The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-07-18
STREET CAR LINES OF
TWO CITIES TIED UP

New York. July 1.-THE street car strike
caused considerable disorder in Brooklyn
today. The striking employees are even
more determined than they were yesterday
and the management of the Rapid Transit
lines is obdurate and unhinching.
Cars were run on most of the lines gov
erned by the Traction company from early
morning until Z o'clock this evening, but
after sundown there was a considerable
falling off in the service and by o'clock
not a car was moving on any of the lines
affected.
The roads comprising the Nassau system
were most effectively crippled. None of the
striking employees returned to work and
most of them were busy during the day in
fiuencing union and non-union men ON the
other lines to quit work. In this respect
the strikers were partially successful, but
they made no inroads on the running of the
Putnam avenue cars. This line is practi-
cally intact, not more than half dozen of
its employees being affiliated with the strik-
ers. The Coney Island Railroad company
reaped a rich harvest on all of its lines
during the day. The Franklin avenue,
Smith and Jay street. Hamilton avenue and
Dekaib avenue lines were running on full
time ana carried great number of passen-
gers throughout the day and night.
OF all the lines in the Traction system.
Flatpush avenue and newly opened
bnghton Beach route We're the most ser
iousiy affected lines during the day.
There was a riotous demonstration bv the
strikers and their sympathizers at Flat
bush late this afternoon when President
Rosster of the Rapid Transit company. ad-
dressed meeting of the men who had gone
out ON the Flatbush and Nostrand avenue
lines.
Mr.. Rossiter was introduced by Albert
Eweeny, the chairman The latter said as
he came forward:
"This is Mr.. Rossiter. Win or lose let
us be gentlemen"
There were shouts, jeers and Kisses as the
president of the road stepped forward
Il want to say he began, that 1 don't
need an introduction to the men. They
have seen me in the power house and along
the lines and in the barns and they know
me-"
He was again interrupted with shouts,
jeers and cries. I'VE want an agreement.
Sign an agreement" was all that could be
heard in the din.
That's lie," was shouted again.
The president told of the beginning of the
strike and the measures he had taken.
Yesterday all the cars went almost on
schedule time,'' he said.
That's lie" was shouted out, and again
there was Kissing.
Il don't need to ask you to believe" he
continued. You know whether it Is true
or not. Today the cars on all the lines are
running on nearly the regular schedule"
He endeavored to talk but scarcely utter
ed sentence without being jeered and
hissed, and finally, as he told of his deal
ings with the men and his desire to aid
them, but of his determination not to re-
coenze that there was a strike there was
din that lasted for fully a quarter of an
hour.
After it was over the president said he
had come to the meeting to restore har-
mony. He declared he would take the men
back and not hold their action against
them. He gave them until o'clock to re-
turn, and said if they did not come back to
work then they would be discharged
''Well never come back" was the reply
in a shout from the house.
Drag him down; kill him." The speaker
smiled while the babel reigned, and finally
he was escorted down stairs and through
the mob outside that shouted for his life.
He entered a carriage with his party and
was driven to the barns around the corner,
where the party boaded the car Ampher.