The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-07-25
The Operators Take Several Men from the
COmpany-They Are Confident of Sue
cess and Enthusiastic.
The Company's Bulletin of the Con-
dition of Their Business.
a Receiving Clerk at Atlanta Shot--Meet-
ing of Operators in New York--The
Situation at Other Points.
IN INDIANAPOLIS.

"
The Officials Claim a Decided Improvement
in the Transmission of Business
Yesterday was the sixth day of the teie-
graphers' strike, and the situation remains
apparently unchanged. A number of rural
operators came in yesterday, several of
whom were taken in charge of by the strik-
ers and persuaded to keep away from the
Western Union. Mr.. Wallick last night
said that he thought, on the whole, so far as
this office is concerned, the state of affairs
was decidedly improved. The new operators
are getting accustomed to the work and sur
roundings, and there is better dispatch of
business. The reporter was shown the
bundles of messages duly tied and marked,
and told to look at them and compare them
with other bundles representing average
days work anterior to the strike. He did
so, and saw or thought he saw, that the
bundles of messages of the past two days
were more than half the bulk of the former
ones. Manager Butler said the statement
that messages had been mailed or expressed
from this office was positively false;
not message had been so sent.
He said the principal falling off had been in
0hAOaSO OpblOh buSlIl6SS % lar as ObueT
Chicago business was concerned it had been
well kept up, and the average was good with
Cincinnati. The report in the News yester-
day, that Mr. Wallck went to Chicago at
noon yesterday to confer with Col. Clowry, was
not confirmed by Mr.. Wallicks departure,
that gentleman reIndrking last night that he
had enough to keen him here.
Superintendent Wallick states in explana-
ton of the letter of Correspondent" in yes
terday's Journal, that his card was neither
written nor telegraphed until several hours
after the publication of the papers 10 which
the special he criticised was sent and that he
had information of the nature OF the dis
patch entirely independent of any access to
the manuscript in his office. Mr.. Wallick is
entitled to this statement with the addition
al remark that both he and Manager Butler
have spared no efforts to facilitate the work
of the special correspondents.
THE BROTHERHOOD
The strikers yesterday took four men out
of the Western Union Office, all importations
One of them was named Harrington, who
came here from Kokomo another Neff, from
Logansport; and another Lundy, of Buena
Vista; name of the fourth man not given.
These operators are above the average, and
the Brotherhood rejoice greatly over their
accession. The strikers are looking forward
to the meeting of the executive committee
which will take place to-day, and seem to
think that if no attempts at adjustment are
made to-day, the strike of railroad operatives
will take place tomorrow. They further say
that the operators on the Wabash lines are
nearly two months behind IN the receipt of
their pay, they having received their pay for
the month of May last week, while June and
July is still owing. The item in the News
that Train Dispatcher Fox, of the Indianapo-
lis & Vincenues road, has been working in
the Western Union, is fatty contradcted by
that gentleman He has been in the operat-
ing-room, but only as looker-on.
VERY CLUMSY HOAX.
The following dispatch, an own brother
to the message Grant dropped dead" was
taken off the wires at the Panhandle yard
Office shortly after o'clock last night 1t
came from Cincinnati to Richmond, but its
paternity cannot be discovered. 1t is con-
sidered hoax at the Western Union office:
Bulletin by Acting President Eckert.l
JULY "a.
Owing to a telegram received from President
DR.. Norvin Green to day the executive board of
the Western Union, after warm discussion.
have decided TO acceds to the BrOtherhood's de-
mands, in consequence of which all operators
the morning. (NO signature.j