Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1912-01-19

No. 927 over the handling of a small
heap of baggage at Ferry Building. A
few heads were broken, a score Of ar.
rests made. and the baggage was de-
livered. No one would have guessed
that behind this petty wrangle was
the fine Irish hand Of Hogan. made
potent by the Klondike gold Of Burn.
ing Daylight. It was an insignificant
affair at best-or 80 1t seemed. But
the Teamsters' 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 laborers of San Francisco
The restaurant bakers and the bakery
wagon drivers struck. followed by the
mixers, milk drivers and chicken
pickers. The building trades asserted
Its position in unambiguous terms, and
all San Francisco was in turmoil.
But still, It was only San Francisco.
Hegan's intrigues were mastery. and
Daylight's campaign steadily devel.
oped. The powerful fighting organi-
zation known as the Pacific Slope Sea-
| mans Union refused to work vessels
the cargoes of which were to be
handled by scab longshoremen and
| freight handlers. The union presented
its ultimatum, and then called strike
This had been Daylight's objective all
the time. Every incoming coastwise
vessel was boarded by the union off
cials and its crew sent ashore. And
with the seamen went the firemen. the
engineers and the sea cooks and
walters. Daily the number of idle
steamers increased. 1t was impossi-
BILE to get scab crews. for the men OF
the Seamen's Union were fighters
trained In the hard school of the sea,
and when they went out 1t meant
blood and death to scabs. This phase
of the strike spread up and down the
entire Pacific coant, until all the ports
were filed with idle ships, and sea
transportation was at standstill. The
days and weeks dragged out, and the
strike held The Coastwise Steam
Navigation Company and the Hawaii
an, Nicaraguan, and Pacif1c-Mexican
Steamship Company were tied up com.
pletely. The expenses of combating
the strike We're tremendous. and they
were earning nothing. while daily the
| lctt, ha %
til peace at any price" became the
cry. And still there was no peace,
until Daylight and his allies played out
their hand, raked In the winnings, and
allowed a goodly portion of CONT
nent to resume business.
Daylight's coming to civilization had
not improved him. True. he wore
better clothes. had learned slightly
better manners. and spoke better Eng.
lish. But he had hardened, and at the
expense of his old-time. whole-souled
geniality. Even his human affiliations
We're descending. Playing lone hand
contemptuous of most of the men with
whom he played, lacking in sympathy
or understanding Of them. and certain
ly Independent of them, he found lit
tie In common with those to be en-
countered. say at the Alta.Pacific. II
point Of fact. when tho battle with the
steamship companies was at its height
and his raid was inficting incalcula
BILE damage on all business interests
he had been asked to resign from the
Alta-Pacific. The idea had been rath
er to his liking, and he had found new
quarters in clubs like the Riverside
organized and practically maintained
by the city bosses.
One weekend. feeling heavy and de
pressed and tired Of the city and 1T
ways. he obeyed the impulse of
whim that was later to play an impor
tant part in his life. The desire I,
| get out of the city for Whit of cour
| try air and for change of scene wa
| the cause. Yet, to himself. he mad
! the excuse of going to Glen Ellen TO
! the purpose of inspecting brickyar,
which Holdsworthy had sold him. H
" spent the night In the little countr,
hotel, and on Sunday morning, astrid
a saddle horse rented from the Glel
Ellen butcher. rode out of the village
II the fiat beside the Sonoma Creek.
l. Resolving to have his fun first, an
:, to look over the brlckyard afterward
q he rode up the hill. prospecting for
3 way cross country to get to tn
knolls. He left the country road a
3 the first gate he came to and cantere
q through a bayfield,. The grain wa
o. waisthigh on either side the wagor
e road. and he shifted the warm arom
o of 1t with delighted nostrils. At tn
d base of the knolls he encountered
Is tumble-down stakeand-rider fence.
IS He tethered the horse and wal
1t dered on foot among the knolls. Thei
g. tops were crowned with century-oi
d spruce trees. and their sides clotbe
n with oaks and madronos and natl,
le holly. But to the perfect redwoods b.
longed the small but deep canyon thi