The Oregon daily journal., December 16, 1906, Image 1

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VOL.: HI. NO. 40. '.
Down Town Section
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Such As Has Seldom i Been Witnessed
In ;Western: City Thousands-of:Peo-.
pie Throng- the Streets; : .
A trlk mob rrrt M -PortlnI'
downtown. Mctlon last right and ther
- occurred tucb cen of turbuUno u
ha aeldora ba witneaaed In a weatern
cltjr. For nsarly threa houre aavaral
tbonaand paopla hootad- tba Portland
Railway. L4ht .Power company, cut
lla trolley ropaa, twlated Ua trolley
bare, dragged or ehoov Ita employee
bodily from their platform and other.
' wlaa faaaulted care and car operative.
Ai i reault of the riot one man la
Buffering from a gunshot wound In the
' teg. a number are badly beaten up. and
- eeveral are In Jail.. Many car wlndowa
are amashed. rolling atock la 'more or
leaadamager5and thagtrclcajt tom.i
pany naa temporarily luipciiuoo kuh
The outbreak waa the consequence of
' ta attempt of committee repreaent
tng tba local Streetcar Men'e union to
call a atrlke of ail the platform men
of the company. The platform men
did not coma out promptly at the call
' and the people on tba atreeta took a
hand and forced them to quit their car
I ad It not. bean tor. the ay mpatny of
the crowd the atrika would hare an
doubtedly nded In a flaacon Aa It hap
pened, the erewd took up the tank which
the conmlttee waa unable to handle,
and cairled H- out -ltaelf;-od -with"
vengeance. Soma of the men quit when
asked to do ao. Othera who remained
"unwilling' were compelled to quit. . ;
:T Carried by oroa."r
The aauae waa carried by force and
. by t o'clock the company bad ceaaed all
" attempt to 'carry, paaaengera over Ita
down town llnea. ,. -
Night before laat at a meeting of
-the Amalgamated Street and Electric
' Railway Employee of America, division
181, It waa decided to ' present to the
Portland Railway, Light Power com-
"pany demands, nrst, for an Increase of
' wages amounting to I cent an hour;
second, for the recognition of the union;
and third, for the abolition of the
photograph ayatem of identification. A
BYSTANDER WOUNDED If LEG
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C. T. Lenahan Shot While Watching Progress
of Strike Superintendent Fields Rough
'v. Il!y Handled by,
' C. T. Lienaha of.Stf Columbia street
-a bystander, waa wounded In the left
leg at Fourth and Morrisons streets
shortly before o'clock. Ienhan be
lieved that he was shot. 'Who fired the
shot Is not known. The wound was not
serious, snd Lenahan was able t walk
to hla home. .-.. -. . . '
- A Sunnyslde car, had been stopped
by a crowd of strike sympathisers arid
the trolley . rope cut An effort . ws
made to derail the car by rocking It
sideways, but this proved unsuccessful
After the attention of the crowd had
been diverted atrlke breaker were able
to -replace ' the trolley and , a crew, of
regular car men atarted to take the car
up Morrison atreet.
i As the car atarlad an explosion was
' heard, and Lenahan was struck In the
left leg above'the ankle by a missile.
Ills trousers lng wan powder-burned. It
waa believed by some of the bystanders
that Ienahan might have been wounded
by a fragment of :a torpedo that had
been I laced on the track, but tbe wound
showed every evlflonoe fit having been
made by a bullet. .. ' ....
CARS ARE ROCK ED ; :
, AND' MANY WOMEN
ARE FRIGHTENED
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X.
fomm passenger hud an exciting
experience with angalla'nt strike syra
pathlserT on Morrison street Rowdies
made two car rock like ships at sea.
and several women we r badly bright
ened, . ' '" !' ,-v .
