Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-08-16
n. I. Prepares FOR
BIC Strike FAMINE
Business Men Implore Pres
ident Wilson to Do Ut
most for R. R. Peace
MOTOR SERVICE
IS PROJECTED

City, apprehensive of Isolation from
he outside world as the result Of the
threatened railroad strike. has taken
steps to guard against a possible food
famine.
If President Wilson should fail in
MS negotiations to settle the con-
troversy the heaviest misfortune
will rest upon this city be-
cause OF It's 100000 inhabitants. it's
geographical situation and its utter
dependence upon outsiders for its
daily nourishment.
II the strike comes the town ex-
poets to go on short rations. to tight
en- its belt. and make an awful out
cry. Already the preliminary sounds
are being registered. The dry goods
men have sent a telegram to the
President begging him to do his ut
most to bring the 100000 railroad
men and 235 railroad managers to
erms
Monday night the hotel man
ayers began to whisper OF the hard
ships that would be imposed on them
They spoke of what the cessation OF
passenger ,rafic would cost them and
how painfully they would feel the
lack Of freight shipments.
dOtOr Service for Hotels.
The McAlpin and other hostelries
Who get their biggest transient trade
It this time Of the year, talked OF IN
shutting a motor service for the trans
portation Of It's food supplies. Thea
re managers began to hint OF disaster
10 their newly opened season should
heir committing patronage be cut on.
The committing problem will be one
" the most severe results OF stop
mage of traffic. The New York Cen
rial New Haven. Pennsylvania. Cen
raj Railroad Of New Jersey, Lacka-
wanna. Erie. West Shore and Lehigh
Valley bring into town every morning
md bear out at night 100000 suburb
mites. Eight hundred and fifty trains
are in daily operation to handle COM
puters.
Nothing that the railroad COM
NAMES have devised thus far with the
menace Of a big strike at hand Will
preserve these suburban schedules
Many of the roads named intend 70
shut down operation altogether. The
PENNSYLVANIA intends to run what
trains Il can. and possibly the New
York Central and New Haven will fol
ow its example It Is safe to say thal
not more than a hundred Of the trains
low reaching New York will run II
ie-up is called.
Haul 5O.0OO.O00 Tons a Year.
Every day in the year there Is II
movement from 50,000,000 to. $4,000.
400 tons OF freight throughout tn
country. A large slice Of this goes 4
New York. New York's share consists
Of the clothing it wears, the food i
,ats. the milk it drinks and the Goa
With which II Is warmed.
From the railroad point OF view thu
greatest suffering a beleaguered. New
York would feel would be in thu
halting of its coal supply The de
privation threatened by the anthra
cite strike of several years ago would
become an actuality. The town woul'
,e shut of from the thousands o
ons OF fuel II consumes daily 10 keel
Is internal machinery running
None Of the huge plants that burn Goa
N daily trainload lots. the plants tina
Keep New York lighted at night. tina
give it telephone and telegraph ser
lice, that keep its dynamos whirline
hat move its street cars and the sub
way trains. could continue operation
or more than a few days. There /
not enough reserve supply stored Il
Manhattan for the consuming activ
ties
A dietetic reform probably woul
sweep over New York should the rail
road brotherhoods resist the Presi
lent Cold storage foods are nc
)lenteous enough to feed the metro
POLLS.
. Hope In Jersey and Long Island.
II is estimated that Long islam
and nearby New Jersey can keep Me-
York alive on a limited diet If It ca
get It's products into town. For thi
Il does not have to rely altogether o
the railroads because trolley line
that have their terminals on Mammal
tan's two rivers form a net wor
throughout New Jersey and Long Is
land. He considers himself poor ir
deed. does the farmer nowadays, II b
has not a small motor truck TO carr
his green goods 10 the market.
Milk N a different problem Mot
Of the supply that feeds the towns II
fants and colors the coffee comes froI
New England and Pennsylvania. Thu
its delivery here becomes railroa
problem. Said II. n. Halleck. vic'
president OF the Borden CondeRse
Mix Company, yesterday:
THE stopping OF milk trains woul
paralyze milk distribution. II woul
be possible to bring some milk inl
the city by boats. but the amour
would be comparatively small. "
would also be able to get more hei
by tractors from a distance Of pc
haps fifty miles. In that way mayl
we might get enough here to save Il
lives of the babies. I hate TO thin
what would happen TO the people {
New York if the milk trains al
stopped"
Railroads Now Congested.
At this season of the year the raj
roads are congested with shipmen
Of manufactured goods, most Of the
consigned to New York departmei
stores for the fall trade. Any stop
these deliveries would empty u
stores within short time. It is ju
at this time. too. that the town ge
the last of its summer fruit crops
AS rule both Of these kinds
goods are OFF the rails by Septemb
70 make way for the shipments
grain from the West. Should h
grain remain in Western warehous