The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, December 16, 1906, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Text4 ' tJ-v .-- THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 16, 1SC3 OUSIK PART OF CiTY Ui! STORE GIRLS ARE CARS STOPPED Oil 1 , BIO GTORS WITH TH3 LelTTLU P.ICEG llEOIIOLIE i r' : ft ""COIITROn TUB (Continued front Page On.) ; J. W' Kennoy. V. C. Wells and Carl T. .; ' Frederick left union neadquartem at -v 12 Ifeoond atreet and. in company with five. Athet union turn, proceeded along KKXOd t Washington. H're they wait i until the arrival of Freeman's car.' r. Ttrat Ca Deserted. No tnova-wae made until the car had . swung into Second street, switched and .. started back.- At Second an Waahing- . ton tUe committee board 1 the car and rod with it to Third, -vher th car . was '(topped and Freeman and bin con ' ductor. a young man . named . Ffulds, , dropped off. - 'The moment Freeman's feet touched tue pavement the motor handle, which lie st..i held 4n hie hand -w grasped by Superintendent Cooper ef th Pert- land Kallway, Light Power company. "Come on. be a gentleman. Oet back on your car."- said Cooper. But Free ' man shook tils head and gripped his ' crank all the tighter. Cooper attempted surnsKle ensued. Cooper quickly got potuM-sslon of ..the -crank . and Instantly banded It to an extra tnotorman who aai4 h.al.l. kin, , Th, .., Mnsn filmfiftil to the1 front of the platform and, at a tap of the bell from another extra man who had Jumped to th rear platform. no raovoa me car away wiinin ev see- Vjrads -after it had been stopped. .''.' V ' riaseo JTarrewly Averted. ; .; - - Poring th excitement attending th topping of car 324. , not on of th stop any of the other cars clanging by, streets. Therefor, when ear 124 -"went off with the extra men In charge, for , a full two minutes It looked ss if the man, obedient , to th call of Cooper, had Jumped In and grabbed on of the Struggling with him on the street. Th u.ivwa vuawMvis AUifUWVW wm iui ' time, the strike committee on the cor ner seemed to. hav faded away. Then Leabo and a man named Thnmp- son. a painter, Jumped Into th breach and rallied . the disorganized union - forces. Leabo and Thompson yelled to the carmen to Jump off their, cars. " They jumped to th " platforms , and begired and threatened. 'Their first two " or three appeals availed nothing. Then a conductor named F. C. Reagan Jumped - off ' car No. S26. His motorman re- I II I M(71 KIIU .KllM .- l I . UU lUIUUSk Immediately with a . strikebreaker aboard, but th gathering crowd cheered loudly and the commute went to work with renewed hope, -. , Other Oars Deserted. Conductor W. D. Toung and Motor man 8. J. Hood Jumped off car 2t and Joined th cheering crowd. But Superintendent Cooper rushed two strikebreakers aboard In less time than It takes to tell It snd there wer still no more signs of s blockade than there were before the committee arrived. ..Here was wher th crowd got In Its work. . Th pleadings of th handful of unionist availed llUla.J)utwhen nun dreds of people surrounded the vehicle. ttosens, pulled down- tl tnolley ropes and shouted a demand Tor the men to get off they got off. C E. Bailey, con ductor of car tit, and XI. I Burden. v conductor of car 4r, stepped to th ground and a moment later both, prat form men of Xrvington oar No.' HO suit From that moment a fierce wsr was the. on hand" , and Superintendent Cooper and Manager .Fuller. Assistant Superintendent Mann and scores of ex perienced platform men who had been seat t the -eoene beforehand for th purpose of taking th places of such employes as might quit their plsccs. 41 wii not. n war oi viownc t " not at first. - For that matter, a surpris ingly' Srnall amount of violence wss need ' considering th seal with which . the crowd entered upon the asslstanee of the strikers, in fact, nsd it not been for the assistance of th crowd ' th strike committee would hav been unnble to bring about a tleup. ! The battle was. fnp a time, rather one of speed than one of violence. The energiea of th crowd were put to per suading men to leave their car faster man. the cars eouia oe moved away by th . strikebreakers. Ths . more .cars ' bunched together th easier it was to No Appetite Means loss of vitality, vigor cr tone, and b often a pre cursor of prostrating sick ness. This is why it is serious. The bests thing you can do is to take the great alterative and tonic Hood's Sarsap&rilla Which has cured thousands. mi get th men to quit, snd ' the. crowd worked oo th run. , At 7:11 dozen cars wer bunched about the corner of "Washington snd Third streets, but Fuller, Cooper and their men worked on th run, too, and the blockade was soon cleared away, Blockade.