The sun., 1919-08-19
STRIKE KEEPS MANY
FROM THEIR WORK
Continued from Fret Pogo.

way ourrn8 oaCn Tubn hour poriou-
They charged all the way from q quar-
ter. the fee for standing on the TANNED
platform Of a remade Henry. to two
dollars for a seat in q we'll upholstered
limousine or touring car
The vehicles of the Fifth Avenue
Coach Company were swamped, a. were
the trolley cars Incidentally, Presi-
don't Ritchie Of the trolley company
consoied his men for their indubitable
trials OF yesterday by the announce
ment that the profits Of the extra eusi-
ness would be split with the men who
handled II and that time and q half
would be paid for all regular runs and
double time for all extra runs.
The police as a rule relaxed the park
ing regulations downtown and the
streets Of the financial and wholesale
districts were lined with all sorts OF
private cars throughout the day. They
ran from the big road locomotive Of the
general manager with the Limousine
body to the hivver of the shipping clerk.
For the most part the owners OF these
private cars were generous and took
them on their way uptown everybody
they could crowd aboard. There were.
however. some Of the genus hog. Behind
several sheets of French plate glass
about 36x6 tires were sllhouetted single
or double aquiline pronles impervious
alike to entreaty or to gibe. And they
got plenty OF gibes. There was no cream
with the raspberry handed these persons
as they wendell through the throng last
night.
At Broadway and Murray street a
tired looking little girl approached big
limousine in which rode stony eyed
fat man alone. Tho girl was almost in
tears.
''wirl you let me ride with your chauf-
feur as far as you're goingT' she pleaded.
Crowd Shakes Him Up.
The chauffeur evidently thought the
appeal would be answered. But Il
wasn't. A fatty comfortable hand mo-
toned him to go on. But he didn't. A
crowd proceeded to apply the raspberry
and in this Instance II was a terrifying
one. A dozen youths got on either side
OF the big car and seizing Il by the
tenders proceeded to rock 1t like a small
boat in the trough OF the sea. They
had the hitherto comfortable occupant
hanging for life to a padded arm strap
A trafio cop shunted him OF behind a
stalled truck and let him wait a round
fifteen minutes before he'd break the
northbound line and let him in again
he did get away. Three boys found
a perch on the gasolene tank at the
rear.
Hope they scratch h out Of II,
the cop remarked as he yelled at them
TO get of and then turned his back.
Motormen and conductors OF Third
avenue and Madison avenue and Broad
way cars approaching the Post once
and South Ferry terminals had theii
hands full. Scores of active boy.
swarmed in at every entrance but thai
| at which they were supposed to pay. i
was not that they objected TO paying
but that they objected to being left be
| hind The men can't protect all OF tn,
windows of car and hundreds. of then
rode free.
Much the same scenes were enacted a
Washington Square and in lower Fifth
avenue Up to o o'clock last night hun
! Creds OF men and women were waitinf
In the roped lines in the square to ge
seats on an uptown bus. and hundreds
more were swarming along the ives
sidewalk OF Fifth avenue as far a!
Fourteenth street grabbing such places
as were available and holding then
against those who waited at the regula
! terminal Many buses had but one va
cant seat when they turned at Washing
ton Square. The tops. of course. wert
| flled by a raincoated and umbrellaet
throng. The police were busy most o
the afternoon on lower Fifth avenue en-
| forcing the rules OF the company agains
loading the buses above the seating ca
pacity OF torty-nve.
Similar efforts were made to boart
/ these conveyances at the Twenty secon,
street and Pennsylvania Station termi
nails
Creatures OF habit. the drivers OF tn
| .itneys and the private cars insiste,
Upon following their usual routes o
travel. As result every north-soutl
artery from Third avenue to Sixth ave
hue was jnmmed. Frequently minor &C
cidents and collisions tied up the Who'll
procession. In Third avenue there wer
again and again long intervals between
lunches of trolley cars held up by som
sort OF motor car. broken down under
reath the elevated structure. The cop
were as numerically showed into tn
cutters as were the wrecks on a shel
swept ammunition road behind the front
Outside Avenues Little Used.
The crowd in general showed it's re
iuctance to use the jitneys Many o
these buses. charging rs cents an
more, started from the lower town al
most empty. They picked up passenger
as they went along. however. Many o
them got to the loft section above an,
Lelow Fourteenth street and made bar
Gains with the bosses OF the manufac