Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-17

not estimate the shrlnkage IN traff1c
owing to the strike. The returns to-
morrow will do all that. 1t seemed to
me this morning that there was spec
ial providence in the lowering weather
and the rain. People did not start on
the day with a rush to the beaches as
usual and this gave us time to steady
ourselves
President Rossiter said that the Sew
enth and Ninth avenue lines of the
Nassau system were manned by Hal
sey street men, the employees on that
line having refused to go out almost to
man.
General Master Workman Parsons
spent the greater part of the day in
Brooklyn and a considerable portion
of the afternoon in conference with
Messrs Delehanty and Webster, OF the
State Board of Mediation and Arbitra-
ton. Mr.. Parsons said:
Everybody knows that l do not like
strikes. They are not pleasant and
furthermore they are expensive. But
this strike was one that
COULD NOT BE AVERTED.
The first twenty-four hours Of a strike
neither wins nor loses it. and we are
satisfied with the showing that We
have made. There will be fewer cars
run tomorrow than there were to-
day. The cars are now manned by in
spectors and the men who remained.
They are making a showing, but it is
a bad one.
Il think that tomorrow will see. a
paralyzed condition of the traffic that
will make the people of Brooklyn
realize the strike is strong enough to
speak for itself. They are running no
cars in the suburbs and are making all
the show they can in the city
Asked about the story that the road
had a lot of new men to take the places
of the strikers, Mr.. Parsons said he
knew nothing of that.
Good motermen are scarce he said.
''The big trolley lines that have been
built and the season makes them a
scarce article in the market, especial
ly in the big cities. Having good mo-
tormen prevented accidents and some
of the roads are onto the fact that
it is just as easy and in fact cheaper
to add few dollars to the pay roll
than to keep paying claims for dam
ages
Mr. Parsons said the strike
HAD THE SANCTION
of the Knights of Labor and that the
men would receive the moral and finan-
cial support of the organization.
The Brooklyn elevated engineers met
tonight and took up the question of
their transfer from their present posi-
ton to the position of electrical engi-
neer when the third rail system, recent
ly adopted should go into effect. They
did not discuss the question of joining
the surface trolley roads in the strike.
This change for the engineers will
mean a great reduction in wages and
it is not satisfactory. The matter was
referred to Chief Arthur, of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers, with
Itch organization the elevated engl-
neers are affiliated.
A man was slightly wounded on
Rockaway avenue by striker tonight.
The Brooklyn elevated engineers are
meeting tonight and may take action
regarding a strike.
All the roads with the exception of
three, Green and Gates, Halsey and
Putnam and the Fulton street lines,
shut down at seven o'clock tonight by
orders of President Rossiter. The
three mentioned continued running I'M
til midnight, when they were ordered
to stop. President ROssiter said he
would open the lines again at o'clock
in the morning, and promises that the
cars will be run on schedule time.
Chief of Police Devery and Police
Commissioners Hess and Sexton spent
several hours in Brooklyn tonight
completing the police arrangements for
taking care of the rioters.
There was some trouble tonight
with large number of people that had
taken the trolley car during the day
for Coney Island by way of Ulmar
Park They were let out at Ulmer
Park, and being unable to either get to
Coney Island or to return to the city
proper for many hours, remained there
and several small disturbances were
the result.
President Rossiter said tonight that
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit officials
would not arbitrate the strike difficulty
with their striking employees.
There is nothing to arbitrate," said
Mr.. Rossiter 1.-The men who have
gone out came to me with certain de-
mands l showed them that they al
ready had substantially all they asked
for, and l would straighten out any in
justice They came in a fighting mood
and were not disposed to look at the
subject dispassionately.
NORTH ATLANTIC SQUADRON.
PORTLAND, Me, July 16.-The