Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-08-01
mo SHOW FOR THE MEN.
The Rock Island Officials and the
Enginemen Confer.
The Committees Return without
Having Accomplished Their Pur-
pOse-The Order in Effect.

Engineers James Ewing and j j. Nc.
Cormick and Firemen Daniel Maroney
and Chas. Pearson have returned from
Chicago. where they went in behalf of the
engineers ard firemen of the Rock Island
road to protest against the order oil
Supt. III. F. Royce extending the Illinois
division and entailing hardships upon the
enRinemen employed upon it, They in.
terviewed Manager st. John, General
Superintendent Royce and Master Me-
chanic Wilson, but received no satisfac.
ton. The officials net them point by
point and told them the order was final
and would be enforced. They stated
however. that there would be no necessi.
ty OF removal from Rock Island, and
that they would not be kept away
from this end of the run or detained a,
the Chicago end as long as they expected
The men determined therefore to give
the new order trial. and If it does, as
they verify believe it wili-work increased
hardships to them-they will again appeal
to the company for relief, and if it is no,
given them will make an effort to secure
it anyway.
The first through train under the new
order started out for Chicago this morn,
ing. Engineer Hawthorne and Fireman
Porter were in the cab The first crew
from Chicago will be down tonight.
Yesterday afternoon Foreman Mirfit Id
of the Rock Island round house
received orders to select engineers for
the local runs. which are increased from
two to four. Mr.. Mirfield therefore
picked out four vcterans-James Ewing,
Silas Sprague. james Carl and James
George. who will run only to Peru and
return. These four engineers give up
their big Rogers engines and take smaller
ones-Ewins SO. Sprsgue 1911, George
1873 and Car ia, the latter the iron steed
he originally drove fifteen years ago. when
be first man pulated the throttle.
Arrangements are being made for the
accommodation of the east end men. It
is expected that the new order will bring
fifty men into Rock Island, but only as
transients, for they will simply remain
here few hours for rest or meals and
will be here when Others are out.
The Burlington road which adopted the
plan of imposing more mileage on the
engines without repairing them. has not
found it profitable. Dispatches from
headquarters say that there was big de
felt on the burlington roads earnings for
June. The statement of the Chicago,
Burlington q Quincy railroad, including
the Burlington s. Missouri River railroad
in Nebraska and controlled roads for
June, 1890. as compared with June. 1889,
shows gross earnings. 80. TAO $50. o5;
operating expenses. 81 .997, 6s4 02; one
twelfth of al annual charges, not includ.
ing dividends. 1901 $50 80; total expenses
and charges. s2.759, 5S4.34 This leaves
deficit Of $19.0OO.29. During the
month the gross earnings increased over
June in the previous year $50 523 02; but
at the same time there was an increase
of operating expenses of 1908, Ell .35. and
the fixed charges showed an increase of
SIT SOB rs. 10 Jnne, 1889, the Burling-
ton system had net earnings of S245,-
251 10, which shows an actual loss COM
pared with the last month. of 1854 esq.,
0S. Now comes the Burlington Gazette
with the assertion:
Part of the increased operating expenses
are due to the fact that Immediately after
the big strike the Burlington practically
suspended all improvements and repairs
and pushed us way along with the sole
idea of showing its financial statement
into the front ranks. A time has now
come when suspension of repairs is no
longer safe and expenditures are being in-
Cured which would have been regarded
as necessary and would have been taken
care of long ago but for this desire to
show big earnings.