The evening world. Newspaper, August 7, 1919, Page 2

OR ree ant ete se eee ‘ run gut some of the cars at four ived @ | o'clock for the accommodation of the uth howr, but it ia said that it is doubtful if this will be done. Forty- , District Attorney Lewis of Kings 2 4 nav teateiosoe Ame tees County has ordered reports of all mo- Migaph pen spegrlannete in tormen and conductors who have com- to ot part of the rush Plained that policemen assigned to They have thetr cars failed to protect them from on, Newurk and ™obs or from assaults by individuals, start them He has directed that a special investi- consent can Sation be made that a policeman was the Secretary of derelict. in. nhis y and thus helped | bring about « inwhich a boy was of Brooklyn wore Shot. cases of strikers ace Edwin of assaulting car Brooklyn stoning cars and damaging "®d been Many of the men @mployees of the Island Thee- vy bail for the ton Co. will go on at 5 o'clogk Beasions. Some #©-morrow morning, Lng Island itences,| | Traction Co, covers all western Fe Das et va Island. Mr. @mith’s atate- Wee not co SHOW * STRIKERS “f JAINING GROUND. the action @f the City Ad- jon in fueiiivhing potiopmen guard the care, the claim of the | that they are gaining ground , po be by reports a charge of felony Made to the Public Service Commis- case,” said Assitant %00 by inspectors detolled to count He the cars in operation. ‘These reports show tha Aocal gtrike leader ff ‘hia efternoon, that he jod that the CARS AS B. R. T. TRIES— B. R. T. Strike Doesn’t Worry These Workers Who ‘ ‘ POS anes ty t py THE EVENING WORLD, TUURSDAY, bye Reilly, organizer of the union the surface ijnes, claimed that 4,100 out of 4,500 employees are on strike, Aaron Kopman, organizer of the elevated conductors and guards, asserted that 2,400 out of 2,700 are on ons ‘that & Brogklyn Sher | yaad isd Banaue odeee parts ére_on the way to .the| front plattérm of a dat was of little sai to be| tse as a protector, as the crowds at- are not to} tacked from the rear. “to protect | Scores of motormen and conductors them." who started out with cars this miorh- to | ine atter Brooklyn had been cut off Lo- |trom aj) street oar pervice during the Dolice were opéniy in sym- ith the strikers, Neverthe- less many arrests were reported. In case Receiver Garrison decides t @ meeting of strikers at 11 service to-night, as he did| o'clock at the Labor Lyceum it was Right, that he notify the Public |@MMounced that the conductors and ; on the Manhattan surface ue and 4 ttan uttion men. Frank Hedley, General Manager of he Interborough and Job B. Hedges, ver of the Now York Railways Co., sald that they were not worried over the assertions of leaders of the MAN THE CARS. ‘The Police Department failed to itl repo! At some ‘of the outlying depots no Policemen had reported up to noon po & the city to prop- erly man all thé care and trains, Bnoouraged acpording to the B. R. . officials by police apathy the “Aggies of men ran out of one of the Attacked the car and| ‘bey did not hesitate to tackle pollce- fen who made a show of protecting m®otormen and conductors. A mob pulled @ mounted policeman off his borge in. Hambyrg Avenue. Although every sort of vehicle was pressed into service during the morn- ing rush hours the Brooklynites who work in Manhattan and normally are all at their tasks by 9 o'clock were not more than half across the Bast “River ot that hour to-day, It was mot until 10,80 o’cjock that the con- gestion on the bridges was relieved. TraMc rules were suspended and there were hundreds of minor acol- dents. Automobiles took half an hour in crossing Brooklyn Bridge. ‘The strike leaders are working hard to persuade the power house employees to iw on beg A meet. “ling of the union power house men heard of a truck loaded| wi) be held at the Labor Lycéum girders which was stalled! 