St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-13
WEBB IS HAPPY NOW.
The Executive Of the Central
System Thinks the Strike
Is Ended.
For the First Time Since Last
Friday He Takes a
Rest.
Strikers, However, Say They
Will Tie Up the Line
Again.
They Give Their Version Of the
Trouble Through Their Of
fetal Organ.

New YORK, Aug. 12.-H. Walter
Webb, vice president OF the New York
Central company, was able to leave his
office and go home this evening at a
reasonable hour for the first time since
Friday night. He said it was his first
strike experience and he hoped it would
be his last. Mr.. Webb was asked to de-
scribe the situation. He said that it
was all right so far as the train
service was concerned. 1--WE may
expect for the next two weeks spas
modic outbreaks and 'goingS-on' at diff
ferent points. That is what they all
tell me. A lot of disgruntled men will
be around who will be out of service. l
suppose they will make little trouble
here and there at isolated points. and
we have got to be prepared for it. We
will keep up the Pinkerton guards as
long as it Is thought neces-
sary. These new men are good
men. They are not green men.
There are from $50 to 200 of them, and
we got them from Chicago, St. Louis,
Pittsburg and all around. They were
men who have been in the service there
and who were laid off for different
causes, and we pay better prices than
any of these Western roads,"
''Could you give definite idea as to
the actual number of men who went on
striker"
mo, and don't think anybody could.
The only way to find out was to have
tried to start up Saturday morning as
usual. But we started up by degrees
and lots of men who went out in the
h.a a1r h., Of
and lots who were ordered to report for
duty did So / should think the number
of new men who have gone to work on
the road is 800 or 400, and that the num-
ber of men who came out was from
1,5O0 to 1900. But it is pure guesswork
on my part to very large extent"
"A paper says that you have esti
mated the companys loss at not over
$4,000. Is that a correct statement?"
II never said such thing. Twenty
five thousand dollars is ridiculously
large estimate. Why, this road has not
been completely shut up" Mr.. Webb
gave the reporter the following state
ment about the running of trains:
Going North-No. 81, on time at Port By
ron: No. %, twenty-four minutes late at
Amsterdam; No. /, seventeen minutes late
at Little Falls; No. II, seventeen minutes
late at Fonda; No. 3, on time; No. 25, on
time. All Hudson river way and local trains
running on time.
Going South-No. 9, on time at Albany;
No. 1S, four hours late at Syracuse. Lake
Shore train; No. 2, on time; No. 4, one hour
and ten minutes late at Herkimer, Lake
Shore train; No. 6, two hours late at syra-
46, on time; No. 81, on time at Little Falls.
General Superintendent VorheeS gave
the following summary of the situa-
tion" in regard to freight traffic: De
Witt Yard. Syracuse-Men working
there, making up trains. Trains taken
from there west; several taken east and
delivered via the West Shore, and the
first train was started east over
our own road to-day from Syracuse.
We started train west from Schenec-
tady. We picked up four trains that
were left in the vicinity Of Schenectady,
and they were taken into the West AL
from st. townsville for West Al
bany. That train will probably
be brought right down through
into East Albany and come down
the Hudson river road tomorrow.
We started three trains from SlxUy-fifth
street up to p. m. The first is up at
| PoughkeepSie, the second and third are
| following. We started one south from
| Greenbush that is coming south and
doing work. We have men and engines
switching at different points On the
| Hudson River division. We brought a
train in on the Harlem division from
White Plains to this city, with
Ice and Other Freight.
That is now on its way north. There
is one freight train on the Harlem dl-
vision going north. 1t has passed over
Dover Plains now. Milk trains will
run, all full, tonight. We have been
bringing in about one-half the quantity
of milk we ought to. l am hiring
men for freight for Albany and
| that vicinity, but l don't want
any more men here. We are not
yet receiving any freight into New
| York. The loss to the company in the
freight department is comparatively
small. My idea was to get the passen-
ger department running first and let the
freight go. Everything is normal in the
passenger department, except the Tuck
ahoe trains on the Harlem branch and
on the Hudson division, what we call
the "city locals'' that usually run from
here to Spuyten Duyvil. They are not
running yet. The six Croton locals
that were abandoned are running to.
day, and there is now full service OF
Croton trains. Our switches are all
right. We began to use the flying
switches Saturday afternoon. From
Syracuse west everything is absolutely
normal. running just as it usually does