The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-29
KINKEAD FALLS
IN COLLAPSE AS
STRIKE CLIMAX
Arrests Bayonne Commissioner
and 105 Others Before
Breakdown.
COMPANIES STAND BY
HIS WAGE PROMISES

nay on Sheriff Eugene +. kinkeads
picturesque achievements in settling the
Standard Oil strike at Bayonne. N. j.,
In a wa as dramatic as even the
Eheriffs heart could desire. He ar
Of Public improvements. six saloon
Keepers and ninety and nine Standard OIL
guards. AMI then collapsed completely
and had to be taken to his summer
home at Deal.
Yet after the automobile bore away
che two listed Sheriff n his wife.
hastily summoned. on every street and
In every home in the Jersey town word
was. Maybe Il was grand stand play
ing. but Gene broke the strike" There
could be no doubt hat had he
chosen to arrest the entire Bayonne
city government and take complete
charge Of the clty's every activity
none would have said him nay. "He
can get away with anything" they
aid In Bayonne.
Even those political rivals whom
the Sheriff has said were "c~owardly,'
because they were safe In police head
quarters during the days when he was
facing bullets and bricks in cobble-
stoned East Twenty-second street, had
nothing to say of him after he left.
Political luminosity was not strong
enough to break the spell cast by this
man who arrests armed guards. strike
leaders and officials impartially, swears
IN police officers all over the county
waves the American flag, makes his
deputies bow reverently before a church
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mediators had failed. He is simply too
much for everybody.
Another Busy NOrnins.
The Sherif's exit in a blaze of glory.
~ well timed as ever stage eXit was.
came after another busy morning.
When he left police headquarters after
DR.. Bert J. DAILY had said he had a bad
case Of nerves, caused by lack OF sleep
and food and prolonged strain, the
Sheriff had compressed into a few
hours activities that would astound
any II who has not seen him at work
in the last ten days.
Although he had been up all Monday
night and chasing over Hudson county
In search of police officers to deputize.
and slept little more than an hour last
might. Sheriff kinkead was at the main
gate OF the Standard Oil Company's plant
at 5 o'clock yesterday morning. before
the drst workman appeared. With him
in his automobile sat jeremiah j. Baly,
the tall young man who came from Eliza
beth to lead the strikers. was denounced
ms an interloper by the Sheriff and ar
rested after his ears had been boxed.
II want you 10 take a good look at
this man." shouted the Sheriff to the en-
tering wo"'tmen. $50 that .ou'n know him
again. ont let him stir up any more
trouble
When the last man had entered the
works the Sheriff drove TO police head
quarters, where he had a heart to heart
talk with Baly and Frank Tannenbaum.
the l. W. W. agitator arrested in Mydosh
Hall on Tuesday. Tannenbaum is pop
ular with the strikers and had refused
the Sheriff's invitation to accompany him
n Baly TO the plant
Permits Them to Go Free.
After his talk with his two prisoners,
the Sheriff decided to discharge both.
"Sherlff, ! got no money said Baly
In his fiat. broken English. His captor
ave him a dollar. ''rhat'u get you
back home, won't it?' he asked.
why did l let the boys go?" said the
Sheriff to reporters, a twinkle in his blue
eyes and a hint of brogue in his strong
voice. "Baly promised me TO be good,
n ! believe him.. ! let Tannenbaum
&c because he is nc liar and Is not afraid
TO stand up for what he believes. He's a
fighter, and | like a fighter. ! don't adj
mire his doctrines, but l do admire his
grit"
Then the Sheriff went in to telephone
and fell foul of Commissioner Mara. AZ.
ter a TIL on Tuesday the Sheriff had
sent W deputies to escort Mara to Do.
nee headquarters Yesterday morning.
Mara sat in Chief Riley's Office.
"Leave the ROOM" shouted Sheriff Kin.
kead.
Nara stood his ground and was
promptly arrested.
"Dolan." said the Sheriff to one one OF
the faithful Boulevard police. take thi.
man to the street corner and see that he
stands there until further orders"
30 Commissioner Mara stood there on
the street corner much as a schoolboy In
disgrace' surrounded by a Cycling.
nudging crowd for ten minutes. until
Sheriff Kinkead relented suddenly and
permitted him to go on $500 bail. The
charge is the Sheriff's favorite, 'incitinR
to riot"
90 Arrested In q Bunch.
Just then. however, the Sheriff heard
that all of the remaining guards were
TO be taken back to New York from the
Standard oil plant by boat. This would
never do. he said. He had arrested thirty
or those guards a few days ago and here
were ninety-nine getting out of his juris-
diction. Three strikers had been killed
and a dozen wounded by the soft lead
bullets from their rifles.
Into an automobile jumped the Sheriff
n started for the Standard Oil plant.
with Lieut.. Broadhurst and his twenty
boulevard motorcycle police chuggine
along behind like the tail OF a comet,
They arrived at the Plant Just as John
Hammond, the timekeeper, was checking
on the last OUTGOING guard.
give me the names Of those men,
said the Sheriff. They are all under
arrest. Don't you sneer at me-" a.
Hammond smiled, "These are the weap-
ons OF Hudson county, and unless you
give me those names the Sheriff Of Hud-
son county will use them on you" III
them painted with iodine-in Hammond's
face. Hammond read off the names.
Then the Sheriff and his bluecoat,
formed the guards-ninety-nine OF then
in line and marched them through the
streets TO police headquarters. Before
leaving, however, the sheriff confiscated
a big heap OF rifles and revolvers. The
sight OF them again stirred the Sher.
MS Ire.
Il don't Ike the methods Of wealth In
hiring gunner and thugs to defend prop,
erty even II a little is lost without
them he said, looking from the heaped
aHnE ~ tho llAt OF ~, rIG' nAHrAaana