The morning call., 1894-07-15

| Cedar street, in the direction of the round
| house, movement was seen, the glinting
of bright objects in the sunlight. the mass
ing of body of blue and the shine of
| brass buttons.
"The soldiers are comingw shouted
| some one. and the cry was taken up along
| the line. There was a general movement
in that direction, and most of the crowd
was soon messed on the south side of
Seventh street TO watch Battery E. Second
Regimen, Captain Charles Boxton, pass
up to the engine.
Along they came. Captain Boxton fifty
yards ahead. looking particularly warlke
with big revolver strapped to his hip.
They marched by fours uD the dusty road,
in their midst Gatiilg gun, while tagging
along behind was the hospital corps, some
what 1Isarranged. Some OF them had got
lost in the haste to the field and the cor
| poral in charge was mad.
Watts de matter wild you?" he yelled at
an awkward looking private who got in
| and took hold of the litter as they stopped
in front Of the engine. The private didn't
know and the crowd laughed at the elias
ITCHY of the regulations.
A detail of soldiers was formed fifty feet
in front of The engine. on the east side. at
the end of the train and they paraded up
and down, while another d. tachment lim-
bered up the Calling gun on the bank on
the west side of the cab. The crowd was
remarkably quiet and the regulars were as
remarkably business like. 1t became ap-
parent that nothing more could be done al
this pOini and. as another green 'scab'
fireman was brought uD and placed in the
cab alongside o! Engineer Marks, the
crowd made up its mind to move on.
"To Sixteenth street!' some one shouted
and hundred threats took up the cry:
ITO Sixteenth street; let US 60 to Six
teenth street."
And the man who shouted first started
and by ones and twos, then threes and
| finally in masses they started up the track,
| leaving the engine and the cars and the
regulars, Calling guns ana hospital corps
| to the mercies of the women and children
| Who remained.
! The new fireman had heaved in enough
! coal to get up steam, the air brakes had
! been fixed, and Engineer Marks smiled a.
| he tooIed the whistle couple of times to
! announce that he was ready to 60 ahead.
/ The train started. The order was given
| the regulars TO fall in, and the wheels
revolved slowly, the train moving slowly
and the troops keeping up a jog on either
| side. Then the motion became faster and
faster. the legs of the regulars moved
! quicker and quicker. but steam was more
powerful than the legs of Uncle Sam and
the blue-coated men of Battery E were
soon hitting the dust in the rear.
On to Dalton's foundry the freight pro-
| oaadad ub no nf ND oh
had gone on ahead to Sixteenth street was
| first put III evidence.
Two big rocks on the track braced
! heavy plank about twenty feet long. The
train was slowed up and Conductor Neu-
renberg got off and ran ahead to-remove
| the obstruction. There was quite crowd
| left to witness the work Of the conductor.
While the advance guard was flying up
the track TO place more Instructions in the
way of the freight Uncle Sans regulars
we're away in the rear part of them drag
| giDg the gun, but by the tune they reached
the engine the crowd had left and they
were ready to move the freight train
ahead. 1t moved till it got to tower No. 4,
| and another obstruction was met with
there. These were cleared an ! at snail's
pace the long line of cars started for Six
teenth street.
Before 1t had got fifty yards, guarded as
it was by this time by ABOUT thirty Deputy
Sheriff.. some agile striker pulled the
coupling-pin and the train parted, the
engine and two cars going ahead at full
speed, the others coming on slowly behind.
! The connection was again made, and no
more obstruction was found on the track
until in front Of the Sixteenth-street
| freight depot.
| Here lot of rocks had Deen piled where
| they would do the most good, and the
engine came to a dead halt. Things
| looked apparently hopeless for the COM
pany. 1t had taken from 2:3O o'clock
| until to move the train less than a mile.
and there was not a doubt liz any nina
that the farther the train proceeded the
greater and thicker would be the obstacles.
| There we're fully 1900 people in the thrOng
assembled around the train as it stopred.
| The Oakland police patrol-wag0n was
seen dashlng up Sixteenth street at this
moment with Captain Wilson and two
policemen. The occupants of the wagon
jumped out and the captain got his men
out and with the others on the train CON-
PEELED the crowd to keep back entirely
clear of the tracks. Chief of Police
Schaffer and Captain Fletcher also came
up at this moment, and the deputies, who
had kept discretelY quiet until this
time, became obtrusive at the front put
on by the city officers. Conductor Neuren-
berg again got out on the track ana re-
moved about a ton of rocks and iron out of
the way, while Assistant Division Super
ntendent Thompson, who had arrived,
gave it out cold" that the company
would get that train to Mendoza if it took
seven years. When some one remarked
that it would take that long 1.-THE present
rate of travel he smiled rather uneasily.
The train waited and waited, and IL
finally developed that, the regulars having
returned to the mole, the company had
requested the militia 10 come on and carry
the train through. 1t took half an hour
more to get them up. All were loaded on
two fatcars, pushed by two switch en-
gines. They were armed with Wnches-
ters standing ready to fire. and looked as
If they meant business. That did not pre-
vent the crowd from being btingly humor-
Gus at their expense, and the militia didn't
seem to relish 1t q bit.
About this tire President Roberts OF the
American Railway Union approached the
engine and hal a talk with the fireman
He told him the 4. r. u. would take care
of him if he was hard up if he would only
quit, and that they would see that he did
not want until he secured other emplov-