New-York tribune., 1919-07-19
Two Arbitrators Selected.
but Unions and s'L" Trus-
tees Are Unable to Reach
Agreement ON Third Man
Jitney Lines Thriving
Buses, Private Cars and
Trucks Take Thousands
To and From Work
Special Correspondence


BOSTON, July 18-The representa-
tives of the striking elevated railway
employees, in conference at the Quincy
House, and the elevated trustees, "a the
executive Offices Of the company, are
deadlocked tonight, as they have been
throughout the day, in their effort to
decide on a third man to serve on the
proposed arbitration board for the pur-
pose of finding a temporary solution to
the difficulty
There have been rumors Of a posi-
BILE compromise, following the an
nouncement of the union that the men
would accept sixty cents an hour and
return to work. Both sides admit that
the Glitch" is over the other man to
arbitrate..
Many prominent men were named,
one after the other, to-day, but each
one was unsatisfactory to either the
car men or the public trustees of the
company.
Tonight the effort to agree is being
continued. The two already on the
board are James II. Vahey, counsel for
the strikers, and ]. Ware Barnum, gen
eral counsel for the road.
To say that this city and it's suburbs
are cited up" by the strike of the 1890
carmen of the Boston elevated COM
pany, is not correct. Transportation,
true enough, is crippled, but the i'm
mense traffic is being handled by the
steam railroads and by the "automo-
bile line" that mushroomed up over
night.
Boston a Jitney Town
"L" or no a." it has been discov-
cred that people can, after fashion,
get to their work in the city in the
morning and back home again at night
\ Boston is a city Transformed Jit-
ncys race to and fro through the
seeking to make 1.-The most of the
'windfal" that has come their way.
Huge buses ply from picked stations
in the downtown district to selected
suburban sections as announced by the
placards on their sides.
Hundreds of leading firms have
turned their largest trucks over to the
handling of passengers, allowing them
to continue after their own employees
have been landed near their respective
destinations.
Every important thoroughfare boasts
unbrolscn lines of moving vehicles, and
every one, particularly during the rush
hours, is loaded with humanity to it's
capacity.
While there is general resentment at
the calling of the strike, general good
nature prevails, and every one seems to
wear a smile.
% Cents to Cambridge
Applications for jitney licenses have
been filed by truck drivers by the
hundred at City Hall and they are be-
ing granted as fast as papers can be
made out.
The drivers are making a genuine
killing" There is no regulation of
rates and prices soar. Even to Cam
bridge, just across the Charles River,
the trip costs 25 cents.
The three railroads running into the
city, the Boston & Maine, Boston &
Albany and the New Haven, are reap
ing harvest. Scores of extra trains
have been put into operation and few
trains contain less than eight 20 ten
cars. But as the railroads are the
principal resort, despite the enormous
street traffic, the lines are eroaning
under the burden. Rush hour trains
are Jammed with humanity almost be-
yond belief. Some trains reach the
terminals with men filling the engine
tenders and even clinging to the fen
ders.