New-York tribune., 1916-07-28

Of the lines.
Many strike breakers who went out
on one trip refused to make another.
More than three hundred persons
were gathered at the West Farms barns
at b5 o'clock, when the first car swept
through the doors. This car was not
molested, although the motorman and
conductor were greeted with Jeers ana
groans. and few missiles were thrown
wildly. Five other cars followed IN
succession, and were not stopped.
Start of Rioting.
The first of the riots occurred when
3 the first Morris Park car TO leave the
barns passed under the subway struct-
ure at Southern Boulevard and lf4th
/ Street There a striker ran onto the
tracks and refused TO let the car pass.
l Il stopped. and a mob charged, battling
with the private detectives, trying 70
drag the motorman and conductor TO
the street. Some of the clothing had
been torn from the strike breakers be-
fore Sergeant Mccarthy and squad
of patrolmen reached the scene and
cleared the street with their night
sticks.
The junction of Third and Melrose
Avenues and l49th Street, probably the
busiest corner in The Bronx, was the
scene Of the most serious riot Of the
day. Almost two thousand persons
/ iammed the street, fighting and yelling,
1 when strikers and sympathizers at
tackled the crew of a Fordham and
/ Woodlawn car They followed that up
with attacks on other cars. dragging
motorrnen and conductors TO the street
and dislodging trolley poles and CON
/ troller handles.
] nf
/ Branch Detective Bureau. arrested
John Cohee, of 2O47 Washington Ave
rue, and Meyer Slevin, OF SS7 Free
man Street both strikers.
Less than half an hour later crowd
stopped q Webster Avenue car, dragged
/ the trolley pole down and smashed the
windows with bricks. Every car that
| came along was stopped. until three
/ cars were stalled in the triangle formed
| by the junction Of the three thorough
/ fores, and their crews were battling
with the strikers. Police reserves en-
abled the cars to proceed.
Guerillas Battle Hard.
Detectives sent from Headquarters
and the various branch bureaus to ride
on the cars reported 10 the Police De-
partment that much Of the rioting and
trouble was caused by bands OF
"strong arm men" and "guerillas'
brought by the strikers from the lower
East Side. New jersey and as far
West as Pittsburgh. Union officials
denied that they have employed any
outsiders TO create trouble. and charged
the railroad company with importing
thugs and gunmen to serve as strike
breakers.
Only the timely arrival of lnspec-
tor Walsh and Detective Reilly pre-
vented a serious riot at Westminster
and Third avenues. after Detective
Baltic had arrested James Hutcheon,
Of 687 East 13Sth Street. One man
had pinioned Battio's arms when the
car with Inspector Walsh and Reilly
charged through the crowd. The mob
scattered. but reformed and pressed
against the automobile, dispensing
only when the inspector and Reilly
threatened TO shoot. AS the crowd
ran Baltic seized John Walsh. of 464
East 147th Street, and placed him un-
der arrest.
In City Island Avenue 300 strikers
and sympathizcrs surrounded two
trolley cars of the City Island Line,
which is controlled by the Union Rail
ways Company. They ordered the
crews OH anu CNdSSu NIitlH dSi Ooo 'NeS
before the police reserves could ar
rive. At Third Avenue and 147th
Street Louis Reiman, a striker. OF
200 East l66th Street. was arrested
for interfering with the crew OF
Third Avenue trolley car.
Cries of passengers on car brought
detectives TO 174th Street and Boston
Road late in the morning. They ar
rested Patrick Mcclure, of 1924 Hoe
Avenue, and Edward Darsen, of 629 St.
AIMS Avenue. The passengers told the
detectives that Darsen and Mcclure had
! hurled stones through the car windows
/ and threatened everybody on board the
car Richard Carol, a motorman on
| Clason Point trolley, told the detectives
/ that at Westchester Avenue and Clason
Point Road he was dragged from his
car and his uniform ripped from his
back.
Bronx Traffic Fares Badly.
/ Traffic conditions in the Bronx yes
terday, so far as the surface lines were
/ concerned, probably never have been
duplicated. On some Of the crosstown
/ lines no cars were running at all, and
they were few and far between on the
other lines. With the exception of a
very few instances, the cars that did
run were manned by men in civilian
clothing, with only a hazy knowledge
of what they were doing.
None could be found who knew on
what streets his car travelled, or where
il was going, and frequently the cars
bore & curious assortment OF signs.
reporter boarded car at l76th Street
and Boston Road which bore four diff
ferent signs.
One conductor collected fares, all
right, but every nickel went into his
pocket instead Of the register, and none
was rung up.
Don't you ring up your fares" asked
a reporter.
al should say not" said the con-
ductor They're llcky If We bring the
car back"
Few persons rode in the few cars
that were running. Instead they toured
the streets of The Bronx IN al! manner
of conveyances, ranging from carts to
/ numbering sight seeing wagons. Two
boys made several dollars during the
morning and evening rush hours by ap-
pearing az the subway station at l76th
Street and Boston Road with a cart
/ the wheels of which had been extended
and boards placed across the trucks,
and which was drawn by pair Of husky
goats.
AUTOMOBILES ana taNlcaos OF every oe
scription did rushing business at busy
corners At Third Avenue and l49th
Street, where the Third Avenue elevated
and the subway join, several thousand
persons jammed the streets and crowd
ed the sidewalks, waiting for means OF
transportation 20 their homes.
None Anxious to Ride.
From $40 until o'clock but four
cars went north on Third Avenue. and
but one south, while none at all had