The morning call., 1894-06-29

At 9 10 o'clock last night train of four
. maflcars and five Pullman coaenes drew
out.of the West Oakland yards and ran tc
the mole. There its makeup was changed
ro;three msilcars. two passenger cars and
three Pullman coaches. Some delay wat
caused by the refusal of the regular en-.
gineeT, Sam Clark, to go out with a seal
. fireman, the regular fireman having de.
: cIined to assist in taking out a Pullman
coach. The engineers objections were
nnally overcome, and at 1910 o'clock
exactly one hour from the time the train
left the yards, it passed the Sixteenth.
street station at the top of its speed. The
railroad company had kept its word and
taken out the boycotted coaches in spite
Of all resistance. The plan of running out
test train at 9 o'clock was Division
Superintendent Wilder's. BE had been
of the opinion right along that when the
proper time arrived the Pullman coaches
would be moved. and there would not be
N ach resistance either. He notified a
few officials OF his Intentions of making
the test al 9 o'clock. at that hour the
crowd of onlookers at the yards scarcely
oQtnumbered the police and guards who
stood almost shoulder to shoulder and
aries. Considerable maneuverng was
done by the switch engines, which served
its probable purpose of mystifying the
crowd, and at 9:10 big road engine moved
deliberately drawing the Pullman train.
The pelice forced the crowd back and
urged no demonstration, which was un-
necessary, for everybody looked on with
Indifference, helpless to prevent the move
ment had they desired to do 50. Only one
OF the mailcars was lighted, the first one.
Inside three or four mail clerks were busy
over the mail bags. Not Pullman coach
had light in il. The train pulled slowly
past the crowd. steadily increasing its
speed until. with defiant belch of sparks,
il rounded the point and disappeared
down the straingt way 10 the mole.
e Sam Clark, the engineer who took the
tabOoed train out from the mole, has been
on the road sixteen years. He is a men,
Der Of the brotherhood of Engineers but
does not belong to the American Railway
Union. His action in taking charge of the
train was not approved by the great crowd
that had been waiting at the mole since Z
o'clock, and it is likely that a demonstra
tlon would have been made against him
had not the authorities promptly quelIed
it. A special to serve the purpose of a
blind ran out five minutes ahead of the
Pullman train. The crowd at the Six
teentb-Street station seeing the special, de-
cided there would be no attempt made TO
take the Pullman coaches out and left the
field. a moment later the Pullman train
passed through like cyclone with every
carriage illuminated. The union men are
not at all discouraged. They say that
while the railroad company succeeded in
finding one engineer who obeyed orders
they will have difficulty in getting enough
to take out the schedule number of trains.
The train pulled out for Ogden nearly
three hours behind the appointed time. AS
consequence there were only few pas
sengers on board. The train with the
PGlmaps will avoid any point at which
they might be detained by the members of
the A. R. q. The exact route was not
piVan ont.