The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-18
BROOKLYN CAR STRIKE.
Cars Are Running on Nearly All Line!
Though lrreeularly
NOTHING OF A SERIOUS NATURE OCCURRED
rrhc strilscr. Are Not Organized and
Officials of the Company Thi"k
They Can Nat win.

New York. July 1.-THE street car
strike caused considerable disorder IN
Brooklyn today. The striking employees
are even more determined than they were
Yesterday and the management oil the
Rapid Transit Lines is obdurate anu IN
filnching Cars were run on most OF inc
lines governed by the Traction company
from early morning until o'clock this
evening, but after rundown there was a
considerable falling off in the service ana
by 9 o'clock not a car was moving on any
of the lines affected.
The roads comprising the Nassau sys-
TEN were not effectively crippled None
of the strikers returned to work an/ most
of them were busy during the day IN
fiuencing union and on-union men on the
other lines to quit work. In this respect
the strikers were partially successful, but
they made no inroads on the running OF
the Putnam avenue cars. This line Is
practically intact. not more than half a
dozen of its employees being affiliated with
the strikers The Coney Island Railroad
company reaped a rich harvest on all OF
its lines during the day. The FRANKLIN
avenue, Smith and Jay street, Hamilton
avenue and Dekalb avenue lines were
running on full time and carried great
number of passengers throughout the day
and night. OF all the lines in the trac-
ton system. Flatbush avenue and a new
ly opened Brighton Beach route were the
most seriously affected lines during the
day. The regular schedule on the Fiat
bush and Brighton Beach roads calls for
ninety four cars, but only six of these
were successfully worked. On the Nos
trand avenue line, which runs from the
Twenty third street ferry landing in VIII
liamsburg to Flatbush avenue and Bergen
Beach seventy-five cars are daily sent out.
Today only eight were manipulated and
most of these did not cover the entire
route. Tompkins avenue was very much
neglected only two cars passing over the
entire line during the day
President Rossiter during the afternoon
addressed a stormy meeting of strikers
and told the men they could come back to
work at o'clock this evening, but he as
sured them that the company would not
concede any of their demands and ex-
pressed belief that the strikers had no
grievances to back up their actions. 1t
looked for time as If the meeting would
break UP in serious disorder. but the street
railway president was not harmed.
Early in the afternoon small -sized
boulders and stumps of trees were thrown
upon the Flatbush avenue tracks in front
of the Wildwood club, but all these OBJ
structions We're removed in time to allow
the limited number of cars to make their
scheduled trips. Considerable difficulty
was experienced on the Nostrand avenue
and Cross town lines. but no serious mis-
hap occurred. All the cars We're manned
by two or more policemen and the pres
ence of the officers on board prevented In
great measure any outbreak on the part
of strikers or their sympathizers. Very
few cars were run over the old Nassau
lines.
At O'Clock this evening President Hos
sitter issued instructions to shut down on
all the Traction company's lines and from
that hour until long after midnight not a
car was run, thousands Of people having
to walk home.
Chief Devery said tonight: This strike
should never have occurred. The men
will surely lose. They are not organized,
and think the whole matter will be ad-
justed inside of twenty four hours"
Many friends of the strikers think the
men will win, but the most conservative
people who have watched the progress of
the strike so far believe the strikers will
lose and that many OF them will be thrown
out of work
President Rossiter said tonight that the
old employees would be welcomed back to
their several positions, but that the men
who stood by the company, whether green
or old hands. will have the preference in
being assigned to regular cars.
President Rossiter said cars would be
going on regular time early tomorrow
morning.