Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-08-31
PASSENGER TRAINS
IN DAYLIGHT ONLY
Program Agreed Upon by Rail-
roads Having Terminals in
National Capital.
OFFICIALS EXPECT TIE-UP
TO BE ALMOST COMPLETE
Predict People of U. s. Will Be As
tonished at Magnitude of
the Strike.

senger service only. on all trains rum
ming in and out of Washington. will
be put into effect Monday by all the
railroads having terminals in the Ma
tional Capital, it was learned today on
high authority. following the an
nouncements of all the railroads OF
freight embargoes. which will by Sum
day be effective on freight of all kinds
from all points for all destinations.
A tacit agreement has been reached
by all the roads to run no passenger
trains in or out of Washington after
dark Monday and at least for several
nights thereafter. Passenger schedules
on the Pennsylvania. Baltimore and
Ohio. Chesapeake and Ohio. Southern
and other lines. it is understood, will
be interrupted in manner which will
astonish. railroad officials say, the
travelling public, which has been look
ing upon the threatened strike as one
of freightmen only.
Predicts Big Astonishment.
. Conductors. engineers, fremen, brake
men and all n1en employed in the Wash
ington terminal yards will walk out
is revoked, 1T is asserted, and the rail-
roads will be hard put to it to main
tain any sort of passenger schedules
The people Of the United States will
be the most astonished set Of people in
the world Monday" said a prominent
local railroad official today.
Officials of the Baltimore and Ohio
road made no secret of the fact today
that their hourly passenger service be-
saclzt n Dol -
OF the prides Of the system, will suffer
greatly if the strike goes into effect.
We will not have trains every hour,
that is certain" it was plainly stated.
Daylight Service General.
Daylight passenger service only will
probably go into effect. not only on
roads running in and out of Washing
ton, but on all the railroads of the
country. it is understood, and the peo-
pie of the United States, when limited
to a cut service merely in the daytime,
will begin to wake up to the fact that
the strike means more than just an
freight service, railroad
men said today.
Lines of action to meet the situation
are being taken by oficials OF all the
roads. but reticence Is manifested rs to
what the plans are, as the railroads do
not wish to show their hands" to the
strikers. Local offices are placing great
reliance on their older men sticking"
it being pointed out that such meA
have everything to lose and nothing to-
gain by joining the strikers. AL the
big roads have completed lists of every
man whom they think will Stick" and
are finding out where these men may
passenger and freight trains are to be
run Monday and the days following, as
long as the strike may last.
Southern Officials Meet Here.
General and division superintendents
of the Southern railway met in private
today at the central offices
here, and considered what that system
shall do to meet the strike.
Southern officials intimated that this
system, tos~- has agreed to the daylight
only schedule. and that 1t will endeavor
to run at least one train day each
way on eacn of its divisions.
Southern railway headquarters here to-
day issued the following notice:
Because Of formal notice from train
and yard service organizations of their
intention to discontinue service at am.
Monday. September 1. we wish the trav-
cling public to know that we may be COM
PEELED on very short notice to discontinue
some of our passenger trains. Every ef
fort will be made to obviate this, but if it
is forced, we ask that patience be indulg-
ed by the public in such temporary in
Embargoes to Be General.
Following the sweeping and drastic
freight embargoes announced yester-
day by the great Pennsylvania system,
which will at the close of business to-
day shut down on all shipments of
perishable freight, including all food
stuffs and by the close of business
Saturday shut down on all freight Of
all kinds from all points to all destina-
tions. practically all the railroads of
the country have put into effect similar
orders.
The Southern, the Chesapeake and
Ohio and other lines having terminals
here have announced practically the
same freight embargoes, most of them
putting embargoes on all sorts of
freight by midnight, September l. The
shipments of inflamma bles. oils. etc, to-
day, and is not accepting any perish
bile freight that will not arrive before
Monday morning, and all other freight
subject to delay"
The term subject to delay" has such
a wide connation. railroad men point
out, that no one can safely say just ex-
actly what it may mean, in the event
of the strike. which, like the European
war, may lead to happenings which are
not even dreamed of at this time.
ACCUSED OF FRAUDS BY MAIL.