New-York tribune., 1902-03-14
BOSTON STRIKE AT AN END.
TWENTY THOUSAND MEN WILL RETURN TO WORK TO-DAY
IN MASSA CHUSETTS.
NO DISORDER IN BOSTON
STRIKERS PEACEFUL MEANS TO AC-
COMPLISH ENDS.

COMPLISH ENDS.
Boston, March 13-The day along the water
front and in the wholesale district was fully
as quiet as yesterday. The thousands of strik-
ers lined the sidewalks or promenaded the
deserted roadways. Perfect order was main
tanned along miles of streets and piers An
official estimate. based on reports of individual
unions, showed that T35 men had struck yet
the police force had an easier time than on an
ordinary working day. It is estimated that ten
thousand men. in addition to those belonging
to the union, were in idleness as a direct result
OF the strike, but there We're no demonstrations
OF anger The Brine company's teams. increased
in number by dozens of vehicles hired for the
occasion. went their way without molestation.
The absence of disturbance is due in part to
the permanent injunction recently given the
BRINE company as a protection and to the de-
clSlon OF the municipal judges that the word
scab, as applied TO non-union men. was a
term which. if publicly used during the strike
was d breach of the peace. The fact remains.
that the strike has been a marvellous exhibit
tion of discipline
FREIGHT HOUSES BLOCKED
Until late yesterday the Brine Transportation
Company did practically all the transportation
OF the city. This was because the master team
sters in conference had decided to await deveI-
that most of 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
reported traffic moving to their satisfaction 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 gath
cred in by the Boston and Maine road. had been
unable 10 dispose OF.
The railroads had solved the through baggage
transfer problem by sending luggage around
the city over their own tracks, and the strike
Of the Armstrong Transfer Company's men did
not greatly inconvenience passengers.
TRAFFIC IN BAD SHAPE.
The steamship company's piers are in a worse
condition than the freight sheds of the railroad
companies on account of the congested traffic.
There is much perishable material stored on the
wharves, mostly fruit. The condition of this
will be known tomorrow. The great freighter
SaxOnia, of the Cunard Line. made her dock
during the day. but the East Boston long
shoremen were not working. The crew
then set at work getting out the passengers
baggage, The steamers Roman and Cestrian
also came in the latter with the largest cargo
ever brought here, and the matches were not
opened The steamers Pavthian of the Phila-
delphia Line and the Hershaw. of the Mer-
chants and Miners Line. which were scheduled
20 leave to-day for Philadelphia and Baltimore,
respectively were unable to leave The Par
thian's cargo has not yet been discharged
All the coastwise steamers have been sub
jected 10 more or less delay in leaving here.
The British steamer TampiCo, which arrived
yesterday from Antwerp has not unloaded
pound of freight. The steamer Toronto is due
here from Hull, and had the strike continued
she would have unloaded at New-York.
BUILDING AT A STANDSTILL.
the city. Cambridge and Brookline because of
lack Of building material 1t was estimated that
at noon 1,s00 men of the building trades stopped
work, and most OF them will not start again for
several days on account of the inability of the
teamsters 10 haul material The secretary of
the Lumber Club said tonight that not one foot
of lumber was moved in Boston to-day
The food situation has not become serious. as
reserve stocks were large and all the biz con-
Germs had their own delivery wagons The
packing houses in the market district announced
that they We're supplying customers as usual
stocks.
LACK OF COAL SUPPLY.
The serious feature of the day was the grow
ing scarcity of coal. The manager OF one of the
largest coal companies said that only one hun
dred Of the 1.5OO coal handlers were at work
and they only cared for 100 tons of the usual
$500 tons daily transported by wagon through
agreement between the master coal dealers and
the coal teamsJerS some of the latter became
TestiVe strike when told OF a report of bad
faith and twenty-five returned to the Metro
poltan Coal Company. This action helped many
firms late in the day. for in scores of downtown
buildings and hotels the elevators had stopped
running for lack of motive power.
The great Ames Building tonight had only
coal enough TO keep its boilers going till to-
morrow noon. and its supply was eked out by
wagon labelled Hospital" Another big struct-
supplied by a wagon labelled Press
The strike leaders did not stop coal supplies TO
hospitals. newspapers and city institutions, and
the two loads referred to apparently strayed
goes of coal, and 1t was understood that the
engineers there were ready to strike had nom
union men been set at work.
The wholesale wool. cotton and drygoOds trade
was at a standstill. The American Hide and
Leather Company this morning went out and
brought four drays and ten draught horses and
with its own employees began handling its own
freight
1t is now known that both the Boston and
Maine road and the steamship companies were
preparing to feed and house men brought in TO
fill strikers places on their own premises. The
piers of the Wilson & Furness- -Leyland and
Warren and Dominion lines. which are adjacent
to the Boston and Maine roads tdewater
the gates which were guarded by policemen
Behind the fences the union men would
have been safe from interference
To-day about five hundred Italians had been
engaged TO do lOngShOremenS work. Italians
We're rushed to the city from all directions to-
day and set at work at the railroad sheds An
Italian paper published in the north end of the
city came out with story of the strike and a
men, who. he said, were thwarting the strikers
GROWING COTTON IN TOGOLAND.