The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-02-09
Receiver Colvin Claims to Have
!. Men for Front Street Road.
MANY APPLY FOR POSITIONS
Receiver q. u. Coivin Conndent That
Sew Hands viii lie Easily Taught
the Eun-DId Employees Declare II
L. the Hardest Road I'm the City
: Go Out With the Car Men.

Cable cars viii be In operation on the
feres With tAe plans OF Receiver O. ID. Col
win. He says he has secured the services
OF two engineers and q number OF ear men.
An old empsoys of the company. thorough
~ familiar with the run, so colyiu saws.
viii 90 over she line early this morning
and see that nothing has been tempered
with by the strikers IL satisfied ihat all
IL right. a car in charge Of two new men,
aad an old ole 10 teach them the road,
viii be- taken over The tracks All the
: .let goes. which are said 10 be more nt-
merous on the Front street line than on
any other in the city, viii be marked.
As fast as the new men learn the line they
viii teach Others and by tomorrow IL is
hoped to have aimosf a fun schedule az
cars running. Receiver Coivin expects to
have no trouble In breaking in the new
hands. who are said to be experienced car
men.
The strikers. on the contrary are eona
dent that new men caano, be taught the
line 50 easily. They have claimed from
the start that the Frout street road IA
the hardest 10 operate of any In this city
being fun OF let goes and sharp curves
which only the best cable men can rnanaxe
With success. III the road were not a hard
one they ask why has the eofnnanv
paid ~ cents an hour 10 its old employees
during the hard times while every other
road In the city Was paying bat IS cents2"
Z IA particularly dangerous places. they
mention the curves at First avenue and
Ifke. Pine and Second avenue. and Second
favsniie and Pike.
Receiver colvin Is confident that he viii
have no difficulty. II would have run a
car yesterday" ne said last night "talt al
the last moment the assistant engineer re-
! fused To start the engines. The chief en-
gineer was called In. but he. too. thought
that under The circumstance. he had bet
ter not start the cnglnes both re-
signed their positions / could have 60
cured tue services Of engineers that day.
but preferred o wait un,il could get men
OF whose entire competency | was assur-
ca. now have those men. and tomorrow
1hsy VIII run the engines
Since tt.A strike | have been eooaas
Win Applications fer positions and have
chosen men for the road who have worked
os car men for years. There viii be no
sHouois IN teaching them the road. II 10
hut 80 sdlHicuit as Is represented We have
many times broken In green hands In
sour days men who had never before
worked on cable car. The road has now
besn operated for ten years with few ar-
eiaents and IL will be operated ten wears
longer with just as clean record for
catsstrophes A''
, ioaay the old employees were pald of
and notice was posted that they weya
no iohser To remain about the premises
seFerai men whom I hired 20 work v,nra
Z frightened away by the strikers who can.
"a tnem 'seahs.' and managed bv s,,ch
tactics 10 intimidate them
: me Western Central Labor Union w,u
ilee' tonight and will probably TAX. action
favorable 90 the strikers. ''O'