1, night, A strike of the power and Thirty-neventh | 5449 employers would step every @t-onee went to the) wheel in Brooklyn that runs on steel truck, seized the load and | tiwons, led the girders along the) NUMBER OF MEN QUT, ACCORD- ¢ “AN cars were then turned ING TO UNION CLAIMS. Until a wrecking crow! Reports of . pickets. turmed ip: at Strike headquarters: up to 10 o'elock this morning indicate, according to the unlon leaders, that 4,700 B. R. T, employees in the surface and elevated mephanical departments were on strike at that time. The power house employees, the leaders report, will meat to-night and take a strike vote. Every effort is being made to per- sade the firemen and electricians to walk out of the power houses, Such & move would, of course, completely tle up the whole B. R. 7, take out the first police- . Three times the nec- jteered instantly. Wreoxing two care at Pros- 16th Street, a de- Nixon was informed! Disorder and minor rioting pre- rf strike and Edwin Smith, Chairman of the Strike Committee, after a tour of hops and dgpote announced that Practically the efitire mechanical statl consisting of 1,268 men is out. The company officials ri@icule these figures and there is ho way by which ‘an outsider can check them up. Union leaders say that 2,000 B. 'T. employees have joined the union tinge tt was declared and show a book full of names in proof of their as- sertion. -_—— Crews of Some Trains Dragged Off by Strikers—Windows Smashed by Mobs. ‘The first @hots of the strike were fired at 230 A.M. tony, A wreck- the Man- | ing train with » guard of two pollce-, men was shot at five times by per sons from a doorway near Schenec- tady Avenue and Bergen Street, No one was hit. The poticemen searched the house and neighborhood without result. Later an obsérvation car was near, the same corner, At 1 o'clock this mornitig a closed Bergen Street car bound for New York, with a policeman on each plat- form, was halted at Vanderbilt Ave- nue by twenty men, who attempted to argue the conductor and motor- man off the trolley. The policemen Aireeted the motormen to proceed and the strikers retired. The car had gone only a few yards when it was showered with @ volley cf stones, breaking windows and sending the passengers into a panic. No one was ies minutes later another Street troiey passing the same point wae boarded bv the same strikers presumably, and after a short but hot argument the crew was off, ‘The’ police guards jumped into -the crowd which was 7 of sufface cars. Bnthusiastieally aided by small boys, they piled tim- | bers, stones and other obstructions on the tracks, When motormen got off the cars to clear away the ob- structions they were stoned or other- wise assaulted. The police guatis would not assist in clearing the tracks nor would they get off the cars to aid the motormen who were attacked by mobs. Complaints were received at the B. R, T. offices from several crews of the Greenpoint Line that tie police were not affording them any provec- tion. The men ‘reported that three cars were help up at Manhattan and Greenpoint Avenue in front of the Police Station, two policemen bdeink on each cat. They were attacked. The police, the men said, told the | crews to look out for themselves and’ that they, the police, would look after’ themselves, Thén they left them, The strikers compelled the crews to take the cars to the Ridgewood barn and no help came from the police in the station house. Fifteen minutes later, the men said, four mounted policemen dispersed the crowd. ! ‘This afternoon the Greenwood Division,: with headquarters in the) big barn at Ninth Avenue and 20th! Street, was almost out of commission, Bleven big lines radiate from this commer, and at the middie of the day| there usually are 150 cars out. To- day the number of cars in operation was estimated By railway men at! “between 20 and 30." Crowds of strike sympathizers gathered at DeKalb and Central and at Wilson and Myrtle Avenues ahd threw stones at pasging trollgy and elevated care, In the crowds) were men, women and little children, One rock went’ through the window of @ Myrtle Avenue surface car. The po- lice, about three in number, made no attempt to interfere, At the old Ridgewood depot at! Myrtle Avenue and Palmetto Street, which ie used for storing cars, about fifteen employees were quartered. A crowd of about 300 or 400 gathered on the four corners, while about fifty men paraded in front of the building in columns of foyr, using strong tpithets, WINDOWS OF ALL TH ARE SHATTERED, © All the cars run into the Kast New CARS beating the motorman and