The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-08-28
THE WHEELS GO ROUND
THE STREET CAR STRIKE ENDED
In New York CIty-A Compromise Erected
on the Broadway Surface and Belt
Line Roads = Early Morning Dis
turbances Quickly suppressed.

New YoRE, August 27,-The street rail
way troubles are not yet settled by an!
means, as the situation at the BslE'lin'
depot, on Tenth avenue and FiIty.thirC
street shows, Crowds OF angry men lint
Tenth street for three or four blocks OF
either side Of the depot and they looL
desperate and determined. Squads o
police arc kept moving about from time
to time to quell inCipient riots and pre-
vent injury to persons and property. Tht
residents along Tenth avenue are hard
listed working people, and they have nc
sympathy whatever for railway corpo
ration. Police Sergeant Combes has l2(
men on the ground, squads pstrolllnl
about and reserves lying in the depot fol
emergencies. Occasionally some lucklesE
fellow gets a thrashing because thestriRer
and their allies think he Is trying to get q
Job on the Belt liue road, and the police
are called to quell the disturbance. TG'
day "sCab" was hung in eiigy IN Iwen'
ty.tiith street, and q crowd yelled like
pandemonium around 1t. Word was sent
TO Sergeant Combes and y aquad OF police
men was DISPATCHED to the scene, The
crowd was dispersed and the officers re-
turned to the depot.
1t was understood that Commissioner
Donovan, Of the State Board OF Arbltra'
ton, who settled the Broadway strike,
would meet tho Belt Line officers at II
o'clock, but 1t waa known that meeting
oil directors was announced for II, This
caused the crowd TO keep quieter than
usual because 1t knew negotiations for q
settlement could be- made until alter the
directors meeting.
The Broadway cars started out as usual
this morning under the new twelve hour
schedule, but the green hands manned the
fist car out. Everything passed along
smoothly until somo OF the old hands
found that they were crowded out by the
new ones, when a "kick" began and the
police were called. The green men Com.
planned that the old drivers and ConduC'
tors kicked and Culed them about, Police
Inspector Steers thought the newly meIl
did not require special protection and told
them to take their places in the line. Al
~ o'clock all was quiet on the Broadway
line and the cars are running regularly.
Through the mediation OF State ArbltrS'
tor Donovan an agreement was reached
late this afternoon by which 1t is under
stood the tie up on the Belt line will be
declared off this evening, and the cars
will resume running tomorrow morning.
The details are not known, but 1t is said
they involve some concessions to the men.
Certain 1t Is the police have been with
drawn, and the inspector in charge told
outsiders the strike was over.
The drivers and conductors Of the
broadway roads, through q committee,
proposedt 10 PreGident Thompson tonight
that the old schedule OF five trips per day
should be restored and that ia lieu Of his
surrendering the six trip scheme, which
the men declared impossible OF execution,
they (the men) would agree to a
reduction OF wages from 81 25
which Is now the rate OF wages per day,
to So per day, which Is the prevailing
price on the city roads. President
Thompson signiAed his willingness to
accept this and the committee that made
| 1t went before the assembly tonight Ia
have 1t ratified as 1t undoubtedly will be,
though the meeting was yet in session al
midnight.
Tho Belt line stables are quiet tonight
At q conference OF the representatives ol
the Belt line and strikers at ROssmore
hotel tho basis Of settlement 30 far as de-
vulged Is an agreement by the road to take
back all the men. Three trips will con
stitute a days work and the men will
be paid by the trip, and all trips shall be
made to the South Ferry instead OF tht
old slip. The reduction in the wages O
the car cleaners aud stablemen will re
main. The result is regarded as favorable
to the men, who resume at4:3O tomorrow