The San Francisco call., 1906-09-05

Stealthily. as an army is moved al
night, a thousand strike ke-breakers were
marched through the streets of San
Francisco Just before dawn yesterday
morning, directed by Patrick Calhoun
Between files of armed guards, in abb
solute silence. the forces which have
been hurried across the coptineat to
break the carmens strike Were moved
into the stockaded car barns.
In FIVE divisions of from $50 to 3o0
men in each. the new employees
marched through the deserted streets
in the darkness. Their entry into the
city was directed by the President to
the United Railroads from his head
quarters at 2525 Webster street
PASS BEFORE CALHOUN.
Disembarking from the stern wheel
er Mary Garratt at North Beach, al q
point near the company's power house
four of the divisions were brought W
webster street and passed in review
before Patrick Calhoun where he stood
bareheaded on the curbstone Not one
of the new employees" knew that the
tall figure on the sidewalk in front OF
the Webster street mansion was that
Of their chief There was no shout
Of recognition The dark mass of hu-
that of the measured tread OF hun
dreds on the asphalt
Here and there an inspector in the
outside file of guards recognized Cal
houn and saluted in silence with the
long oak club he carried.
The fifth and last division of strike
breakers was brought around the
southern end of the bay and UP the
peninsula by rail to point near the
"a xvh thew
marched.
QUARTERED IN BARNS.
The disposition of the Industrial
army was accomplished in perfect
peace. and when morning dawned the
carmen knew that a thousand men
had been added to the forces OF the
company, bringing the total up tc
1900. and that all of them were in
safety behind the gates of six car
barns.
In the barn at Turk and Fillmore
are 500, while approximately 200 are
in barracks at the following barns,
Geneva street, Valencia street, Preside
avenue and California street, Hayes
street, and Haight street.
Had it not been for the freight
wreck east of Sacramento, which de-
layed the arrival of the strike break
ers. Calhoun's original design to bring
the men in just before daylight on
Labor day would have been carried
out as it was planned. Every one was
saving that the company would not
dare to bring men to the city on Labor
day. Like a good general, Calhoun de-
termined to do what every one was con-
fident he would not do. 1t was only
the freight wreck that interfered with
the execution of the movement as ii
had been arranged.
TRANSFERRED TO BOAT.
The trains were to have run through
to Oakland, taken a siding on the
banks of Oakland creek near the Pc
ralta-street slip, and there to have
been transferred 70 the boat which was
to have brought them across the bay
to North Beach. Calhoun and his lieu
night, but morning saw only 200 men
in the Valencia-street barn, and tile
rest still on the road.
In order to throw any union pickets
off the scent who might have got wind
of the original plan Calhoun ordered a
change in the tactics TO be employed on
the following night, and the trains
were halted at Benicia, where the
steamer Mary Garratt had been sent
At noon on Monday 500 men were
taken from the cars to the boat.
I'VE was slowed away in the cellar .
was the way one of the employees de-
scribed what happened to the bunch
when they embarked. Outwardly the
Mary Garratt wore an innocent look
Below decks an army was under cover
Tying up along the 1evee, where newly
reclaimed lands stretching for miles
to the horizon were not likely TO re-
veal the secrets of the invasion. the
Mary Garratt waited for the coming
dark.
NULLALLY ON WHARF. F.,
No union pickets hailed the steamer
as she dropped down the river and
crossed San Pablo Bay after nightfall
and when she tied up at North Beach al
2 o'clock Tuesday morning Cornelius
forces were still unadvised of her ap.
proach.
Thornwell Mutually was on the wharf