conductor! york barns showed evidences of bad afid the strikers turned on the police-| treatment along the line. Every win- men, Two of the ringleaders were) gow of each car returned was broken. seixed, but the etrikers closed in and) One conductor of a Broadway car #aid rescued them. Then the pollo¢men ‘a man had climbed on his car, shoved drew their revolvers, but the crowd a pistol at him and ordered him to re- was 90 Great they did not ire. The) sn the oar, adding: “It any one else punyen melted away and tie car pro-| | ies this car out they will be mur- J ." ‘The conductor returned the dg oes dag Papa Pbencoe mt grr ancther man was asked to doned the eoneneters ane motorman rect trap told of being bi up by m while “Nothing doing,” he replied. Peal ping 5 soy dooegy pac gg Police on the front of the cars, it Ryan, superintendent of the depot, | 8s sald by citizens, did nét stop the gata to an Evening World reporter: | * rikers from breaking the windows. “On this section of the road at least At the Fresh Pond depot not a car the policemen have laid Gown on was out In the morning. The Gates thelr job. ‘They have afforded no| Avenue, Richmond Hill and Fresh protection to our men and we cannot | Pond lines were tied up. |run street cars when policemen stand Pip Lgeewalgiret wating until 1 h by and see mobs beat up motormen | six or nm each and conductors. Two of my conduc-| the superintendent said. tors and one motorman have been ump oepeqpend With an hour All'were asowives|OONEY ISLAND AGAIN at Broadway and DeKalh Avenue. CUT OFF BY STRIKE; BOATS CARRY WORKERS “Frank Walsh, No, 1037 DeKalb Autos Charge as High as $5 for Avenue, and Jacob Dieler, No, 243 \47th Street, Flatbush, veteran con- Ride to Atlantic Avenue Profiteering Reported, ductors, were dragwed from their cars and beaten and kicked, it was sald, while policemen looked on. \ Strikers jumped on the platform of Coney Island was again practically cut off from the rest of the city, Few cars were run on the surtace and Subway lines and those resi- 4@ car, pushed a policeman aside and brutally assaulted Daniel O'Connell, a motorman, The policeman did not raise his hands.” Earlier in the day strikers boarded a Broadway car at DeKalb Avenue, but the police drove them off, ‘fhe police also averted trouble at Secon: Avenue and 23d Street when shipyar: workers became ugly toward th crew. bi he) Brooklyn of ony Strikers and sympathizers adopte | 4ents lucky enough to get to the city q| Were in most cases brought on the Tron steamboats, or in motor ve- e Fourth Avenues, where the passen- gers took the Interborough Subway to Manhattan. Bight seeing bubes op- erated, the fare in their cage being $1. The first Iron steamboat left the Island at 8 o’clodk, and although it had not been definitely announced the boats would run, more than 1,000 Persons stormed the gates from 6 o'clock on, Profiteering was practised by the owners of small automobiles betweén Bay Ridge and Fourth Avenue and TO R yf Ride in Army Trucks and Big Motor.Vans, S| The usual news bulletin service of —— POLICE BULLETINS ON STRIKE ARE SUSPENDED IN BROOKLYN “No Disorders Worth Publidhing,” Inspector Murphy Tells Reporters-—W ill. Look Into Assaults. occurrences? Now, just where euch of these things happen? Gi me the fames of witnesses.” Cases of assault in Brooklyn were Promptly furnished. The Inspector the Brooklyn Borough Police Head- Quarters has been suspended so far |as the strike was concerned, Not said he would “look inte thea eva he lavas sip announding What |, eer ink, dopecton Maria. ome 8 attie RAM deen declared and there}omice of Ci ret might be interruption of transperta~ : tioh.om the B. R. T. lines had been} . posted vo tntil noon to-day, Bulle- 8 Of gMall accidefite and other ssioner Nixon that Shot ina “ib They went ba wy Borough Inspector, - to h, 1 told yOu all about that eae when you wi re here before,” he }] AivoMérs were posted. ap usual, but HOt OMe attack on a B. R. T. car or| motorman was put on the board Thomas HM.) Murpity, police inspec- tor of Brooklyn, was asked why the None of the reporters could reme: ] any mention of the incident, "The details are in the teleg:nvh bureau,” he said, They were not, according to the