Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1888-03-05

FROM ALL QUARTERS.
MORE TIE UPS In Sight.
The Engineers May Take
Desperate Means.
HOPE FOR The CROWN PRINCE.
A Harvard Professor Kills
Himself.
CHEERING NEWS FOR FARMERS.
Claus Spreckels Will Enter
No Trust.
THE ENGINEERS STILL FIRM.

not a single Brotherhood Man Has
Yet Gone Back to Werk-Desperate
Measures May Perhaps BE Taken.
CHICAGO, March 4.-Chief Engineer Arthur
and his lieutenants rested to-day in prepare.
ton for tomorrow mornings meeting which
is to decide whether the engineers and fire
shall strike. Mr.. Arthur denied to-day that
the chairman of the grievance committee had
held any secret meeting yesterday to consider
the northwestern classification system, or any
thing else. The first session of the grievance
committee will be held tomorrow. Mr.
Arthur said the reports of the strikers were
reassuring and not one Brotherhood man had
returned to work. Letters and dispatches
from all over the system showed the loyalty
of the men. Mr.. Arthur had not heard that
any of the other lines were giving the Bur-
hngton moral, support: Such a support
would be violation of the solemn pledges
of the managers to remain neutral. Being
asked whether he believed all of the three
hundred men sent forward for distribution
for the first three days are bona fide engi-
neers and 6remen Mr.. Arthur said: ooh,
have heard rumors, but I am not going to
follow the course of the B. and O. and talk
about hearsay. But will say this: I know
of my own knowledge that it is impossible
for the road to get competent engineers to
run the line for year to come. It cannot
make them from the stock they have"
Con what do you base the assertion?" 'I
base it on the statistics in my possession,
showing that there are not three hundred
competent engineers in the country out of
employment, not counting of course the
Brotherhood men on the B. and O."
cNnfld6nt
fght?" eff the men stand firm it is beyond
question that we will
The Burlington railroad officials to-day
sent west one hundred more men said to be
competent engineers. This was the fourth
batch accepted by the master mechanic and
they were to be distributed over the entire
system.
The Brotherhood DevIsIng Desperate
Measures.
NEW YORK, March 4.-Delegates from ten
divisions of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers in this city representing all the
roads that center here held secret meeting
at Tamsny Hall to-day to consider the Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy strike. Resolu-
tions were adopted denouncing as cowardly
and unfair the action of certain railroad man
ayers who are said to be aiding the Burling-
ton; recommending that if the trouble is not
settled within reasonable time all the
Brotherhood men on roads connecting with
the c., B. and 9. resign their positions on
March 10 and proposing if that does not
bring the latter road to terms all the mem
bers of the organization throughout the United
States, Canada and Mexico join issue on
March 20 in demanding that the rights
of the c., B. and Q. engineers and
6remen be acknowledged. The resolutions
express sincere regret that extreme measures
should be necessary as the business interests
of the country must suffer if the strike
spreads, but say the responsibility of the
present trouble must be placed where it be-
Iones-upon the penurious and tyrannical
management of the c., B. 6 Q. 1t is sug
gested that every division in the country hold
meetings, take action and appoint delegates
to be ready to attend at short notice session
of the great international division of the Or
der. A delegate at to days meeting told
reporter that the prevailing sentiment among
engineers in the vicinity is that the trouble
on the c., B. & 9. must be fought to a sue
cessful end at all hazards. There will be
grand union meeting of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers and the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firsmen at Tammsny Hall
next Sunday at 10 am. Delegates from all
division lodges in this part of the country
will be in attendance and further action will
be taken regarding the c., B. & Q. strike