' At. 1:41 ftunnysld car . No. '45 Ad
Mount Tabor No. 4BI were stopped hj
tbo, crowd on, Morrison street between
Koiirtrramh.---'. -
Before the men had teen persuaded
to leav the cars the first window was
smashed. The new building at. Fifth
and Morrlnon furnlnhed the material,
aad J window of No. 4S were broken
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PORTLAND,
Scene of Turbulence
committee eonsiitttt g of -the .secretary
of the union and four 'prominent labor
leaders, outside tba union waa appointed
to present , the demands and wore em
powered to call, a atrika provided; the
demands were turned down. Teaterday
morning the demands were presented to
Manager Fuller of the eompeny, who
Immediately rejected them. The com
mittee then gave him until a o'clock in
which to sign the agreement . When
the latter hour arrived, tbey at once
planned a general walkout. . .
' Kayo Take) JPaxt.
When the police were trying to clear
Waehtngton atreet lata In the evening
Mayor Lane stepped out Of the crow
and took a hand. He used personal per-
auaalon, but waa not generally recos
ntsed by the excited throng. He tnarohed
arttb. the policemen down Washington
from Fourth, and did Pot leave the con
gested district aDtSKR
lTew ZeAam delaoted.
: The people had rVal the. plan of the
men, published in The. Journal, to have
the aignal Sot the tleup given first at
the junction of Fifth and Washington
atreeta at :J0 o'clock, and a dense and
expectant crowd surged, around thai cor
ner at that hour.- But the plana of the
atrlke committee nad been anticipated
by- the company and - President Boren-
son of the union,' who was to bo the
flraj man to walk oft hla car, waa laid
off at i o'clock and" It became neces
sary for the committee to . select an
other nervy man to quit the employ of
the oompany first IThls man waa C F.
Freeman, motormaa of ear No. S24, run
ning on Willamette Heights. Freeman's
car was due at Second and Washington
street at : o'clock and the com
mittee decided to postpone the opening
Of hostilities until that time. -'
At o'clock the strike committee, con
sisting of X. M. Lea bo, p. McDonald, B.
(Continued on Pag Two.
Three Morrison atreet ' ear war
topped between Fourth and ! Fifth
streets. In one of - them - were pas
senger, among them some women and
children. The atrlker endeavored to
persuade the erew to leave the car. but
they were reluctant Seeing the heal
tancy of the regular erew, atrika sympa
thisers on the edge of the crowd threw
rocks, breaking the window of tbe caf
and- narrowly missing the passengers.
The women and children crouched, oil
the floor between the seats until the
rock'throwlng had stopped.' -.
Superintendent O. C, Fields of Uie O.
Y. P. wss forcibly taken from a Sell
wood car, at .Second --and Morrison
streets, and roughly handled : by .the
atrlker. Field was struck and kicked
several times and hla overcoat torn.
Ills Injuries were not serious.
'The O. W. P. haa not lost a man,"
declared Superintendent Fields late last
night. "Kvery man Is with hi car, and
would be operating it If not prevented
(Continued on Pag Four.)
In )eis than a minute while the car
men Inside, the onion men outside Vnd
an - occasional policeman looked help-
lesely on."--; - -
Then the Crowd began . recking the
cars. , Inside No. 48 were four women
passenger. - "Let th women - out,"
shouted the cooler ones, but the hood
lums paid no attention, and with shoul.
dcrsjothe car sides, heaved back and
forrfu 'tliacar'" waeriffle"Trtptr r
sa, hut aslds from . broken windows,
little "damage wss don. Finally -the
company got stride breakers on the
cars and they moved up Morrison Street
while th mob jeered.
OREGON, ' SUNDAY MORNINO, " DECEMBER 18, 1908.
Company
of Strike
; "The strike is wdn. Not a car will leave the barns in the morning, for the day
men promised that if we pulled off the night men they themselves would hot go to
work. To see that-their promise is carried out we will picket every barn tomorrow
rnorningItjs now up to the, company to sigiv the agreement presented, to it yes-,
terday. . What , violence there has been tonight was , not sanctioned "by :the"iinionas
an organization or by the street car men individually." We are proud to note, how
ever, that the public is with us and helped us to stop the cars." Statement of T. M.