ottigers in the tel ph bureau, wno sald the case was in the hands of In Hall to Jamaica Avenue, the fares charged in all sorte of vehicles, in- cluding trucks and vans, varied from 26 cents to upward of a dollar. Shortly after 6 o'clock three Grand Street cars crossed the Williamsburg Bridge. Hach of the cars, in addition to carrying capacity crowds, had two policemen aboard. The cars were run men could be gotten together ina few minutes in case any trouble was experienced along’ the route, it was Pacific Street. - They carried passen- | Baid. gers at 26 cents each. Before reach- ing Pacifico Street they stopped to collect fares and instructed their pas- sengers: | “Now if any body asks you down there how much fare you paid, say you didn’t pay any, you'were riding with a good'natured friend. There's a Jot of revenue and city license jn- spectors laying for us at Pacitic ‘Btreet.” Ambulances, trucks and cars of the ‘Women’s Motor Corps were carrying women and children free and refus- ing all men passengers. The B. R, T. announced the Fifth and Third Avenue lines were’ “open,” but that out of 120 cars normally running on these lines only eight had been sent out up to 9 o'clock, Lack of adequate police protection was given as the reason for failure to send out more. Atlantic Avenue was @ point also toward which thousands of pedes- trians converged. The result was a jam of humanity in the subway sta- tions which the Interborough and Seventh Avenue officials found im- possible to handle, Intending pas- sengers found it impossible to buy tickets and there were times when the gates were rushed despite the work of the police, Not only were the platforms massed, but the steps leading down to them and the streets above were crushes of humanity. Vice-President Dempsey issued this statement: “The police are responsible for the service Interruptions. We have the men. If given protection the cars can be run on schedul He added that many crews were at the barns ready to go out thts morning, but did not start on time for the reason that po- licemen were not there to protect the platform men, On the otber hand, a number of cars went out without a police guard. Superintendent Seibert said: “The violence of last night was not by employees of the B, R. T. The violence was by men brought here from Connbetiout :.d New Jersey. The B. R, T. are really not on strike. All the trouble is by men who deserted the company during the war and who worked in, the ship yards at high wages during the war, They have now i:turned and planned trouble for the company.” Ninety policemen were assigned to escort care leaving the. Bast New York car barns this morning. With one policeman on éach car this pro- vided protection for about 70 per cent. of the normal service originating at these barns, In some instances there were two policemen ta @ car, chiefly in the crowded districts. of Transportution one he rode standing beside the mo- torman. OVERLOADED, The cars in operation were crowded Usually there was only’one policeman, When there was When there were two they were stationed at either end of the cars RUNNING IN RUSH HOUR Shortly after the arrival of the Grand Street cars thrée Wilson Ave- nue cars arrived in cloce order at the Manhattan end of the bridge, also manned with two policemen «nd crowded to capacity. No disturbances during’ the course of their trips were ‘by any of the carmen or THOUSANDS OF WORKERS I MANHATTAN WALK ACROSS BROOKLYN BRIDGE Thoroughfares Crowded in Morning Rush Hours but Crowds Are Good. Natured. More Brooklyn residents discovered to-day that there is a thoroughfare for pedestrians on the Bridge, so that the numbers of walkers from over the river was larger, It was also obvious that many who ' had hitherto overlooked the South Brook- lyn ferry found their way to Man- hattan by that means. To a stranger on the Manhattan side of Brooklyn Bridge it might not have seomed as though there was a strike on the B, R, T., although, if the stranger had observed closely, ‘he would have noticed that each sur- face car bore a policeman and that Brooklyn truck drivers carried large numbers of persons jo Park Row. Any one going up Park Row on the eastern side between eight and nine o'clock