Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-08-06
TRAFFIC CEASES
ON SURF ACE LINES
OF NEW YORK CITY
Menace of Strike on Ele-
waited and Subway Sys-
TENS Grows Hourly.
STEAM AND ELECTRIC
ROADS MAY BE HALTED
New Element of Danger Injected
Into Situation Already
Serious.
JITNEYS REAPING HARVEST
Attempt Will BE Made to Re-
sumo Partial Service
To-day.
STEAM AND ELECTRIC
ROADS MAY BE HALTED
JlTNEYS REAPING HARVEST
Attempt Will BE Made to Re-
sumo Partial Service
To-day.

NEW YORK. August ..-Surface- car
tra!flc ceased In the BorouGhs of Man.
haitian. the Bronx and Richmond at
o'clock tonight. and the city was in
the grip of the most serious transit
blockade in its history
Brooklyn was the only borough in
the greater city not affected by the
strike OF motorinen and conductors.
Only fraction of the normal number
~ cars was in operation in the Borough
OF Queens. although the railway COM
pany that operates the lines there was
more fortunate than the other public
service corporations affected. in retain
Ing the services Of large number of
loyal employees
The menace of a general strike that
would include the elevated and subway
lines was growing hourly more threat
cn!ng Tonight. William Fitzgerald. the
genera! organizer declared that by the
middle OF next week every employee
ot the interborough would be mem
Der Of the union
NEW ELEMENT OF DANGER
IN SERIOUS SITUATION
new element Of daner SO far as
the travelling public is concerned. was
INJECTED into the situation tonight,
when William d. Mahon president OF
the .Amh!gamatcd Association Of Street
and Electric Hallway Employees. dc.
clarcd that delegation of The Brother
hood Of Locomotive Engineers. repre
sentng the men working on the rail
roads running into the city. had called
upon him and asked for conference.
They were invited to confer tomorrow
afternoon with union officials
II was announcca al Headquarters
that this probably meant the members
OF the brotherhood would walk out In
sympathy with the carmen /. !, were
found necessary, and thus tie UP the
steam and electric roads running into
New York. Nahon and his associates
were much elated over tho new deycl
opmen,s
a; o'clock tonight orders had been
issued by every street railroad In Man
haitian and the Bronx and on staten
Island 'Richmond) TO discontinue SER
vice for the night. An hour later no,
surfsce-car wheel was moving in the
three boroughs The management Of
the Manhattan and Bronx lines said
they would attempt 10 resume service
tomorrow morning. but no EFFORT will
be made unit! Monday 10 operate cars
on Staten Island.
one after another the New York
Railway Company. the Second Avenue
and Third Avenue Railroad Company.
the Union Railway Company. which
operates in the Bronx. and the Rich.
n1ond Light and Railroad Compary
notihed police headquarters that they
had suspended service. The number OF
passengers carried daily on these lines
Is estimated a; 2.500.00
PROFESSIONS OF JITNEYs
FLOW THROUGH STREETS
Within an hour after the halting Of
traffic steady streams of jitnevs
were flowing through Broadway. Fifth
Avenue and other streets running north
and south. as we'll as through the cross
town thoroughfares
For cross1town rides the regulation
charge is 3 cents, while longer trims
uptown and downtown cost from to
20 cents
The subway trains were crowded 10
capacity Extra trains were operated
and additional platform guards and
ticket sellers were requisitioned
On many OF the large automobile
trucks fares We're collected by strk-
ing conductors. some of whom wore
their railway uniforms
With the suspension of car traffic
the danger of serious disorders became
less menacing, but the police did not
relax their vigilance. At o'clock sew
eral automobile trucks loaded with re-
volver ammunition left police head
quarters. Boxes OF cartridges were
left at every station house. Each pa
trol,nan will be provided with twenty
rounds.
The most serious demonstration oc-
curved tonight when police reserves
charged a crowd of strike sympathizers,
said to have numbered at least 1000,
who were bombarding a street car
with stones and attempting to rescue
a prisoner from a patrolman. Women
and children hurled missiles from tene-
mert house roofs. The police cleared
the streets, and the roofs we'll.
There was sporadic rioting at sew
eral points during the day.