Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-12

suburban passenger service about | normal; moving some freight.
 Erie-Passenger and freight service completely tied up.
 Hudson and Manhattan tubes closed.
 Lackawanna-Two through passeng- CT trains run Sunday, other freight and passenger service completely tied up.
 Baltimore and Ohio-Delayed pas senger service; moving some freight.
 Lehigh Valley-Few through trains, suburban passenger service tied up; little freight moving.
 Jersey Central-Few trains run sub ject to delay"
 Long Island-NormaI service, yard men threatening to strike.
 New York. New Haven and Hart ford-Irregular freight and passenger service.
 Ontario and Western-Irregular service.
 Pennsylvania-South and western trains being run 50 per cent. of norm al, other passeger service curtailed; freight service at a standstill. MIX trains will be brought in to- night and early tomorrow at all costs, Erailroad managers declared today. Whatever foodstuffs can be moved | here will be cared for, although all systems, except the New York Central l and the New York New Haven and ] Hartford announced that scores of food 1 trains were stalled along their routes. i The New York announced that war 1 specials" of solid food trains were on their way from Chicago to New York. 1 Passenger service was generally | ,Nfr 11a1 1 today. The New York Central and the New Haven managed to operate virtually at normal although some trains experienced delays ranging
 from a few minutes to two hours.
 Stations Assembled Barracks.
 Railroad stations resembled army barracks aslt night with men, women
 and children sleeping on benches and floors.
 The Pennsylvania cut out 24 of their scheduled Sunday trains today. in- cluding the Congressional limited for Washington and the Commercial and Mercantile Express for St. Louis. Tho
 embargo against freight on the Penn sylvania was described as the mos severe" in it's history. It is directed
 against all shipments of genera
 freight, coal, steel and foodstuffs orig
 mating west of Altoona, Pa, fo, points east and all freight from th'
 south destined for points north o : Norfolk, Va.
 All Pennsylvania yards east o Waverly, N. J., are at standstill, was stated today. Tn .eroad is bendin every effort to bring here 300 cars o
 livestock and 100 cars of perisha bl : foods, now en route. No freight ha 5 been moved from New Jersey piers | the Manhattan side of the Hudson b the Pennsylvania since last night,
 was said
 The importation of loyal Brother
 hood Switchfnen, yard workers an , firemen began unofficially today, wit Y number of union men coming o from outside points to relieve tn
 pressure here. No non-union strik a breakers were used, and announcemer f was made by the railroads that non if would be used for the present. Q J. J. Mantell, speaker for the Raj q road General Managers Association - today characterized the situation z Il about the same as yesterday an e prospects for tomorrow very serious 10 All roads except the New York Ger l. tral and the New Haven were in "veI
 bad shape" he said. The Central Raj e road of New Jersey was threatene 10 with shutdown of it's service althoua d it moved it's through trains in and ol le ttoday on delayed schedules.
 improvement in Ferry Service h Ferry service between New Yol
 and New Jersey was materially in = proved today and tomorrow it will le extended to it's utmost to care for u m rush of commuters, railroad officia le said. The Hudson and Manhatts l. tubes were still shut down today wi
 no prospect of being operated tomo y row.
 TO No Danger of Food Famine s New York is in no immediate dang ,o ] of a food famine, railroad manage
 said, although the coastwise longshor re mems and harbor strikes have sh ut off food arteries by water and t sd railroad strike has blocked most of t V. rail lines. Supplies were arriving B. the New York Central and New Hav st l roads, they said, in sufficient voluI s. to still the graves fears.
 The Chicago Express, eastbound, O en of the fastest trains on the Erie ra l. road, was abandoned by it's ere as early this evening at Port Jervis, he Y, ninety miles from this city. The at were 250 passengers, milk and m a- aboard.
 h. Erie Railroad officials declared tn as the Celeyelan Express, due at Pc at Jervis at midnight, may meet a simil g. fate. Strikers on the Erie have be Ia advised, it was learned here, to refu lo to handle milk trains which also ca "A ry passengers.
 0V Freight trainmen of the Baltimc
 and Ohio railroad employed on Stat
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