The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1895-01-30

Martin J. Connolly,
John Giblip,
P. J. Collins,
Andrew D. Best
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Jan. %, 1895.
Benjamin F. Norton, Esq. President
Of the Atlantic Avenue Railroad
Company
Dear Sir: I am instructed by the
representatives Of all the employees Of
the Atlantic Railroad Company, includ
ing liuemeo, who were in the service of
the company 90 the 18th day of Janu
ary, 1895, to offer you their services
upon the same term and scale of wages
obtained 10 January 1894. which was.
as you know. s. day for motortneu
aud conductors having full day cars and
not less than S150 day for motormen
and conductors having trippers If
these terms are accepted, the committee
will meet you and arrange to resume
work within six hours.
In conclusion. permit me to observe
that though this is great concession
90 the part Of the employees of the COM
pany, they are willing to make it in
be interests Of the public, who have
been great sufferers from this contro-
versy existing between the corporation
aud its men. have sent similar let
ter to the president of the Brooklyn
Heights Railroad Company and to Mr.
Wickers, the representative Of the
Brooklyn, Queens County and Subur-
ban Company,
Martin j. Connolly.
The action of the strikers in Offering
TO return without the many stipulations
which their former offers have con-
tanned, is generally considered sur
render. The strikers say it is not. and
intimate that applications for peremp-
tory mandamus will follow e refusal
from the presidents
At 1920 o'clock this afternoon,
gang of strikers held up car Of the
Nostraud avenue line at the Boulevard
\ detail Of police was sent to the scene
and three Of the strikers we're arrested.
Brigadier General James NJ. Var
mum, paymaster general on Governor
Morton's staff, to-day sent a communi-
cation to County Treasurer Adams, Of
Kings county. stating that he held
Kings county accountable for the ex-
peuses incurred by the National Guard
of the State during the strike.
Forty deputy sherifs, who have been
working under Sheriff Dohl at Maspeth
preserving order at the car stables,
struck at u O'Clock to-day No cars
we're run from Maspeth to-day.
The Niueteeth and Eighteenth bat
talions of the first brigade, who have
been doing guard duty here for the
past week. received orders this after
noon to start for home. The Seventh,
Seventy-6rst aud the First battery. all
of the First brigade. went home this
morning, being the first troops released
from strike duty.
The situation to-day was much i'm
proved. The lines which have been
opened during the past few days were
all running, and with more cars than OF
any day since the strike was begun.
Three new lines we're open this morn
ing. The companies apparently gain
steadily in the number Of new men and
is but a question of few days ap-
parently when normal traffic will be re-
suned
There was less wire cutting during
the night and less stoning of cars this
forenoon. The strikers still stubborDly
refuse, however, to admit that they
are beaten. They held the ground we'll
and less than one hundred men out of
the original 5000 men have returned to
work The problem that now remains
is to run the cars at night. There is
DO certainty that the withdrawal Of
troops will not be followed BY lncreas-
ed disturbances, and even 10 the day
time the police are either incapable or
do not desire to prevent interferences
with the wires and cars of the compa-
MES.
But few arrests have been made The
stone tbrowers did not hit policemen
except in rare cases and then by ac-
cideot and the policemen do not arrest
stone throwers except in rare instan-
ces. The presence of militiaman with
a gun on the platform invariably saves
the car and passengers from damage.
How long the troops are to remain aud
do police duty is DOT decided.
D.(. nv ol1oe hoo