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The Herald, 1910-08-05, Page 3GRAND TRUNK ACCEPTS FR:EGHT Mr. Hays .Still Opposes Arbitration. and oDeclares That the Men Are Beaten. =45Men Still 'Optimistic But Are Willing to Arbitrate --Attempt to Wreck Trains Montreal despatch: There is little or no change iii the strike situation to- night. ` On the part of the men there seems to be a growing disposition to Took to arbitration as the only means open to them for a favorable settlement. On the part of the company arbitration is now rejected, Mr. Hays pointing out that he favored arbitration right up to the time the men went on strike. The company intimate that the men realize that they are beaten, and hope to pull out some of their claims by means of arbitration. Mr. Murdock to -night stat- ed that he expected Messrs. Lee. Gar- retson and Berry to arrive in Montreal to -morrow, when they would all consult together as to future plans. He reiter- ated his statement that everything was going finely so far as their side was con- terned. On the other hand, the com- pany point to their increasing business and state that the strike is practically ever. THE FREIGHT SERVICE. The following official statement was issued by the company to -night: "Agents on the eastern, Ottawa and western di- visions and the Central Vermont Rail- way have been instructed to accept all freight, except live stock and perishable freight, for points on those divisions and for their connections. On the middle di- vision agents on the main lines have been instructed to accept freight in less than car load quantities, destined to points on the middle division and its connections. It is expected that agents on the middle and northern divisions will be authorized in a day or two to accept all freight, except live stock and perishable freight. On all divisions of the Granit Trunk system and Central Vermont Railway live stock and perish- able freight is being accepted on author- ity of the district operating officials. Thirty-seven freight trains were operat- ed on the eastern division to -day, cora, prising 734 ears: on the Central Ver- mont division 38 trains were operated with 774 cars. SPIKES DRAWN.. Tracks East of Brockville Was Tam- pered With. Montreal despatch: An attempt to wreck east -bound trains was made at an early hour this morning, but an em- ployee of the Canada Carriage Company coming to his work detected the tam- pering with the track in time to avert an accident. Two and one-half miles east of Brockville, on the east -bound line, it was found. that the spikes bad been drawn from three rail lengths, but the rails were not disturbed, so that even the keenest obseryatioa of an en- gineer could not detect anything was wrong. The moccasin was shortly due to pass on her regular trip to Montreal, and steps were taken to flag her before she reached that point. By moving slowly over the rails the train passed in safety, after which repairs were 'nude. Lt. -Col. Benson. D.O,C., to -day con- ferred with the city council on the question of military protection of the Grand Trunk property. It was urged that a detachment of the regular force be supplied, as the duty involved seri- ous ineonveniences upon the men of the 41st Regiment with regard to their daily avocations. Col. Benson readily acced- ed to the expressed'wish of all concern- ed and at once placed himself in rom- rnunication with the Adjutant -General, who has forwarded the necessary orders, calling for a detachment of the regular force, numbering 50, ALLEGED RIOTERS ARRAIGNED, The preliminary hearing of Wm. IT, Kerr, charged with taking n prominent part in the destruction of the G. T. It. station during the riot of the 22nd• inst,. was proceeded with to -day before two justices of the peace. Only three wit neeses were sworn and vine prisoner made no statement, Constable Hourigan testified that he saw the accused with others take hold of a truck and batter down the door of the office. Emile Marseau, a Montreal freight Clerk, who' brought in a train. that night, said he was in the o!':ice with several others when the place was stormed, They took shelter behind the door, braein}f it with a large cupboard. In •time, however, the door was forced. Marseau was roughly handled. and this eyes were bla.ekened so that he could not recognize Kerr or any one else. Fire Chief Brady was also a witness. life was in another part of the station when the office was wrecked, Subae- ,quently. be saw (onatable T7nnrignn be- ing nsaisted to his f"et by Were. Going to the west end of the platform the witness end, :Kerr rescued a men who was being vieinesly nssa.ulted bv the mob., Chief Tirn'ly's evidence was hrt;h1y complimentary to the part playa bv Kerr in so far as he Saw the actions of the .accused. 