, 1885-02-20

RAILROAD RUM0RS.
The Committee of Engineers Leaves
For Omaha.
Wild and Foolish Reports About
Impending Trouble.

Mention was recently made in The
LEADER that delegates from the lodges Of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers would soon go to Omaha for the
purpose of consulting with the managers
with reference to the new rules.
Yesterday the delegates from this city
departed on that GRAND and before the
week closes the MISUNDERSTANDING will
doubtless be at an end. The differences
will be settled in a businesslike and sensi-
bic manner and there is no danger of any
serious trouble.
Apropos Of the recent differences be-
tween the men and the managers, many
absurd rumors have been started and
some Of these are unjust to the men and
unnecessarily hostile to the road. Refer
ring to the existing difficulties the Lara
mie Boomerang says:
THE feeling in this instance was much
stronger than might be imagined by one
not familiar with such affairs. The rail
road men were for once firmly unitcd, and
as one who holds a high position said last
night Had the company forced a strike
upon us, it would have ended in blood
she'd
Such idiotic twaddle as the above can
result only in injury to the road and to
the employees, for it places the former in
a false light and accuses the men of a
lawlessness they would never dream of
but for such expressions.
The same authority also states it is an
open secret that the new management is
not popular either with the patrons or
employees ofthe road. Mr.. Galloway is cred
tied with being a fine railroad man and a
model manager and there is no complaint
to befound against him. but the Boston
office rules things, and their policy is as
little adapted to western ways as a diet of
baked beans to a man that has been liy
ing on buffalo steak. Ii is said among
the men that the government directors
cast a slur on the company for so quickly
taking in their horns some time ago,
when the general reduction of wages
was threatened. and some assert that the
new rules were submitted for the
express purpose Of bringing about a strike
and giving occasion for calling out the
troops to protect the road, which is Uncle
Sans property. A strike at present
would be a terrible thing, not only for the
company, but for the country, and happily
it is averted. There is another rumor,
and from equally high sources, that at
the next meeting Of the board of directors
S. II. Ii. CLARK is to be elected president,
and the old regime restored. Such an
event would be hailed with as much en-
thusiasm as was the return of Napolean
from Elba, but it is to be feared the
news is too good to be true. Anything
will be acceptable rather than another
term under the Boston management.
This seems rather contradictory, for it
hardly seems possible Mr.. Galloway could
be a fine railroad man and a model
manager" and at the same time ANY
thing would be acceptable rather than
another term of his rule. Prominence
is given the presentation of the case from
a Laramie standpoint for the reason that
nearly all of the strikes and troubles
originate at hat place; why this should
be the case nobody may know, but the
fact remains.
The engineers who have gone to
Omaha for the nurnose of having a ola.r