The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-14
BELMONT BACK TOSEE THE END
ms STBWiY AND ELEI tTED
ROADS RUNNING BiDLY.
People Expected Normal service and
Didn't Get Il-Seri0us brushes and
Long Delays on All iInes-NOmAn

Long Delays on All llntS-N oman
FnInts--Some strikers Taken Back.
August Belmont. president Of the Inter-
borough Rapid Transit Company who
while the strike of the employees of that
company was alive was expected to remain
in Florida, got home last night Mr. Bel
mont is president Of the Civic Federation.
and the chiefs of the mems local unions said
ali along that il they could get at him their
demands would be granted. There is no
/ union left now to appeal TO Mr. Belmont
: The marlborough company decided
yesterday 10 take back some of its former
/ employees who were not active in the
strike. Its service on the elevated was
/ worse than in the closing days Of last week,
and the subway service Telapsed slightly
/ also
| The travelling public for the first time
! since Tuesday realized that the strike was
dead and crowded to the roads in the usual
/ numbers, and the new men were not pre-
! pared for the ordinary traffic OF New York.
Delays were frequent and crowds accu-
INFLATED at every station.
On the West Side the trains move d
slowly and at long intervals Some male
passengers rode on roofs, and found them
selves under arrest later
When n Sixth avenue train got down TO
Fifty-fourth street about sl5 A. NJ. the
men who wanted TO get out had 10 climb
over the gates. One woman who man
aged TO force her way out OF the same train
at Twenty-third street was knocked down
by the pressure behind her and would have
Jared badly if she had not been pulled TO
her feet by policeman.
The intervals between trains were long
and uncertain on all lines. The crowded
trains themselves skipped several stations
at time
An inexperienced motorman caused
delay of an hour on the Third avenue ele-
waited by running his train through an open
switch between Pelham avenue and the
Bronx Park terminal The crush on
Third avenue train going down town was
80 great in the forenoon that young
woman named Marion Kane Of 02l East
li5th street. who is a saleswoman in de-
partment store, tainted near the Eighteenth
street station and fell across the lap Of
passenger She did not revive till she was
taken into Bellevue Hospital Several
other women tainted ont Of sympathy
but were revived on the train.
j " LANCER, one OF James Fareys
strike breakers had his arm hurt ina fight
with strikers and had to give up working
He received word that his wife was dying
a st. Louis, and at last accounts was trying
by appeals 10 the charitable societies TO get
money enough to take him home. John
Dimmick a strike breaker from Chicago
was arrested in the company's yards at
ls0th street and Third avenue on the charge
of carving a revolver
In the subway conditions we're not quite
as bad as on the elevated roads. The
subway trains we're faster than on the ele-
waited. but slower than usual
About ! 200 Of the strikers applied for
Jobs at the marlborough offices in the course
Of the day. Nearly Ave hundred had re-
oeived postal cards from the company
directing them TO report for duty. These
were passed 10y the police 10 Mr. BRYAN
Office and most OF them were rcemployed
Last evening about seven hundred Of the
strikers had been taken back
An officer Of the company said that o.
per cent Of the strikers had applied for
work. but he did not know how many could
be reempoyed Asked If the age limit
rule would not be relaxed in the case Of The
old men he said
That has not come before our executive
committee yet. The old men had nothing
to gain and much TO lose by striking and
most Of them believe went into the strike
unwlingly.'
General Manager Hedley said: Each
case stands on its merits. It il impossible
to say what proportion Of the old men will
be taken back. There will be wedding out
in case any OF our present employees are
unfit
Jencfs and Pepper were at their head
quarters yesterday, Pepper addressed
s yeral hundred men in Marion Hall. To
reporters he said:
"Oh. we're all right. I'm too busy to
talk
Regarding the alleged 10000 in the .
treasury Of Peppers Organization Herman
Robinson. general organizer OF the union,
said that not much was left
The subway express service got kink
in it about O'Clock last night which made
lots Of trouble for theatregoers Half an
hour passed without sign Of an express
From then on the service improved up TO /
10 clock, when il was discontinued Local +
service was good at all times, but the trains
were overcrowded by people who refused .
TO take chances with elevated delays
WOULD KILL UiNiH4HER.