Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-17
Brooklyn Street Car Men
Refuse to Work.
STONES WERE THROWN
But Only One Person was Seriously
Hurt-Difference in the Reports
0fRailway Officials and the L leaders,
of the Strikers.

New York, July 17.-Promptly at 5
! O'CLOCK this morning the Brooklyn Rapid
transit company started out cars on most
of it's lines. No disturbance has been
! reported and the police seem to have per-
feet control of the situation. Many Of
the cars were manned with green hands.
Officials of the company claim that they
VIII be able to run more cars on all lines
than were run yesterday Brooklyn was
quiet last night, although 5000 policemen
had their hands full earlier in the day.
The first day of the street car strike
developed the fact that a very large
portion of Brooklyn Rapid Transit COM
pany's employees, while they may be dis
satisfied with their treatment, are not
wiling to strike. The good will Of the
brotherhood of Engineers on the Brook
lyn elevated roads toward the strikers is
no secret. 1t has been said that the Met
ropoltan street railway company of Man.
haitian is planning to send men to help
the Brooklyn company and this action
may lead to strike Of the Metropolitan
employees. Well informed persons take
no stock in this report.
| The veteran labor leaders of New York.
while they sympathze with the strike,
are not altogether pleased with the situa-
/ ton. They say that the Brooklyn men
We're not we'll enough organized and the
organization of the railroad men on
Manhattan island is still more defective.
! The conservative trades unonists have
never worked quite smoothly with the
Knights Of Labor and the knights Of
Labor are the only body involved ir the
strike, Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, having forbid
den the Brooklyn elevated railroad engin-
eers to strike. The Brooklyn Rapid Tran
, sit company says that 1000 men struck,
| the Knights Of Labor leaders say 4,OOO
The company says it will resume full SER
vice today.
! Only one person was seriously wounded
/ in Sundays stone thro owing. Peter Spada,
a messenger, II years old, who was struck
by stone While riding on a Green Point
car, is expected to die. The stones We're
hurled at the non-union motorman and
conductor, but one of the missiles struck
the boy over the right eye, fracturing the
skull.
Charles Hill Of the Halsey avenue line,
Withstood the jeers of the mob and the
appeals of his fellows and ran his car
for one round trip. His wife, on Hills
run to the barns, begged him to quit. On
his next trip while the mob threatened the
motormar with personal injury, Mrs. Hill,
fearing for his life. threw herself pros
trate on the tracks in front of his car
and told him to kill her. Hill picked her
uo, kissed her, ran his car to the barn
and struck forthwith.
/ Seventy brakemen on the Brooklyn ele-
waited road, controlled by the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit company, struck in SYM
pathy with the trolley men, expecting the
engineers to follow them. The engine
drivers We're waiting for an order to
strike to come from Chief Arthur, but in
stead an order came directing them t. re-
main at work. When this became known
, the brakemen went back to work after
having been away from their trains less
than three hours. The running of trains
was not transferred with by the short
strike, other employees Of the road taking
, the brakem ems places.
Men in the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
company thought out scheme to operate
cars to Brighton beach. 1t was to kave
! the Kings county elevated send trains to
the beach by way Of Franklin avenue.
This was made known to officials of the
IL road, who in turn communicated
with the trainmaster at East New York
AS each train drew up at the eastern
parkway station in East New York the
train master asked the engine driver if
he would run a train to Brighton beach.
This was promptly refused in each case
on the ground that the Brighton beach
road was not part of the Il" system.
The scheme was abandoned.
General Master Workman Parsons had
an interview with Police Commissioner
Jacob Hess. Mr. Parsons complain
that the action OF the authorities in po-
licing Brooklyn with immense forces of
police called from precincts outside the
borough was uncal;e6 for when the peace
had not been broken or proof that such
was intended. He asserted that such ac-
ton could not be justified unless it was
intended to make il manifest that corpor-
atoms utilized the police force to the det-
riment of the people force to the det-
was calculated to bring constituted au-
thority into d.srepute.
Commissioner Hess agreed to some ex-