Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-07-21
TEN MILLION DOLLARS.
That IL What the strike at Chicago Ha
Cost.

'"f -
Cost.
CHICAGO, July 14.--About $40. 600, 900
q what the American Railway union
sympathetic strike has cost the city OF
Chicago. the state OF Illinois, and the
government Of the United States. In
he first days of the strike Vice Presi-
lent Harahan OF the Illinois Central
road is said to have made the state
nent that the strike was then costing
the railroads running out of this city
, cool quarter Of a million n day. After
ward the strike developed such magni-
sude that conservative authorities place
The daily cost OF the trouble to the
loads in destruction Of property, inter
.uption Of traffic, aud precautionary
measures at double Mr.. Harahan's esti-
mate for many days.
Now that the general managers have
ceased TO worry about the ~protrnding
stiffness OF the strikers backbone. they
are beginning TO count the cost. IL
will be n mouth before all the greater
expenses have been figured up and re-
duced to a row Of black marks on n
sheet of paper. Possibly the real cost
can never be fully known.
at is far too early now for mo to
venture an estimate as to the expense
os the strike" said General Manager
Egau. "Vice President Harahan OF
he Illinois Central Is pretty good au-
shority on the cost OF the strike TO the
railroads. and he is also In n first class
position to know the general items OF
vDana TO he anf1 gOEn nn0 N 1au hn
ought to DO pretty nearly right"
While the losses of the roads reached
$500, 900 a day during the crisis OF the
strike, the expenses during the rest OF
he time were much less. Now they
arc scarcely n tenth OF that sum. II
IS safe to estimate the total OF the roads
at $500, 900. .,
A prominent merchant said that tho
strike will probably cost the business
Interests of this city at least 81 1000 600.
''Ovcr a quarter OF this amount will
probably be divided among the packing
nouses at the stock yards, the bulk fall
ng upon Armour, Swift and Morris"
ne said. "A quantity Of outside trade
been detected from this city which
simply can not be estimated Mt oil.
country merchants who buy their sup
plies in Chicago have beer unable to
get any goods from this city and have
been compelled TO transfer their trade
Temporal y 10 some other city that has
not felt the effects of the strike so Sc
vercly. Some of this trade may never
be got back by Chicago merchants. II
will take weeks and months TO draw
back the rest into the old channels" /,
Confidential Secretary Combs said
that p. ID. Armour feels SO much re-
ievod over the apparent death of the
strike that he has decided TO leave for
Europe on next Wednesdays steamer
from New York.
The expense 10 the federal and state
governments will reach 81, ZOO, 900 at
least. Half OF the entire expense will
fall upon Chicago. Deputy sheriffs by
the hundred, deputy marshals by the
thousands, three brigndes OF Illinois
militia, the entire military force Of the
state, and the moving of 1000 federal
soldiers, all are items that will add
large chunks TO the appropriation bills
Of congress and the state legislature.
In addition to the foregoing may be
named the destruction of 90, 200, 900 OF
property.