The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-17
STRIKE is ON IN BROOKLYN.
OPERATIVES SAY THE TEN-HOUR
LAW IS NOT OBSERVED.

Are Now Running-COnstabIe
,hoard Those to Afford Protection.
400 Policemen Engaged i'm Main
tanning Order-Strikers Thus Far
Not very Observation-Disclosures
Kent at the Resorts.
New York, July 16.-Another trolley
.,,u,e is on in Brooklyn. So far it has
mai been as effective as the strike of 1895,
M, there is no telling how long or far
reaching it may become.
Var some weeks the employees sof the
seysr4l Ines controlled by the Brooklyn
p,r5 Transit Company have been COM
,l,io.re that the management did not live
,r fl, the ten-hour law. The men de
,,ardad d revision of the time tables at
to. different barns, and also claim that
tbey should be paid 20 cents an hour for
overtime. which is equivalent to 81 a day,
the price which they set for a working
day Of ten hours.
Meetings have been held daily and night
IL for Che last week, and it was inferred
from the reports given out by the en-
moves an their advisors since Thursday
last that while a strike was imminent,
il would not occur for some days to come.
General Master Workman Parsons and
Dsrriet Master Workman Hines had
charge of the mems affairs as the strike
WAS called at 4:3O o'clock this morning.
At this hour most of the motormen
and conductors on the Brooklyn Traction
Company's lines had completed their night
trips. and the leaders in the strike told
them that was the best opportunity 10
begin O. stubborn fight with the tranction
company.
heavy rainstorm was in progress at
,aat time. and there was very little pas
ssuger traffic. The Smith Street, Frank
LQ Avenue and Hamilton Ferry Lines,
which are controlled by the COney Island
Railroad Company, having maintained
. their regular terms with their employers
were not impeded in the .east, but on
n all other roads The trains were stopped for
while, and a good deal of congestion
followed in consequence.
Police Details Called.
Shortly after midnight, about 200 po-
lc5men from Manhattan and Bronx dis
tl.cls were conveyed 10 the different barns
and many were placed along the several
routes comprising the territory covered
by the Brooklyn Traction Company. Up
10 i8v o'clock there We're very few cars
iunning over these lines, and those that
were sent out from the different barns
NtFs pohced by two or three constab.es.
Inc heaNy storm of the early morning
was discpared about 10 o'clock, and from
nat hour until Wei on in the afternoon
We sunday traffic. which Is usually very
hel'y to North Beach, Bergen Beach and
loHey Island, filed the cars, but the
1iead OF disturbance kept hundreds of
h0p.e away from these seaside resorts.
Trip of the Ampere.
ShorIy before noon President Rossi-
to private car Ampere started from the
cy hali and made a round trip of the
lacuor lines. The Ampere. after run
nlas TO The Flushing extension, went up
Nosaid avenue to Bergen Beach and re-
uIuso down Flatbush avenue, whence ii
.4H 70 Coney Island. Coming back from
OoAe5 Island The PRESIDENTS car travelled
O'e. iAe Fifth avenue route, and as ii
Aeditd Twenty-third street and Fifth
avenue, those on board found their fur
uer progress lmpeded by a stalled car
',9I the fitth avenue barn. Here a crowd
oi some so people, many of
"Dom were women and children, had con-
ei'7d-edt and the molorman of the Am
lee' Howard Jackson, was attacked by
several men who were strikers or in SYM
palny with them.
me motorman received some bad bruises
''1'A am ItSs. Dul WAS uiully res
o'I from the mob. Six arrests WerG
I.aqe and the track was soon cleared
I"oushout the afternoon boulders and
'"se pieces of granite were taken from
"edIoy yard and placed on the tracks
" Ue vicinity of Greenwood cemetery,
,a' as cars came along at intervals of
"r"y and thirty minutes, their further
no5Iess was considera bly, delayed until
Instructions were removed, No
vV "lP the cars pass than the boulders
'7 iald on the tracks again. The po-
were unable TO stop the obstruction.
s,., nD' us me day 800 additional police were
' over from New York and close watch
' Aspl aong the Brooklyn bridge 10
nan '"'t no person interfered with the
uo"el wires The only cutting of wires
tale su TO the Brooklyn police headquar-
az. "'S ne partial destruction of the feed
1p,,,l1' Fiatbush avenue, but a score Of
rl,,'..s" sotu repaired this sufficiently to
''Itn INC line.
oihcials in Conference.
was Sr IN the afternoon a conference
tbos. 'e' at police headquarters. Among
Yor, Pgesent were Police Commissioners
Dove, ness and Sexton, Chief of Police
M9nbsst. .Leputy Chiefs Mclaughlin of
pre." van and McKeller Of Brooklyn and
sIso 'N1 Rosslter. Gen. McLeer was
AS h. attendance, but said that as far
for ~ could see there was no necessity
in',.t1e calling out of the military or its
r-.Ienee in any way.
10 5.eHt Rossiter said he was anxious
b,,J ,J.5 me patrons of the several lines
ar5 ,. ION The seaside as soon as possible
ha1r1 ne had made arrangements to
as nr, .ie Coney Island patrons as far
he 5,5 5,35'u.al by trolley service, but that
for 'a' .5 advised his assistants to arrange
i Of r5o transportation of the majority
eoygte5 oNo back to the city over the
Ts va railroad lines.
Hossf,an '.le commissioner informed Mr.
re1or.t 'nat his patrons and the public in
and .M as wen as the company's property
ly pro, ..ef property, would be sufficient
ton ~ Nu by the police force. In addi-
Afr us Commissioner Hess informed
| ON. ,f '''r that he thought the sending
10 n.. private car was not polite and
ia. "a ,1 own words. it was like "Shak-
Several iaS IN front Of an enraged bull"
4 d IF ..,- 'ltests were made during the
4 t5clr .- tae ranks of the strikers and
4 W.T. INIathiaers. but no disturbance of
oco ''''ous nature occurred up 10 8