Leabo, chairman of the, strike committee.; 1 .' --- -
"We expect to. run our cars tomorrow morning. Our men are not quitting.
They are prevented from running their cars, but only a small number have gone on
the, strike." Statement by General Manager Fuller of the street car. company
shortly before midnight. " ; V ' ;.!:, . ' -
At midnight the crowds had nearly all dispersed, ' and the streets were quiet.
JTM6sT1of "thetau-hadbeenemoved-tohe-Jjarn-by officials nr employes of the ci
pany, very, uttie opposiuon ocing uiicipu auci u muwn iy mm jwnuvm.
After being assured that no mbrey attempts would be made to carry passengers
tonight, the crowds in nearly, every case freely consented to the running of the cars
into the barns. . The strikers are holding an all-night meeting at their headquarters
in Drew, hall. Pickets ; have been assigned to all the car barns, and any attempt
to run cars out in the morning will be opposed. The union claims a victory, and the
belief is freely expressed by the men that no cars caa.be moved until the company
signs -theagreementisubmitted yesterday morning.
BATTLES RAGE AROUND THE CARS
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LIKES OF 0. 1Y. P. ARE
CLEARED AND SEVERAL
" CARS GET
SuperintendentFleTds Declares
. Hi Employes Have No ;
V Grievance.
After a determined effort by Oeneral
Manager F. L Fuller and Superintend
ent Fields to break the . blocked of
O. W. P. care on Front atreet. th lln
waa cleared, and at 1 o'clock car were
started - for 811 wood, Mount Tabor,
Mount Scott and Mount - Tabor Reser
voir. Only a few care .had gotten away
when a mob of striker at Morrison and
First placed an abandoned . Ehinnyald
car on th' crossing,' and the lln was
again blocked.
Buperlntenaent Fields 'said: '
"W have not lost a man on th O. W,
P. line at thla time. They are staying
their oar, and we would operate our
llnea If the crowd would permit ua Our
men do not want to strike. -They have
no grievance' .
A man whose appsrel tncluded a neg
Mir htrt and of t felt hat and wr -wns
smoking a pipe, stood on th sidewalk
and ehouted at Fields: -
"No grievance, eh? So you don't
think the. rogue gallery plcturw busi
ness ia sny grievance for honest men,
eh? Don't your- .... . .
A Mount Tabor Reservoir, car came
In with the front window shattered
where a atone had gone through It, evi
dently directed at the motor men. - A
tall man 'wearing a white slouch hat
and accompanied' by a smooth-face
young man carrying a valise, mounted
the platform and began haranguing the
motoiman, who held . his post half an
hour whil th pair argued with him
on th merit of the strike, and . the
crowd "that ' surrounded) the: car yelled
Hesb." "ull him out." "Tak him off."
"He's got to quit." - Th trolley ' pole,
which had been loosed by cutting the
rope at the rear of- the car, stood up
sgalnst tbe trolley Wire, and the' con
tact caused a ateady, flame that heated
the wire, almost to "the .melting point
Suddenl someone. shouted: . .
"Look out for your' lives, th tmiey
nwlre 1 breaking.", and th crowd broke
for the sidewalk. A - young man who
did not wear atreet car in I form but
who evidently was an ' electrician,
mrinted-ro- the- roof -and pulled the trol
If y pole down and hooked It to th for
ward end of th-care-" ,
Anthracite Accident. , , -.
(Publl.bw' lree ,hy te4"-WlTk The
Bhamokln, Pa., Deo. 16. There 'wer
I ratol and T nonfatal accidents In the
sixteenth Pennsylvania anthracite dis
trict the pant year, according to the
report of Inspector McLaugtJin, ...... 1
Officials arid
rs I ssue Statements
STAND BY THEIR CAR
'IN FACE OF THREATS
UNTIL IT IS DERAILED
MotOTTnan-Md Conductor-Obey
Orders Until Police Force
Them to Leave Car.
