The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-06-20
P,nKerton's Men.


There i IN America private business
c,ncern earahie Of snddenly bringing IN
"a action anywhere in the land, at the
bidding Of individuals or corporations
rich enough to pay for their services
larre bodies of men armed. equipped ana
drilled for effective military service Tins
far nothing has occurred that has seemed
to require the Development OF such
force in greater numbers, at any point
than 500 men. bat the system by which
they are put into the field is perfected to
.nch an extent that there il hardly any
ouestion of the ability to muster o'ooo
with almost equal prompsitude- The con-
cern controlling this military strength IS
rinkert,n's National Detective Agency,
the beadauarters of which are in Cfiiea-
60. with branches in New York, Boston,
PhiIadelphia, 81 Paul and Denver. While
there i nominal dividing line between
the detective service and the fields OF du-
IN OF the preventive patrol, or military
branch. in point Of fact they work to-
getber. and are 50 far interchangeable
that the latter is ofiicered by the former,
when called into requisition, and that
men demonstrating peculiar talent there
for NAV be promoted from the patrol,
which is an emergency employment to
the permanency Of the regular detective
force. As TO the system Of organization
and direction Of the Pinkerton army,
II. g. Julian, who is one of Robert Pin
ker;on's principal aids in this city says
@Telling you how we can here bring
into almost immediate service body of
saw $50 men. or more if required, viii
give YOU sufficiently comprehensive
idea Of our arrangements in the nve
other cities in which our branches are
now established, the system in all being
about the same. In the first place, We
have as our regular detective force body
of thoroughly trained men, many oil
them brought up from youth in this EN-
plovment, men whom we know to be
cool. resolute, courageous, faithful, and
rcsourceful. From these, when the occa-
sion arises. we officer onr companies OF
men enlisted for special duty. Bat We
have also among those men good many
who are employed by us pretty much All
the time, at least during spring, summer
and autumn. and who, consequently, are
well trained and known TO Us as in every
wav perfectly trustworthy. For instance,
we supply by contract every summer
from TWENTY-FIVE to thirty men for the
protection Of the public and the preser-
vaiion OF order at Glen Island, and-as
many more at Manhattan Beach. For
the spring. summer and fall racing sea-
sons We supply sixty OF seventy men at
Coney Island Jockey club and about a
like number to the Brooklyn Jockey club
and then We have smaller detachnents
on special services, such as the guarding
OF Vanderbilt's tomb, or temporary pro-
lection of stores of heavy importers Of
silks when they have unusually large
stocks of valuable goods on hand. Taken
all in all, there are probably 200 men
TINS employed by us-in work apart
from the detective service-pretty much
all the wear. and one OF these we can
command the services Of AT least $50 at a
very few hours notice, even out Of their
ordinary sessions of employment, since
we keep all their addresses and they un-
derstand that they are liable TO be called
upon for duty at any moment Those
men will serve as the nucleus of as large
force as may be demanded. Then we
have on record list of several hundred
picked men from among the thousands
who have applied to us for employment,
all OF whom have come to us well
recommended, and whose character, rec
ord, anc associations we have had thor
ouglIy investigated by our own detec-
tiyes. They are also supposed to be
ready to serve upon call at any moment
and, in point Of fact, at least three OF
four hundred Of them would respond i'm
mediately. In summer we, of course
could not spare so many of our regular
men for an extraordinary service, but we
would still have enough TO serve as nn'
cleus, especially since we are 50 careful
in the selection of our listed volunteers
among whom we always, by the way
give the preference to men who have
honorable discharges from the army
equal qualifications otherwise being un
derstood.
Tne largest number the Pinkert'r
agencies have ever had TO furnish fol
emergency service at any point was 500
That was on the occasion of the stock
yards strike iny Chicago in lsS6. In 1887
from January until March, We had tc
keep COO men on duty at the coal yard
at Hoboken and Bergen Point. 1t cost
something to employ large force of Pin
kerton, the charge for them being S. pei
day each in addition TO food and quar-
tiers. The pay Of regular detective II
S. day.
The armament of our men consists o
Winchester repeating rifles and navy re
volvers. and we employ no men who an
not skilled in the use of these weapons
\ very large supply of rifles, enough fo'
three or four hundred men anyway, il
kept in the Chicago headquarters. and a
least that many men could be mustered
there in few hours at any time under
Capt. Patrick Foley's command. The ad
vantage is possessed there of nucleus o
l50 trained men who are constantly
employed as watcLmen guarding private
property. When we put any considera
bile force in the field il is divided up into
companies of from thirty to thirty-siS
men each, and we have Captain, Adju-
tant. Lieutenant and Sergeants, in pretty
close imitation of military system. ~
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