The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-08-20


ments that the new men are restrained Of
their liberty. The Lake Shore road, one Of
the CentraPs feeders, has enough men in
Its yard tonight to man the usual number
day nab snd neS asTIy9a Sa nn to
work In the morning. The Erie to-day
moved five trains with ten switching crews,
ana have In quarters more than the number
or men normally employed in sending out
the Erie's daily quota of twenty trains
THE TEST WILL COME TO-DAY.
The Central road is. tonight, moving
traffic in Its yards for the first time since
The strike began. The Lehigh road has in
one OF its round houses men sufficient, the
officials assert, to move it's traffic under
protection, and the Nickel-plate, the last
road tied up, is possibly the only one Of
these affected which may not have secured
new help. Tomorrow will be the test day.
The claims of the companies will be veri-
fed or the assertions of the strikers will be
proven true. If the roads are not absolute
ly crippled, the volume of traffic moved to-
morrow must prove that fact. Then IL be-
comes question how long tho military
shall be retained in the yards, or how soon
the strikers concede their cause to be hope
less.
The second feature In this strike diff
Guilty at the close of its first week is an I'M
certainty as to what can be and what Will
be the next stroke of the leaders against
the railway interests in this city or else
where. There is conviction on the part
OF those who seek the news that there Is an
effort being made toward the withdrawal
from work OF the firemen or trainmen or
both on the affected roads. While this
digest of the situation is being prepared de-
cisive statements on this feature Of the
strike may not be made. because at
the moment meeting. of the fire.
mems organization is being held in
determination to quit work. Another DOS
sibiiity which remains persistently in the
fog OF doubt is that the Lackawanna men
who. though entirely satisfied with their
positions aud pay, may yet come out to add
strength of numbers to their striking col.
leagues. These possibilities, foreshadowed
in these dispatches forty eight hours ago.
still remain pertinent element In the
problem. The railway districts Of this city
may, in brief. be said to constitute chess
board upon which a grim and serious game
is being played out to q finish. When the
railways mako move the strikers also
make one. The check by the troops to-day
may be mated before dawn by the calling
pathetic strike of the firemen on the
affected roads.
The third and least prominent feature of
this week old problem is an attempt made
this evening by Mr. Sweeney. the switch
mems leader. to secure arbitration of the
differences between the roads and their
men. He has addressed letters to the Of
ficers of the affected roads recitIng the his
tory of the case, and offering to submit the
cause OF the strikers to the Judgment of
three men. one to be chosen by each side
and the third by these two. The Erie has
responded with the statement that the
matter would be referred to the dominant
officials OF the road. The Lake Shore hos
disputed the allegations in Mr.. Sweeney's
letter proposing arbitration, and tha Cen
tral had made answer in terms sharply de-
clinlng arbitration, because it is held by
the road that it no longer has anything to
arbitrate.
PROTESTS AGAINST THE TROOPS.
There Is already something more than a
mutterinR in Erie county over the enor-
nous expense that is to be entalled by the
maintenance of troops in this city.
Strikers and other citizens as we'll have
to-day vehemently protested before the
Mayor and the sheriff that seven Thousand
troops are not needed to control the five
hundred men who are on strike. The
protestants do not recognize the fact that
others than strikers are claimed to have
beSn largely the cause OF the disturbances
which gave rise to the orders bringing the
troops here. Men coming from homes
WhoiO tuACo luCdlo uIO uRlfy ocANOu WlbA
regularity naturally suffer from the sharp
change TO military ratIons, but the men at
various points in the city are complaining
bitterly tonight that even insufficient ra-
ti0ns have been served to them to-day. In
the restaurants and hotels about town, this
evening. the militia. on leave of absence.
were seen securing adequate and whole
some meals. Differences have arisen be-
tween Inspector McGrath and General
Doyle over the commissary arrangements.
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see that the men are properly fed, If he has
to charter trains in the name of the State
to convey food to the various posts.
Subject to all the conditions referred to.
the railway situation tonight is thus: The
only trunk line uninterruptedly carrying
freight westward is the Delaware. Lacka-
wanna 81 Western. One of the Western
trunk lines from this city, the Lake Shore,
Is clogged. and the Grand Trunk. of Cana
da. Is threatcned with a strike. The Mich
ward. is involved. like the Lake Shore, in
tho fortunes of the Central. and only sue
cess of to-mOrrOw's efforts of the
roads to move freight freely is
to be relied upon for eastward
ehs iac4c, o no.itior of tba ,u,s
brought strongly to light. This point OF
the Lackawanna is just as thoroughly ap-
preciated by the strike leaders as by any
others. and the Importance of what the
uiou Oh tu0t llue Will COnCIuuo 10 w 40 u
sympathetic strike Is beyond cavil.
The situation. SO far as tho elevators of
Buffalo are concerned, is just this: Rail
road houses are in no condition to help
each other as they have grain contracted
i. for to keep them fully busy. but all are not
ity to-day Is fully four million bush
els outside of half q dozen houses which
could be put in compission In q
day or two. There are also two hundred
canal boats tied to tho docks awaiting
loads 10 New York. 1t is true shipments
are very light by canal, and the railroads.
outside of the Lackawanna, are moving
comparatively only few cars. but there
10 no Immediate prospect of glut of grain
in the Buffalo elevators with the present
only fair receipts. Nearly every year the
elevators here are crowded after the new
crop commences to move and the amount
now in store is much less than in four
years past.