of
the other car refused to 20 out again.
saying they we're afraid.
A southbound Lexington Avenue
car was blockadcd on the tracks be-
tween Ninety seventh and Ninety
eighth street this forenoon by some
one who threw an old mattress from
. window. A. the obstruction could
not be run over. Motorman George
| Burns got on the car to remove II.
| This was tho signal for . shower of
stones and bottles from tho roofs and
wandoWs In neiEhbortnS houses. such
glass In the car Is CHANGED to be ex
posed was broken and the two or three
passengers ran out for safety.
Although there was n policeman
aboard the car he was unable to make
any arrests. as the bombarders re-
mAined In the refuge Of the houses.
Reserves Of the East One Hundred
and Fourth Street station were called
out, but by the tins they reached the
scene all was quiet.
The car was run back to the Nine.
ninth Street barns. The nsiGn.
borhood u ono In which many OF ;hs
strikers have their homes.
4 brick was thrown through q win.
dow of q southbound elevated train at
One Hundred and Forty seventh
Street and Eighth Avenue at l:St
o'clock this morning and a few min
Twenty seventh street and Eighth
Avenue two teAcups, hurled from .
roof or window. broke two window,
OF the same train. No one was hur
IN any Of these "bombardments."
As a Ninth Avenue elevated trail
was on Eighth Avenue. near On,
Hundred and Thirty-third street, 1
brick thrown from q roof crashes
through the window OF "A car.
l
One Hundred and First Street. sh,
was seriously injured.