The evening world. Newspaper, March 8, 1905, Page 3

* would naturally imagine, ‘no diMoulty in obtaining a position as {Me Wants to Be a Motorman, Experiences of an Evening World Reporter Who Obtained Employment for a HUMOROUS SIDE OF THE SITUATION, (As Seen by Cartoonist Powers.) “Those Green Motormen—Do You Single Trip—Columbia Stu- dents Work for Excitement. Bome of the men who are now run- ning trains in the Subway are veteran @trike breakors, To an Evening World teporter, who spent part of a aay #mong them, several admitted that they had been with John Furlvy In many strike-breaking campaigns, and one gray-headed old-timer sald that he had been in seven contests with the untona, ‘These veterans have taken the places of responatbility on the Sub- way trains, The less important placos are being taken by amateur strike breakers, many of whom are college @udents out f adventure, The story of The Bven! World reporter who went to work in the Subway is us fol- lows; < Bob Btangland, once captain of the Columya University football team, ‘vas motorman on the Subway train on which I was one of the guards. ‘The conduotor—that is, the .man In ohargo of the finest car, whose ring of the bell sets the train In motion—wae one of Farley's veterans, He confessed to me that}he had paysed through geven campaigns euch as that which iy now on Three of the remaining four guards, for there were ‘ive ears to the train, were Columbla students, and 1 was the fourth, Care Taken In Choosing Men. Tt fe not #0 easy to become a @trike treaker as ane not acquainted mith the intricacies of the profession T soon found that the grinding oor poration, even tn a pinch, does a great dea} of picking and choosing, First, I ‘went to No, 3 Dey street, which ts called Farley's hendquartars. The arch @trike breaker, however, does, not spend his time there, Beveral hundred men stood tn line on the sidewalk in front of the door waiting to apply for rk, I joined them, After wasting considerable time at this place I was turned away with the promise of a position as ticket-chopper Mf I wanted it, Next I went to the oMce of Supt, Hedley on the twenty-third floor of the Park Row Buflding, There I luckily fell in with a crowd of Columbia Uni- versity students who were bent upon a @trike-breaking expedition, and I found qverd, We were told to report for work at the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh etreet stayjon, On Our way uptown I asked one of the college boys why he was so anxious to fight the strikers, Colleglans Work for Excitement, “Oh,” he answered, ‘'we don't hate the unions and we don't care muoh for | h the money. It 1s the excitement we want, Jf there was a war we would go to the War, but as there isn't any war to go to we have just got to fight the strikers, It takes brave men to go out with @ train when there Is danger of being dragged off and walloped by strikers or blown up with dynamite.” As I stood on the platform of the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh street sta- tion I became conscious that I waa be- ing watched, Every time I turned my hoad I encountered a pair of eyes turned {n my direction, They were shifty, hun- Bry eyes, giving a tigerish expression to the grimy, unshaven men to whom they belonged, These watchers were some of Farley's men and they seomed famlshing for fight. Farley Is Everywhere, Suddenly from somewhere toward the Platform a tall figure, clad In black, | passed through the group of men and disappeared, “That's Farley,” whispered a man at my aide, I turned for a better look, but the man was gone, | “Is he around here much?" T asked, \ “He's everywhere," was the answer, "He keers moying about like a ghost." At last, after we had been Instructed MONEY R C Comes Quickly ! The Advent of Spring Always Brings a BUSINESS BOOM, Now Is the Time for You to Wink Quickly and Ast Promatiy in Eulding Your Fo tuna, Your Success Will be greatly facilitated hy reference to the MORNING WORLD'S Business Bargain Bulletin, @nd reinetructed, we were put aboard @ train and started downtown. It was then that I noticed that there were three policemen in each car, mak- Ing fifteen on the train, My first experience was a mild one, A emall man, very much under the in- fluence of liquor, rose from his seat and waving his arms wildly shouted: “I wouldn't be a scab—no, I wouldn't be & Goad, Gentlemen, witness, 1 wouldnt.” While he spoke he staggered up and Gown the car. “I have a wife and five children at home," he added, ‘and there Jen't five cents in the house. I don't know where we are going to get anything to eat, but I wouldn't be a scab.” Then he sat down and the maudlin tears coursed down his cheeks, Mistaken Sympathy. A well-dressed woman went to him and banded him what appeared to be a dollar bill, “Go home to your family,” she sald. “Don't waste sympathy,” growled & man who was watohing her. “If he thought so much of