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No Car Fare To-Day! drop /#i^!nthe your|^ slot _________ AND GET A _________ sunday GLOBE! VOL. XL NO WHEELS TURN _ the Minneapolis Street Rail way System as Quiet as the Grave. Not a Car or Motor Moving* on Any of the Lines of the Flour City. the Company Tries to Run Cars, but Is Not Encour aged by the Public. Several Small Collisions, but Nobody Is Reported Seri ously Injured. Five Men Arrested for Perni cious Activity in Stopping" Horse Cars. President Lowry Announces That He Has Nothing- to Sub mit to Arbitration, And Asserts That He Will Not Allow the Union to Run His Business. No Intimation by the Com pany When Cars Will Run Regularly Again. Yesterday, the second day of the 6treet car strike at Minneapolis, was net productive of any radical changes or startling developments.- The -com pany made an effort to start cars, and was defeated in its attempt by the Strikers and their friends. The strikers have offered to submit the dispute be tween themselves and the com pany to arbitration and abide by the result. The company refuses to entertain any proposition for arbitration or settlement, and says the announcement of a reduction in wages as first made is final. It further refuses to recognize the existence of any street car drivers' union or other labor organ ization in its dealings. . It will attempt to run its ears, but not while there is interference. The intention is to throw the responsibility for the failure to supply the public with transportation npon the police department of the city. There the matter rests at present. In the meantime the public suffers an im mense inconvenience, the company is deprived of the receipts of its business, and the men of their employment. Up to date there has been no real violence, and the dictates of good nature, patience, and sound sense have pre vailed. At the same time the situation Is a dangerous one, and a misapprehension or an indiscreet movement on the part of either officials or men may lead to serious re sults. As to the outcome no prediction can be made. The company is deter mined and the men are desperate. In the event of either side winning, public necessity will be made the lever. The indications are that a tedious delay is to follow. THE DAY'S INCIDENTS. A Running Account of the Second Day of the Strike. When the second day of the strike dawned all was quiet and orderly, and those who had feared that there would be some depredations committed dur ing the night were sadly disappointed. The only indication that there was any trouble was the absence of the tinkle of tlie car bells, and the crowds around the street car barns and the company's headquarters. At 10 o'clock there was a large meeting at Labor Temple, at which reports were heard and speeches Of an encouraging nature made. THE FIRST VIOLENCE. A Fresh Special Causes Trouble at the Motor Junction. The only trouble of any kind during the morning was at the motor junction at 9:30, and even this did not originate with any of the strikers. It was caused by some of the special policemen. Charley Reynolds, one of the striking engineers, was walking along, mind ing his own business, when he was halted by Special Officer Hunwell. Reynolds told the officer. Who replied that he did not believe him, and then grasped him by the shoulder. Special J. T. Randall came up just then and struck Reynolds over the head with a pick handle, making a bad wound. Reynolds turned on Hunwell and was punishing him badly, when Sergt. Kirk ham, who has charge of the specials, Came up, revolver in hand, and stopped the row, As soon as he learned how it orginated. he at once discharged Ran dall and Hunwell. Reynolds was taken to Dr. Bates to have his head dressed, and some of the strikers went to the municipal court and secured warrants for the arrest of Randall and Hunwell. Matters were soon settled, and all was once more quiet in the vicinity of the motor. AT HEADQUARTERS. Crowds of Unemployed and Cur iosity Seekers. The scene around the headquarters of the company yesterday morning was a curious one, to say the least. Outside In the street surged a crowd of 1,000 or more men, some strikers, but the major ity men who wanted positions. Among the men who were seeking for work "Were men who would have once consid ered it a disgrace to drive a street car, Jet alone turning "scab" and then tak ng up the reins. In his office top stairs sat Thomas Lowry, -look ing totally unconscious of the Btorm brewing on the outside. In the Office proper the clerks were all at work as usual, and one young fellow was en caged in cutting' the accounts of the trouble from the morning papers for future reference. About noon, the Strikers amused themselves by throw ing small stones, chips and apple cores at the men who were waiting in front of the office, waiting to put in their ap plications for positions. THE EFFORT MADE. Slow the First Attempt to Run Cars Resulted. j. True to his .word, Mr. Lowry at tempted to run his street cars yester ' day afternoon as he said he would. At 1 o'clock a detail of police, under command of Capt. Jacob Heiii, went to the Fourth avenue car barns, where Mr. Lowry and Mr. Goodrich were. An open car was run, and a green driver and a green conductor placed on board, followed by the detail of police. The news had gone cut that an at tempt would be made to run cars, and in consequence Jthere was a large crowd of strikers and tlieir sympathizers around the barn. And every one of them yelled loud and long when the car made its appearance. Just as it came out of the barn, two strikers, who appeared to be in authority, drove up in a buggy and held a long conversation with some of the men. The car stuck in the car door for some reason, and this was greeted by yells of derision by the men. James Doherty, a former driver, dis charged a few days ago, took advantage of this and made quite an address to the crowd, which listened quietly. "I call upon you," said he, "in the name of organized labor, to let this car alone. You see before you the tyrants of monopoly. Look at that man there; he is one of their tools. Look there at the officers of the law; they are there to guard this tyrant power that is trying to crush you, to degrade you. They will watch you. Be careful. 