Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-07

with great clrcumstantiality, that they
were coming over the Baltimore &
Ohio, the Wheeling & Lake Erie, the c.,
L. & W.. and the Cleveland and Pitts
burg.
that made 1t intereEing.
1t also stirred things up on both sides
OF the river.
In Martins Ferry there was an early
scurrying too and fro. There had been
kilograms from both Pittsburg and
Cleveland that the trust people were
preparing TO ship outside men" Gin. "
and as result the general committee
for the good of the order was on the
alert. Scores and hundreds OF men re-
spsnded TO the emergency call, and
from the town depot to the Laughlin
mill there was a stout contingent OF
stalwart workers. who meant business
If occasion should require their ser
vices. A close watch was kept on all
trains, and the passage OF &C. & p
train with four dark coaches convinced
many that surmises were correct.
What become OF these cars, or what
they contained is. in the language of
Kipling, another story
In this city the excitement was dis
tinetly noticeable The Amalgamated
men had early information of the cur
rent rumor. So had the police. As a
natural result. both police and steel
workers were on hands at the Terminal
depot in goodly proportions. The crowd
began TO gather at Eighteenth and
Market streets shortly after ten
O'Clock. BY half past It numbered sew
eral hundred. At eleven 1t was like
unto political meeting with an United
States Senator for the orator There
were labor leaders and officers in uni
form, and city detectives, and news
paper reporters, and business men, and
curious persons of no particular cult
and everybody was alert
1t was reported that non-union men
were coming over the Wheeling d Lake
Erie. The regular train came in, and
there we're but twenty regular passen-
gers. Several of them were seen, and
they agreed that no "scabs" had been
! hauled into town. The crowd showed
signs of disiutegration. Then there
was one OF those seR-propelling rumors
that the non-unionlsts were probably
on the B. & o. A stout delegation OF
stalwart men made a flank movement
on the 3. & o., and In due time report
ed that there is nothln' in IT,. Sue
ceeding were rumors that the non
unionists mig have been side-tracked
at the Peninsula, that they might have
gone to Belaire, that they might come
round along the Ohio side to Benwood
in the morning, that they were destined
for the Laughlin, for the Aetna-Stand-
ard, for the Riverside, for the Bellaire
plant, for almost every other conceiv-
able affected industry in this vicinity.
About every suggestion was acted up
on, and men who had worked at the
furnace all day and who expected no
sleep all night, nor for many nights,
cheerfully took up the burden Of watch
ing out to see what was going on, while
behind them, and within easy reach
were hundreds. 1t was a night of gnx-
iety; the episodes showed conclusiveiy
the alertness of the Amalgamated men.
1t also showed some other things,
which may be woven into the warf
and wool of story later on-a story
that may dispute the place in history
with Pittsburg and Homestead. But let
us hope that it may not be so, either
here or elsewhere.
By midnight last night the crowds
about the local depots had dispersed
the police had resumed their regular
beats, there was nothing definite from
across the river about the suggestions
non-unionists, and the morning APP
preached calm and without unusual in
cident.
There is germ in the air, however.