The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-06

he will be able to get it this morning should
he return to work.
The purpose of the marlborough Com
pany in taking the controllers away from
the motormen is to avoid the annoyance
of losing them should the men suddenly
quit work Heretofore. the men have
retained their controllers on leaving work
each man locking up his controller IN MS
, own locker at the barns.
MORE HOPE OF PEACE.
Among those who have been watching
closely the drift of events in the ele-
waited railway troubles there was con-
tingent yesterday who We're hopeful that
there will be no strike after all. This
proceedings Of Yesterday developed. The
fact that the union leaders wanted still
another conference with Mr. Belmont
and seemed to be willing to wait Mr.. Bel
mont's convenience AZ to the time of the
conference, WAS regarded as a symptom
fayoring beaoe
The committee representing the three
unions was in session in room 800 OF the
Broadway Central Hotel from early yester-
day morning until o'clock last evening.
The national officers of the organizations
present were Mr.. Stone of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers; Mr.. Wilson
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
and Mr.. Mahon of the Amalgamated As
Mr. Jencks of the engineers. Mr.. Pinney of
the firemen and Mr.. Pepper Of the ANAL
gamated Association. local officers, also
look part tnthe session.
The first thing done by this gathering
was to send a note to MIR. Belmont asking
for a conference To this there came no
response. The committeeman, after walt
ing several hours without hearing from Mr..
Belmont, became more and more uneasy
At last they had recourse to the telephone,
and about O'Clock in the afternoon sue
ceeded in getting Mr. Belmont and arrang-
ing for the conference this afternoon.
It was regarded by the optimists as an
exceedingly favorable sign that the com
mittee, after the correspondence and dis
cussions Of Saturday and Sunday with their
dearth of results, should be willing to post
pone the final conference until so late as
to-day.
UNIONS WANT POINTS EXPLAINED.
The reason given yesterday to Mr.. Bel
mont for wishing another conference was
that there were some points in the COM
pany's formal statement of its final position,
put in writing last Saturday. night; which
were somewhat obscure. Mr.. Wilson Of
the flremen said Of this:
We wish to have certain points cleared
up There are some things in the com
pany's statement which we think need ex-
PLANTATION The question about pay OF the
men for overtime IL one OF these. In
matters of this kind it Is OF the highest i'm
Whatever as to phraseology. For this
reason We want the conference. What the
result will be If we fail to come to an under
standing in the conference that has been
arranged for tomorrow l cannot say
Supt. Hedley OF the lnterborouHh was
in cheerful mood yesterday afternoon,
hut was uncommunicative to what prep.
arations the company was making to meet
q strike. All he would say was that the
marlborough officials we're all pleased
cruiting.
CAMERA pATTERy ON FARLEY
The chief interest Yesterday in the re-
crltine situation centred in the Office
occunieI hv lanes Farley II Was one
Of the Offices Of the lntertoroueh company
Sac ic nnx 81 n ra its w;ndo u so nnhiy
I;soo,,ar,,5 hv ,ha srnoi, army ~, na,.s,
naner nhotograpbers Who vera ont under
fnstr,,ctt;rns to get a nhotogranb Of the
mysterious Farley at all hazards. There
of the street and on II there Was lined IN
To- a t;n,a a Lh,ttorv ~ oameras a,l tnned
noint blank on tho Farley window. In
addition ,here went nrettv STEADY eovT
az nntes ~ NJ Earlov AK inc Tor a sitting
Thnse Who can,e nersonni1v and knnctad
at the door with this request were ma. nv
J.. b. Jenkins. Farey's chief l.susr',g nj
Jenkins il feet tall weighs MOI, han
200 pounds and looks "a though he could
break strikes 1t was assumed by some Of
himself and he was snapshotted in his
tracks whenever he made his appearance.
Farley himself went to and fro with impu-
nifty, for he does not look so much like a
strikebreaker as he does like an every
day business man.
Farley was hard at work examining re-
cr,Iits all day. At about 2 o'clock in the
afternoon he had enlisted something like
$50, all OF them picked men whom he knew
personally, from experience with them in
former strikes At night "the Boss" as
his men call him, vanished, and all that
could be learned OF his whereabouts was
that he had not shown up at late hour at
the Grand Union Hotel, where he registered
on his arrival in town last Saturday morning.
There has been no move on the part OF
the Interborough company which has
more convinced those who know some
thing about strikes that the company meant
to fight than has the hiring Of this man
Farley. He has come 10 be regarded az an
essential when a big strike ia to be fought
to finish, but he is a luxury that comes
high and he is not engaged unless a street
railroad company has made up its mind
on two points-hrst, that strike is pretty
sure to come; and, second, that the strike
has to be fought until it il broken.
WILL THERE BE A sTRIKE?-ANp WHEN?