Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-02
WILL NOT MODEST
ICE FOR |NVAL|DS
View York Strikers Allow DeIiv-
cries to Hospitals.
FAMINE MAYEXTENDUPTOWN
President Small Orders More Telegra-
pliers Out.
CONDITIONS IN SAN FRANCISCO
Pickets Warned to Look Out for an
Operator Who Deserted the
Signal Service.
President Small Orders More Telegra-
pliers Out.
CONDITIONS IN SAN FRANCISCO

dr. DCtlCl III NEW VI
today. There has been a more sue
ressful effort to clean up the piles of
garbage that are poisoning the air,
and under the promise OF Mayor Nc
Clellan most OF the drivers have
gone back to work. The strike of
he ice men is believed to be broken.
Many of the drivers have returned to
work, but, on the other hand, the
unions are threatening to extend the
strike to the uptown district, which
aas heretofore escaped.
NEW YORK, July 2-The discomfort
which New Workers have suffered for
eral days by failure to receive ice because
of strike of the drivers of the wagons of
the American Ice Company and by the pres
ence of piles of rotting garbage in the
East Side streets because of the strike of
drivers of the city garbage collection wag-
ons was practically ended today. All the
drivers OF garbage wagons returned to
their work under promise from Mayor Nc
Clelan that their grievances will be con-
sidered.
Inc strike OF the lCe-wdSOn CrlNerS was
broken by a large number of the strikers
individually and without the authorization
of their union returning to work. Although
some of the icemen continued the strike and
the officers of the union declared that they
were about TO extend il, the official of the
ice company declared that the worst of the
strike over and that the delivery of
ice would soon be normal.
Augmented forces of garbage collectors
were at work the East Side today clear
ing the streets of the accumuatio=s of
refuse which has Uttered the streets and
caused an almost intolerable stencil for sew
eral days
Many Strikebreakers Arrive.
With the view of creating an ice
. famine and thereby forcing the Ameri-
can Ice Company to accede ia the
demands of its striking drivers, the
leaders of the union are today organizing
the drivers in the northern part Of Manhat-
tan, and hope to have them out on strike
by the end of the week. -'hus far the
strike has effected only the downtown sec
ton of the city, below 34th street. The
strikers say that the foremen at the ice
stations have stopped work, and when all
the drivers are organized and called out
ice famine will speedily follow. The
ice company is importing scores Of strike
breakers from Philadelphia, Boston and
Baltimore. but deliveries of ice in the sec
ton of the city below 34th street are prac-
tCally AT a standsfilI
Both sides claim victory today.
In Brooklyn conditions are worse than in
Manhattan, and there is a severe shortage
of ice to the consumer.
Hospitals and public institutions are be-
ing served by the ice company without
molestation by the strikers while the indie
pendent companies reapng harvest
supplying the increased demand. Police
guarding the ice stations along the
water front
More Wire Trouble.
SAN FRANCISCO. July lit is announced
that President Small OF the Commercial
Photographers Union OF America last night
extended the strike Of the tcle2raphe by
trdering out the operators of the Western
Union and Postal companies in another city
to help out the men on strike in this city
and Oakland. small would not say where
the strike had been called. and for the pres
ent will not disclose the location until the
message reaches its destination.
Orders for the extension of the strike, it
is declared, were mailed by Small last
night. II is believed by many of the OPP
orators that either Portland Los Angeles
Seattle will be the scene of the next
walkout. while some declare that the men
in Chicago. regarded as the key to the tele
graph situation of the entire country, have
been ordered out.
officials Confident
The pickets of the commercial telegra-
pliers have been notified by President Small
is sad TO be on his way here from Los An
geies to act strikebreaker for the West
ern Union. II is asserted by members of
the union that he is deserter from the sig
nal corps of the United States Army, and is
wanted by the army authorities in Utah.
Superintendent A II. May oil the Western
Union and General Superintendent l.. w
StCrrer OF the Postal repeated their asser-
ton of previous days that their companies
are handling without de'ay all business that
Is offered, and emphatically deny the
charges made hy the striking operators that
they are sending packages of kilograms by
mail and express
Superintendent May stated that there were
main office at Oakland. Six branch offices
were reopened in this city yesterday by the
Western Union.
Falling Walls Bury Thirty-Five.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, Jun 2.-Thirty-five
persons are reported seriously injured nv