The evening world., 1889-01-26
the TIE-Up STILL ON
President Richardson Will Try to
Run No Cars To-Day,
Strikers Determined, But Main
tanning Their Good Order.
Apparent Lack OF Americans to Answer
the Deacon's Advertisement.

The striking. car conductors and drivers Of
the Atlantic Avenue Railroad in Brooklyn
are keeping very quiet and are awaiting de-
v%elopments.
President Richardson is still confined at
his home, but he Is not i'll enough to be pre-
vented from engineering the course of the
Company.
He issued an address to the men last night
in which he says men who apply for work to-
day will be taken back, and in case they do
not apply new men will be placed in their
positions.
Commissions Donovan arrived last even
ing and Immediately proceeded to the Office
Of the Company. He saw Secretary Rich
ardson, and it is said that no
settlements were proposed by either side.
Secretary Richardson gave his side of the
strike and that is about all there was done.
Then the Commissioner held q conference
with the Executive Board of District Assem-
bly, 10. He will remain in Brooklyn until
matters are satisfactorily adjusted.
The Executive Board of IS, con-
sisting of Messrs. Thomas j. Cooper. Patrick
Relllhan, Thomas +. Byrnes. Andrew d.
Best and August Wilson, have opened head
quarters on Flatbush avenue, near the Com
pany's Office.
The men issued yesterday a statement in
they cannot now retract and do justice
to themselves. They say that President
ports of the Company filed at Albany show
that his roads have been making money.
The Deacon's advertisement for 800 Ameri-
cans to operate, HIS horse cars did
not bear much fruit. Either there
unemployed, or they are dislnclined to work
for the Company. for only II quarter of that
number applied for work this morning.
Every man. in making out his application,
was required to state that lie was an American
citizen, and i'll addition to signing an applica-
ton for work each applicant WAS required to
sign his name to an agreement drawn up and
printed by the Company.
The reporters We're refused q copy of this,
but an EVENING WORLD man learned that IL
was al agreement to work on the trip system,
at so much "A trip. 1t also bound the luen to
work more than ten hours, if necessary to
the Company S interests. Here are the prices
per trip that each man will be paid:
Filth, Seventh and Ninth avenue lines to
Fulton Ferry, % At cents per trip; Fifth,
Seventh and Ninth avenue lines to Brooklyn
Bridge, 20 cents per trip; Bergen street line,
cents per trip: the Crosstown and Fifteenth
street lines, lS 2-l0 cents per trip.
Working ten hours a day under this sched-
nle, il the men could obtain straight runs,
NOHlu nc t'luUi w " u way , DuI IL hISI uuN y
run proved 81. 10 to be the highest average of
actual earnings for n man.
Each of the applicants signed n request that
they be allowed to work n full number of
trips.
Early in the morning a crowd began to
congregate around the general Office ON
Atlantic avenue. By 8 o'clock there were
probably five hundred people there and two
solitary policemen looked lonesome and
scared.
This crowd was composed of the strikers
and their friends. and strong but orderly ef-
forts were made to prevent any Of the appli,
cants for positions from entering the office.
At 10 o'clock Secretary Richardson jumped
off n Third avenue car. He was fol
lowed by five Italians. who attempted
to go with him to the office. In
a twinkling the crowd closed around the
five. They were hustled around the corner,
and when Mr.. Richardson looked for them
they had disappeared. The men were sent
back on the next car.
Secretary Richardson, When he arrived at
his Office, was Immediately surrounded by
reporters. To them he said the Company
would make no attempt to run q car to-day.
And why notI" asked THE EVENING
WORLD representative.
Because we WON'T was the reply.
The men claim that q car has to be run be-
fore 4 O'Clock tomorrow morning or else the
Company's charter will be forfeited, and al
soon as they learned of the Company's edic'
thew surmised that the Deacon WAS going Il
play fox and run n car tonight. whom there
would be most likely less trouble.