'T'he niarrisfrete committed sICerr foe WO end fixed bail at $5,000, which was furnished. OTHERS ARE WANTED, A warrant is tit for the arrest of O. Cater, a striking' it:tinnier. ITe is i charged with unlawfully interfering with the operation of the fright train which was stalled on the rock grade Sunday afternoon by the turning of an angle cock. The police had him in thir clutches, but he made a successful bolt for lib- erty, eluding two blue coats who gave a lively but fruitless chase. Chief Burke, who holds a warrant for the arrest of Ernie Johnston, the great hockey played and one of the striking conductors, was notified from Montreal this afternoon that his man had been arrested in that city. Johnston is al- leged to have assaulted in Brockville on the night of the 20th inst. a special G.T. R. officer named Wm. McBraney. Ari officer has been despatched for the pris- oner. LABOR LEADERS. President of international Union in Toronto—Mr. Berry Talks. Toronto, despatch: The strike situa- tion in Toronto yesterday was practi- cally unchanged. The company contin- ued handling its passenger traffic on scheduled time and some freight busi- ness, and announced its intention of ac- cepting freight as usual to -day. The Preaidents of the organizations of the striking trainmen. Mr. W. Lee and Mr. A. 13. Garretson, arrived in the city and were in conference all even- ing with the local officials, hat reused to announce the object of their visit. Owing to the presence of President W. Lee, of the B. R. T., and President A, B. Garretson, of the 0. R. C., more than usual significance was attached to the meeting of the striking G. T. R. em- ployees held i•n St. Andrew's Hall last night. At the close of the meeting, which was largely attended, Mr: Lee and Mr. Garretson left far Montreal on the ]0.15 train. They refused to discuss the purport of their mission to that city, stating that it was merely for. the pur- pose of discussing the situation with President Murdock. Seen at his house 'late last night, Vice -President S. N. Ber- ry stated that the reports_ which he had received showed that everything pointed to the ultimate viotory of the men. "Every statement which I have received froni Portland, Maine, to Chicago, is en- eouraging to the strikers," he stated. 'The only thing we regret is the incon- venience caused to citizens at different points along the line who are unable to get decent service, and we regard it as unfortunate that they are eompelled to suffer, but we feel we are not re- sponsible for this because the strike was forced upon us, in insisting upon getting for the (1. T. 1i. men. the wages t1i y were en titled to. This is the only weapon the men have for insisting on their demands, and prior to the strike we offered the company consideration in putting into effect the proper standards which ob- tain on other roads in the first class, to which the C. T. R. claim their road belongs. We realize that a great amount of perishable stuff is being completely destroyed. on account of delays in trans- portation, and that the laboring classes will be compelled to makesgood for this. In view of these facts, we have acquiesced in the Minister of. Labor's request for arbitration. "Regarding the Brockville episode, we expect that the company will en- deavor to discredit the strikers in the . eyes of the publie by suggesting that they contemplated destroying the property, and if necessary endanger- ing the lives of the travelling public. "We resent these charges and we be- lieve that the public will agree with us when, we say (het the reported at- tempt at Brockville to wreck a pas. senger train was not the work of a striker. Further, as at ' convincing proof that it was not the work of a striker, the company was in a posi-, tion to know beforehand that these` spikes were drawn a sufficient time to notify the engineer to run cau- tiously at this point. This fact in itself should convince the citizens of this country that some emissary of the company was guilty of the deed, which he performed in the confident expectation that the binnro would fall on the strikers. The many trains in- competently manned and with insuffi- cient crews should prove conclusively that the company has not got the care of their passengers' lives art heart, as mtieh' as they have the defeat and subsequent discredit of their old em- ployees. "On the 23rd t1" following trains were cancelled et 1'aitneeetme No. 51, Palmerston to, Derham : Nos. 20 rind '22, Southampton to I'il:nere nn; Nos. 20 and 27. Painerstnn in T' i eseealnt NO,' 40. Stratford to Or .n Sneed; Nn, 48, Palmerston to Stratford; Nos, 45, 44, 4.:3 ran between Guelph and Har- rieburg. Om' representative et -De- troit says that, the situation is still favorable to the then. 