Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-19

the explosion on the elevated line was
the work of the strikers.
NEW YORK, July 1S.-The Brook
lyn trolley strike is still on, and in all
likelihood there will be no end 10 the
labor trouble for several days to- come.
The striking motormen and conductors
are very earnest and they claim they
are gaining ground. On the other hand
the representatives of tho Brooklyn
Traction Company assert that the
strike is only nominal one and that
from tonight on they will experience
no difficulty in running their fun COM
plement of cars. The company did not
run any ears over its various lines af-,
ter dark last evening, but resumed
traffic shortly after 5 o'clock this
morning. Numbers of cars were run
over the several lines, but the time
schedule was not lived up to on any
one of them and fair estimate OF the
rolling stock in operation would be
about sixty per cent. No cars were
run over the Flatbush avenue line to
Brighton Beach and the patrons OF the
race track were forced to take steam
cars over the old railroad routes, or
the Franklin avenue and Smith street
trolley cars which are not under the
strikers ban. Great difficulty was ex-
perienced by the management In run
ming cars over the Nassau system and
a liberal estimate of the cars run over
the Nassau lines would be about thir-
tv per cent. of the regular number.
The Fifth and Seventh avenue lines
were frequently blockaded and tho
company did not handle more than
fifteen per cent. of the regular daily
traffic. The Douglass and Bergen
street cars were run at intervals or
fifteen and twenty minutes but each
of the cars was manned by at least four
policemen.
During the day the police made sew
eraI arrests of persons who interefer-
red with the progress of the cars on
the Nassau line, but no serious out
break occurred until after o'clock. A
small riot occurred a few minutes after
o'clock in which two men were PAIN
fully but not seriously hurt. A mob
OF some 400 persons attacked Fifth
avenue car on it's way into the city at
Sixth street and Fifth avenue. and
Motorman A. Latham and Conductor
w. f. Mulchaey were pulled on the
car and badly treated. Latham had his
arm broken and Mulcahey received a
fracture of the nose Several police
men who were in the neighborhood
rushed to the assistance OF the motor
mand and conductor and frightened
the crowd off by firing their revolvers
in the air. Three arrests were made,
and in less than fifteen minutes the
cars were running on a Roadway OF
eight minutes The police arrange
ments for the protection Of life and
property were as nearly perfect as
possible, and while it is likely that dis
turbances may occur during the night
President Rossiter has signi6ed his
intention Of running the cars as near
~ as possible TO SCHEDULE time up TO
midnight. and if found practicable he
viii have them run albright
Il was rumored during the forenoon
that trouble might be expected on the
Union elevated railroads, but early in
the afternoon President Rossiter stated
that no hitch would occur there. The
engineers on the elevated system had
been notified that as soon as the third
rail or electric motor system was adopt
ed. their wages would be reduced from
$3.50 to 1925 per day. The engineers
kicked against this suggested reduction,
but this afternoon they were assured
by the management that the rate Of
wages now existing would be maintain
ed. About noon policemen were sent
from headquarters TO all the elevated
railroad stations in the borough Of
Brooklyn, and by / o'clock there was a
police officer on each OF the uD and
down platforms. Chief OF Police Dew
cry, together with Police Commissioners
York and Sexton. visited headquarters
during the afternoon, but none OF them
would admit that any trouble was an
tlcipated on the L" system and when
pressed for an explanation Of the pc