New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-04-19


section Of track inside the stable and was making oher
preparations for resuming work to-day. He said:
do not know how many will be able to run To-
morrow but 1 think We Will make good show. Every
thing is going along nicely and certain winners
In the stable and other parts OF tho depot few men
at work. The 800 horses all secured In
their stalls aud looked happy the long rest that the
strike had given them The 100 Italians who had taken
the places OF the striking nostlers have their
hands full and 1t is only at the expense OF
mucn loud talk and free profanity that the stable
the horses properly cared for The
company has been able to get its feed department In
good working order and all the men IL wants. The
depa supplied yet and Mr. Lyon mas
decided advertise all the papers for drivers horsc
shoers carbuiers, harness makers and miller, assnr
Ing possible applicants steady work II they prove COM
petent and they will be displaced when the
striking employees work In the afternoon Pres
dent Lyon, Wee President Hart. Directors Hall and
Lauterbach aud Superintendent Robertson he!d
a long conference in the superlntendehts $
room. Tho determination expressed that the
company would maintain It's position at all hazards
President Lyon said that he received communca-
tions from all the country aud they all commended
him for the stand had taken and urged him TO re-
main firm. lie had also received visit from an official
OF city railway company not surface road, however
Offering any assistance possible The rumor started
by the strikers that Jacob Sharp had visited MI Lyon
denied by him.
After the consultation Af Lyon sau' VIC "io !"
splendid shape. number OF new drivers have been
engaged and we will start out between sixty and
seventy-Gve cars tomorrow. The strike Is
practically broken and you may say ior
me that there will be no brooms
bands in this business The strikers arc now
out OF the employ of the company by their own ACT
and will not be taken back in body Ihey must Apply
sderaton We did any cars to-day by advice or
superintendent Murray. He told US that II we wished
to he would that they were protected, Dut
| ha might
aud there possibility OF bloodshed ana great ue
strucon OF property We asked MI Murray II ne wTud @
rather not do that but would make statement to- the
| Railroad Commissioners IL II was necessary. In all
probability he will be witness before the Commission
| tomorrow.
Mr. Lyon also said that OF the men had com
planned that they had been threatened Three men, led
1t is said by striker named Hogan. who formerly drove
No 3, attempted to throw one OF the drivers down
the steps Of the Elevated Railroad station at Sixty
seventh-sL Conductor Blank complained that some OF
the strikers had threatened to take his lie while ne was
No. Il at Eightyifth-st. on his way 70 Har.ein
One OF the men was swchman from the Eightl-ave;;
road aud the other was cabe-srlp man No. 10 ono o., Oh
the new drivers was hit tho t0ss eye se ss
nG aupy M for Warrants or tho Of
| the men. He said addition: "A fight had to come
discipline al all possible The stablenen would leave
the stable when they felt like 1t and come DacK ~ne
they disposed On Thursday night, just before
the e-up one OF drivers stopped at Eigheth-
ST. and Thrdave.. went into Darroom and got drink
strated with him and told that II it not all right
he could make 1t all right II he was able hardly uared
|
There was a considerable number OF lounger'
around tho depots at Onehundred-and- -thrtieth-
St and sixty .lfth.st all day long, but no
attempt at disturbance Captain Gunner si,a Dai
twenty-five IN aid about the stables at Sixty-nith-
st. but they had little 10 do Captain Hooker had charse
OF the thirethst stable and his men
had easy job OF It, Some of the of platoons on the
| East Side were permitted to 20 nome lot who
yeserdap the West Side kept IN the houses
FOR any possible emergency. All the reserves Will DC on
duty again tnis morning. and the same arrangements
will he made for the protection OF property as were made
Oh Friday and Saturday A.,
The Railroad Commissioners are stopping at the
Murray Hill Hotel Mr.. Herman expressed hi, opinion OF
the situation yesterday to TRIBUNE reporter as
| follows:
our duty in the matter ia simple and plain We must
find out IN the first place II the company Is hol sNs
the public the service which 1t has right TO demand
The mere that the do run s not necessarily
violation OF the charter We have the right To inves
tgate the cause OF the apparent failure 10 @ In & onS
charter duties and to see II the company MAKING every
| reasonable effort properly to man ITS road III IL IS
| then there is no violation OF the charteri II not
there Is violation. ana Is our duty 70
| Inform 1t that unless rt performs Its duty we
shall make a report to the Attorney General. recon-
nendng him action ia the The decision In
the case against the Newly Central 70 d By the SUI
preme Court that a strike OF employees was not sum-
cien for failure TO perform charter duties, To
which anson has been made does not seem TO DC prop
ery understood The ground for that decision was hat
| the New-Iork Central made no reasonable attempt 10
fill the places OF the striking frelghthandiers lhey
simply stood still The law in this respect might be
| that all the cars OF the Third Avenue ROAD
were burned up at ;na3r.a, once. 1ou,, failure mGs
be violation Of the charter bat If the managers were
to hagge with the carbuIders about the price OF new
cars aud road idle any longer than was aDs0-
utely necessary then there would DO Violation. II
the principle was established that the charter OF road
would be forfeited unless II rau complement OF cars
Immediately after strike, when all Its employees nhd
mercy employees and they could force the accept
Of outrageous terms.