The morning call., 1894-07-13
WHAT 1T COSTS.
Loss of the Strikers and
the Company.
WAY UP IN THE MILLIONS,
The Southern Pacific Is Heavily
Out of Pocket.
WAY UP IN THE MILLIONS,
FIFTEEN THOUSAND MEN IDLE
There Is Possibility That Those Who
Did Not Strike but Were Laid
OFF May Not Be Paid.

The strike on the Southern Pacific Rail-
road began on June 27-ffteen days ago
The earnings of the Southern Pacific
Railroad, estimated at the request of THE
CALL yesterday by an official Of the rail-
road having the means OF knowing at hi:
command, was stated at $780, 600 per day
Multiply that by 10 days. and you have
$3.50, 600 loss to the company Of gross
earnings.
The number Of men thrown out Of en-
ployment by the strike on the railroad
alone is placed by the same authority al
$4,000. and their average pay Same author
ity) is estimated at SO per day.
Three dollars per day multiplied by
$1,000 men nets S45, 900 per day, and in IL
days the sum lost to these railroad en-
ployes alone is $675, 0O0
The number of people moved by the
Southern Pacific Railroad. according to
exact statistics of the road, averaged last
year one and a half million people one
mile per day.
That is not to say that a million and a
half people travelled on the road each day,
but that the mileage travelled equaled that
number travelling one mile. The one trav-
sented 100 people travelling one mile, ac-
cordng to the mode of figuring in railroad
statistics.
But that represents the net amount of
Inconvenience suffered by the travelling
public quite as clearly as though the exact
number of individuals who could not get
to their destination during the suspension
of traffic.
mot all the 49, 900 people are strikers by
any MEANS" said the railroad man-who
consented to say it, by the way. only on
condition that his name be not printed.
The strike is confined almost entirely to
tiEemen and switchmen. But they have
compelled great number of others TO in
voluntary idleness."
But the company is paying the other
men just as though they are still at work,
are they not?"
Il would rather not say as TO that"
said the railroad man. I'VE have some
$4,000 men employed between here and Ell
Paso. OF these some $4,000. as l say, are
out of work. The office buildings, for in
stance, at Fourth and Townsend are al
most entirely deserted by clerks and mes
sengerS, not voluntarily. understand. but
because there IS nothing tor them 10 do"
us this S675, 600 10 be placed as an Offset
to the loss you name Of toward quarter
million? ?"
mo. not quite" said the official thought
fully. Let me see; should say about
S36, 600 per day. or $40 900 up to date. can
be set against the loss.
AS to the Inconvenience and loss suf- |
fered by business men through the stop !
page of freight transfer. that cannot be es-
timated at this time, out it ranks in pro-
portion TO the complete suspension of |
travel, it of course figuring largely In the |
total loss suffered by the company"
The loss suffered by Wells, Fargo & Co. |
is estimated at about $4,000 per day. All |
of their men report for duty-an army of |
200 or 300-every morning at 6 o'clock, and |
all but few clerks, for the past fifteen |
days, have been as regularly excused for |
the day. They are all paid as regularly |
and fully as though the company was still |
doing business.