The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-02-25
EVERYBODY WALKING,
BUT THE STRIKERS
ARE QUIET At LAST
BOTH coNTENDlNe SIDES CLAIM
TO HAVE WON DECIDED
VICTORY.
HONORS APPEAR ABOUT EVEN
While Cars Are Running in All Parts
Of the City, only the Bold Dare to
Ride on Them-Taxieabs Are Reap
ing Harvest During Trouble.

ublpnld Is SIlll dIOOI. Jeremiah Sulll
van, director of the Philadelphia
Rapid Transit company, announce
that the p r. T. has won a glorious
/. victory and broken the backbone o
] the car strike in several places Ii
proof he points with pride to the fac
that the cars are running on all bu
a few of the lines within the city
limits.
Peter Driscoll, president of the loca
car mems union, announces that the
strikers have won battle for theil
rights and points with pride to the
not unimportant circumstances that
while the cars are running, nobody
rides on TENN but policemen, who pay
no fare, and ride because they can
not help themselves.
I'VE have the sympathy of the peo-
pie" says Driscolll. "The people are
with u.s.
The last part of that statement is
strictly true; the people are with the
strikers afoOt. AS to the motive
which has made pedestrians of former
strap-hangers there is an important
division There are certainly very
many people who sympathize with the
car men and wish to see them win
their fight with the P. r. t., but there
are just a many more who mix their
sympathy with caution. Nobody knows
when the bricks may begin to fly
again, and it is bold man who pays
cents for a seat on a moving target
and an even chance on a brickbat
transfer to the nearest hospital
So, while both sid esare claim
ing victory, and the empty cars are
running cautiously through the streets,
| the common people walk when they
have any little journeys to perform,
keeping a wary eye out for the re-
opening of hostilities.
Eight it out" says the average Phil
adelphian, "but give me a chance to-
get into a doorway before you start
anything"
This is the spirit of Philadelphia
tonight
This great city has been absolutely
helpless for eve days-has been an
strung by a quarrel Of a corporation
and its employees Every artery of
artery Of street railway travel has
been clogged since the opening of the
strike.
philadelphia, third largest city in |
the United States, and one of the great !
cities of the world, has suddenly been
shunted back fifty years, transformed |
in night into a city without even a |
horse car to jingle through the streets. /
That is what the car strike means to
this city and the comic papers not
withstanding to the contrary.
Philadelphia is just as much in a
hurry to get home to dinner as any
city in the country. She is beginning
to feel the strain of the present situa-
ton TIE cars roll tantalizing about
the streets, but the citizens prefer to
walk and will continue to walk until
they are quite sure that the brick
throwing has been discontinued. A
skull is no thicker than
strike breakers, and the strike break
ar iC mold m taLa pbnncoc
Everything on wheels has been
pressed into service. The taxicabs
whiz about the streets at breakneck
speed, for the police are too busy else
where to pay any attention to small
hing like a fractured speed ordinance.
The cab and coupe me mare reaping
harvest, and, to their
,redit be it said, adhering fairly well !
o the regular scale of prices Every
ivate garage has been raidod and
he streets are full of automobiles, but
automobiles are for people with money
nd there are lot of people in phil-
delphia who are not living in what I
he presidents cali the automobile
ee." For these PEOPLE few wise
have transformed their \
,agone irto rude carryalls A bench
n either side Of the wagon answers
he purposes. and there are many L
Jerks and shop girls who have had
aa5on to be thank'pl for such 70 I'll L
or course, there are
few daring souls who risk the trolley
lrs but they are very few, and even A
t the rush hours of the evening the
rent crowd is found on foot taking A
1mpalsory exercise The brassbut-
mel guards on the car platform does y
OF measure those who have seen the
ricks diving.
The temper OF the crowd depends r.
lCp the locality out in the section
here many Of the SIT king car men
I'VE their homes, the feeling is deep