The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-18
Disorder the Only Evidence That a
Strike Exists.
NEARLY ALL CARS RUNNING.
More Will Be Put On To-Day on Al
the Lines.

but a Continuation of the Violence Is to
BE Expected for Day or Two-President
Rooster Visited Strikers at Their Meet
ings and Addressed Them-Had n Lively
Experience ut Flatbush-A Partial Record
of the Days Lawlessness- Motormen and
| Conductors Benten-Cars stoned, wiros
Encouraged and egEed on by the newspapers
| that were the allies Of the stockholders in
| bringing about the strike nzzle on the Brook
| Ign trolley roads. the unfortunates who quit
| their Jobs on Sunday morning refused to de-
| clare the strike "otf" yesterday In the mean
time the BROOKLYN Rapid Transit Railroad
! Company proceeded to run cars on every line
] OF its vast system almost as II nothing had
| happened. On some Of the lines moro cars
| were actually operated all day than the
| regular time table called for This was
| true OF the Putnam avenue and Hall
sey street line. the Greene and Gates
| avenue line and ono or two others. On some
of tho lines OF the old Nassau system moro
| difficulty WIS experienced. and cars were run
less frequently than they should have been
| run. but on every one OF the lines Of the old
| Nassau system cars were running from day
| light until late last night with reasonable
| regularity. The newspaper allies OF the stock
| jobbers asserted yesterday morning. in spite
| OF the facts OF Sundays disturbance. that the
| men had made "a splendid showing"
| that the strike was a great one and all
| that. Here are some figures: More than
| 500 cars were run on the lines OF the Rapid
| Transit system on Sunday; that is. more than
| half OF tho number OF cars usually run on Sum
| day; more than 100000 passengers were car
| ried during the day. which may be said to have
| ended with darkness. and the company's re-
| ceipts for the day were $l49O0. The figures
| for yesterday are. OF course. not yet obtaina-
Bile. but more cars were run yesterday each
| line Of the system than were run Sunday.
| and the number OF passengers carried on these
| cars was well over rs per cent OF the normal.
The strikers got a crumb OF comfort from the
situation at daylight on the Tompkins avenue
line. They had made energetic efforts with
| the Tompki ms avenue men during the night,
| and when 1t came time to start the cars only
one crew showed UP at the depot. 1t looked az
| il they had succeeded in tying up the Tomp-
| kins avenue line. but in almost loss time than
| 1t takes to tell it crews were provided and the
| cars were running there under good Roadway.
| Later on. twelve more OF the old crews came in
and gave the excuse that they had been in
| undated and had stayed home because they
| feared violent treatment at the hands of the
| strikers. The excuses in their cases were ac-
| cepted and they went to work. The officials of
| the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company said 1t
| was not their desire to punish the men who had
| been led into the strike by outside influences.
! and during the afternoon MIR. Rossiter. the
| President OF the company. visited various
depots in the system and made short speeches
| to strikers. He told tho men that they had un-
| til O'Clock to return to work that they could
| not have the cars they had had for the men
| who had taken those cars on Sunday were to
| keep them. but they could 20 back to work II
| they wanted to.
| ROAR FROM PINES.
His purpose in visiting the men became
| known to the labor agltators who are leading
| tho strikers. and District Master Workman
| Pines. the Chairman Of the Strike Committee.
| riding in a hanson cab, hustled around to each
| meeting place before Mr. Rossiter got there
| and made speeches to the men. warning them
| against going back To work. and telling them.
| with all the assurance of a yellow journal. that
| tho strike was bound to be successful.
Don't care what people say about you'll"
| roarcd Pines at these meetings: stand firm.
| Yours is good cause and is sure to win"
| Everything that could be done by the labor
| agtators to keep tho trouble stirred up was
done, and their newspaper allies goating over
the success that had attended their four weeks
campaign against the railroad company. racked
| their brains to aid With the idea OF increasing
the trouble and drawing in the Metropolitan
| Street Hallway Company in this city. which
| they have also been attacking. they printed
this statement:
| LIE ABOUT THE METROPOLITAN COMPANY.
| In fact. at no time has there been a scarcity
| OF men. although all OF them may not be up to
| the standard. President Nreeland OF the Metro
potan system. Manhattan, offered to send
| over l.2OO skilled men. but there was no neces-
sity for tax ing advantage OF the offer"
OF course IL President Nrceland did any such
thing as send his men over to Brooklyn. IL
would at once involve the Metropolitan system
in serious difficulty That was tho thing the
allies OF the stock jobbcrs hoped to bring
| about. The statement was q lie without any
| foundation at ALL but the mere publication
OF 1t was likely to cause trouble. Fortunately
tho scheme did not work. These newspaper
allies Of tho stockholders also printed state-
ments to the effect that the elevated railroads
would surely be tied up. and they said that
tho Brotherhood OF Locomotive Engineers
would order its men out in sympathy. Any
| body who knows anything about the Brother
hood OF Locomotive Engineers knows that that
statement had no foundation in fact. Instead
OF the elevated railroads being tied up they in-
creased their Roadway from six minutes be-
tween trains to four minutes. and the trains
were made up OF Ave Instead Of two and three
ears. The purpose OF this increase was to
make up for the cars that were not running on
the trolley roads below them.
The effect OF President RosSiter's trip around
among the men was good. At every place he
visited many men who had not appeared since
Saturday night reported for work. They all
gave the excuse that they had been intimi-
dated and mad not dared to show their faces at
the stables. President Rossiter made the fol-
lowing statement OF the situation;