The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-10
Second Day Shows Gains
For Company.
SOME STRIKERS BACK
Rumors That the Men Viii Induce En-.
pIoyes ofthe Power Houses to Join
Them in the Strike. INTERIOR
ough Officials Refuse
Arbitration.
(By the Associated Press.)

New York. March 8.--A very decid-
ed Improvement in the conditions Of
traffic in the subway and elevated
railroads marked the second day of
the strike of the employees of the In
terborough Company. This was
especially SO on the subway, on which
by the time the evening rush hour
came the express service had been
established and affairs had almost
resumed their usual aspect.
i The elevated lines service was more
irregular, but continued to improve
on the Sixth Avenue line.
There was practically no disorder
and only few minor accidents occur
red during the day.
Officials of the marlborough Com
pany expressed confidence that they
mad the situation we'll in hand and
that few days would see full re-
sumption of service on all lines. To-
night tho ~offiNNis announced that
they had received assurances of the
intention of fifty per cent of the
strikers to resume work as individuals
and forty of the old motor, men had
already been taken back.
Rumors of Another Strike.
Rumors were afioat tonight that
the strikers expected to execute
grand coup by inducing the employees
In all the power houses to join them
in sympathetic strike. This would
block traffic on all lines Some of the
o.ncials are disposed to ridicule the
possibility of the power house men
striking, and even should they do SO
the trouble would be of short dura-
ton as the places of all could be
filled within four hours.
AS the day wore on confidence in
the ability of the company to run
trains in the subway seemed to grow
and the various stations along the line
ance. During the afternoon trains
were running quite frequently. The
strike breakers seemed, today to
have complete control of the trains.
and had no difficulty in accommodate
ing those that wished to ride. All
the stations and trains semed to be
equipped with a full quota of men.
All trains throughout the day car
ried three policemen. one guarding
the motorman, another in the center
of the train while the third one stood
upon the rear platform.
In the meantime the elevated road
did not fare SO we'll. AT the various
uptown stations during the afternoon
groups of would-be patrons waited on
the platform, but many became tired
and either resorted to the subway or
the surface cars to get down town.
AS the business section downtown
began to close the elevated platforms
and subway stations, the latter nota-
bly, at the bridge and Fulton Street,
began to assume their normal appear
ance.
II Small Wreck.
A southbound train on the West
Chester branch had just swung into
the main track at 149th street at a
rate of speed that almost derailed it at
the switch. When the motorman
caught sight of the rear of a train
he clapped on the emergency brakes
and began to back almost as rapidly
as he had gone ahead. The shock
of the sudden stoppage hurled all the
passengers forward in heaps and a
minute later they were all jerked in
the opposite direction when the train
brought up against the switch, which
had been reset after it's passage.
The rear car was derailed and thrown
on its side across the track and a
panic ensued among the passengers
all of whom, however, escaped un-
hurt and walked along the tracks to
the nearest station.
heavy leather-covered ball which
was found on a subway train by a po-
1iceman, who turned it over to the
bueau of combustibles. suspecting it
to be a bomb, proved to be merely
twelve pound shot such as is used in
athletic events.
The officials of the Amalgamated
Association of Electric and Street
Railway employees, and the local Off
Gals of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers have sent letter to