The daily gazette., 1883-08-09
STRIKERS WEAKENING.
EVIDENTLY GETTING TIRED
OF. HOLDING OUT
THE RAILROAD MOVE A FAILURE.
More Cutting of Wires on the Various
Routes-The brotherhood Failing Be-
hind Out West.

| NiPmH SO-0oy duu W W WhBul0K-
ton in the evening. He was also in New
York portion Of the day. He conferred
the first reward for loyalty to the company
during the strike on Chief Operator j. d.
Clark, who is promoted to the position of
manager at Washington, vice Manager
whitney, who becomes assistant superin-
lendent OF the Southern district. Manager
CLARK left for bis new post last night. Dur
| ing the day Two striking operators returned
to work. One WAS the lieutenant who de-
serted on Tuesday night, and the other was
| operator Dantos. In the evening two strik-
ers returned from New York and applied
for employment They will probably re-
sumo their keys this morning.
The ranks of the strikers in this city are
becoming disrupted by internal fights.
Their treasury is greatly depleted, and some
OF the weak -kneed are becoming insoleut In
| their demands for money. Master Work
man Laverty refused to disburse any more
money to one or two of the men yesterday.
Manager Jones says he is perfectly indie
pendent now and can afford to discriminate
now between the applications, which he
claims are becoming numerous President
LaVerty was asked last night his opinion of
the outlook. "Nell, to be honest" he said,
"the situation looks desperate both for us
| and the company. We have PLAYED our
trump card and lost. The Western Union
is playing theirs in trying to create break
in our ranks, and if they win their trick,
why, then the games up"
| MORE QUITTING OF WIRES.
| NEW YORK, August S.-Last night another
onslaught was made upon the wires of the
| Western Union Telegraph Company, the
consequences OF which were far more disas-
trous than that of the preceding night. Press
Agent Somerville, OF the Western Union
Company, said this morning that 20 wires
/ were cut on one route, and IA on another,
between Passaic and Ellzabethport, N. j.
These were wires to Philadelphia and other
points in the Southern Division. Twenty
of the Mutual Union wires were cut be-
tween Kingsbridge and Scarsdal At Tar
rytown IL Hudson river wires are down,
and lS wires in the Eastern circuits were
destroyed between Port Chester and
Greenwich, Connecticut. The cross arms
were sawed off in The latter instance
and the wires cut besides. The first
| wires to go down were those on the Eastern
circuit, which were lost about IL 80 O'Clock
last night. The others went down shortly
after midnight. A large force of linemen
was sent out to repair the damage, a d the
lines are being repaired as rapidly a. posi-
BILE. The cutting OF the wires interfered
with others across which they fell, so that
the greatest confusion was created. For
long time this morning, said Mr.. Sommer-
| vile the work was greatly DELAYED. Super
work was begun this morning one-half of
the wires to Philadelphia, one quarter of
those to the West, ard one-third of the
Eastern circuits could not be used. The
whole number of wires cut was 80, but
nearly 200 were rendered useless in conse-
quence.
| telegram from Fort Washington said
that gang of men had interfered with the
linemen who were repairing the wires there,
| and police protection had been asked in case
| an interference Was repeated. No clew has
been discovered Of the authors OF the mis-
| chief, although the greatest vigil lnce is being
/ exercised. The Western Union Company
has employed detectives to ferret out the
perpetrators of the wire cutting. 1t is the
general opinion that the striking linemen
are answerable for the injuries. The Com
pany is considerably put out by this new
method of warfare.
At the headquarters of the Brotherhood
| of Telegraphers it was emphatically denied
that the cutting was being done by the strik-
ing linemen.
| PITTsBURG.
| PIrTsBURG, August S.-Reports from
along the line of the Pittsburg division of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad received to-
| day show that the order for the railroad
| operators to strike was generally obeyeh yes
/ terday. The railroad officials admit this.
| but saw nearly all the offices have already
| been manned by new men.
PITTsBuRG, August s. -In answer 10 a
| dispatch signei by Superintendent of rcle-
graph Brown of 6he P, tsburr division IT
he Pan Handle railr ad, t. ay, asking
whether operators would rerritr Western
| Union commerti Il nu~'rsas. 81 in; two r,-
| piled ttat thry wunld not
| II i undres'oa tijat T b ta.i.r, ,Sup r.
ntru,irnt ~ tAr Pau Han - r,,tro ID wll
tc-morrow urder tln-u o., al>' whatever is
alfcred Ha1!"r + taitF ni 'i,aissd.
clNciNAArf.
| CINCIHYATi o., Angus ASSISTANT
Superintendent hM>uto. al tn. Wabash
| telegraph lrnp-, says tto' # ,hc $50 opera
| tors on The $500 mtr- III lhI. iai.i, Just
efIht, foar at Decatur and our at Chicago
| have oheyed the ordcr al the Brotherhood
| aud gone out. ih j. places have been filled
and ey. rything wpri..n- smr riy. rhc
members of the Brotherhood here, on the
other hand, say that seven OF the eight ope-
rators at Decatur struck on Monday, and
| that of the 175 operators on the Iron Noun
| tain railway, between here aud rexarkana,
| 1877 belong TO the Brotherhood and can be
| relied ON to strike. They also say that of
| the AZ railroad operators i'll East St. L outs,
80 are Brotherhood men and will go ont
There is no indication OF this at present,
however.
ST. LOUIS.
ST LOUIS, Aug. S.-No further with
drawal from the Iron Mountain Railroad is
| reported.
Six wires on the Wabash Railroad were
cut about ten miles north of this city on
Monday night The wires were clearly cut
with nippers, and the poles show marks of
steel-pronged climbers used by linemen.
| BISMARCK.
ST. PAUL, MINI, August 8.-The tele-
| graph office at Bismarck was mobbed last
night by strikers. The strikers consisted of
25 men, who entered the office and COM
PEELED the new man to quit work. They
then took him and put him to bed in hotel.
Manager Draper moved the office to the
| Tribune Building. No further trouble is
expected.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
| AUGUSTA, GA, Augusta 1S.-Superin-
tendent Brenner,o of this division of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company, states that
five striking operators, three of whom are
members of the Brotherhood, have returned
/ to work. Two new men have been sent
from Atlanta, where the office is full, and
one operator sent from Carolina. The office
here has nearly full force, and business is
a II.