'Trains 22 nnd. 80 were annulled east of the river. No reight trains were inn e"e t or west of the river on the previous day, with the exception of Sorge ears of ice which were delivered to the Swift Packing Company, Chicago. At Fort 1Turon the men's representative re- ported that as far as the strikers are concerned everything is in excellent shape. At' London on the 22nd No, 30 arrived with no. markers. All pas- senger trains were running from half an hour to two hours late, with few passengers, and some trains were run- ning with' red flags asmarkers instead of green." SMALL : FREIGHT MOVEMENT. Few Trains Were Handled by Company Yesterday. Little was done by the G. T. R. Co. in the way 'of moving freight yester- day, and the passages of trains were few and far between. In the yards .east .of John street bridge; switching operations were being carried out by a yard engine, the brak- ing being done by Terminal Superinten- dent W. H. Farrell and a negro parlor porter, who threw the switches. Transportation Manager W. G. Brownlee stated 'yesterday afternoon that he had notified fruit shippers that a special fruit train would run from Niagara to Toronto to -day. The company now had a full complement of train crews on 'the Western Di- vision, and on the Middle Division there were 21 complete crews, and many men were applying for employ- ment. Asked if any conference had been arranged with International President • Lee, Mr. Brownlee replied that he had no intention of holding a conference. If Mr. Lee called, he would be treated like any other busi- ness man. In conclusion, he stated that all passenger trains were running and thart there was a good movement of through freight. When pressed for a statement of the company's position at a late hour last night, 1`Ir. Brownlee re- plied, "I have no word for you to -night; now please let me axone." AT THE FALLS. Niagara Falls. Ont., despatch: "Con- ditions• are now normal here," an- nounced Superintendent Cunningham, of the G. T. R., after a hard day's work in moving freight. He was busy all day seeing that freight was being rushed in all directions and to -night presented a cheerful appearance. The strikers deny that conditions are any- where near normal. `Why, they are not handling one-quarter of , the reg- ular erular amount of freight in spite of all they say," said a striker to -night. Superintendent 'Cunningham announc- ed to -night that he sent for the crews that went home when the strike was declared, to again man the freight engines here. the IIP E Starts Off On His Five Thousand Mile Journey To -day, Will be Accompanied by Major Trot-. ter, A. D. C., and Others. Ottawa, Aug. 1.—Earl Grey begins to -morrow his five -thousand -mile circle of the Canadian hinterland; through the district of Keewatin. through Hudson Bay and around the Labrador coast and Newfoundland back to Montreal. His Excellency, who is leaving a few days earlier than was originally intended, will be aoeompanied by a pasty of about eight, including Major Trotter, A. D. C. at Government House; Prof. Brock, act- ing director of the geological survey, and, also by a member of •the McGill medical faculty. They will take the lake route to Winnipeg, and will leave there about August 4th by steamer for Nor- way House, a mounted police and lied - son Bay station .at the foot of Lake Winnipeg. From there the party *i11 ge by canoe down the Reyes River, five hundred miles, to Port .Nelson, uncicr the guidance of Major Moodie and four picked men of the Royal Northwest ',Vomited Police: It is expected that the trip down the river will„ be rade in less than two weeks, although en route his Excellency may take a day or so off ,looking for some of the lame of the northern wilds. The original intention of making the trip in record time has been abandoned; in view of the feet that Earl Grey is now to remain another year in Canada, and hasmore time at iris disposal than he thought when the trip was first planned last May. At Port Nelson the party will meet the Govern- ment steamer Earl Grey, which will sail from Pietou, N. S,, on August 2nd. The steamer will take them first to Port Churchill, and then up through Hudson Bay, calling probably at Chesterfield In- let. the northernmost mounted police post in eastern Canada, before going through Hudson Strait and ,clown the Labrador eoast. This Exeetlency intends to make a fair- ly leisurely journey, with a view to he- mming thoroughly argeeented with the character of the eonntry and the condi- tions in Hudson Brty with respeet to navigation, the potentialities of the pro- posed new