The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-07-03
CHICAGO'S PLIGHT WORSE.
Companies willing that the Public
shall suffer u Little.

CHICAGO, July 3.-The Pullman boy
colt Ia generally spreading. agd each
hour the area covered ly II widcns.
There Is little change to be noted With
respect to the roads already reported as
In trouble. A few Of them are strug-
Cling to move their passenger trains, but
freight traffic is practically At an end.
The Chicago. burlington and Quincy,
which employs non-uniou mel. is about
the only exception among the roads in
Chicago.
The Chicago and Northern. which up
TO last night had escaped trouble. fen
Into line during the night, and to-
day Is completely tied up Its subur-
ban traffic is very heavy, and great in
convenience results fr"m the stopplge
OF this branch OF Its business.
1uc Illinois Central. the Rock Island,
the Milwaukee and ST. Paul and Great
Western all report Il like condition.
The Michigan Central and Michigan
southern have been suffering, because
they occupied terminal facilities Jointly
with the illinois Central and Rock Isl
ana. Nevertheless ny to to-day they
had been able To move their throuG II
passenger traffic with compardtiN" ""~c.
The general tic-up at Detroit to-day
stops these two roads rtfcctually.
The Western Indiana terminal. over
which the Grand Trunk, chicago AMI
Erie, Wabash, Eastern Illinois, santa
lie and Monun roads enter tn" city, re-
covered from the first shock and was
handling Its passenger traiiiC with a rei-
sonahle degree Of efficiency M In last
night. To-day all of those roads are
again in trouble.
Managers Won't Force the Fight.
A new difficulty is presented by the
refusal OF IN, engineers ana lirrm"r
to risk their lives 10y worNing with
green hands. and IL IL also doubtless
true that the railway manaGers them
selves are not very anxious To force The
lighting. They are exceedingly fearful
Of ,precipitating "A battle ON the l;h OF
July, and are playing waiting game
They are making no serinus effort tc
move their trains before THURSDAY
morning. They also say that sus,
pension at this time is not an unmiti'
| gated evil.
we are taking things very easy,
said one of them this morning. "W,
know perfectly well that the freight II
sooner or later and, AZ all Of the road.
are involved in this Thing, it makes n,
difference to us, when the freight il
moved, as we shall ultimately get Ou
share OF It. II any zone or more of thu
roads was free from disturbance. I
might rob tn" rest of us of our share
question has got 70 Be "erticd sooner ' -" o
later ana we feFl it might as well b
now as ever.
'L"t the Public suffer"
We are perfectly willing that III
pablo shall suffer enough luconven
lencs To- enabtc it to FULLY realize VIVA
the strike nFanS. II VII not he lon
before the Inconvenience resulting frol
This suspension win be felt very keenl
eNeiywhereJ and then we believe publ
sentiment win be great, factor In N
extinction of Debs and his people. W
believe this is a much wiser way to Sc,
tie these TROUBLES than would be an al
tempt to- force the thing and cndange
the lives OF large number OF faithfu
men"
Provisions Going Up.
The) price of provisions Is advancin
veryt rapidly, and the hotels. restaI
rantf and private families are feeling
very keenly. Fruit. Ice and all kinds {
perysbable provisions are commandin
very high prices, and, indeed. are no
regarded as luxury. The coal famir