Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-12-17
STANDING STILL.
No New Developments in the
Rock Island Strike.
ONLY TINE WILL TELL.

n eth TIE Officials and the Strikers Claim
to be Gaining Ground-The Strikers
orrsoirins All Along the Line-The Com
peny Have No Trouble In Handling
Business English and American Engine
fecords-<seneral Railway Notes.
The strike on the Rock Island has not
developed anything new during the past
week. The operators clsim that the Rock
Isiead has an agent at Buffalo, n. Y,
who is Offering to hire operators at 800
per month and that the road IS in hard
straits for men in the west. The COM
psny's officials sril claim that the busi>
ness is being handled with ease and that
the strike ia over with so far as Gripping
the coal "a co?co--"d Chief Ramsay is
nov being dsro,cH, cspt4in being
plscet over each district to see that no
misrepresentation are made 10 the strik.
ing meu. There is no INN -,iiAte prosp ct
Of sny new developments
Engines With Records.
Considerable attention has been at
trscted By the record of the E glish loco>
motive. Charles Dickens, on the London
& Northwestern railway published by the
Railway Age. The engine was built and
put into service Feb 6 'SS2 and has III
to the present TiMe run U79 492 miles
in 10 years months and "a days. aver
sgIng lO5. 39S miles per year, or 8. 7SS
miles per month, or 3694 miles each week
dsy while In service. Between Feb. 6
1882. and Aug. 80, 1892. the engine has
completed 5000 trips of 1891 each. be.
sides 90 extra trips. 1t runs week days
ouiY. and spent 212 days in repair shops
In comparison wilh this record IIiinoi,
Central engines Nos % 25 and IS. bull
in 1858 had made i ,029 965 miles, 1.0O7,
1893 miles and 1,0l5. 40S miles rpspectiyeI !
up to Dec IL, 1885, or in about 80 wears
No % sgeraged 80 900 miles per vesl
for that period, or less than one-third OF
d. North western engine. These Illinois
Central engines are the only Oues OF
which tue Railway Age has record as
nstins 1000 900 miles or over.
Around the Dspots.
The r. I. & P pay cars went out owe,
the system TO day.
I. L Lockwood, local freight agent al
Chicago of the New York, Chicago & St
Lou S. was visitor 10 the city dlrine the
week.
Operator Ormistoa. who left his key in
the office II East Moline when the strike
was ordered. Jeff last night for ST. Psul
where he expects to remain.
Excursion business on ell the roads
into the city promises TO be exception
ally good during the holidays. All the
roads in the city are offering a rate of one
and third fare for the round trip
within radius of 300 miles
Freight and passenger business is good
on sll the roads and Is increasing right
along.
Delegate Harvey Of Oklshcma. has in
troduced q bill in the house granting
to the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
railroad company the right Of way through
the Indian territory.
Brakeman Slower, OF the c., 81 & S. P.
is back on his run again, after a temper
srV absence OF couple of weeks
Organizer McCsbe # the o R. T
wac in Rock Island ID Consultation VITA
the operators who are out here and is
confident that they Will yet win the
strike
aunariptapda1t of Oonatr,o,;oo W U
IcTariin of the c, r /. & P. visited
the city Yesterday looking after the com
pany's interests mere.
p. y. Murray as in the city yesterday
looking after the passenger business of
the Michigan Central which company
he represents in the capacity of travels
Ing passenger agent.
Division Agent a. D. Mack of the
O. b. & O. was down the St. Louis
division on business yesterday.
N. s. Giles, who represents the pas
senger department of the Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern was in Rock
Island yesterday on business
Fred Copp of the G. B. & @. ticket
once left this afternoon for Galesburg.
where he will spend Sunday visiting
friends.
Jemea McN4an. an old Rock Island
boy who 70 now in the employ of the
c., X. l. q z has been visiting friends
end relatives here during the past week.
Ross Bookwslter. travelling passenger
agent of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois,
was doing the three cities during the past
few days in the interests of bis COM
Psny.
G. Z. Bedingfeld. formerly a brake
Rad running on the c., B & @ between
this city and Chicago. and wsll known to
many here died at his home in Shabbona,
ILL.,. yesterday of typhoid fever He
lad been sickonly short lime AID leaves
a widow to mourn his loss.
Nothing definite has yet been heard
from the Rock Island as TO the putting
on OF bridge trains when the Rock Island
bridge is closed for travel. 1t is under
stood that the trains last winter did not
yield the company any great revenue, hut