The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-07-11


Of Them Are Protected by United States
Deputy Marshals-FreIght Tramc Com
pletely Tied Up-The strike Situation
shed Up.
CHICAGO, July 3.-The Pullman boy
colt Is gradually Spreading, and each
hour the area covered by it widens.
There Il little change to be noted with
respect to the roads already reported as
IN trouble. A few of them are strug-
Cling to move the passengers, but
freight traffic IS practically at an end
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy,
which employs nonunion men, is about
the only exception among the roads IN
Chicago
The Chicago and Northwestern, which
up to Monday night had escaped trouble,
fell into line during the night and
is now completely tied up Its suburban
traffic is very heavy, and great inconven-
fence results. from the stoppage of this
branch Of its business. The Illinois
Central, the Rock Island, the Milwau-
kee and st. Paul and Great Western all
report like condition
= The Michigan Central and Michigan
Southern have been suffering because
they occupied terminal facilities Jointly
with the Illinois Central and the Rock
Island Nevertheless, up to the pres
ent they had been able to move their
through passenger traffic with compar-
alive ease.
The general tie-up ut Detroit stops
these two roads efbectually.
The Western Indiana Terminal, over
which the Grand Trunk, Chicago and
Erie, Wabash, Eastern Illinois, Santa
Fe and MOnOn roads enter the city, re-
covered from the first shock and was
handling its passenger traffic with rea-
sonable degree of efficiency. All of
these roads are again in trouble.
A new difficulty Is presented by the
refusal Of the engineers and fremen to
risk their lives by working with green
hands, and it Is also doubtless true that
the railway managers themselves are
not very anxious to force the fighting.
They are exceed ngly fearful of precipi-
tating battle ON the Fourth of July,
and are playing a waiting game. They
are making no serious effort to move
their trains before Thursday morning.
They also say that suspension of bust
ness at this time is not an unmixed evil
I'VE are taking things very easy"
said one of them 1--WE know perfectly
wei that the freight is in the country
and must be moved sooner or later, and
As All the roads are involved in this
thing it makes no difference to us when
the freight Is moved, as we shall ulti-
mately get our share of it. If any one
or more OF the roads was free from dis
turbance 1t might rob the rest of us of our
share, but we are all acting together,
and this question has got to be settled
sooner or later, and we feel it might as
well be now as any time. We are per-
1ectly willing that the public shall suf-
fer enough In convenience to enable it
TO fully realize what the strike means
twill not be long before the inconven-
ience resulting from this suspension
viii be felt very keenly everywhere, and
then We believe public sentiment Will
be great factor in the extinction of
Debs and his people. We believe this is
q much wiser way to settle these
troubles than would be an attempt to
force the thing and endanger the lives
Of large number of faithful men"
The price Of provisions is advancing
very rapidly, and the hotels, restaurants
and private families are feeling it very
keenly. Fruit, ice and all kinds of per
ishable provisions are commanding very
high prices, and, indeed, are now re-
garded as a luxury. The coal famine is
becoming very serious, and number of
factories have been compelled to shut
down; q number OF breweries have
ceased operations For the first time in
the history of Chicago not single car
load Of livestock arrived at the Union
stocEyards by railroad, while the ship
ments of dressed meats is practically at
IN end.
The thousands of packinghouses en-
ployes and other wOrkmen who go to
make up the population of Pack
ingt0Wn were made idle as thoroughly
and suddenly as though all had quit at
q given signal from President Debs,
though only a comparatively insignifi-
lean Railway union Two attempts
only at getting out Westinghouse prod
ucts were made The Michigan Cen
trail tried to make up and start train
load of dressed beef. The trainmen
abandoned the cars with scant notice
and the beef was left to rot on the
tracks in the yards. The Panhandle
road got 10 cars of beef through to
Brighton, = distance of two miles. What
the train between Brighton
one seemed to know
F1gotoosF S1I0rss are making to in
Tolve the intramural lines In the
trouble, and it Is claimed that before
many hours the elevated roads and
treetcar lines will cease operation. A
nmber of them are using anthracite
bal at great expense, but even this is
wing scarce, and the president of the
th Side cable line says he may be
compelled to stop for lack of fuel. The
same Is true of the electric lines reach
ing to the suburbs
The Niclle Plate road caught it Tues
day In earnest All the engineers, fire
men, brakemen aud trackmen on the
Chicago end of the line stopped work
simultaneously and without warning,
leaving things in a desperate state of
confusion. The worst effect of the
Walkout was In the swampy regions
several miles from the city, near Ken
sington- Here a whole trainload of
passengers from the east were left to
their own resources near the Stoney Isl
and station They had been brought
hundreds Of miles and then left practi-
eally in q wilderness, though almost
within sight Of their destination.
Not Rock Island train has moved at
Blue island but the switch tracks were
occupied with dead engines and stalled
trains. United States Marshal Arnold
%aited with nervous anxiety for an an
S,Ss<to dispatches sent to Attorney Cen
eral OIney. asking that the Fifteenth
REGIMENT be sent to Blue island Mr..
Arnold said that II the order came to
move trains there was sure to be a con-
dict. But he would use extreme meas
ures If necessary, not hesitating to
no switching is being done in the
lumber districtl and great many of the
planfna mills have shut down IS they
dan not get cars to move the humber.
This VII throw out Of employment over