Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-07
BOSS JIM FARLEY AND
 HIS STRIKE BREAKERS.
They are Much in Evidence in the Strike On the sub
 way and Elevated Roads in New York-Five Thou sand Men Went Out at Four O'clock this Morning Elevated Badly Crippled But Subway Doing Fairly.
street and City hall departed on time and apparently without difficulty.

and apparently without difficulty.
 Between 9 and 930 a. m. nine local trains and two express trains arrived at the City hall station from up town. One of the results of the strike was that a great. number of cabs and pri. vate carriages were used in the down town section of the city this morning.
 James Farley, who had charge of the non-union men brought to this city to operate the trains, took an active part in directing their work. Entering the Fulton street station he issued or ders to the motormen and guards and personally superintended the departure of the trains.
 Many business houses found them. selves to-day with short handed crews as q result of the inability of employees to get down to the business district from their homes.
 In this way the strike also had an indirect effect on the telephone com pany, many operators failing to reach the exchanges at the regular hour. At the Thirty eighth street exchange, where no girls are employed, there were only thirty-fve early to-day to lCUk dlteT OU.UUU WlItS. MuCu ucAuS and trouble resulted.
 The first show of open violence against strike breakers was made at the 10th street station of the subway and as a result strike breaker was taken to hospital with badly in. jured arm. A union man had boarded the train up the line and continued to harass the non-union guard until, as the train was nearing 10th. street, the two men came to blows. Then the train came to q stop in the station others joined in the fray and the police on duty there had to use their clubs to stop. the fight. The, strike breaker's arm caught in one of the sliding doors of car and was crushed while the union men were trying to pull him from the train. No arrests were made. Surface lines were worked to their utmost capacity. but were able to carry the great crowds due to tie up on in terborough lines. The cars were crowded. passengers riding ill some in stances on tops of cars.
 Hundreds of non-union men applied at the offices of the Peterborough Go to. day for employment and during the forenoon the officials announced that about 15O had been hired. There had been 1,5OO applications, it was said, but many were turned away because they were incompetent.
 About thirty of the strike breakers brought here from the west refused to work. .aa xinG4they, had been engaged as motormen, but were asked to act as guards. The union men say that many other strike breakers have been won over also.
 Conditions on the elevated lines did not change materially during the fore noon. On the Sixth and Ninth avenue lines trains were run at infrequent in tervals and carried few passengers. On the Third avenue line schedule of three trains an hour was main tained during the rush hours. 1t Third avenue and 1S2nd street yards ffty-two trains were lying idle. while the station platforms all along the line were damned with messengers Business in the financial district was materially affected by the strike. At I the stock exchange scarcely more than half the regular number of members were in attendance at the opening and practically the same conditions ob- | tained at the other exchanges. Interborough stocks on the curb opened at 2O5. point below yester- days close. Manhattan was un changed. while Metropolitan Street Railway and Metropolitan Securities were slightly higher. Soon after the opening. however. all those stocks be- came heavier and rather dull.
 More than a hundred strike breakers who came here from Columbus. O., and | Indianapolis. announced during the forenoon that they would do no fur ther work in the subway. As each train reached the up town terminal the leaders called the men out from the trains and sent them over to the steamer NOrtham for their baggage. l The men then went to the strikers teaduuarters at 145th stret and told
 the union men what they had done. l Vice President May of the Amalga-
 mated Association of Electric and
 Street Railway Employees. in state
 ment this afternoon said that the en-
 yineers and firemen employed in the
 power house of the subway system
 would be called out and thus the whole
 system would be tied up.
 Palm Beach. Fla. March 7.-August
 Ralmont said today that he saw no nc
 cessity for his return to New York on
 accnunt of the strike. The company
 has matters well fin hand. says Mir Bel
 mont.