The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-07-18

was switched on toward the Thirty
ninth street ferry.
As the cur went away somebody hit
Mr.. Rosslter with the core OF an apple.
During the excitement attendant on the
presidents departure two cars arrived
at the barns on the Flatbush avenue
line and were attacked by the mob.
The police, however, charged and drove
them back.
Some twenty strikers took advantage
of the excitement in the vicinity Of the
barns to obtain stones, bricks and other
things from a new building, and they
scattered debris for half a mile along
the car trucks OF the F1atbush avenue
line below Church street.
Pulled oRthe Cars.
When a car came along toward the
barns the strikers rushed for 1t, and one
aimed blow with heavy iron bar
at the motorman. He jumped into the
arms of the strikers and was roughly
handled until he said he would strike.
The conductor was pulled from his
place also and agreed to strike.
The next car was guarded by four
policemen and they resisted the attacks
of the strikers until a detail of fifteen
men was rushed from the Grant avenue
station. These soon charged the crowd
and drove 1t back.
With the exception of cars from the
Nassau line all the other cars of the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company ap.
peared to be on time at the Manhattan
end Of the bridge between the hours of
8 and o'clock tonight, the rush hourS
The public patronlzed the cars lIber-
ally.
The only evidence of trouble during
these heavy hours of traffic was at the
western end of Brooklyn bridge, where
policeman in uniform was on each
car. The traffic fell of rapidly after Z
o'clock in the evening. At that hour
cars were running regularly on the fol-
lowing lines: Fulton, Putnam avenue,
De Ralk avenue, Smith street (coney
Island), Ralph avenue Third avenue.
Myrtle avenue. Green and Gates avenue
and Flushing avenue.
At s o'clock hundred Manhattan po-
licemen came over for a short rest.
They were under orders to get back to
their posts In Brooklyn at 10 or II
o'clock. They reported everything quiet
when they left Brooklyn.
Deyery Thinks Strike Is Over.
Chief of Police Devery spent the
greater part of the afternoon in Brook
lyn.
When asked for his opinion Of the
strike and It's probable outcome, Chief
DeVery said: This strike should new
er have occurred. The men vii. surely
lose. They are not organized and
think the whole matter vii. be adjust
ed inside Of twenty-fOur hours"
At midnight tonight Chief OF Police
Devery and Deputy Chiefs Mclaughlin
aud McKelIar held a conferences at po.
lice headquarters in Brooklyn. The
police authorities aver that the st!ike Ii
almost over as the men who are out
have not sufficient capital to back the n
up for any kind of Il prolonged fight,
Many friends OF tbs strikers. however.
think that the men Will win. but the
most conservative people who have
watched the progress OF the strike so
far. believe that the strikers Will lose.
and many OF them VIII be thrown out
of work.
President Rossiter said tonight that
the old employees would be welcomed
back to their several positions, but that
the men who stood by the company,
whether green, or old hands, would
have the preference In being assigned
to regular cars and undoubtedly Il
good deal OF friction will occur on this
score in case the strike is declared of.
At midnight none OF the cars opera
ted by the traction company were rum
ming. but President ROssIter said they
would be going on full time early to-
morrow morning.
The COney Island company lives up
to Its agreement with It's employees. and
consequently it's business was not inter.
fered with in the least, In fact, busi-
ness on these roads was considerably
augmented, us many travellers patron
lied the cars, although in many cases
going blocks out OF their way to do so.
OF all the lines In tho traction sys-
ten, Flntbush avenue and n newly
opened Brighton Beach route were the
most seriously affected lines during the
day. The regular schedule on tho
Flntbush avenue and Brighton Beach
roads called for ninety-tour cars. but
only elk of these were successfully
worked. on the Nostrand avenue line,
which runs from the Twenty-third
enPrHy landing tn TVl11n m uh1iVpP m
Flatbush avenue and Bergen Beach,
seventy-nve cars are daily sent out.
To-day only eight were manipulated,
and most OF these did not cover the en-
tire route. TompklnF avenue was
very much neglected, only two cars
passing over the entire line during the
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