his wife and babies he ought to have given them the money he spent for the whiskey he's got aboard,” “Poor man, go home, go home," sald the woman. At Fifveth street the station waa filled with little boys, who were having the time of their lives enjoying free rides, A troop of these urohins werg about to enter the door of my car when one of thetr number caught sight of the college boy on the car behind, "Bee the wlssv'’ he yelled, ‘Come on, fellers, let's see how he shakes him- pelf,"" ‘Then all hands headed for the other car, The colleme-boy guard, heard the urchin's description of him and he was wounded, To make !t clear that he was thoroughly strenuous and masculine he commenced to swear at some men on the platform, and the policemen, think- Ing that something was wrong, poured from every direction, We got to the end of the Hne without accident, but were tied up below Bleecker street on the way uptown. It was about two hours before we were allowed to proceed’ on our way. Strike-Breakers Well Paid, During the delay 1 had an opportunity to talk with Farley's veteran follower. He seemed to ve a pleasant fellow, ‘“Riarley ie good to his men," he sald, “He will let me edrn $7 to-day, You see, | made a day as motorman early in the day, and now I am making a day conductor, I will be pald a ‘8 Wages for both w#bifi Farley is a sharp man," ‘There is nothing soft about out for Farley, ae the remt of us are out for ourselves, but if you have a kick to make he will sit down and listen to you, no matter how low your position may be. The kick bird fof, te be right, though, or he will re followed the ‘strike-breaker’ for @ good many years and he has always let me make a lot of money every time we have amashed a unton,’” When we got back to the One Hun- dred and Fifty-seventh street station there wus a ory for men to man a train for downtown. ue ONCE AGAIN? Gera RAPIDTOO OLEUM ‘AND AVOID THlL Even Cabs Were Scarce, ‘SUBWAY CRASH INVESTIGATED Officials Believe Motorman of Train Is William England and That It Was Accident Caused by Inexperience. ‘The motorman who was at the con- Tho college boys who had made the | troller of the Subway train that crashed run with me were anxious to get to thelr homes, f into the stalled train at the Twenty- | Well, make one more run and then! thing atreet station during the rush go home,” sald the assistant superin- tendent, At that the studenta returned to work. —— hour yesterday and Injured nearly two swore passengers {s belleved to be Will- T'dio not go with them. Jam England, of Indianapolis, cer of the Interborough Company sald An offi- to-day that an Investhgation led him to euspect this man, It Is not the com- | "L” SMASHUP; Strike Breaker Motorman Loses Controi of Train Approaching City Hall Station—-Stampede of Passengers Follows Crash, Two men were injured in a smash- up on the Third avenue Blevated line breakers, and In appronehing the Brook- lyn Bridge terminus he lost control of the motor and the (rain ran agalnat the heavy wooden girders there with a ¢ | examination Friday, man, who arrasted him, plaint ».|Motoyman, charging them with " pany’s opinion, however, that he caused he accident malictously, Bpeaking of the desertion of his ‘train by Motorman England after the accident yesterday the officers of the company eald to-day that they had promised their strikedbreakers to have on hand at every station a property owner who would go thelr bafl in cass of arrest, was another man with Bngland in the motor box and that he, too, vanished after the collision, It was also sald that there His identity has not yet been ascertained, John McManus, conductor of the sec- at the Cliy Hall station this afternoo UO ee ond train in the collision, wie arralgned [rhe moterman on the train wan ate | Xockville Court to-day and eld by chael Page, one of Farley's atrike- | Magistrate Steinert in 2,00 ball for Patrolman Haupt. made a com-, him and the} jointly against jeseness, negligence and Incompeten: GROOKLYNITES, THE SMILE THAT JUST COME ON. What It May Come To, MAYOR STRIKE BREAKERS afternoon to curlous spectators at No, #4 Dey street. where the Interborough Company {8 firing new men, young men, well dressed and saying Tipe TO SEIZE SUBWAY Steps Would Have to Be Taken by the Rapid Transit Commission, and There Would Be Long De- lay in Getting Control, Mayor McClellan has been urged by friends of the atriking employees of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company to have the Corporation Coun- sel Institute proceedings to take the Subway out of the hands of the com- pany and place it in charge of a city department, ' “On my way down to City Hall to-day,” sald the Mayor, "a man pre- sented thin proposition to me and seemed somowhat surprised that I did not at once selze the opportunity. But there are diMculties in the way, The Subway js under the control of the Rapid-Transit Commission, and any steps