The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-10-26
WORKING THE LABORER
What Baltim0re's Honest Money
League Is Doing.
Significant Features of the Mass
Meeting Held Last Night Under the
Auspices of the League-Free Tick
cts. Free Trains, and Hours Off
Work as Inducements to Attend.

BALTIMORE, Oct. 26.-The great mass
meeting and glorifcation of the Honest
Money Democratic League of Maryland,
held last night at Music Hall,~refects
credit upon the patriotic members of the
committee of seventy and gives the public
splendid opportunity TO understand
something of the political ingenuity and
skill of the gentlemen composing its mem
bership. The meeting shows, too, that
the league Is in very deep earnest about
the matter and is willing to go far to
bring about its desires.
The crowd was there. 1t had to be. The
Baltimore and Ohio Company. the Mary
land Steel Company. and kindred interests
saw to il that the hall was filled.
In contrast with recent political meet
ings of both parties the crowd last night
did not come gradually, filling the haIi
before the meeting was opened lnsteao'
up TO fifteen minutes before O'Clock there
were twice as many empty seats III the
hall as there were people, but between
that time and ten minutes past 8 O'Clock
the workingmen arrived.
From Sparrows Point 1000 workingmen.
employees of the Maryland Steel Company
were run into the Union Station on
special train.
The special train had been provided by
the league and special arrangements had
been made for the coming OF these Work
ingmen. Forty cars, it is said, were pro-
vided not only for the employees or the
steel company but to pick up men on the
way up who desired to attend Many OF
the cars were empty when they arrived
Another big crowd of men reached Union
Station q little before o'clock on another
special train. These We're the employees
of the South Baltimore Car Works, at
tod hot T0off
were posted yesterday afternoon at the
Mount Glare shops and the Locust Point
yards of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
notifying the men that they would be al
lowed to stop work one hour earlier IN
order that they might attend the meeting.
Five hundred of these men went to the
hall by trolley cars.
The Maryland Steel Company employees
and the South Baltimore Car Works EN-
ployes entered the hall in body, bearing
transpareEcies and each delegation head
ed by q brass band.
A liberal estimate of the crowd inside
the hall would be 5000, $500 OF whom
were seated, divided thus:
Maryland Steel Company employees 900
Employees of the South Baltimore Car Works. 900
Employees Of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road Company OH
SubuTbanltes ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. SDJ
Bona-fde leaguers ......--.----.-.---.------ 200
Total 600
Note.-The hall seats less than 200.
A few days ago men appeared in all the
suburban towns on the lines of the Balti-
more and Ohio their pockets filled with
tickets for last nights meeting. They pro-
eeeded to drum up auditors, promising
free transportation to all who would
promise to attend the meeting. To friends
some OF these "drummers" boasted that
dow for hot OrE
Then round-trip tickets in lunches Of
ten to twenty-five were issued to the sta
ton agents with instructions TO give free
ly to all who asked for them AS result
more sUburbanites found 1t desirable TO
come TO Baltimore last night than on any
other night in years. Theatre managers
do not remember of seeing so many of
their suburban patrons in their houses on
any one occasion in many months.
The special Honest Money League"
train of ten coaches left Mount Airy at 5
O'Clock. By the time Il reached Baltimore
the coaches contained nearly 800 persons.
The conductors had free tickets for those
who had failed to get them from the sta
ton agent, and when giving them out also
handed the passengers tickets of admis-
sion to Music Hall.
Charles Brown, who lives and works
near Sparrows Point, last night made the
following statement: Every effort was
made by workers of the Honest Money
League to get a big crowd of laborers
from SpaTrows Point to attend the mass
meeting. Round-trip tickets to Balti-
more were distributed by the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, and the men we're al
lowed to knock of work an hour earlier
in order to prepare for their trip to BaIti-
more on the regular evening train. This
train carried $50 of the workmen to the
n a he
were coIOred and 90 white men,
The registered vote of Sparrows Point
is ! ,256
The league had crowd that blind man
would have believed waxed enthusiastic
The words that fell from the lips of the
gentlemen by whom it was addressed were