The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-07-17
AT
BROOKLYN !
Many of the Men Refused to Join
in the Movement.
LITTLE TROUBLE THE FIRST DAY

Strike Leader Declares the Issue Was
Forced Upon Them, While Presi-
dent Rossiter Asserts That Fifty Per
Cent Remain Loyal TO the Company.
New York, July 17.-Another trolley
strike Is on In Brooklyn. So far II
has not been as effective as the strike
of 1895, but there is no telling how
long or how far reaching It may be-
come. For some weeks past the en-
ployes of the several lines controlled
by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit COM
pany have been complaining that the
management did not live up TO the ten
hour law. The men demand a revision
of the time tables at the different
barns, and also claim that they should
be paid 20 cents an hour for overtime,
which is equivalent to 81 a day, the
price which they set for working day
of ten hours.
General Master Workman Parsons
and District Master Workman Pines
had charge of the mems AFFAIRS, and
strike was called at 4:30 yesterday
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 had decided that this was the
most opportune moment to begin what
was expected to be a stubborn fight
with the traction company. The Smith
street, Franklin avenue and Hamilton
ferry lines, which are controlled by the
Coney Island Railroad company, hav-
ing maintained the regular terms with
their employees, were not impeded In
the least, but on all other roads trans
portation was stopped for while, and
a good deal of congestion occurred In
consequence
Shortly after midnight about 1000
| policemen from the precincts in Man
/ haitian and the Bronx districts were
| conveyed to the different barns, and
many were placed along the several
routes comprising the territory covered
| by the Brooklyn Traction company.
| Up to half-past z o'clock there were
very few cars run over these lines, and
! those that were sent out from the diff
| ferent barns were policed by two, three
and four men. On the Putnam avenue
| line only a few men refused to work,
and II was noticeable that scarcely a
half dozen of the cars on this d.
vision we're policed. The Flatbush and
Bergen Beach cars, the Nostrand ave-
nue. Gates, Ralph and Myhtle avenue
cars, as we'll as the Third avenue troll
leys had a meager service in the early
hours of the day, but traffic on the old
Nassau lines, which comprise the Fifth
Seventh, Park and Vanderbilt avenues,
and Douglas and Butler streets roads,
was practically at a standstill.
SnorJly DeTore noon President Ros-
siter's private car Ampere started from
the city hall and made a round trip
of the traction lines. On board were
Chief Engineer Breckenridge, w. W.
Wlckes, President Rossiter's private
secretary, and Assistant Secretary
Vancott. Accompanying these were
several headquarters detectives. AS
the car neared Twenty-third street and
Fifth avenue those on board found
their further progress impeded by a
stalled car near the Fifth avenue barn.
Here a crowd of some 800 people,
many of whom were women and chill
dren had congregated, and the motor
man of the Ampere, Howard Jackson,
was attacked by several men who were
in sympathy with the strikers. The
motorman received some nasty bruises
on the head and legs. Secretary
Wickes was one of the first to run 20
the mans assistance, and he was
finally rescued from the mob. Six ar
rests were made and the track was
soon cleared.
Throughout the afternoon boulders
and large pieces of granite we're taken
from near by yard and placed on the
tracks In the vicinity of Greenwood
cemetery, and as cars came along at
intervals of 20 and 80 minutes, their
further progress was considerably de-
layed until these distractions were re-
moved. No sooner did the cars pass
than the boulders were laid on the
tracks again, and the police were un-
able to stop the efforts of the obstruc-
tionists. During the day 300 additional
police were sent over from New York.
The only cutting of wire reported to
the Brooklyn police headquarters was
the partial destruction Of the feed cable
on Flatbush avenue, but a score OF
linemen soon repaired this In a tenn
porary manner.
. General Master Workman Parsons
said: This strike was one that coult
not be averted. The first "a hours OF
a strike neither wins nor loses It, and
we are satisfied vita the showing thai
we have made. The cars are now
manned by inspectors and the meu
who remained. They are making q
showing, but 1t is a bad one."
President Rossiter said today that
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit officials
would not arhitrate the strike diff
Guilty with their striking employees
There's nothing to arbitrate," said
MT, Rossiter. "The men who have
gone out came to me with certain de-
mands. / showed them that they al
ready had substantially all they asked
for, and would straighten out any in
Justice. They came In a fighting mood
and were not disnosed to look at the