-after blockade was broken by Cooper, who took th crank himself, ran a car for 100, feet, turned It over to strike breakers, leaped to the ground, dashed back on the run and did th thing over again. No man In Portland, union 1st or company employe, worked harder or faster than Cooper and It. was due to his stubborn work that? a " complete blockade . was delayed for mora than two hours from the time th trouble began. ' . . M laager rnller ea Scene. - Msnager Fuller himself was much' In evidence, and though he did not go Into the thick of the fray as did Cooper, a number of tiroes he took thejersng In his own bands and started the"derld csr. . ,. Tht eiuwd git'S) m iiumut'i'i ma IB will. Hundreds swelled ; to thousands and Wsshlngton street from Second to Sixth becsras black with people. . 'Cap tain of Police Moore, Sergeant Baty and four patrolmen were on the seen by 7 o'clock, but, except In a few instances, they did not attempt to Interfere in the controversy. - Their work was almost wholly confined to keeping . th people from crowding too closely snout ., the csr and to preventing violence as much as possible. Though perhaps a dosen persons . were taken to police headquarters for alleged violence during the evening,, the police cannot be snldl to nav piayea a part in th evenings events. ' . . Trolley Bopes Are Out. For nearly two 'hours the battle raged on Waahlngton street alone. By 7;0 the policy of the mob had centered Into Jerking the trolley ropes and slipping the .trolleys from the overhead . wires, then yelling at ths discomfited . opera tives, snd when ths trolley wss replaced. In Jerking It off again and thereby stopping th car. Under th Instruc tions of Superintendent Cooper, ths op eratives pulled In the slack on their ropes snd held them high through- h open window. Then th crowd began to pull Ui trolleys low and cut th mpea. Hardly a car passed Third and Washington streets after 7:20 that did not suffer th bisection of Its trolley rope. Cooper sent extra men on top of ths -cars t-adjust -the'trptiey bsrs and to tie on more rope which had been sent .for In a hurry-up call. For a time every ear that passed th Junction of Washington, snd Third strsets had a man on top of It to hold th trolley bar In placa , - .. , .; , -. 1 Crowd Dees X All. :. ,' But ' th crowd became denser and more Insistent. Th strikers wer so few-that an onlooker had to search for minutes, sometimes, to find ons. The crowd did it all. Ths crowd howled derision st ths faithful ones among ths employes; It howled approval of those who left the csrs snd It bowled defiance at company officials and police wto at tempted to thwart Its purpose, j '- More and more platform men Joined tbe strikers and a tlms cam, whan there wsr not enough ' extra man to go around. The cars began to congregate In a long string. Urnt along Fifth street, next i along Washington and Third streets. ' Tbe crowd became more dem onstrative and when operatives of held up cars refused to leave their poet the mob put shoulders to the stdss and rocked the' vehicle until the men Inside were literally shsken from It : At t :0- traffic-0HFlft1ttrtWas dead. Nine dark cars were strung along the ..thoroughfare, from,- Waahlngton- to uaK street, ana wnen in tentn came In the operatives were shsken out and some ons stuck an umbrella through half ths windows. Five minutes later th and cam on Washington street. Then the cry, "Now to Morrison," wss raised and the mob bot-footed It two blocks westward. .. On Morrison Btrost, Up to 1:30 there were no - disturb ances of any kind on Morrison, but It took less than a quarter of an hour to make .the tleup complete on that street. Without ceremony the crowd swooped down on a Montgomery --ear at Fifth and Morrison, cut ths trolley rope and shook out the motorman and conductor. Then the crowd parted. One half went east and halted MounLJTsljor-And-a Bunnyslde ears which were trsveltng close togother at Fourth. A section of the 'mob had already set out to tie up tbe O. W. P. lines on First street, and at o'clock every car line operated by the Portland Rallwsy company was out of business. : The company gave up the fight for the night, and no further at tempts were made to handle any traffic over any of the' downtown lines. ' All trouble occurring after o clock Came as a result of the attempt of company officials to get the csrs back Into the barns. A pair of men would come along, seise a car and attempt to get away with It. If -they were, not molested tbey ran the car to the barn. If, as often oc curred, some pert of the mob wss nesr, they ' were ; pursued, and generally stopped after an exciting chaaa and a shakeup. . . . '' VP--. ' " ' . . : - '.: '.