The sun., 1919-08-09
UTNEYS OF MANY BREEDS
REAP BIG STRIKE HARVEST

were smashed, some OF the regular
trains being from half an hour to an
hour late. The Long Island put full
service on the old Manhattan Beach line,
over which only two trains n day have
been run for several years, and carried
from that district.
The Collector Of Internal Revenue for
the Brooklyn district announced yester-
day that he had sent out agents to coll
lect taxes from all trucks in service as
buses. He said he thought II was his
duty to do this. The truck drivers, how
ever. told the collectors agents the same
stories they told the men OF the License
Bureau--that they we're carrying friends
only.
All over Brooklyn yesterday there
were more bicycles In use than there
have been for many years. Lots of peo-
pie were out learning to ride the bicycles
OF their sons. and family physicians and
drug store men were kept busy patching
up bruises and applying arnica.
The Motor Transport Corps of the
Army has organized routes throughout
Brooklyn and Is sending trucks to carry
all employees OF that branch OF the SER
vice. Major H. II. Lawton. commanding
the corps issued orders that drivers of the
trucks are to carry no one who cannot
prove that he or she is an employee OF
the army. and that no fares are TO be
collected,
Many accidents were reported by the
police all over Brooklyn, due to reck-
less driving and to the trsffic congestion.
Two persons were reported killed in au-
tomobile accidents. and fifty or sixty in
jured. Few of the injuries. however.
were serious although many had to be
treated at hospitals.
Pickpockets have been making hay
while the sun shines among the crowds
that have gathered at the various trans
portation terminals. The police of the
Clymer avenue station alone have re-
ceived complaints of losses aggregating
over $500. and detectives have reported
that pickpockets are active throughout
the borough.
1t took forty-five minutes yesterday
morning for Long Island trains to go
vania station. Ordinarily the run is made
in twenty minutes.
Irving Miller. driver of a big sight
seeing automobile. had bad luck yester-
day, He picked up rty-three passen-
gers at Coney Island. bound for Man
haitian, and at Fourth avenue and Dean
street, having collected SO cents from
each passenger. announced that that
was as far as his bus went Isaac Pass
man Of $50 East Houston street had him
arrested and in Flatbush avenue court
Magistrate Folwell fined Miller $3.50.
the exact amount he had collected from
nis fares.
Some one dug a grave at the foot Of
the elevated station of the Forest ave-
nue. line. in Ridgewood, and put this
sign over 1t: This Is for Frank
O'Keefe" o'Keefe is the b. R. T. divi-
sion superintendent of that section.
Park Row from Brooklyn Bridge to
broadway was a one way street yester-
day, only traffic going north being al
lowed on the thoroughfare. All other
traffic was switched over to Broadway.
and trucks coming back from Brooklyn
for more passengers were forced to go
over to Broadway, make a detour and
get in the Park Row line again.
Some 200 strikers and strike sympa-
thizers in two big automobile trucks
went through Court street yesterday
morning and around the 3. r. T. Offices.
The trucks bore signs Ninth Avenue
Depot. 100 per cent" They stopped In
front of the transit company's Office and
the strikers sang Justify. Hail Hail
the Gangs All Here!' Then they went
on.
When about 700 of the strikers en-
tered the Labor Lyceum. Brooklyn. last
night carrying a coffin shaped box with
an efigy of Receiver Garrison. the thou
sand OF more men in the hall at the time
bi oke into cheers. Suspended from the
box was a placard which read:
He may know law,
He may know Justice,
But what does he know about rail.
roads?"