Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-04-04

delivery of its cars in the regular course of
business has demonstrated the conspiracy
beyond question.
On all the roads the situation Is critical
and threatening. The Ft. Wayne Is in the
throes of strike and its freight business
is at standstill. Matters are in very
much the same position on the st. Paul,
where it is probable the locomotive en-
gineers on the entire system will make
common cause with the striking switch
men. On the Panhandle the case is
critical, and trouble is looked for.
The Chicago and Atlantic switchmen
and engineers, having succeeded yesterday
in defeating an attempt to transfer Q
train to their tracks, are jnbilant and
defiant, declaring openly their purpose to
prevent the reception of the boycotted ears.
The Rock Island management makes no
secret of its determination to refuse Q cars
rather than precipitate trouble with its
men, and the policy Of the Northwestern
is virtually the same These roads are
competitors with the Burlington, and both
are getting the benefit of the Burliugton's =
troubles. For to-day q general truce is
declared, the Burlington agreeing not TO
deliver any cars to the other roads, in
accordance with the request OF the Chief of
Police, whose force will be almost entirely
engaged in service at the polls, leaving no
policemen for duty at the railroads. TC-
morrow, in all probability, the conflict
will be renewed with added scope and in
tensity.
The Burlington officials announced this
afternoon that another general advance
would be made by them to morrow; the
delivery of cars would be attempted 10 q
large number of roads and the final strug-
gle in the great strike would in all likeli-
hood then take place At police head
quarters special officers were being sworn
in all day from the reserve lists OF the de-
partment.
WHERE THEY MAY HITCH.
Information as TO what roads the cars
would be sent by the Burlington was re
fused st the Burlington offices. An ink
ling of how the Burlington g general advance
tomorrow may be met in some quarters
lies in the fact that in order to reach the
Grove street yard the 20" trains are
oblig, to pass over portion Of the Alton
tracks and pays that road mileage on every
train it sends to Grove street, where
connection is made with the yards of at
least six othrr roads. Some of the five or
six switches are the key to the situation,
II these are sphced, or spiked, the "Q'
cannot deliver cars to those roads and all
the kings horses and all the kings
men" would be powerless TO get train
through. This is an imminent danger,
and one that the @" people evidently
fear.
The switches of the Rock Island yards
connecting with the Burlington tracks are
locked and securely spiked so that no
Burlington cars can be run into The Rock
Island yards.
sULLIvAN's PLEA.
Mr.. Alexander Sullivan, the chief legal
adviser of Mr.. Arthur, Chief of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, was inter
viewed this evening in relation to the TtsO-
luton Of the House Committee on Com
merce to appoint 4 committee to investi-
gate the Burlington and Quincy strike.
Fe said, Ordinarily, l favor as little
paternalism as possible. This, however, is
du tACcpllOudl duu
the House will concur in its committees
recommendation.
The controversy between the Burling.
rosd and their late employees is not a pri'
vate struggle between employer and en-
ploye, in which the public has no inter-
ests. 1t is proper subject for public in
quiry.'
apAUE RIOrKADE
The strike is having noticeable effect
oa the grain trade. According to the re-
port of the State Grain Inspector not car
of grain was brought in Saturday over the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul, Wabash, or Chi
cago aud Eastern Illinois roads, and only
two cars of grain came in over the Alton
and one by the Santa Fe. The Kansas
City division of the ST. Paul brought in
three cars. The only roads which main.
tanned anything like their usual showing
were the Chicago, Rock Island aud Pacific,
Illinois Central and the two divisions of
the Chicago and Northwestern. Shippers
and receivers are beginning to complain at
the existing order of things The head of
one receiving firm said that he had the bills
OF ladiug of grain loaded at Iowa points on
March II which had not yet arrived, and
at present he had no intimation as to when
it would arrive.