Only th formation of th police In
a hollow circle the minute they left
the patrol wagon prevented a riot at
Second and Washington streets about 11
o'clock. A Willamette Height car had
been run down to First street amid the
Jeer of a - den" crowd." and several
wlndowa had been broken by missiles
thrown, so union men alleged, by boys.
The trolley waa pulled off th wire,
and crlea of "com off wer uttered
by hundreds of people. "
"I'll hot om off." calmly 'announced
Conductor Frank Thornton. "I'm
going to tak this car back to th barn.
Those ai my order and I'm going to
stand by them.".- - '
- 'They're' mln, too,". ald Motorman
J. J. Coffee.
Th crowd hooted and yelled, but
amid all the nols and threat Thornton
pulled open the window of the front
vestibule and climbed to th top of the
car to right th trolley. II had th
pole pulled half around when It I ruck
a cro-wlr.,
"Let It go there." said a vole from
the crowd. There're 1,900 volts In that
wire."' ' r.--r-r' r--
"Hop at throw him oft" ald an
other. - .- . "
Thornton . looked around . and elng
that no, missiles were aimed at-him,
pulled th pole under ,th wire and set
the trolley right. Upon th usual bell
signal Coffee started fhe car ahead.
Th minute he did so a missile flew by
hi hesdr and then another amashed a
pane of glass right by Thornton' ar;
A third broke th glaaa In front - of
Coffees eyes, but looking straight
ahead he applied full power until he
reached the switch at Second street
There he slowed up. but again he sped
th car only to run Into an open awlteh
on the west side of Second street ' Th
car was. derailed, but both Thornton
and Cof fe stood' by It until the rrl
vsl of Captain Bailer with a wagon-
load of police. The officers, remember
ing their experience earlier In the even
ing, fnrmed In a circle, and forced th
crowd away. Thornton and Coffee were
told to leev th car, but they repeated
their former tatement that they had
order to take It to the barn and they
were going to do It t
P. A. McPherson addressed th crowd
from the steps of the care, but hla
vleemwnsfft7iwflea DT Jcrrtr. "TrrorirfitJ
heard Mr. McPhereon said he simply
told the crowd that they were only In
juring tfi oauH of th striking em-
. (Continued oniPsg Two.)
-FIVE SECTIONS SIXTY-TWO PAGES.
BATTLE
CAR AFTER IT HAS
. - BEEN LEFT BHIEN
Hoodlums Rent Each Other
After Carmen Desert and
Walk Away.
On of th severest battle around a
car which occurred during th night
took place at Flrat and Morrison a few
minute before 11 o'clock. . s "
After th ear had been abandoned a
fight atarted Ineld the car and for
10 minute a yelling mob surged along
Kit st street trying to atrlke at one
young man who wa 'eupposed to be a
"scab." II waan't th right man at
all, but he was willing to fight any
and alt comer. The police, with the
exception of on or two officers, wer
far away and th crowd had everything
It own way.
Th ear wis Mount Scott No. 45.
It was halted when It reached Mor
rison street, outbound, the second car
to get away from th O. W. P. station.
Both trolley rope wer quickly cut
Though over a dosen women were inside
the mob of hoodlum rocked th car
until the women passenger creamed in
terror. Both carmen found resletano
uselea and left the car to Ita fate.
It waa after 11 o'clock, when the trol
ley wer finally adjusted and O. C.
Fields, superintendent of th O. W. P.
lines, personally took out th car.
- By thla Urn a score of po'dcemen
Wer on th scene, and th mob quietly
watched the car; go, :
NEW HERMIST0N BANK
FILES ITS ARTICLES'
(ffpeetil tttepateh te Tbe Josrnal.)
