. Electric railway gazette . Stretch of Track on Bergen Street. other room. Our office telephone is rung c^nstantly. and conductors and drivers say to us Imafraid to come down for fear Ill be killed, but forGods sake keep my car for me. Ill come as soonas I dare. And all the time Commissioner Wellessays to us Go slow and wait for us. Well pro-tect you. We have asked for protection 20 times,and every time weve got it weve run cars. Wetried in every reasonable way to settle the strikefrom the start, but the executive committee hassaid: We tie up first and settle afterwardWd have a?ked Welle? 20
. Electric railway gazette . Stretch of Track on Bergen Street. other room. Our office telephone is rung c^nstantly. and conductors and drivers say to us Imafraid to come down for fear Ill be killed, but forGods sake keep my car for me. Ill come as soonas I dare. And all the time Commissioner Wellessays to us Go slow and wait for us. Well pro-tect you. We have asked for protection 20 times,and every time weve got it weve run cars. Wetried in every reasonable way to settle the strikefrom the start, but the executive committee hassaid: We tie up first and settle afterwardWd have a?ked Welle? 20 times a day, Let usrun cars: let us start this road, and he has saidcontinually, No: you had better not. Leave it tous and wait. This plain exposure of the helplessness of thepolice was followed by a prompt admission fromMayor Schieren that he did not have force enoughto preserve order or to give the companies a fairchance to resume business. Reports came in that. STARTING A CAR FROM RIDGEWOOD. Secretary W. A. H. Bogardus, of the BrooklynHeights road, made a statement in which he as-sertfd that President Lewis and the officers of thecompany had grown tired of the delay and shilly-shally policy of the city authorities. The com-pany, he said, had 700 new men engaged, of whom200 were idle. Any number could be had, in addi-tion, at extremely short notice. He said that so lawlessness had broken out in a score of differentplaces and added to the feeling of insecurity. The militia respondfd promptly to the callof the mayor, and over 2,000 were assignedto the work of preserving the peace. Themilitary officers followed the plan ofutilizing the National Guard to protect the sta-tions and cai barns of the railroad companies, while the police were detailed to patrol the trolley linesand to protect the cars and the men in charge ofthem. The authorities notified the companies that pro-tection could bs afforded, vand that they couldstart as many cars as they
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