New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-06

&c and recruit more men. Nearly
twoscore arrests were made by the
notice. One strikebreaker conductor
in The Bronx died Of injuries re-
ceived the night before, when his
head struck an elevated pillar as his
car was moving.
Scarcely any part Of the city except
Brooklyn escaped the effect OF the
strike in more or less paralyzed street
car service. Thousands Of persons
walked. The New York Railways COM
rsny started the day by running little
more than half the normal number OF
cars-5es out Of 1891. The number de-
creased rapidly By noon only Ao'
green cars were on the streets. Two
hours later the service dropped to 44o,
and bv 6 o'clock only 40l cars travelled
over the company's twenty-four hnes
in Manhattan.
The Second Avenue line began with
% cars out Of normal 100, which with
slight interruptions. ran until 7 o'clock
Tben all we're locked in the barns.
Queens Strike Spreads.
The Queens lines Jared no better.
The strike declared at 2:S0 yesterday
morning spread slowly but surely.
Police reports showed that eighty
three Of the usual l3l cars we're oper-
ated yesterday morning. This NUMBER
prevailed until evening. wheh t .he
strikers succeeded in getting all the
conductors on the Queensboro Bridge
Plaza shuttle line TO quit The nun,
dreds who use the line were marooned
on the plaza with no cars to take
them home.
Thousands Of pleasure seekers VINO
ventured to the Staten Island beaches
Yesterday suffered similar hardship
The Richmond Light and Power Com
panv faced almost complete walk
ont at 6:15 o'clock last night. and not
trolley wheel turned on the island
after that hour. Many of the cars
were left on the tracks, motormen ana
conductors not even taking. the trouble
10 take them back TO the barns.
Auto Men Reap Harvest.
To sum up the service situation,
every street railroad in Manhattan, Inc
Bronx. Richmond and Queens quit
operating surface cars before O'CLOCK
last night. Not trolley wheel turned
on any line, and the thousands OF Ne"
Workers in these four boroughs VINO
could not travel by subway or elevated
and did not own automobiles were
forced 70 walk or to submit 10 the ex-
49, .Nr1
operators, who resped harvest.
The lam of people who were forced
10 use the subway and elevated roads
in Manhattan last night was so great
that the company was powerless.
Trains could not be made long enough
to accommodate the crowds, and sta
tion platforms on both divisions were
crowded. To operate at ali, the COM
pany was forced 70 establish local-ex-
rress service. Ordinary local trains on
the Third Avenue elevated, for In
stance, became expresses from the
BATTERY to Chatham Square. and from
Grand TO Fourteenth Street.
Intimidation Charged.
Both sides in the struggle charged
that intimidation had been used. Frank
Hedley, general manager OF the New
York Railways Company, declared re-
poatedly that if more adequate police
protection had been afforded his men
the company would have been abba TO
operate a full quota Of cars on all
lines. Hcdley contended that the COM
pany had TO employ two hundred pri-
waite detectives to assist in guarding
property and that loyal car crews had
TO remain idle for lack of adequate
police protection.
The seriousness Of the situation so
slarmed the city authorities that 1900
more policemen were called back to
duty yesterday by Police Commissioner
Woods. About 500 had been on vaca-
tions. All vacations were postponed.
Some 400 more were summoned from
Fort Wadsworth and 300 others were
assigned to special duty. The entire
police force of the city, with the ex-
ception, OF the minimum Of men re-
quired for traffic and patrol work, is
now assigned 20 strike duty.
Hedley played another trump card
yesterday afternoon in an effort TO
keep his men from detection and TO
induce the loyal men, who feared to
leave the barns, to take their regular
runs. With the approval Of President
Shonts, he offered double pay to the
conductors and motormen who would
take out their cars and substantial
additional recompense 10 men in other
departments who remained on their
jobs.
"This is TO advise you" the notice
70 the green car men read, that during
the present crisis, which has resulted
in a number of the company's loyal