Pendleton, Or.. Dec II. Article of
Incorporation have been filed for the
Hermlston Bank 4V Trust company, , a
new banking Institution, which I capi
talised at 115.000, divided Into ISO
sharea of $100 each. Th Incorporators
ar J. F. MaNs ught S. R. Oldaker and
Q. M. Rice. The laat named, who 1
but a nominal member. Is th leading
spirit of "th Maxwell Land Irriga
tion company. Tb bank will begin
buatnes at one. , y r .'
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MRS. HAUSER'S WILL "
. FILED FOR PROBATE
Helena, ' Mont, tHc." 15 Th will of
Ellen Hauser, filed her today, be-
ewatba-.av.lJf e , ln'erent In. her eatate.
valued St $133,000, to 'Tier HtMrhftrtOy
former Governor A T. Hauqer, and $20,
000 to her son, Samuel T. Mauser. Mrs.
Hauser died at Loe Angela recently
whil en rout to Japan.. :
Head of Department ' Instructs Officers
to Defend the Laws But to Refrain
From taking Sides In the Present
; Industrial Controversy. . ' .
Chief of' Police' Orltimacher early
this morning- ouramed - up the -etrike
situation from a police standpoint in
tb following official statement:
"The nolle will, not tak any aldea
in the controversy between the carmen
and th atreet railway company except
to da police . duty and preserve order
and prevent the destruction of prop
erty. - No rowdyism 'will be tolerated
and I want to warn all hoodlums or
rowdies ' that they muat "keep away
from locations where crowds congre
gate. Any of rhoso found precipitating
trouble will be Immediately arrested and
proaeouted to the full extent of ' the
law.
lhvlolenc and destruction I
of property tonight la entirely th fault
of the street railway pfAclaJe In not
giving me advance notice of the atrlke.
I waa not informed that a tleup of the
streetcar line was contemplated until
thl evening at t o'clock. Aa th day
relief had already reported off at that
time It waa impossible to hold them In
reserve In tb station for emergencies.
Th .management of th oar eeaipany, I
understand, knew of " the - threatened
strike during th morning, but failed to
advlsa m of the matter. - When trouble
arose at various places la the business
dfstrIctTheTxahdfur-or-l)fncerr oirih
flrat night relief naturally war unable
to handle the altuation It waa neces-
sarr to communicate with the patrol
men of th ' second relief , by telephone
and It took some tlm before they could
reach th station."
'Order Are Issoed.
Th following order was issued by th
chief to hi captain of police:
"Instruct the officers of your relief
to refrain from taking side tn the
streetcar strike now on, but strictly
attend to poliae duty, preaerv order and
protect person and property to th very
best of their ability. And In order to be
prepared for gross disorder tb off!-
Streetcar Tieup Works Hardship on Shop
pers and Working People Caught Far ;
From Suburban Homes
It 1 estimated that between 10.000
and S5.000 peopi walked home laat
night although moat -of them would
bav paid for a rid had th car been
running. A large number of these peo
ple wer laden with package, parcel
and bundles, because they had started
out to do Christmas shopping and In
tbele eagerness to select what . they
wanted never thought of how to get
home until the bold truth atared them
tn the face and they bad to walk or re
main downtown over night. Thla latter
alternative wa all right during th
earlier parTlrnieVvehIntr"buriownT
mldnlcht the hotela were, overcrowded
with auburbanltea who 'had telephoned
their homea that they would rather
sleep in a strange room than walk Ave
or six miles In th dense fog. ...