had to buck the strong tide of humanity that dally swegps south- ward, but the tide was not quite so strong as usual, The congestion of the Brooklyn water front was relieved in a meas- ure by the operation of extra ferry- boats on the 39th Street and Bay Ridge lines. It was possible to go either way on the bridge by surface car or el vated train if one bided his time, The rst elevated train reached Manhat- tan at 6.15, and between then and 9 o'clock twenty-five trains entered and left the station, The Lexington Ave- nué, Ridgewood and Culver lines did fairly well, with trains averaging about fitteen minutes apart. Passen- gers for the Fulton and Brighton lines were out of luck because these trains were few and far betwen. In the three hours between 6 and 9 o'clock there are nofmally about 100 trains in and out of the station. These trains include from four to #ix cars, but to-day had only two and three cars, The elevated furnished prob- ably 10 por cent. of its normal service. —_—— YOU'RE likely to be cool andeven tempered these , humid days if you eat Whczsworth Whole Wheat Biscuits and a bowl of milk for luncheon. In Individual Service Car- tons at restaurants, lunch- rooms and fountains. F. A. Bennett Bisowit Co,, N. ¥. almost beyond precedent in the morn- ing rush hour, and the streets were hicles, buses, coal trucks and moving 4 vans. The machines charged from new tacticn to impede the operation §3 to % for the ride to Atlantic and Uh 2 thronged with pedestrians and @ sud- ay organized system of “jitneys,” in close order so that all #ix police- | 5°01) bulletins had been suspended insotat As strike disorders, willch Were of the Breatest importance to the pubile, Were concerned. ' "There have been’ no disorders Worth publishing,” ne seid. “mvery- thing 18 peacetul ‘The gathéring of & thousand or fifteen hundred people out of curiosity when one or two others make a trivial fuss—that is not a riot, you’ know.” " “You told us yesterday,” the re- porters fteminded him, “that the strike was ‘insignificant ang wouldn't last long or bother anybody.’ Later you told us that only 6@0.men were concerned and they couldn't réally inconvemi¢nee the public or do any- thing calling for police action. Later you sald’ there were a © thousand strikers but that there wa sno vio- lege. Yet'the motormen and conduc- tors had to quit in fear of heir lives and handreds of thousands had to “There have been no djsorders worth mentioning,” said Inspector Murphy. Reminded that motormen had been mauled, uniforms ‘had been torn from conductors, car windows broken and trolley wires torn from the poles, be spec Murphy. ore Borough In- spector went thr the papers in is letter trays amd then said he would have a bullétin posted late “Will you give me a list of those eee 112 STRIKES IN BROOKLYN BESIDES THAT ON B. R,-T.; "ALL NEED POLICE GUARD ‘TTENTION was called to- day to thd fact that the B. R. T. strike is not the only one in Brooklyn claiming the at- + tention of the police. One police inspector sald the were 112 strikes in progress, re- quiring an average of three po- licemen each, And another strike started this morning when 10 plasterers quit work on the finish- , ing of new buildings. They have ‘ been getting $780 a day and they want $8. TELEPHONE GIRLS TAKEN TO WORK IN CO.’S AUTOS Practically all the motor vehicles of the velephoné company were pressed into service to-day to carry the opera- ters to and from their homes in Brook- lyn, The service was made even worse than usual by the strike, but it was said that the emergency bus service to-day was doing good work, Brooklyn was subdivided into districts and the company’s vehicles covered the borough. Some of the operators live within walking distance of the ex~ changes where they work. SPECIAL NOTH HORLICK’S THE ORIGINAL olcoO. JACOBBON.—MAXIM. Services at the CAMPBELL FUNERAL CHUROH, Broadway and ¢6th st, on Friday, at 10 A, M. O'CONNOR.—On A O'CONNOR (neo wife of Dantel 0'Co Funeral from her late residence, East 148th st. Bronx.on Saturday, Aug. 9, at 10.30 A, M.; thence to the Church of the Immaculate . Bast 160th st, Meltose av... where 'sot- emn requiem mass will be offered. 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