The New York herald., 1878-12-19
THE THIRD AVENUE STRIKE.
CONTINUATION or THE DRIVERS REVOLT, WITH
OUT ANY SERIOUS coNsEQuENcEs-ARRAIGN-

CONTINUATION OF THE DRIVERS REVOLT, WITH
OUT ANY SERIOUS coNsEQuENcEs-ARRAIGN-
MENT or SOME OF THE STRIKERS IN COURT.
The depot of the Third avenue street car railroad
of almost much excitement yesterday
as on the previous day in the number of drivers
who gathered around the precincts and in the
force OF police who swarmed inside and out
side of the building There was no work
for the police, and the drivers confined
themselves to peaceable discussion of the situation.
The latter argued that while it possible their
action seriously inconvenient to the public this
further and heartless conduct OF the company in re-
ducing their wages below the price it costs them to
live was much for human nature to stand The
general admission that the drivers had the right
their side but the policy Of proclaimng strike at
such unfortunate season OF the year gravcly
questioned Under the rule the drivers would
earn each 81 30 day for about fourteen hours
work. and this amount. for with family OF
three four children, is considered wholly made
quate. One Of the drivers said:-"The cause of the
strike is the determination OF the company to break
up this organization. which has long opposed them
in the matter of reducing the mems wages. All
they seem to for is money and they will not stop
at any dirty action to got it out of tho passengers or
the employees. They make out Of each Of the 200
the road from $40 to S25 daily, while the working
expenses are only about Sll each. The road makes
clear profit of $4,000 a day, and yet they arc thus
intent cutting down the wages of their drivers.
HANDS DISCHARGED
Those men who were advised by some OF the COM
panys officers to so to work yesterday morning
discharged and the new men whom they employed to
break in were retained in their places. Over If
teen OF the old drivers got rid of
in this manner The feeling against Mr.. Phillips
the president Of the road still very bitter he is
to reduce the mems wages His own salary, they
say. is $4,000 and with all his perquises his in
come exceeds that OF the President OF the United
States.
Mr. Henry Hart. vice-president of the road. said
been dictated to long enough by the men. and they
proposed now to dictate trihe themselves. He re-
errcd to certain acts OF incendarsm that had been
committed, and said that the company was
threatened with various kinds of rascality
and it resolved to take stand against budozing
in every shape. Mr.. Hart is reported to be worth
several millions, and people think he might be
little more generous than he app appears ,,,,. 70 pe
IN nI, his treatment rin rhs @ mara %ofXs th
drivers named Henry Potts. who resides at
1876 Third avenue boarded OF the at Eighth
street and assaulted Charles Moore, new driver.
Officer Reilly OF the Fifth precinct arrested him and
he was locked up in the Fifty ninth street station
Yorkvile Police Court and held by Judge Flammer in
$500 bail.
BLUNDERs uNsKILLEp DRIVERS.
Down town. owing to the greenness Of the drivers,
there was considerable confusion. The wrecking
seemed to be i'll constant request and no sooner was
a broken down car removed than another seemed
not only to the Third avenue line but to
that of all the Others concentrating at the
Post Office. At different parts of the road switches
were found to be displaced and the new drivers had
to keep constant watch not only upon their horses
but also the track itself for distance ahead,
in order to prevent delay and accidents
The secretary of the Third Avenue Company, Mr..
Lewis, said that the full number OF cars was running
schedule time and that the new men seemed to
take to the work readily He was in apprehension
of further trouble and thought the traffic the road
would not be impeded.
Car No. 81 ran into a coal cart at about FIVE O'Clock
in the afternoon and, after striking the coal cart
slid off and collided with post Of the elevated
railroad, which caused good deal Of excitement.
The was so badly demolished that it had TO
be hauled of and the debris left on the street.
About halfpa seven o'clock when car - was pass
ing sxtythlrd street shot was fired which causeda
crowd to gather i'll the neighborhood. The car
stopped Immediately, and the people assembled
on the sidewalk imagined that the driver.
Walter Hyde, himself shot, his residence
directly opposite to where the event took place.
After good deal of investigation discovery was
made as to who the perpetrator Of the outrage was.
but the darkencd windows in front of where the
currence happened gave rise to the suspicion that
the perpetrators Of the act were there concealed.
Several OF the drivers Of the Bcecker street road
called at the office OF the Third Avenue Railroad Com
pany with claim for damages caused by the new
drivers of the Third Avenue Railroad Company rum
ming into their vehicles and more or less damaging
them.
Mr. John Farrell, President of the Car Drivers
Union, said:-..The men are more determined to-
night than They met this evening at No. 1883
Third avenue and their strength increased by the
discharge of SOME of the old men. and
mittee appointed receive aid and subscriptions
from employees OF other roads and from
citizens in general who have come here
and volunteered to subscribe to aid the in their
fight against the road. This committee will be in
sion from eight A. NJ till ten r. NJ at No. lU93 Third
to receive subscriptions and aid as their sub
scribers may extend them. The names of the COM
mittce subscriptions are as follows:-Thomas Bir
mingham. Patrick OConnor, Thomas Cody. Peter
Brown, Cornelius Culheene, Daniel w. Macer and
Patrick Conway.
Two men jumped on the front platform of Third
No l47 at Eighth street shortly after mid
night yesterday morning and assaulted Charles
Moore. driver One of them hit him the
back OF the head with his hst and the other
took out the coupling pin and tried to I'M
hitch the team Moore, however held to the
reins and defeated their purpose. officer Reilly. who
happened to be on the ear and whose presence had
not been noted arrested of the after "A short
chase. his comrade escaping. In the station house
the prisoner said his name james Potts, but in
the Fifty Street Court later in the day, he
changed it to John Purcell of No. l27G Third
for the past ten years but OF the recently
disc hnrged He was fined SlO and placed under $500
bail to keep the peace for the next slx months.
CHANGED MIND.
Charles Moore driver the Third avenue street
line. taken before Judge Wandeil, ut the
Essex Market Police Court yesterday, charged with
being drunk and disordery. He said hc was one Of
the strikers and could not help being drunk.
Ten dollars or ten days said the magistrate.
The man made q move to pay his fine.
"Oh, II you're going TO pay your hne said His
Honor, you III Lave to furnish S:jDD bail for your
good behavior. Iguess you had better go to prison
ten days. You can get sober in that time"