The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-15
SU BUR BANITES OF CHICAGO RIDE IN LOCOMOTIVES. Train Service is Inadequate When Strike Leaves Com
 muters Very Flat. SOME FIND PLACES
 ON COWCATCHERS Few Cars Are Run in City and Business Generally
 is Affected.

Chicago, June 15-The strike of Ill., ooO street railway employees which yes terday started with a carnival spirit, was met today with sober faces by approximately 1,500,0o0 people whose usual transportation facilities had been cut off.
 Not a wheel was turned on the l, ,095 miles of surface lines today but off, cials of the elevated. roads had planned to operate trains under guard through out today. Rioting or disorder was absent yesterday, the first day of the strike, but police continued on guard at the car barns throughout the city today to prevent violence. The only act of violence reported yesterday was when strike sympathizer hurled a missile at an elevated train with the result that a detective guard was slightly cut by broken glass.
 The suburban service of the steam railroads, upon which an unprecedent- strike yesterday, provided more ac- comm odations today but were not able to meet the requirements of the occa- sion.
 At the Gross Park station of the Chicago & Northwestern a large crowd which had been unable to obtain a foothold earlier trains even to buy tickets, wetn through a barbed wire fence enclosing the platform and Swarmed a train. Thirty men found seats on the coal tender and 10 more in the engine cab, on the running boards and the cowcatcher. It was all done good naturedIy and accepted by the train crew in the same hunnor. Elevated trains at the northern and southern terminals started out at g o'clock with detectives but few pas sengers aboard. It was stated that an attempt to maintain a 15 minute schedule would be made until night fall. No disorder attended the start l ing of the trains. No definite promise of peace was in sight.
 Peace proposals were being consid- cred in many quarters today. The H. linoiss State Board of Arbitration has sent communications to officials of the 1 traction companies and union leaders, offering state arbitration.
 The aldermanic committee, of which Mayor Thompson is chairman, as- stunned complete charge of the situa- tion in so far as the city government is concerned, in an effort to effect an 1 immediate settlement. The committee was appointed at a, meeting of the city I council last night. The council also passed an ordinance seeking to pro 1 hibit the employment of strike break CTS but it was said today that it would not go into effect for several days even if signed by the mayor. Big signs ad- l vistng of the destination and charge for rides were posted on motor 'busses,
 
 furniture trucks and thousands of jit- neys, which continued a rushing bus l mess.
 The standard price for two miles or more was ten cents if one stood; where improvised seats were provided, 15 and 25 cents was charged.
 Railroads which operate suburban service, were, unable to handle the
 crush of passengers, though man! trains were added to the service.
 Contrary to expectations, down town theatres did a rushing business last |, night but the amusement parks lost heavily. The city under the ordinance by
 which the surface lines operate, has
 collected approximately SIP, 900, 900 as it's share of the receipts since 1907. The city receives 55 per cent of the ne
 earnings, its share for the year ended Jan- 31, 1914, being $2, 225 compared
 with $3,O02, ,454 for the previous year