Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-18
IT'S CAR LINES
IDLE, NEW YORK
HOBBIES ALONG
Metropolis Enters Second
Day of Strike With
Resentment.

New York, Aug. 1S.-Forced t.
reach its offices by devious routes
in a rainstorm, commercial New
York entered the second day of it.
traction strike with resentment il
its heart.
With interborough subways anC
elevateds completely tied up, the
city's millions this morning bat
tied their way into such surface
cars as we're running or into buss-
es and moving vans hastily organ
lied into semblance of a transpor-
| tation system.
Two Million Walk.
More than two million persons
who ordinarily travel daily over
the Interborough Rapid Transit
! company's subway and elevated
lines in Manhattan, the Bronx
Brooklyn and Queens, today either
i took slow moving cars and impro-
vised conveyances, or walked to
their work as a result of a strike
of the company's 1900 employees
for so per cent increase in
wages. AS the strike became ef-
fective not a wheel turned.
The stoppage of the main arter-
les Of travel caused the worst traf-
fic snarl in the history of the city,
The narrow streets in downtown
New York were fairly congested
during the early morning hours
A pouring rain added to the dis
comfort.
Jitneys Are Filled
Thousands Of jitneys and busses
filled beyond capacity with work
ers, clogged the thoroughfares
Thousands fought in vain for
standing room on each overloaded
trolley car. Trolleys and other
vehicles moved at a snaiI's pace
Residents on the outer fringe of
the city were unable to reach their
places of employment until many
hours after their usual time and
industrial New York was crippled
in consequence.
The New York Central railroad
operated &c extra trains of 10 cars
each between Hudson and Harlem
river points to the Central station.
The $4,000 extra passengers car
ried on these trains in addition to
the regular traffic caused an un-
precedented congestion at the
Grand terminal.
Fleets of ferries and other craft.
pressed hurriedly into service,
piled the North and East rivers,
carrying passengers between the
upper and lower ends of Manhat-
tan island for the first time in
many years.
Wall Street Also Hit.
Brokers and financiers Fastening
to Wall street in their automobiles,
arrived with the greatest number
of clerks and stenographers TO
whom they could offer "a lift"
Many offices and stores were late
in opening.
Service on the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit subway entering Manhat-
tantan-the only underground in
creased 25 per cent, while Hudson
and East River ferry boat lines
reorganized their schedules. plying
back and forth as rapidly as it was
possible to take on passengers and
discharge them.
But New York found that with its
main traffic arteries crippled it was
difficult task to find extra means
to handle the 100000 passengers
carried each day by the subways
and the 1,111.000 by the elevated.
Little Disorder.
More than six thousand police
men guarded the company's prop
erty and endeavored to control the
tide of humanity sweeping through
the streets. Notwithstanding the
confusion, there was but little dis
order.
COllusi0n Is Charged.
District Attorney Martin of
Bronx county today began an in
vestigation of reports that strikers
had informed policemen that they
did not care how long the strike
lasted because they were being
paid anyway and that certain
loyal employees who reported for
work yesterday were told by off,
cials to leave their railway yards
because a strike was in progress.
Early officials and others who have
charged that there was. coliusion
between the Interburough COM
pany and it's striking employees to
obtain a fare increase by the
strike said they regarded as sig
nificant the fact that no attempt
had been made by the company to
operate any of It's subway or ele-
waited lines since the strike was
called.