The morning call., 1894-07-21
THIS is TIE END.
Ali Sacramento Believes That the
Strike Is Over.

alarm of the gratifying kind In renewed
indications of the collapse Of the fight as
far as the capital city is concerned. There
can be no longer any doubt about the fall
ure of the strike iu this quarter. The rail-
road company remains more firm than
ever, and the once powerful organization
of strikers is quickly breaking up. Barring
some surprising contingency the strike
here will be off before Sacramento is well
into next week.
During the past couple of days there has
been a transient furry of excitement over
the widely circulated reports that the
strikers were gathering strength and that
the railroad company was being more
completely tied up than ever. The dis
couraging outlook for the strikers before
that furry OF excitement is Of more dis
couraging aspect now. 1t is apparent that
the opinion obtains among Il consider
able number Of the strikers that the bot
tom has already been knocked out OF their
side Of the contest. There are about 900
of them at work to-day in the Southern
Pacific shops and yards. There were
others who might have been there, but
there happened to be no particular de-
partments in shape for the immediate
operation of a larger force.
The streets which open into the dirty,
dusty area about the railroad property
were pretty well thronged this morning
with men anxious to resume their work
on the trains and IN the shops. There
were nearly 800 of them. They gathered
thickly about all the approaches to the
depot and made Intellectual attempts to
pass tie vigilant sentres who guard that
entire territory. Some of them secured
admittance to the railroad property and
were given employment in the shops, but
many were told to wait until next week,
when employment will be furnished them.
This spectacle Of men about the streets
clamoring for work is considered the
strongest Kind of indication that the A. r.
Z. organization here is losing power.
The military authorities, railroad Off
Gals, municipal officers and Sacramentans
in general are loud in their predictions
that the end of the strike in tGis city has
about arrived. Two days, they say. will
decide the whole matter.
The impending dissolution of the strik-
ers' present organization is clearly evil
dent There are hundreds of unemployed
ing the shops only through fear of conse-
Quences threatened by those strikers who
have abandoned all hOre of ever again
entering the railroad workshops. and who
have been, perhaps naturally, impelied to
continue the disturbance and add to its
seriousness.
Notwithstanding all the threats the rail-
road company continues to run trains
almost on schedule time. and to run them
safely, toe. They come into Sacramento
well filled with passengers. They leave
the capital city loaded well numerically.
During the past week traffic has increased
daily, until now there is a Changing of
bells and shrieking Of engines which is
easily calculated to startle even so impOr-
tant railroad center as Sacramento after
the uuacCustomed serenity OF the past few
weeks.
Soldier people still glitter and gallop and
lounge about the railroad lines, but they
are tired, fear fully tired of the job. At
the depot they sit and smoke and talk in
an atmosphere thick with the smoke Of
engines. At the camp of Barry's Third,
across the way, the citizen soldiers bake
resignedly in a sun that could easily chal-
lenge favorable comparison with the Sa.
haran doings of Sol. The First lives in
sort of Sacramento swamp, where a deal
OF double fighting is done with tramps and
malaria. Out on be Capitol grounds there
is the Sacramento battery, which has
hard time firing morning and sunset guns
and salutes to occasional generals. Really
the First and Third of San Francisco
are having the hardest time. They
are doing all of the sentry duty over
miles of dangerous territory. Barry's
regiment attends to the depO: and round
house and other sun-hot sections OF the
railroad properly. Sullivan's First has
patrols all around the tracks for couple
of miles or more from the depot 10 the
American River bridge. There are over
100 men on guard every night, and their
job is no sinecure. Critics may nave all
of their uncom plimentary say about San
Franchises State troops at Sacramento,
but if witnesses of their doings know
anything these same San Francisco State
troops are working superbly. The regular
soldiers are doing almost nothing. They
are Quartered al the depot and there they
remain day and night and rest themselves
for possible emergencies. In the mean
while SullivaD's militismen and Barry's
mtlitiamen do hard sentry work. They do
it well, too. and they have already proved
their quality sufficiently to wipe out any
of the i'm putations which were too hastily
piled upon them after their unfortunate
but unavoidable participation in the
peculiar Fourth of July affair In which
General Sheehan's Sacramento and
Stockton troops were the chief and only
responsible actors
Reports current about town this evening
seem to indicate that the A. R. U. organiz-
alton here has banded Itself more firmly
for a vigorous continuation of the fight. 1t
is admitted by the strikers themselves that
this morning the situation appeared more
gloomy than ever. Every man of them
was fearful of the disastrous outcome Of
the whole affair and had become In a
measure dissat isfed with tho scarcity of
accurate information about their real
position and prospects. So meeting was
held in Smiths Ball and it was largely
attended by rolling-mill men and black
smiths. Ii had been determined that there
aheula be a more lucid understanding be-
tween The strikers ana their leaders.
Vigorous addresses were delivered and the
enthusiasm is said to have run high. The
rasuit of the meeting has been a diffusion
If rsneyed interest and encouragement
amonp the strikers. Whether this will
irterfere materially with this mornings
nInspeets for the general collapse OF the
strike here is difficult TO predict
Snperinteadent Fillmore was seen TO.