The sun., 1919-08-08
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tricks was to place sand, stones ana
other refuse on the tracks to hold m.
cars still while the strikers reasonss
more or less reasonably with the crew,
booed the men or SHE'D a few stona.
other arguments falling.
The cutting OF trolley ropes and IN.
jerking Of trolley poles of wires wa,
another favorite diversion. The hrst
shots fired in the strike were heard earl
yesterday morning. About $3.50 A. NJ, An
unidentified man at Schenectady avenu.
and Bergen street opened FIRE on a car
in which wrecking crew was trayel.
ling from the Bergen street car barn,
An bullets went wild except one, which
crashed through a window. The man
dashed into a hallway. ran up to TIA
roof OF the building and made his %.
cape. Four hours later another Berre,
street car was attacked at Vanderbn
avenue. A stone was thrown through
one window and the passengers vera
badly frightened, but detachment n
police won the battle. A few minuts,
later another car of the same line was
attacked at. Rogers avenue, but again
the police dispersed the rioters.
A crowd Of about 500 men piled stone,
sand, lumber and gravel on the track in
Flatbush avenue, on the hill near Nal.
bone street. where subway coi.truction
work is being carried on. A motornan
tried in vain to remove tho obstructIon,
and then wrecking crew was called.
Soap and grease on rails Of grads.
also were used by tho strike synpathiz.
ers. A car hitting a creased track
would remain notionless with whirrIng
wheelT or slide slowly backward vhgs
the m,torrnan danced on tho sand ne.
leasing lever.
Disorder I'm hay Ridge.
Traffic on the Fifth avenue surtac.
line was halted early in the day bv
stones and lumber strewn along the
| tracks. Twenty-Five cars of this lima
! made the plunge out Of the car barns
| between 4 and 6 O'Clock, but within n
| short time FIVE came back huddled To-
gether and others followed. They had
| been halted by huge stones at Seventy.
eighth street. Strikers on motor trucks
were said to have lugged the stones lnto
place.
Three strikers endeavored to drag A
guard on a Canarsie- Br oadway elevated
train off his train onto the platform al
| the Liyonia Avenue Station yesterday
Police Corporal Philip wubnick jumped
from another train to his assistance,
The strikers fed to the street where
they dashed in separate directions
4 wubnick fired one shot in Snediker
avenue, near Dumont street, but the
bullet hit the ground and then bounced
up again striking Max Kaufman, 70
years old, of 436 Snediker avenue, in
the back. He was removed to the
| Lutheran Hospital in an automobile
His condition is critical. The strikers
escaped. District Attorney Lewis has
begun an investigation into the shoot
ing.
There were a number of arrests dur
ing the riots OF the day. One woman,
Esther Zdana, % years old, Of ia
Thirty-first street, was charged with
malicious mischief, for placing cobble
Stones on the track at Fifth avenue and
Thirty-first street.
The most severe sentence for cutting
trolley rope, a common offence, was ten
days Imprisonment. This was imposed
1 on John Callahan, 25, OF 1917 Avenue
I. James Tulley. 81. who served with
the 309th Infantry, was sentenced to
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off the wire.
About eight or ten strikers were
among those arrested. OF these four
were held in the Gates avenue court for
further examination on charges Of dis.
orderly conduct. Francis Braunstein q
conductor. refused to get off a trolley.
John Higgins and James McCafrey.
striking conductors, tried OF pull the
motorman and conductor off a car, 50
it is alleged. and John Sharkey, a con.
ductor, Is charged with trying 10 force
a motorman from his position.
In the South Brooklyn section Robert
Morrissey, a conductor, was charged
with throwing a potato at a motornan
Max Guttkon with trying TO take key
from a woman guard on subway train,
and Max Pollock, a conductor, with
threatening a motorman.