The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-07-19
BOTH SIDES
CLAIM TO BE
SATISFIED
With the Situation OF the Strike
onthe Lines OF the Brook.
lyn Trolley Company.
bun LITTLE DISORDER OCCURS.
Sixty Per Cent of the Rolling Stock
Is Being operated..The
Cleveland Strike.

NEW YORK. July 1s.-The Brooklyn
trolley strike Is stIll on, and in all like
llhood there Will be no end to the labor
trouble for several days to come. The
striking motormen and conductors are
very earnest and they claim they are
gaining ground on the other hand the
representatives OF the Brooklyn Trae-
tion Company assert that the strike is
only a nominal one and that from to-
night on they will experience no dill
Guilty In running their full complete
ment Of cars. The company did not
run any cars over its various lines af-
ter dark last evening. but resumed
trafic shortly after o'clock this morn
ing. Numbers Of cars were run over
the several lines, but the time schedule
was not lived up to on any one Of them
and a fair estimate Of the rolling stock
in operation would be about sixty per
cent.
No cars were run over the FIatbush
avenue line to Brighton Beach and the
patrons of the race track were forced
to take steam cars over the old rail-
road routes, or the Franklin avenue
and Smith street trolley cars which are
not under the strikers ban. Great dif-
iculty was experienced by the manage
ment in running cars over the Nassau
system and liberal estimate of the
cars run over the Nassau lines would
be about thirty per cent OF the regular
number. The Fifth and Seventh ave-
nue. lines were frequently blockaded
and the company did not handle more
than fifteen per cent OF the regular
daily trahic. The Douglass and Bergen
street cars were run at intervals OF fif-
teen and twenty minutes but each OF
the cars was manned by at least four
policemen.
a Small Riot.
During the day the police made sew
eral arrests OF persons who interferred
with the progress of the cars on the
Nassau lines, but no serious outbreak
occurred until after o'clock. A small
riot occurred a few minutes after 8
o'clock In which two men were pain
fully but no, seriously hurt. A mob Of
some 400 persons attacked Fifth ave
nue. car on Its way into the city at
sixth street and Fifth avenue, and
Motorman A. Latham and Conductor
W. F.. Mulcahey were pulled or the car
and badly treated. Latham had his
arm broken and Mulcahey received a
fracture OF the nose. Several police
men who were IN the neIghborhood
rushed to the assistance of the motor
man and conductor and frightened the
crowd on by firing their revolvers In
the air. Three arres:s were made and
in less than fifteen minutes the cars
were running on headway Of eight
minutes.
The police arrangements for the pro-
lection OF life and property were as
nearly perfect as possible, and while 1t
is likely that disturbances may occur
during the night President Rosslter has
slgnifed his intention Of running the
cars as nearly as possible on schedule
time up to midnight, and II found prac-
ticable he will have them run all night
No Trouble on Elevated.
1t was rumored during the forenoon
that trouble might be expected OH the
Union elevated railroads, but early in
the afternoon President Rossiter stated
that no hitch would occur there. The
engineers on the elevated system had
been notified that as soon as the third
rail or electric motor system was
adopted, their wages would be reduced
from 50 so to Sc Is per day. The en-
gineers kicked against this suggested
reduction. but this afternoon they were
assured by the management that the
rate Of wages now existing would be
maintained.
About noon policemen were sent from
headquarters to all the elevated rail.
road stations In the borough OF Brook
lyn. and by o'clock there was a police
officer on each Of the up and down plat
forms. Chief OF Police Devery, together
with Police Commissioners York and
Sexton, visited headquarters during
the afternoon. but none OF them would
admit that any trouble was anticipated
on the III" system and when pressed
for an explanation OF the policing Of the
different stations they declined to talk.
Chief Devery said that II President
Rossl,er wished TO run his cars all night
there were plenty OF police on hand to
protect the company's interests thor
oughly, but he was not prepared TO say
whether the cars would be run coutlnu-
ously.
Strikers Confident.
Master workman Parsons and Dis
trict Master Pines were very confident
that the strikers would win the fight,
but Judging from the number Of cars In
operatlou to-day the assertion OF the
railroad managers that the strike
would hzzle out seems to bs well found
ed. The strikers are severely handl-
capped lnaBmuch as that they have no
funds to back them up, and in many
instances there is a sad lack OF concert-
I'd action In part OF their leaders. That
the men are in earnest goes without
saying. Nlne-tenths OF them are thor
oughly honest In their Intentions, but
from Individual statements It Is easily
inferred that they are fast losing con-
ndenee.
President Rossiter stated to-day that
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