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Paid-Up Capital 1,000,000 -,
Assets 2,645,114
AssoU in United States . . 300,000 .
Surplus to Policy Holders 1,718,792
Has been Underwriting on the Pacific Coast over Twenty-two years.
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STRIKE ON
THE WANE
Cars Resume Their Runs and
the Tie-Up s Fail
ure. THE POLICE USE CLUBS
Central Plot In. Which Strikers
Participate. Marks the Be
finning of tbe End.
WOMEN IN THE MELEE
The MilllU May Be Called Out Should
Aay Mote Riots Be Attempted-
i
NBW VOKK, July PJ.-A roarveJoua
rha bJ coin ovf ahe alrlke aH-ct
trm vMie .cul of 8omJ avenue to the
oliIkt. Thr vraa a ioml UM. by
OnrMl llaMr Workman I'uniona ot a
(omplrt Ut up at tlie trolliy Una. In
JUnlniljn. aim Its consequent lnplr.
Irg rffivt uKn ih Drtkl)n airlkers.
Tlx' (.-txTal Ur up bu not &m by any
nxna In New Xork. There waa kit la or
no iith on 8cnd arvmi ixlay or to
night. Car on that lti- ran throughout
Uv Uy almoH aa hry haJ run utwloua
lu Uie airtke.
I-OLK'E lB CLVB8.
Ktvor-;i Plflit In Whloh UlooJ Flow.
Frvl .nd Kvn Womtn Are
ClublxJ.
Ni;V iRK. July DO.-Tho filen.lon Of
rlw mrrt car mon'a airlke (rum Brook.
lyn to Manhattan MnJ ara. du nttn4y
to nyniiHiihy (or ttw wrlklng rroploywi
of ill Urouklyn KnKl TranaTt Company.
la u orth-rrd by UmkiuI JUl"r Work
man John N. I'anaxia, tit bead of lira
Knight of Lbr In tti L'nltrU Siaii-.
ho la ngasvl In organUlng tbe men
and la bdHttn all hla enorglva toward
rttlriMn Uwlr srti-vaixse. Mr. Par-
oim dclarwl a clrike al tUja
lm to b ptvmature. It waa lltwally
f.rcrd by the aiH-a mad to tbe motor.
n n y JUirter Workman l'lna, and the
commltteti of Brooklyn wrlkvra.
lVrnilMlon a-ma rwfuned by the execu
tive board to proclaim airtke and the
moUrmn. ho aympatmw were
aroinml. (Mini Mr. I'arson and made a
tour of the car abopa early Wedotvday
mornliur appeaUnic to Uie men to quft
work: eoine of tfn-m Old o; other re
fused. The tvfusul wa due purely to the
fact that tho airlke had not been of-
llilally qirooJiiWiied and iarUy to Ithe
'uct that many employe were not will
Ug to make avrttlci either for the !
hour kiw or their Brooklyn brethirn. It
wa not until mldduy that GA-ncral Maa-
ler Workman J'arnona louna mnieen
dratritcvl along with the proceaalon and
declared tliat tho atrlko waa hi prosrese.
At mldnltfht. last night, after tho atrtka
hail been on hour, It apiieared to be
iho maddest and moat U!onuVred bat.
tflo with enornwua oaltal Cliat talbor
ever entered on.
ExoeiH on the Second awnue line the
cars were only Interfered with to a
allirht di'a-ree and unless the strikers In
dura from KV0 to lfcX) men to Join them
speedily tbe sirtke will tie an absolute
failure.
Thh). Mr. Parsona declared that he wlU
do. None of the men. ho said were reg-u.
ktrly ordered out and he promised to
lie up the Manhattan lines today.
There are utbout 3300 men employed on
Uio vbttfurliui of the cars ot the Unea
anaJiwt which the flerht ta to be d!
rei'ted. TJh-w conelltute, barring Broad,
wuy, the moat valuable portion of tbe
Metropolitan Company a franclilse tlh
roads to Seooud, Itourth. Sixth, Eighth,
Amsterdam and Iennox avenues, running
north and south, and tbe Twely-thlrd,
Fifty-ninth and One Hundred and Six.
teenth street cross town lines.
