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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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y neutral, merely maintainingorder along the lines and in the vicinityof the companys property. It soonbecame apparent, however, that thiswas impracticable, and the indignationwhich was manifested on all sides re-sulted in a modification of this policy,so that by the end of the week the carswere operated under strong police pro-tection. This, of course, greatly in-censed the strikers, and lead to severaldemonstrations. At the Council meet-ing on Monday the Mayor was de-nounced bitterly by the union sup-porters because of the protection af-forded the company by the police, butthe legal department has since sup-ported the position of the administra-tion in placing policemen on the cars. -j3 and taking such other steps as weredeemed necessary for the safety ofpatrons of the company. It is significant that the City Councilpassed a resolution endorsing the action of the Mayor in takingsuch strenuous measures to prevent mob violence. About twenty-five Wentworth Avenue electric cars were run
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GUARDING THE MOTORMAN AND CONDUCTOR November 21, 1903.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 921 on a five-minute schedule Monday despite the strikers. Therewas only one serious blockade, which lasted half an hour, andwas caused chiefly by the peculiar operation of a Union Trac-tion car at Van Buren Street. Teamsters took part in theblockade. Three thousand persons gathered and were dis-persed. Several small attempts at wrecking were reported, anda few torpedoes snapped harmlessly under the wheels of thefirst car north at West Thirty-Ninth Street. One southboundcar was turned into West Thirty-Ninth Street by a spikedswitch. A heavy tile crashed to the sidewalk from the roof ofthe new post office while a car was passing. Policemen formedthe majority of passengers on all the cars, and curious crowdswatched the movement of cars down-town in silence. One hundred and fifty men, including repair men, linemenand dynamo men, struck- on Monday, and they were followedon Tuesday by the machinists. Owing to t

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