Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-08-19

u Willingness TO arD1Crdbe, ana reQulrco
to be informed whether the railroads
would consent to an adjustment of the
difficulty.
Vice President Webb returned a reply
which is believed to embody the senti-
ment Of the officials of the other roads.
It was to the effect that the Central had
nothing to arbitrate.
In the Lake Shore yard last evening
crowd Of strikers gathered and stoned
two yard engines, breaking the glass in
the cabs and driving the engineer and
fireman from their posts. A messenger
was dispatched to General Doyle for
force Of militia, and pending their arrival
work was suspended.
A Little Freight Moving.
The Erie has begun to move freight.
When Trainmaster Barnett said that he
was going to move freight at once nobody
believed that he would. But he surprised
them. He gave the word at midnight to
the soldiers that he was ready to move
three freight trains east. He told Col.
WEIGH that he wanted soldiers to go with
them, and that officer detailed two COM
panies to accompany the trains. The
soldiers accompanied the trains to At
tica and there left them, the trainmen
saying they could get through all right
The Reading and Central have sue
coed in starting several long freight
trains. Soldiers accompanied them
several miles, and there was no attempt
at molestation.
The number of men ordered to the city
by Adjutant- General Porter in accord
ance with the request of the sheriff of
Erie county is IL, 600. The detail comprises
regiments from N ew York, 10th Battal-
lion, Albany, and several companies from
Troy, Hudson, Poughkeepsie, Yonkers,
Schenectady, CatskilI and Watertown.
Most of the troops have already arrived.
The Adjutant- General accompanied a
detachment of them.
Tried to Wreck the Fast Mail.
Two strikers are locked up at No.
station house. They had a deep laid
scheme for ditching the fast mail which
leaves here over the New York Central
at II 40 p. M, but it was nipped in the
bud by Sergeant Burkhardt and two po-
licemen from the Eighth precinct, who
| caught the miscreants in the very act of
| throwing the switch on the main track
| near Fillmore, Just before the train was
| due to pass. The men claim to be labor
ers and not switchmen.
Camp Lehigh presented a peaceful ap-
pearance last night The solemn and
| silent march of the sentries and the glis-
| tening of the electric lights on their
bright bayonets indicated plainly that it
WdS GAc SCouo VI d MILITARY 11cEo
and there ON the outskirts of the camp
| lines could be seen the pickets of the
strikers keeping watch of the movements
of the soldiers in the shadows of the
camp. Occasionally a train would &C
through the silent yards with a roar and
a rumble and swishing of steam which
made every man in camp turn over and
take another grip on his nap.
The strikers had regular code oftht
torpedo signals and they kept each Other
informed of their whereabouts by explod
ing them.
The strikers end of this remarkable Labor
drama is busy. Grand Master Sweeney
and his men have been in repeated con
ferences, Grand Master Wilkinson has
been comforting with representatives Of
| the local trainmen's union and the arbi
tration committee has been laborine
among themselves and the strikers, bu
have SO far accomplished nothing at all
| Chief Arthur, of the the Locomotive
Engineers, will take hand towards set
Ting the difficulty, and within few hours
all the labor leaders will have assembled
here and the exact situation will b.
| known.