Certainty not more than 400 of these
men left their places. Tho largest num.
ber had been In the employ ot the Sec
ond avenue Railway Company. That
line waa almost completely tied up sev
eral times during the day and the. vdalnlty
of the company's barn at Ninety-sixth
street was a imttlcBeld from early morn.
In untU midnight. I'olloeman bad been
cnornt rated at all stations) of the com
pany and men In uniform rode on tlvt
cam u protect lb. motormen and con.
duclors. juat as In Broohlya. Kifht
hundred polUMnm from Brooklyn were
tranrerml to Manhattan borough, this
bring don Jut a In th caa of the
iraiwKr of Manhattan poUr. to Brook,
lyn, In onlr rhat Um blue coats should
not be deterred from tarrying out tbe
extremely stern order by local Influ
ence. None of the puUoemen were so
deterred.
Whenever a striker approached rh
property of the company In an effort to
tnduoa men to quit work b waa either
Wutfwd or arrested. Such nieaura of
extraordinary severity wer. never be.
ft re known during a strike In Uanhat
tan. In which tbe strikers had not pre
viously ueedi flreurma or great violence.
While the cars ran with no little delay
and no obatrucUona on all the rest ot
the line, there was conkJeraW dlsor.
tier In Second avsau. Here large
crowd gathered early In the day and
! I lie llie thrvw out ph keia to prevent
the .trlker from approaching the (able
nt lh company. Collision with the po
Ike began early and clubs were used
o freely that tho strikers became wild
with rage. They ougtt to overturn ears
and frequently dragged motermon from
thrlr luettlon) on the front platform j
and induced them to join their ranks, or
elf trva'.ed them roughly. Frequently
car had to be guarded 1y four or six
policemen. Blood flowed freely many
iHiK. In many Instance) mob were
k-d by women who wer wlvea of the
; strikers. In the m-K"e some of cbes
women wer clubbed, overthrown and
trarrrpkd upon. Othee women threw
tones, Hbe, decayed vegetables and
bad egits from the windows) of roe flats
Into the car so they paesed. There
were sma.1l riots almost frm one end of
Second atvnu to the other. On the
other linn there was: Utile disorder.
The railroad men at their meeting last
nltcht declared rhat 8ex-ond innue was
only a email thing compared witli what
j would develope. hen tho strike beoams
1 general today. One detective waa car
j tied to the hoxpital Inxt night with a
broken head. General Mater Workman
I I'rJis. In an Interview, accused the
. poltoe of merciless brutality and said
that if Devery's men continued to pursue
the w count that they had followed
In Second avenue, he (Parsons) would
not be responsible for what Uie men
might do. The strikers wer men and
Anterloan and there iras a limit beyond
which policemen could not go. He no
cusvd the police and Van Wyck'i admit
Uuratton of playing Into the bands ot
the trolley car people owing to the In
tluencu ot William C. Whitney and Hugh
Grunt.
Chief of Police Devery, In apeaking
of 'ill complalnta of the labJr leader,
declared that It the strikers attempted
any violence or Interfered hi any way
with men seeking employment he
would club off the tops of their head.
President H. H. Vreesand, of the
Mviropollan Street Railway Company,
Ami declared there was no strike and
then admitted there was a strike on the
Second avenue Hue caused by the mis
chief makers not In the employ of the
company. He laughed at a tie up.
The grieVaiH-ee of the men are that
tttvy were required to put In from 11 to
12 hours continuous duty on the oars or
around the rtablea watting for runs In
order to make a full day's work ot ten
hour. They k that "trlpiier" be paid
an hour and toe guaranteed six hours
work. They alo ask Immunity from
discharge while seeking to redress their
grievunces or making complaints to the
company.
In Brooklyn the situation ot the strlk.
era on the Rapid Transit Company's
tines was not Improved by the prematura
action of tho
New York men. The com-1
pany ran more cars and carried more
passengers, out It cecajne more than
ever apparent that President Rosslter
has lost rather than gained prestige.
