New-York tribune., 1910-11-01

were talking of what they would do il
packages The Westcott drivers. espe-
cially. were on edge to strike. Police
arrangements have TO be made for q
taxicab strike also. and garages were
being rapidly added to the Headquar-
ters traffic map last night.
Can't Get Men to Do Work.
The trouble with the express COM
panies yesterday was that they could
not get men to take the strikers places.
The Adams Express Company's station
at 4Sth street and Madison avenue
resembled an armed camp, with the
mounts of thirty of the traffic squad
picketed along the north side and half
a hundred policemen gathered around
fire in the We'll of discarded railway
turntable.
But there was little work done by the
company A dozen wagons were moved
early in the morning, but soon after
ward the platform men quit work, and
the long string of cars backed in on the
new spur laid desn on Sunday night
had to stand idle, while the tarpaulins
still covered the great stack Of perish
able goods piled on the platform. Five
wagons drove in late in the afternoon
and the drivers and helpers discharged
the freight OH the platform. But that
was the limit of the Adams work at its
Grand Central station yesterday.
The Adams company stole march on
the Jersey City strikers yesterday and
brought over 112 wagonloads at q, m.,
but these loads were left in the down.
town stations, and no more could be
brought over as the clerks and platform
men in Jersey City refused TO work
longer When the stablemen refused to
work later in the day the company was
pretty well tied UP.
The American Express Company had
more success than any Of the others
yesterday Local deliveries and collec-
tions were made in part of the down
town sections by wagons, accompanied
by police escorts, and some deliveries
were made in Harlem and on Washing
ton Heights. The treasure wagons
drove through the financial district sur
rounded by mounted police and police
swarmed in Church street and Trinity
Place
Rush Strike Breakers to Cover.
The American company's station, at
47th street and Madison avenue, was
one of the busiest places in the city yes
terday Not only We're the companys
wagons constantly arriving and depart
ing. but vehicles of all kinds, from NOV
ing vans to hacks and tumbledown ash
carts. automobiles and private carriages
formed steady stream, bringing out
of-town shipments, while a procession
of messengers brought bundles and
packages on their shoulders and under
their arms to the office entrance
Eighty policemen and twenty plain
clothes men guarded Madison avenue
and the express companies stations, and
275 more waited in reserve at the East
51st street station. Nearly three num-
dred strike breakers were rushed into
the American company's Madison ave-
nue. station yesterday, taken upstairs
and fed and distributed throughout the
city, Most of these men came from
Philadelphia but more are expected to-
night from Boston and Providence, and
more, also, from Philadelphia, five hun
dred all told To-day the companies ex-
pect TO treble the business Of yesterday.
The police estimate that 315 express
wagons were moved yesterday, where
ordinarily there are 1900 out making
regular collections and deliveries.
The express companies said that they
would make no attempt to do business
last night. but the police were kept on
guard, and Deputy Commissioner Drts-
coll got the lunch wagon from the
Fire Department and kept the men sup |
piled with hot coffee and sandwiches.
He had already had them put into their
winter uniforms. The American Ex-
press Company tried to give the police
coffee and hot luncheons yesterday, but