The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-17
Demand a Revision Of Time Tables and
Extra Pay for Overtime.
The Strike Occurred at Half Past
Four O'Clock Yesterday Morn
ing, Causing a Stoppage of Car
Service for Several Hours-Sev.
eral Arrests Made During the
Day Among the Ranks of the
Strikers and Their Sympathiz-
ers.


NEW YORK, July 16-Another troll
ley strike is on in Brookly.A. So far it
has not been as effective as the strike
of 1896, but there is no telling how far
reaching it may become. For some
weeks past the employees of the lines
controlled by the Brooklyn Rapid Tran
sit have been complaining that the
management did not live up to the ten
hour law. They demand a revision of
the time tables at the different barns,
and also claim that they should be paid
70 cents an hour for overtime which
is equivalent to 81 a day, the price
which they set for working day Of
ten hours.
Meetings have been held daily and
nightly for the last week, and it was
inferred from the reports given out by
the employees and their advisers since
Thursday last that while a strike was
imminent, it would not occur for some
days TO come.
General Master Workman Burgomas-
ter, Workman Parsons and District
Workman Pines had charge of the
mems affairs, and a strike was called
$50 more men and conductors of the
Brooklyn Transit Company's lines had
completed their night trips, and the
leaders decided that this was the most
opportune moment to begin what was
expected to be a stubborn fight with
the traction company. A heavy rain
storm was in progress at this time, and
there was very little passenger traffic
;+l, II
Hamilton Ferry lines, which are con-
trolled by the Coney Island Railroad
Company, having maintained the reg
ular terms with their employees, were
not impeded in the least but on all 9TH
er roads transportation was stopped
for awhile and a good deal of conges-
ton occurred in consequence.
Shortly after midnight about 1000
policemen from the precincts in Man
haitian and the Bronx districts were
convened to the different barns, and
many were placed along the several
routes comprising the territory covered
by the Brooklyn Transit Company.
Up to half-past { o'clock there were
very few cars run over those lines and
those that were sent out from the diff
ferent barns were policed by two,
three and four Constables. On the
Pugham avenue line only a few men
refused to work. The Flatbush and
Bergen Beach cars, the NoStrand ave-
nue., Gates, Ralph and Myrtle avenue
cars, as well as the Third avenue troll
ley showed a meager service in the
early hours of the day, but traffic on
the old Nassau lines which comprise
the Fifth, Seventh, Park and Wander
bilt avenues and Douglass and Buffers
roads, was practically at a standsti1l.
The men on the Nassau road were
most determined. and not one of the
motormen or conductors went to work.
The cars remained idle for several
hours, but by 10 o'clock one-tenth Of
the regular rolling stock was working.
These cars were manned by inspectors
and linemen, and, in fact, oilers and
helpers were pressed into service so as
to maintain partial running of the
system. Many of the old conductors
and motormen reported for duty on the
Gates, Ralph, Broadway, Myrtle ave-
nue., Flushing and Third avenue roads,
and President Rossiter said that short
ly after noon over 80 per cent. of the
old hands were at work on these lines.
Later in the afternoon the cars on the
latter roads were running at intervals
of ten minutes, which meant that the
service was crippled about one-third.
The heavy storm of the early morn
ing was disspated about 10 o'clock
and from that hour until well on the
afternoon the Sunday traffic. which is
usually very heavy to North Beach,
Bergen Beach and to Coney Island,
he h1f ho Of n IL,
or disturbance kept hundreds of peo-
pie away from these seaside resorts.
Shortly before noon President Rossi-
ter's private car Ampere started from
the City Hall and made a round trip
ON the traction lines. On board were
Chief Engineer Breckenridge, w. w.
Wickes, President Rossiter's Private
Secretary, and Secretary and Assist
ant Secretary Van Colt. Accompany
ing these were headquarters detectives
Reynolds, Harrington, Gray and Stod
dart.
The Ampere, after running to the
Flushing extension, went up Nostran1
avenue to Bergen Beach, and returned
down Flatsbush avenue, whence it ran
to Coney Island. Coming back frora
Coney Island, the Presidents car trav-
eled over the Fifth avenue route, and
as it neared Twenty-thi street and
Fifth avenue those on board found
their further progress impeded by a
car stranded near the Fifth avenue
car. Here crowd of some 500 peo-
pie, many of whom were women and
children. had congregated, and the
motorman of the Ampere, Howard
jackson, was attacked by several men,
who were either strikers or in SYM
pathy with them. The motorman re-
ceived some ugly bruises on the head
|. and legs.
Secretary Wickes was one of the first
to run to the mans assistance, and he
was finally rescued from the mob. Six
arrests were made, and the track was
soon cleared.
Throughout the afternoon boulders
and large pieces of granite were taken
from a nearby yard and placed on the
tracks In the vicinity of Greenwood
Cemetery, and the cars came along
at intervals of twenty and thirty min
utes. Their further progress was de-