Pew night cars were run in Brooklyn'
last night. On the Flattbush avenue ltn
a crowd attacked a car and beat the mo-
troman and conductor and several ax-
rests were mad by the police. Whatever
may be the outcome oof tbe strike. Presi
dent Rossi tftr la IlkWy to get himself Into
trouble h several! ways. The lahor or
ganlsatlons have deckled to prosecute
tho Brooklyn Hedght. Company for vto-
terlon of the labor law of the state. If
the men ar to be believed, the company
has beien guilty In many hundreds ot In.
stance.
Mr. Rosslter -was also threatened with
criminal prosecution by A! Johnson, for
mer head of the Nassau railroad. Mr.
Rosslter yesterday was quoded as saying
that Mr. Johnson was concerned In the
(Continued on Page Three.)
DEMOCRATS
AT CHICAGO
Four ThousjnJ Enthusiasts
Att&od the Meeting
Last Night.
ENTHUSIASM FOR BRYAN
Advocates tbe Same Pol'cy in
tte Philippines s Is Bein;
Pnrsned io Cufci.
HORRIBLE DEED OF A FIEND
FortUni Girl Strioflel Yesteriiy
asl Her Lover ArrcsieJ on tbe
Cbgrge of Murder.
CHIL'AOO. July ft. Four thousand
people crowded into the Auditorium to.
nsfht dwplte the sweltering beat, to at
tend the political meeting given under
the auepices of tbe Clucago platform
democrats. It waa from fh-st to last a
silver meeting; an Altgeid meeting; ami.
truat and an aoU-expansVoa moctSsg.
AU of Um speakers, save exGovernor
Stone, of Missouri, who was Ul, and
talked for lees than two minutes, de
clared in fa-or of It to 1 and against the
war In tbe Philippine Mauds.
The speech of Bryan evoked great en.
thuMiasni among baa bearer, especially
When be declared that tbe American
government should pursue in Iuzoo. tbe
same policy as ana pursued in Cuba.
The Philippines, be said, cam Into our
hands by tbe accident eX war, and, beirg
there, they .mould hare been treated on
Amerl.ian prinotpte and not on those
practiced by European governments.
Tlie policy of tbe Coked States, he
claimed, should have been to create a
republic in the Philippine.' and say to
all the world, "Hands off and let that
republic, live,"
Hla audience waa in sympathy with his
euggestiona regarding the Philippine
and punctuated his speech with cheers.
The meeting waa largely made up ot
local adherents of the Chicago platform
id lb personal followers of ex-Governor
Altgeid.
The mooting, therefore, partook some,
what of the nature ot a personal tribute
ta him. Many of the speaker alluded to
Mm In laudatory terms and at .very
mention of ixla nam the audience shout
ed approval. Altgeid did not occupy a
seat on Uie platform, but throughout the
meeting remained on ttie rear part of
the upper box. and only made his appear -
ance at the front ot the box when the
demand of the audience to hear from him
became too loud Jor Chairman Dor row to
subdue. About one-half ot the members
of the national committee occupied seats
cn fhe platfo:vn. the remainder ot them
falling to put In an apparance.
NATIONAL COMMITTEE MEETS
Democrat Held a Harmonious Session at
, Chicago Yesterday.
CHICAGO, July .-No friction devel
oped at the meeting of the democratic
national commltiree today and the men
who mad 3 suoh belligerent assertions last
a to "k m r'
Not a single war like note was sounded
and no defiances were uttered either by
the men who demanded that "16 to 1 '
shall be Uie rallying cry in the next cam
palgn, or by those who opposed Its adop
tion. The only movement made by th
diver men looking toward recognition by
nhe national committee was) during the
afternoon, whoa the Ohio Valley Bimetal-
Ho league admitted to the committee
It would he called upon at such time as
acting as spokesman, read the resolutions
adopted by the committee earlier in the
ft
V 1 1 i
Uyr ur ifovmm
Makes the food more
tOYil CAKTm
4ny. Then resolutions demanded that
there be inserted In tti next democratic
national platform, planks opposing trust
and ImperiaUsn, and adhering to silver
at the ratio of If to L "And along the,
lines We offer you our aid," said Tarvln.
