New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-10
Negotiations With B. II. T i.
Heads at Standstill {;
Body of New Employee
Found i'm Coney Greek
1000 Return to
Jobs During Day
Late Corners Lose Their
Seniority; Normal Serv-
ice Is Promised Soon

Negotiations for the settlement OF
the B. R. T. strike seemed to have
lapsed yesterday, temporarily at least
William D. Mahon, president of the
Amalgamated, went to Albany, and it
was reported that his purpose was to
consult with Governor Smith. He
failed to see the Governor, however
and it was learned that the trip was for
the purpose of attending a conference
on the international railway dispute in
Buffalo.
Two more deaths were attributed di-
rectly to the controversy. John Kline,
the seventeen-year-ol youth mistaken
for Strike breaker and attacked by
strikers on September 1, died IN Kings
County Hospital as result Of his
wounds. The body CT William Oster-
bout, strike breaker, of Chicago, was
found in Coney Island Creek at the
foot of West Fifteenth Street. The
cause Of his death has not been def
nitely determined.
Receiver Lindley M. Garrison said
last night that 1000 former employees
returned to work during the day. The
men, he said, returned as new en-
ployees and lost their seniority and
the salary perquisites that attend GER
tain periods of service
1000 Employees Return
The men who returned yesterday
equal in number those who came back
by Wednesday noon in order to retain
their seniority, MIR. Garrison said. This
gives the company a nucleus of 1000
former employees from which, officials
say, the new permanent operating force
is to be constructed.
Coney Island business men Yesterday
expressed the gravest concern over the
situation, as there is possibility that
IT 1t endures through next week suf-
ficent police will not be available to
permit the holding Of the Mardi Gras
Every preparation has been made
and the resort is ready to hold it's gala
week, beginning next Monday" said S.
Mangels, president of the Coney Island
Carnival Company, "but we are very
much concerned to know whether suf-
ficient police protection can be afforded
If the strike persists"
In previous years 800 extra police
men have been detailed to the island
for the Mardi Gras. At present every
available man in the department is on
strike duty, and there is a possibility
that If the situation persists the police
may order the postponement of the
event.
There were only scattered outbreaks
by strikers yesterday and no serious
damage was done. A slight blaze was
caused by the pulling of the brake
switches at the Brighton Beach ele-
waited terminal and ten-foot length
of trolley wire fell on Sumner Avenue,
between Greene and De Kalb avenues.
First reports were that these re-
suited from the activities of strikers,
but officials of the company said last
night there was no evidence to sup
port that theory.
Strikers threw a piece of feed wire
over the electric wires of the Reid
Avenue trolley line at Eastern Park
way and Utica Avenue last night. As
it becawe electrified it coiled and broke
three windows on Utica Avenue. The
lives of number of children were en-
dangered.
AS the last Gates Avenue trolley car
started to switch into Fresh Pond
barns last night the pole line was cut
and the pole was wedged against the
structure above. When George
Drew, strike breaker, climbed to the
top of the car to release the pole, a
striker on the az" structure hurled
milk bottle at him. He received a Sc
we're confusion of the shoulder.
George Fitzgerald, twenty-five years
old, of 1920 Calumet Avenue, Chicago,
a former boilermaker, employed as
strike breaker on the R. R. T., was ar
rested last night at Coney Island on
charge of carrying concealed weapons
and with having fired a shot into the
air. A 32-caliber revolver was found
on him. One cartridge had been ex-
ploded.
Cars Run at Night
Service was maintained on the Flat
bush-Scvcnth Avenue surface line un-
til 1880 o'clock last night. 1t was the
first time the company has attempted
to operate a surface line after dark
since the strike was declared thirteen
days ago. Additional lines are to be
continued tonight and the company
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