New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-02-17
BROOKLYN BREATHES FREER
THE TROLLEY STRIKE PRACTICALLY OFF.
ALL THE LINES FREE OFFICIALLY NOW EXCEPT
THE ATLANTIC AVENUE sYsTEM-A

REVIEW OF THE MONTH.
The Brooklyn trolley-car strike was declared of
yesterday all the lines except these OF the At
lantc Avenue system, and the old men generally ap-
piled for work Messrs. Best. Collins and Biglin
Of the Executive Board of the strikers. said that
the action FASTENED because OF the large num-
Der OF deserters TO the companies by the strikers
Scores Of the old yesterday afternoon went to
the Brooklyn Heights Company's office. in Monta-
guest. and filed their applications for positions
For nearly week the companies have been running
all the cars they wished to- and more than their
business would warrant.
The only reason that can be assigned for not
calling off the strike on the Atlantic Avenue lines is
that the strikers feel more hostile toward Mr..
Norton than toward the other presidents, and want
to punish him. IL possible
Probably good many Of the old men, especially
those who have families and homes. and
against whom charges of injurng the company
can be found, will get their old positions. While
perhaps majority of the new men have the max
Ing OF hrst-rate employees in them there large
number of adventurers among them. who can be
easily jollied' or bullied into leaving their Jobs
by the old men. The public will be the gamer in
that people will no longer feel unsafe while riding
on the cars
II is estimated that in the nearly five weeks that
the strike has been in progress the strikers have
lost $2-1r" in wages. 1t is probable that the COM
panies have lost business to the following extent:
Brooklyn Heights. $4,000: Atlantic Avenue, slio.-
WV HI'phtlI, queens county anu
si"c" This does not include extraordinary losses
Incurred In repairs. hiring and housing new help,
and the alienation Of patronage sympathetic with
labor.
Six lves have been sacrificed. Thomas Kearney
was killed by 18th Regiment sharpshooter. Ed
ward Ahrens by a eth Regiment sentry; Captain
Frank Roosevelt OF Company f. 18th Regiment.
died from pneumonia contracted In carshed: Mrs.
Josephine Ieigler Samuel Belchley and Henry
Havemeyer were down BY green motormen.
Besides these. four shot and. at last
accounts. We're in the hospitals
More than 1880 have been damaged By the
strikers and their friends. and hundreds of these
viii need 90 have their running electric gears
built all over. About 10 have been damaged
10y collisions. More than forty people nave o"en
thrown out Of wagons and more or less injured on
account ~ reckless management by inexperienced
moi0rmen.
Fully 80 men women and children have been
panies. obs,ructing the tracks stoning cars, etc.
Many Indictments have been found among the
men indicted being Messrs. Norton and Quinn pres
iient ana superintendent OF the Atlantic Avenue
Railroad Company.
The injury done to business runs mp into the mill
ions. and the companies have heritage OF dam
suits that Will keep the courts busy for years.
Yesterday brought "A larger number OF collisions
CURED last night At Vanderbilt and Dekalb ayes.
when Nanderhilt-aVe. car No. GA and a Dekalb-
ave. car ran together. Edward Brodie. letter
carrier. Of No 49, Fifty-third-st. was badly
Jammed. ana Mary Weber. Of No. 622 Dekalb-
ave. sustained confusion OF the hip. Ambu-
lane" surgeon Wormsley took them In charge.
car. was held. Both cars were badly wrecked
one Of the Atlantic Avenue COmpanys new en-
ployes is said 20 be Methodist minister from
Schoharie County. whose charge paid him only