1 ask you again in the name of organized labor to let the car go in peace, and may God give them good speed." Alter ten min utes'' hard work horses were hitched and A START WAS MADE amid cries of "Scab! scab! What do yon want to rob an honest man of bread for?" The strikers, after the car had gone less than fifty feet, unhitched the horses and started it back toward the bari). Tne new men, with the assistance of the officers, soon got the car under way again and ran it down to Fifth street all right. Here the conductor was offered ..10 if he would quit and send the car back. After a moment's reflection he stuffed the bill into his pocket and ordered the driver to take the car back. This was greeted with the wildest kind of applause, the men around the barn going fairly wild with delight. ANOTHER CAR was started out from the Fourth avenue barn at 2:30, and this met with better success, for a short time, than the first one. As soon as the car was under way the South Minneapolis patrol wagon. filled with officers, closed in be hind it. At this the strikers yelled themselves hoarse. They crowded around the car and were so thick in front of it that the car could not ad vance an inch. Finally half a hundred or more made a rush for the car and threw it off of the tracks. This was done twice. Then the officers became sterner, and drawing their clubs sur rounded the car and began beating back the obstructionists. One man, whose name could not be learned, was knocked senseless, and was carried away by his friends. "This car is going through!" an nounced Capt. Hem, "and yon might just as well understand it now as any time. We mean business." A WOMAN SYMPATHIZER. After getting the car on the track again, it was started just as a woman, Mrs. McCurdy. the wife of one of the strikers, jumped on and stood near the driver. She was forced off, however. As the car bowled along, and the crowd on the street jeered the driver and con ductor, and . called them names, it was seen that the strikers ana their friends were losing patience. By care, ful work the. car made the round trip all right, but who can say what the feelings of the two "scabs" on it were. On Washington avenue the crowd was so dense that it was with the utmost difficulty that the police forced a pass age for it. On the return trip a car coming from the barn passed the first car to make the round trip. Those on the car did not think that they were soon to see more of this car. No. 1 reached the barn all right, and after a long delay was started on its second trip. Just as it started, Mrs. McCv rdy, in whose face were signs of suffering, sprang on again and took her stand near the driver, a young fellow, who looked half ashamed of himself. "Won't you leave this car?" she pleaded, laying one hand on the driver's arm. "Have you a mother, a sister, or a wife? Think of them and get off. Shame on you for taking this place, when you know that you are taking the bread out of the mouths of defenseless women and children. I would not do the work you are doing for $50,000, poor as 1 am. If you will leave the car now I will give you the last dollar 1 have in the world. Your mother would be ashamed of you, to see you now. Have you no heart, ho feelings of any kind? You are not doing this because you have to, but because you can get a few dollars out of it. lam a mother, and my little child is at home now, crying ror bread. Yet you will keep on here. Yon will not leave the car? Well, you will be sorry for it before you die. No one on this car has any respect for you. They may protect you, but they dispise "you all the same/ Will you stop if the con ductor will?" The driver said he would, and to the conductor the woman went. To all her pleadings, he replied: "Madam, this is a free country, and I have got to make a living as well as you. Now 1 will give you 50 cents to quit this lecturing. If you don't stop you will have to get off." BOG "But I will pay my fare and ride as long as this car runs," replied the woman. The conductor had the nerve to demand her fare, and she paid it. Coming down several men boarded the car and paid their fare. It was learned that Mrs. McCurdy's husband is a col lege graduate, and has been employed on the line for five months, during which time he, has averaged only $11 per week. A REGULAR MOB. Exciting Scenes on Washington Avenue South. The car began to experience its real at the turntable on Washington avenue north, where it was surrounded by a crowd of men howling like de mons. The street was packed solid, and it was some minutes before the car was turned around. When it started off it had gone but a few rods when a man came galloping up and announced that the car which had gone out ahead stood in the middle of the street, near First avenue south. It seems that after that car had turned around and started on the return trip the strikers had boarded it, unhitched the horses, and started the driver and conductor cut toward the barn, leaving the car stand ing still on the track, where it was soon covered with a wild mob of the striking men and their friends. When the driver of the second car learned this he began to unhitch his horses from his car, intending to hitch on to the car ahead and pull that one into the barn. The crowd surged around him so close and yelled so loud that the horses be come frightened and plunged around in a way which threatened injury to many. The police finally escorted the driver and conductor and horses to the car in front, where a hitch was made and a start attempted. That instant a wood cart was crossing the tracks just behind the car, and a striker pulled the pin and let all the wood fall out in a heap, which effectually blocked the progress of the car behind, for the time being at least. . The crowd closed in in front of the car about to start, and were cheered SAINT PAUL, MINN., SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 13, TWELVE PAGES. by the cries of the hundreds of people in the windows. aud on the tops of the buildings, and the thousands of people who blocked up the entire street as far as the eye could reach. By using their clubs the poiice finally cleared a pas sage, and the car went rattling down the avenue, loaded with policemen and reporters. When just below Second