New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-07
Many Arrests for Strike
AssauIts-Fights Occur
on Cars.
HYSTERIA WINS
WOMAN LIBERTY
Another Held for Dropping
Marble Slab Out OF a
Window.

Rioting and demonstrations against
the street railway companies contin-
ued yesterday, but in every ease were
subdued promptly by the police.
A crowd attacked Hugh West, bO3
East Seventy-eighth Street, and John
Stevens, 1877 East 111th Street. last
night while the two men were operat-
ing a Second Avenue car near Ninety
sixth Street and Second Avenue. Sew
eral In the crowd, which was made up
of strike sympathizers, jumped on the
platforms Of the car and were beating
both the motorman and conductor
when the two policemen stationed on
the car placed two Of the rioters uh-
der arrest At the 1o4th Street sta
ton they said they were Harry Powers
1927 Second Avenue, and Michael Gal
lagher, 236 East 11sth Street.
A large crowd of boys and young
men gathered on 10th Street, between
Second and Third avenues, last night
and halted crosstown cars by throwing
stones and threatening the car crews.
Patrolman Joseph Crawley, of the East
lo4th Street station, dispersed the
crowd and arrested Gerard Ginatassio,
fifteen years old, Of 45l East 1l6th
Street
Hooting Strikers Arrested.
Three strikers stood at Fifty-second
Street and Seventh Avenue hooting
and jeering at the crews OF the cars
running on Seventh Avenue. PATROL
man McKeeley, Of the West Forty
seventh Street station, ordered them
to move on. They refused and he ar
rested them. They were booked as
John Monahan, motorman, BAG East Fiji
ty-frst Street; Frank Monanan,
brother, 159 East Fifty-second Street,
and Terence McCann, another striker,
BAL East Fifty-frst Street.
A quarrel between James Dobbs. $40
West Forty-second Street, an inspector
for the New York Railways Company,
and John Kennedy, 1862 Lexington
Avenue, a strike sympathizer, resulted
in the arrest of Kennedy on the charge
Of assault.
Emotional hysteria" was RESPONSE
BILE for the violent participation OF
Mrs. Tessie Salvaggio, 1885 First Ave-
nue., in strike demonstration at
Eighty.ffth Street and Third Avenue,
Magistrate Koenig of the Harlem po-
lice court decided yesterday as he sus-
pended her sentence. The woman
buried her teeth in tho thumb of Pa
trolman Winter, Of the East Eighty
eighth Street station, when he tried to
arrest her.
Slab Nearly Hits Policeman.
Mrs. Louise Caswell 239 East Nine
ty-ffth Street, became hysterical in
court, and her case was put over until
to-day. Patrolman Heltrick, Of the
East Eighty-eighth Street station, said
he saw the woman throw a marble slab
out Of her window. The slab grazed
the patrolman's shoulders.
Two striking motormen and a strike
sympathizer each got a fifteen-day
sentence to the workhouse. The
motormen were John Callahan, 1885
Third Avenue, and Robert Ring, 103
East Nnetieth Street. They were &C
cused of throwing stones at cars.
John Quinlan, a longshoreman, OF 1856
Third Avenue, earned his sentence by
creating trouble at the Second Avenue
and Ninety-sixth Street barn and then
resisting arrest.
For abusing the crew of car at
Avenue A and Ninth Street, Arthur
Essex Market Court by Magistrate
rockingham.