The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-08-15
OUT IN THE STREET.
There's Where Striking Pullman EN-
pIOyes Must Go.


CHICAGO, Aug. 1O.-The Post prints the
following from Pullman:
Pullmans tenants will be evicted. Vice
President Wickes said today Tn
company claims that it must find house.
for its new employees to live in, and the
strikers have been camping in the Pull
man flats without paying a cent of rent fols
the last three months they must get out
This move is the very last in the big
strike and it will forever discomfit the
ployes. The company's houses cover about
3,OoO people at present These 5000 consist
or the striking workmen and their families.
There are about 1000 new men in the shops
that have families and that desire to live
near their work The old employees must
make way for the new.
will the company evict the tenants?"
Mr.. Wickes was asked today.
Something of that kind must be done"
he replied. I'VE must find quarters for
our new employees"
Have you taken any active steps in the
matter yet?
NO, not yet. But we will do So and
very SOON
"When?'
Il cannot say exactly when, but very
SOON
Mr.. Wickes spoke in manner from
which one might gather that the lawyers
were already looking about and would be
prepared at any minute to go ahead with
the work
''Will it not be a troublesome process?"
ne was asked.
''Oh, don't know. I suppose it can be
done easily enough. 1t must be DONE any
how"
This will be a death blow to the tenants
who are strikers They have no money
and very little food. When their scant
supplies of household furniture are set out
on the broad streets by the constables it
will be impossible for them to move it
away. They cannot afford to buy a pound
OF coal to cook the raw potatoes they get
from the relic committee. The prospects
are gloomy indeed for the
ONERTY-STRICKEN OCCUPANTS
of the company's barracks-like rows Of
houses. But Mr.. Wickes' assertion as to
the company's intention of beginning the
work Of eviction very positive and UNI
mistakable. 1t meant volumes to any one
who understands the condition of the Pull
man strikers at this time.
What the people will do when they are
put out into the street is question that it
is impossible to answer The company
cannot only put them and their effects into
the street, but the probab ility is that it
could drive them out of the town if it
cared to, for it owns the town streets.
sidewalks and all, and it could drive them
and tell them to go to law about it If they
did not like it. Eviction is the very last
thing the people have looked for One
woman on Fulton street said:
Surely they won't put us out Where
would go if they did? We have not
money enough to buy bushel of coal with
We have no clothes, either. The American
public would not stand by and see, thou
sand families rendered homeless.
But that is undoubtedly what must be
done, for it is necessary that the company
take decisive action. Any striking tenant
who wants to return to work will be left
in his house, but inside of two days the
remaining 900 places will be filled and those
tenants who cannot go back-ever if they
wished to-will be left out in the cold The
outlook for the present population of the
model town is not full of cheer. In fact,
it is positively desperate.
PULLMAN RETURNS.
George NJ Pullman is back from Castle
Rest and Newport, but he declines to be
interviewed on events which have absorbed
last June. He arrived this morning at 8
driven direct to his mansion at the corner
of Prairie avenue and Eighteenth street
The big brown stone house is still guarded
by private watchmen WHO lounge around
the lawn and keep close watch any one
who stops to glance at the abiding place
of the president of the S36,000,0D0 corpora
ton. Nice-President Wickes the trusted
lieutenant of the marquis, and General
Manager Brown, of the Pullman works
called at the Prairie avenue mansion. They
were recognized by the Waterman and soon
were inside in conference with their chief
for several hours discussing the situation
a the shops and formulating plans for the
future. 1t is presumed that some plan will
be determined upon for evicting the strik-
ers from the companys houses.