New-York tribune., 1919-08-10

made upon the police station house.
Attacks were made upon the cars as
they proceeded through the streets, and
usually in more or less unfrequented
parts Of the city, where they were not
| observed by the policemen on patrol.
Il, therefore notified the Mayor in a
second letter that day that, in my judg-
ment, nothing would be effective to pre-
vent the continuance of this disorder
and intimidation except at the source
of attack, and that the source of at
tack was the car.
Tells of Conference
Held With the Police
~ was informed that Deputy Com
missioner Porter had been sent to
Brooklyn to take direct charge of the
matter, and after telephone communi-
cation he and / met at the headquar-
ters ut Brooklyn. Inspector Murphy
was also present. I found Mr.. Porter
thoroughly sympathetic with the idea
that we should have the very best po-
lice protection possible, but / found
him without any authority to place
men upon the cars. ! impressed upon
him the absolutely essential require
ment of that character, and he told me
that he would communicate with hi.
chief. l understood that to mean Com
missioner Enright, and that he would
communicate with me later.
"1n the meantime l had dispatched
my letter to the Mayor that have out
lined, and later Mr.. Hylan called me
up. First. however,. Deputy Commis-
sioner Porter called me up, and he
chiefs, and they told him they were
doing all the case called for, and,
therefore, there would not be any
further move made for efficient police
protection.
"The Mayor called me up later and
said he had received my letter, and said
he would send for the commissioner
and have a talk with him and COM
municate with me later. He did so.
He communicated with me later and
told me he had arranged to have police
men put on the cars He told me Chief
Inspector Daily would come to Brooklyn
and would communicate with me.
"The chief inspector did come to
Brooklyn, did get in touch with me,
and my men went to him to inform him
where the policemen should be sent,
and then it developed that at that time
he did not have enough men free to
make it worth while to put the plan in
effect Wednesday night. 1t seems that
these men who were coming to Brook
lyn for this work came from The Bronx
relieved, and they could not get to
Brooklyn in time to be distributed
No Attempt Was Made
To Run Surface Cars
"Therefore, by mutual understand
ing. there was no attempt made to run
20 n dos
night. On Thursday morning police
were sent TO the car stations. with in
structions to be put on the cars.
Through nobodys fault, [ think, be-
cause simply no one could tell in ad-
vance where the stress would come,
more policemen were sent to one barn
than necessary, and fewer sent to other
barns than necessary, and as the police
force is very properly run as mill
tary establishment, men who had been
sent to one place could not be sent TO
another place without the proper or
ders; so orders had to go back to the
different precincts, and it was neces-
sary to wait considerable time before
matters were Strengthened out, and
we got the number of men to accom-
pany the number Of cars the different
barns were prepared to send out"
Mr.. Garrison said that on Thursday
ne made an inspection Of the various
car barns. He said reports he received
from the officials varied but were in
most cases similar. In speaking of
these reports he said:
"The cars would go out and would
proceed a certain distance, sometimes
short and sometimes longer distance.
They would then be held up by crowd
or truck backed across the track and
which stayed there and waited until
the motormen and conductors had
either been pulled off the car or taken
oil the car. In many instances the
ropes were cut and the air pipes
slipped and the fuses blown, and in
many instances personal violence visit
ed upon the men upon the cars. Some
Of the men l saw were suffering from
the effects of the physical violence
Some car windows | saw were shattered
by missiles thrown through them
'In each station found large num-
Der of employees who said they were
ready and willing to go out as soon as
they were assured of efficient police
protection. ! said to them that the
police were there and the Mayor had
particularly stated that they were
there to protect them. And while they
did not phrase it as am about to
phrase it, what they said was in sub
stance that: Instructions or no in
structions, they were not doing it; they
we're standing there and permitting
these things to happen. As t saw, they
said-they did not use this particular
hraseology-the said the police per-