toward placing it under the management of tho city bocause of the failure of the Interborough Company to run it satisfactorily must be inslituted by the Commission, "It 1a different with the surface lines of the Metropolitan Street Rall- way Company, If those lines are tled up and the public 18 inconventenced, the Attorney-General can bring suttyin the courte for the forfeiture of the company’s franchises, but !t would take time for such a matter to be settled, “Tt would take even more time to take the Subway from the control of the Interborough Company and place It under the management of the city. Such things cannot be accomplished in a day. Hven after the.clty assumed charge of the Subway there would be many matters to be attended to, In the first place, there fs the civil service law to be regarded, The men would have to be selected under civil service rules, Hxaminations would have to be. held and lists of eligible men prepared. Then a department would have to be created, and it would be necessary to obtain an appropriation for the running expenses of this department, would take many months of preparation, things without first taking the proper legal steps.” new olty All this The city cannot jump {nto such “If the Interborough Company puts incompetent, motormen in charge of traine with the result that there are accidents in which citizens are in- jured, would it not be the such conditions?” was asked, WHEN CITY MAY ACT. ty of the city to tuke some steps to remedy “UNDOUBTEDLY,” REPLIED THE MAYOR ‘THE iNTERBOROUGH COMPANY HOLDS ITS FRANCHISE ON CONDITION THAT IT CON- DUCTS THE SUBWAY TO THE ADVANTAGH AND COMFORT OF THE PUBLIC. COMMISSION TO TAKE ANY STHPS THAT MAY BE NECESSARY TO (pring ABOUT ALL NECESSARY REFORMS.” IF IT FAILS IT IS THE DUTY OF THM RAPID TRANSIT “Then {t wou:d he up to the Rapid Transit Commission to take posves- don of the Subway, which 1 the city's property?” Mayor McClellan laughed. “\ necessary to protect the public, And then,” he added, “to get competeit men to run the tralus the city would have to ask the striking Subway employees to go to work, which would be an ending of the trouble, Thet was the idea presented to me this morning,” = they were students of Columbia College, appeared on the scene, They seemed anxious to take the ‘places of the erikers, When. they..were. ontered to go into the long walting line and await their turn, they took off their hats and gave three college yelle. After patiently waiting in the line for some time they became restless and departed, GAVE COLLEGE YELL, Much amusement was furnished this Four No Wedding Belle for Him, for He Promised to Meet Her at 8, rowly missed almilar accidents through his carelessness twice yesterday before the Twenty-third street accident, THE ALARMING PREVALENCE OF CONSUMPTION AND ALL OTHER LUNG TROUBLES HAS . CAUSED. MANY TO SEEK CURES SINCE DR. ANDERSON'S METHODS HAVE PROVED SO SUCCESSFUL, Mr. 8. J. 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Catarth and all other ia: | ont, sounding volse which drew crowd | i men ivom all directions, Hundreds of and responalbility for the acc Lag i be Wie Ane by Ly panseogers were knocked to their knees | Moxfanus ts one of the atrike-breake: Iiltetreted” booklet upon Chent steed by the shock, and a frantle stampede | wrought here by Farley from Luule-{sent upon request. | for the platform followed, lncvands ecarainatl Pollceman GIll, of the Sixty-elghth | ville, Ky, CORSE R COMED OF COTA Rk thie Ui Precinet, Brooklyn, was bad Feed W. C, Douglas, representing the Inter- yeahs ABA do not dose the stomach with | Tre ANe eee Binal A oat tone ee | borough Company, appeared as counsel att soris of drugs OF wear plasters mt) the Hion-unfon conductors, ocked | for McManus. He told Magistrate Stein. | (00 nly le fede Ne AL EL eaieat once, | down and his arm severely lacerated, | ert that he did not belleve MoManus| wht; tl at, New. York, between bit and| Poleman Benning, of the Ox was to blame for the collision, but that | ith aves. Hou Ha 10 to 5 (Sundays, station, mamriged to reaspure the fi . ened passengers and prevent serious conpequences resulting from the panic, he held the missing motorman to be r=! !1 to 2)) Mon sponsible, The motorman, ho said, nar- ednesday, Friday, even- Mf unable to call, write Inge til 8 o'cl tor particulars. TO THE PUBLIC AAD. PATRONS OFTHE SUH “IND. MANHATTAN LOWS The motormen now in charge of the trains on the “L”’ roads and the Subway system are not “green men.” They are men experienced in railroad work,andinthe absolute con- trol of the double airbrake system used on the largest rail- roads in the United States, and have all had a careful ex- amination before they were put to work Sensational state- ments are being circulated to create fear in the minds of the public against the use at this time of the Interborough system. 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