New-York tribune., 1919-08-07


ity Of Hopkinson Avenue was tied up
by strikers. During the afternoon they
stopped. cars for time with a barri-
cade of paving blocks, and at night.
"hen patrolmen were riding, they start
ed a hand-to- hand battle.
1t began with a stone which some
one on the sidewalk hurled through q
window Of Bergen Street car at Hop
klnson Avenue. The rioters piled
ABOARD the car hard on the heels of
1heir missiles and set upon the motor
man apd Patrolman Ghegeri. The mo-
ttormans controller was snatched from
his grip and was used as weapon
against him and Ghegeri.
Ihegerl seized Dennis Gleason. of
VI st. Marks Avenue, whom he recor
nlzea, ne SAID, as the man who threw
the nrst stone, and clung to him de-
spite the assaults Of the mob.
Fight Stalls Nine Cars
Inc car, Of course, had come to
standstlll and was surrounded bv
crowd Of hundreds, fighting with ono
another to get inside Every window
was shattered. The press Of assail-
ants stalled cars on both tracks until
nlne had been stalled, their windows
broken and their crews driven of.
me nine patrolmen who had been
On ehe cars, aroused to fighting pitch
numerous superficial wounds cbareed li
through. the midst Of the mob to
1hegerl's car, reaching it just as the
reserves from the Brownsville police
station came on the scene. Thus re-
lnforced the policemen formed -
GORDON about the car and began SLOWLY
TO drive the crowd back, using thei.
h'ghtStlcks without mercy.
Az last the mob broke. Its members
ned IN all directions, pursued by sore
ana vengetul policemen. Some were
chased to the roofs of tenements
Some were overtaken in hal]wavs or on
dark stairs, and many a rioter who
escaped arret went to bed with an
aching head.
Two Men Arrested
Besides Gleason, to whom Ghegeri
of 26 Herzel Street, and Irving Ru'
dolph, of 584 Hinsdale Street, were
locked up in the Brownsville police
station, charged with disorderly CON
duct leason wa at first unconscious.
suffering from conclusion of the brain.
Two ambulances had been summoned.
however, and after his wounds had
Deen dressed he was pronounced fit to
be locked up
A jeering crowd of strike sympa-
thlzers gathered last night at Church
ana Flatbush avenues, Brooklyn, wait
ing for the first car to emerge with a
ponce guard from the Flatbush depot.
by the slime three cars were ready to
start the throng numbered at least five
hundred and the reserves were sum-
moned from the Snyder Avenue police
station
All OF the cars were of the low-step.
'torpedo' type and were manned by
inspectors. The first car sped through
the crowd unharmed. The crowd surged
forward with shouts as the second
roi,ed out however. In moment its
trolley rope was cut and a sharp hiss
ing showed that its airbrakes had been
tampcred with.
1t was rolled back into the barn, and
the third car. in charge of Joseph
Welsh, an inspector, and a woman con-
ductor, made the attempt 1t carried
as passenger Inspector Welchs wife.
who had insisted on accompanying him
INTO danger. The mob charged upon
the car and flung itself against it.
Woman Conductor Faints
The police charged to clear the track.
The melee about the car and on the
tracks caused Welch to apply the
brakes lest the wheels grind com
batants to death. The woman conduc
tor toppled over in a faint Mrs.
Welch sprang to her aid. The police,
using nightsticks, slowly drove the
rioters back.
They lost one man, a prisoner, and
mostly in the shape of broken heads
and bruised arms and backs With its
woman conductor still unconscious the
car was backed into the barn. The man
taken by the police was John Callahan
Of 35l7 Avenue I, an employe of the
electrical department of the B. R. T.
He was locked up at the Snyder Avenue
station on charge of disorderly con
duct as the man who had cut the troll
ley rope Of the second car.
Three thousand policemen were on
strike duty in Brooklyn during the day
Six hundred of these had been brought
Every policeman in Brooklyn was on
reserve. At least one man was on
duty all day at every station on the
elevated lines, and crucial points on
the surface lines were heavily guard
ed with squads of twenty or twenty
five men at each important carbarn.
More Police Ordered Out
At 6 p. m. Commissioner Enright
ordered 1000 additional men to Brook
lyn from Manhattan, so that a police
man might be placed on each of the
800 surface cars that the B. r. T.
planned to operate during the night.
The list of disorders reported by the
B. R. T.-of which the police appeared
to know nothing-was long, and COW
cred the entire borough. At Thirty
ninth Street, it was said, man was
stabbed, but the company did not say
whether the victim was an employe or
bystander. All rumors of stabbings
we're denied by the police.
On the Fifth Avenue line, according
to the company, crowds pulled down
trolley poles between Fortyifth and
Sixty seventh Street and cut the trolley
ropes. On the Reid Avenue line a
motorman was beaten at Gravesend
Avenue, near Sixteenth Street, and or
ond and Third Avenues, men were
stoned, it was said At Gates Avenue
and Broadway the company said
strikers were pulling crews off cars.
Along the Flatbush Avenue route car
crews We're stoned at various points.
On the Fresh Pond and DeKalb Ave
nue. lines car crews were pulled from
their places, it was reported.
Crews Reported Threatened
At Court and Sackett Streets, the
company stated, the crews were
threatened with beatings if they did
not turn in their cars. At Court and
Union Streets at 10:45 a. m. crowd
of 500 pulled down the troll
ley poles, it was said, and stripped
cars of their fuses At Church and
Rogers Avenues a mob of 800 pulled