-.' : Necklaces , Scarf Pins i ; ; ; Pendanu vV;: Link Buttons . Brooches . , Nobby Fobs Barettes ; Emblem Charms , Hat Pins Signet Rings , ' Belt Buckles ' Fancy Set Rings Lockets Watch Chains ' ' Lorgnette Chains . (" Match Boxes -Beauty Pins Cigar Cutters , 'v Back Combs ! Pocket Pencils "I' : Xia OADZ1I AtUad te eaesf nlly and arompt-. . ' ly aa If la nersos, Employers Send Them In Auto mobiles, t Carriages and ; , ' . Delivery Wagons. THOUSANDS OF THEM r V GIVEN TRANSPORTATION Hotel Omnibuses and All Sorts ol Vehicles Used in Taking Employes to Their Residences in All Parts ' of the City. . " ; ;- ; :; One of tbe most inconvenient conse quence of th walkout laat night was the. position the thousands of girls, who were working In the different depart- ment etorpg pf the city were, placed In.. Moat of tli era were young girls snd live many miles from ths store in th cen tral part of th city, out the department store proprietors bravely met -th emer gency, -i -.-. At first the serious condition of th strike was not realised by th proprie tors, but as soon as they had thoroughly grasped 'the real situation every errori was made to find transportation for the girls; -.. .''. Meier 4 Frank Immediately sent out to every part of tbe city for convey ances and Issued orders to the em Dlovea, to stoud .themselves Into colo nies on the walk In respect to the dif ferent location In -which they lived. The division was mads by Julius Meier and1 a perfect system was worked out Meier A Frank employ now 1,000 per sons altogether, of which 800 are girls. About 00 of these were taken home In automobiles knd 200 mora wer trans ported in the Esmond 'bus and in three large -vans. ' t ' When the big auto and vans moved away loaded ' with girls they cheered lustily for Tieler A Frsnk. The men of the big stors cam to tn rescue and accompanied the rest of them boras. Some pf the girls were told to get rooms, and many who could not gst home were so provided without expense to them. Many wer given their supper at the expense of the de partment stores. .-'''.' Olda-WoxtmAnift. King made similar exertions and provided for 000 girls. The Golden Eagle did l-s part well and conveyed Hi girls to their homes by means of the delivery wagons. ... Every big etore that employs a large number of girls sought every means possible for getting them to their homes f'fter the late hours demsnded because of this approach of the holiday season. As soon as the magnitude of the strike was realised the entire city was raked for every conceivable aort of conveyance and every available ve hicle was put into service. CARS GET-THROUGH Ofgowi City aat Mount Soot Can -... ; Make On Tri. t . , J '' Two Oregon City and two Mount Scott ears left First and Alder streets be tween 10 and 11 o'clock. 1 Women and men alike boarded both cars . without molestation, but the motormea and con ductors were hooted from tbe time they nassed from the station until they had crossed over ths Madison street bridge. The intersections of First and -Aider, and Morrison and Yamhill streets were densely " packed. " and the" trolley was pulled off several times within , two b looks. In ovary- o.so but -en It- was replaced by the conductor arter a delay of a' few minutes. : Tbe exception was a Mount Scott car. The motorman and conductor took the car north through a hooting crowd, ewltched it to the southbound track at Oak street and brought It back through the aame . crowd .to Aider atreet and then parted company. The conductor aald that at. Alder street his servloe with the company' ended, and taking lite lunch basket he left the car. Some of the frlenda of th strikers wanted to shake hande with him when b left the car, but he refused to' receive compli ments from anyone, and mingling with tbe crowd, was soon lost to view. - , SCAB! SCAB! creams St at Plain Clothe Man, Thinking Bat Prisons. On account of th strike compara tively few poeple cams over te town from Woodlawn an 1 Piedmont and sur roundings. The draw of the steal bridge wse open for a few minutes and when It closed there were only five westbound and ' rabout - S00 east bound pedestrians ready to cross. Ons of the five was a policeman of the flrat re lief and another a plain clothee nair who. had Just awakened him and or dered .hire to report for duty.