Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-04-20
THE "TIs.UP" GENERAL

At New York-EmpIoyss Compeiied to
Striks-Cars Demolished.
NEw YORK. April l9-In accordance
With the order of the Executive Board OF
the Empire Association ,hc following street
car lines were it'd up thi1 morning
Second, Third, Foucth, Sixth and Seventh
avenues, Broadway. Belt LINE, Avenue C..
Dry Dock, E lst B.osdwag aud Battery,
Becker street aud Fulroa Ferry, Central
cross town. Chambers street sna Grand
Street Ferry, Christophe, aud Tenth
streets, Forty second s'rseE Manhattan
vile and st. Nicholas sv-nuc; Forty sec
oud stree, and Grand street ferry, Houston
street, West street and Pagoaia Jerry.
Tbirty.tourth street; Tsenty-third street
cross town, Forty street cross town.
The Eighth and Ninth avenue lines are ex
cep,ed because they have no grievances.
A number of the men who took The
plsce4 OF the strikers Saturday, are today
suffering from blackened eyes. bruised
heads and broken zios They sll tell stories
Of bow they we're met BY gang OF strikers
and assaulted
DIsSENSIONS AMONG STRIKERS.
The employees Of the Dry Dock liue state
that they left work becsase they were or
d.rel to do so BY the committee ald not
because they had any grievances. The
| Forty-sscond street line men stopped TOR
the same reason; in fact the men on none
Of the lines, with the exception o. the
Third avenue line, have any complaints to
make in regard to their hours or pay. The
general "tie al" was ordered 80 az 10 force
the directors of the Third avenue line to
yield 10 the demands Of the strikers. The
men ordered out on q number Of the lines
teel very bitter over the action Of the COM
mittee in stopping sll cars, and state that
the general tie.up business is being run
into the ground.
! About 4:30 this afternoon the Third
avenue line started the first of 25 cars they
pronosed TO run over the line. Inspector
| Byrses and four men were on the platform:
| Az Sixty fourth street big fellow rushed
ont and grasped the horses by tie bits and
drew a knife to cut the reins. he had moi
accomplished his purpose when lnspeetor
ByrneS put him asleep with his club.
Tbs man was left senseless in the street
and the car vent on. The next car was
driven by a new driver aud when at FttT,
fourth street. the crowd OF strikers cheereo
and ;sersd in derision. The turGalt grew
gres; sr and finally the crowd began hurl
inr bricks from q new building on the
corner. The windows were mashed
and the car demolished. Two officers
we're hurt By missiles. Tie police ther
charged the crowd sud seven OF then
were injured. Eight prisoners we're tsseE
and in the pockets OF tSo OF them wer,
found licenses as drivers OF the tourti
avenue line, the men of which road hsT
no grievance and are out because ordere'
to tie up.
/ WHAT DO The DUDES NEAS2
The Telegram says several OF the q
town clubs have made up list OF 2O
! fashionable young men OF their member
! ship who will tomorrow take out hcens
and volunteer to drive cars for the tied 2
] lines without pay, on the sole proviso thS
] the public shsH be allowed I Tree
, charge.
{ And In Brooklyn, Too.
New YoRE, April l9-I, is understood
that orders have been issued to tie up
street car lines in Brooklyn to-morrow,
|. sympathy with strikers On tie New Ior
e roads.