| Show RIO HELD THE MOSS MOBS AT BAY philadelphia policemen carried drawn revolvers STREET streetcars CARS STILL TIED UP some exciting scenes and threaten ing in demonstrations but no serious acts of violence attempt to run bun cars was abandoned in the afternoon mall kail CM car stopped by the Motor mans wife philadelphia dec IS the second day ot of the traction strike ends with not a single wheel moving excitement has been at a high pitch all day but the formidable police arrangement prevented any serious outbreaks though violence was e expected pec teti at any moment A lew cars were run today over branch lines guard guarded ed at all ajl points by armed policemen nent in many mally instances they carried drawn revolvers the mobs were no smaller but they respected the gleaming steel some few attempts to stop cars were mado mad but they had no grave arave results trouble will surely come ow it if an effort Is made to operate the cars without this heavy guard tills this is the universal versAl opinion rumors were plentiful it Is asserted tonight that a prominent lawyer Is making to both sides looking to a settlement by arbitration through a committee to be op pointed by it a city official nothing c tory or contradictory to this can bo be learned it Is sald said that postmaster carty today informed the tha united states district attorney that there are practically no trolley mails moving the district attorney so the story goes telegraphed attorney general harmon lor for instruction in case word Is received to run the cars the bisti district riet attorney will swear in enough deputy marshals to protect them one tumor tonight was that the company had made conceptions and that the strike had bad been declared off any knowl die of any such decision was denied by general manager beetam TROOPS READY mayor warwick has been at his almost uninterruptedly tor for the past lorty forty eight hours and lie ho has a special wire to the Co governor vernor at the executive mansion in Ilar over which they are in constant lion troops are ready to be in the streets of philadelphia within an hour after a request Is made lor for them this is what the governor wired today A A number of 0 at ai rests were made today on charges of 0 inciting to riot nearly all the prisoners were held in ball several men were knocked down and injured in n minor outbreaks and the they y are in hospitals one john mcclerney who was struck strode on the head by a stone during a riot at the eighth and dauphin street depot has concussion of oe t the b e brain and may die bl michael ichael bren iian aan a non striker Is irk in prison without ball awaiting the result ot of me mc Cleer he Is charged with throwing stones almost the entire board of directors of the traction company conferred cont erred with the mayor today it Is asserted that all of them except president welsh were in favor of 0 making some soma concessions but he emphatically put his root foot down against any such action TITE THE DAYS EVENTS events were a continuation of last ri lights for neither the strike load cis the traction officials or tile the mayor and ill the e other heads of 0 departments sought their homes du during ring the night acthen work was resumed as aa elray as three when a u strikers keis committee went to the iannia railroad station and intercepted a delegation of railway workers front roni balta mole moi e the scoty goes that these men tied had been sent tor for by the traction people to take the place of the strikers but that thai the latter induced the newcomers to return to baltimore and paid their tares fares when da daybreak break came the city was wrapped in an ollit ominous calm caim which continued throughout the day b barring arring a few minor outbreaks this was due to the stringent police regulations enough special men had been sworn in to raise the number to over 2500 and every one of these was on duty at every principal point in the city detachments of armed police were concentrated and scattered all along the more frequented thoroughfare were mere blue coats in plenty following an order from director biller any gathering consisting of more than five persons was I 1 instantly dispersed several peaceable citizens resented this and were promptly arrested throughout the day spasmodic attempts to keep several of the lines in motion were made but in every instance the craw cran lluc cars bore more policemen than passengers this attracted from the crowds more derision than violence on the market street line the cars were running with an average of four policemen on front and rear platforms and surrounded surround ed by a cordon of mounted officers these were invariably greeted a till hoots and cries or of ridicule the eighth street line was the only branch which attempted to run cais cai s with anything approaching regularity these were guarded by four policemen each and were patronized slightly by the public tenth street ran cars at intervals and carried a few passengers there were no attempts made to molest cars on any of 0 these lines THE FIRST TROUBLE the cai liest report of trouble came from the ridge avenue depot