Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1877-07-21

III,
supposed that the reports were those OF mis-
lois. After waiting about the hotel for some
hours The crowd dispersed.
THE STRIKERS REINFORCED BY FOUR HIM
DRIED BoATMEN.
About midnight the sound of drum was
heard, and 1t proved to be a crowd of 4O0
ooatman; who bad come over to join toe
strikers, but they did not come down int
the town.
STRIKERS WEAKENING
on Wednesday and Thursday there was
great difficulty at Martinsburg in getting
men TO take the trains, and when engineers
and others We're asked If they would moi
undertake TO run, in many cases the excuse
for declining was that they expected sick ness
OF member of the family. Yesterday. how
ever, this was not the case. for there were
plenty OF applicants to 60 on such trains as
WEI were ready ready 10 start: Even some of those who
pilcatiOn for work. In all cases the striking
men were given no encouragement. but with
thost VINO simply quit work because OF In
Iifnlfat'oT. announcement was given IN Il
they should resume their places in a few
days.
THE SENTIMENT OF THE PEOPLE
OF Martinshurg. which has about 200 inhab-
itsnts, and boasts of five or six hotels and as
many boarding houses as private dwellings,
has been generally with the strikers. The
support of the town comes almost entirely
from The employees of the railroad. and mer-
chants who have, in common with those of
other places, suffered from the financial de-
preston have been hoping for better times,
ana IN the meantime have been crediting the
railroad hands, until in many instances they
are on the eve OF bankruptcy, expecting that
an advance would be made on the wages,
ana thds enable their customers to curtail
their accounts at least. Some citizens claim
that the wages were low enough in all reason
before this reduction, and that the men were
Those who So -war,nIT 1iaTsnd the actioi nf
the men are now not so numerous as at first,
getting alarmed at the consequences.
THE RAILROAD OFFICIALS CLAIM
I
....ii .tNritH the ne road at ali, and that Tie
. $500. o. r. 80 ,,,,aiIt.i - L. 49,
s..... i.-. 80. ~, '''''TSn In the nnIn
In .,. 49,. ..,.- :" i "e,n nuu,,
5.r.,.r ~. So ,-...~ .rr n. fl, s--'-7
,4s,r.P .'-. p. 500 ...---a.s ~. 80 -'f,.--....
t,.1r .. -.s.. 100 h., -,...,., 80.
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-.-.. -s,. .. ...4.r-5r.. ~ Ia e-,..t -..
tlcl. ARR, 81. .s.r ..,r.,-. -. .,,,,f-,a,f
3. ne IL. .-ft-. ea,.I - 49,, D.
men, az lse..1e +. .,,.r of Ina SIN ,erg 10
Intense
rAK uIr. - v4ycr>,.-.-
Meeting an engineer who ~. 5..-l.el from.
his train Yesterday and who Was m, ..e -
turn home in failing hnmor he made I'M.
follow mo renoartS in a casn al conrnrSa,ionc
WV bo, i ,hs ia ,na 80 "ou nv y,
now or attempting to stop men from work,
ing Ian,t haF T loaf hetter Than no Ioaf9
Ainr men made To WORK? IF he can't live
we'll and dress weII LOT him tai.a What he can
pei and eat and dress within his income
Them;s NV senfimentS Sunnose 7 had
ioined the strikers: Why NV children would
n ~ fn-hQ nr
merchant would he eettinp hnsted and
and another man wo1Id he in nv nIace
while would he uetting worse oTevervdav
I tell Won stranger in lie hard hnt nave q
some dav the times will he briebter have
been in The amniov Of tho comnanv ever
since have heep bi0 enough m WORK and
in the good times nov gone 7 nsed 10 make
good WAGES TSan NC Sere naid q Nor dav
End rad nav ~, ex,ros SnO6av horrs NH
work, SC, SO that / frequently, for month
Tnonth Now how is iiD we .re not na ia
for running bevond Kevser To- Pieipont
v In coal 6oppers. and altbouph we fre.
onentIV make 6vepi,ma thai is nSu cnt off
In answer ia the question a. tn whather
thew will continue to- work he renli. d. INV
life is sweet to me. and don't want to be a
Vent mem from eaTn,ng ,b bay brasd b pre-
can't mount nav engine as am 10 he a tar
get I wish to God that the whole thing
was settled"
In answ, to a question as to Wages he
said that the engineers were now getting
s3.15 and % 80 per day, conductors 81 80 ani
50 y, and brakemen ard firemsn Sl.25 to
81 81 ard hat :. per month was about All
the latter classes could make generally, In
col sequence of paving board along III line
Son etimes they had but - so per week left
for heir families
ANOTHER VIEW
Another party, whose syInpathies are on
the side of the strikers made the following
statement as TO the cause of the reduction
The whole hing grows ont of too much nav
and Speculation among the head men-big
salaries wine suppers free passes and prps.
ents TO Congressman for their votes. Why,
look at this place called Keyser. IL is named
after Mr. Keyser who was vice president of
the road. 1t used TO be called New Creek,
and when Tom Scott was trying TO get the
Baltimore and Potomac railroad bill passed,
Senator Davis, who owns a great deal OF
property round New Creek, opposed it all he
knew how. Mr.. Keyser then used his fnfiu-
ence, and had railroad shops located there,
and Mr.. Davis, in return, COMMUNICATED Mr..
Keyser by changing the name from New
Creek to Keyser. That's only one way things
are done I'm high quarters. If they would
stick close TO business, take reasonable sal
aries, not such as would support kingdom,
fair wages, and to pay the stockholders good
dividends, too"
GOING SLOW.
The western train was due at Cumberland
at go. and there were quite n number of
passengers awaiting it, among them a. least
loo railroad men whose trains are for the pre-
sent laid up. This train left Ora ton at 1910
and was due here at o'clock this morning,
and The delay WAS caused by the train run
ming with great caution because of threats
having baen made at Sir Johns Run aud