New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-21
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, JULY 81, 1888.

| messages
Produce Exchange during the day. The usual
| average is about five hundred day. The better
communication with Chicago and interior markets
| was gratifying but hardly satisfactory. A larger
portion of the market quotations from the West
| was taken from the automatic instruments OF the
| Gold and Stock Telegraph Company. The semi
| occasional dispatches showed that the markets IN
the West ranged little higher; this had The effect
of advancing prices of grain here from d to cent
a bushel on wheat and from q to "a cent Dusnei
on corn. The interruption of telegraph communi-
cation had the effect OF increasing local trade.
At the Petroleum Exchanges the situation was
better than the first day of the strike. AT the
New-1Ork Exchange the Office OF the American
Rapid Telegraph Company wa. closed, but the man
ager of the Western Union office had two opera
tors duty, out of ususal force OF about hail-a-
dozen. On Thursday one operator composed Tue
force. AT the Consolidated Exchange also Two
operators were duty. The men " 40 receive tne
quotations from OIL City and post them on black,
board, winch is arranged so as to be reviewed oy all
the brokers' returned 70 tneir posts Inc recep,
ton OF quotations from Oil City, therefore depenGed
upon the WORK done In tDat CITY,. Inc
quotations were received with apparent regularity
but 1t evident from the number that the service
was deficient from the ordinary standard BROKERS
said that there was partial interruption OF com
munlcatlon with their out-Of-toWn correspondence
but IL was not more serious than they nad eA-
pected.
Al the Maritime Exchange there was only one
OPERATOR but the Inconvenience In obtaining IN tor
nation not serious. AT tue Cotton Exchange
quotations from Southern ports ami interior towns
were received slowly, but the service was better
than on Thursday. The principal home market OF
the Coffee Exchange ~ Baltimore, aud dispatches
were received and sen over the Bankers anu Mer-
chants COmpanys wires.
RAILWAY BUSINESS GOING on AS USUAL.
The railroad companies whose Offices are in this
city and jersey City were Unaffected Yes erday by
the strike OF the photographers. Traln-dispatcnlng,
Instructions orders and all the rou,De of railroad
telegraph business proceeded as If no such thing as
a strike was known. This was the statement, at
least made at the offices of the New York Central,
the Harlem. the Ncw-York. Ncw-Haven and
Hartford, the Pennsylvania. the New-Jersey
Central tho New-York. Lake Erie and
Western. and the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western offices. Most of these companies have their
own telegraph lines and hire their own men. The
New York, New-Haven and Hartford Company
transacts its business through the Western Union,
and the New j ,rsey Central has its contract with
the same company
sup rnteudent Stevenson, of the New-Haven
road said that the telegraph business of the COM
pany was being carried without the least in
triruptIon or trouble. /" received word yester-
day. he added, from tle teIegfapners along
the limo that although they would not
transmit any Western Union messages, they
would do all the railroad business OF the
company. although they receive cOmpen-
saiion for tins whatever. Consequently we are
having no trouble and everything goes as
smoothly rs if there strike. SO far their
attitude toward the railroad goes, must say that
/ he telegraphers are acting squarely."
The Western Union office IN the passenger waiting
roo OF the company closed. The manager SAID |
that only one Of the three unemployed there had |
struck, but tue other two had been transferred TO
the main Office. The state of affairs existed III
the offices If the waitng-roOms OF the Hirem aud |
Central roads. Tbe manager was the sole operator
left To transmit messages.
The superintendent OF telegraph at the Delaware
Lackaw inna and Western Railroad office said
" b. men well paid. and we have not heard
wort OF COM aint" This condition OF affairs was
,aI e. exist also at the Pennsyly wanna Railroad
DHice where the clicking Of dozen instruments IN
The hands OF The regular men attested the truth OF
.he statement Supenntenien Hamilton OF the
lentr4l Railroad OF Nrw-Jersey, made similar
ia tement. far regarded the telegraph business
pertaining TO the cOmpany's own needs. " In the
mali places" said he, " the telegrapher does our
business ~ well as that of the Western Union, and
here all WORK on as usual. In the Lager
PAGES such as WIikesbirre he men have struck on
n esj ern Union work but not Oh railroad messages
MI our railroad telegraph business Is going on with
~ the e,st int RI Dtlon.
At the telegraph office of the Erie Railroad there
vas nothing unusual.