Morris tribune., 1886-05-12
CHICAGO FREIGHT HOUSES.
An Increased Amount of Freight Bein
HandIaG-I q hnr Nnfas

An Increased Amount of Freight Being
Handled-Labor Notes.
CHICAGO, May10 There was the usual
every day activity about most of the freight
depots in the city Saturday morning. All of
them were open, and all business was being
taken care of, though some of them were
short The places of the old men
who did not report at the hour named in the
notice posted Friday were being filed as new
applicants appeared. Six of the old hands
returned to the Burlington Saturday morn
ing, and others to the Northwestern
At the Fort Wayne houses ten of the old
men have returned to work. At the Balti-
more & Ohio, no earnest effort to move
freight will be made before Monday. At
the Chicago & Alton there is a corps of
about forty men at work, including eight OF
the old ones The St Paul alone appears to
be in any sort of shape approaching its
normal condition. 1t has been housing and
feeding its gangs of new men for week,
and claims that this week it has handled
more freight than for any other of its exis-
tsnce
At the Michigan Central freight house
not less than a hundred switchmen were at
work Saturday morning, and business was
Illinois Central twenty Of the old men
were back, and about twenty new ones
were in the force The force was not big
enough to make full equipment, and so
the road was handling simply car lots
The agent of the Baltimore & Ohio said
that q considerable number of his old men
reported for work, and said that they were
willing to start I'm whenever they could be
insured against interference. They were
told to report on Monday.
Ninety y-eight cars we're loaded at the Rock
Island out-freight house Friday by this
clerks in the places of the old men. This,
taking into consideration the size of the
house, is proportionately the largest move
ment of any road in the city Friday. Fif-
teen Of the old Rock Island men were.back to
work Saturday. The st. Paul has only six
of its old freight-handlers back, the Bur-
lington eighty-nine of its old men, the Lake
Shore several
Two hundred employees of the Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne & Chicago round-house were
granted an advance of 25 cents day in ac-
cession to their demands, and returned to
work Saturday morning.
McCormick's reaper factory started up as
usual Saturday morning with full force,
and the Hinman street police claim to have
identified many of Mondays rioters among
those who have returned to work. The
thirty five police on guard at McCorrnicks's
gates had nothing to do. AS precaution-
ary measure Mr.. Mccormick has twenty
five sixteen-shot Winchester rifles, twenty
five double-barreled shot-guns, and 5000
rounds of ammunition in store, which can
quickly be put into the hands of the police
and his private watchmen in case of an out
break of violence.
Armour's glue factory was running with
a small force under police protection. A
move is on foot to start up all the factories
in the lumber district next Monday on the
ten-hour basis Capt Cohen and strong
force Of watchmen are still guarding the
yards against incendiary fires.
The wounded effcers at the county hos
pital wsre doing well Saturday morning as
could be expected. Officer FlaYin was very
low, but his condition was not worse than IL
was Friday night
Officer Jake Hanson was somewhat inn
proved The dsotors..wers undecided as to
whether his wounded leg must be ampu-