, 1890-08-10
Second Day Of the Great New
York Central Strike.
Not a Freight Train Running
on the Entire Road.
Both Sides Confident of Win
ming a Victory.
Master Workman Powderly
Interviewed.
The New YORK Central Strike,

New YORK, Aug. 9.-The first train
which left the Grand Central depot this
morning passed out at 4 a. m. -Four cars
were attached. occupied by mail sorters.
No passengers were aboard. The tie-up
on the road is complete. Every train
man, switchman, engineer and conductor,
except those necessary to attend to the
running of mail trains, chopped work on
the order of the executive board of dis
trict assembly 246. The men. by mutual
consent, agreed to furnish enough assist
ance to allow the mail trains to run, but
determined that not a single passenger
nor a pound of freight should be carried
after 7 last night. From 4 until $3.50 no
trains were run. This morning at 9
o'clock a great number OF train hands
Labor reported at the yard for work.
They were instructed to set about clearing
the tracks. They we're compelled to get
off the cars at Motthaven, instead of
coming into the Grand Central depot, as
usual and had to rely upon the accemmo-
VI tat ASNast "a u blAICt
cars to bring them down town.
Five freight trains lett over the West
Shore road last night The strikers all
conducted themselves in an orderly man
ner. They say they are determined not
to work until the discharged men are re-
instated. The executive board of district
assembly 246 was in session all night. In
spector Byrnes remained at his post all
night. Today he had detectives all along
the bridges and in the tunnels.
On the river front from Fifty ninth to
,Sevepty-ninth streets all the barges and
boats of the company are tied up. Great
loads of coffee and sugar are waiting to
be moved. Here again the company was
surprised at the strength OF the knights.
1t was not known how many ofthe freight
handlers on the docks were members. yet
on one dock alone seventy eight men quit
work. Seven hundred men will be
obliged to quit work on recount OF the tie
up in the Hudson street yard of the com
pany.
There was considerable improvement in
the situation at the Grand Central depot
this morning. The notice Announcing
the temporary suspension of passenger
traffic was taken down. Between 6 and 10
O'Clock seven trains came In, some were
through trains and others local, made up
OF cars stalled at Harlem and Mott
haven.
Vice President Webb said he did not
think the matter would assume gigantic
proportions; that men would be found to
man the trains. The majority of those
who have left are switchmen and yard
men, and their places are being filled as
rapidly as possible. Five through passen-
ger trains were sent out this morning.
The New York & New Haven. though
not tied up, is blocked for about ten
miles out until it leaves the main New
York Central track.
The New York and Harlem ticket
Office is closed. No trains vent out on
that branch. New York Central officials
feel confident that the interruption to
travel will be of short duration.
Wetb said the com 0any would fight to
the end. The men who stood by the
company would under no consideration be
DISCHARGED when the trouble is over. Al
ready 200 lave returned. He estimated
the number out at between 400 and 500.
At the yards of the West Shore rail
road everything is reported all right
Trains are arriving and departing on time.
At 1l:3O Webb said: Everything is
running smoothly. In fact" he said.
thookh Wao sCig oaubuihC CoiA1 hhis
morning that matters would go all right,
they have gone better than l expected.
We arc turning men away now; there are
more applications for work than places to
fill.
Not a single freight train lett the yards
to-day and none arrived. Webb will make
a effort to run freight trains
Monday, both on the West Lhore and the
New York Central. I'VE will hold a
meeting tomorrow Webb said, land
decide what we will do in regard to
freight trains / think we will have
enough men by Monday to get every
thing in good running order. / am well
satisfied with the way in which the
passenger trains were sent out to-day,
and | don't think we will have any more
difficulty with freight trains"
j. j. Holland spent most of the day IL
the Grand Union hotel in conference with
representative strikers. He told the re-
porters he could not say anything about
the probabilities for Monday beyond that
the men would fight hard. He could not
tell, he said, whether the Brotherhood Of
Locomotive Engineers would call out their
members or not.
There were many statements made to-
day regarding the number on a strike.
The men themselves said there were 1900
or 1000. while the railroad official:
maintained tBhe were but 300 or 4oC
men out. JhT
At 6 O'Clock tonight sixty-four of the
night force OF freight switchmen at the
West Shore depot at Weehawken re-
ported for duty. At I:40 o'clock a loco.
motive whistle rang out shrilly In the yard
and fifty of the switchmen left their posts
put on their coats and walked to theil
homes. This action left the yard almosI
deserted. Preparations to meet the
emergency we're Immediately made
Freight Conductor Kane. who acted a,
spokesman for the striking switchmen.
told the yardmaster that personally thu
men had no grievances. They had beer
ordered out BY the Knights of Labor and
obeyed. At 10 o'clock everything in the
West Shore yard at Weehawken wa
quiet and the work of making up train
was going on. All incoming trains wer'
arriving at the depot on time. The sta
ton officials said that no other men wer,
out on the road, but this the striker
DENY.
AL Albany.
ALBANY, Aug. 9.-Master Workman
E. J. Lee this afternoon said if tn
Central shipped live stock and othe
perishabie goods over the West Shor
road in any considerable quantity h
would issue an order that would cut tina
road liz two. The situation Of the strik'
is more firm than last night. The oul.