The morning call., 1894-07-08

a space Of about twenty-five square miles.
not to mention the sporadic bit of incen-
diarlsm on the Burlington road at Craw-
ford and Western avenue, the latter hav-
! ing the distinction of being the work Of
women and children. II is estimated that
| in The district mentioned not less than
! $4,000 rioters were out at one time or
another during the day, but the ground
was so thoroughly patroled by the police.
the marshals and the military that they
found little opportunity of getting together
in large numbers as they have been doing
heretofore.
Still some of them at the stockyards
found time for indulging in the grim
humOr of laying out a graveyard in due
order and erecting headstones at the graves
bearing the names of the pet aversions.
including that of the President of the
United States.
One feature of the day was the showing
of its teeth by the Building Trades Coun-
Gil of the city in calling out the steam
filters in the big packing houses at the
| stockyards with the threat that it was
merely preliminary to the calling out of
its $1,000 mem bers and the tying up Of all
| the building trades in the city. Another
feature of the day was the patrollng OF
| Treasury. in whose vaults lie some
| $4,000, 600 of Uncle Sans money. which
General Miles thought might prove
/ temptation to some of Debs' followers
not to be resisted, especially iBsvlew of
the fact that they are not flush just now.
For the first time since the strike
opened there were several distinct notes
of improvement in the situation, and
these were not confined to Chicago.
Here the postal authorities reported a
noticeable improvement in the movement
Of mails. Outside of Chicago it was noted
that the STRIKE while it made 10 progress
worthy of mention at any point, gave
many evidences of having reached its cul-
mination and of failing of its influence.
To begin with. the promise that the sea-
board trunk lines would be tied up at
| Buffalo was not fulfilled the strike was
not extended to Pttsburg as was pre-
dicted at number OF points in the
! tied up district, and the strain was light
! ened at one or two points, men who had
| agreed to go out failing to do so. But the
most significant of all, perhaps. was the
! refusal of the A. r. U. at Louisville,
! Colorado Springs and Denver to obey
! Debs' order to strike. Joliet also reported
a detection fIom the ranks there. The
| employees of the Joliet and Eastern are
returning to work.
! On the other hand, the friends of law
and order had occasion to be pleased on
account of the massing Of troops here and
at the ordering of the movement of troops
by the President with view to lifting the
embargo on the Pacific Coast business,
both by the Northern a1d Central routes.
To this end he ordered General Merritt at
| st. Paul and General Ois at Vancouver
! Barracks to see to the opening of the
| Northern Pacific and General Brooks at
! Omaha was similarly instructed to set
! things to moving on the Central and
| Union Pacific systems.
| To this the only foil which managers of
! the strike were able to show was an az
rangement between President Debs and
General Master Workman Sovereign of the
Knights of Labor to call out the members
of that organization, some 10000 in num-
Der, provided the other four members of
the executive committee would agree to
the order calling them out. 1t is estimated
that Debs has now about $4,000 men, so
that if the agreement goes. it will be no
small addition to the forces of idleness.