Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-07-22

Division Superintendent w. +. Costello
arrived for the purpose of moving freight
in the Brattleboro yard. For the first
time since the strike began an adequate
force of strike breakers is on hand and
ready for work, and it is expected that
conditions will return nearly to normal
within IS hours, Although there have
been some exciting events at the station
and in the freight yard no damage has
been done to property and no local man
has been injured.
on Monday night the trainmen simply
completed their runs and stopped This
left several freight crews in Brattleboro
in addition to the men who live here.
About 80 BrattlebOro operatives We're ef-
fected and about 20 more have been
stranded here through the week For
the most part the strikers have conduct
ed themselves in a peaceable way. One
strike breaker was roughly handled at
the station yesterday morning and
another was knocked down with a brick
the evening before. In both these cases
the trouble started between one OF the
strike breakers and an outsider. 1t is
probably true that there would have been
no disturbance at all at the station if the
loafers and boys had been kept away.
AS a measure Of precaution all Central
Vermont men not regularly employed We're
ordered to keep off the property OF the
company at Q o'clock last night. This
through 2. ]. O'Brien, the official repre-
sentative. and they observed 1t to the
letter The stranded men are living in
lone Of the houses on the island, the use
Of which was given them by George +.
Fox, and the strikers who live in Brat
tlehoro are keeping out Of the yard. Mr..
Costello took charge of the situation i'm
mediately on his arrival on a special
train at $40 this morning. lie was sup
piled with Pinkerton detectives and about
90 strike breakers were in town from
gang who reached Brattleboro last night
at 8 o'clock.
Conditions on West River Road
| The West River division has been
strictly out Of commission since the strike
| began. The passenger train which went
| up Monday night has been at South Lon
| donderry ever since and not even an
engine has been run over any part of the
| road until this morning. This is the first
| time since the West River railroad was
| built that 1t has been so absolutely out of
| commission and the residents in the West
! River valley have realized for the first
! time what the railroad means to them.
| BY special efforts of public spirited
citizens and the postmasters mail condi-
tions have been fairly good, No mail
was received from the West river towns
| Tuesday except from TOwnshend and
Londonderry by way of Chester. We'd
| nesday and yesterday the mails from
most of the other towns were brought In
| by private conveyance and the mail from
the Brattleboro office was sent back by
| the same means. The loss of the railroad
! facilities was felt also in the matter Of
supplies. Large loads of -four and other
| supplies have been haAlled over the high
way at large cost and inconvenience.
| Many people coming to the towns
| for the summer vacation found them
selves stranded in Brattleboro and had
| to hire teams and automobiles to take
| them to their summer homes.
Shippers Are Affected.
Brattleboro people were Inconvenience
most by the freight embargo. All freight
which came in to Brattleboro had to b.
| unloaded from the cars on the main line
or from the freight station platform as
there was no switching crew to set cars
| where they could be reached by teams IN
the yard Practically all fruit which
| came in was received by express. All
freight which was in the yard when lno
strike went into effect, except that which
| was on the main line and the station
siding has remained where It was. Brat
tleboro shippers were affected as they
| were unable to load direct into any cars.
! F. Crosby & Co. were shut OFF from the
world by three cars on their siding which
could not be moved without a switching
| crew. With no grain coming In and the
farmers steadily hauling it away tine
| storehouse looked, as c. r. Crosby said,
| like a country schoolhouse in vacation"
Passenger traffic, except on the West
! river division. was effected little by the
strike. No Central Vermont trains came
in or went out Tuesday but most pas
sengers could reach their destination py
way of the Boston e. Maine railroad.
! Wednesday morning the situation was
complicated somewhat by the refusal of
the Boston & Maine railroad to take any
passengers except on the through trains
which do not ordinarily have a Central