Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1905-03-08
GREAT STREET CAR
STRIKE in new YORK
5000 Men Quit Work Demand
ing Higher Wages.
ELEVATED SERVICE Is TIED UP

Street Car Company Had a Number OF
Men Ready to Take Place of Strik.
ers-No Demonstration or Signs OF
Violence.
New York, March IA strike by
5000 employees Of the Interborough
Rapid Transit company, operating the
subway and Manhattan railroad ele.
waited lines in this city, which took
effect at O'Clock this morning, was
one of the most complete in it's early
stages Of any in the history of New
York.
After the hour set no train was
started with union crews, and, the lat.
ter quit each train when the terminals
of the various lines had been reached.
One union motorman on the Ninth
Avenue elevated line refused to de.
sert with the remainder of the crew.
and SO far his was the only one ur
town, while at tn edown town terminal
stations a dozen or more were visible.
Chief Inspector Cortright was on du
ty at police headquarters, and said he
had stationed men at all the places,
where, in his opinion, the trouble is
likely to occur. During the early
hours of the morning the strike lead.
ers kept at work in their Harlem head
quarters selecting pickets to invest all
Terminals and car barns.
Two hundred strike breakers were
expected at the One Hundred and
Twenty-ninth street and Third avenue
station of the East Side elevated at
$3.50 o'clock, but did not arrive.
There were busy scenes early this
morning about the stables and storage
Even the summer cars were drawn
out and prepared for operation. Every
wheel in the company's possession was
made ready for instant use.
Car repairers were hustled from
their beds and a large squad of new
men was engaged in aid of the work
Crews of strike breakers were hur
ried to the northern ends of the lines
but not many were found who under
stood the manipulation or arr brakes
In the subway, crews were assorted
for few trains which we're run up and
down over short stretches in an effort
to teach the new men the method O.
operation. Similar efforts were made
on the elevated lines.
No violence was reported at any
point up to o'clock. A few boys en-.
tered the Times square station of the
subway and hurled bottles at a passing
train. Many windows were broken
but no policeman was in sight.
Pickets from the strikers ranks were
posted everywhere outside the stations
and warned persons who attempted to
enter that the strike was on and de
clared that at was dangerous to ride
on the trains"
They asserted that safety devices
and emergency brake cords had been
removed
Free access was offered to all per
sons who wished to ride so far as the
officials of the company were con
cerned. In fact few of the ticket
booth were occupied, and passengers
desiring to ride were admitted at theil
own risk
Surface lines reaped a harvest. Hun
dreds of thousands of persons accus
toned to being whirled down town OF
an expires train and who knew nothing
of the strike until they reached the
streets after breakfast, hustled for the
nearest car line. On the upper East
Side long before Z O'Clock every cal
was jammed to it's utmost capacity
and in many strets passengers could
be seen riding on the roof.
After o'clock conditions on the
subway were crafty improved. Trains
were operated frequently and without
Interference, confusion or delay Some
express trains were run. The trains
were operated by men who appeared tc
have been well trained. The elevated
service was practically tied up.