Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-05
DANIEL SON AND PUTNAM NEWS


 and went without any Of the union men of this division reporting for duty. Conductor Rienzf Brown who is not a union man. though the oldest in point of service Of any man on the local division, did report Tor duty. as he has been willing to do since ThUrsday morning, when he also reported. The service was first opened Sat- urday between DanfelS0n and Putnam cars leaving the barn at Dayville in each direction just before the noon hour. At Dayville the first car sntitlh waS hooted and stScabss'' yelled at the men operating 1t. but the union strik- CTS took no part in this demonstra- ton.
 Half Hearted Service.
 Throughout the afternoon and I'D to midnight of Saturday the trolley conn pany kept up its service between the northern limits of the division and as far south as what is known as Shanty HtN, below Danielson. In all truth the service cannot be described as more than half hearted. for the schedule was not regular and it afforded no accom- modation whatever for persons who might have been anxious to use the cars between Shanty Hill and Central Village, a distance of several miles. Each car carried a number of guards, and eley continued to ride up and down the line during the afternoon. The cars made the Danielson Center stop. but very few passengers availed themselves of the service.
 Cigarette Smoking on Cars. A Dayville clergyman. Rev. Charles A. Downs, boarded a car which was being used by cigarette smoking pas sengers, an unheard of thing in a closed car, to get to his home, leaving here just before 5 o'clock. He was the only person who avaiIed himself of the service from the business cen- I ter on that particular trip, though the 1 1itneys, out in fOcks, were getting passengers in punches at the same hour. The presence of guards and passengers. supposed also to be guards l who used regular cars as smokers seemed to have a tendency to keep persons away from the trolley cars.
 Loyalty to Strikers. \
 There is surprising degree of loy- atty to the strikers in this section, es- pectally in DaYville, headquarters o1 the local division, regardless of the merits of the issues that are being l fought out between the trolley com pany and its employees.
 Jitney Drivers Made Money.
 The trolley company got no business worth talking about during Saturday What it may be able to do later during the strike period remains to be seen There was a surplus of automobiles tC care for passenger traffic between Dan. ielson and ponts north and south. Mosi of the jitney operators claim to have made money Saturday, a day of the week most essentially requiring qllicI and frequent service between Daniel son and the points for which it is 2 trading center.
 The crews in charge of the cars TUT over the trolley line were apparently competent, although there was a sligh. crash at Putnam between an autono. bile driven by Herbert Owens of thai city and closed car on the trolley line.
 No Welcome for Strikebneakers. | At Dayville Saturday there was ar organized effort to make life miserable for the men who have been brought ii to operate the Shore Line cars Boarders at the Kennedy hotel pro. tested against allowing them to sfor there and the jitney operators would have nothing to do with the proposi- 1on of furnishing them such trans portation as was required for them Il may be recorded that Dayville, as . whole, has little use for the strike. Il breakers, but is very loyal to tht strikers, most of the local division em. ployes being residents there. Headquarters at Alexander House. The trolley company has availed it, self Of the Alexander house, large roomy and comfortable structure a. } Alexander's lake, as headquarters fo the men who are now operating car, and guarding them on the local di Vls1on the newcomers nunbering about 30. Some of them are clean -cut ], lntelhgent appearing men; all ar, : huskies.