Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-12-02

NJ Iron Cliffs company that the min
: are gathering in n great mob down
The square, and they think | had bet
r come down and use my influence
prevent an outbreak"
do you feel able!'
| guess 50. I'm sore and lame,
ms a fact, III no bones broken, and
y ems a case of duty. The doctor will
NJ with Eric"
sIIe will. chr said the doctor, who
IL then came out of the room behind
bart. You're as much in need of
Etching as Eric. Take off that over
nt and 20 up stairs to bedr'
Now, DOCTOR" replied Stuart with a
n smile, II don't like to say l won't,
ID | shall say it this time. l feel as if
hight TO go down L the square. There
going to be n bad nights work, I'm
rhid, but not without n protest from
Burke and myself"
@.Al right, go your ways! And If you
Il your heads broken don't send for
q to glue the pieces together again"
The doctor went back to Eric, and
uart, after sending word hat he and
r Burke would be right down and
Der ordering the servants to bring
ound n horse and buggy, drove hur-
s6ly away.
AZ they sped down the hill they pass
several groups of miners swinging
ong the road at a smart foot pace.
ID when they reached the square
IRE was so large a crowd gathered,
erfiowing into the streets, that Stu
/ drove around into n of the al
RS and hitched his horse nea the
b rch 1t the rear. He and Burke then
We out into the space bounded by
4 church and the railroad depot plat
IN.
Die miners had not been in the habit
assembling at night. All their meet
Is up TO this time had been at noon.
|eir present gathering was a new
welopment of the strike, and as Stu
/ and the minister crowded in at the
ener by the church they both said to
emselves that there were elements Of
Fery dangerous character compressed
ID that spot. the commercial and o
II center of the town.
|n the first place, there was an un-
hally large number of drunken men
the mob. 1t was growing nOisier
Dry minute. The band stand wGs
|wded with miners. Two of them
Re trying to speak at the same time
opposite sides of the stand, and
D confusion was doubled by their at
hpt. The mob of men swayed rest
Sly about the stand, which was
hted by an electric hanging lamp.
X square vas almost as light as in
\ daytime. Out on a side track Of
railroad which skirted one side of
N square the troops that had come in
Il afternoon were Q%uartered in the
|ches which brought them. There
be two companies, and they had
~ ordered for some reason to re-
Nm over at Champion that night.
Dry alluSiOn to the troops seemed
Excite the miners to anger. The
hkers in the stand mentioned them
IN and pointed toward their quar-
n a good deal had happened that
to rouse even the sluggish, stolid
p of the north. Eric's injury, while
Iented by very many, was really
lSe for rejoicing by another large
rough element who were glad to
e his leadership displaced by that
pore radical but less capable men.
{uart could not help saying, IF Eric
1e only here!" For the first time he
lied what great power Eric had
Fessed. 1t was no small general
to hold this rough. turbulent mass
fnneducated men in check. There
no oGe to take Eric's place.
luart had no definite plan to pursue
foming down to the square. The
ers as they saw him spoke respect
II and asked after Eric. He and
Ike were finally in the progress of
II walk crowded up on the church
Is. which were covered with men.
was now about half past s o'clock,
the scene was of such a character
worn as they were by the days
hts. the two men stood looking out
Bhe faces beneath them with a GER
excitement that grew upOn them
lid every SGGOnu Inc noise ana con-
bn we're increasing. a fight of
y kind was already in progress in
band stand. Figures swayed back
forth there. The police force OF
NIPPON was meager at any time, and
Jas as powerless to manage such q
I'd as this as If it had been COM
d of little children.
Hddenly across all the other sounds
he square, rising over them, was
ID the beat of drum. 1t was no
De rattle of sticks, but a deter
ID, vigorous, muscular onslaught on
- drum by a strong right arm.
around the corner by the Iron
5 cOmpany's Office came a squad OF
and women, not more than a dozen
u. bearing a flag and shouting as
came:
rk is sailing Ger LIES sea to a land beyond
be blue:
going TO the promised land long with the
chosen few.
4 the bark there still is room for many,