The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-09
BOTH SIDES
 DETERMINED Second Day of Subway and Elevated Strike. PETERBOROUGH CONFIDENT Mayors Proffer of Arbitration
 Is Declined. New York Public Greatest Sufferer From Trouble, Getting About as Best 1t Can During Fight for
 Supremacy.
PETERBOROUGH CONFIDENT

New York, March S.--A very decided improvement in the conditions of traf- fic on the subway and elevated railroads marked the second day of the strike of the employees of the Interborough Com pany. This was especially so on the subway, on which by the time the even ing rush hours came. express service had been established and affairs had al- most resumed their normal aspect. On the elevated lines service was more ir- regular, but continued to improve, es- pecially on the Sixth Avenue line. There was practically no disorder and only a few minor accidents occurred during the day. Officials of the Inter borough expressed confidence that they had the situation we'll in hand and that A few days would see full resumption of service on all lines. Tonight the of- ficials announced that they had re- ceived assurances of the intention of 50 per cent. of the strikers to resume work as individuals and that forty of the old motormen had already been taken back.
 This was positively denied by Pres ident Pepper of the Amalgamated As- sociation of Street and Electric Rail- way Employees, who declared that he could account for every one of the men who had gone on the strike and that there had been no sign of dissatisfac- ton in the ranks.
 | Rumors were afroat tonight that the strikers expect to attempt a grand coup | by inducing the employees in all the power houses to join them in sym pathetic strike. This would result in an immediate interruption of traffic on all lines. Officials of the company were disposed to ridicule the possibil- | ity of the power house men striking. but said that even should they do so 4 the trouble would be of short duration as the places of all could be filled with
 in four hours
 As the day wore on confidence in the ] ability of the company to run trains in 1 the subway seemed to grow and the va lrfous stations along the line assumed 2 tmore animated appeafancss nnffzg ffis
 afternoon trains were running quite | frequently. The local service early in
 the afternoon had been well established
 under a two-minute headway while the
 express trains were run every eight min utes This schedule was maintained
 until about o'clock. the rush hour
 when the express service was increas-
 ed to a four-minute headway.
 The "strfke Breakers.o
 The "strike breakers" seemed today
 to have complete control of the trains
 and had no difficulty in accommodating
 those that wished to ride. All the sta- tions and trains seemed to be equipped
 with a full quota of men. Tickets were
 sold and received by the choppers and passengers boarded their trains appa-
 rently with no idea of there being a
 strike or delay consequent thereon.
 In the meantime the elevated did no: fare so well. At various uptown sta tions during the afternoon groups oi would bo patrons waited on the plat form, but many became tired and either l resorted to the subway or the surface cars to get up or down town. No tick
 cts were sold, although there was an
 agent in charge of the station. but, diff fering from yesterday, no free riders
 were allowed. The passengers handed
 their nickels to the station agent who
 with a wave of his hand passed them or
 to the platform. Only a half hour sched-
 ule was maintained on the elevated un- til about 3 o'clock, when the rush hour
 set in.
 | AS the business section down town
 began to close, the elevated platforms
 and subway stations, the latter notably
 at the Bridge and Fulton Street be-
 gan to assume their normal appear
 ance. On the elevated roads the sta tions were crowded even more than
 usual and as fast as each train pulled
 away crowed to the gates. another crowd pushed up the stairways would
 take its place.
 | A heavy leather covered ball which
 was found on a subGay train by a policeman, who turned it over to the l Bureau of Combustibles, suspecting it | to be a bomb, proved to be merely a | 12-pound shot such as is used In | athletic events.
 | In A rear end collision at the terminal | of the West Farms elevated branch of | the subway tonight fifty policemen sit- | ting eating in two cars used as walt
 ing room narrowly escaped being pre- cipitated to the roadway, 50 feet below. l Ali of the glass in the cars was smash
 ed to pieces and six policemen were
 injured.
 l The second day of the stike on the subway and elevated lines began with little change from yesterdays condi- | ton. Trains were running in the sub
 way. and there was some improvement
 shown in the service on the elevated, | but the trains carried comparatively
 few passengers and the greater part of the down town traffic was handled by
 the surface lines. The Metropolitan | car available into service and did its | hest to handle the crowds.
 There seemed to be nothing for the | public to do but get about as hap
 hazardly during today and tonight as they did yesterday. All during the night the Second and Ninth Avenue line. however, made a good record and the subway ran trains with considera-
 ble regularity. There was no sign of giving way by either side when the day opened.
 The Interborough officials said they
 were in a better position than yester- day, that they would run more trains today and that the situation is grow ing better for them all the time. The strike leaders on the other hand de- clared that all their men were holding firm: that the company had done It's best yesterday and that from now on 1t would be increasingly difficult for the officials to operate the subway and elevated lines.
 No attempt was made to maintain
 schedules on either the elevated or
 subway lines during the night. but as early as o'clock this morning prepara- tions for attempting to handle the rush hour crowds were begun. Tn the sub Srav tha raauit was about the same as