avenue south some oue set the hind brake as the crowd closed in in front of the car. The car stopped with a jerk and in an instant the horses had snapped the whiffletrees and were plunging around in a frightful manner. This set the crowd crazy, and the cheer ing which arose was deafening:* The horses were finally quieted, and after half a dozen strikers had talked with the driver, ottering him from §2 to $5 to quit, he said he would if the crowd would let bim take the horses back to the barn. When this was announced there was wild cheering, and a path was cleared for the driver and the s horses. The police were as calm all the time as men could well be under the circumstances. While the car was standing in the street, after the horses had gone, the crowd kept growing larger and larger until it was almost impossible to get through. A man driving a lumber wagon did not want to go slow, and when the officers attempted to make him he became enraged and struck at Officer Bean with his whip, ln an in stant Bean was on the top of the load of lumber trying to pull the ugly driver down. He would have succeeded but for the interference of Seret Coskran, who called him off and "ordered the driver to go on, which he did. Then the crowd in the street quieted down for a time. FIVE ARKESTED. Sympathizers of the Strikers Stop Cars. Five arrests resulted from the circus on Washington avenue. Peter Olson, the car driver who pulled the linch-pin out of a passing wood cart and let the wood drop on the street car track near First avenue north, was arrested and taken before Judge Emery on a charge of disorderly conduct. He got ninety days. -Frank Hoover, H. Ellefson and Thomas Waberton, the three men who unhitched the traces of the first Fourth avenue car when it was opposite "Lock up alley," were arraigned before Judge Emery and sentence was suspended. Hoover and Waberton are printers, and not connected with the strike except by sympathy with the men. When the horses from the second .car that came up the avenue were unhitched and attached to the first car, which still stood on the track, the crowd grew wild, and surged in toward the car like a herd ol stampeded cattle. The police, both mounted and foot, massed themselves about the car and beat the mob back as best they could, but some got through and made a rush for the traces, hoping to prevent the driver from hitching to the car. One fellow who got hold of a trace was collared by a mounted officer, and picking up a rock shied at the horseman and started to run. He was pursued by several offi cers and captured at the corner of Sec ond avenue south. He made some show of resistance, but was taken to the lockup. He proved to be a street ped dler, who had anted in the pot from sheer delight in defying the officers. At about the time the peddler was ar rested, and when the car started, sev eral stones were thrown, and one struck the driver in the side. After he had unhitched his horses and started for the barns, some boy threw a stone, which cut the fellow's head quite badly. When the crowd had begun to grow more quiet two patrol wagons were at tached to the two cars and they were drawn down to Fourth avenue and Sixth street, from where the company moved them into the barns. While tbe melee was at its hight, a big black dog, . apparently suffering from rabies, created a panic near the Swedish-American bank. A copper was about to shoot at him in the crowd, but Dr. Foster shouted to him that he would hit some one, and the officer catching the dog by the tail, dragged the .canine into the alley by the tail, hit him with his club, and them shot him. The sight of the club rising and falling in the midst of a group of men and the sound of the shot came very near causing a general riot in that vicinity, but something like good nature was restored when somebody shouted that it was only a dog that got clubbed. NO ARBITRATION. President Lowry Declines to Treat With the Men. The following interview was yester day afternoon authorized by the execu tive committee of the union. "Are you willing to arbitrate your differences with the company?" "was asked. "Yes." "Under what conditions?" "If the company really desires to re lieve the public from the inconvenience caused by a stoppage ot cars, and will agree to submit all the question's in volved to arbitration, the men, on their part, will agree to go back at the old scale until such time as the arbitrators shall render their decision. If it is not the desire of the com pany to accommodate its patrons, and it will agree to submit the matter to a board of arbitrators, and make no attempt to run cars pending the board's decision, we will agree to re frain from interfering with the com pany's property and abide by the decis ion, whatever it may be. If the com pany refuses these terms we will con sider that we are fully justified in remaining out. We realize that the public sympathy is now on our side, and we desire to retain it. We have no wish to incommode our friends, the public, and are willing to take any steps consistent with honor and a due regard to our position, to start the cars to running on all the lines in the city." "What if the company is really losing money?" "If the arbitration proposed is ac cepted, let expert accountants go through the company's books and re port to the board. We will abide by its decision. Mr. Low was found in close con versation with United States Senator Washburn at the former's residence last evening and asked for a reply to it. "I do not know what it is," he replied. "I have not read the papers yet." The article was read to him, and then he asked: "What executive committee does that .mean?" "Why, the executive committee of the union." "What union?" "The street car employes' union, Mr. Lowry." "Now, in the first place," returned the president of the street car company, "I do not recognize any executive com mittee or any street car employes' union. There will be no arbitration, sir, none whatever. The notices posted mean exactly what they said, and in the future the Minneapolis Street Railway company will run its own business in stead of having it run by a union." "Will there be an attempt made to run the cars to-morrow?" "That depends largely upon circum stances. We will run the cars our selves, or they will never be run at all, so lcng as I am connected with the com-, pany. The union cannot run them for { us." : *■;.?.?