- Ths two, as they-e-'-iked together, -were seen by a woman, eastwsrd bound. She appar ently thought the plain clothes man was a prisoner, for at the top of her voice ahe - shouted at the uniformed man: "Scab! Scab! Scab!" The Diamond Ring Makes a Meiry Christmas M There is great variety 'at. this store." To suit individual tastes and fancies for the little one, the youth, the miss, young lady or gentleman, husband or wife. v And the air of exclusivenesa in the styles, the, mounting of diamonds and char-; " acter of workmanship is such as to give universal satisfaction. Besides " the ; quality is based upon the knowledge and experience of 38 years in the jewelry i business, which we are sure will be greatly appreciated by a particular clientele. V A moderate investment or one of greater proportions can be thoroughly enjoyed . ' v" ' ' from the standpoint of saving.. Investigate. Mob Runs Down Morrison Street ; to Tie Up Ail East' ' Side tines. PLUCKY CONDUCTOR T - ; ;V - STICKS BY HIS CAR Refuses to Desert It ' Even When , Threatened With Violence, and Is , Applauded for His Determination-i- Finally Allowed to Go Free. v There was a dense,' howling crowd In Morrison street . from Fifth to Third when an almost mysterious suggestion to g4 to the bridge became manifest. a aurglng mass started eastward toward"! the Morrison street ' bridge, it piled through the streets In a confuar-i atrug- gllng. shouting mass which frew as it wsnt, although JV was a monster throng at the start.- . At the bridge two cars, going In op posite directions, were quickly stopped. Strikers boarded both th front and rear platforms and began to argue with the crew, while others cut ths trolley rope In such a wsy as to permanently block th car. Many cast sld conduc tors and motormen left their care with apparently little reluctance and Joined the rank of the strikers. . Others, how ever, protested even with violence and refused to abandon their cars until, shown, the futility ' of further reslstr ance. . . . . : On cat' No. I of the Waverley-Wood-stock iine a young fellow named Gor don was motorman. ' Efforts to Induce him to Join tho strikers were futile. He was roughly handled for a time and deserted by his motorman. For a brief time lie was also deserted by the mob, and he stuck to ths car which stood Idly upon the atreet alongside another Idle car on tho parallel track. Soon, how ever, a crowdvofa-acore r more of strikers returned and endeavored Ito ar gue him - Into leaving the- car,' He persistently refused and argued as loudly and vigorously aa th strikers. A Urge crowd gatheredand Gordon was froquuntly applauded by. the women who gathered. H was finally left alone by the strikers and with uie aid- of an of ficial of the company withdrew , his ear. :. ., '. . ;'-.: . Conductor No. 77 of the Morrison street Une-wna threatened by a gang of strike sympathisers and was latter car ried off bis car by ths gang. He la one of the old men of th line and refused to Join the strikers. AUTOS IN DEMAND AU Sorts of Yefcialt Vs by roopl Just as soon as th trouble began with the oar service the- demsnd for hacks and automobiles want up by leaps and bounds. At midnight Anderson Brothers reported they had 100 Orders ahead. Scores of people totally unaccustomed to walking a mile or more to their bybmcs cried aloud for transportation of any kind at any price, i ' Tbe United Carriage eompany at mid night had on vehlcl in th barn for th first Urn for hours. Covey Cook re ported that not enough automobiles could be supplied. From all .over ..the city came calls which could ; not. be filled. -- .. - At midnight hundredsof1 persons were walking nome. Women stayed at tbe O. W. P. waiting-room on First street until all hope of a car had fled.. STAND BY THEIR CAR (Continued from Page One.) s ployes by obstructing traffic, and that they had better leave th scan and let th police guard th car. . Thornton and Coffee refused to leave the car, and at McPheraon's suggestion the po lice took them off. '- - , The car men were - warmly received by union men In th crowd. The hands of both Thornton and Coffee were, shaken, and Coffee, In reply to a ques tion about TTl strenuous llf h had led daring' th preceding few minute said: "This If th flrat genuine strike I hav seen in Portland. It , has cer tainly been hot STATE RANGER REPORTS S : ON BROWNSVILLE RIOTS (Psbllehert .. Press by Leased Wh-e to Ta Journal. ) , , Austin. Tex., Dec If .