New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-21
TRAINS MOVED AT BUFFALO.
1T LOOKS AS IF THE SWITCEMEN HAD
LOST THEIR FIGHT.

ERIE COUNTY srpERv1soRs ANXIOUS TO BE RID
OF THE HEAVY COST OF MAINTAINING THE
soLpIERs-pIsoRDER QUICKLY Sup
PRESSED BY NEw-YoRK REGI-
MEyr-AcMDENrs AND INCL
DENTS IN THE CAMP.
rBY TELEGRAPH TIE rKIBuSE.l
Buffalo. Aug. 2O.-To-night marks crisis IN the
strike here and the switchnens cause will he lost
unless the trainmen or fremen go ont withih t"eh-
ty-four hours The railroads have been moving
freight pretty freely all day under heavy guard
and have shown conclusively that they can get
along very well without the strikers. few coup
ling-pins have been pulled, few frogs have bceh
| chokcd and q few stones have been thrown to-day
but there has been no serious attempt TO Interfere
| with traffic All eyes are on the fremen ana
tralnmen. and II must be said that at this hour
1t looks very much as if they intended TO stuck 10
their places Yct all tie afternoon newspapers mere
have double-leadc predictions that these men VIII
go out within a few hours A railroad man, name
NOT oiyen. Is nuotcd MS saying: The engineers AMI
fremen are going out within forty-cight hours MS
Is positive I'd bet 81 on II TO ten cents aNa
in "a position to know what am talking ABOUT
An onoipeer said TO me this morning We're going
DEATH blow to organized labor feel certain tha'
the ercinec,s and Grenen will join the strike, and
the Erie train,ncn will quit. They are well organ
lied. The Lehieh irainmen are not well orgahize''
aud will likely stay at work. {.
SECRET BALLOT OF THE FTREMEN
In snit. Of this and several other assertions TO
nG,ut the slnc effect, and eqnauS poSI'i'''
,hs chances orc TINT the strike is practically at
| INN
orr. held secret meetings last night, and, al
| ,ho,ch a e. known many were In favor OF
strike there are indications that the majority
vote was against it, For some days previous
| scc-et ballot wac being taken among the hre-
, mon zach man being asked TO say whether Inc
| wanted TO 20 ont or not. 1t is believed Tie
| noes" had il, for this morning was oc'''r
time for dcciivc action than VIII 10 seen
aoain. Grand Master Sargent Of the fremen' Is
Known 20 II. onposed 70 strike. and the men
In bis order cannot 20 out without his consent;
they would not be supported by strike funds II
they did As time wears on, IL looks more ana
mor- az II Grand Master Sweeney, OF the switch-
mon was running rulnor bureau from his
Si-a-dsy headquarters at the "ehcSee iio'eI' MS
object being to divert passenger traffic from the
ticd-up roads. and also TO spur on the iagslne
{ ainnen and GT,mcn. II possible In 'ho
former re- .pect he las been successful for pnsscn-
ecr traffic has fallen OF greatly, people being
afraid to travel tor fear OF being left stranded
IN some out Of the way plac"
WHO WILL PAY TIE PrrERf
Adjutant-Gcner Portcr's statement that the
state will have 10 pay for all the troops ordered
bere. .c>oep, the Fourth Brigade. has put qnietus
TO n good deal Of the clamor against having an
expcns, Of $50. 600 n day sadded on the county
Bn, Sheriff Beck, who at first took the advice ot
| Iisrt~nant- Governor Shcehan's law partner, ana
,cfnscd 20 call on Governor Flower for the whole
State Guard, said to-day:
| 81 have received several complaints that therc
are too many troops here. have taken auN'oc
from Judge Titus on proposal 10 ask u'c WV
crnor to withdraw some of them. Dut canno'
rive nv opinion until | inspect the camps 40"
know how acted in the matter. WAS very
reluctant and would not have asked the Governor
10 call out all the troops were 1t not ior tue I'M
nort,lninrs and letters OF General Doyle ana NV
railway officials who appeared very earnest III
their representations Of the situation. 'h M''-
day shall be ready to give an answer as
whc,ler | shall recommend the Withdraw" Vi
any troop, or not -,
complaining taxpayers to-day lie 'oi' 'nc'' ','''
,hc troop. would lc Withdrawn as soon rs IN the
- =, ,hc military commander there WAS no
lop,,.r rccesitv for their presence lie thouSh'
,ho Sheriff Lad acted properly, ana the troops
,houId le kent here until The situation Is iHuch
improved .,
There i, suspicion afoat that the Sheehan
Democrats are planning to make poliueai capl'''
out Of the extra Tux on Erie County.
TRACKS or THE GRAND TRUNK BLocKED'
The Grand Trunk switchmcn refuse to handle
freight from the tied up roads The tracks OF
the company are now blocked on both sdee oil
thc river Tie road cannot bring any ears over
here on account of thc blockade on TINS side' hh"
cannot grt of its own ears because cohP"nicS
hsre cannot handle them. This morning close
on to 200 cars nearly all from the Erie, piocke"
the entrance TO the international Bridge lh'
switchmen consented 10 shift them to sidlngS 10
clear the main track but that was the only con-
ccssou they would make Two cattle trains were
got over to Canada last evening. They were ~
corted by a guard of soldiers to the boundary
line.
There is no indication that the Lackawahh"
men will strike but II s stated that the road re-
fused positively to- take n string of lrhigh val
Icy live stock in order not TO offend its swltch-
men.
The Lchigh Valley yards at Sayrc, Penn'' are
open at last and conseq qucntly Lehlsh freght n"s
begun to move out Of Buffalo
The Lake Shore began work to-day with non
union men and without any difficulty
Third VicePresident Webb, of the Central SAID
l"You can say positively for me that the Central
freight is being moved to-day as if no strike oc-
cured Have liz swtchmcn at work, more Ill
fact than need. ! have got them from all over.
A lot came from New-York, some from Albany ana
a good many are the Buffalo men who went out
because they were not properly protected. Every
one of them is experienced. l only hire those l
know to be practical switchmen or brakemeh.
suppose over one-half of the new hands ore
Kn;,,bts of obor They used to work for the