Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-04
TROUBLE AVERTED.
The Difficulties on the Burlington Have
Been Practically Settled.
An Amicable Agreement Reached on Nearly
ALI Points at Issue-Faees Wreathed in
Smiles-Result of the Conference.

CHICAGO, Ill. Jan. 3.-This evening
for the first time the Q strike was ad-
mitted by both parties to the controversy
to be practically settled. The conference
to-day between the officers of the road
and the committee of niue resulted in al
amicable agreement on nearly all points
at issue. 1t is confidently expected that
i complete understanding viii be reached
tomorrow morning. The only hitch in
the arrangements for settling the strike
was one of the minor demands of the
committee which the officials did not feel
justified in granting without first
consulting with President Perkins
and the directors of the company
in Boston. They required time therefore
to exchange kilograms with the Boston
office, and have no doubt full authority
will be received to accept any proposition
of the committee that is fair and reason
able. When the committee called at
the general offices of the Burlington this
morning Vice-Presidents Stone and
Beasley were awaiting advices from
Boston, and asked that the conference be
delayed till 0 'clock in the afternoon.
Chairman Cavener consented to this, and
at the hour named ne and his associates
returned and were received by the officers
of the road in the director s room.
THE. COMMITTEE OF ENGINEERS
is composed of A. r. Cayener, chair
man, employee of the Southern Pacific;
F. c. Chase, of the Minneapolis and st.
Louis; A NJ PORTE, of the Oregon Rail
road and Navigation; Thomas Hollineck,
of the Grand Trunk Railway
of Canada; Thomas HUMPHREYS
of the Hooking Valley; A. w.
Logan of the Erie; 7. B. Bellows of the
Memphis, New Orleans and Texas; Ed
ward Kent of the Erie, and A. L. May
of the Chicago and Northwestern. In
addition to these the firemen were repre-
scented by J Il. Dixon of Barbo, Wis
and T. A. Mooney of st. Joseph, Mo.
The Burlington company was repre-
scented by First Vice-President Beasley,
econd President Stone, General
Manager Ripley; General Manager Hol-
bridge of the Burlington and Missouri
River, and several subordinate officers.
They were in session from o'clock IN
til 20 minutes past 5, when they encoun-
tered an obstacle in the raising of point
which the Burlington people had over
looked and were not prepared to meet
without further advices from eastern
headquarters. 1t was then decided to
adjourn until 1920 m. tomorrow.
The faces of the committee of Burling-
ton officials were
WREATHED IN SMILES
when they parted for the night.
The Times viii say: 1t is understood
that by the terms of the agreement the old
go" engineers viii be placed again on a
square footing instead of blacklisted by
nearly all the roads in the country. The
Burlington itself will set the example
by giving the strikers employment in pre-
ference to others wherever vacancies oc-
cur, and. by burying completely out of
sight the Ratchet which was dug up ten
months ago. President Stone and Chair
man Cayener declined to give any de-
tails of the nature of the meeting or the
nature of the conclusions.