The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-14
RAILROADS WANT MEN
A Labor Famine Delays Con-
struction of New Roads.
FRONT STREET CAPS STOPPED
They Will Run to King street Tomorrow
Plans for north Seattle Ez-
tension Adopted

who are puE on the ground Although the
contractor on the LAKE shore 4 Eastern
extension and the seattle & Montana are
paving s.. 50 y and $3.50 a day. which Is
higher rate than i paid anywhere else IN
the country they find u smpossi bic 10
secure enough men % do the work as
speedily a. il should be done. Mr..
Murphy. who has the contract directly
south Of Sedro could employ i21 men, but
has only about forty. Though Shepard &
Henry have been sending men 70 the front
al the rate OF twenty-five 10 fits a dav 20
work on the Seattle & Montana. they nov
have oniy about so along the line where
they could employ about twice as MANY.
The contractors on the Lake Shore have
paid the fare Of men TO the front. but many
OF those they have sent up have deserted
a. soon as they reached port. having eyi-
IDENTITY engaged themselves merely for the
sake OF getting free trip. About twenty
men we're sent down on the sehome
week ago, and deckhand was instructed
TO see that they did not escape VIXEN the
boat arrived. He awoke about o'clock in
the morning and found that every one Of
the men had disappeared. When the men
do go 10 the ground they say they do not
like the work and 20 on TO the next camp.
and so on, from camp to camp. until they
disappear in the woods. So common has
this practice been that a beaten road has
been worn along the Tight-of-way by these
tramps-
This is the case notwithstanding that the
laborers are not only well paid but are fed
better than the majority of workmen in the
city, and are charged only s. a week
for board. Yet those men who
are on the ground do not produce
as good results as were obtained on
former work. An instance Is given by the
engineers. A gang of men we're given
fixed price for a certain piece Of excavation
and succeeded in moving from twenty-five
TO twenty five yards a day. The same gang
were put on another job by the day aud
only moved ten yards a day. Great delay
has been caused by drunkenness among
the workmen. Many OF them begin spree
on Saturday night and do not return to
work until Tuesday or Wednesday, aud
then are in a demoralizsd condition.
The inbmation that the Northern Pacific
railroad@w was secretly interested in The sc-
ton of the Seattle. Lake Shore q Eastern
railroad in occupying with a track the dis
puted sand spit at Smiths cove, IL resented
by officials of both those companies. Gen
eral Agent Nadeau. OF the Northern Pa
cific. ssid that the officials OF that road had
otsuggested or dictated any action of the
Lake Shore and would not have any con.
troll over the Lake Shore until the last pay
ment had been made on the stock which
had been purchased BY friends of the
Northern Pacific. The officials OF the Lake
Shore were running that road independ-
entity.
Superintendent Dunn, oi the Lake shore
said that the Northern Pacific had moth
ing to do with the actions OF his road. lie
was simply building q track To afford the
additional yard room required by his road
and with no intention To obstruct anybody
He would have to build several more tracks
in the same vicinity and for the same pur-
pose. Ear from obstructinF the Seattle &
Montana, his company had aided il by
moving buildings out OF its Way and in
other ways The Seattle & Montana would
simply have to cross the Lake Shore tracks
by putting in frogs, which would involve
an expense OF 500 or thereabouts There
would be no difficulty about grade for the
ground was all level
The Portland Osegoaian SAYS:
MIR. J. II. smith contractor for building the
Union Pacific road from Portland 70 Seattle. has
the division between Vancouver ana KulAma
pretty we'll lined with mes, there being aftecu
camps and about 200 laborers Nj smith has
also 80 teams aud a proper ionste number ~
men employed IN The vicinity OF q ympia, where
he is building tunnel about $50 ieet loac
sud there are IA larger number ~ men
between kalams and Cbehaiis work has nor
been begun between Portland and the Coium
hia. for The reason that the route hiss not been
decided upon There is quite a hin between
the two rivers. AID whether the rpad shall r,lu
up one SIDE and down the other. or whether
II shall 50 under the hin or yhsfhfr
take a middle course hss not vet been decide,
There Is no hurry about tais part % the line. a.
al supplies aud material ran 20 delivered Nv
boats both Tor the bridge 90 Esncou8er sr.I
along the line between there aus kaiAnA The
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ployed or the road men sua teams Is rb.r,si
item. and che building Of the line via nus many
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