The evening world., 1903-04-29
BULLETS FLY IN
A Tunnel RIOT.
One Of the Strikers, Who Re-
fused to Toll Under the North
River, Is Shot In Jersey City
Fight.

Through the shooting OF n Striker
yesterday In Jersey City the patient
''commuter" became aware that m
thing is being done for him by the
rushing OF work inside the unn of
the New York and New Jersey Rail-
road Company. A small riot followed
the shooting.
Nine men were arrested. but with a
single exception all were discharged In
the Gregory Street Court. Jersey City.
to-day.
This tunnel Is what has been known
for years as the Morton street tunnel.
william Sweeney, the victim. was shot
by william Blizzer. an adherent OF
william Taggert. foreman. under whom
the rest OF the members OF the Sand
hog Union refused TO toll ten days ago.
Seventy laborers are now on strike and
their Jobs cape for men with sound lungs
and normal pulses. able to contend with
the ava of the bends" n disease
| resulting from contact with compressed
air.
wanseh-G0od Sound Men.
GOOD places await men with sound
physical systems." declared Manager
George B. Fry to an Evening World
reporter to-day. DR., A. ]. Loomis will
examine any applicant. Despite all that
has been said In the way Of discouraging
men from taking up tunnel work. /
emphasize that the evil Of such iabors
has been grossly exaggerated. and 1
say that any man with ordinary lungs
and normal heart can undertake the
work and make 3,25 per day for six
hours work. For men who seem to Ire
adapted to the work l will add a bonus
Of from Is to 50 cents per day."
Manager Fry refused to admit that he
was experiencing n difficulty inp get
ting men to MI the places OF the
strikers. yet 1t il nevertheless n fact
that the ordinary iaborer will not ackls
the underground problem. The company
refuses TO dispense with the services Of
the Objectionable foreman. and conse-
quently the tunnel work is tied UP.
The Jersey City station OF the trolley
tunnel Is Just west OF the Laekawanna
terminal yards IN Fourteenth street,
and the tunnel itself, after emerging
from the station. takes its course under
Meath the railroad yards. entering the
river bed at a point opposite the foot OF
Fifteenth street. Manhattan.
One Bore Nearly Finished.
Upon reaching the New York side 1t
cuts under the piers at tho foot OF
Morton street. RUM up that street tn
Greenwich street, and then turns nortla-
ward under the Ninth avenue L." Al
ter following Greenwich street for one
block. 10 Barrow street. It curves
slightly. eastward. and the rest OF its
length Is up 10 the terminal At Tenth
and Greenwich streets. .
just how e done Is the tunne!?
Tlis question OF the anxious commuter
Is answered by President w. q. Nc
! Adoo. OF No. Is Wail street.
bored" he said. '"fhe ncst Of the tive
steel tubes mat form the tunnel il
completed from n point on the land enc
the docks at the foot OF Norton street,
this city. In addition 10 this, there Ia
also completed a short streIch between
/ the West street intermediary shaft and
the piers. leaving the only unfinished
: stretcn upon his side OF the river.
THE weil-knOyn shield construction
with pneumatic pressure, Is the method
, by which the work under, the river II
l ing the tunnel would be completed In 4
short lime" .
Many Crippled for Life.
When the. soil is e~xeayated It II
r brought tack to the bulkhead OF tn,
shleld. which ID a machine made o
) boiler plates. strengthened by massly,
steel webs and divided into compart
r ments. When the nature OF the sol
permits, the Iaborer can work upon tn,
u outside OF the doors beyond the bulk
e head. Hydraulic jacks OF enormou
y pressure push the shield forward, am
as the shield goes forward cast-irol
7 plates are erected 10 form the lining o
tube OF the tunnel.
e In Ina damp. foul-smeilinE eayerI
made by this huge drill human being
toll for tl950 per week. Many an
seized with the "bendb' and are crlp
pied with pains In the Joints for III
l. rest OF ulelr lives. II is these under
s6p Il 9 SIm .9iIsg' a Sse are 81 Oh 9Rs 'i p1si.oi az
of, the tunnel, Is 70 find men who wi