-Chairman MacDonald, the state ranger, today for. warded to Senator Culberson a full re port of the investigation made by him at Brownsville Juet after . the. negro troops shot up tho town. This may hsve something to do with the oourt-' martial proceedings against Major Pen rose and other officers, ; (.. l Corner Third and .Washingtoa Street r ff' - iln fancy boxes, , always a pleasing gift50, 75s), ?1.00, f 1.50; Gloves 'At very f appropriate 'gift - ?1.50 and 92.00. Salsbury ; none better. , .....2.50 Stetson, best in the world. i .54.00 Waldorf, king of. stiff. Hats. ?4.00 FAMOUS Corner GOAL THIEVES III FAMINE TIME Combine at Seattle Complaint i; 4 Certaia- Bunkers Are . . f Virtually Raided. AUTHORITIES ASKEQ ,A JTO PUT MEN ON GUARD ThiBTfaey"AfTn No" HuttTW Do, - When They Consider Sute pf. Pub lic Temper and Prices Companies Demand for FueL : v ' ' - ' ; (Bneelkl tnspeteb to The JearseL) . Seattle, Dec U. Seattle household ers are now in the grip of the coal com bine. Borne of the poorer ones have been compelled to-' steal coal from oars lying In the yards and from bunker in order that food might bo cooked to keep their families alive. The Northwestern Improvement company, which is ths mainstay of the combine that Is refus ing to delivsr coal except at exorbitant prices, reported to ths police this morn ing that thieves, hsd been In the hsbit ef raiding the tosI bunkers on pier No 14 each night. The eompany asks for a spec lei guard of policemen but It Is not believed any such measure will be countenanced by the alty admlrdstra. tlon when the pobtlo mind 4 so In flamed against the dealers. - '. ,. Wants salvation army to account to public ill '"' - . ,V : ' - (PublUben Press by Leased Wire te The Journal. ) Lincoln, Neb.: Deo. 16. E. Benjamin Andrews, chancellor of ths University of Nebrasks, tonight addreessd an open letter to tho- captain of the local Bal vatlon Army. Th chancellor attacks the army and Its methods and aaya: . 'The army here in Lincoln make no lit- l A :i In Silvet ' iv CATAxootra end fnr aa. ft .eon tain Taln ablo and tetereetlaa ImforseaUea. ' $7.50, Orders l.OO, Buy ?,Himw tri Order krid 'his own Mr' present i -. c - Morrison rand3econ(LStrccts v i a - A most useful present is one calling for a pair "The greatest value ever offered.. Shoes purchased for gifts ' f :'. can be exchanged if they do not fit. - - SEN 149 THIRD ST. - PORTLAND'S BEST SHOE STORE statements accessible to the public, either of Its Income or of what It doss with Its money. Th anny'e 'methods of so-called relief work ar vicious and pauperising', calculated to make your so called relief work a plague. ' If you fur nish charity dinners for so many you will pauperise, Incresslng poverty and 6-Piece Tea Sets V 3-Piece Coffee Sets ; Soup 'Tureens. . Vegetable Dishes , Salad Bowls Ice Cream Trays -Bread Trays' , Sugar and Creamers Flower Vases ; , Bon Bon Dishes : House Coats $8 and $9. values, now ?6.O0 Neckwear : Everything possible to get in thir v.-:. :: line 25 "ta $2.00. , - ;-.v-; i I Every kind imaginable," ;:if ' u 91.00 to $3.00. ;. y: r'lFancyC Vests 0 A large assortment. ; . . . ,91 to f6y V.-,' . !-." s .- , J. ..";'"."" t '?? CLOTHING COMPANY of our ' SHOE - ORDERS of thecelebmed S.. t, For which we are sole agents . ' for ' Portland. ' Our- assortc!,' : ment of Holiday SUppera is: I most complete, . ranging . in J -cWrera75-pipetl ial attention is sailed to our; SAlTNQUttTEp; SLIPPERS V FOR LADIES 'ATC' $1.00 a Pair T H A L,' S. want. Instead of relieving them; ,' I am against fake charity and in favor of the real thing.", .', .. ;v.;'.'n V ill i I I ' Business at the Prtnerill postoffice Is increasing ao rapidly that more help bad to bo employed. '. - - , "-,-..' it-, '. . 1, !'' 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