Omaha daily bee., 1890-08-10
THE STRIKE IS SPREADING.
New York Central Railroaders Quit at
Buffalo and Other Points.
EVERYTHING QUIET AND ORDERLY,
Inspector Byrncs Has Had No Use for
His Mcn-A Reported Confer
encc Called with Brother
hood Engineers.


New YoRK, August 9.-The first train
which left the Grand Central depot this
| morning passed out at $3.50 O'clock. Four
mail cars were attached to this train, but
| there were no passengers aboard. The tieup
on the road was complete. Every trainmau,
| brakeman, switchman, engineer and conduc-
tor except those necessary to attend to the
| running of the mail trains stopped over ON
the order of the executive board of the
| knights of Labor. The railroad men by mu-
tual consent agreed to furnish enough
assistance to allow the mail trains
to run, but had determined that not
a. single passenger nor pound
| of freight should be carried on the lines of
| the New York Central and Harlem river
| road after 40 o'clock last night.
| About u O'Clock this morning great num-
| Der of trainmen who did not belong to the
knights of Labor reported at the yard for
| work. They were instructed to set about
| clearing the tracks. Passengers on the in =
coming trains were compelled to get off the
| cars at MottHaven instead of COM
| ing into the Grand Central depot
as usual and they had to
rely on the elevated railroad and the street
| cars to bring them down. The strikers all
! conducted themselves in an orderly manner
| They say they are determined not to work
until the discharged men re.renstated The
executive board of District Assembly 246
was in session all night.
| Inspector Byrnes remained at his post all
| night. Today he has detectives all
along the bridges and in the tun-
| nels. No freight cars will be run
| today, but the inspector has received a dis
patch TO the effect that the officials will try to
| run passen ger train at o clock. Reserves
are held at most of the precincts, and the in
| spector says he will preserve order at any
cost
There was Observation-Disclosures in the
| situation at the Grand Central depot this
morning as compared to last night, and the
notlce announcing temporary suspension of
passenger traffic has been taken down
Between q and 10 o'clock seven trains came
in, some through and Others local, made up of
| cars stalled at Harlem and Mott Haven.
AT the general managers office Vice-Presi-
dent Webb said he did not think the matter
would assume any gigantic proportions and
that men would be found to man the trains
The majority of those who have left are
sWitchmen and yardmen, and their places are
being filled as rapidly as possible
Ihls morning large crowd of ralroadmen
came over the ferries from Jersey City. They
are mostly swltchmen out of work. Those
available as competent were employed
Among the trains sent out this morning
was the Chicago limited which left at $3.50.
me me Officers OF the road are of the opinion that
fair order. No disturbances of any kind are
reported along the line.
AT IL 80 Vice President Webb announced
that i've passepgertrains would be sent ont
during the day; The CHICAGO express will
go over the Michigan Central. Mr. Webb
said that the company would fight to the bit
ter end now that the strike was ended. He
emphatically declared that all of the men
who stood by the company would be re-
tanned and under no circumstances be dis.
charged when the trou BILE was over
Already 100 OF the men who went out last
night have returned and it is now estimated
that the number out is between four hundred
ana hve hundred. A number of men from
points up the state and from New Jersey ar
rived and Were at once put to work.
AT the yards of the West Shore railroad
everything is reported working smoothly and
all trains are arriving and departing on time
In the New York Central yard at the foot
of West Thirty-third street not wheel has
turned and the tracks are completely blocked
with freight trains.
MIR. Holland of the Knightsof Labor stated
that he understood that all engineers had
been ordered out and that they would prob.
ably leave work BETS cen low and tomorrow
evening.
The Brotherhood of engineers and members
of the local assembly of the Knights of Labor
thing looks as if the engineers would 20 out
This will virtually stop all traffic.
Not a single freight train left the yards to-
day and none arrived. Webb viii make
both on the West Shore and New York Cen
tral "We will hold a meeting tomorrow
webb said, land decide what we
VIII do in regard to freight
trains. think we will have enough men
by Monday to get everythin Q in good running
order. am well satisfied with the way in
which passenger trains were sent out today
and don't think we will have any more
difficulty with freight trains"
D. j. Holland spent most Of the day in the
Union hotel fn with
sentatives of the strikers. He told the re-
porters that he could not say anything about
the probabilities for Monday beyond the fact
that the men would fight hard. He could
not tell he said, whether the brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers would call out their
members or not.
There were many statements made today
regarding the number Of men on strike The
men themselves said there We're three or four
thousand, while the railroad officials MAN.
tanned that there were but three or four
hundred men out
At o'clock tonight sixty-four of the night
force OF freight switchmen at the West Shore
depot at Weehawken reported for duty At
40 O'Clock locomotive whistle rang out
shrlly in the yard and fifty of the switchmen
left ther. posts, put on their coats and walked
to their homes. This action left
the yards almost deserted. Preparations
TO meet the emergency were Immediately
made. Freight Conductor Kane, who acted
as spokesman for the striking switchmen
told the yardmaster that personally the men
had no grievances. They had been ordered
out by the Knights of Labor and obeyed.
At 10 o'clock everything in the West Shore
yard at Weehawken was quiet and the work
of making up trains was going on. All in
coming trains are arriving at the depot on
time. The station officials said that no other
men were out on the road, but this the strik-
ers deny.
AT 1850 O'Clock touight it was stated that
all trains on the New York, New Haven &
Hartford railroad had been gotten through
all right On the New York Central road
the $50 Montreal express, the o o'clock
fast mail train and the 015 Chicago
express We're all an hour and a half late in
getting out. General Manager Toucey said
that all regular trains would run on schedule
time tomorrow.
1t is reported that 2OOapplicants to take the
places of strikers have been notified to be on
hand tomorrow.
At Albany.
ALBANY, ~ Y, August 9,-Master Work
man Lee this afternoon said that If the Gem
tral shipped live stock and other perishable
goods over the road in any considerable guam