Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-08-02
Arrangements by the Broth
erhood for a New
Company.
A History and Current Gossip of
The Trouble.
The photographers.

6altlmOfe q ONO Is little different.
While compromise may be expected
at any hour, it is also possible that
the company and men will still be
apart at the end of a fortnight from
the beginning of the strike. As it is.
the proceedings at present are very
mOnOtCnOuS. At the Western Union
office the officials have daily the same
report to make of increased efficiency
in the service and a prospect that
I'm \ FEW DAYS
the delay notices will be taken down
and messages accepted mcondition-
ally. The office is systematized and
great Improvement made since the
day or two Immediately following the
strike, and the superintendants an
nounce that they have all the new
operators they can utilize at present.
Nevertheless, no plans are taken to
conceal the fact that a goodIy num-
Der of old and experienced operators
would be received with open arms If
they choose to renounce the brother
hood.
The strikers comment freely on the
statements of the Western Union off
Gals regarding the business trans
acted, and their criticisms generally
show an intimate knowledge of the
condition of affairs in the company's
office. Next to retailing stories of
the plumbers made by the new en-
plOyes or plugs, the strikers delight
mostly IN pointing out the beneficial
effect the strike has already had in
raising the wages of telegraphy and
improving the lot of employees. The
prices alleged to be offered to good
operators are quoted as evidence Of
the increase in compensation, while
the carriages and the lunch that is
provided by the company for its en-
plOyeS IS pointed to as proof of a
quickened conscience i'll tho treat
ment of operators The lunch, es-
peclally, IS a sore point with the old
timers, who bristle with sarcastic al
luslOns to the times when "cOtf,ee and
PIE " was the most an operator work
ing overtime could hope for.
APPEARANCES ARE DECEPTIVE,
the organizations is as compact and
harmonious, with the exception of
the detection noted above. as on the
most derisiOn among them is the
promise of President Eckert that the
'subject-to-delay" condition is soon
to be removed The strikers express
a yearning desire for the public to
watch the notices III question, and
they profess to believe that the day
for this action on the part of the COM
pany will keep fading away in the
distance as time goes by.
ON CHICAGO CHANGE
'The telegraph service is poorer"
said Cyrus Adams, than ever, ex-
cept the day which Immediately fol
lowed the strike Here is a message
dated Montreal which was FLED twelve
hours before it was received. Two
messages filed at New York in the
before the opening of change
were not received by me until after
the close of change here in the after
noon. The service. is such that the
board of trade firms are losing their
business, and the loss is likely in
many instances to prove permanent"
Robert LindbOlm, when asked how
the companies were doing for him,
answered that his business was suffer
ing and that he was totally cut off
from his country customers. There
were in all in the offices on change
operators, receivers and
clerks one more than were on hand
but two less than on We'd
nesday.
AT NEW YORK.
A large meeting of the produce ex-
change has held in the lower room Of
the exchange in the afternoon to con-
slider condition of affairs resulting from
the misunderstanding between the
telegraph companies and their en-
plOyes, and to devise some method by
which the present serious injury to
business may be overcome. As soon
as the minutes had been read w. w.
Merrill moved to adjourn. This mo-
ton was greeted with Kisses and de
clared out of order Mr. Theodore
Perry offered a series of resolutions.
They reviewed the inconvenience the
members of the exchange had been
put to blythe Gold and Stock Telegraph
violation of its contract
with the exchange, called onthe board
Of managers to give the required sixty
days notice of termination Of that
contract, and provided for the APP
of committee Of review
to inquire into the feasibility Of build
ing a new line of telegraph by the ex-
changes of the principal cities acting
IN cooperation
A resolution was passed providing
for the appointment of committee of
seven to considered the feasibility of
building in cooperation with other
a line for their own use,
members of exchanges to subscribe
TO the stock thereof 1t was stated
hat Wall street had lost 81, 900, 900
oy the strike already Henry Clews
said the transactions had fallen off 50
per cent, all over the country, and
David Dow confirmed the opinion;
also Others.
If a word spoken in It's time is worth
one piece of money, silence IN It's time