Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1888 — CHICAGO'S GREAT STRIKE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CHICAGO'S GREAT STRIKE.

Results of the Street-Car Strike in Chicago —Would Rather Walk than Ride. [Chicago telegram.] The street-car strike which was invugurated in this city by tho North Side conductors and drivers quitting work was augmented l>y the West Side sympathizers leaving their cars, and refusing further service until the griovauees of their North Side co-workers had been satisfac-

torily adjusted. The North Side employes alleged long, irrogular hours, and pay inadequate to services performed, and which was not oil an equal basis with that paid by Ihe other lines, and for this reason they quit work. Several conferences between the street car management and the committee from the street car men were hod without satisfactory results, whereupon the West Side mon joined the strikers, thus leaving some 50;),090 people living remote from the business center of the city with-' out easy or ready means of transportation. A conservative estimate of tho number of strikers iB placed at 1,700, many of whom have families, and it would not be out of the way to place the number of persons affected by the strike, among the families of the strikers, at from 4,000 to 4,509. It will not be wondeved at that in many instances very bitter feelings were engendered, breaking out in more or less hostile demonstrations toward the street-car company and the imported men to supplant the strikers. In many instances violeuce was narrowly averted by the prompt measures of the

police, though the body of tho strikers counseled against any overt acts against the new men or property of the company. However, the mob spirit prevailed more or less—street-car tracks were iu places torn up and in others block ded, and the running of cars was by no means easy, rapid, or safe, and during the second and third days of the strike few cars left the barns, and these were under escort of a body of police. The public generally sympathized with the strikers, and few persons patronized the cars, even ladies preferring to walk, or take a seat in an improvised vehicle of transportation. It is estimated that there were 70 i vehicles in use in Chicago carrying passengers, 200 of which were on the North Side. Some of the turnouts were very stylish, while others would make an Arkansas negro proud of his linch-pin wagon.

“Drop in a dime and see the chariot move,” screamed a red-headed man, and when his load was mode up and tho fares collected his violent manner changed and he became talkative. “And yon want to know how much I make, do you? Well, now, I make eight trips a day with my little wagon and carry eight people on a trip. I can squeeze in two more, though, and that makes an even dollar. I get some short-distance passengers, and will take in about sl6 or $lB a day. I have two horses, and change them twice a day, and Brother Bill up there drives for

me and gets seventy-five cents for fourteen hours’ wtorfc.” “Why don’t you pay Bill more money while yon are prosj>erouß?" “I am a capitalist now. and if Bill won’t work for 75 cents a day, 11l get a man that will. The town is full of Quake s, and there is no danger of not getting a driver. I only wish I had a big wagon Why, some of these men make S4O a day.” These were typical scenes of hourly occurrence during the days of the strike.

CHICAGO GOING TO BUSINESS.

SOME. STYLE ABOUT THIS.

“SEE THE CHARIOT MOVE."