St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-07
An Ominous Quiet Prevailing
Throughout the Strike
District.
A One-Eyed Engineer and
What He Did--A Train
Depailed.
The Brotherhood in st. Paul
Is Resting on Its Oars
for Orders.
Fipemen Join Hands With the
Engineers and Will Never
Yield.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe
CHICAGO, March 6.-UnleSS the chiefs
of the brotherhood have the diplomatic
faculty of Disgusting appearances some
strategic move is in the wind. An I'M
natural peace and quiet, broken only by
the constant arrival of telegraph mes
SengerS, perYaded the headquarters at
the Grand Pacific and a look of serenity
was upon the c0untenance of Chief Ar
thur throughout the day. Moreover, he
was affable, remarkably so, although he
stoutly repudiated the suggestion that
his good nature was due to anything
more than his firm belief that ultimate
victory was assured. At the same time
it is more than suspected that before
many hours the powers on the chess
board will be in motion. Among the
dispatches received at headquarters to-
day were two announcing that the Wis
conSin Central and the Pan Handle
were taking Burlington freight, and a
third that the Chicago, Milwaukee u ST..
Paul were accepting Burlington passen-
ger tickets. According to reports of the
action of Mondays conference which
are based upon good authority, all these
roads have placed themtelveS under
the ban of the two organizations con
corning the strike, and the outlook is
that they will be tied up before many
hours. The Illinois Central, tits under
stood, refused to-day to accept either
passengers or freight from the Burling-
ton. All of the dispatches received by
Arthur during the day were
OF AN ENCOURAGING NATURE.
There was one from Division Is, of
the brotherhood, located at Buffalo, stat
ing that draft for $4,000 was on the
way. Another from Sacramento, CAL,
a third frcm Pittsburg, and others from
Harrisburg, New York, Boston, Balti-
more and other points. Nearly all prom
ised financial assistance and urged the
chief to stand out to the end. At the
offices of the company the usual roSeate
view of the situation was given. Gen
eral Freight Agent Ripley issued an
other notice to shippers to the effect
that the road was prepared to accept all
through freight except live stock for all
stations east of the Missouri river, on
the Q and its leased or connecting lines
in Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin,
and Minnesota. The report of General
Passenger Agent Morton showed that
on Monday 140 trains were in motion in
Iowa and 1850 in Illinois, and that to-day
200 were moving in the latter state and
500 upon the entire system. An abso-
lutte denial was given to the statement
that large number of engines had been
burned out at various points by ineXpe-
Tienced men, and the statement was re-
iterated that
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES
would the company discharge the men
that had helped it out in its hour of
need. They admitted that they were
somewhat concerned over the report
that the connecting lines would be tied
up as soon as the Quincy began inter
changing business. but said iii reply
that it would be time enough to cross
this bridge when it was reached, and
that in any event, the roads being COM
mon carriers, could not refuse to accept
freight when offered. In further con-
versation, Mr.. Morton admitted that
there had been falling off from 80 to 40
per cent in the passenger traffic. but at
tributed this to the fact that travel was
ordinarily light at this time of the year
and that goodly portion of the Quin-
cy'S patrons were going to their destina-
lions by other routes. 1t was learned
tonight that the grievance committees
of the Milwaukee q st. Paul and Chi
cago IL Northwestern roads will assem-
bic at the Grand Pacific tomorrow.
There is little doubt but that these
gatherings will be called upon to deal
with the perpleXing question OF inter-
changeable traffic.