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Show JUDGE'S DECISION 1TOL CARS HAVE NO RIGHT TO DOUBLE PARE HAKES ROW NEW YORK. Aug. 13. The dTsttrrb-ances dTsttrrb-ances on the Coney Island surface cars and elevated trains that Deputy Police Commissioner O'Keefe and the Brooklyn police looked forward to yesterday because be-cause of Justice Gaynor's statement of Saturday that the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Tran-sit company did not have a right to 'demand 'de-mand a double fare to the island, took place on schedule time. They lasted from early morning until early today, when the overwrought nerves of the people permitted a panic following a shooting affray In which four persons were dangerously dan-gerously Injured by an unknown man who escaped. At daylight belated ones were still making their way to the city. More than a quarter of a million people peo-ple started to Coney Island during the day, and most of them got there, but only after they had passed through trying experiences. ex-periences. And while this enormous crowd was fighting its way to the pleasure pleas-ure resort, incidentally making the record rec-ord day of the summer, cars were stalled In lines that extended for miles, while the Brooklyn Rapid Transit inspectors argued and pleadd with passengers' to pay the second fare, and Anally wound up by dragging obstreperous passengers from the cars and throwing them into the streets by thousands. The company did this with the aid of 250 special policemen and a corps of Inspectors. In-spectors. A similar number of regular policemen were on hand to preserve order, or-der, but failed to do so. ' Men, women and children were forcibly ejected from the cars: from 60,000 to 75,000 were compelled to walk for distances dis-tances of from one to three miles, the first stepB were taken In scores of damage dam-age suits, and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Tran-sit representatives defied Deputy Police Commissioner O'Keefe of Brooklyn. As an outcome of the day's doings, a committee of citizens Is being formed in Brooklyn to enforce Justice Gaynor's ruling. rul-ing. Among those who were put off trolley cars was President Bird S. Coler of the borough of Brooklyn. Mr. Coler went peaceably enough after the "bouncer" had technically assaulted his wife by taking hold of her arm. Mr. Coler then addressed the crowd and told them not to pay a second fare. The police took an active band in the trouble in the evening by arresting two Brooklyn Rapid Transit superintendents and three Inspectors and a motorman or two for not moving the cars. Blocking the highways was the charge. At 12:40 o'clock this morning police activity ac-tivity took on a still more active form when cars coming from the island on the culver route were halted at avenue F and Gravesend street, the conductors started in to collect the second fare. Inspector In-spector Donald Grant, Deputy Police Commissioner O'Keefe and several Brooklyn Brook-lyn Rapid Transit Inspectors were gathered gath-ered at this point. Several passengers refused to pay the fare and the inspectors piled onto the car and began to drag them off. ... Deputy Commissioner O'Keefe gave orders or-ders to the. policemen to throw the inspectors in-spectors off the car, and they did so in a Jiffy. The car then proceeded after the j police had ordered the motorman to go ahead. |