Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-16
INTERVIEWS GOBLIN
Ottumwa Man Gets SCOOP" or
Eastern Newspaper Writers.
THE GENERAL WASNOTIN BEST HUMOR
Said Big Conference at Washington
Was Bad Thing, as 1t Gave Strikers
Hope-Doesn't Like Bishop Fellows
and Miles Doherty.
[From Tuesdays Daily.

[ From Tuesdays Daily
Dr. E. M. Arenschield, of this city,
who yesterday returned home from
Washington, d. c., where he has been
on pleasure trip of two weeks, sue
ceeded without any appreciate effort
and without exciting any suspicion,
in doing just what the brightest news
paper men of the country have tried
to do and failed-secure a good inter-
view with General Goblin. the crusty.
grabbed, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. command
er of the Pennsylvania state troops,
which have been called into SER
vice and into the public notice by rea-
son of the strike among the anthracite
miners in that state.
A Stroke of Luck.
Dr. Arenschield did not seek his in
terview with General Goblin, but it was
rather thrust upon him by circumstan-
ces. He boarded train at Baltimore
for Buffalo when starting back home
from the east last Friday evening, and
on entering the Pullman he went into
the smoking compartment, where he
saw military-looking man whom he
did not recognize, but who was recog-
nized instantly by the next arrival
an fastener, who stepped into the
compartment and, after exchanging
greetings with the military man, ad-
dressed him as General Goblin, and the
two began a conversation in which the
Ottumwa man was not little inter-
ested.
From General Gobin's conversation,
which was in an ordinary, even loud,
tone, Dr. Arenschield gathered that he
was returned to his headquarters at
Harrisburg, Pa, after a conference
with President Roosevelt and "the
powers that be" in Washington. He
was not altogether satisfied with the
trend of affairs, evidently, and his re-
marks were punctuated at intervals
with parenthetical phrases that
strengthened but did not add elo-
gance In the first place he was very
much disappointed because President
Roosevelt had called meeting OF the
opposing representatives at Washing
ton.
Says Conference Was Bad.
"If there had not been conference
| at Washington said General Goblin,
I'VE would have had $4,000 men at
work in two weeks They got an idea,
/ when the meeting was called, that eN'
4 erything would be settled and that
4 they would do better to stay away
q from the mines than to go back &c
I work. AS an instance, i had the prom
I Use of ,twenty-seven men to go to Worf
4 on the morning before the call for the
\ conference was made, but when they
heard the news only eight put in al
appearance. They said We not &C
to-a work, it ALA right now-Presl
dem Roosevelt, he fix tia up.
i ''The great majority are foreigners
! and in a town of 10000 there are prob
ably $4,000 who can scarcely speak
the English language. They are igno-
4 rant and easily led by any idea tina
may be advanced"
Sas Wages Are Good.
1 General Goblin spoke of the wages
and said that the men who are OF
strike are not in poor condition. ii
said they could make as high as $4.5
per day and that they We're able 7
save money if they so desired. II
told about one man the soldiers arrest
ed for stoning them, and said tina
when the prisoner was searched MOI
ey to the amount of about $500 wa
found upon his person, together wit
bank book showing deposit OF 81
100 additional. This man, General Go
bin said, had been in America only
few years and had saved the none
by mining coal.
General Goblin, according to DR.. Al
enschield's way of looking at him, is
man whose ideas have been forme
while living in luxury, man who see
: but little of the hard side of life an
5 does not fully realize what it mean
5 The Ottumwa man says he is outspol
i en-, even gruff but that he looks tt
: soldier from head to foot.
General Goblin and the Bishop.
: General Goblin told, in DR.. Arer
/ schield's hearing, of an interview |
had with Bishop Fellows of Chicag
e who spent few days in the anthraci
. field with the miners. Bishop Fellow
J. is, as is well known, one of the mo
prominent labor enthusiasts in Il
American clergy and this fact alo1
was enough to make General Cob
mistrust him somewhat. However,
Q gave him an interview, when aske
and talked about several matters, nor
Z of which were important. He gay
t the bishop mild scoring for comil