The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-06-06
NEW Y0RK'S GREAT TIE UP.
An ALMOST TOTAL SUSPENSION OF
H0RSE CAR TRAYEL.

Tine Empire ri secttvs Association
Make . Rola -frike 20 Bring the
Th8rd Avenue Road 20 TermsEThe
Cars t. Run Again To-day ProbsBsy.
tFsop. tie Associated Rressl
NEW YoRK, June 5.-Members of the
Empire Protective Association, With rer-
resenta men employed on all the car-liues,
gathered On First avenue last night and sux-
iously awaited the announcement Of the
result Of a meeting then in progress elss4
where Of the Executive Board. At four
o'olosk this morning. messenger rushed
IN among the assembled drivers. The,
doors were closed at once, and presestlf
tbs men filed out with stern faces, They
refused TO answer all questions till finally
the Chairman of the meeting was induced
to say what had been done.
g The Executive Board, +" he said, g have
osdered a general tic up Of all the surfass.
lines In this city and Brooklyn"
At the last meeting of the district it was
decided that when the new board was ap.
pointed, to give them two weeks to effect a
peaceful settlement. Falling in that. tho
last resource was the general tie-up. This
has been indicated before. The members
Of the car associations have felt the weekly
assessments burdensome, and have become
Sxasperated By the delays and inactlon Of
ed general tie-up as the remedy for she
ending Of the Third avenue strike, and re-
fused to listen to the conservative
snembers Of the board. With difHi
cflty the members have been induced
u postpone the tie-up until now.
The action taken by the Board is APP
proved of by the men. They say they
have done this to force the Third Avenue
Road, through the Intervention OF other
companies, to como to terms, and declare
that the fight will be forced all along the.
line. The old story OF combination be-
tween the car companies was alleged again
as one Of the eanses Of the strike. AL
though the order to Tie up the roads was
not sent ont 10 the roads until after thfee
o'clock this morning, by 80 a. m, it was
well known throughout the city. The
Police Department was posted on the facts
early, and by six .. m. every depoA YEAS
guarded by details of police The drivers
and others worked through the night as
usual until the time for tbs first day cars
to run in the morning.
The eject Of the general tle-up was, of
course, to drive crowds 70 the Third avsnue
line; and hosta Of men went to the ear sta
bles In the hope Of being put on a. extras.
The CompanY's officers, when questioned
5s to the effect upon the operations of that
line, declared that 1t would not change
their plans one iota; and Henry Hart was
quoted as having said he would sink his
whole fortune before be would yield to the
stfikers Three strikers who tried to force
the drivers off were arrested. Theyhaped,
is Was said, to persuade ninety of thesCom-
panys men to leave, and so bring them to
terms.
number Of men applied to the .BlSesker
street cross-tewn line for work. Supsrix-
tendent Mclean promised to employ some
Of them and went to Superintendent
Murray for police protection, and ears
manned with policemen were started out.
At noon twenty ears were running on the
cross town line and fifteen on the Bseecker
street line
\ Superintendent Newell of the Broadway
snd Seventh avenue road said the men tell
him they had to obey the ordtrs of the
Executive Committee, and that the places
Of tho old hands win not be held open
long. The Eighth and Ninth avenue roads
stopped at o'clock. If the. men return
the cars viii BE- run; if not, no effort will
be made 10 resume until Monday morning.
Their men are all Union men, Assistant
District Attorney Nicolls says the indlct-
ments found for conspiracy against the
Executive Board Of the Empire Protective
Association will be surely pressed 90 trial
as soon Is cases Of greater e1iminality have
been disposed of.
Up to o'clock this afternoon five cars
were run on the Fousth avenue road,
driven BY non-unlon men. No effort was
made to obstruct theM These cars we're
only run between Che Post Cfice and
Eighty-sixth street. The company posted
notice on their stables calling for men to
fill the places OF the strikers. No cars
were run on the Sixth avenue line to-day,
and no effort was made TO start them. TIE
company had 10 employ men to keep the
horses from starving One Of the Broad
way cars also made trip during the after
noon and was not melested. A car of the
Tenth street line was blocked with sand
and cellar DIRT being dumped on the track.
Boys were pelting the car With stones when
the police arrived and drove them away ).
The Obstruction WIS removed and the car
started. The man who dumped the ma
terial WAS arrested Further on the car was
brought to stop by wagon ad Of
stones, which. with the wagon, had been
uoset on the track. The police removed
the obstruction with some difficulty. JAS.
Mcdonald, Jacob Haskins, William Con-
way, and Michael Farley were arrested to.
day for impeding travel and assaulting
n0n-union drivers and were held for trial,
The employees of the Fifth avonye Stage
Co. struck to-day without assigning any
reason. Afterwards they Seturned t. work
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