Omaha daily bee., 1888-03-07

iuNcStitdJcu anu INC Dettcr tne DuDlC CoUle
TO understand our position, the better they
will think Of the Burlington road. All the
company officials express themselves as sat
isfed with the manner in which traffic Is be-
ing handled again.
Have Started a Training School.
AURORA, ILL.,, March 6.-1he Burlington
road is doing two classes Of business at this
point. One is hauling freight and passengers
to limited degree. The other is running a
training school for engineers with quota of
pupils. The striking engineers and railroad
officials are both confident. No overt acts
| are charged to the strikers They were
little annoyed by the mayors order forbid
ding their committees visiting non-union en-
gineers at trains when passing through the
city, for the purpose of inducing them. if
| possible, to leave their engines. Outside of
| this they have no complaint. "Our men,"
| said Chief Baureisen, of division No. 9, "are
| in this fight for good The company is not
doing anything like the business they claim
| to, and the men they have employed to take
places are a sorry lot. They have burned
| out three engines here since the strike
begun" At the yards it can
| plainly be seen that something is wrong.
| Everything is done slowly and deliberately
as if there was plenty of time. Fifty special
police guard the yards. As soon as train
reaches the limits two specials Jump on the
| engine and ride IN the cab until the cars pass
out the other side Of the City. Division
| Superintendent Alexander and Tranmaster
| Bessler say only one-thrd of the freight bus
| mess is being done on the Chicago division.
and cars are lightly loaded, but they say
much of this is due to the fact that the com
| pany is refusing to haul stock. In fact all
! business in this department is traffic strictly
confined to the Burlington system. Passen-
| ger business is in better shape, as far as
train service goes, but the cars are by no
means crowded. Superintendent Alexander
said for the present but three through
trains will be run.
| The company has in its training school
about thirty men. They are carefully ex-
| amined by the master mechanic and then
| allowed to practice running an engine up and
| down the yards. The officials claim the new
men are doing WELL and in short time will
| be competent to take out trains. Disinter-
| ested citizens say, however, that many of
| them are failures, and tell of trains stalled
| at the depot an account Of the inability of the
| new engineers to fix some part that has
gotten out of repair, until the master me-
| chanics would arrive.
The fast mail for Chicago came in today
two and half hours late The engineerwas
| totally blind in one eye The claims of the
| officers that they have all the men on the
Chicago division that they want is true.
| They admit the new hands are not up to the
standard, but assert that improvement comes
| with each days service They also say the
| reason they don't want more men is that as
long as the Burlington can do no transfer
| business with other roads, only limited
number of engine hands is required.
| All Ready to Go Out.
| NEW York, March 6-The press committee
| of the Brotherhood of Engineers has given
out statement here regarding the Burling
ton strike in which they deprecate the
printed statements made by some of the
papers against them and explain carefully
what has been done. They charge
that several western roads, in addi-
tion to covertly helping the Chicago, Bur-
lngton & Quincy by handling freight and
passengers have also aided them in procur-
ing men to man their engines-all in direct
violation of good faith with their engineers
Therefore we now say to them,' says the
statement individually as men and collec-
lively as an organization, that If the pending
fight in which they have in
dividually and collectively labored for
given date we will all stop work until it is
provided the grand chief gives his sanction
to our doing 80. Realizing the magnitude of
our proposed plan of action, we have given
the Chicago, Burlington q Quincy and the
| public due notice of our intention, and we
may add that the brotherhood is fully pre-
pared to Withstand seige'
Strike Feared on the ST. Paul.
gram to the BEE. 1T was rumored this
morning that there was trouble brewing on
the st. Paul & Duluth road and that the en-
gineers were liable to strike. The sitnatlon,
as stated by prominent railroad man of
west Duluth, was as follows; Upon the 80"
| road issuing their call for engineers St.
Paul & Duluth official at St Paul was asked
for and gave assistance in securing men, and
Though his aid thirty engineers were sent to
the 20" headquarters. Yesterday the St.
Paul brotherhood of engineers were made
| cognizant of. the facts and meeting was i'm
| mediately called and a committee appointed
to wait on the official to demand an immedi-
ate reparation for injury done the brother
| hood or the railroad company would be held
responsible for it. The committee will take
| immediate action, and unless full apology
| and reparatlon is made trouble is liable to en-
sue. The engineers are much incensed over
| the affair.
RACINE, Wis, March GA prominent Off
cial Of the Chicago, Milwaukee e. ST. Paul
| railway is authority for the statement that
there is reason to fear the strike of the en-
gineers and firemen will be inaugurated on
| the st. Paul system tomorrow night. 1t is
claimed the truth of the report is strength
cned by the fact that engineer Parker, one
of the leading men on the Racine g. South
western division Of the st. Paul road. re-
ceived telegram this morning from Chief
left for Chicago at once.
Ii. & n. Men Will Strike.
MINNEAPOLIS, March 6.-Superintendent
Harris, of the Chicago, Burlington & North
ern railroad, received notice this evening
that the engineers on his road would go out
tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. Mr. Har-
ris does not know what phase
of the difficulty has caused this
move. The road is not running
more than fifteen engineers and apprehended
no difficulty in keeping trans in motion.
There is general feeling of uneasiness
among engineers and firemen of all roads
centering here. At meetings held to-day a
strong feeling was developed against inter
change of traffic with the Burlington, and
the impression prevails in railway circles
that it will take but little to make the strike
general throughout the northwest.
Trouble on the Ft. Wayne.
CHICAGO, March cit was reported to.
night that five FIT Wayne and three Grand
Trunk crews have refused to haul Burlington
cars. 1t is said the men quit their engines
though it was denied by the strikers. Chiefs
Arthur ard Sargent were absent from the
headquarters tonight and some people sus