■ i "What is the outlook?" , ! "Well, we are ready to run all our' 1 cars and motor trains on regular time • just as soon as the mob will let us. We do not intend to have any lives or any ; property sacrificed, and will therefore wait until the people will allow us to } ; run the cars. Men are now all ready to take out every car on regular time, ana this will be done as soon as possible*" I "Is their any danger of the company forfeiting its franchise by its failure to run cars?" "None that I know of. We are ready ; and willing to run them, and Ido not see how, we can be blamed for not run-' ning them when the mob will not let .' us." Vice President Col Goodrich was found last evening at the headquarters of the company, talking over the events of the day with two city patrolmen and a car starter. _ » "I have quit— quit talking, I mean," he replied in answer to a question, "and-' therefore have nothing to say for the newspapers." "Will any attempt be made to run cars to-night?" ; •* i "No, sir." ,t "You will try to run cars to-morrow, • will you not?" . • ■' "Say, my dear friend, I just told you I had nothing to say. lam tired of talking. Good night." THE COMPANY'S FRANCHISE. It is Not Endangered Until the Council Orders Cars. It-was common talk on the street yes terday that the company's efforts to run cars during the afternoon was in the hope of being able to run them through to prevent losing their franchise, which it was said would, according to the terms of the contract with the city, lapse if cars were not run over all the lines within forty-eight hours after they stopped. This was found to be incor rect, however, as the ordinance is so worded that the franchise lapses if cars are not run within a certain number of hours after the council has ordered them to run, but makes no provision concerning any time previous to the passage of such an order. THE SUFFERING PUBLIC. People Compelled to Walk Miles — Great Inconvenience. Walking may be great sport and it may be pure joy unalloyed to ride in a j crowded bus or a lun. net* wagon with rough planks for seats; but all the J ; same, the citizens of Minneapolis are lie coining tired of it, and this tired feel-; ' ing is greatly increased by the fact that i the outlook is not very bright for ■ getting any better transportation for i some days to come. The people living . out in the.Eighth ward are among the hardest "kickers,'' and it was to try and help them out that an attempt to ' run cars on the Fourth avenue line was - made yesterday. - First avenue south, between Third" j street, and Washington avenue, was j crowded all day and last, evening with I vehicles of all sorts and descriptions j for carrying people to and from their work. Prices ranged from 5 to 10 ! cents, and it is safe to say that the pro_J prietors of a few of the carts made more money yesterday than they ever did in any previous day in their lives. Gentlemen were not the only . ones who rode, by any means, and it' 1 was not ani nfreqnent sight to see a lady dressed in the height of fashion clamber . into an old lumber wagon, drawn by a pair of old crowbaits, and sail off up the street as gaily as you please. It was a great day for the news boys, and all of them reaped a golden harvest. This morning more wagons will be put on, and it is expected that th*' competition for custom will be so great, that before noon a person can ride to any part of the city for a round, shiny nickel. IX THE EVENING. No Disturbances Reported and Everything Is Quiet. The evening was a quiet one in all re spects, so far as the strikers were con cerned. There were not more than 10 or 12 of them on the street. But the streets were lined with sympathizers and others who had been attracted out of curiosity and the hopes of seeing some conflict between the police and the strikers. As no attempt was made to run a single car during the evening there was no occasion for any demon stration, and none was made. During the evening the car which had been abandoned on Sixth street, on the Fourth avenue line, was drawn out to the Twenty-second street barn by the patrol wagon, the same as the other one was late In the afternoon. As the horses trotted along, pulling the wagon and the car, they were followed by a crowd of boys and young men. who laughed and cracked jokes at the twelve police men having the car in charge. When the barn was reached, there was a small crowd of strikers there. They made no demonstration of any sort. Instead they took hold of the car and helped run it into the barn, where it was left for the night. At the various stables and carbarns throughout the city there was perfect harmony. Not a loud or angry word -was uttered by any striker who chanced to pass that way during the evening. The barns had a very deserted look. The men in charge wandered around, and joked one another about the strike, and discussed the probabilities of the success or failure. * ■-'-... The following notice, printed on •■ little slips of paper, had been scattered: broadcast over the city during the day, and, in consequence, the big hall in : Labor Temple was filled in the evening; with strikers and laboring men: - • "Fellow workmen, in the name of justice and the rights of those who toil, we, the. street car employes of Minneap olis, who have been forced by a greedy corporation to quit work in defense "of* our rights.urgently request all working- ' men who may be tempted to take our places, and thus to aid an enemy of .all laborers, to come to a meeting to be held this evening at Labor Temple. Come and talk with us before you hire with the company." . i Speeches were made in which the street car company came in for a num-f ber of large, well-developed roasts. The men who might possibly be tempted' to take the strikers' places were asked ? to, refuse to take positions in the name 'of* justice and humanity. The executive committee of the union also held a meeting during the evening, and came to the conclusion that matters looked hopeful for them. At the meeting at Labor Temple it, was decided to hold a mass meeting this evening in some big, hall, and a r committee was appointed to arrange