The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-08-18
OVER 100000
PERSONS ARE
INCONVENIENCE D
Most of Them Walked to Their
Work Because of Strike
TRAFFIC BADLY SNARLED
More Than Six Thousand Policemen
Trying to Control Tide of
Humanity

New York, Aug. 1S.-Over two mil
lion persons, who ordinarily trave
daily over the Interborough Rapid
Transit companys subway and elevat
ed lines in Manhattan, Bronx, Brook
lyn and Queens, today took either the
slow moving surface cars and i'm
[ provised conveyances or walked to
their work as the result of strike
{ of the company's fourteen thousand
employees for fifty per cent wage in
crease.
! AS yesterday, when the strike be
came effective, not wheel turned on
the company's $50 miles OF trackage
Z Stoppage of the main arteries of travel
caused the wost traffic snarl in the
history OF the city. over SIX thousand
policemen guarded the company's
property and endeavored to control the
tide of humanity.
! New York, Aug. 1.-THE vast sub
WAY and elevated system of the Inter
borough Rapid Transit company, oper-
ating in Manhattan, The Bronx and
parts of Brooklyn and Queens, was
completely paralyzed today by "a
strike called last night by p. ]. Con-
molly acting president of the Brother
, hood Of Interborough Rapid Transit
company employees. The day passed
without violence.
The tie.up which began promptly at
a. M. as ordered, with the refusal
of crews to start runs from the car
barns, became absolute at 6 a. IN,
when the last of the trains sent out
before o'c.ock completed their runs,
were shunted into the barns and aban-
doned.
At that hour, strikers in the Inter
borough power houses shut of the
power, causing a temporary stcpDage
of traffic on the surface linas of the
New York railways and the Manhattan
spurs of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
company, which uses Interborough
power.
Three power houses resumed oper-
alton an hour later, however, permit
ting resumption of traffic on these
lines, which were jammed throughout
the day, as were the steam railroads.
trucks, sightseeing buses,
and beat lines which tried to take
care OF the crowds.
With every prospect OF a continual
ion of the absolute tielIp tomorrow,
city officials and the public service
commission were bending every effort
tonight toward providing emergency
transportation for the nearly 2,500,000
who will swarm the thoroughfares
leading INTO Manhattan seeking trans
portation to their places Of employ
ment
With comparatively light traffic to-
day due TO the fact that L was Sun
day, and rainy Sunday at that, the
available means of transportation wore
taxed to their capacity, and with The
resumption ct business activities 10
nlorrcw, one Of the severest cfashes
in TIC ,ily's history was exp pectei.
All the railroad lines running into
the city have agreed to operate extra
trains at intervals of from Is to 80
minutes and boat lines will opera.e on
emergency schedules.
More than 200 large motor trucks
and sightseeing buses have been press
ed into service and will operate over
routes corresponding to those of the
Interborough system. Prices on many
CT these trucks and buses, which have
made agreements with the city otticia $
will be as low as 10 cents, but profit
eering of the steepest sort is anticipat-
ed on the part of owners OF smaller
cars and taxicabs who showed in many
instances today that they are out to
uOtaIn all tnat they can get.
The strike which began this morn
ing was declared by the ploice to be,
so far, one of the most orderly large
strikes ever called in New York.
The strikers worked with the high
est precision and efficiency, running
their cars quietly into the barns and
leaving them in most orderly fashion.
No chances were taken by the po-
lice, however, heavy details of patrol
men being stationed at all barns, pow
.er houses and stations to prevent any
possible outbreak.
New York, Aug. 1S.-The strikers
voted today to invite Mayor Hylan
to address them tonight at their
headquarters. The mayors request
that they meet him in Madison Square
Garden was refused. Forced to
reach their offices and places of busi-
ness by devious routes in heavy
rain storm, commercial New York en-
tered the second day of its traction
strike with resentment in its heart.
1t was not until after ten that lower
Broadway assumed its usual business
day appearance.