New-York tribune., 1886-01-07

many people seeking transportation as cOulu
find accommodation. People literally packed In
| the trains as tightly sardnes. They filled every
available inch OF space the platforms. The doors
couid not be closed The panng engines required al
the steam they could make draw their neavy burdens
and had none to spare for heating the With
steam, cold wind rushing through the doors and such
overcrow ding the elevated railroad trains furnished
about the most uncomfortable shel.er that New York
could provide If ransacked from the Battery to Harlem.
III the managers intended to give the people some idea OF
the Inconvenience that general strike would causo
their plan emincntly successful People who were
wise and gifted with power of making mathemati-
cal calculations beooE themselves to the horse-cars
when they learned that trains were running the
Second and Ninth roads. The src6tcars in con
sequence did q rusnng business. and tho conductors
| ruefully regretted the days when there me-
cbanical checks to knocking down" But in their
prise ut the unexpected influx of passengers they did
casiOnaly forget TO ring the bell The drivers wished
| that they belonged to the Locomotive Brotherhood.
Look at the difference atweeu u.s., said one of them
| wOfuy; them feers is kicking cause they sometimes
has ter work litte moren eight hours day. and we
feers has work fourteen and fifteen hours day and
If we kick an strike we don't stan no show. Don't
| wish wer' al engIneer!"
From away ur own down to Fourteenth-s ST. in the
morning commission hours the platforms were black
with people who had bonght tickets and many OF whom
had been waiting half an hour aud more for chance to
ride. In many cases there almost many people
waiting the stairs and the side walk for chance TO
buy Many people who had dropped their tickets
in the boxes got disgusted with the long waiting aud
took to the But they couldn't get tner fares
made the objects of much unmercd abuse despite
| their meek protest that they werc only "obeying
| orders" some people who had bought tickets in
mutation hours aud couldn't board ca until loug after
Thought that they getting a 1O-cent ride for
| cents But onys philosopher could avail himsef OF
Meanwhile many OF the engineers who had gathered
usual In the yards OF the Ninth and Second Avenue
| ad a rsel
genuine triumph when messengers were sent securing
after them bidding them TO TO work again. Owing 10
the trouble in getting the engines underway
| time before the trains were again rnnning on fn
In evening" the people WHO mad expected repetition
OF the Of the morning were agreea9y surprised to
| find the Old order Oi things rc-esta Dllshed
superintendent Murray at $3.50 a. m sent ont gen
ALARM ordering the of patoons on duty IN antcipa
on of strike the elevated roads lie sald later that
the reserves would be kept IN the police stations until
No rbnuest for poce rejection had ade by the
OF the roads bat he thought best TO have the
police ready The order Will keep about 800 policemen
| In the STATIONS at all hours.
7. W. Peoples master mechanic. was seen by TRlB-
UNE reporter late in the afternoon. He said: was
thunderstruck when received the order to resume run
ming trains the Second and Nnth-ave ro0ds IL was
so unlocked for had expected that strike would take
place as the conference OF tho committee ended
had prepared myself for it, In the morning can
all telling them that those that went
with the strikers should never have another days work
by pany. OF course Of these were Brother
hood men. | knew there was no use talking to them;
they will be compelled to out when ordered TO 90 SO.
The fremen that belong the fremens organization
told them that they would have TO cut nsit or sh that
wanted TO know hOw't they Stood. with those that
promised stay and the new men we had hired fe,
confident that could have operated the Third and
sixth roads on 5-nmutc hcadvay during the
commission hours II compelled to the Second
and Ninth ave ia ease Of strike the headSay on Tho
somewhat longer aud the hcadway ON the other two
cities for help, however and could have been
running ali right The change in the programlne has
strike though yesterday positive OF 1t. The fire
losing great opportunity IN going out with the
engineers as some OF them are as CONF eieh 10 run en-
gnes the thcy t-o for. The tains were ran all
right this morning ani there not the delays that
are reported; all the way stations we're cleared up
promptly. The only trouble was nj south Ferry We
The hallway leading to Colonel Hams office No. Il
Broadway, was crowded at early hour by persons who
Ui tne as tSe Coone and Gala
stationed at an outside door with INSTRUCTIONS to
.ad: 81 have Io'itlvely nothing tnat l wish |
t. max make ,ov public re,d.o this cav matter abH
thin i5ns N a5out -1'R i" Colonel Hahn wa va. s %st
too refused to talk in reference to conference the
probable action Of the company
John O'Donnell i the RaiI Dad Commissioner Who ap
proved the fare bill in 1893 and made minority
report that eject. lie at the Fifth Avenue
SAID "sceng the card OF Superintendent Hahn anuOunc
ing the dscontnuance of tue running OF trains on the
second and Ninth roads In the morning papers.
called at his On.ce about $3.50 III to inquire II tho
order was official and II the trains were to be dlscon
referred me TO Vice President GailaWay on making
known my business TO Mr. Cailaway ne stated nj length
his din Guilty with the engineers and said that
nc upon authentic information that the trains ON
the roads to he stoped day by the engineers
abandoning them at any place they happened to be- On
this account he thought 1t was better for the public to
in advance OF strike so that he could concentrate
his forces and keep the more Important lines open to tic
public. lie had acted he thought solely for the pub
ic said that IL part OF the duty OF the state Com
mission 10 that the railroads were run 70 accommo
the nbc, and further TO see that the company did
not violate its charter; that considered It my duty
Of the BUard 10 say to him that was clear viola
,t s ~ strike fIrnished no snGIcent asti
icaoD for such aet that the cOnIa bound by
the roads for the use OF the people failure to do so
in whole or In part would he violation OF
its charter and sul ject II to an action on the
aud possibly TO indictment or mandamus. further
stated that deemed II my duty to protest against the
stoppage of the trains and to request him to resume In
event Of refusal to do should telegraph the indvid
nal members Of tho board to ask them to come to New
case. {" Mr.. Galloway was courteous. saying he had
request ne would resume runing the trains once and
calling for Colonel Hahn he issued the order II he had
at once to the other Commissioners, The
had Sdsa .ss aTT a a1& 9acS
IT, This is our remedy The act creating the Board 50
states. II says in Section 3:
Ta a sPph , gS s@y or
law neglect respec, OF partcnlsr % compy with
The terms tho act by wheh M Ts created % or aasy dis
W It's q DcOrporatipn granted refuses 70
any OF said Eoar Of Commissioners they
notice thereof writing 20 such corporation. and
violation neglect s continued after such notice tbo
Board forthwith present the isc To the Attorney Cen
who shall take such proceedings thereon may De
net essaTy for the protection 0f public interests
Even II there had been strike they would have had
right abandon the running OF trains on those nes
they would still be compelled to run them as best
they could under the circumstances and use every OF
their TO accommodate the public or course
the law does not expect iHPossbilitles Judge Noah
Davis the opinion OF the General Torn i'll the
OF The People agt The NewYor Central and Hudson |
River Railroad Company, which arose from strikes on
that road He said
1--WE cannot bring our miro to entertain doubt that
corporation Il cOmpelDle by andamu5 TO exercise
carrier OF freight ana passengers and thai The
rests equally hrmy the ground that
that duty public trust which having been conferred by the
the
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