The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-14

longing to the unions, were in idleness 1 as direct result of the strike, but | there were no demonstrations ot anger. | The Brine company's teams, increased l in number by dozens of other vehicles | hired for the occasion went their way | without molestation. The absence of | disturbance is due in part to the per | manent injunction recently given the l Brine Brine company as protection
 and to the decision of municipal judges | that the word 'scab" as appliel to non | union men was term which is public 1 ly called out during the strike was | breach of the peace. The fact remains,
 however, that the strike has been a 1 marvellous exhibition of discipline. | Until late yesterday the Brine Trans l portation company, non-union, did practically all the teaming of the city. | This was because the master team l sters in conference had decided to
 await developments. To-day the situ-
 ation became so acute that most of l them personally took out teams, doing manual labor with the aid of foremen | and clerks In this way the statement generally made that more freight was moving to-day than yesterday was true although at the most the bulk was not great All the railroad companies re- ported traffic moving to their satisfac- tion to-day, yet tonight the freight houses are blocked with goods which
 gangs of Italians brought from many
 places by the New York New Haven
 and Hartford and Boston and Albany
 roads and strapping young countrymen
 plt tborad in hu fhn Boston Maine
 road had been unable to dispose of.
 The railroads had solved the through
 baggage transfer problem by sending
 it around the city over their own tracks
 and generally speaking the strike of
 the Armstrong Transfer companys
 men did not inconvenience passengers
 coming from the east or north bound
 to the south or west or vice versa.
 The steamship companies docks are
 in a worse condition than the freight
 sheds of the railroad companies, on ac
 count of congested traffic. There is
 much perishabe material stored on the
 wharves, mostly fruit, the actual condi-
 ton of which will be known tomorrow.
 The great freighter, Saxonia, of the Cunard line, made her dock during the day, but the East Boston 'longshore- men were not working. The crew were then set at work getting out the pass engers' baggage. The steamers Roman and Cestrain also came in, the latter with the largest cargo ever brought here and the hatches were not opened. | Steamers Parthian of the Philadelphia l line and Kershaw of the Merchants and Miners line which were scheduled | to leave to-day for Philadelphia and | Baltimore, respectively, were unable to | leave. The Parthian's inward cargo | has not yet been discharged All the | coastwise steamers have been subject ed to more or less delay in leaving here. British steamer Tampico, which arrived yesterday from Antwerp, has not unloaded pound of freight Steamer Toronto Is due here from Hull and had the strike continued she would have unloaded at New York.
 All day building construction was in the city, Cambridge and Brookline because of lack of building It was estimated that at noon 1900 men of the building trades stopped work and most of them will not start again for several days because of the inability of the teamsters to haul at once. The secretary of the Lumber club tonight told the Associat- ed Press that not one foot of lumber was moved in Boston to-day.
 The food situation has not become serious as reserve stocks were large md all the big concerns had their own wagons. The packing houses n the market district announced dur ng the day that they were supplying customers as usual but it was from ,old storage house reserve stocks.