Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-08-25

home be accepted there are no elements of |
a summer vacation in the work of the |
militia about the strike district at East |
Buffalo. Yesterday there were hardships |
seldom experienced by troops in open war. |
The meals were wide apart and, as the am
bulance record proves, the heat and other |
trials Frustrated the men.
Let lis see if readers at u distance may be |
able to see the picture. Imagine a nam
moth Y with the opening of its fol ks look |
ing up towards the city, five miles away, |
and with its stem trailing off to eastward
The right hand fork is the main line tracks
OF the Erie over which all passenger trains
of the Erie and l4ehigh Valley roads leave
and enter the city. The left hand fork is
the I.ehigh and Erie entrance to the
freight yards, where part of the trouble is.
The stem of the Y is the Erie main line
astward. overthis figure at the junction of
he stem and the two forks is Il high trestlc
bridge of iron said to have cost 100000,
nd belonging to the Delaware, l.aCka-
gamma & Western, which conceded the
Demands of its switchmen. Upon this
high trestle the strikers have roasted by
day and watched the yards and houted the
troops, and at night in the darkness of
such an elevation, they have used the
tresIle as vantage spot for more earnest
attentions than go with jeerS and hoOting.
A mile away on the right are the New
York Central tracks. Straight out Of the
city and along the outer edge Of the
leads down and crosses the Erie and Ichigh
tracks at the junction of the forks ami the
stem. Williams street is SPAWNED too at
that point by the iron trestle Of the d. L..
n w. railroad. Close down in the acute
angle of the figure is the Williams street
station Of the Erie road and this has been
possessed by General llorter c. Doyle
commanding the troops, as his headQuar-
tiers. The station building ramblcs rear
ward enough u give the general room
which he calls his Office, where
he sits at square blaize-Cuvered
table and receives reports and
issues orders, and as he stands or sits
the visitor to General Doyle sees man
with brown eyes. firm bron2ed features
and iron gray hair that is brushed over
the dome of the generals head to help
conceal its own thinness. General boyle
is slow of speech. In repose he is of inn
pressive dignity. Near the commanders
little den is the headquarters Of the ambu-
lance corps, with display of drugs and
instruments, and surgeons always in at
tendance.
This fact is evidenced to outsiders by the
standards of the ambulance corps nailed
to staff that is stuck i'll the soil beside the
headquarters building. The tiutt0r Of the
white flag with its scarlet Maltese cross is
bear Significance to those who know its
meaning and reflect upon the possibilities
of the situation. In a little cubby hole
opening from the surgeons quarterslis
fixed a telephone thai is constantly in use.
Opening too from the doctors apartments
passage to q little Seranda platform. Iii
one angle of this platform is an oaken bar
rel with wooden cover that is lifted with a
elect. In this barrel is ice water and con-
stantly, while there are no applications for
its contents private sits upon the barrel $
cover and lholds it down firmly. Why,
because il is feared poison may lie thrown
into the water.
Indeed there was last night rumor that
the water barrel had been poisoned and
that the close watching of it was result.
This rumor could not be verified, but the
private sits this morning just as hard upon
The wooden cover. Nearby in a box car
is the police headquarters for the strike
district, where Sergeant LiCh is within
readiness with score of men for action
4 ditch lies along the edge of Williams
street and is crossed by all the tracks. The
ditch is an open sewer, Besides other
refuse, it carries with its sluggish tide the
drainage from Il fat-rendGring establish
ment that smells horribly TO heaven. This
is close by the stem Of the y, little
below the junction of the forks directly
across the tracks from where the men
We're yesterday caniped in the glare of the
sun. Directly in line with the fat.rondcr.
ing station above mentioned, is the estah.
lishment where the garbage Of Buffalo is
destroyed.
jewellers Whereabouts say the garbage
MN 10 publlcSo, DhI Iut9 speak TtlhllNElA,
The fat boilery outsmells all smells, even
that of the open sewer to which it Coutri
butes, and the garbage mill subsidies as Ia
its otfensiveness by comparison. out in a
held abreast there is 9Oudy tent, under
which officers and such men rs rnulI
found shelter yesterday. There vas /.
small officers tent abreast the fat boilers
This was the only shelter for men on
duty who were chiefly huddlcd along III,
sides of ditch that lies i'll the utmost
angle of the forks of the " The ration,
yesterday were canned beef, canned beans
and bread without butter. Some of duty
foraged for and found pie Al the stores 81
Williams street. There Was mach gram
bling at the meagre supply OF food ant
the long waits between times Of its Service
But last evening there came down tent,
for the men, and as the twilight came m,
men were cheerily stalking down the can
yass shelters.
The variety of food was increased in til,
evening by the arriSa! of other provisions
The pickets were toTlnentcd last nil,b
with the frequent whistling OF the strikers
long, low whistling as though sigualiu.
each other. After taps, and silence in TIL
icamp, the stiffness Of the night ii thrs
silent yards where usually there is con
slant movement grows oppressive I'M,
more than one yOungster IN the pickle
lines is glad to know bullet is inside hi
muSket.
When the word came from the Delawar
d Western that tracks would be free be
fore O'Clock this morning there was
movement at head quarters ami d dutaClI
'ment was told out from the reserves ii eN
tend the picket lines to the newly tied ii
property. The lalliuE in of tins mon Til
relief of pickets the occasional challrng
OF passer by on the roatis, The far ava
shout of 4 mans voice, which none con.
and intensified the loneliness If life an
duty.