Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-14
THE Co TROUBLE.
The wabash Is Moving All Freight
Offered by or Going to the
Burlington.
Tho General Manager of One OF the AZ
footed Rosds Is Pulling the Throt-
tie OF an Engine.
A DIFFICULTY.

CHICAGO, ILL, March lS.-No matter |
what the decision of Judge Gresham may |
be in the Wabash matter, there is likely |
to be trouble on General Manager NC
Nulta's road. Chief Arthur advised
Chairman Handy of the Wabash griev-
ance committee to take care OF all freight |
consigned to the Wabash Railway, whether |
it came from the Burlington as local or |
through freight, taking the ground that
the road, icing in the hands OF the Uni |
ted States court, was in s peculiar posi- |
tion and ought not to be inteTfered with. |
The men did not seem to take this very |
cheeriully, and Chairman Handy ssid !
that while they did not want to iDiure |
the road that employed them, they did |
not propose to assist . road that Was |
fighting the Brotherhood. -rs 81
Judge Gre sham has announced that ne |
will render his decision in the Wabash |
case tomorrow. There was NO change
in the situation st the strikers head
qusrters this morning. The grievance
committees Of the eastern railways, which
were in session yesterday discussing the
freight question, met again this morning
at McCoy's hotel ~ conclude their DELHI.
erations.
Ga the western railways it WAS re-
ported By strikers that the situation as
regards the hsndltug Of -" freight was
unchanged. 1t was denied that the Wa
bash engineers had agreed 10 handle |
Burlington cars. Fort Wayne engineer
in speaking of the handling Of 20"
freight by himself and by other FJd
Wayne men said: ave have been haul
ing il since last Friday, but it is not per-
msnent by any means. We concluded to
do 80 pending the action Of the grievance
committee, which is in session to-day.
Our future conduct depends on the report
Of the committee"
Other engin. ers endorsed these re-
marks. They were waiting for the iesue
of the & ght Ia Judge Gresham's court, and
the result of the committee conference.
! IL is asserted that the next move Of the
Burllp gton will be to bring the Rock
Island into court for refusing TO carry
out its contract to forward Chicago, Bur-
liugton and Qdincy freight across The
R )ck Island bridge at Davenport which
involves the same point as thst raised
| in the Wabash case. The Rick Islsnd
declined on account Of the refusal Of It's
engineers to handle Burlington cars.
JEALOUS OFFICIALS.
KANKAKEE, ILL, March l2.-General
Manager f. P. Snountsi of the IndisDs,
illinois and Iowa Railway, one of the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy connec-
tions, passed through here to-day as en-
gineer of q full train Of Q freight from
StreAtor TO Knox, Ind. Master M, chanic
Miller was acting as fireman. The com
panies engineers had refused to pull the
freight. No resistance or opposition was
made to the officials action.
TREY DID OBJECT.
CHICAGO, ILL March l3.-Superinten-
dent Collins sent the following notice to
20" officials:
| GENERAL OFFICE;
CHICAGO, MINIATURES AND ST. FAUL.
| To General super intenuent Besnr, Chicago,
Burlin ton and Quincy.
DEAR Strive are now reSey to inter-
change business with you in Chicago. We
have about seventy cars on hand for your
road. Are you ready TO receive them this
EVENING" G. j. COLLINS
This was in pursuance of q decision
reached by the grievance committee Of
the Chicago, Milwaukee and ST.. Paul at
their session held in Chicago last week.
That decision is one of many facts that
the Brotherhood has carefully suppressed.
The joint committee OF engineers and
fremeD, sitter long session, decided to
handle 60" freight, and the members OF
the committee reported their decision
back to their various subdivisions. With
hardly an exception the sub divisions re-
j-cted the report Of their delegates anu
declared t at they would refuse to hsndle
20" This WAS the situation when Dr.
vision Superintendent Collins issued the
order. There we're exactly seventy
three cars in the Milwaukee Yards. A
train Of tWenty-nine cSrs WAS made up
and hauled nearlyto Western avenue be-
fore Eogineer j. K. Henry was informed
that he was handling Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy cars. He stopped his engine,
pulled The coupling pin and ran his ma
chine to the roundhou>e. This was q de-
cided surprise to the Milwaukee officials,
who hsd been notified that the two broth
erhoods had no objection to their hsnd-
ling 90" FREIGHT.
THE WABASH SUBMITS.
CHICAGO, ILL, March Is A meeting
of Wsbssh eT glDeeTs WAS held to-day at
which R eceiver McNults was present. At
its conclusion General McNulia sent the
following elegram to judge Gresham:
WABASH SHOPS, FORTY FIRST STREET,
NJ rcn Is, 1885.
To Hon. W. Q. Gresham, United States Circuit
Judge, City:
The Wabash is moving all freight and
cars offered by or going 10 the Chicsgo,
Burlington and Quiucy R silroad. II is
now quite clear thst we will have no
trouble, The engineers in meeting Just
held having unanimously sgreed to ooey
al orders Issued by me in the trausac-
ton of business with the Burlington road.
[Sgnedl JOHN MCNULTA,
r ceiver.
The Blu liugton Company received from
the WABASH Road before nightfsll nine
transfers and additional twenty-five cars