There waa a defiant accent upon the word
"these" that seemed to Imply that the
up port ot the bunetalllst. could b se
cured aiong no other Hoes than thsss
marked out, but of this th committee
took no notice. The Ohio Valley EM metal.
Be league was courteously thanked for
Its proffer of assistance and assured that
It would be called upon at audi time, aa
the national committee felt to need of
Its assistance. This waa the beginning
and Ui cod of Um stiver eptou. The
fight agrtnat Devlin, editor of the pre?
bureau of th national commit tee was
brought to a finish. The Harrison fsc
tkm of Illinois secured Ms deposition
for tbe part be took in tbe last mayor,
alty contest m Chicago, when be, ta
his official capacity, espoused Um candU
dary of cxOovernor Alogeld again
Carter IL Harrison. TMvMn personally
appeared before the national com mitt tee
and admitted that be bad used the to
luenes of the national committee In the
Harrisoa-AKg.-ld contest, but said that B
had received Instruction to do so from
a source which he considered as equiva
lent to an order from the national com.
mittee. Who gave Mm these Instruction,
he declined to say.
The Harrison men were greatly elated
over the result of their attack against
Devlin.
DEED OF A FIEXD.
Murder Thought to Have Been feed to
Cover Up Other Crime.
PORTLAND, July .-Clara Fitch, a
girl It year of age, wee found dead
shortly before i o dock this afternoon In
Cycle park, near Irvington. Indications
point to strangulation as the cause of her
.leath. and Frank .MoDanlel, a truck
driver, was arrested sue tonight on the
charge of murdering the girL He 1st
known to bare been in her company on
several occasions c hit, and he admks
that lest evening he vest walking with
her. but that he took her home about
11 o'clock p. m. George A. Fitch, a
Southern Pacific engineer, and father of
the girl, had forbidden MoDaniei to visit
bM 'daughter at their home on Grand
avenue and East Irving streets, but they
had met clandestinely of late. The police
have so far failed to discover the motive
for the murder, thoigh the autopsy
which was begun tonight may throw
some tight on the subject. Th e;lrl left
home last evening about S:30 and -was not
seen alive again. .
FORMAL LETTERS BETWEEN
THE PRESIDENT AND ALGER.
Each Wishes Uie Other Success and
Agree to Part in August.
WASHINGTON, July .-The follow
Ing is Secretary Alger's letter ot re.
ig nation and the president's reply to (t:
The secretary said:
July 19, m-3tr: I oeg to tender to
you my resignation of the office of sec
retary of war, to take effect at aucb a
'time in th near future as you may de
c'Ja the affrs of thta department will
permit.
In terminating my offlotel connection
ilh your ad-ninHrratton. I wish tor your
continuous health and Uie btghectt mat,
ure ot success In carrying out Uie great
work en:rjs:d to you. R. A. ALGER.
The pri.wid.MK replied:
July at), 1SI9. Your reshjnation of the
office of secretary i war, under data of
July 19, is accepted, to take effect the
tlrst of August, ISa).
In thus severing the official relations
which have continued for more than two
years. 1 desire to thank you for the
faithful service you have rendered this
country at a most exacting period and
M wish you a long and happy life.
Witih atirinces ot my regard and
esteem, I am yours, sincerely,
WILLIAM M Kl-NLEY.
ANOTHER OF THOSE VICTORIES.
'MANILA. July a.-ll:I5 a. ro. New.
has been received here from General
Smith at Ilo Ho. IsUnd of Panay, of
severe fighting on Wednesday at Bobon.
gan between Cap'.aln Byrne, of Uhe Six.
teenth infantry, wtth 10 men, and a force
of 130 Babaylones, who surprised the
American troop. One hundred and fif
teen of the enomy were killed and (he
American ! was one man killed and
one wounded.
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delicious and wholesome
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