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Show " IMTOILL TO HI CARS WITHOUT POLICE PROTECTION Outlook Bad for Settlement of Strlk' In San Francisco, and Meanwhile People Are Becoming Expert Pedestrians. San Francisco. Tho street railway strlko has developed Into n fight to n finish. Neither sldo Is willing to nccopt arbitration and tho citizens' committees appointed to secure Indus-trlnl Indus-trlnl pence have been unnblo to find nny basis of settlement. It has been demonstrated that tho present police forco is Inadequate and that stronger measures will becomo ncco3snry to insure a general resumption of scrvlco If tho struggle Is conducted on present lines. Assistant to the President Mullaley said on Saturday that ho had several hundred strikebreakers, motormen nnd conductors, quartered In tho company's barns, nnd that thoy aro competent to opernto practically tho entlro street car system. Mayor Schmltz said tho pollco department "Is competent to copo with tho situation." Chief of Pollco Po-llco Dlnnn said his men will preservo order. Meantlmo tho population of Sun Francisco Is deprived of a street car service, subjected to tho nltornn-tlvo nltornn-tlvo of walking or paying flvo prices for an oxecrablo wagon service. Reduced to an arithmetical aspect, tho problem Is simply this: If fifty pollco nro required to afford safe conduct con-duct to two street cars dally over six miles of tracks when no passengers nro carried, how shall 200 cars bo operated in passenger traffic of 2C0 miles of tracks with a total of only 700 pollco, not moro than hnlf of whom enn bo on duty continuously? Thnt the running of two or thrco enrs n dny may constitute tho entire street car sorvlco for a city of 1100,-000 1100,-000 pooplo for on Indefinite tlmo Is perfectly per-fectly npparent unless an adequato protective forco is supplied. |