Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-10-28
(Continued.)
p xl.

CHAPTER Ni.
Daylight was in the thick Of his
spectacular and intensely bitter fight
with the Coastwise Steam Navigation
Company, and the Hawaiian. Mica
rsguan. and Pacifc-Mexican Steam
ship Company. He stirred up q big.
ger muss than he had anticipated,
and even he was asfounded at TIE
wide ramifications OF the struggle and
at the unexpected and incongraons In
terests that were drawn into II. Every
newspaper in San Francisco turned
upon him 1t Was true. one or two OF
them bad frat fntimated thst they
were open to subsidfzatIon. but Day
lights Judgment was that the situa-
tion did not warrant such expenditure
Up to this time the press had been
amusingly tolerant and good-naturedlv
sensational about him. but now he was
to learn what virulent sc~urrilousness
an a~ntagonixed press was capable OF.
Every episode Of his life was resur-
rected to serve as foundations for ma
licious f~abrications. Daylight was
frankly amazed at the new fnterpre-
tation put upon ell that he had ac-
complished and the deeds he had
done. From an Alaskan hero he was
metamorphosed into an Alaskan
bully, liar, desperate, and all-around
bad man" The whole affair sank to
the deeper deeps of rancor and savage
ness. The poor woman who had killed
herself was dragged out OF her grave
and paraded ON thousands Of reams
OF paper as a martyr and a victim to
Daylight's ~feroctous brutality.
He was like a big bear raiding a
beehive, and. regardless of the stings,
he obstinately persisted In paving for
the honey. He gritted his teeth and
struck back. Beginning with q raid on
two steamship companies. II develop
ed into q pitched battle with q city,
state and continental coast line. Al
lied with him, on q splendid salary,
with princely pickings thrown In, was
a lawyer, Larry Hogan, a young Irish
man with a reputation to make. and
whose peculiar genius had been I'M
recognized until Daylight had picked
up With him. IT was Hogan who guided
Daylight through the ~intricacies of
modern politics, labor organization.
and commercial and corporation law.
1t wss Hogan, prolific of and
suggestion, who opened Daylight's
eyes to undreamed-of possibilities in
notwithstanding warfare, and 1t a
Daylight, rejecting, accepting, and
celebrating. who planned the cam
paigns and prosecuted them. With the
Pacific coast, from Puget Sound to
Panama, buzzing and humming. and
with San Francisco f~uriously about his
ears, the two big steamship companies
had all the appearance OF winning. 1t
looked as If Burning Daylight was be-
ing beaten slowly to his knees. And
then he struck-at the steamship COM
panies, at san Francisco, at the whole
Pacific coast.
1t was not much OF a blow at first.
A Christian Endeavor convention was
being held In San Francisco, a row
was started by Express Drivers Union
No. S27 over the handling OF a small
heap OF baggage at Ferry Building. a
few heads were broken, q score OF ar
rests made, and the baggage was de-
liyered. No one would have guessed
that behind this petty wrangle was
the ane Irish hand Of Hogan. made
potent by the Klondike gold of Burn
ing Daylight. 1t was an Insignificant
affair at best-or 90 1t seemed. But
the Transfers Union took UP the
quarrel, backed by the whole Water
Front Federation. Step by step, the
strike became involved. A refusal Of
cooks and walters to serve scab team
sters or teamsters' employers
brought out the cooks and walters.
The butchers and meat cutters refused
to handle meat destined for unfair
restaurants. The combined Employ
ers' Associations put up a solid front,
and found facing them the 10000 or
ganized iaborers of San Francisco.
The restaurant bakers and the bakery
wagon drivers struck, followed by the
milkers, milk drivers and chicken
psckers. The building trades asserted
Its position In unambiguous terms, and
all San Francisco was In turmoil.
But stiil. 1t was only San Francisco.
Hegan's intrigues we're mastery, and
Dayiight's campaign steadily devel
oped. The powerful fighting organi