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Show Will EE FIGHT TO FIHIStJH FRISCO Both Car Company and Employees Em-ployees Arc Stubborn and Unwilling to Arbitrate; I POLICE PROTECTION NOW ! . -ENTIRELY INADEQUATE Scores of Officers Needed to Guard Two Empty Cars for a Short Run. SAN FB Ay CISCO, May -10. The street railwa- fiyht has developed into a light to a finish'. Neither side is willing will-ing to accept arbitration and the citi-zeus' citi-zeus' coinmittcos appointed to secure industrial peace have been unable to find an.v basis of settlement. It. has bepn demonstrated that the present police po-lice force is inadequate ami that stronger-measures will bo lK'cCfc'sary to insure a general resumption of service if the Struggle is conducted on preseut Hues. The wish today of the United Railroads Rail-roads was to run a string of cars from tho barn at Oak and Brodcrick streets through the burned district and north on Market street io the Ferry building, build-ing, but the consent of the polite department de-partment could not be obtained. As a compromise two cars were run as far into the burned district as Larkiu street, being operated on Oak. Stauyon, I'age, Devisadero and Sutter streets. This route was covered twice. Polico Still Required. On tho first trip mounted police acted as out-riders, and more than a score of patrolmen rode in automobiles, but no violence wan offered by tho crowds. On the second trip mounted officers were withdrawn as an experiment to de-teruiino de-teruiino the temper of tho crowds, missiles mis-siles were hurled from the buildings and several persons were injured. , Assistant, to tho President Mullaley said today ho had several hundred strikebreakers, motormcn and conductors, conduc-tors, quartered in the company's barns, and thnt thev aro competent to onerare practically tho entire street enr system.' Mayor Schmitz said the police department depart-ment "is competent to eopc with tho situation." hief of Poliro Dinan said his men will preserve order. Mean-lime Mean-lime the population of San Francisco is deprived of nil street car service, subjected to Urn alternative of walking or. paying five prices for an execrable wagon service. Statement of Problem. Reduced to an nrinhmel ical aspect, ihe problem is simply (his: If fifty policemen are required to afford fafe conduct of two street cars daily ovor six miles of trade when no passengers aro carried, how shall 200 nun bo operated oper-ated in passenger Ira flic over 250 miles of I racks with a total force of only 700 J polico, not more than half of whom can be on duty continuously? i That the running of i he two or three cars a day may constitute tho ontiro street car service for a city of 20(1,000 pcoplo for an indefinite time is ported-ly ported-ly apparent, unless an adequate protective pro-tective force is supplied. |