The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-07-25
NO SURRENDER.
Operators ant Companies Seem tc
to Have Their Flags Nailed
TO the Mast.
Business Men Beginning 90 tsrowI
About the situation A Report
ana Its Denial

CHICAGO. July pat Uhlich hall the tele
graphers ware enthusiastic over the outlook.
and the secretary was in receipt of encoar-
aging reports from Evansville, Ind, where
the strikers are said to be holding their own
without difficulty The company sent foe
some operators from the country, but the
strangers were met at the depot by com
atittee and, after learning the situation,
joined the brotherhood and refused to go to
work One of the alen who arrived from the
interior was armed with two revolvers, ex
pecting To lie mobbed by the stslkers, but
tn,iing them 10 he SO peaceable lot of men,
aud with such good arguments, he also con
Guided 70 he,.ome ii member OF the brother
hood
Twenty Eve cable operators have goneout
OF the Dilxbury Office" said brotherhood
man There are not enough left to do any
business oyri the oceanic cable The office Is
practically closed All business between this
country ami Europe will now be crowded on
tue French cattle. This uever worked very
we'll, aud will not begin to accommodate the
hIsiusss The cable men went out because
they we're menrhers of the brotherhood and
',0t because they had any particular griev
diNb W e viii nee u tu tui illtAe7 q oNiN' INV
and tIen until the Western Union lays down
We have plenty of pressure left yet that We
"iit apply as it Is needed Our rsnksa are firm
IA, "a rock yet and will remain 50"
THE COMPANY
I've are "A little short Of eastern wires,
said a Western Uniou official, "on account of
II hea " storm, but The operating force Is ia
first rate shape
There are now about one hundred AMI
thirty nve worrying Applications are, So
nuu-ru1s that amber OF operators have
teen sent OUTSIDE If the city, where they
could 40 u, better service than here, aud
many votutteec, from outside business
circles have been told they Glucose 10 10 SO
We are in good shape on the board Of trade,
thGagh the number of working tIIes is less,
tor the reasons have already given There
arr plenty of operators there to de- the work.
Business is well up and has been 81 for some
time. saw special which was sent about
o'clock 1t was ouiy flied about O'Clock
| noticed the special because it WAS. adverse la
our interests
With reference 10 the rufnor OF tr0uble at
Ouxbury III the cable office the following tele
gram has been received.
New HoRG, July "a Colonel r. Z. CiowrY,
superintendent, Chicago: Certainly not The
cable opera tors arc all at their respective
posts Of duty, and doing good work One Of
them, oil on leave, on hearing Of the strike
FASTENED hack to his Office. Everything run
ming along nicely in this division. Nothing
whatever of IA change or news since my mes
sage last night CHARLES a TINKER
TIRE SITCATIoN ON CHANGE.
The telegraph offices on the floor Of the
board Of trade were comparatively deserted
The Baltimore 4 Ohio company had only one
man in there who WIS principally engaged
in rhreivImg messages over the counter sub
ipst t. delay" Tina Mutual Onion pen was
unuccupied There were two nr three msr,
in the Western Union office who said they
rame from st Louis Those Western Union
men arr worse than none at all said one
broker rs lie came rushing ont ut the door.
We can't make anything out of the gold
and stock Instrument said Mr. Mccormick
Of Mccormick, Adams Y Co at might Just
rs we'll not be working, our outside custom
crs won't trade, and we are doing very lit
tie"
"There isn't mucb now to be said ," re
marked Mr.. Ross, OF Ross ~ Co. An the
operators are green and very unsatisfactory
Messages from New York and Kansas City
slow aud very poor There is no improve
ncnt--l think the service is worse If any
mug, o"' sss,,,'ss - "l' 'i'". y
business is Enthusiastically dead. The Baiti
more & Ohio people claim that the weather
| IL the cuuse Of The poor service. All con-
Urction with kansas City is 10y way Of New
-.
r' n -, ior,,,,. r"o -, :,
lunch NIGHT and nornipg (ya can gat NJ
csIIe messages and il is said on ,chanese thai
,L osIIo nv, t,r ba %. .ituck a,,I tltat ,h,
common, ,eiII have. tn 90, mon from oDdon
which wiiI take Mt least q week. or ten DAYS
or course such a report affects the market
,rlV. have no cables ~ said Mr. Roche w,
hsre n have onr messages rancatca Every
lii, = ,,so,.l,., al r., ,rd,rx .e,, c,,,,
Err. ,,r,,;.a 10 si,,,l, ,,nr,o,-i,,, thi,y
s.,d A Al wri,b, There are ,,ot al
,,o,y ,,cesagos es ,harp onrbt RI, no
,,a,,,j. a,,.li,,o 60 do h,si,ess .,op,
ri.l ,,, rar,.;,.o Trade ,,or+ \.
70 ,.s,,,,,i.had again tilI the thing i settled
Iltr uVttluf hipg with fbp .lItpTnth-s a
-, 49,. ST., Ga, star, ,,,i,.L H., h.,
-, i,,,,,,sad ,,n,, V
u,
~" 'i"''i, "n'
fhefe Is nothing uii'''"s' saiu 'he super
Intendenf OF The Baltimore q ONO company
We have u" more business Una" we can d.
we're ava u" P,p'"pIiy' -, ''','N .""' - w
'"'e ".i ''o"H ,"' '''e' W. vs. "o' i.'"poSe II
"'"Se .'e "'es' ~, ''9'o'l o"" :, van
ho' ee' '''e o'' ''e" ',aeN VIZ VIII e""'Hl
new "'en' "e'''S"iS
OTHER POINTS,
NEW YORK, July @.-The affairs at tbt
Office of the Western union company seemed
TO BIZ in n better condition now than a
any other time since the STRIKE Over 50
were ut the desks, and all important wire
are said to I've fully manned The only delay
in handling business were for point
If was renorted that considerable .amap
had Leen done by the severe storms TO h
| wires Of the comnanv There * no intent,
uh.tsvor ,f viaIdn,g to tn, strikers and ,
vvos soid ,Iat noyy ths companv is nm fir,
basis thew win have nothing more 10 fear
TIN hoard Of trade and TRANSPORTATION h,
hold n meeting and resolved that tb4 strik
should he at once end4t calling upon II,