The New York herald., 1876-10-25
STRIKE Or ENGINEERS.
Travel on the New Jersey Central
Paralyzed for a Day.
A WELL ORGANIZED PLAN.
Travellers Left in Rain, Solitude
and Darkness.
WHO is TO BLAME ?
Conflicting Explanations Of The Company
and Its Engineers.
THE DIFFICULTY SETTLED.
rravel Resumed Last Evening Along
the Road.
WHO is TO BLAME ?
Conflicting Explanations Of the Company
and Its Engineers.
THE DIFFICULTY SETTLED.
fravel Resumed Last Evening Along
the Road.

The strike OF the engineers on the New Jersey Gen.
vral Railroad and al its branches yesterday beginning
~ midnight OF Monday, occasloned considerable
Stcrnaton among the thousands OF people living along
the line Of the road and doing business In this cvy
The strike had much the usual origin of strikes-a
auction Of wages Its Inconvenience to the travelling
public not serious the strikers might have
anticipated To do them justice they selected hour
for dropping work that nteriered least with the passen
ger traffic Of the road, nearly all the trains In
THAT 1t was a preconcerted arrangement was
very evident as all the engineers OF coal,
freight and passenger trains. numbering over
1o0 threw up work precisely midnight and left their
engines just wherever they happened to BIO at the mo-
ment easy to conceive the misery entailed upon
those who coming through to New York from dis
tans points and lolt to SHIFT for themselves
lonely parts Of the road, where neither light nor
habtaton visible. AS may be seen in the course
Sf this report the company insists version OF
lhc difficulty and the engineers on another. IL will be
remembered that Mr. John Taylor Johnston,
late President OF the road resigned short
time since, and the road ITSELF As
well It's President were alleged
TO be seriously embarrassed 1t passed into the d.
rection among Others of several Philadelphia capital
sts and Its President Is Mr. Knight of that CITY,
Tho management determined upon turning the
economic screw and
CUTTING DOWN SALARIES AND WAGES
In every direction. That this scheme was entered
upon hastily and with view more to retrieve failing
reputation than to promote the best interests of the
road is the belief of people These engineers
admitted all hands be carefully selected and
perienced body Of men, and to cut down their
wages without warning was injudicious, 10 say
she least Tho officers OF tho company insist that
ak>t~c- mi
sannot be very wealthy class Of men, and unlikely
10 peril their prospects by strike for abstract idea
say that they accustomed 10 get certain figure
for round trip and that when they went last week to
draw their months wages they found this figure
duced 70 the amount Of about fifteen per cent that
she engineers on the Pennsylvania road work only
four days and II 10 called and they have TO work
there must bc msun nderstanding somewhere
Ex-Chancellor Williamson, OF New Jersey, who IL
counsel 70 the road and o1of the direcors said that
the strike OF The caused by
reduction OF wages He said the origin OF the trouble
was . demand Of the engineers, made last month"; In
regard TO having distinction made between driving
light and heavy enginss The President Of the road
refused them regard IT, and they considered
shis indignity. All the oncias of the road with
whom the HrRA.D reporter came in contact denied
that the engineers had suffered any reduction OF wages
and insmated that the strike was one Of puro 'cus
oeoncsR"
Observation-Disclosures IN rHE STRIKE.
The $50 passengers, men, women and children, who
and his nrcmen drew theirnrcs and vamoscd, Will not
be likely TO sympsthze with the strike. Every Of
riencc relate especially those who venlured throsgh
the rain and reach Jersey City, Most Of them,
however, brought philosophy TO bear upon the stua-
sion, and many joked and laughed over their expert
Mr. RIcxER's YoRErHoUGnr.
when Mr. Kicker, tho General superintendent OF tho
New Jersey Central learned tho state Of affairs he sent
despatch Mr.. Blake, the night OF the Penn
sylvania Railroad station asking him to send out
special train to Newark Elizabeth 100 OF the
CentraIs passengers. Mr.. Barker, The Division Super
inlendent OF tho Pennsylvania ROAD, instructed Mr.
Blake to receive the Central Railroad tickets Tor
iarc. The tram iet the station At seven min
utes past TWO O'Clock A. M. WITH only iorty-two
iions Tor the night In Jersey City and New YORK.
MOVEMENTS
The ferry house ut the New York side was thronged
In the morning O'Clock. The Passengers
Railed patiently thinking every hour would afford
worked hard 10 send or train ana finally got one
ready At half-past ten O'Clock. II was known that
tram had left Dunecn and one had lett Philadelphia
but II not certain when either would arrive Al
O'Clock the train from Dunecn rolled into the
depot shortly afterward 1t was ascertained by tele
graph that the train from Philadelphia would land
passengers at Cortlandt street. IL having
Pennsylvania road. By hslf-past eleven train con-
DstnR Of dozen coaches made up and despatched
n twenty minutes to twelve, the engine, No. 95 IN
eharge Of Thomas Peoples mechanical engineer OF the
road Eight iregh. and three passenger engines were
rescued and brought into Communipaw before
Al nalpast one O'Clock thrce-sectIon Philadelphia
tram was filled and despatched. The regular mail
lime. and the same hour train lett Tor Philade
phia
INCIDENTS STRIKE
The incidents OF the strike quite numerous. II
was midnight when q tram Of two and
locomotive LETT the Broad street (Newark) depot for
New York. When down the road a few miles the fires
drawn, the headlight put and the pair OF les
live jokers, engineer acd fireman, started for home,
leaving the passengers to their fate The conductor
rot being In the secret was In dreadful state OF
anxiety and he sent one man back TO
Newark to get another engine and started
10 report TO the Reral agent the situation OF Affairs
The upshot OF the that the agent found
and made himself useful IN procuring conveyances at
the nearest possible point to where the train de-
serted by its most responsible guardians The con-
ductor returned to The passengers they tickets and
gave them the order to fall into line and beat up along
carriages stood iu waiting. The twenty-five pas
sengers were crammed into four hackney coaches.
and the rascallv agent who had promised to redeem
their tickets made hand never returned. Tho unfor
tunate people were set down at the Market de-
pot Of tho pennsylvania Railroad, which closed,
and there they had 10 stand oPhours. many OF them
being dollcate ladies. who the pe.ed into them.
They were finally taken up BY the owl train, which
reached New York at half past i've In the morning
theatrical troupe included among the
In this break o. day trip from Newark.
STRIKE.
Along the route at the different ticket Offices de-
Bpatch stuck up stating that al engineers upon
the Central Railroad OF New Jersey and branches
struck twelve last night upon and half hours
notice. and no trains will be the said road
tss branches until further notice.
X. 4. KICKER, superintendent and Engineer"
The price or Me HERALD today ana nenceforn
nfu be three cents.
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