Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1877-07-27
Notes Of the Strike.


Notes Of the Strike.
Among the calamities of the great strike
is the fact that it occurs lust as the great
wheat crop of the West is ready for ship
ment. Eighty cars loaded with new wheat
arrived at Toledo on Saturday.
The World says Jay Gould, at Long
Branch, Sunday, expressed the opinion that
the strikes and riots are the beginning oil
"great social revolution, which cannot be
arrested until it has led to the establish
ment OF a monarchy" He said that he
would gladly give 81 100000 to see Gen
Grant in the White House to-day" In
spite of these doeful views. Mr.. Gould was
in very good spirits.
Standing on the siGc-track at Pittsburg
are 800 refrigerator cars loaded with meat
for Europe, which were due at Philadelphia
on Friday. The ice is melting rapidly, and
when it disappears the stencil In the neigh
borhood will become intolerable. The total
amount of freight blockaded was estimated
at Sl,OOO,O0O worth. The company
managed to dispose Of some Of the iruit on
its hands Saturday, but large amount oil
psrishable commodities was lost. The stock
yards and pens are filled with cattle, and
the insufficient facilities for watering, iced
ing and otherwise caring for the poor beasts
must entail a great deal of suffering.
In the mob which followed the Sixth
Regiment at Baltimore were numerous
women who played the part of petroleuses'
and urged the men on to outrage and Tlo-
lence. The men of the regiment proved
themselves little better than women, Tor IN
instances they were afraid to face about and
fire, and so shot wildly over their shoulders
as they went at dog trot up the street.
The mobs in Baltimore and Pittsburg were
largely composed CT roughs, who were not
railroad men. In anticipation Of the trouble,
thieves focked into Pittsburg from all quar-
tiers, and led the forays on the freight cars.
1t is nothing to the point to say that the
burnings and plunderings were not all done
by the strikers-they took just the course
calculated to bring about the terrible results
that followed They laid the fuse and lg-
nited it, and the explosion followed. oil
course. All the vicious classes in the COM
munity rallied to their side, eager to take
hand in the mischief.
President Hayes responded to the appeal
of the Governor of Pennsylvania by issuing
calm and constitutional proclamation, in
which he ordered railway insurgents IN
Western Pennsylvania to disperse and retire
to their homes by noon Of Tuesday. lie
has given practical meaning to this proc!a-
nation by sending one of the bravest officers
of the United States Army, General Han
cock, himself a Pennsylvania, into the
State to iniorce it.
One Of the worst features Of the riots at
Pittsburg, was the miserable failure of the
local authorities to make any sort Of head
way against the mob, and the supineness OF
the swarms of citizens who stood by looking
on the destruction of vast amounts OF prop
erty, the slaughter Of the guilty and the in
nocent and the degradation OF their city, as
if they had no other interest in the matter
than that of mere spectators.
The Pennsylvania railroad authorities have
distinctly informed the strikers that there will
be no compromise whatever. No trains OF
any kind went out on Monday evening.
The officials declare that if the community
can get along without the Pennsylvania
railroad, the latter can get along without
the strikers.
Receiver Jewett, of the Erie road, has
issued an order, praising the men who have
remained true to their duty, and declaring
that "no compromise will be made with, and
no concession will be made to, those mis-
guided men who are, have been, Or may be
false to their trust and violators of the law.
lie adds that he believes the large majority
of the employees now neglecting their duty
are acting under the coercion and terror OF
lawless and desperate men, most OF whom
are strangers and have never been in his ser
vice
1t is stated that on the Erie road the con-
ductors and engineers are generally resisting
the agitators, but the brakemen, who are
more numerous, sympathize with the fire.
men.
The Pennsylvania Company places its
losses at Pittsburg at between 5000 900
and $7,00O,0O0, and will hold Allegheny
county accountable therefor. The New York
train east collided with the mail north at
Sharpsburg, on the West Pennsylvania road,
and both trains were telescoped. Six persons
were killed and large number injured.
At Reading, the action of the militia,
who, after being attacked with stones, fired
on the mob, killing twelve and wounding
many, despatch says, broke the back
of mob-rule.
The Adams Express Company has advised
the United States Treasury Department that
for the present it will not transport money
packages between New York and Washing
ton. The Treasury is sending out no money
or coupon bonds, at present.
Don Piatt, the crack brained editor of the
Washington Capital, who advised the as
sassination of President Hayes if he took
the oath Of Office under the verdict of the
Electoral Commission, defends the mobs in
his paper, and declares their action to he
an uprising Of the people against the rail
roads. which he says shave demoralized
our social lie and well nigh destroyed our
Government
On Monday evening sixty tramps took
possession of mail train west of Cumber-
land, Pa, and robbed the passengers The
police of Pittsburg on the arrival Of the
train captured forty OF the roughs, all of
whom were armed.
On the Baltimore and Ohio Rad, where
the first outbreak took place, passenger
trains are now running, and it is believed
that all branches of business will shortly be
regularly resumed. The strike on that road
has proved a failure, and the strikers take
nothing by their motion.
Mr.. Vanderbilt, president OF the New
York Central Road, said, On Monday 1--WE |