The morning call., 1894-07-06

spondents OF newspapers being excluded
from communication with the officers or
men. The guard line was extended so as
take in the tracks with their rows of pas
senger trains and also the railroad build
ingS. Inside this it was impossible to get,
for a Gordon of fixed bayonets formed an
impossible barrier. The officers were per-
mitted to take their meals at the depot
dinng-room. but had to return without un-
necessary delay.
BY way of explanation Colonel Shafter
said be was merely holding his command
together so that lit would be available when
called on.
Everything is as quiet as the grave
here" was bis description OF the situation
in Los Angeles. and then he added with
some slight hesitation, 81 have received no
orders yet. and until 1 do there will be no
change"
The men slept comfortably on straw
beds under canvas. The change from
cramped and overheated cars to the routine
OF camp life pleases them, and they appear
to enjoy their new quarters with relish. As
the bakers Of Los Angeles cannot be relied
on to furnish bread for the camp fires were
lighted between the tracks and besides
cooking the mess were utilized for baking
loaves in Dutch ovens.
Company under command of Lieu
tenant Winn marched to the Santa Fe
depot and spent the morning under the
shade Of the buildings. While the soldiers
we're enjoying this cool shelter train for
San Diego was made up and dispatched at
u 80 P. NJ. 1t consisted of a combination
mail, express and baggage-car and day
coach. Master Mechanic Williams, who
brought the train yesterday from Barstow,
was engineer, with a ncn-union frema an in
the cab. No demonstration was made by
the spectators, and as soon as the train left
town Company F marched back to camp.
In the afternoon a switch engine was
going at the Santa Fs depot, switching
cars and engines. taking the latter to the
rOundhouses, and arranging cars on the
sidetracks in order. No attention was
given by strikers TO these operations.
The San Fernando mschine-shops and
freight yards of the Southern Pacific
Company were aroused this morning by
the sounds of returning life and action.
Gangs of carpenters, brlcklayers and
la borers were put to work on the half
completed turntable at the roundhouse
and before the day was over had it ready
to transfer locomotives to the semi-circu-
lar shed. Company F, under Captain Car
rington and Lieutenant Martin, was
placed on duty there at 7:30 A. N. Be
eleven deputy marshals scattered around
to keep out strikers or people who had no
business in the yards.
Master Mechanic Sheedy got four en-
gine crews at work early, and at noon
switch engine steamed out from the long
double rows of rusting locomotives and ar
rived at the Arcade station, to the aston
ishment of the crowd. Two hours later
two engines were taken to the Arcade STA
ton, and trains for San Francisco, Santa
DaEOaTa anu SANTA ana were made up.
The Santa Barbara train consisted of
mbination mailcar and two day coaches.
Jesse Martin. regular engineer on the run,
was in the engine. and the rest of the
crew was composed of discharged railroad
employees At 4 As the train left with the
mails, having Lieutenant Cloman and
twenty guards on the engine and plat
forms An immense mob gathered at the
street-crossing 20 see the train leave, but
half dozen policemen. having long clubs
and speaking quietly to the throng, cleared
an opening. All seemed peaceably in
clined, though yells of "scab" and derisive
hooting gave expression to the feelings
Of the spectators. AS the train passed the
San Fernando yards, the headquarters of