Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-09
Only % Of the Gallant 400
Showed Up for Duty at
the Court House.
MANY FOUND NEW ILLS.
Hopes That Arose With a Snap When
They We're Dismissed.
LIST OF THE MEN WHO REPORTED.
Weihe Gives His Ultimatum to the Sheriff,
and 1t Is Refused.
TERMS OF THE FINAL PROPOSITION

Sheriff McCleary's office in the Cour
House was not gathering place for large
bodies of citizens yesterday. Only % brave
and courageous men out of the several hun.
dred summoned called and agreed to act a.
deputies. Although they had before them
the awful fate Of the Pinkerton men, they
were willing to face the scowls at Home.
stead for the preservation OF the peace.
Some of those who had the necessary
backbone to call upon the Sheriff preferred
to stay at home Hasty consultations with
their family physician convinced the
patients that they were not physically
capable of undergoing prolonged siege in
the Homestead campaign. Many of the
men were bent with age. The hand of time
had settled heavily upon their opce robust
forms, and like the hero ''by the wayside
on mossy stone," they could murmur,
CANCEL" said he sadly, II am old"
The breeze from the electric fan toyed
and gamboled about the whiskers of some,
however, who, to all outward appearances,
were in the prime of manhood, but crisis
never imagined allied them before.
Each " ore a Tale Of Woe.
A stranger standing at the door of the
Sheriff's office during the afternoon might
have thought, Judging from the appearance
of the people going inside, that it was the
reception room of hospital. The Pinker-
tons, rescued from the besieged barges, did
not present more woebegone, desolate
facial expressions than some of the sum-
moned citizens.
As the little crowd of deputized braves
gathered in one corner Of the Office, they
soon realized they were in a reckless min.
ority. Finally Sheriff McCleary called
them up in front of him at $40 A. NJ and
kindly notified them that on account of the
paucitv of their numbers he could not think
of throwing them into tine lions den, fig
uratively speaking.
Glad OF the Chance To Escape.
Twenty-Five stalwart, pleasant-looking
gentlemen then filed out of the Court House.
They had been notified to appear at o'clock
this morning armed. and in light marching
order to advance upon Homestead, but
later this order was countermanded.
There were some among them who went
Immediately to the shooting galleries, or
went into their back yards with grand
fathers musket to burnish up their marks
manship These were SO few, however, that
one or two muscular and irate iron workers
might easily drive them into the Mononga-
hela river.
The able.bodied men, those fit for field
service, in the Sheriff's gallant 400, now
consists of 56 men. The others are either
doing hospital duty or have Joined the de-
serters, the Sheriff doesn't know which.
A big, ruddy-faced, healthy-looking sub
iect, after sizing up the deputies. said: SIT
strikes me as rather curious that such men
should be summoned. 1 will bet there is
not in 100 of them who has fired gun in
the last 40 years. They are engaged
in occupations where guns are never fired,
much less seen. and the chances are that IT
armed and taken to Homestead they would
start the ball rolling by shooting either
themselve or some of the posse. There is
no question but that they would be in much
greater danger from one another than from
the locked out iron workers. 1t is safe to
bet that the Homestead people will never
see the faces of any of them. If the strikers
should give them Is minutes to leave Home
stead it would be just three times longer
than would be necessary tor them to get out
of town."
List of the Gallant Troops.
The list of the men who marched to the
front Yesterday and were willing to be de-
stroyed, is as follows:
THOMAS G. MCCLURE clerk.
T. M. HOLLAND, real estate.
I'D. SHAFFER. attorney.
WILLIAM CAIN.
ISAAC VAN VOORHIS, attorney.
JOSEPH EICHBAUM, statiOner.
W. B. LUPrON, dealer in slate and cement
GEoRGE H. FRENCH, tobacconist.
JOHN VOIGT, butcher.
THOMAS G. MCCLURE.
WI. MAY.
H. NJ. LONG, broker.
PJ. MURPHY, detective.
&c. MILLER, attorney.
W. J. PATTON, broker.
W. A. BUNTING, dealer in stamps.
Ct; MAJ
SCOTT WHITE dealer in roofing.
THOMAS J. KEENAN,, newspaper pub
Usher.
Ult1matum of the AmaIgamated.
The Sheriff held long conference yester-
day afternoon with William Weihe. Presi-
dent of the Amalgamated Association; G.
L. Magee, j. NJ Gufey. George W. Won
Bonhorst, William Finn and r. B. Petty.
After the conference Mr.. Weihe went to
Homestead. Although the parties to the
conference refused to make known what had
transpired, it was understood that the
Amalgamated Association had offered to
give the Sheriff complete possession Of the
works if he would promise to place in the
works not more than ten deputies who
should be taken from the ranks of the
Homestead workers, and providing that the
Sheriff should not lend assistance to the
steel company inv introducing non-union
workmen.
The Sheriff, accompanied by e1-Sheriff
Cluley and r. b. Petty, went to Home
stead at 4:15 and returned about $50 last
evening. When asked if he had met with
any resistanceat Homestead he said: There
were a few fellows around, partly full Of
booze, who growled little and told me
was not as popular as used to be. You
can say positively that I will do nothing to-
ward taking possession of the Homestead
works for day or two. 1 do not want the
people who have consented to act as depu-
ties to appear tomorrow. The situation at
Homestead will, therefore, remain un-
changed for the next couple of days.
81 have countermanded the order regard
ing the closing of the saloons in Miff1in
township. The speak-easies were doing q
rushing business and 1 concluded it would
be better to have the saloons open, than to
have the men gathering in speak-easies."
SUM MM0NED A SICK MAN.