The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-07-19
THE BROOKLYN STRIKE.
Strikers Make the Claim That They
Are Gaining Ground,
SMALL RIOT SOON SUPPRESSED


Conductor Had His Arm Broken and
Motormnn Received a Fracture OF
tho Nose -DistrlctAttorneys Ordered
TO Prosecute Ton Hour LawViolators
New York July 19.-The Brooklyn
trolley strike is still on, and in all like
lihood there will be no end to the labor
trouble for several days 20 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 Trac-
tion company assert that the strike is
only nominal one. and that from to-
day on they viii experience no diff
Guilty in running their full complement
of cars. The company did not run any
cars over it's various lines after dark
Monday evening, but resumed traffic
shortly after o'clock yesterday morn
ing. Numerous cars we're run over the
several lines, but the time schedule
was not adhered to- and a fair esti
mate of the rolling stock in operation
was about 60 per cent. No cars were
run over the Flatbush avenue line TO
Brighton Beach, and the patrons to the
race track were forced to take steam
cars, over the railroad routes or the
Franklin avenue and Smithields cars
which are not under the strikers ban
Great difficulty was experienced by
the management in running cars over
the Nassau system, and a liberal esti-
mate of the cars run over the Nassau
lines would be about 80 per cent of the
regular number The Fifth and Sew
enth avenue lines were frequently
blockaded, and the company did moi
handle more than Is per cent of the
regular daily traffic. The Douglass anC
! Bergen street cars were run at inter
walls of Is and 20 minutes, but each oI
the cars was manned by at least foul
policemen.
During the day the police made sew
eral arrests of persons who interfereC
with the progress of the cars on the
! Nassau lines, but no serious outbreal
occurred until after o'clock, when {
small riot occurred, in which two mel
were painfully hurt. A mob of some
! 400 persons attacked a Fifth avenue
| street and Fifth avenue. Conductor
Latham and MotoTman Mulcahey wer,
/ pulled off the car and badly treated
Latham had his arm broken, and Mul
| Cahey received a fracture of the nose
| Several policemen who were in tn
neighborhood rushed to the assistanc
of the motorman and conductor ant
frightened the crowd off by firing thei
revolvers in the air. Three arrest
were made. and in less than Is min
utes the cars were running on a head
way of eight minutes The police ar
rangements for the protection of lif
and property we're as nearly perfect a
possible.
1t was rumored during the forenoo
that trouble might be expected on tn
Union Elevated railroad, but early i
the afternoon President Rossiter state
that no hitch would occur there TIL
engineers on the elevated system ha
been notified that as soon as the thir
rail, or electric motor system, wa
adopted their wages would be reduce
from $3.50 to S2.25 per day. The eT
gineers kicked against this suggeste
reduction, but yesterday afternoon the
were assured by the management tha
the rate of wages now exiting would b
maintained.
Master Workman Parsons and Dis
trict Master Pines were very confiden
that the strikers would win the figh
but judging from the number of car
in operation yesterday the assertion {
the railroad managers that the strik
would tiZzle out seems to be we
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handicapped inasmuch as that the
have no funds to back them up, and i
many instances there is a sad lac
of concerted action on the part of thei
leaders. That the men are in earnes
goes without saying Nine-tenths {
them are thoroughly honest in thei
intentions, but from individual state
ments it is easily inferred that the
are fast losing confidence.
President Rossiter stated yesterda
that the men on strike would not b
Disseminated against if they returne
to work at once, but so far not one {
the strikers has seeded from therank
Many of the persons who were al
rested for interference with the trolle
cars were treated leniently by the mas
istrates in the several police court
yesterday morning, and with the exceI
ton of the fracas at Fifth avenue las
evening no trouble of any import wa
reported.
Taking everything into considers
ton, the strike is being conducted yer
peaceably.
In the board of aldermen meetin
yesterday Alderman Kenney introdut
ed the following resolution, which wa
unanimously adopted THAT the dis
trict attorneys of the several countie
within the city of New York as no.
constituted be and they hereby ar
respectfully requested to proceed G
once legally against all railroads VIII
have violated and now are violatin
the ten hour law relating To La hnr -