The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-05
PRIVATE TRANSIT FOR EMPLOYEES IS
 BIG FIRMS' PLAN
Autos Will Carry Workers To and From Their s Business.


 traffic throughout the city, many banks. department stores, wholesale houses, and other business concerns, are preparing to meet the problem of | getting their employees to and from their places of business. As long as the elevated and subway systems are not included in the strike the prob lem will not be one of great propor- tions, but the moment the men on those systems quit work, as the strike leaders say they will. it will become 50.
 Many of the large corporations are arranging for private transit systems to get their employees to and from their homes. or in the case where those employees live out of the city to house Employment. Automobiles will be re- lied upon in the main-
 The New York Telephone Co. all ready has a system of motor buses running in the Bronx and is organizing similar services flor its employees in the other boroughs. The Adams Express co. will start a regular motor service. z, Rank Clerks in Hotels
 k RThe Lawyers Title and Trust Co.will also rely, it Is stated on automobiles to get it's ,employes to the company's s ofkice, 160 Broadway. The Western < -b3 lion and the Postal Telegraph com paIaies have also taken time by the ffoYz7ock and state that some system wtlk be adopted which will result in &H/ /ycontinliance of both of those ser P111s without impairment.
 everal of the big banks will house th$ir employees in hotels in the city, near the banks when possible, and when that is not possible, within a 10 ;sor. Is minutes automobile trip to the bank. Among the banks which it is ddaid will rely on the hotels in solving $fhe anticipated problem are the Ma 5ffonal Park, the Irving, the Liberty National, the Corn Exchange, and it's various branches. the Guaranty Trust CO, and at least dozen others.
 Owners. Of several of the larger res- taurants. 1t was said. yesterday, were canyassing thedr neigh bohoods to rent rooms and apartments in which to house walters, cooks. and other sem- pIoyes during the strike. The owners of we'll known chain. of restaurants have already sarraKEed to house their ensployes near the restaurants in which they work. < and to keep them there as long as the strike lasts.
 The department stores in practically every instance. operate scores of de- livery automobiles and if necessary these vehicles will be used in the { mornings and evenings to take clerks at& other employss to and from their hofhes sgs.,. sss'
 1n 1flk companies, dairy lunches, deli- catkssen shops, cigar stores, and other businesses all realize the seriousness fof the situation that is impending and ara preparing to meet it.
 < River Craft Win Help
 River craft will play an important part in solving the traffic situation in the event of a strike. The Iron Steam boat Company announces that begin ming today, in the event of a general stieup the boats will run between 129th Street and the Battery, the first boat leaving at a. 1n-, after which a reg ular schedule to be announced later win be ahered to.
 Charles L. Dimon of 32 Broadway, owner of the steamboat Mandalay. eaid he was prepared to run her morn ling and evening between 129th street and the Battery in the event of a tie up at a ten cent fare. The Mandalay carries 5000 persons comfortably to Atlantic Highland on her regular achedule, and on short river trip could easily handle 5000. She would call at Forty-second, Thirty fourth and Twenty second streets if neces- cary, MT. Dimon said. Other excur- sion steamboats could be used in a similar way.
 Extra boats will be placed on all ferry lines, it is stated, and it was said yesterday that in an emergency
 1t would be possible for Harlemite, Nor instance to cross to Fort Lee, take Ia car to Hoboken, or Weekawken and cross to almost any part of Manhattan south of and including Forty-second street. The Hudson River steamboats also touch at 129th and make stops town points, and the same is true of the Central Railroad of New Jersey.
 Theatre Men Are Optimistic.
 The traction situation had not as- sumed any significance for the thea tres last night, although theatrical managers were watching proceedings with anything but joyful anticipation. There were good audiences for the attractions that have been doing good . business lately, and any falling off was attributed to E.e warmth of the evaning rather than to anything else.
 One house, manager of experience said last night he did not believe a car strike, if it occurred, would have as disastrous an effect on the theatres as many of his colleagues believe. He pointed out that the theatres do not draw the large share of their attend ance from New Workers these days, but from out-of-town people, and this manager said that while a certain percentage of them might be visit ing friends in distant parts of the city. the majority were to be found regis tered in the hotels around the thea trica1 district, where car strikes would have no effsctSon them as far as getting to theatres was concerned.
 BODIES TAKEN FROM TUNNEL.
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