Show I QUAKER CITY I CAR STRIKE flA FLATTENS lIENS OUT State Police Hold Firm Control Con Con- and More Cars Are Running H I-H I H H t t PHILADELPHIA Feb 25 25 Order was maintained throughout through through- 1 out oat the tho city today and there was 1 little app apparent rent change in the i street car ear strike situation except ex cx- 1 that the Philadelphia phia a Rapid Transit company seemed r I. to be meeting with much more moro i success in the running of cars I. It is claimed it was operating ears cars and asserted that the backbone of the strike was I I. 1 broken t The officers of the Amalgamated 4 4 ed pd Association of Street Electric Railway Employees were not disI disheartened dis dis- dis I heartened lJ how however ver and declared i. i the they they were satisfied with the sit sit- nation f H i H H Ht t PHILADELPHIA Feb 25 25 Encouraged aged by its success yesterday vester ay and last lasi night the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company began at da daybreak rc lk this this' morning morn morn- morning ing leg to open opell up UI additional lines lois some of which had not been in operation since the st strike 1 began q Gangs gs o of laborers shortly after a Id night Sated tile the work ot clearing n away b n t tracks tracks' they since y pere ab n last Saturday Traffic on 01 all aU lines however how how- over ever is still far from normal Although there was a number of sen seri serious ous ens outbreaks last plight night in West Philadelphia Phil Phil- adelphia and and in the northern section of the cit city yesterday was the quietest day sinco the present be began an The state stata police were able to handlo handle with ith little difficulty whatever disorder manifested itself in the Kensington lon mill district where they escorted cars all day sail and evening The troops were on ot hand banU a again ain early today and the tho oarS ears continued d to r run rita lD in tIns this s territory patrolled pa pa- troll trolled 1 by While the transit company company officials s clai claim they b have be e won the struggle le and continue to hire more mono men men powerful in in- neu es are at work or endea endeavoring ng to get Iet the thc company to come to a peaceable agreement with tho the striking motormen and conductors Offered Arbitration Seems Deferred The Tho proposal of cler clergymen of Phila Phila- delphia that both s sides submit the case to arbitration has baa yet vet et borne bonso fruit The rho strikers through h N National Organizer Organiser Organ Organ- Organizer izer izer iser C. C 0 O. Pratt havo have expressed their willingness to arbitrate The company notified the churchmen's committee committee- th that t I the Iho appeal would be bo duly Y considered at the next meeting of the company's hoard board of dirc directors tors March 7 7 Or Organized labor is backing the strikers strikers ers ens strongly Frequent meetings are he Icing being ng h held ld by h leading union or organizers who ho bo are here hero from all parts of the country to aid tho the strikers in any way th their il experience can suggest On L street for several hlo blocks ks trolley cars were held heid up while tho the strikers were tn n to drag drar off It I the workmen from Allentown Windows s of the tho cars were broken and and- other property do de |