The Washington times., 1916-03-06
WIDE DISCREPANCY
IN REPORTS ON CARS
figures Of Strikers and Com
panies as to Number Run.
ming Differ Greatly.


and Electric Company prevails In thu
reports Of Division superintendent w
b. Rallenger and J. B. Wells. checker
for the strikers.
Superintendent Ballenger declared
twenty-seven cars were sent out OF the
barn at a. m. today for service tC
Forest Glen and other terminals on tn'
Georgia avenue lines. The number Of
lie Droit Park cars, going north or
Fourth street. were said to number four
teen.
Checker Wells disputed this report
declaring that he had remained on the
job all morning and only q total OF
twenty-one cars had left the barn fol
service on both lines.
Claims Only Half Operating.
1.-THE usual schedule on the Ninth
street line In twenty-five cars, and twen-
~ cars are customarily run on the Ia
Oroit Park line," Wells said. 1.-The
company is running only 50 per cent OF
While Superintendent Ballenger main
tanned that the cars were being manned
BY bona hde motormen and conductors.
Wells declared that out OF the total
number of fortv-two workmen only
thirty were skilled in the operation OF
cars.
sixty-five per cent of the Seventh
street cars are being operated. accord
ing to Superintendent T.. l.. Grayson, in
charge OF the Capital Traction Com
street southwest.
J. Stevens, chairman Of the union COM
mittee which 10 importuning workmen
to Join the ranks Of the strikers there.
declared his check of the cars reached
a total Of seven. four routed to Rock
Creek bridge and three to the Navy
Yard via Seventh street northwest.
superintendent Grayson declared that
that today's Jervice consisted of thir-
teen, nine to Rock Creek bridge and
four to the Navy yard.
The normal service Is six going to
the Chevy Chase terminal. six TO Rock
Creek bridge, and eight to the Navy
Yard barn.
One of the cars is in charge Of A. d.
Follin, assistant superintendent OF the
division, while the balance ot the crews
include clerks, old employees, and barn
men.
On Half Schedule.
The navy yard branch of the Capital
Traction Company is operating cars on
half schedule only on the New Jersey
avenue line to and from Rock Creek
bridge and the terminal at the foot OF
Eighth street southeast
+. Won Culin. superintendent of traf-
nc of the company. who gave his whole
attention to the navy yard branch this
morning. said the company attempted
10 operate only hve cars, whereas the
usual schedule Is ten cars
The trips are made on a fifteen-min-
ute headway, and each car Is manned
by crews made up of old employees, in
spectors, and employees who heretofore
were IN other branches of the service.
y. s. Long Is chairman of the COM
mttee OF union pickets stationed at
the barn. His check of the cars con-
formed with the statement, made by
the company'e representative.
Both Won Culin and Long declared
that no disorder was apparent at the
barn this morning, although navy yard
employees and other sympathizcrs late
last night endeavored to impair the
tracks near the barn by obstructlnE the
switches.
Men Apply For Jobs.
\ At the lincoln Park, Fourteenth and
Decatur. and Thirteenth and d street
barns this morning there were busy, but
peaceful and orderly scenes.
Out at the Lincoln Park barn TWEEN
ty-four men were waiting for Jobs IN
the instruction room, and officials said
that more than forty had applied dur
ing the morning.
gathered. mostly In a lunchroom, with
a committee always on the lookout to
dissuade mon from taking out their
We are trying to get one man OF for
every man they put on" said the COM
mittee leader out there. I'VE are sue
ceeding, too. We have yanked on more
than dozen out here this morning."
Only one policeman was in evidence
at the Lincoln Park barn. and he said
there had been no sign OF a disturbance
AZ tke cars go out the strikers mo-
ton to the motormen and conductors
and, when they get a chance. ask them
to help the cause by quitting.
School For Car Men.
Inside the barn the instructors, UNI
der Z. c. Elliott, head of the instruc-
ton department, are teaching men how
TO run cars. Many OF the conductors
are being recruited from about 125 men
from the Washington Railway and
Electric Company's offices who have
been pressed into service.
No men who have not already had
experience as motormen are being put
on. company officials say. Some OF
these have not run a car for some time
and the instruction of these principals
10 In connection with the use OF the
new switches.
The strikers say some of the men
who are going out have had no ex-
perience with these switches and pre-
dict trouble with them.
From the Lincolon Park barn the
cars are going out on a ten-minute
headway, according to the officials
The strikers say their checks show a
ten TO twelve minute headway.
Eighteen-Minute Schedule.
From the Thirteenth and d street
barn, say both policemen there and
strikers, an eighteen-minute schedule
has been in effect this morning.
A lunch room opposite that barn also
Affords a place of rendezvous for the
strikers. There has been no disturban nee
there today. The policemen say.
From the Fourteenth and Decatur
street barn cars are running on a fouI,
minute schedule. instead of every three
minutes, as Is usual after the morning
rush hour on the Fourteenth street cal
line.
No mon are hired there. A few of tn,
strikers gathered around for a time thi
morning, but there was no place neal
there to keep warm, 80 they dispersed
While there they talked to the men run
ming the cars when they got a chance
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