for the same and see that there was room enough to accommodate the general public. Resolutions of sympathy were received from a large number of trades organizations. The plumbers sent in these : . -, > "Whereas, Our brothers and the street railway employes have been forced in self defense to strike against an unjust reduction of wages and a re fusal to arbitrate; "Resolved, That we consider this as un-American and against the principles of justice. - * :-\. ... • Resolved, That we, the journeymen - Continued on Tliird Page. WALKINGISGOOD St. Paul Street Railway Em -3 ployes Emulate the Exam ple of Minneapolitans. Upwards of Four Hundred Join the Army of Un employed. Two Lone Drivers and a Cor poral's Guard of Stable men Stand Pat. They Conclude That Half a Loaf Is Better Than None. Strikers Hold a Protracted 7 Session and Prepare for the Struggle. Moral and Financial Support Is Pledged by the Trades' Assembly. An Offer to Arbitrate the Dif ficulty Made by the Men. Cable Line Employes Have Not Yet Decided What to Do. * The drivers and barnmen of the St. Paul city railway, numbering some 300 in all, struck yesterday afternoon against the reduction in wages to go into effect to-morrow, and at 0 o'clock last evening not a street car was mov ing in the city. The cable line was op erating as usual, but every horse car was under cover, the horses were stabled, and policemen were on guard at each of the five big barns of the com pany. The presence of the officers seemed unnecessary, as few of the striking employes loitered about, and there was no demonstration ot a disorderly character ' c at any time during the day. The stoppage of the cars began first on the Lafayette, avenue line at 2:30 p. m.. the order to strike being received at the barn on Greenbrier avenue some time in ad vance of that at the other„ barns of the company on .University 7 avenue, West Seventh street; Rice street and "at 7 he corner of Oak and Ramsey streets. As the cars came in, the drivers were in formed of the order 7to go out. They quickly housed their cars, turned over their horses, and waited for the next car to come in. At 4 o'clock only" three 7 cars were, running," two on . the Lafayette avenue line and one on the University avenue route. The drivers said they were not members of the union, and proposed to stick to their places. The car on Uni versity avenue was taken off by the company after one trip. The two cars on the Lafayette avenue line ran until 6 o'clock, when they were ordered stopped, and not a street car wheel was turning in St. Paul. The walking was good, the air cool and bracing, and there was almost no complaint from the hun dreds who found themselves compelled to foot it home after the close of business. The strike, which was expected by ev erybody, came on quietly and was ac cepted quietly as the inevitable. But what a change it made in the appear ance of the streets! It seemed as if something had suddenly dropped out of life. Nobody gives an instant's thought to the bells of the horses or the rumble of the cars as they pass regularly, but when this ceases suddenly, as yester day, everybody looks up to inquire what's the matter? So it was that long before the last car was in the barns about everybody in St. Paul knew that THE STRIKE WAS ON. . Some shoppers were inconvenienced in getting to their homes, and many were left stranded a good distance from their habitations, but people generally took the matter good-naturedly and looked on it in the light of new ex perience. It is the first street car strike in the history of St. Paul. How the maiden effort of the employes against a reduction of wages will result is a question of but a few days. Both com pany and employes express confidence as to the outcome. The company un doubtedly is confident. It is a question if the employes are. The grievance committee appointed at the meeting of the street car em ployes' association between midnight and" 5 o'clock yesterday morning did not call on Supt. Scott or General Manager Barr, of the street railway company, as expected, but went at once to Minneap olis and sought an interview with President Lowry. The committee, which consisted of Andrew Cosgrove, William Dow and Thomas Arm strong, was * given full power to settle the differences between company and men or order a strike. Mr. Lowry declined to make any concessions. . He held that a reduction in wages was a necessity, and that consequently there was nothing to arbitrate. The commit tee reported to the district assembly, K. of L., which is in session at Minneapo lis, and returned to St. Paul to order the strike. The employes are one and all satisfied that this would be the outcome of the conference, and expected every minute, after noon was passed, that the order to tie up would be given. It was not looked forward to with any apparent eagerness. There was none of the suppressed ex citement which usually precedes an up rising of labor in an attempt to right a real or fancied wrong. Of nearly a score of drivers talked with by a Globe repor ter : between noon and 3 o'clock not' one expressed even satisfaction at the outlook. Rather, they seemed glum and depressed, and after work had been stopped and the men were gath ered in groups about; the barns, there was but little confidence shown as to a successful outcome. At the offices of the company there was not a ripple of .excitement. The strike seemed to : be ; taken just as an very-day occurrence. In •*- this manner, with : the com pany quietly determined and the em ployes as " quietly ~ quitting work at which some have .;• made a living for years, was inaugurated the great strike. That matters will remain in this quies^ cent condition, none dare to hope. When the company begins running cars, as it probably will to-day, TROUBLE MAYBE LOOKED FOR. possibly of a serious nature. The strikers themselves expect this, and were prompt to come to the front with statements that they were orderly citi zens: that they wonld attempt no vio lence, and that they would not commit any act in violation of the laws of the state. Nine strikers out of ten will touch on this in discussing the situa tion, which plainly indicates that either there are some hot heads among them who cannot be controlled, or that out siders are to come