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Show CAR SERVICE ' IN NEW Yd IS ABANDONED Disorganized Schedule Attempted At-tempted by Company Is Found Inadequate to Cope With Traffic. STRIKE SPREADING TO OTHER LINES Subway and Elevated Employees Em-ployees Expected to Join Forces With Surface Operatives. By International News Service. NEW YORK, Aii. .".At S o'clock tonight not a wheel wn moving in the surface car svstoms of Manluutan and St nt en island. At that hour the New-York New-York Railways company, the ''Green line, and the Third Avenue line, t lie "Red Hue," notiried polu-e headquarters headquar-ters all cars had been brought back to their barns, under orders. The Second Avenue line stopped service at 7 o'clock. All three companies declare they will resume t ratTic tomorrow morning. At noon the strike spread to the systems sys-tems of the Second Avenue railway in Manhattan. Every trolley line on Staten island was tied up tonight at 0:15 by an order for a general strike. The strike went into effect immediately, immedi-ately, and an hour later the entire system sys-tem of the Richmond Light & Railroad company was tied up. H. H. Rand, vice president and general manager of the cotuvany. said no e;VorM would be made to operate cars during the niht or all day Sunday. May Shut Off Light. Unless the company grants the demands de-mands for recognition of the union, engineers en-gineers and firemen at the power-houses are expected to walk out Monday, which would mean Staten island would be plunged into darkness by the paralysis paraly-sis of the lighting system. The Brooklyn cars alone are as yet unaffected. The outstanding developments of the day were: First. Employees of the subway and elevated lines at three secret meetings drew up demands to be presented to the company. A refusal will precipitate a strike, it is declared. Company given until "Wednesday noon to answer. Second. Incipient riots occurred in several parts of Manhattan, but police remain in control of the situation. More than 500 arrests mado for' minor offenses. of-fenses. Greatest delay to traffic caused bv driving wedges into trolley slots. Police Guard Lines. Third. Five thousand police guard street car lines throughout the four boroughs. bor-oughs. Twenty-five hundred moro are held in reserve. The police training camp at Fort Wadsworth was terminated terminat-ed and 400 men werfe ordered back to) duty.y Four'th. President Mahon of the ear men's union leaves for Detroit, placing management of strike in the hands of Organizer Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald warned strikers to avoid difficulty with police and told them to keep away from saloons sa-loons and preserve order. Fifth. Richmond Light & Power company com-pany refuses demands of men. Two hundred and seventy quit work, completely com-pletely paralyzing service in that borough. bor-ough. Sixth. Employees-of the Second Avenue Ave-nue railway unexpectedly join strike, thus making tie-up affect every surface line in Manhattan. Complete Tie-up. With every surface line in the grasp of the strike, the city faces a complete tie-up of transit facilities next week. Union officials are now centering their activities upon organizing the men on the subway and elevated lines. Three secret meetings were held during the night. They were well attended by em-plovecs. em-plovecs. Demands were drawn up and these will bo presented to iuterborough officials offi-cials with tho announcement that failure fail-ure to answer by noon will be the signal for a general walkout. General Manager Franjf Ucdlcy of the New York Railways company made a desperate effort to maintain service on the lines of his company during the dav. Howqver, less than half the regular number of cars were in operation. One Line Working. The one line operating an increase in the number of cars in operation as the dav progressed was the Eighth avenue. Along the Amsterdam and Broadway lines a fair service was maintained, but even this was spasmodic. The Lexington Lexing-ton avenue line was badly hit. Along Madison avenue- and on the cross-town (Continued on Page Four.) NEW YORK STREET IIOGiEO (Continued from Page One.) lines the number of cars was adequate to care for traffic. During the day hundreds of cases of alleged intimidation and other disorderly disorder-ly acts wero reported at headquarters. In nearly every instance, however, those responsible or tho trouble quickly departed de-parted when reserves were sent to the scene. Most of tho actions complained of were the massing of persons in front of cars, preventing their moving, and attempts to drag motormen and conductors conduc-tors from their platforms. Tn a statement issued late in the afternoon. aft-ernoon. President Mahon of the Amalgamated, Amal-gamated, association claimed that two-thirds two-thirds of the 400U employees of the New York Railways company had quit work and that the remainder would join the ranks of the strikers in the course of a few hours. New Danger Seen. A new element of danger, so far as the traveling public is concerned, was injected into the situation tonight when William D. Mahon, president of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees, declared that a delegation of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, representing the men working on the railroads running into tho city, had called upon him and asked for a conference. They were in vited to eonter tomorrow afternoon with union gfficials. It was announced at headquarters that this probably meant the members of the brotherhood would walk out in sympathy with the carmen, if it wero found necessary, and thus tie up the steam and electric roads running into New York". Mahon and his associates were much elated over the new development. develop-ment. 'ithi,n an hour after the halting, of traffic, steady streams of "jitney'' vehicles ve-hicles 'were (lowing through hiroadway. Fifth avenue and other streets running north and south, as well as through the cross-town thoroughfares. Jitneys Busy. For cross-town rides tho regulation charge is 5 cents, while longer trips up-town and down cost from 5 to 25 cents. Fifth avenue busses and sightseeing cars were crowded to capacity. Throngs of half-holiday excursionists, returning from near-by " beaches and pleasure resorts, waited vainly for" surface sur-face cars and then descended into the nearest subway station or climbed the stairs to. the elevated platforms. This traffic, added to the usual Saturday-night Saturday-night throngs on the overhead and underground un-derground trains, caused serious congestion. conges-tion. On many of the large auto trucks, fares were collected .by striking conductors, conduc-tors, some of whom wore their raihvav uniforms. Others were in charge of taxieabs and hacks. They explained they had pooled their, savings and bought second-hand conveyances. With the suspension of car traffic the danger of serious disorders became less menacing, but the police did not rolax thoir vigilance. At 9 o'clock several automobile trucks, loaded with revolver ammunition, left police headquarters. Boxes of cartridges were left at every station-house in Manhattan and the Bronx. Each patrolman will be provided pro-vided with twenty rounds. Car Is Stoned. The most serious demonstration of the day occurred tonight when police reserves re-serves charged a crowd of strike sympathizers, sym-pathizers, said to have numbered at least 2U00, who wore bombard ing a street car with stones and attempting to rescue a prisoner from a patrolman. Women and children hurled missiles from tenement-house roofs. Police reserves re-serves arrived and cleared not onlv the streets hut the roofs as well. There was sporadic rioting at several points during tho day, and many arrests were made, but there were few casualties. casual-ties. In most instances the crowds were content to iecr the strikebreakers or regular employees who had not joined the strike. Officials of the lines operating in Manhattan and the Bronx declared tonight to-night they were preparing for a test of strength tomorrow, when the operation of cms is resumed. President Theodore P. Shonts of the New York R nil way company gave out a statement tonight, in which he said: "We regret, profoundly that the people peo-ple of New York should be subjected to any inconvenience. We shall do" our utmost to hoc to it that complete service is restored without serious delay. All we ask is police protection for our passengers pas-sengers and our loyal employees. " No Violence Urged. At many meetings held during the day union leaders exhorted the strikers to abstain from violence. Employees of New York's subway and elevated lines passed resolutions at secret meetings held today, according to union officials, asserting their right to organize, without any interference iu any way by the companies. They also drafted a new wage scale providing increases in all departments of the service. Mayor Mitchel, who remained up virtually vir-tually all of last night, said he was confident con-fident Police Commissioner Woods 's plans to preserve order would prove sufficient. He said tho police had instructions in-structions not to take sides, their sole duty being to prevent acts of violence. |