New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-02
Boy Killed in
Cone,y Island
Strike Rioting

(csatisusd trsm sass eas)
meeting at the Parkway Assembly.
Fifty-frst Street and Fourth Avenue,
caused alarm among the neighbours, and
Sergeant Sheridan WAS dispatched to
tho hall with some Of his strong arm
squad. There were about TOO strikers
there, and they refused to dispense.
Sheridan's men, reinforced by reserves
from the Fourth Avenue police station,
charged the crowd.
Strikers Annoy Women
Complaints of the conduct Of the
strikers, which were made by en-
ployees at branch Of the Brooklyn
Public Library, near the Parkway As
sembly, and by young women employed
in the Bay Ridge telephone exchange,
also nearby, resulted in the proprietor
| Of the building eiecting the strikers
last night. .
Another trouble center was the
Ridgewood depot, whence the Gates
Avenue surface cars were dispatched.
AS each car started a motor truck
filled with strikers would set out in
pursuit and its occupants would open
tire with whatever missiles came to
hand.
AT Gates and Evergreen avenues,
where a group of strikers stationed
themselves, the police charged the
missile-throwers and arrested Henry
Schultz, Of 1903 Schley Street, Glendale,
queens, and Salvatore Abruzzio, of 2O1
wilson Avenue, Brooklyn, charging
them with malicious mischief.
strikers seized upon the huge piles
OF bricks in front Of theater, which
is being built at Ralph and Gates ave-
nues, and were sending rafting volleys
against each car that passed, when
bricklayers above them vetoed the prof
ect. The strikers paid no attention
to the shouts Of the bricklayers,
whereupon the latter let fly several
buckets OF mortar which dampened the
ardor Of the strikers.
In spite of the numerous ambushes
laid by. strikers for surface cars and
the bricks, bottles and stones that
nailed upon them, no one riding in q
surface car suffered injury from this
protection against such attacks. Al
though the motormen on duty were old
employees, there were several COL
llslons, probably due to nervousness
on their part. Two patrolmen were in
jured.
Patrolman Charles Philpan. Of the
West Tooth Street police station, was
injured internally when Park Slope
car on which he was riding crashed
avenues. He was taken to Jewish
Hospital. At Sixth and Flatbush ave
nues Patrolman John McHale, Of the
vernon Avenue police station, received
severe bruises in a similar collision
and reported sick.
AT Flatbush and Seventh avenues a
car was derailed when a truck chain
became loose and dragged on the
ground. This caused tie-up of five
enorts were being made to put tho
car. back on the track, q crowd of
strikers drove up in a large motor
truck and began throwing stones at
the policemen on guard.
captain T. H. Haerle, Of the Bergen
street station, chased the strikers For
several blocks, but made no arreats
1ney anandoned their truck.
-, Aloerr Mathewson, twenty-six years
mno,T;orman. was locked up by Sergeant
Keller, Of the Adams Street station
a!ter ne had caused considerable ex'
Scltment by calling strike breakers
"scabs." He stood on the corner ~ ~
street yelling the term to every mo+or.
man who passed him. AWFUL
reserves had difficulty in Dispensing
q. crowd who gathered at the Halaev
otreee barns and threatened violence
TO men in training there for strike
Few Arrests Made
Mn ~ directing traffic at Elm Place
9 1n rulton Street, Patrolman Conrad
vunnson, OF the Amity Street station.
was taken to the BROOKLYN Hosn;taI
suffering from internal injuries. NJ
arrest was made. '>0
while doing their utmost to obtain
@3roer, the police made comparatively
lew arrests during the day. Such nr;:
oners as they brought into court were
m meia oy the magistrates. John Putt
man, a surface car conductor. who ia
a;isged 70 have climbed an elevated
tamper with cable box, was held for
examination in the Gates Avenue no,;ca
court. "o po''ce
sam Hamovitz, who was driving a
truckioad of strikers, was fined SID IN
the same court for obstructine trafac
Joseph Wagner, former conductor.
was fined $50 for an attack on a special
guard at the East New York depot.
Joseph Trymolsky, a striking fireman.
was convicted of a similar attack at the
Third Avenue power station, and was
remanded for sentence in the Flatbush
police court.
Deputy Commissioner Lahcy and Bor-
ough Inspector Murphy EXPRESSED them
selves as we'll satisfied at the wav in
which the police were handling the sit
uation. More than seventeen hundred
patrolmen have been added to the DO
lice force of Brooklyn because of the
strike. ''-'~