Evening journal., 1908-05-07
RIGID BOYCOTT
ON AT CHESTER
Merchants Who Sell TO Trolley
StrikebFeaKerS Suffer
Heavy Losses

CHESTER. Pa. Nav 7-Chester's
boycott. the outgrowth of the street
car stEke. is attaining remarkable
dimensions Merchants serving the
trolley company are boycotted. Persons
rinding on the cars are boycotted.
Merchants serving persons who have
made trips on the cars are boycotted.
Persons buying from merchants serv-
ing boycotted persons are themselves
boycotted.
So complicated has the situation be
come and so rigid is the boycott that
the citizens are afraid to even mention
the names of boYcotted persons to
strangers. Everywhere the strikers
keep their guards, and a word Of SYM
pathy with a strike breaker means boy
colt. Life is perpetual misery for the
employers of the company who did not
strike. No one will serve them with
food or medicine. Drug store and
provision house are alike closed to
them.
DR.. MoFayden Loses.
One OF the business men Of the town
to suffer most has been DR.. McFay-
den. proprietor of the Imperial Hotel.
Before the strike his lobby was crowd
ed with guests. Its bar was filled
with customers. During the early
part of the strike Doctor McFayden
entertained John A. Rigg, president of
the traction company. and several OF
his officials. Since then the hotel has
been bovcotted DaY after day few
1.n ha
register shows scarcely n guest a oay'
S. p. Stevenson. Of the Stevenson
Lumber and Coal Company, rode to his
Office at Fifth and Tilghman streets,
on the trolley cars one day last week.
Since then he has scarcely had a single
order for coal and many orders have
been Cancelled.
The d. S. Bunting Company, which
sold the lumber for the construction OF
the sheds for the horses Of the con-
stabulary, is also being boycotted.
Frank M. Flatville, treasurer OF the
concern. was informed that a boycott
had been begun through seven lemons
which he received through the mail.
w. S. Ningin, a grocer, and the Central
Meat Market. which were the only
houses
cite Hotel. where the strike-breakers
are auartered, are also on the boycott
list.
Small Shops Lose.
It is the small tradespeople who have
suffered most from the strike. Antonio
Ruperto is trying hard to make his
fortune. He has an ice cream sand
wich business. Tonv can't understand
much English and he does not UNDER
stand the strike. He passed the car
barn yesterday and the strike-breakers
bought some sandwiches from him. He
sold none afterward. He did not
understand why.
At Sixteenth and Edgemont streets
a woman supported herself by keeping
a little notion store. Some time ago
she sold a package Of cigarettes to a
s,rilxe-brealSer. She didn't know he
was a strike-breakcr. hut shS soon
found Il out. She Inserted severa'
notices in the papers before she was
able to prove that she had not known
the business Of the cuetomer she hal
been serving.
A drug salesman from the South got
off a tra'n at the Baltimore AMI Ohio
station and evidently did not see the
following sign. which is posted at boul
the Baltimore and Ohio and the Penn
svlvania stations: Stranger, do not
ride on the cars. as there is strike.
All Chester is in sympathy with the
strikers and walks" The salesman
boarded the car and rode to Third
street and Highland avenue. Then ne
entered the drug store of William G.
Kelly. A crowd Of strike sympathizers
were in the place.
''If you do business with this man
YOU won't do business with us" said
the strikers to Kelly, and so Kelly gave
no order to the salesman. The strikers
followed the salesman about the town
everywhere until he left Chester IN
| disgust.
/ Gas Man a Victim.
William Cohen reads sas meters. He
was tired the other day and BOARDED
a trolley car. When he left the cal
70 read the meter at McIlvoy's cigar
store. at Third and Parker streets, M
was confronted by a crowd of strikers
NfcIlvov told him that he could no
read the gas meter ard the STRIKE
Il svmpathizers followed him about anS
prevented him from doing any worl
all day.
Not a barber in Chester viii shaw
any Of the non-strilsirg motormen
Not a milkman will serve them. Nom
Of the grocers in the neighborhood o
Twelfth and Edgemont Streets wher
most of the motormen live, VIII SCI
them provisions. Several families wer
almost in danger Of starvation. The,
are Obliged TO obtain food througl
children, who are not known to tn
storekeepers.
d. A. Dalton. a druggist Of Upland
treated the first men to run car
tbrousb his town to cigars. He ha