to the front and fight the battles. _33_fSBi "As a matter of fact," said Vice rresi dent Barr, of the railway company, last evening, "there has been more influence brought to bear on the strikers from the outside than anywhere else. There are always plenty of demagogues and fel lows who never earned a cent in their lives ready to urge on such a strike. I don't think the men, if left to them selves, would have gone out." "You anticipate no trouble in secur ing men to fill the places of the strikes?" "None at all. There are trom 25 to 75 men here every morning to get work, and we have at lest 150 applications on file. As to hiring the new men— well, we will give all the old employes a chance to go to work to-morrow and probably on Monday morning. We will make no demonstration at all, but we will operate our lines just as soon as we can do so safety. We shall give old employes the first show. If they will not go to work then new men must take their places. A large proportion of our employes, 1 think I may safely say. did not want to go into this strike. They will think better of it before morning." SMITH AND TERRILIi STICK. Two Nervy Drivers Decline to Join the Strikers. Last night's meeting of the strikers, however, hardly indicates such a happy outcome of a strike which stopped 102 street cars and leaves fifty-two miles of railway track unused. When the order to go out reached the men at the barns on Greenbrier avenue at 2:30, a car was just turning lor the return trip. There was " a whispered word to the driver, and he promptly left his post. A second, third and fourth car arrived, only to be aban doned, and soon all the , Lafayette cars running were going toward the barns. When half a dozen or more were under cover one driver didn't get out of his sheet-iron box at the word. He sat calmly on his stool until a fresh team was brought out and attached to the car, and then chirruped merrily to the horses, and Car No. 71 was on . its way down town almost before the strikers realized what wss going on. Tney ran after the driver. Marshall D. Terrill, and urged him to join them, using some threaten ing language as he kept on his way. Car No. 72, which followed, was driven by* one John Smith. He also refused to go out, and started on the down-town trip. Arrived at Fourth and Wabasha streets about 3:30, Terrill expressed some doubt .if he . would be . able to make another trip without g po lice -protection.- and after a little delay an officer was stationed on each car. The cars were crowded, all the way out. At Greenbriar and Lawson avenues a dozen or more strikers had assembled. They greeted the two drivers with derisive cries of "Scab." Terrill.Jthe more nervy of the two, only smiled at the demonstration. Smith grew decidedly nervous, and at the barns was on tfie point of quitting work. Only two strikers were there to ask the men to join them. Had there been three Smith, would have gone over to the majority. "Mind you," said one of the strikers, rligustedly, as he addressed the two drivers, "we won't urge you to quit. We ain't going to tease you. Just go on. We' don't want you." "What do you say?" pleadingly asked Smith of Terrill. "Well," said the driver, as he picked up the lines over a span of grays, "the reduction in wages will make a differ ence of one cent, an hour with me. They are low enough now, the Lord knows, but 1 can't get anything better. I'm not a union man, and propose to work for what I can get. My working won't hurt you fellows (to the strikers); any how, I'm going ahead. "But it will hurt us," chorused the strikers. Terrill started his car and Smith Ml in behind with his. The strikers as sembled at Lawson avenue GAVE THE STRIKERS ANOTHER SALUTE as they passed, and called to their aid half a dozen school boys. But no vio lence was attempted, and after another trip the company withdrew the cars voluntarily. As soon as it was known that the strike was or dered, Chief Clark sent a reserve of three policemen to each of the com pany's barns, but everything was found quiet and orderly at each. The barn men went out with the drivers, but enough were left to care far the 900 horses of the company, so for as food aud drink and bedding goes. When it comes to cleaning the animals this morning the company may face a diffi culty. Of the 300 men out, about 200 are drivers and 100 stable men. Many have been in the employ of the company a long time. Of the two who stuck to work on tbe Lafayette avenue line, Smith has been with the company since the line was opened, and Terrill has been a driver since last- September. Neither are union men, and it is said that many who went out on strike do not belong to the order, but joined the strike through sympathy and in fear of having applied to them THE OBNOXIOUS EPITOET " SCAB." "And the papers will all come out in the morning." said one of a group of strikers at the Ramsey* street barns, "and tell how much the strikers are losing, but will have never a word to say about how much the company is losing." . ; "It's the first time it has ever lost anything, too," observed another. "The figures of the company showing a loss lie." "He had a thousand dollars' worth of jewelry stolen the other night. Now he wants to starve us." "Anyhow, we can't be much worse off than we are now." ■ his is but one of many similar con versations heard last night, which shows tlie bitter feeling against the president of the railway company. The question of the wage reduction takes a secondary place. Yet the strikers are by no means demonstrative, and are as a whole decidedly uncommunicative. Oc casionally one is found who will go into detail as to the effect of the reduction. VIEWED FROM ROTH SIDES. Labor States Its Case and Capital Pleads Justification. - "Fifteen cents per hour," argue the drivers, "is too small pay; We stand on an uncomfortable platform and have to face all kinds of weather,' submit to all kinds of *• insults and complaints from the public, and have to shoulder a good deal of responsibility." --We do not believe that the company has been* operating its lines at a loss. We sim ply cannot stand the reduction and live. And we will not let the company grind us down any more." .. . . .-:. , "But,*.