The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-07-17
BIG TROLLEY STRIKE 0N Employees of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
 Quit Work.
 CALLED OUT EARLY SUNDAY ZIE-UP NOTAS EFFECTIVE, so EAR,
 AS IN 1895.

AS IN 1895.
 Manhattan and Bronx Districts-Some
 Violence and Some eArrests-Prestdent
 Rossiter Goes Over the Company's
 Lines in His Private Car--Attack Made
 on the MotOrmam Police Commits
 stoner Hess Crittcises Rossiter's Con-
 duct.
 New York, July 16-Another trolley
 strike is on in Brooklyn. So far it has
 not been as effective as the strike of '95,
 but there is no telling how long or far
 reaching it may become. For some
 weeks past the employees on the several
 lines controlled by the Brooklyn Rapid
 Transit company have been complaining
 that the management did not live up
 to the 10-hour law. The men demand
 revision of the time tables at the diff"
 ferent barns and also claim that they should be paid twenty cents an hour for over time, which is equivalent to $2 a
 day, the price which they set for a working day of ten hours. Meetings have been held daily and nightly for the last week and it was inferred from the reports given out by the employees and their advisers since Thursday last that while a strike was imminent it would not occur for some days to come
 Strike Called at 4:3O n. m.
 General Master Workman Parsons and District Master Workman Pines had charge of the mems affairs and a strike was called at 430 this morning. At this hour most of the motormen and conductors on the Brooklyn Traction company's lines had completed their night trips, and the leaders decided that this was the most opportune moment to begin what was expected to be stub- born fight with the traction company A heavy rain storm was in evidence at this time and there was very little pas senger traffic. The Smith street, Frank | lin avenue and Hamilton street ferry | lines, which are controlled by the Coney | Island Railroad company, having main- tained the regular terms with their em- ployes, were not impeded in the least. but on all other roads transportation was stopped for a while and a good deal of congestion occurred in conse- quence.
 1000 Policemen on Hand.
 Shortly after midnight about 1000 po- licemen from the precincts in Manhat- tan and Bronx districts were conveyed to the different barns and many were placed along the several routes compris- ing the territory covered by the Brook lyn Traction company. Up to 7:30 o'clock there were very few cars run over these lines and those that were sent out from the different barns were oolfced by two, three and four constables. On the Putnam avenue line only few men refused to work and it was notable that scarcely half dozen of the cars on this division were policed. The Flatbush and Bergen Beach cars, the Nostrand avenue Gates, Ralph and Myrtle avenue cars, as well as the Third [ avenue trolleys had meagre service in he early hours of the day but traffic ,n the old Nassau lines which com i prise the Fifth, Seventh, Park and Van i lerbilt avenues and Douglass and But CT street roads was practically at a ,tandstill The men on the Nassau road i were most determined and none of the { notor men or conductors went to work. ( The cars remained idle for several hours, t ,ut by 10 o'clock about one-tenth of I he regular rolling stock was working. ' These cars were manned by inspectors S nd linemen and in fact oilers and help rs were pressed into service so as to ] maintain partial running system,
 50 Per Cent of Men Working. Many of the old conductors and mo- ormen reported for duty on the Gates, .alph, Broadway. Myrtle avenue, Flush | ng and Third avenue roads and Presi- t ent Rossiter said that shortly after n oon fifty per cent. of the old hands !. were at work on these lines. Later in he afternoon the cars on the latter P pads were running at intervals of ten linutes which meant that the service U ras crippled about one-third. The II eavy storm of the early morning was 0 issipated about 10 o'clock, and from U nat hour until well in the afternoon e 1e Sunday traffic which is usually very W eavy to North and Bergen Beach and I oney Island filled the cars, but the u read of trouble of disturbance kept E undreds of people away from these k ,aside resorts.
 Presidents Car Stalled. |" Shortly before noon President Rossit- II 's private car Ampere started from le city hall and made a round trip of ,e traction company's lines. On board 4 ere Chief Engineer Breckinridge, w. f, '. Wickes, President Rossiter's private V cretary, and Assistant Secretary Van- III ,tt Accompanying these were head h. larters Detectives Reynolds, Harring- sf n. Gray and Stoddard. The Ampere o ter running to the Flushing extension ent up Nostrand avenue to Bergen p- each and returned down Flatbush ave- p' le from when it ran to Coney Island. q' ,ming back from Coney Island the pS esidents car travelled over the Fifth VI enEe route, and as it neared 23d street III d Fifth avenue those on board found all cir further progress impeded by a al ,lled car near the Fifth avenue barn. tn ere a crowd of some 800 people. many " whom were women and children, had m aggregated, and the motorman of the hu npere, Howard Jackson was struck hl' several men who were strikers or in hi mpathy with them. The motorman les ,eiyed some nasty bruises on his head s1