route for grain export from the Canadian west to Great Britain. The profesinual hmnnrtst wee Inspect- ing bargain lots at $avaamplrerst•. "An optiei;in is going to put tip a building here." nrnnonnecd. the real estate agent. "Ali, that's a site hr sore ey;s," ex- etaitt.ed pri,feasionel humorist, blushing vividly. MES OF THE DAY IM DRIEF Young Plan Falls Into Shingle Mill Furnace and Dies. Eastern Portion of Morse, Sask. Burned Down. Ancient Shrine Discovered on Island of Cyprus. Coroner Dr. A. M.acLaren, one of the best known physicians in London. is critically ill. There is talk of a Citizens' Guild be- ing formed at Guelph to further civic improvements. Hon. W. R. reetherwell estimates a crop of six million bushels ,of wheat for Saskatchewan. The Germans resident in Brazil are anxious that the Kaiser should pay them a visit. Chief Justice Meredith dismissed with costs an application to quash the Allis ton local option by-law. Chatham's tax rate for the year will be twenty-seven and one-quarter mills. Last year the rate was 17 mitis. The Winnipeg city engineer has been instructed to prepare plans and estimate tlie cost for a municipal gas plant, to be submitted at the next meeting of council. William Williams, best known as Billy Williams. an old-time minstrel man of considerable fame, died at Elizabeth, le. J. He was G0 years old, and had been in ill -health for years. Francis Roy, aged seventeen, While feeding a furnace in the Nepisiquit Com- pany's shingle mill at Bathurst, N. B., fell in and was so badly burned that he died after being rescued. Miss Ann Skene, aged CO, who . had been inising since Sunday from her home at Vennifield, 30 miles from St. John, N. B., was found drowned in a fishing weir on the bay coast. Dr. Max Richter announces in the London Times the discovery by hiinself and Dr. Koritzky of the most ancient shrine of Aphrodite or Astarte at Ran- tidie, Island of Cyprus. The Hamhiva Amoricen Steamship Company lias ordered from Blohm u Voss a 9,000 -ton vessel, which will have rooter engines capable - or developing rL speed of 121-2 knots an hour. The Toronto builders' laborers at their meeting last night decided to call off the strike they have been engaged in for some time. The men will go back to work at the old rate of wages. M. J. P. Downey, M. 1'. ['., has re- ceived a letter from the County Clerk of Waterloo, suggesting that the counties of 'Wellington and 'Waterloo co-operate in the erection of a large tuberculosis .sanitarian. It was officially denied to -day that a mutiny, growing out of dissatisfaction with the mess. had oi- urred in the Ger- man armoured cruiser Biuecher during the -cruise to Norway. Herr Ohm. a director of N ied: rdenteh Bank, which who (.1r•sed on July 13 to permit an investigation of its financial condition. was arrested to -day at Dort- mund. Germany. Geo. E. hall, a pioneer of the State. of 'Washington. who blew his heed of: with dynamite last week, bequeathed $l5.000 .to the Seattle }Immune Society, to be used in bettering the conditions of working horses. Mr. R. H. Campbell, chief of the 'For- estry Branch, blames the (:dna<riau Northern Ilailwny ler the fires in Sas- katchewan and Alberta, stating that the eon eny disregarded orders to clean up its right of way. While A. Kingdon, en Islington farm- er, was driving along lhnnclns street, Tee' ionto, with a load of grain, a wheei Broke off iris wagon, and Tfr. Ringden • WWI thrown to the „round with such vio- lence as to fracture his spine. Trouble is said to be brewing among the sheet metal workers of Toronto over complaints that a few of the employers are employing non-union labor. end pay- ing Ices than the niinimnm wage agreed upon to some of the -men in the fore torics. - Earth shocks occurred on July 24 nro'nd Mount Uzu in the prefecture of Hokkaido. Japan. They were nmisvally prolonged, resulting in fisnres and a landslide. The village inhabitants were terrorized, but there were no fatalities. The damage was ina?igeifieant,' James Llervelyn, driver for Belles Hardware Company, 'Portage la Prairie, was carried in front of a moving Grand Trunk Pacific train by it runaway horse, The engine overturned the wagon, limb big m1- big him twenty-five feet and causing injuries from which he cermet rc- sever. :rhe damage to the French wheat crop and the rise in the price of wheat in America have writ the priee in France up three francs per hundred kilogram. - nice ithat is per 32.3 pushels) in the , past thirty days. Meet is now selling here et 28.50 francs per hundred kilo- grammes. The persistency with which the TIo- derwrricre' Aseoeiatlnn meinteine a high key rate against 'London etc spite erten sive improvements. both to t1ie water ee vice and fire deportment, has aroused a wide feeling nnaong London lime -nese men that the Legislature •should curb the powers of the assoeiation. J. H. Carr and f.eads. Brown. arrested as pickpockets during the recent Wind- sor race meeting, were sentenced by Magistrate Leggatt. Brown will speed nine months in Central Prison, Toronto, while Carr, who haft' pollee recordsbe- fore he was arrested in Windsor, goes down fox fifteen months. WANT KITCHENER Fiel d Marshal is Said to Have •lie ceived Offer From China. London, Aug. 1.