The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-07-20
STRIKE SEEMS WEAK
Brooklyn Labor Trouble Is
Still Unsettled.
RIOTERS ARE PROMPTLY ARRESTED.
Rumors That the Elevated Engi-
neers would Quit work Are De-
nied-Labor Lenders Boasts Not
nnrnc Ont by the Encts.

NEW YORK, July 19.-The Brooklyn
trolley strike, which began Sunday morn
ing at o'clock, is still on, and in all
likelihood there will be no end to the la
Dor trouble for several days to come
The striking motormen and conductors
are veyy earnest, and they claim they
are gaining ground. On the other hand
the representatives of the Brooklyn Trac-
tion company assert that the strike is
only nominal one and that from tonight
on they will experience no difficulty in
cunning their full complement of cars.
The company did not run any cars over
It's various lines after dark Monday, but
resumed traffic shortly after D o'clock
yesterday 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
% 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
xailroad routes or the Franklin avenue
and Smith street trolley cars, which are
not under the strikers ban. Great diff
Guilty was experienced by the manage
ment in running cars over the Nassau
system, and liberal estimate of the cars
run over the Nassau lines would be about
30 per cent of the regular number. The
Fifth and Seventh avenue lines were fire.
quently bockaded, and the company did
not handle more than 10 per cent of the
regular daily traffic. The Douglass and
Bergen street cars were run at intervals
oR 10 and 20 minutes, but each of the
vehicles was manned by at least four
nt,r hn
made several arrests Of persons who in
terfered with the progress of the cars on
the Nassau lines, but no serious outbreak
occurred until after 6 o'clock. A small
sised riot occurred at Sixth street and
Fifth avenue few minutes after 6
o'clock, in which two men were painfully
hut not seriously hurt.
A mob of some 400 persons attacked a
Fifth avenue car on its way into the city
st Sixth street and Fifth avenue and
Aotorman A. Latham and Conductor w.
y. Mulcahey were pulled off the car and
badly treated. Latham had an arm
broken and Mulcahey received fracture
Of the nose. Several policemen who
were in the neighorhood rushed to the
assistance Of the motorman and conduct
or and frightened the crowd off by firing
their revolvers in the air. Three arrests
were made, and in less than 10 minutes
the cars were running on a headway of
eight minutes. The police arrangements
for the protection of life and property
were as nearly perfect as possible.
1t was rumored during the forenoon
that trouble might be expected on the
Union elevated railroad, but early in the
afternoon President Rossiter stated that
no hitch would occur there The engi-
neers on the elevated system had been
notified that as soon as the third rail OF
electric motor system would be operated
their wages would be reduced from
$3.50 to 1928 per day. The engineers
Kicked against this suggested reduction
but yesterday afternoon they were as
sured by the management that the rate
Of wages now existing would be main
taiaed.
Master Workman Parsons and Distric,
Master Pines are very confident that the
strikers will win the fight but judging
from the number of ears in operation
yesterday the assertion of the railroad
managers that the strike would fzzle out
seemed to be well founded. The strikers
are severely handicapped inasmuch a'
they have no funds, and in many in
stances there is sad lack of concerted
action on the part of their leaders.