The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-07-18
STREETCAR STRIKES
Chief Devery Thinks the Brooklyn
Strikers Will Lose.
NEW WORKERS MAY NOW 60 OUT.

Out, Claiming Violation of Contract.
New York, July 1S.-The strike sit
uation in Brooklyn remains unchanged.
The striking employees are even more
determined than they were on Sun
day and the management of the Rapid
Transit lines is obdurate and untiinch-
ing. Cars were run on most of the
lines governed by the traction COM
pany from early morning until 7o'clock
last night, but after sundown there
was a considerable falling off in the
service, and by o'clock not n car
was moving on any of the lines affected
by the striking motormen and con-
ductors.
None Of the striking employees re-
turned to work and most of them
we're busy during the day influencing
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 practically intact
The Coney Island Railroad company |
reaped a rich harvest on all of its |
lines. The Coney Island company |
lived up to its agreement with the en-
ployes, and consequently its business |
was not interfered with in the slightest. |
OF all the lines in the traction sys-
tenn Flatbush avenue and newly
opened Brighton Beach route were the
most seriously affected lines. The
regular schedule on the Flatbush ave-
nue. and Brighton Beach roads calls
| for "a cars, but only six of these we're
successfully worked. On the Nostrand
avenue line rs cars are daily sent out,
/ I,,,f aiuht N inn
lated, and most of these did not cover
the entire route, Tompkins avenue
was very much neglected, only two cars
passing over the entire line.
President Rossiter, accompanied by
Seth L. Keeney, visited the barn on the
Flatbush avenue line near Vernon
avenue during the afternoon. The
strikers were there to a man, and when
the railroad magnates drove up in
coupe the strikers adjourned to a near
by hall and held a meeting, to which
they invited Messrs. Rossiter and
Keeney. Speeches were made on both
sides, but toward the close of the meet
ing President Rossiter told the men
that they could come back to work at
o'clock In the evening, but he as
sured them that the company would
not concede any of their demands, and
expressed himself as believing that the
strikers had no grievances to back up
their actions.
"There is no strike nor cause for It,
said Mr.. Rossiter.
"You lie, you lle," came from 500
throats in answer to this assertion,
and it looked for time as If serious
trouble would ensue Fortunately
wiser heads governed the more active
strikers and no damage was done.
AS soon as Mr.. Rossiter got out
side of the meeting room he noticed
two cars on the main line opposite the
barn. About 500 persons were In the
immediate neighborhood hooting and
jeering the company's representatives,
and President Rossiter Immediately de-
cided that it would be unsafe to remove
either of the cars. He ordered the cars
to be brought back into the barn, and
as the last one was being switched In
Starter Lewis jumped on the front
platform and brandished revolver in
a threatening manner Very little no.
tice was taken of this act, and the
| crowd dispersed a few minutes after
President Rossiter drove away In a
private carriage.
Early In the afternoon small sized
boulders and stumps of trees were
: thrown on the Flatbush avenue tracks
In front of the Wildwood club, but all
, these distractions were removed in
Y time to allow the limited number of
. cars to make their scheduled trips. All
the cars we're manned by two or more
4 policemen.
Very few cars were run over the old
Nassau lines, and those which were
run were in charge of road inspectors
f., electric light men and trackmen be-
longing to the road. These cars were
| totally inadequate to supply trans
portation for their patrons and those
who rode over the lines had to put VI
with frequent and annoying delays.
When asked for his opinion of the
strike and its probable outcome, Chiei
Devery said:
"This strike should never have oc-
Cured. The men will surely lose
They are not organized, and l think
the whole matter will be adjusted in
side of "a hours"
Many friends of the strikers thinl
, that the men will win, but the mos
. conservative people who have watched
the progress of the strike so far be
lieve that the strikers will lose, anC
many of them will be thrown out O
work.
President Rossiter said that the OLE
d employees would be welcomed ok Il
their several positions, but tina, tn
men who stood by the company
= whether green or old hands, woulC
IS have the preference In being assigned
n to regular cars, and undoubtedly
,e good deal of friction will occur on thi
. score in case the strike is declared of
- General Master Workman John N
Parsons was In conference for seVera
hours last night with the executive
committee of the employees of the Met
ropolitan Street Railway company. Al
- ter the conference Mr.. Parsons prac
tically announced that a strike of tn
y Metropolitan employees is now in
y evitable unless President Vreeland re
cedes from the position he has taker
Mr.. Vreeland yesterday refused to liste
to the state board of arbitrators. de
elaring there was nothing to arbitrat'
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