The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-07
PEOPLE HAD TO WALK

And the Cars Were Much Missed
 Buses, Carriages and Bicycles.
 Never in the history of New Haven's street railway service has the travelling public been put to the great inconven- fence they were subjected to yesterday. Thousands of working people and hun dreds of persons engaged in various business enterprises use the trolley daily and many of them ride to and from their work several times each day. The tie-up on the trolley lines made 1t necessary for the people to walk going to work or returning therefrom, and nearly everybody did some walking yesterday. Many people working in the local places of business and in local factories live in the opposite extremes of the city. They depend upon the troll ley for transportation. The cutting off of this means of travel put them to the greatest inconvenience. The people seemed to realize the situation at once and they walked. Later in the day many were wearing buttons bearing the inscription We Walk" which some vendors, wide awake to catch few dimes, were hawking about
 | Buses were put into use by some Of the local Hverymen. Nesbit had the
 old Independence" running between West Haven and the green. Other
 buses were running from the green to
 Fair Haven, to Westville, and Attorney
 Webb secured a license for transporta- tion by bus to Hamden. The buses
 were. for the most part, well patroniz-
 ed, few people using the trolley cars
 which ran at intervals. The bus man
 who ran to Hamden was discouraged
 at 5 D. m. and said patronage did not justify his running after p. m.
 The Consolidated railroad began run ming a special train from New Haven to West Haven, and continue this ar Irangement until further notice. This will accommodate many of those at the
 shore and also those who reside in West Haven and vicinity and work in the factories in this city. The steam road company has also arranged to accom- modate the employees of the Winchester Repeating Arms company and will so
 operate it's trains as to carry to and
 from work all those who live at dis
 tance from the factories. The steam trains will stop at stations at all the tnear-yby shore resorts to accommodate
 all those who are inconvenienced by the
 trolley strike.
 At savin Rock the effects of the strike
 were keenly felt The crowd was not there and the licensees were dejected. Business was positively at standstill and those who are stopping at the west l shore, and, for that matter. from the west to the east shore, were reminded forcibly of being captive within their , own shore domains. One of the propri-
 etors of an amusement stand at the
 Rock stated that Civil Engineer Pun
 derford had been to those who are con- ! ducting the privileges and told then
 that in case the strike continued for z } week the licensees would be dealt witt : Isouarely and would not be assessed the , weeks rent
 D The situation was forcible reminder /: to the old residents of the times wher 7 street railways were not in operation f The return to those times was, very ap f parently, not relished. As an illustra F. ton of the change in sentiment sine
 the eStaDllSEiHeII oL 0tleet lall" o.
 lsvstem within the city limits, the peo
 jple of Fair Haven were yesterda, e treated to a sample of what would hay II been the case had the early remon l. strances and opposition of part of tn y inhabitants against the inauguration 0 n street railroad service prevailed. ~ <, With the trolley lines paralyzed an e the buses and coaches furnishin Q meagre accommodations at the bes l' the people resorted to bicycles of a
 descriptions. Many of the wheels look ;. ed as if they had been in garrets fo " several seasons. They all came in hand
 and will very likely be used until tn
 lend of the ns4Sent trouble.