The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-19


company. and they put In the whole day at
that. None OF them was put In charge OF n
car. 1t was not necessary, tho company had
all the motormCn and conductors II needed to
run all the cars that the public convenience
demanded.
On almost all the lines running TO tho Broad
way and Grand street forrIos the regular
schedule that was in existence before tho
strike was maintained not trip was lost On
the greater number OF roads that come across
the bridge tho regular schedule was main
tanned also. aud in some cases more cars were
run than were scheduled to run. This GER
tUinly iustnes the statement that tho strIko
itsolf II the newspaper-made. stock -Jobbng
flasco ever attained that dignity. is at an end.
1t Is Mt an end. and the stock jobbers who
brought It about are as badly beaten as their
unfortunate victims. for Brooklyn Rapid Tran
ait stock not only has not fallen. but yesterday
II went up two points above the closing price
OF saturday. tho day before the strike was de-
cIared
In response TO tho invitation OF President
Rossiter 100 Of the old employees of the COM
panv returned TO work yesterday and unques-
tonably more would have done SO had it not
been for the frantic efforts Of tho labor agita-
tors and the newspapers that have been boil
STEERING the stock jobbers to convince them that
riousy and that they had show Of winning the
furIorn night. The men who went on strike
were led to believe from tho first that II they
could succeed in intimda'ing men who were
willing to work they could force the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit COMPANY 10 com" TO terms with
them. IawIessnoss and violence were TO be
their weapons and they made no secret of 1t.
A. TIE SUN has pointed out. tho vgor of tho
Manhattan policemen mado the carrying out
Of that plan in It's entirety impossible.
It has heon thu aim ot the agitators. tho
strikers and their sympathzcrs to bring about
tn" withdrawal Of the Manhattan police. There
is scarcely any doubt hut that the rioting In
this borough. on Eighth avenue. Monday
night was a part Of the conspiracy. That
riotinG was instigated 10y the same influences
that iustiEat"d the BROOKLYN men to throw up
their jobs. IL was hoped by tho instiEators
that enough disorder could he brought
about 10 make 1t necessary to recall
largo part OF the force Of police
mon from Manhattan that have been do
ing yeomaus work in Brooklyn. 1t was
further hoped by the instigators OF the riottnS
that enough IiadoS would be raised to get
the Metropolitan street railway men excited
enough to look with somo favor on n strike.
Neither object was Ompllshed The rioters
hero found that although l.4OO OF Now York's
in Brooklyn. there were plenty left to take caro-
OF any lawles-ucss that might be attempted
here. Tho Metropolitan men understood. too.
the purpose Of the demonstration and It had
no effect on them
The ialSn statements regarding the strength
OF the strikers and the possibility OF winning
that werc nut forth by the newspaper tools OF
tho stockJohhers that induced men who
wanted to return to work to hang out. may be
said to DO wholly responsible. too for a con-
tinuation OF the riot. disorder and general law
lossness that continually cropped out during
the night and yestorday and during last night
in many parts OF Brooklyn. As explained. tho
men have believed from the first that their
only chance OF success was In violence
and intimidation. and so long as their
newspaper instigators can make them he
lievc that their cause Is not absolutely
hopeless. riot and lawlessneRs are to be OK
rcctcd. The labor agitators who are running
the strike are tho only persons who can put an
abso lutte stop to this They can do 1t by de-
claring the strike" off and telling the men
who can get back to go and apply for places.
Ten thousand policemen couldn't prevent such
disturbances as are taking place. The 400
who are there and the Brooklyn mon with
them can. however and are losing no oppor-
tunity that offers TO knock the conceit out OF
whenever they can get at him.
INSTRUCTIONS ON TRACKS.
With the stopping OF the cars on Monday
night on all the lines operated by the Rapid
Transit system tho extra police were in
large measure withdrawn. except in the vicinity
OF the ear dcpots. That left good many miles
OF street track and trolley wires open to the
strikers and their sympathizers. About 2
o'clock in the morning the company sent re-
pair wagons and dump carts over tho
various routes. They found tho wires cut in
many places and the tracks piled high
with every variety OF rubbish and refuse
that can be imagined The mon in the
dunn carts loaded it all into the carts and
lugged It Off to scrapheaps The repair wagons
were kept busy until 3 o'clock fixing the broken
or burned wires and as the work was all
done after the strikers and their friends had
gone to bed and before they had got up. there
was n reasonably clear way for tho cars when
they were ready to start them on the day trips
In the morning. With the resumption Of tho
service the police went out on duty.
and during the early hours Of the morn
ing there was very little Interference
with the running Ot tho cars There
was practically none. in fact. until the women
got their dishes washed and had a chance to
. get out on the street and egg on the men
Then the work % finding more rubbish and
littering up the tracks was umed and the
hunt for stones and brickbats was taken up.
Two men carried n whole wagonload OF stones
up to the roof OF Il house near Twenty second
street. Tho first the police knew Of their he
ing there was when ear 1000 came along and
they shovecd over II lot Of cobblestones on H.
roof. Tn" car had number OF passengers in
1t. The stones smashed some OF the seats. but
luckily didn't hit any ono
wopolicemen on the corner look "a up lust In
time to SEQ the heads disappear over tho cor.
nice OF the house, and they made a rush and
Nimbcd up the five flights II stairs. They 90,
both men; on" Of them was hiding undcr a
bed. They welted them across the backs anG
the hips all the way downstairs and all tho wa,
to tho police station, whore the prisoners wer,
ocked ny. Near the same corner a little latnl
a mob OF nifty women, armed with stones
tackled another car and frightened the pa
senRers half to death with the hail OF missile.
they hurled at 1t. One Of the women ruter,
pulled tho trolley rope or and stopped the car
but there were enough police thore with good
buaky clubs N suhlua than hnF,ra thay al,