- says "Col. Barr, "our books show that the company has beeu losing money. Wages have gradually in creased since the company began busi ness until recently, when it has been found necessary to reduce expenses in all kinds of business. We have been paying higher wages to our street car employes in St. Paul than in any city of the same size ■in the country, and our proposed re duction is less than that in other cities, when a comparison is made. We have been paying drivers 15 cents an hour for the first six months, 16 cents for the second six months and thereafter 17 cents an hour. Under the new scale all will receive 15 cents an hour." Then Col. JBarr shows the following table of the wages paid Jjy street car companies in different cities: Grip Drivers jier per day. Railway 13 Co., 13 and 13-10, Rochester 13-10,14-7,10",. lG'.j Co., 1.50 „... Street railway 1.43 railway. lie lie City Co., 1.25 City Railway 1.87% week Per & St. Paul— New INTELLIGENT AND INDUSTRIOUS. Col. Ban* speaks in the highest terms of the class of men who yesterday joined their Minneapolis brethren in striking against a reduction of wages. They are intelligent and industrious, and far above the class of street car employes found in many cities. Those who oppose the strike and denounce it as a move which can not possibly be successful, but must result in disaster to the men, express surprise that they should go out at this time, when the country is filled with unem ployed labor, and times are everywhere admitedly hard. On the other hand, those who favor the strike point out that the men have gone into it after a most careful study of the situation, and are fully justified for their deliberate move. SHOULDER TO SHOULDER. .Labor Puts Its Affairs in the Hands of a Trusted Few and Will Abide by the Result. There was a largely attended meeting of the striking street car men at Labor hall last night. A spirit of strong de termination marked the gather ing, and when they adjourned, after listening to several long speeches by delegates from other or ganizations, urging them to stand firm," and assuring them that success was theirs, the spirit of the men bordered on enthusiasm. .1. A. Johnson, of the car penters' union, presided, and on calling the meeting to order addressed the as sembly at considerable length.' He ad vised the strikers that the matter they had undertaken was no child's play.and that the results they hoped to attain could be brought about only by the hardest work. "The first thing for you to bear in mind," he said, "is that you must have perfect confidence in the executive committee that you choose to manage your affairs; and you must also beware of the spies hired by the street raiiway company, who will try to get you to do something wrong, to resort to violence, or to commit some crime. They will undoubtedly send such men among you for this purpose, in order to induce yon to MAKE THE FATAL MISTAKE, and thus get public sentiment against you." It was unanimously agreed to appoint an executive committee of one man from each barn to manage the strike, and after some discussion Mes srs. Armstrong, Hupp, Dow, Quinlan and Eriekson were decided upon. A "vigilance committee" was also decided upon to watch over the affairs of the strikers throughout the city, and to use all honorable means to prevent other men from taking their places, and, if possible by honorable methods, to pre vent the company turning a wheel. One man was at first appointed from each street car barn, but the task was considered too great for five men, and four additional men were subsequently appointed from each barn to assist them. The men decided upon to mar shal the forces at the different barns were William Dow. at the PJce street barn : A. Cosgrove, at the West Sev enth street barn; P. Ashe, at the Oak street barn; Robert Cummings, at the University avenue barn; J. Riddel!, at the Greenbrier avenue barn. The president spoke in favor of a "press committee, which will write up "every day good, scorching articles for the papers of the city, and attend to all business in connection with newspapers' and reporters." All other members of the association are strictly cautioned to have nothing to say to reporters and to refer all matters of the kind to the committee. The committee appointed consists of Thomas Ward, of the International Stonecutters' union, and John Fuller and Secretary Croniu, of the district as sembly. The executive and press com mittees will have headquarters at Labor hall, 70 East Seventh street, and will be found there at all hours. Members of THE VIGILANCE COMMITTEE were instructed to report all matters of interest to them. The men selected to look after the interests of the strikers at the different barns will report every thing of importance to the "vigilant" at the barn, who will in turn communicate with the executive com mittee. Chairman Johnson stated that in his experience with strikes it was much easier to induce men net to go to work than to get them to quit after -: they had once begun, and upon his recommendation all members of the vigilance committee and their aides de cided to go to the barns an hour before time to take out cars, in order toJay their grievances before any men who might otherwise come to the rescue of the company. AN OFFER TO ARBITRATE. The Strikers Come to the Front With a Proposition to the Com pany. . Miss Eva McDonald, secretary of the Knights of Labor organization at Min neapolis, explained the situation of the strike in Minneapolis and assured those present that the situation in that city was .growing .. i brighter for .the strikers every hour. She - urged the men "to stand shoulder to Walk and Save Money! USE y^||WITH YOUR I^P' SENSE ___________ AND BUY A _____________ SUNDAY GLOBE! NO. 103. v shoulder in the fight for their rights," and was confident that they would ulti mately win the battle. Stirring speeches were also delivered by Thomas Ward, of the stonecutters* union, and J. Mc- Gnire, of. the carpenters' union. Com mittees were appointed to visit the cable line employes, who refused to join the ranks of the strikers yesterday, and to draw up resolutions expressing the sentiments of the men as will ing to arbitrate their differences with the company. After being out a short time the committee returned, an ad journment was taken, and reporters were