New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-14
Unions Seek Peace, but
Traction Heads Say
Strike Is Lost.
THOUSANDS STILL
MEET WITH DELAY
Added Cars on Surface,
Subway and 81" Unable
to Handle Crowds.

Since Mayor Mitchell and the Pub
lice Service Commission, who sought
to act in behalf of 100000 jostled,
patience tried and footsore New
Workers, were thwarted in their ef-
forts to bring the transit corpora
tions and their striking employees to-
gether, further endeavors in that di-
rection yesterday were of no avail.
The belligerent attitude of 7. p.
Shonts, the Interborough and
green car president, has proved
contagious. While the creaking
axles of the overladen "jitneys'
wedged Manhattan's workaday pop
ulation northward to late dinners,
Frederick w. Whitridge, president
Of the Third Avenue Railway Com
rany, and Charles f. Chalmers,
counsel to John Beaver, receiver for
the Second Avenue line, announced
they, too, would reject arbitration as
proposed by the commissioners and
tie Mayor.
Union Seeking Peace.
They will communicate this word
TO the commissioners and the Mayor
at 2.30 o'clock this afternoon.
Meanwhile, as the companies grow
more adamant, the union spokesmen
become more conciliatory. Arbitra-
ton has attractions for them. But
all endeavors TO bring around the
traction executives result alike: re-
affirmation of the intention to enter
into no negotiations with the Anal
gamated, on the ground that the
Union is not an organization which
can be trusted to keep its word.
Unless another avenue is found
some admit it begins to look as If
the battle would be fought out on the
lines of endurance. The company
heads reiterated their defiance last
night in the knowledge that tho
strike had lost ground in every Sec
ton of the city during the day.
Only in Westchester, where a taxi
drivers strike added to the discom-
forts, was no improvement in SER
vice seen.
Walkout Plan Revived.
No-auarter strike reviyes the possi-
bility of a general union labor walk
out, the possibility Of which may be
considered As an ace in the hole for the
union.
One or two union leaders, in face OF
the deadlocked state of affairs, have
giyen assurances that their organiza-
tions are ready TO strike at any mo-
ment. And others, by the same token,
seem less anxious 10 take such action.
Car men in Queens and Staten Island
are not so fretful as they were day
or so ago, and yesterday sent word
through an official that no walkout on
their part is in prospect.
The subways and the elevated con-
tinued to handle abnormal crowds
with normal service. From 1880 a. m.
to 1880 p. m. the subway handled
400 900 more passengers than ever IN
its history.
The green line had more cars in
operation than any Of its many COM
petitors, but the Union company, In
The Bronx, showed the nearest ap-
proach 10 normal service. James l.
ouacke Ibush, general counsel for the
New York Railways, said the oper-
ating chiefs had informed him that
more than. 300" cars we're going at
D. m, although the police count
showed only 294. Either of these hg-
ures is an improvement over Tuesday,
when only 27S cars were running.
Third Avenue Line Progresses.
The Third Avenue line made prog.
ress. 1t operated eighty-three cars.
or nine more than on Tuesday. Tho
Second Avenue, or blue line, ran
twenty-five trolleys. against twenty
three in service the day before. The
First Avenue line made no effort. Its
sixty cars were safely immured in the
barns.
In The Bronx so per cent service
was maintained at some hours OF the
day. The Union Line, which has
adopted an aggressive policy from the
outset, had lis of its 252 cars in mo-
ton most of the day. Eighty-eisht
were running Tuesday.
Tuesdays fatal accident in The
, Bronx resulted in general tightening
of inspection yesterday. All cars were
carefully examined before they left
any Of The Bronx barns. and the