The evening world., 1894-07-13
nellie BLY, IN PULLMAN.
|She Learns What 4" Philan.
thrOpy at Six Per
Cent" Means.
THE DUKE" AND THE DOLLAR.
Tales Of the Def Way in Which the
One Extracts the Other from
His WOrkmen.
STRIKERS KEEPING PERFECT ORDER.
No Threats or Muttered Curses Heard Even
At the Funeral CT Wcrkingman Wan
tonly Murdered =. Xensington.

which amuses me the more-the sight of
the army in Chicago or the stories in
the newspapers. The whole affair i'm
presses me as being huge jolie-a sort
Of CoXey burlesque on an immense scale.
Everywhere | go. everywhere l look, l
am confronted by the soldiers. Officers
chock iull of Importance and trying To
look as If the safety OF the land rested
upon their well-padded shoulders. strut
around and dine in the hotels and enjoy
themselves immensely. Soldiers in
SQUADS, with a man in command march
hiher and thither. and wheel about and
shoulder arms and stack arms. 10 the
intense appreciation of curious specta
tors.
But why they should be here and what
IL all means l cannot understand |
turn TO the newspapers, / see long
words in big, black type describing
scenes Of bloodshed and riot down entire
columns until / reach the last line, by
turning page, which tells me that ii
is 60 rumGred. | see loodcurdling
pic,Gres-men falling dead and others
with flaming torches. clubs and revol-
Scrs in their hands. Then / 20 out to
bee the strikers in Pullman. The town
mas Sabbath-day look. Very few
people on the streets, and they are
4 man women on some erral!. | so into
the quiet homes and ! finl tnc strikers
nursing the babies.
l"Si, rdav the guard was reini creed al
Pullman because it was said an attempt
Vas to be made to blow the shops up.
spent the entire day in the homes of
the strikers and | am prepared to take
my oath that not soldier in the United
States Army would do more to defend
he town OF Pullman than the strikers
within it.
They are not fierce firebrands; they
are not ur!erers and rioters; they are
not Anarchists. They are quiet, peace
;ul men. wko nave suffered beneath the
heel of the most heartless coward it has
Ger been my misfortune to hear Of
PULLMAN'S OPPORTUNITY.
No man in the world ever had u better
chance to benefit mankind than had
Pullman. No man deserves more the
condemnation of the world for his neg
lect of his duty towards his fellow
creature than this same Pullman.
George Pullman could have made him
self the hero of every child in Pullman.
lie could have been loved and wor-
shipped by every man and woman. and
ants would have gone before the throne
OF heaven beseeching blessings to rest
upon him evermore. But now he is
cursed and his name Is received with
quiet Kisses. and dying men and women
have gone before God calling punish
ment upon him
| went to Pullman yesterday by the
way of l<ensngton. When / reached
the leart of the village | saw an enor-
nous procession forming in the streets.
1t was hte funeral of a striker.
The ferocious creatures they are
murdered, they clam-would call forth
every Ditter feeling that smouldered in
their hearts. Among the menIirom Two
10 four thousand-there seemed IA chance
10 Judge Just what the present feeling IS.
The men had gathered around me
pretty little Swedish Methodist Cnurch
held. AS many as could get into me
church had done so, ana We're listening
in GREATNESS silence TO the pale-faced
minister as he talked to them in 10Y.
sgitated tones. Before MIN rested me
pain. black. oth-covered coffin, me
waXen and discolored face of the dead
man plainly visible through the glass.
The long Sewed cash where the bullet
mad entered the forehead could not de-
-troy the look of caimness and peace
which rested on the dead race.
There was something pathetic ana
touching in the sight of the rough, toll
worn hands folded across the pu!seiess
breast that moved me as nothing had
before during the entire strike. THOSE
rough and hardened hands seemed Ia
speak in their, heplessness as no voice
ever spoke. They had always toi!ed Tor
livelihood: they had asked only Tor JUS,
zee, and in asking Tor justice they ma, naa
been laid low and helpless. the B!bir
says, In the sweat or thy brow shalt
thou eat bread Even so had mat brow,
!. now pierced By bullet, been moistencd.
Brutal. UNPRONOkIID MURDER.
This man had not been burning cars
OF threatening lives when he was shot.
lie was on strike, but he had attempted
no Violence against property or man
lie was almost a stranger IN kensins'
ton, and All his friends and relatives
we're in his old home in Missouri; so he
could not ask aid of mis- neighborS a.
Diners might His two babies ana M
a nshng-po to try TO get something
Tor those AT home. on the way he mel
deputy, who for some reason knowI
only 10 himself, set upon the workman
and shot him to death, first in the head
ana then, when he fell, In the back.
II would be natura. 10 suppose thdt
Knowing these circumstances As they do
these workmen would cry for yengeanct
over the corpse Of their brother. Bul
they did not. There he lay, ana nearby
sa, his stricken and heart-broken widow
supported by two sympathl2ing neigh
bJrs, and before them stood the minister
liking in low voice regrettins In,
N'a'Il ~ Il DIblltI, uul iflllhhll'S '''''
lAat in quiet and order .ly their on,I
hype The organ moaned sadly thronS.
me little church, hymns were sung an
Women wept vita the lonely widow, anC
II. u looked sad, hut not one angry wora
was uttered, IN" services over, "A Ion2
| bv'nession marched around the coffin
women cried silently and children 10 ke,
a""1 and frightened. The men ~"r" %
many nationalties. Their clothing wa
poor ana cheap: their hands hari an'
."usn, bu; their eyes We're mois'ene'
Win tears.
After the long procession had filed pas
lh' collin man covered the dead lnc'
"hi the pall-hearers, Dare-headed, hOT
| ~" mn 10 the helrSe, SIN men carried
lHfee Hover pieces, sent By different so
''8. le', ana "A man and Il woman Ia
rl hAf carried. tae stricken willow. .
| Nhe Is the first widow, hut 81" vi.
h't b" the last before the strike ends,
Weeping woman said 10 me.
ne band at the head OF the line playe'
a. funeral dlrse, and the SLOW march o
almost 4.01) men began. | draye aroun'
tS side street and Viewed the pr. ces
"9a. Tas banner OF the American Fail