—The Daily Mail, which is exploiting Field Marshal Lord Kitchener's non -employment against the Government, publishes, tamer the date of Pekin, , July 8, a story that China is inviting him to organize and develop the Chinese .army on his own terms. The determination to build up • • . the army is now uppermostein the minds of China's rulers, and any emolu,nrent that Lord. Kitchener may name 'would. be thought cheap for his services. TAXES AFD LOYAL'TY Loyalty Can't Be Secured By Taxa- tion, Says Col. Seely. Discussion in the Imperial Commons. on the Preference. London, Aug. 1.—The Unionists yes- terday succeeded in raising another pre- ference debate on the question of a duty on tea. As a preliminary, Mr. H. 1'. Crofts (Christchurch) interrogated Mr. Buxton respecting the growth of trade with Canada since the Canadian prefer- ence was instituted. He was told that it had inereased 193 nes cent. In the course of the debate Mr. Alfred Lyttel- tun complained that the food tax had been put forward as an absolute ob- jection to the preference. The Opposi- tion faced the feet that it might involve a. food tax, and offered compensation to the Masses. which, it was said, would be butdeated by such a tax. What was there to .prevent them, for a great politi- cal and Imperial object, from putting a small tax on food? Mr, Bonar Law said the Government might have met the• enlouial Premiers in 1907 by saying that thought they thought the whole thing economically unsound, yet.. in • deference to •the per- sistence of the dominions they ,would meet them where they could do so with, o`n'rin jusT `f'ieirettier` micas esseselee e!aa&---= e of that they had slammed, bolted and barred the poor. if the people of this country realized that, in this iuetter, the only argument left to the Govern- ment was that they would not treat -the dominions better than anybody c}se'they r would not be allowed to stay in power another day. (C'b.eers,) Mr. Henry Vivian, Liberal. member for Birkenhead, said that if Britain gave a preference to Caniida as against the Unit- ed. States, at once Canada would be the socl:-pit in a struggle between the Unit- ed States and the mother country. The. Unitech States would not take it lying down, but would at once set about bar- gaining with Canada to defeat the at- tempt of the mother country to obtain a monopoly, Instead •of narking for union between the mother country and Canada it would stimulate in C'uniada and the United States a demand for annexation. Colonel Seely remarked that it was very dangerous to weenie that any fis- eal proposition was received with grati- tude by the overseas dominions, At the very moment when the House was dis- cussing pncfcrenee for Canada on Thurs- day lost a great deputation of farmers was mating Sir Wilfrid Laurier to have nothing whatever to do w;tle the aehe.nie, (Cheers.) Anything more dramatic than that ec+incidence he had never seen. TC wan a warning against attempting to se- cme greater leyalty from .any part of the Finpi e by any of these systems of taxation. ELEVEN I LL D. Terrih!e Disaster on the Transccnti- dental By Explosion. ,Aug. }.—News was received in town to -day of another fatal accident on the Transcontinental Railway about 123 miles west of La Tugne. The accident which caused the deaths of ten or eleven workingmen and serious injuries to several others, happened at Donovan and Downies' camp, It appears that cue of the men was in the act of opening a tin of powder with an axe, when an explosion took place and set fire to a train of powder leading into a tunnel in Which a large quantity of dy- namite was, arra in which fifteen men were working at the time. A terrible explosion took place and two men nam- eel O'Reilly and Walsh were blown a long distance away, parts of their bod- ies being picked up in ell tlirections, while other victims- were picked up aria convened to camp hospitals, eight or nine dying from wounds since Thursday last. The invelid tvae on the road to recgv- ' ery and the physician had pet present eel" his hill for 5700. "ISoetnr," staid the patient, "you.ne.4ay'11 t'an 'o'oirtcinity of yor,r life. Yee shrnit lmve boon a. nerve specialist." --Chir': ,;'i Neuse.