Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-09
A GENERAL TIE.UP.
Employees Of the New York Central and Van
derbilt Lines Go 0ut-Travel Com
pletely Shut Down.

expected storm among the thousands OF
employees of the New York Central and
| Vanderbilt lines, owing to the discharge
of Knights of Labor and Brotherhood
N en-, broke like flash from q clear
sky shortly after O'Clock to-
night. All the length of the Gen.
trail was tied. All trains were left by
crews as they stood when the order came.
Two passenger trains were left at
Eighty-sixth street in q tunnel, one 60
ing in each direction. The latest report
is that the West Shore railway is tied up
throughout It's length, as well as the
New York and New Haven railway
Great throngs of people are crowded into
the Grand Central depot trying
TO have tickets changed and ask
ing all manner of questions.
No one seems to know anything about
If or who ordered the strike. Even J. ]
Holland, labor leader, denied that he
knew who ordered it or even that it was
ordered. Representatives of the rail-
road company called upon Acting Super
lntendent of Police Byrnes for protec-
ton. The inspector ut once held con-
ference and it was decided
to hold in reserve policemen
in all precincts on the east side below
east side above Forty second street to
Yonkers, and the west side from St.
| Johns Park TO Yonkers, were placed on
| duty guarding the tracks and property
| of the railway company. The depot
at Forty street was under
| protection of full force of
! police from the Twenty-third
ub-precinct, and these were assisted by
members OF the beat patrol. Inspector
| Byrnes' detectives guard the switches
and signal stations along the road to
| Workers. After these arrangements
had been made word reached police
headquarters that some of the strikers
| intended to take possession of the
| switches ct Fifty-seventh street and
| Fourth avenue. Inspector Byrnes at once
detailed two of his trusty detectives to
watch that point. The inspector him.
self decided to remain at headquarters |
tonight. Vice President Webb of the |
New York Central. on being interviewed |
by reporter, said that the strike |
extended only west 10 Albany,
and all men who went out from |
the employ of the company would !
promptly be discharged in the morning. |
Those men who remained true to the |
company would be well taken care of |
and amply protected, as would all men |
who came to work for the road. The |
road would take all good men who ap-
piled for work In the morning |
as far as they were needed TO
fill the places of the deserters, and they |
would be guarded against all harm as
we'll. With great emphasis the vice
president announced he would fight the
strikers TO the bitter end. He said that
the new set of demands he had never
seen, and knew nothing what
ever about them. In effect
those demands are for q minimum
day wages of 81 so, station agents to re-
eeive an increase of So a month; men in
yards at Troy and Green Island shall re-
ceivs the same compensation as at
Schenectady and East Albany; all fire.
men on six wheel connected engines shall
receive two and one-half cents per
mile; all engineers on same four
cents per mile; four wheel engine
engineers three and half cents per
mile; firemen two cents per mile; all
over time TO be paid double time. Mr..
Webb announced that fast mail had
pulled out of the depot at 8 o CLOCK with
four mail cars, but no passenger coaches
were attached to the train. Phe vice.
president further announced that no
attempt would be made to run any
trains to- night. Everything would be left
Mt standstll just where the men left
off. There are no means to get to
Albany or New England tonight, but
opening of the great avenues of trade
would begin Tomorrow. 1t is announced
that the vice. president Will give out the
statement of the roads position in the
present controversy, that the people of
the country may judge who is right and
who is wrong.
The strike was ordered on account of
the discharge of certain employees I'm
der orders every train was abandoned,
no matter where it might be. The 7:lO
train for Montreal was waiting the signal
Mt the Grand Central depot when the en- ]
giueer, firemen and brakemen left
it and walked out of the depot. ,
Efforts made to secure men
to fill their places were without 8
avail. Men on other trains also left
hem. Travel was thus not only blocked
on the Central road, but also on the New /
Y ork and New England and New York &
and Harlem roads, which use the tracks I
Of the Central road as far as Melrose. :
There is great excitement at the depot, h
where great crowds of people are gath F
cred who expected to take the trains out
Of the city. Hotels in the neighborhood =
are crowded with disappointed travellers. a
ALBANY, N. Y, Aug. S. The n
, CLOCK train out of New York arrived
here on time, but now lies in the yards o
acre. People in hurry to go South a
md West go via the Delaware aed Hud- p
ION railway to Binghampton, connect
nR there with the Erie railway. The
hight boat to New York tonight had an Y
unusual large passenger list. It looks II
Is though the only direct routes to New L
[ ork tomorrow will be by day boat. l:
At late hour Vice. President Webb -
tated that in the yards of the Grand T
CENTRAL depot at Forty-second street and
Eifty sixth street and West Albany there n
we're about $50 out. These men were all VI
witchmen, aud there was no trouble j
With the engineers or fremen. Between /;
midnight and daylight he intended TO G
'ut on men and clean the track of the II
ew stray cars and get ready to run out
rains after O'Clock. He said there
night be trouble when this was at d
empted, but the company would afford f
nipple police protection to the men who to
emained loyal to the company. Mr..
Webb stated that outside of local short
istance trains there were fourteen
rains that ought to have left P