The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-11
ACUTE STAGE
 NOW PASSED Conditiop Setter in New
 ySrk Strike. MEN RETURNING TO WORK Company Issues an Optimistic Statement. Grand Chief Stone Revokes Charter of Striking Interborough Engineers
 of the Metropolis-Decision
MEN RETURNING TO WORK

despite the fact that the nationai ieau- CTS have repudiated their action in calling the men out the strike on the subway and the elevated railway sys- tems has passed the acute stage and trains were run today with little delay, the strike breakers quickly learning their new duties. while many of the old men were back in the positions which they left Tuesday morning.
 The company tonight said that not more than one-half of one per cent of the strikers would be re-engaged.
 According to a statement issued by the company the utmost quiet pre- vailed up to a late hour tonight and the conditions were fast becoming nor nal.
 Despite sensational reports that or ganized demonstrations would be made by strikers against the men who have taken their places in the subway and elevated lines. which were circulating during the night. no trouble of any kind had occurred today. At the same time it was apparent that the strike against the Interborough Rapid Transit Company which was repudiated yes- terday by the national officers of the organizations involved still continued. Although the national officers had ordered the strikers to return to work. expulsion from the union being the penalty for failure to obey in some cases, diligent inquiry along the vari- ous lines today failed to show that the order mad been needed. If any of the strikers have returned. they have discarded the company uniform as not a single regulation suit was to be seen on any of the trains.
 Improved Conditions.
 While there was some improvement in nf aina all lin today. the normal standard of efficiency of service has not yet been approach ed. Trains were run at regular and at frequent intervals but the regular schedules were not maintained in any case and lack of uniformity of oper- asien- was noticsabic fn all directions, Indicating lack of experience on the part of the trainmen.
 A scare among the employees on the elevated and subway lines early today over the reports that the strikers were gathering at various points for the pur- pose of demonstrating their strength is stated to have arisen from news brought by a spy who was present at a strikers meeting in Marion hall. The police authorities who were at once notified, hurriedly massed reserves at strategical points while guards were doubled at many stations along the lines. False alarms by telephone add ed to the excitement and squads of of- ficers who rushed in several directions in response to these alarms found no signs of trouble.
 The rumors of troubles appeared to grow into a certainty when the police reserves were sent in patrol wagons from Harlem stations to the car barns at One Hundred and Forty-ffth Street. Police Headquarters had been notified and the patrol wagons were filled with fifteen men apiece and hustled at top speed to the barns. Two hundred strikers were said to have assembled, but they disappeared before the police arrived. It was said they had done nothing but stand about and talk and they scattered slowly in all directions with no apparent intent of causing a disturbance The police remained about for half an hour and then were sent back to their station houses.
 Similar results attended alarmist re- ports about the Bronx.
 The biggest crowds since the strike began focking to the uptown subway stations during the morning rush hours today. At the Ninety-sixth Street sta tion, while the platforms were damned to their fullest capacity, two persons were severely injured in the crush. One of them. a woman. fell in the mar row space between the platform and the cars and her leg was badly crush ed. A mans leg was caught in the heavy sliding door of a car and severe ly hurt. Many others were roughly handled in the crush. These conditions were repeated at many other points along the line. but no serious accidents were reported.
 Surface Lines Troubles.
 The severely taxed surface lines which have been called upon to handle an enormously increased traffic since the strike began also had their troubles today. Accidents to both the Eighth Avenue and Columbus Avenue lines dur ing the height of the morning rush blocked the tracks and resulted in in- creased congestion for a time. The other surface lines in the uptown dis trict were being operated without diff ficulty except for the greatly increased crowds which were diverted to them by the conditions on the Eighth Ave- nue and Columbus Avenue branches
 Scores of strikers appeared at the ofices of the Interborough Company during the forenoon to apply for their old positions on the road. They were told that offices had been opened in the uptown to receive such applications, and that all of them must be made in the regular way. One of the men, a train guard. declared that half Of the men were forced into the strike without knowing what they were striking for.
 A large number of letters containing warnings of alleged proposed attempts to destroy the companys property by the use of dynamite was received by General Manager Hedley today. A sam pie letter said an attempt would be made to blow up the car house at Four teenth Street.
 That the local labor leaders who in- augurated and have had charge of the strike are not yet ready to concede defeat was made evident today when a formal statement was issued by H. B. May. Vice-President of the local union of the Amalgamated Association of Electric Street Railway Employees In this statement Mir. May declares that he Is still confident that the men will win. He says that very few men have deserted the strikers, and asserts that the rolling stock of the Ihterborough tz fr had mharao ~anAaroH un