The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-07-17
ONLY A PARTIAL SUCCESS,
AS Some OF Employees of Rapid
Transact Company Re.
fused to Quit.
AMPLE POLICE PROTECTION
Afforded the Company Only
Slight obstructon Is OF.
fered SO far.

NEW YORK, July l6.-Another troll
ley strike is on in Brooklyn. So far 1t
has not been us effective as the strike
OF 1896, but there is no telling how long
or far-reaching it may become. For
some weeks past the employees of the
several lines controlled by the Brook
lyn Rapid Transit Company have been
complaining that the management did
not live up to the ten-hour law. The
men demand revision OF the time
tables at the different barns, and also
claim that they should be paid twenty
cents an hour for overtime, which Is
equivalent to 50 day, the price which
they set for u 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 strike
was imminent. 1t would not occur for
Some days to come.
General Master Workman Parsons
and District Master Workman Pines
had charge of the mems affairs. and a
strike was called at half past four this
morning. At this hour most Of the
ulotormen and conductors on the
Brooklyn Traction Company's lines had
completed their night trips md the
leaders decided that this was the most
opportune moment to begin what was
expected TO be, stubborn fight with
the Traction Company. A heavy rain
storm was In progress at this time and
there was very little passenger traffic.
The Smith street, Franklin avenue and
Hamilton Ferry lines which are con-
trolled by the Concy Island Railroad
Company, having maintained the regu-
lar terms with their employees, were not
lmpeded In the least, but on all other
roads transportation was stopped for a
while. and good deal of congestion
occurred in consequence.
Police Protection.
Shortly after midnight about 1000
policemen from the precincts in Man
haitian and the Bronx districts were
conveyed to the different barns and
many were placed along the several
routes comprising the territory covered
by the Brooklyn Traction Company Up
10 half past seven o'clock there were
very few cars run over these lines. and
those that were sent out from the dIf-
fercnt barns were poleed by two, three
and four constubles. on the Putnam
avenue line only a few men refused to
work and It was notable that scarcely
n half dozen Of the cars on this division
were pollced. The Flatbush and Bergen
Beach cars, the Nostrand avenue.
Gates. Ralph and Myrtle avenue cars.
as well az the Third avenue trolleys
had meagre service In the early hours
Of the day, but traffic on the old Mas
sau lines which comprise Fifth, Sew
enth, Park and Vanderbilt avenues
and Douglass and Butler streets roads
were practically at standstlil. The
men on the Nassau road were most de-
termIned and not one OF the motormen
or conductors went to wark. The cars
remained idle for several hours, but by
10 O'Clock nbout One-tenth OF the rcgu-
lar rolling stock was working Those
cars were manned by Inspectors and
llncmen and In fact oilers and helpers
were pressed Into service so ns to
mnintain n partial running % the sys-
TEN. Many OF the old conductors and
mo,ormen reported for duty on the
Gates. Ralph, Broadway, Myrtle ave-
nue. Flushing and Third nTenuc roads
and President Rosslter said that short
Iy after noon over nifty per cent OF the
old hands were at work on these lines
Later In the afternoon the cars on the
latter roads we're running at intervals
Of ten minutes, which meant that the
service was crippled about one-third
The heavy storm Of the snrly morning
was disslpnted about 10 o'clock mud
from that hour until well into the af.
terhoon the Sunday traffic which is
usually very heavy to North Beach
Bergen Beach and Coney Island, ll!cd
the cars, but the dread Of trouble or
disturbance kept hundreds Of people
AWAY from these sea side resorts.
The First obstruction.
Shortly before noon President Ross
tiers private car Amperc started from
the city hall and made n round trip Of
the fractions lines. on board were
Chief Engineer Brecknridgc. w. w
wlckes, President Rosster's private
secretary and Assistant Secretary Van
Cott, Accompanying these were hcnd-
quarters detectives Reynolds, HarrIng-
ton. Gray and stoddnrd. The Ampcre
after running to the Flushing extension
went up Nostrand avenue to Bergen
Beach and returned by FIatbush nvc-
nue.. when It ran to Concy Island, Com
Ing bNck from Coucy Iglnnd the special
car Travelled over the Firth avenue
route. and nR II nearcd Twenty third
street nnd Firth avenue, those On board
found their further progress impeded
By II stalled car near the Flfth avenue
barn. Here n crowd Of some 900 people.