The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-01-15
TR0LLEY CAR S7kIkE ON.
The Cond actors and Motormen Refused 10
Go to Work in Brooklyn.

BROOKLYN, n. Y, Jan. 1.-THE troll
lev car strike began when the cars had
been housed. shortly before o'clock this
morning. There is not a single day car
on any road in Brooklyn, with one ex-
ception the Coney Island and BROOKLYN
running out this morning. Although the
motormen and conductors are in the neigh
borhood of the starting stations, not one
offered to go to work this morning, ana
the usually noisy clang of the trolley car
bell on the busy streets Is hushed. Ihe
elevated trains, although the service Is
nearly doubled, are unable 10 carry the
people, and during working hours inns
morning the trains were crowded 10 SUI
location. When the electricians employ
ed in the four power houses In the city
went 10 take their night shift at L. Nj.
last night, they were asked by the 1ofe-
man II they were willing TO take places
ON the cars as motormen and conductors.
They replied NO" Then they were
told there was no more work for them.
This first act in the lockout threw some
nine hundred men out. The employees
saw the action of President Lewis, In
locking out the power-house workers pre-
cipitated the strike. They say President
Lewis told a friend last night that the
strike would cost the Brooklyn Heights
Company at least half million dollars.
over six hundred miles OF the trolley
lines are tied up by the strike. inc
strike Is the greatest one Brooklyn mas
ever seen. Master Workman Martin Con-
nelly's order was at once obeyed by 5000
men. The trolley companies have agents
now in Newark, Philadelphia, and other
cities where trolley lines run, trying TO
get men to take the place of the strikers.
A plenty Of men-the company says 2,O0o-
applied at the City Railway Companys
offices this morning for work. They SAID
they would take out the cars, IL they were
guaranteed protection. The company at
once applied to the police for protection;
IL the police cannot give II, Federal mar
shals and United States troops VIII be
called on. The United States Govern
ment got dragged into the quarrel this
way:
The railway companies have contracts
10 carry mail IL these cars are inter-
fered WITH marshals and troops, the COM
NAMES say, will have rhe right to CO.
operate with the police. The mail cars
did not go out as usual this morning; the
carriers also had trouble getting to their
routes. They could not take the cleva-
ted trains, and the mail service Is badly
impaired
The companies involved in the strike are
the Brooklyn Heights Traction Company,
one of the largest railroad companies In
the East; the Atlantic Avenue railroad
and the Brooklyn and Newton Railroad
Company. The Jay and Smith street
lines are not involved. The elevated
roads were wholly inadequate to move
the throngs of people that crowded upon
them, and the routes to the New York
bridge and ferry were crowded with
pedestrians this morning and again to-
night. The tied up roads carry the mails.
and in the effort to move the mail cars
to-day several small riots occurred. The
strikers were violent. and at one time
It required show Of pistols by the police
to get the mall cars along. II has every
appearance Of serious trouble tomorrow.
The tie-up was complete to-day on all
the roads involved.