New-York tribune., 1910-11-01

noon at the offices Of the United States
Express Company. No. Rectc. street
When the meeting was over a statement
was issued rehearsing the incidents Of
the strike and expressing the opinion
that within a short time all comma nies
in the city Of New York will resume
normal service.
Several Independent express concerns
ceased operations yesterday because the
managers feared their men would be as
sauited. 1t was also announced that the
employees Of the New York and Boston
Dispatch. subsidiary Of the Adams Ex-
press Company. had gone out on strike
"Fortify the City, with Police.
A few scattered outbreaks marked the
express strike yesterday. but for the
most part such business as was done by
the companies whose men have gone
out was carried on unmolested bv the
strikers and their friends. The police
arrangements were so thoroughly made
that there was little opportunity for
would-be rioters TO get out of hand and
Not only TO take care of the present
situation, but in preparation for what
is expected to be a long drawn out
struggle, with many more organizations
than are now concerned taking part in
the strike, the police force OF this city
has undergone a redistribution and a
concentration that merits the Headquar-
tiers description of 'fortification of the
CITY,
Men have been drawn from all the
outlying districts and concentrated in
the precincts lying along Broadway and
Fifth avenue and the downtown busi-
ness section. where the express traffic is
heaviest. Nearly two thousand police
thus reinforce the complement usually
found in these districts, while five hun
dred mounted men from Brooklyn,
Queens, Staten Island and The Bronx
have been added to the cavalry arm.
The middle section of the city is fig
l;ratively wide lane, 1anked on both
sides by a barrier of police that spreads
out fanlike through the district south
Of Canal street The posts of the pa
trolmen have been shortened from the
usual eight or ten blocks to four blocks,
while from four to six times the ordinary
number of policemen are in the streets
and as many more are in reserve In the
stations ready for A call to any point
Lanes of traffic have been laid out for
the express companies and Deputy
Commissioner Driscoll and Inspector
Schmittberger spend their time at Head
quarters over big map in Inspector
Schmittb berger's room on which the
traffic lines are marked. When an eX-
press company gets ready to move
train of wagons, word is telephoned to
HEADQUARTERS and an escort is sent for
the wagons and reserves are thrown
along the line
Companies Told to Move Matter.
No wagon is moved without the word
first going to Headquarters and notice
coming back that all IS ready. In this
way rioting since Saturday night has
been kept to minimum, and word was
sent to the express companies yesterday
that the police were ready to protect
them in putting every wagon they owned
into service.
Commissioners Driscoll has moved his
bed 10 Headquarters, and last night he
and Inspector Schmittberger were busy
adding to their traffic map routes for
department store delivery wagons. There
are l.17o of these delivery wagons in
the city, with a score Of stables to be
protected If the department store drivers
go out.
The strikers are working hard to get
the department store employees to drop
their lines, and the police expect them
10 be successful There was much NUT
tering among the delivery wagon men