The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-16

weeks. Men who were accepted were told
TO come around again.
Farley himself made the round OF those
recruiting stations wedding out the un-
dcsirables. Men who were finally 40
cepted were put on waiting orders and
paid. They had 10 keep In touch with head
quarters and report three times a week
HOW THE SECRET WAS KEPT.
All this time, no mention was made Of
the particular railroad for which the men
we're wanted Few OF them even knew
that It was Farley the -boss strike breaker
who hired them. His lieutenants, who
have many names, did the work.
In this way some two thousand picked
men we're assembled in half a dozen centres.
In a fortnight they we're all ready.
Farley had made a flying trip 10 each
centre, had personally inspected them ALL
had made known to them that they were
wanted az strike breakers in big city
and they had all signed an agreement to
make a contract on certain specified terms
! later. And meantime Farley's particular
bodyguard-' Farley's Own az they call
! themselves-which has been with him
! through most Of his strikes and knows
the ropes, had been notified and was ready
at a moments notice to Join him
The unions we're to present their demands
on March 1. By that time a sufficient force
to man the roads was assured. But the
union leaders delayed.
On March and the following two days re-
! ports began 10 come TO the newspapers here
/ Of bodies Of men being engaged in Pitts
/ burg, in Chicago and elsewhere to break
| a big railroad strike. The union leaders.
/ confident in their strength, laughed at
| them.
Their demands were not even presented
| vet Why should the marlborough people,
/ who we're not supposed 20 know OF the
extent Of the blow in preparation, be getting
! ready to meetit? The marlborough officials
/ entered diplomatic denials that they were
! engaging non-union men, which literally
was true. Farley was doing II.
FARLEY's ARMY ARRIVES.
! The unions prepared to present their
ultimatum on Monday, March Q, Late on
! Sunday afternoon a large steamboat,
! the c. II. Northam, anchored at q pier in
| Jersey City near the Jersey Central railroad
station. Presently there began 10 come In
| by special train hundreds Of men from
| PittsburR, from Chicago and from other
centres. They we're guarded by men
| wearing the badges OF James Farley's
! detective agency in this city. Outsiders
we're not allowed 10 60 near them.
Throughout that afternoon and evening
they we're coming in. As fast as they
arrived they boarded the steamboat, al
ready provisioned and equipped as a float
| ing lodging house, and disappeared from
view. They were 'Farley's Own" and the
advance guard from the recruiting
stations.
! The company had learned from tie spies
that the union demands were formulated,
| IL knew what they were 10 be, had decided
| that they were impossible Of acceptance
and had given the word 10 Farley's men 10
| move.
So secretly had the preparations been
made that no one knew that these men were
coming and no one was there to count them.
It IA known now that when the Northam
left the pier the next morning and sailed
up the East River TO the marlborough power
house there we're 800 experienced railroad
men aboard her, and as many more were
then on their way by various routes 10
meeting places already agreed upon In this
city.
But the unions couldn't believe Il. The
| btEulhbguN hulAIh "a y Nhc la wi WIN NIUDLy
decks. Word went up 10 the leaders that
Il was only a bluh; that there we're not
more than fifteen or twenty men In the
| cabins. And the leaders believed Il.
Arrogantly they presented their de-
mands with an ultimatum that day, waited
tin night for the reply and when the re-
fusal they never expected came at mid
night, declared a strike for O'Clock thu
next morning.
EVERYTHING READY.
BY that time there were $500 men on the
company's property ready 10 take the va
can't places as fast as the strikers quit them.
More we're arriving every hour. The
company was recruiting on its own account
at it's office in Dey street and long line Of
men waited at the door.
At midnight there were massed at the
powerbouse In East Fifty-ninth street.
at the subway terminal on the West Side
at 18th street, at the East Side terminal
at i45th street, and at the terminals OF the
East and West Side elevated roads enough
new men in each place TO take out half a
dozen trains.
At the same time the officials OF the Inter-
borough roads were sending out from their
own ofioe an experienced man to every
switching tower and signal station, with a
typewriter statement Of his duties.
From the Dey street ofiioe one Of Farley's
lieutenants was d-spatchlng by tens and
twenties, each party in charge Of q trusted
aide, men to take charge OF the ticket ofices
and chopplng boxes. The powerhouse
and the car barns we're being filed with
cots and blankets, hired weeks before for
the new men. In each car barn, az we'll
as on the Eortham and In the powerhouse,
a CORPS Of cooks was preparing meals.
In the back room Of a hotel downtown,
far away from any scene Of possible turbu-
lenoe, Vice-President Bryan and General
Manager Hedley Of the marlborough were
established, connected by special wire
with the Interborough's private telephone
exchange, and therefore in touch with
every part Of the oompanys system.
In his own Office at his detective agency
in upper Broadway were Farley and his
manager, equally in touch with every part
OF the railroad. On call at various points
along the roads we're lieutenants with re-
serves Of strike breakers. Police guarded
the stations and rode on the trains Every