The sun., 1919-08-10
BROOKLYN SURFACE
CARS HALT AT 7P. M.
Rioting and Acts Of Violence
Cause Action by B. R. T..
Officials.
81" SERVICE rs IMPROVED
Police Get Frequent Calls, but
Make Little Roadway in
Some Cases.

Sporadic riotipg and acts Of violence
yeAtsiday caused the B. r. T. officials
70 withdraw what few surface cars were
out at 2 o'clock last night.
Just before the settlement OF the
strike LIST night a further complication.
was injected into the situation b, n
strike threat from the power house op-
eretives. AZ the Continental Hots;
James p. Holland. president of the New
York State Federation of Labor, and a
msmbsr Of thu International Brother
hood Of Stationary Firsmen, said tina,
II an agreement was not reached during
the, night the Il. h T. power house,
would be tied up this morning and that
It would DO impossible for, a wheel to
move over most of the system.
Police on duty at car barns received
freQusnt calls to combat s'hying squad
rons" Of strikers who arrived at diff
ferent points in automobile trucks, bent
on the destruction OF railroad property
or the delaying or obstructlng OF the
surface cars. Notwithstanding this, but
few arrests were made.
oniy 81 Surface Cars start.
Only forty-one surface cars were
started out yesterday. the smallest num-
Der on any day since tho strike began
BY noon only seventeen were being op.
Grated. and this figure dwindled con.
stantly until evening. when the order
Withdrawing them yas Issued. Accord
Ing to the Public Service Commission
report 1ls of the so7 subway and elc-
waited trains wero running yesterday
morning. This was an Increase OF
eighty seven over the night before.
A small riot developed late yes
terday afternoon at the Marcy avenue
elevated station when a Manhattan
bound canarsie train stopped there after
some one on board had pulled the emer-
gency cord. Some 200 passengers were
thrown into confusion. There was much
excitement and several women became
historical.
Three cars started out on the Fulton
street line yesterday. each manned by
crew of eight When two reached
Manhattan crossing they. were stopped
by a pile OF timbers bottled together
Steel rails were also piled across the
track. on each side Of, which a crowd Of
strikers had gathered. The distractions
were removed by q wreckng car as the
police scattered the crowd. When the
two cars had paused the material was
placed on the track again, and the
wrecking car had to be summoned again.
Ten Policemen Attacked.
"A car from the Ninth avenue barn
was carrying ten policemen to the Ber-
gen street depot yesterday when II was
attacked by strikers. The police were
helpless. and the str ikers took away the
fuse and air brake handle. Reserves
from the Bergen street station finally
dispersed the disturbsrs.
Thirty-six strikers arrested for al
legged feionies had the charges against
them changed To, disorderly conduct be-
fore Magistrate Fish In tile Flatbush
avenue court yesterday upon application
Of Assistant District Attorney Conway,
The cases were continued to next Tues.
dry and the prisoners were released
under $500 hail each.
Three striking elevated guards were
fined IS each for disorderly conduct by
Magistrate Brown in the Adams street
court yesterday
Just before word reached Brooklyn
last night that the strike had been Set
tied two clashes occurred between tho
police and mobs. At the Fifty eighth
street car barn two sailors IN uniform
cried "scabs'' at several men standing
near tho doorway. A crowd collected
and the police had their hands full for
some minutes. Forty men were arrested.