Manv Dedetrlan expressed the opin
ion that th strike could not have oc
curred at a more Inonportune or oppor
tune time, whichever It may be. ror
simultaneously with' the calling ott of
MOTOR MAN'S WIF E
STANDS BY HIM
IN HIS DANGER
Carmen' wives ar brave tnd do not
fear a mob. as was clearly shown Isst
night' on Waahington street In the
early evening when th company wa
still t trying to keep It AVaahlngton
street lln open, a big , Willamette
Heights car 'came down th' atreet only
to be stopped at Third atreet by a noisy.
tnfelbnlhif'TnroHTrr--Ar",fn"Taaa n1
of the car tood th motorman. on of
th old men In th service of the com
pany. Behind him. with her hand on
hi ehbulder. tood hi wife who hr I
oiitni to share, whatvetdgLBger .uit .l
befall her husband.
Men swarmed Ui over th car, pti- 1
Ing wlth the mqtorman anj con i r
to desert their posts and leave t r t
to It fat. Horn on Jerked t
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
l'
cere will be called upon to perform
atea-duty-nntH-further order"
rn day relief will report xor amy '
at o'clock a. m.. and either resume
duty on their regular beata or remain,
at th station, according to tb discre
tion of Captain Moore, commanding the
relief. The flrat night relief will re
port for duty at T o'clock a. m., and re
main In reaerve at th station until ii
o'clock noon, and report again for duty
ht th regular hour. 1:44 p. m. Tha aeo-
ond night relief will report for reserve
duty at th station at 13 o'clock noon
and remain until 4 o'clock p. m.. when
tbe day relief will take up reserve duty.
"Captain Bailey will detail four men
each to lh car barn at Piedmont
E,asi jknaeny ana i wemy-eigni-a nu
Savior and Twenty-fourth streets, to be
there at I'clock a. tn.. and two men
to -Waahington .and Twenty-third
atreeta. All theee officer to remain at
their station until 7 o'clock a. ra., when
they will be relieved' by officers of the
day relief If necessary.
"C. GKITZMACHER.
"Acting Chief of Police."
Polle Were at Sisadvantag-a,
' The' atatement of th chief aeta forth '
th fact that owing to th amall num
ber of patrolmen regularly onduty.
th late notice of possible trouble It
waa Impossible for th fore to handle
the eituatlon with -ease nntH such tlm
aa It had been reinforced by th addi
tion of th day relief called back to
duty by telephone. The eummonlng of
th reinforcement had taken, time
and before their arrival tha men on duty
had participated In ' some strenuous
vent.
Seeing th overwhelming odd against
which his men wer pitted Chief Urits-
macber gave order to hi patrolmen
to oae their clubs to preserve order, and
if -necessary In extreme sltuatlona to
(Continued on Pag Five.)
th platform man., a fog. - denser than
ever, began to settle over th city.
Many thought It a peculiar coincidence.
At any, rate It made It more unpleasant
for those who had to "hoof It" home.
. The atrlke came ao unexpectedly and
pnannnunced that no preparation or
precautions . whatever had been take
by the public. Women and children In
large numbers had started from their
home In the early afternoon Intending
to buy out th store for thetr numer
ous friends and thoy stayed around the
city, going from on place to another
untULlong aiter dark, and. so got laft
with the walking throng. ' Even fami
lies wer spilt up and their, members
separated because-the cars were out of
commission. Young men In the habit
of calling on their best girl wer dis
appointed to And that just aa tbey were
ready te mart there were no car in
sight This kept th telephone busy
and It la said that never, In th history
(Continued on Pag Four.)
ley from the-wire, cutting th rope cl.w.
to th pole and then k tdng the trolley
thrash and swing upright among the
wires above. Men srgued and plell
with the motormtn t deeert his poet,
but th woman faced the croe-d. still
with her hand on her husband' shoul
der, and threw bock her advice to fclm.
fitted against their prsy.
"Tell them to get ff " fr," s'.e
"I'to the man at the controller. "Toil
them to get off: that yo'i are f,U I
take your jar back te tne l.nrn "
Tbe men, h were t t !.?
deetructlv s inpi: l-er.
Hi car ml tli n '" -etr'alsht
liee.l. f"U 1 ' '
'ie tK k ct ;
the barn.
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