Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-09

d udIheu improvement III Lue OpeCdllou of trains in the subway. Otherwise little change was noted. Traffic on the early hours was almost at stand still.
 Quite d number of trains were in op eration on the Sixth avenue line of the west side system. but at times there were long delays.
 On the surface lines the same crowd ing of cars that has prevailed morning and night since Monday was in evi. dence.
 Conditions were quite favorable to the company in the subway. toward which their greatest efforts were aimed. Trains were moving from four to eight minutes apart on the local tracks before the express trains were started.
 The only disturbances which occurred during the night were few fistic en- counters on elevated trains.
 Guards are maintained about the power house to prevent any attempt on the part of the strikers to reach the engineers and tiremen. so vital in the companys operations.
 It has been decided by the strikers executive committee to ask the courts for an injunction compelling the Inter, borough management to restore emer, gency brake cords and other safety ap- pliances alleged to have been removed from many cars when the strike was declared. In event of the cOmpary's failure to restore these appliances the strikers declared they would ask the city authorities to interfere also. While General Manager Hedley states that fifty old men have returned to their work, the strike leaders de clare not man has deserted.
 During the night the ranks of the strike breakers were increased by loo men who were taken under guard to car barns in Harlem.
 Considerable sickness is reported among the men sheltered ill the barns. A hospital physician who was called in the night to attend a case of epllep- | sy asserted that among the 800 men in the barn at least fifty were in need of medical attendance. They were sui fering from diseased thrOats, levers, colds or grip. aggravated by the condi- tions under which they were living.
 Interest in the strike now centers in the proposed effort to cause a sympa- thetic walkOut of engineers and fire men at all the power houses in this city, so as to paralyze all traffic. Lead CTS of the strike against the lnterbor- ough company have previously made no effort to shut off the power on those lines, believing they would win with out such steps. The movement was set in motion at the meeting of the building trades section of the Central Federated union, when the members of the section unanimously indorsed the strike and named a committee to corfer with William L. Jencks to make plans for reaching the engineers and iiremsn.
 John F. Heffernan, secretary of the Amalgamated association. said that if the engineers and firemen in the va. rious power houses could be induced to go out 1t would soon bring the In- terborough company to terms. Such move. he said, would mean the instant paralysis of the surface lines and throw the entire traffic burden upon the Interborough's lines. provided the men in the Interborough power house refused to join the strike.
 The Interborough company's great power houses at 59th street and 11th avenue and 15th stTNet and East River gre being closely guarded. On these power houses depends the operation of the elevated and the subway systems. If it were possible to get the men em- ployed there to quit work not train could be moved. There are about three hundred men employed in these houses and nearly all are members of the Engineers and Firemen's unions.
 Soon after the strike commenced all the employes at the power housis were informed that they would he ex- rrected to remain at their posts day and night Sleeping quarters were ar ranged and two cooks were detailef to ench power house. with staff "f assistants Thus the men who hold the key to the entire situation are be- ing kept beyond the influence of the strikers.
 Among the other protective meas ures is guard of three policemen over .'manhnle" at 10th avenue and .ath street. Within this hole run tlis feed wires from the west side powe' station and tho smallest explosive irnnred down there could break con nectir-rs and cause a complete tie-up. Tntown New Workers had less trouble in reaching their places of hfrSirass in the lower end of the island tn-slsv than any time since the strike began. In the subway trains ran with frenus-7rv and regularity during the r,rst, hours ani the express service as well as lOcal was in effective opera .fau. On the elAvateii lines tine cnnei. flows were aiort the same as prevailed veS-ers1av. The west si'le lines had 2 fairly good service. hut the east side iirss did moi fara so well.
 That vesteryiav Isa<Sasi with nO Ssri orrs arcfIaiit on tla eIavat~5 st-7fcturs has bod it's eFart in partiHllv reaS<'Ir i-1r tle prIli- wsS evife-1- tO-tiav T-sius on tho Sivth avenue line narrie r-la-pv were ismula,i to their canscitv One train wEfef arrivs~i at the Pa-s Plarp s-ation had thTr-v-aicht -rllf rid CTS. vriIa every inch inside the car and on tisa nlatfarnlS was taken
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