The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-06-02
Especial to The Times. Dispatch. !,

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| NORFOLK. VA, June 1-Ocean View
and sewalrs Point ferries, both stopped.
| the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway boat Is
| still running to Newport News.
| Tha strikers say that OF $50 men in tho
organization of the marine engineers but
thirty-one out OF work. They are confident
| OF winning and say that the vessel owners
| will soon yield.
| Inquiry of Postmaster Nichols and of
Mall Dispatcher Nunnally, shows as fol-
| lows: The Cape Charles mails did not
! go out over the New York, Pennsylvania
and Norfolk line because the boats did
| not run. No definite answer was given
| to the inquiry of the mall dispatcher as
| to when the boats would run.
| There a erno mails over the Sewall'a
! Point road. Newport News and notice
at the station says the boats are not run
| ming. The Norfolk and Southern North
| Carolina sounds boats are reported
stopped, and the Old Dominion Line has
notified the postot1ice that the boata
which carry the mails to smithfleld, to
| Mathews county and TO Gloucester have
| stopped. In all other cases the mails have
| been dispatched as usual The lines which
/ are running as follows.
| Washington steamers. Marshall Broth
! ers tug boats are not in the union; Jos.
NJ, Clarke, has g,t four r. tugs running and six
boats are running to Old r Point e and the the
| ferries between Norfolk and Portsmouth
naa NG51ff buf he en Twn d o
| tween Berkley and Portsmouth.
The tugs of the Lamberts Point Tow
1 ing Company. which attend to the bus
and and til the &C chesapeake @ and md Obi Ohio Railway Way
/ steamers and tugs are running.
traic nc and and practiealy ali Of The import,
/ ant mails There Is not a serious delay
] as the conditions, show to-day, The en-
the ars Scale Of ess Wnges Rey haye p5
posed and the owners. say that they will
increase wages but they will not grant
! A number OF the railroad and steam
boat lines. however. have acceded to the
requests Of the men and granted the
and Ohio Railroad, Norfolk and Wash
nett's North Carolina line. Roanoke Lum-
tion, Merritt Wrecking Company, Banks
North Carolina line. which runs s;outlh.
from Elizabeth City; Steamer TEDDY"
atuck; Atlantic Coast Line, which has
made. temporary arrangement, for one
month with It's to sed how the ss
| for long while have paid the new scale.
Vessels Tied Up,
(By Associated Press.)
| NORFOLK, VA, June 1.-Thirty- seven
steam vessels are tied w at this port to-
| day as a result of the refusal of vessels
owners to grant tho new scale of wages
| adopted by the Marine Engineers Bene-
fetal Association. Most Of these vessels
| are tug boats in the river and river har-
| Dor and bay service. Many owners have
complied with the, demands Of the en-
gineers. including the Norfolk and WASH
ington, Steamboat Company y MeEri.t eWdt
| Norfolk Ferry Company, Atlantic Coast
| Line and the Chesapeage and Ohio.
Commerce has been badly crippled
| though there are enough vessels IN use
| to prevent serious congestion OF traf-
| fice There appears no immediate pros
pect OF change in the present situa-
80" OUT OF WORK,
| About 400 ment, consisting Of engineers
| and boat crews, are thrown out of work,
! The New York, Philadelpkia and Norfolk
| Railway, the Norfolk and Southern Rail
way, tie Old Dominion Steamboat Com
,pany and the Chesapeake and Albemarle
| Towing Company are putting up the
| strong fight against the engineers, each
| one nf the above companies having with
| drawn half o dozen vessels.
The Old Dominion has tied up five
steamers that ply between, Norfolls and
| tldewater points in virginia and and Mottn
badly fnterfered With