Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-23
THIRD AVENUES STRIKE.
The Order for n General Tie Up still
Held in Abeyance

| NEW YORK, April 22.-At 10 O'Clock
this morning 40 cars we're running on the
Third Avenue road. Five hundred police
were on hand. Half of them were posted
along the avenue, and half were massed
az the nearest station houses. Only two
! slight disturbances occurred. The result
OF the session OF the executive board of
the strikers on Wednesday night and
| Thursday morning was not announced
| to the men until this afternoon.
A representative of the executive
| committee states that the board has de-
termlned that the strike shall be confined
to the Third Avenue road unless in case
OF a combination OF the roads. The
strikers are warned to keep away from
| Third Avenue. During tue strike the
men will be paid from the funds of the
association as though they were at work.
The question of general tie-up will be
held in allegiance.
The Third Avenue cars stopped and the
stables were closed at 1880 o'clock to-
nj hit, an hour earlier than on Wednes-
day night, at the request of Inspector
steers, TO give the police needed rest.
Twenty officers were left to guard at the
depot. During the day IS cars were run
ming under four minutes Roadway to the
City Hall and under eight minutes head
way TO Harlem.
LODGED BY THE COMPANY.
All the newly hired men are lodged by
the Third Avenue Company in the depot
| building, where there are accommoda-
tons for nearly 1000 men. There are
cooking arrangements there also. One of
! the directors of the road says: ''There
| will be no meeting of the directors until
the regular monthly meeting. They have
made mp their minds as to their course OF
action, and are men who do not
1 change easily" Tonight ''pick.
ets'' OF strikers are on duty
all along Third avenue. The strikers had
a large meeting tonight, and afterwards a
| representative of the executive board
said: "All Of our men are with us. Not
one has gone hack since the strike began.
All oar men who have asked b ave received
full daily pay. Twenty of the company's
new men left to-day, and most of them
have joined the organization. More will
come outin the morning" Pr
HORSES DYING.
Over 20 horses have Gied in the stables
for want OF proper care since the strike
began, and a number of them have been
lyin in the yards since Saturday. Sew
enteen dead horses were lying there to-
day. The company has no horse shoes.
The company has been sending out horse s
without shoes, and this has called for
/ NIL Dtish lulSIieIenC6s ue ClllLenS Oh
New York need fear no violence from our
men for hall is hired for them, and none
hut our pickets Will be allowed on Third
Avenue until all the trouble is settled.
Pickets will be on duty day and night
from the City Hall to Harlem bridge, and
messengers will report tn the headquarters
of the men 100 East Eighty-sixth street
every hour.
200 MEN ON PICKET DUTY.
! About 200 pickets are on duty at one
time under command Of a most reliable
man, who has Is assistants. They are
| relieved every five hours. A picket " no
! finds any of our men on the avenue will
take him or them in charge and pass
them from one to another until
they reach the hall. At midnight all
was quiet about the stables of the COM
pany. Cars will commence running to-
morrow morning as they did to-day. A
meeting of the surface presidents which
was fixed for to-day was postponed.