Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-18

NEW YORK, July 17.-At 5 O'Clock
this morning the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company started cars out on
most of it's lines. Many of the cars
were manned with green hands. Offic-
ials of the company claim that they
will be able to run more cars on all
lines than were run yesterday.
About two-thirds of the cars on all
the lines of the company, except the
Nassau system, were running. The
cars are all policed with from one to
Putnam and Halsey line, which is run
ming as in normal times.
Judging from the number of cars
that are running this morning the
company has nearly three-fOurths of
its rolling stock in operation on all
the roads other than those which COM
prise the old Nassau lines. The Gates,
Broadway, Myrtle, Third, Ralph, Nos
trand, Tompkins and Flatbush avenue
and the heavy morning passenger traf-
fic was handled with little congestion
at any point. The company's officers
were very confident this morning that
they would be able to run the full
complement of cars on the regular
schedule time within "a hours, and
al 4 twill IO
by midnight.
Charles W. Mckenzie chairman of
the committee in charge of the strik-
ers, said this morning that the men
were holding their own and would
surely win out. He asserted that
every union man on the traction COM
pany's roads and all the men on the
Nassau lines were out and that all
night long 81" road employees were
that the 81" men were working at
the express wish of the strikers so as
not to inconvenience the public Nc
Kenzie said he was confident of sue
cess and that a general tie-up of all
the cars in Brooklyn would occur if
the traction company failed to accede
to the demands of the strikers.
Col. T. c. Williams, secretary of the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, in
an interview said: THE Brooklyn
Heights lines are in good shape, but the
Nassau system is where most of the
trouble is. OF the 1000 men employed
on our lines the proportion of strikers
is very small. | think the strike is al
ready broken and in my opinion it will
not last much longer"
President Rossiter, of the Rapid
Transit company, said this morning
that so OF the men who went out yes
terday reported for work this morning
At the strikers headquarters in Brook
Ign, the men asserted that while some
cars were running it was very irregu-
larly. They claim six recruits this
manned at work yesterday.
On the Marcy, Fifth and Seventh av-
enue roads and the Douglas and Bergen
street lines, the condition of affairs was
serious. Four policemen guarded each
car, but there was very little Roadway
made on any of these roads. Several
cases Of trouble on these lines We're re-
ported at police headquarters, but no
serious outbreak occurred. At Thir-
teenth street and Fifth avenue large
stones were placed on the track and the
police, motormen and conductors had
hard time clearing the way to let two
cars come along to the city. A crowd
OF some 400 persons had congregated at
this point and they hooted the police
and employees while they were at work
Near the barn at Troy avenue and
Bergen street Bergen street car was
stoned by a mob, but no person was in
jured. The police made two arrests.
but neither of the persons taken into
custody belonged to the union.
Trouble was reported from Wander
yeer Park, on the Flatbush avenue
line, where some of the trolley wires
were cut and traffic was delayed for ov-
er an hour.
Brooklyn was quiet last night. al
though 5000 policemen had their hands
full earlier in the day. The first day of
the street car strike developed the fact
that very large portion of the Brook
lyn Rapid Transit Companys employees
while they may be dissatisfied with
their treatment, are not willing to
strike. The good will of the Brother
hood Engineers on the Brooklyn ele-
waited roads toward the strikers is no
secret.
Only one person was seriously in
jured in Sundays tone-throwing.
Peter Spada, a messenger, II years old,
who was struck by stone while rid
ing on Green Point car, is expected
to die. The stones were hurled at the
non-union motorman and conductor,
but one Of the missiles struck the boy