Mass Meeting Of Strikers

A mass meeting of the striker3, friends and sympathizers was held at the Athenaeum at Eighth and Clinton streets. Tho house was packed to the doors. Henry George was the chief speaker. He said if the municipality owned the roads and taxed land values the railroads would be free to the people. Representative Jerry Simpson, who also spoke, urged tho audienco in the future to vote the Populist ticket. One of the principal planks in the Populist platform was the ownership of the railroad, telegraph and telephone ] Unes by the governruent. By Charles H. Matchott, socialist candidate for governor of New York last November, a plea was made for socialism as going farther in the government ownership line than any other party. Resolutions were adoptod donouncing "theheart]ess and avaricious corporations for haviug thrown the entire community into confusión, involving immenso pecuniary loss and pauperizing a vast numbor of people; demanding that the attorney genral of the state begin proceedings to anïul the charters of the railway corporaions and that upon the forfeiture of said harters all city railroads should be opeated by the city of Brooklyn or by repon sible lessees. The day was not entirely free f rom urbulence. Company G, of the Fortyevcnth regiment, was obliged to disperse crowd of 5U0 p rsons. Thomas McGrary, a striking motorman, was discovred placing stones on tho track. A crowd gathered and jeered at the offlcers. McGrary was arrested in spito of their protests. Quito a nuinber of car Windows were along Myrtlo avenue without any arrests being made. Odil Fellows' hall, the headquarters of the strikers at Rldgewood, was thronged ll day, but the best of order was mainlaiued. Mostar Workman Murphy said thal his roen belioved n keeping Sun iy For íirst timo in t.vo weeks cara ■ nin ; oi) the Richmond liill mid Li.i :■ CenieUiry lins of tho B.-ooklyn Krriht Railroad cemstei brtiocb oí i (irookiy, j Coflntv hxI'I Snlmrbe 'flie uni ■ Labor unión Imid n ün-eting thuC i -'m) wil t,i l uv-'.it ihe liüos i volved in strike, pH Cing iinc on uii.v nieinlj'r canght rulini on thei The proposilioD Contieilv is Co makt' rr tho compan e-i thal the men are rti;.y i.o go to woru is with ihe obj"cc i nmking Judge G iy.,or'.s wrii mandatory ,■;- tlve propositiou wül uikf awtiy every excuse the compiinics hnvet'or nol rtinnine cara on schedulc limo. The sirikers wil) mstirutc proceedins against the corapantes fof workin men more ihnn icn lioursaday, vvüilc prominent oitizens are movinf; to hayu the oompanies' cliarrers forfeitod for violaiir.tr the same. Anoliior question that will to. tested i.s whether the oompaniee can hire i raen froni other statoa to Dake the places of strikers