at 10 1030 30 A car with EL a quartette of policemen was we started out and cr crawled ailed safely through a howling mob of several then thousand strikers and sympathizers A short distance awty away however an obstacle was encountered in the shape of a heap of debris plied piled on the tracks to the height ot of a ear car A mob surrounded the car and was on only y restrained from violence by the ight eight of gleaming in the hands hands of the police when the debris had bad been leared away the car moved on but lic had ad not proceeded more than it a few feet when there was a fusillade fusi lade of rocks and stones Atte attempts to stop cars were made in tk anilli district but the police with the aid of their clubs drove ot off tile the mob on the fifth and sixth street lines an attempt was made by a rang pang of boys to pull out the switches OFF BY HIS WIFE at noon lioon a mall mail car aas as star started ted from the niase avenue depot with it a new motorman motor nian a new conductor and a full complement of clerks the depot was waa surrounded by a m mob of 2000 or people but they allowed the car to pet get about a block away then led by the wife of the new motorman mot onnan an assault was made on oil the eat car and the woman herself drafted her husband f aiom om the iho platform the outbreak was only quelled Que Ild by the arrival of a re regular fular car loaded with pollee police this was waa attached to the rear of the mall mail car and uncle sams vehicle was pushed around the route A fifth anti and sixth street eat ear was attacked down town liy by IL a crowd ot of ruih magnitude that the police were temporarily pora rily overwhelmed A number of the rioters boarded the fiant platform and rained blow alter after blow on hid mo me boiman was only saved dom further danger by the iho at i alvel ot of an additional detachment of police attempted bai barricades u ei eie c made at various points along alone the lines during the day but late in the lie afternoon the cars ceased run rd a g and this sort fort of trouble ended I 1 CHARGED ON what threatened lo 10 it be OL a fellous Ier loua affray occurs ed nt et twelfth and market street r this aldei n J noon an immense crowd was there which the pollee police attempted to disperse disper Ae several men tried to incite the mob to violence I 1 ence anti and an ear effort 01 ol t was v as made to arlest ono ot of the leaders instant the lar larger r portion ot of the crowd became unruly bulge and made an all unorganized charse charge on oil the police the aspect of oc affairs so BO that several of the buu anted officers were mere compelled to lire fire several shots in the air this put a stop to the upil rIn but ll it led to many sensational reports of strikers being shot down the strIker sirl kerf 4 committee was practically in session all day receiving reports and directing the various subcommittees cornin I 1 during the tho the members looked worn and tired but by night their spirits had risen conald co n b id viably and they were moro more cheerful than h at any time thus tar far strikers frequently entered the rooms inn arm in arm with m men n recruited from the com banys ranke ranks it was announced that more than 00 employees of 0 tho the principal branches bran chea had joined the association and that those iha are not already members will join the strikers ranks tomorrow one statement vs as made by president malion mabon which vIll cli pleased the strikers it was that the cival company to tho the ti action chich Is 1 all its cars had consented to meet the committee with which president welch of oc the union traction had declined to confer the meeting will be held tomorrow it Is also said that tile the motormen nio and conductors of this company proposed ed organizing and had agreed to give wages to lo the association this lina runs about ido cars cara tonight the strikers held a number ot of meetings close to tile the various depots I 1 ill a view of each other to hold out SALOONS CLOSED the state liquor league held a meeting anti commended com mendol mayor warwick tor for his action ot of last night in or ciering all saloons salo onil closed after 6 p im this order will remain in elleck until further notice and tonight no liquor can be bought over a bar A committee of 0 grand army men called on the mayor and offered its services in enlisting 1000 ot of tho the sold soldiers lers should t the lie occasion demand it the employees of 0 the philadelphia traction company one of the branches were paid ot off today but thero there was no disorderly demonstration on the most important development of 0 the afternoon was thi the lq liua quance by united states marshall marshal Cotes bury ot of this notice information having been fiven to me hy by postmaster carty and united states slates district attorney ingraham fraham that the iho trolley malls malli are arc obstructed application can bp be made to mo me on thurm day december at 10 a in for appointment as special deputy di autv united states marshals only able bodied well becom recommended mended men need apply alaxa ALEXAND doyt Rn P united states state marshal |
