New-York tribune., 1905-03-08

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breaker good naturedly. And he did He pulled
the controller over and the train moved.
In the course of the night electricians of the
tsnterborough had removed from the cars Of all
the trains the familiar red cords and wooden
handles which passengers had often noticed and
which were accompanied by signs warning any
body that If they We're pulled the train would
stop instantly. This same warning announced
that anybody pulling this rope except I'm case of
emergency was liable to fine of $500 or
year in prison, as it would be misdemeanor.
The company, apparently fearing that either
the strikers themselves riding as passengers or
ssyrnpathizers would bother the new men by stop
ping the trains Il rough this emergency system.
had them all cut out. The strike leaders de-
lclared that the action was illegal. They said
they would report 1t TO the proper authorities.
The second train got away from the 145th-st
and Lenox-ave. terminal after about fifteen
minutes delay. Several reporters rode to the
i125th-st station and were the only passengers.
The motorrnan was green and he ran two car
iengths past the 125th-st. station before he
could stop. Then he did stop so suddenly that
Everybody aboard thrown off his feet.
The train waited long enough to take on half
"a dozen passengers The new guards appar-
hently were ratified" Some of them did not
even shut the doors and nobody gave signal TO
go ahead. Finally one the shouted:
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repeated and the motorman. hearing It, started.
The ticket agents and choppers were due for
selief at a. m. They decided to wait until that
hour, but in nearly every case they did what
Fwas practically the same as quitting after
ER- m The ticket agents refused TO sell any
anore tickets and spent the balance of their trick
snaking out their final reports. The choppers
sieclined TO accept money when several pas
hengers offered it. and unless the passenger
Emitted
ALLOWED TO RIDE FREE.
! After $50 g. m. official gave orders TO let
kenybody who wanted to take a chance ride
rEithout paying. A man in the ticket office at
she 129th-st elevated station IN 3d-ave.
eused to sell tickets. He told all inqurers that
shey must understand that trains running
pnly iTregulary, and they could take such ser
kvice If they wanted It free The strikers said
shat the company feared accidents and dared
snot take the risk. Under the law, the strikers
said, passengers riding free could not collect
Manages In case Of accident.
Thousands Of persons were kept from the
subway and elevated trains in the early part of
khe day by strikers. who stood near the stations,
and shouted warnings that there strike
end that riding would be dangerous.
Strike on-scab trains running" was the
sign displayed outside the subway station at
a37th-st.
All the electric surface cars going downtown
nwere damned with people. Women as well as
l.nen were packed in. Broadway cars. Colum-
bus-ave, Amsterdam-ave, Sth-ave., Madison
Ave, Lexington-ave.. 3d-ave. and 2d-ave cars
sgere all full, and on each Of the lines all the
cars that could be put into commission were
aIsed, except the open summer cars.
Finding the crowding and delay intolerable.
s-as of he EVho o DlaceS
business downtown went to the ferries uptown,
crossed the river and took the ferryboats to
downtown ferryhouses. The cab drivers OF tha
city were having a busy time, and the men VINO
owned their own automobiles were envied.
In The Bronx, thousands who usually go to
business by the elevated road, turned for relief
30 the New-York Central, and so crowded the
fremont station of that railroad that the off,
Gals had to form the would-be passengers in
Zines and so organize ticket buying. In The
Bronx the Union trolley system taxed as
eaeyer before, open summer cars being pressed
unto commission.
MANY EMPLOYEES LATE.
Because Of the delay In reaching their offices,
nearly all the employees in the big telegraph
,companies' offices were two or three hours late,
jend the business of these companies was not in
5ull operation until long after 10 o'clock. The
Western Union, Postal Telegraph and CONNER
3cial Gable Offices were patiently waiting the ar
Siyai of several hundred stenographers at 10
O'Clock The officials, from the general manager
down 10 the city manager, were equally late.
Said c. Shirley. city manager of the Postal: 81
hope this viii not be prolonged strike Fortu-
nately, number Of telegraphers live in
brooklyn, otherwise we would have been tied up
with the out-of-town transmission. Barring
seW hours late we are doing business usual"
At the City Hall station of the subway there
s~as excitement from u. m. until the rush hour
began. Crowds were the station platforms,
(which were guarded by a score of policemen.
sIrains, after the strikers left the station,
frTegolarly often at a headway OF twenty min
OF the morning and the reply which given
was:
Trains running the road. Be patient
snd YOU viii arrive safe at your destination
The majority Of people. however, were not pa
beut and left the station. At 35 a. m. the
aast union train left the City Hall station. FIJI
teen minutes later the first non-Union Broadway
ftrain reached #. In the motorbox were flve
men, and with each guard a who
apparently WAS detective employed by the
company. AS the train started north the train
dispatcher cautioned the motorman to look after
anything on the tracks. and run your train
SLOW"
Shortly before 9 a. M. when crowds were
gathering at the City Hall station of the sub
sway, IT was announced that the agents had
stopped selling tickets. Patrolmen informed the
crowd that only three trains were running on
the road and that II would be useless to try to
get them. Many went down the passage
ways, but were unable TO pass the ticket chop
tpers' boxes. Six patromen held them in check
when LenoX-ave. local train finally reached
the station there was rush TO get It. After
4he train started. those left behind were ordered
put Of the station by the policemen