admitted to the room and fur nished with copies of the following resolution: ■ Resolved. That we. the employes ot the St. Paul Street Kailway company, realizing that our position has been forced upon us by necessity, and ap preciating the inconvenience that a walk-out causes to the traveling public, unanimously hold ourselves now, as in the past, to submit our grievances ta arbitration, and thus provide for an equitable adjustment of this difficulty. SUPPORT FOR STRIKERS. / The Trades and Labor Assembly Pledges All Organized Labor to Aid the Car Men in Their Strug* file. In a room adjoining that in which tha strikers held their meeting another ex« ecutive session was held by the United Trades and Labor assem bly President Cong-din presiding. It was the unanimous opinion of the delegates present that the strike was justified, and that, while not or dered by the district assembly. Knights of Labor, should be- supported by all bodies of organized labor. The session lasted but a short time, and after fram ing and adopting the following resolu tions an adjournment was taken, and the resolutions passed to the chairman of the strikers' meeting: Whereas, The Street Railway com pany of Minneapolis and St. Paul re duced the wages of its employes to a point that affords them scarcely a bare subsistence; and, Whereas, said reduction does not ap pear to affect the high salaries of officials in office employ; and. Whereas, the excuses given for the action on the part of tne company is that the profits during the past year have been too small, while dur ing the winter of ISB7-8 they could just pay expenses when it "cost them SJ 0,000 per month to keep the snow off the track," according to the statement of one of the officials at the time, and in the financial statement of the company, published in yesterday's papers, they show that the entire Min neapolis system is bonded for three times the actual cost, thereby proving themselves guilty of the most flagrant conspiracy, and Whereas, The company entered into a contract with their Minneapolis em ployes on the 13th day of May, 1888, to centinue one year from date, every provision of which has been flagrantly violated by the company, and they now insist on employes signing an "iron clad," to the effect that they will re nounce all allegiance to labor organi zations;, and - ■ Whereas, the employes in both cities have refused to submit and have quit work, and .tlie. company -, has 7 refused every offer to arbitrate, thereby* show ing a- determination to deprive their employes of - their independence and manhood, and break up their organiza tions therefore, Resolved. That the Trades and Labor Assembly of St. Paul, representing the various labor organizations of the city, condemn the conduct of the company as unworthy the toleration of a free peo ple; that it promises the street railway employes of both cities our hearty sup port and co-operation, morally and financially, trusting that their conduct wili be manly and that no attempt will be made to resort to violence. GRIPMEN MAY GO OUT. None of Them Will Say So. but Indications Point That Way. It was expected that the cable grip men would hold a meeting about mid night, but at la. m. none of them had materialized. One of the executive com mittee of the strikers said he did not think the gripmen would take any ac tion. The strikers would try to get them together some time to-day, but the trouble was that there was absolutely no organization among them. In conse quence, it was very difficult to bring them together, as every one of them was afraid of every other. Several gripmen were asked last night what they expected to do. and all of them answered that they did not see that they could do anything. They grumbled at the reduction in wages, saying it made a big difference to them, but they seemed to feel that half a loaf is better than no bread. They saw that there were plenty of men eager to take their places at the reduced wages, and felt that on the whole the best thing to do was to let things shape themselves and wait for developments. It is probable, however, that the employes of the cable line will go out out to-day, when all streetcar travel in St. Pal will be at a dead stand still. The officers of the company ex pect this, and so do the strikers. The strikers undoubtedly have it in their power to make a prolonged and un pleasant struggle. They deny any such intention, however, and'the public, for the present, is satisfied to take them at their word. PREPARED FOR TROUBLE. Chief Clark Has His Coppers iv Readiness to Quell Any Disturb ance That May Occur. As expressed by Chief Clark, the po lice department is "loaded" for any dis turbance that may arise on an attempt by the company to run cars: to-day, but he anticipates no trouble whatever, and Is of the opinion that the strikers will not attempt violence. As a precautionary measure, however, a detail of a dozen policemen were held in readiness at the central station up to a late hour last night, and smaller squads were stationed at each of the sub-stations in readiness to respond on a mpment's notice. The same precau tion will be observed to-day, and a large detail of mounted patrolmen will be brought in from the midway , district to patrol the different lines of street rail way with the regular officers of the central district. Any overt acts on the part of the strikers or hoodlums who may desire to create a disturbance, will be promptly suppressed. CABS WILT. STAKT TO-DAY. Col. Barr said last night that the com pany would not be - inconvenienced to any extent by the action of the men. They would probably start their cars this afternoon, having applications for the vacant positions. He anticipated . no trouble and had an idea that . everything . would return to its normal condition in a few days. The company proposed to give the people the regular service of cars as soon as they got around to it, and would certainly make a start this after noon. The colonel takes the situation very philosophically, and is apparently sanguine of success^:-, *--. m . A Family Cremated. Claytox, Ga.; April 12.— The resi dence of W. P. Woods, two miles north Clayton, on the Franklin ro^d, was con sumed by tire last night after midnight, and with his wife and five children.