The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-16
TE-UP OF THE TROLLEYS.
III, Brooklyn Strikers Stopping Just
Short Of Violence.

r,-s Carrying United States Mail Al
,o-z4 10 Run without Iuterfereuce.
The Presidents of All the Roads Claim
They VIII Have Their Cars Running
en- Schedule Time To-day-The Mayor
talks Of the Possibility Of Action to
Forfeit the Charters If the Companies
Fsi. to Run Their Cars.
r-oollvn. y. Y. Jan. 15.-The first move
... Erooklyn strikers made this morning
usz 10 take steps to stop any attempt on
-s- rzrr Of the men TO use violence to
-r-,ent the running OF cars. Before day
rah- The executive board of district as
,s~urv So. Is. knights of Labor. issued
,-f-~- ~ the local assemblies that under
-, ..ir-rlrnstances were United States mail
.r- ro be interfered with. As a result
.-s nail cars We're making their regular
.-.r. This morning without the least in
convenience. As another precaution, the
executive board instructed the master
v,rzn7en of the local assemblies TO take
charge Of the strikers belonging to their
rssrerrfve assemblies and restrain any in
--rs-10n 10 cause trouble. The result was
+-4f the big car station at Twenty
erect and Fifth avenue. where a clash be-
-vesu men and company took place late
Yesterday afternoon. and where pistols
we're drawn on the strikers, was as peace
mi as a country village. Indeed. the strik-
.-s indicated desire TO keep away. STILL
eoo5Iv-sized crowd stood about.
The mail cars on the Brooklyn Heights
road were permitted to make their regu-
lar trims without Interference or demon
stratiou this morning
President Lewis of the Brooklyn City
plflroad Company got so many cars in
m. court street line this morning that il
lacked "A little as if there was no strike
there. Usually the cars run on head
-r-. of two minutes at this time OF day
This morning they We're running on head
vs- of two and a half minutes. Only part
ofthe cars were guarded by police.
The only real bone of contention II
as,.,oued this morning was the running
~, .bs "trippers." The managers want
tha strikers to sign last years agreement
20 .s17e out this morning that the chief
feature Of that agreement was the agree
meut of the managers to run only one
third of all the cars known as trippers,
7rf 10 pay the men who ran them about
$3.50 uer day. This is what the manage
mont refuses this year to do; and that
has been the real factor in bringing
about the strike. Grand Master Work
man Sovereign is expected in Brooklyn
tonight.
The Atlantic avenue system is next to
the largest in Brooklyn. The Atlantic
Avenue Company paid of its employees
to-day. About a weeks wages We're due
tho men, and this was paid to them
When The paymaster gave the men their
Vages he demanded their badges and
buttons. which belong to the company,
which the men SURRENDERED without pro-
test
The state board of arbitration met at
the city hall this afternoon to consider the
strike on the trolley roads. President
Norton of the Atlantic avenue line re
fused TO appear before the board, or to
notice the board al all. AS a result Pres
ifant Feeney issued a subpoena for his
appearance. President Norton Will now
have to attend. If he does not obey the
Subpoena he viii be guilty of contempt
ana VIII be indicted.
The presidents of all the roads affected
b. the strike have notified Mayor Schie-
rl mat they VIII have their cars running
ca schedule time by tomorrow. Il have
-he right the mayor said, Ito compel
item to run their cars or to forfeit their
charters. l have taken no steps in either
direction as yet, for the reason that
nobody, either strikers or patrons of the
roads, have complained to me because
the cars are not running. If the cars
charter of the company by tomorrow. I
may take action whether complaint is
made to me or not. | don't say, however,
as Yet what I shall do"
The strike leaders have convinced their
men of the danger of interfering with cars
carrying the mail, and these have not
heen molested. Trouble attended every
attempt TO move the regular passenger
cars, and IL required all the policemen
Who could get around a car to get it
through. The greatest difficulty was on
Fifth avenue, which was a solid mass of
humanity from the company's stables at
Twenty-third street to Ninth street Most
a. the crowd were strikers or their
friends and they did everything to i'm
Tede cars short of actual violence. The
Court street line parallel to the Fifth ave
rue line aud a few squares distant, ran its
cars al day without much trouble, many
hem without police protection. The
kers talk of a sympathetic strike on
'ao elevated roads, also of calling out the
knights OF Labor on those roads at the
INST SIGN that their managers are help
ms the trolley peODle