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Evening sentinel, Wednesday, August 13, 1913 · page 9

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. never lost a strike, as a man with“
1 nerves or steel. and as a business man
91151115111111 his own peculiar toads. -

'. ency, though they were scattered all
- offer the would}. .Among‘ these there

 
 
 

(Commune loom 1111:, m9.)
business tcn'yaara. When he re?i

ti ed. in 1995. ll: 110.11.111de to naval; ‘

mAd-‘a million dollars. 0311i in ad-

dition ho had made a warlil- wide row ’

utatlon as a “boss" strikebrealler who

was thoroughly legitimate just so long
on he never practiced 111. when he
ulought the moron strike were tun
dcrpeld

curing the ten years he was in the
stl'lkehroaklng business. he had at va-
rtods’ times on 1115‘ payroll 300100 to
40, 600 men. all or whom lie could call
upon 111111111 case of a pressing emerg-

were 600 or 700 man whom he CalledE
his own men. Nobody could get a“
place among them unless he had been
vouched for by another member.

 

.. Rain or shine. summeror

you can make it.

' «128 Washington St.

 

Whenever, there was'troublc Farley
sent for these men wherever they
might happen to be and he could
reach them at a minute's notice at any
time.

He was not an enemy of labor
unions, he used to say. 'He made up
his mind never to so into n strike
where labor. no matter of what grade l
was paid less than $2 or $2, 25 a day.‘
Public opinion. he said. would not
tolerate such intervention Most of
the strikes in which he figured were
hrougllt about by union domination or

 

, crookedness or on questions of disci-

plino, where, for instance. a drunken.
union man was discharged and that
to, strike. Between. 1111’ strikebrenk-
.ing expeditions Farley lived quietly on
his farm in the Adirondacks. He
had a string of fourteen trotting:
horses and they were his hobby.

l-low He Found .Hia’Work.

At fifteen Farley was attendant in’
the billiard room of a small hotel;

_ then he became a bartender! not lik~

ing the job. he was made-night clerk
and was soon promoted to the day
shift. At eighteen he was manager
of the hotel. but the business was too
slow for him, and he went to New
York to try his luck as a detectile.‘
When he reached Brooklyn. during

. the street car strike of 1895, he use
.. put in charge of silicon specia‘lp 01- ““101“? forms and “MUM“ hale

‘1't~‘lll Nil.

ccrs. After that he was limekeopez‘
for 2.000 atrikebrcakers pin Philadelg
villa“. It was his cxperieri‘oe in these1
,two sijrikes that not him thinking. and
his thinking resulted in his career. He

' (BOTTLE!) IN THE comm)

the eagle sign Will be at our door the same time
every morning with a bot
milk—mom mill: in a clean bottle—mm! the route
salesman is preparedto take care of all your milk
‘ needs. This “tunnels as certain as a perfect or-
ganiza‘tion and a disposition to go the limit to serve

Hail any Borden wagon and the route salesman will take
your order; or write or telephone. ‘

:llordents Cundouscd Milk ‘ Go.

alto at diamond 11711557111
' lull-oh Explru in Now York.
NEW YORK. Annual law-Bishop

J Reformed Episcopal church; died yes
, ‘ ‘ lorduy afternoon at his home hex-c.1111:

. 1 1 ‘1 1. was 71- your: old. The hluhOp sullen

‘3 the b03111 V8109. that YO“? ed antroko of apoplexy several weeks

milk 111190917 will [my ago and this was aggravated by recent

pneumonia symptoms. Bishop Sabine
winter’ the wagon mm the'fl’rotcstant Episcopal and loln'tho
Reformed Episcopal church. From
1 183,1 to 1907 he olllciatcd at the
First Reformed Episcopal church on
with avonuc. He was made 111311971 01
the New York and Philadelphia
synod In 1902.

The bishop was a native of New
, iYork and was educated at Cblumbia
l

of pure, wholesome

 

and the new York general theological
aeauuary. He was ordained to the
'ministry of the Protestant Episcopal
allumll by Bishop Horatio Potter in
1863. and in the same year became
assistant pastor of St. George 3 church

Telephone 871.
in this city. Later he went to Phil.

 

 

'ln strik‘ing'contraat to his always col-

orlesa‘foce. Thus he appeared at Wa-

terbury and elsewhere he was the ing a strike.

same. The heavy black mustache.’
drooping 1011'. covers thin lips. cruel
lips. suggestive at anything but laugh
tor. The nose in Roman and tells its
story of courage, determination and
ability. The forehead is high and
',tuil rounding into the temples. His
voice is light and under no clrcnlm
stances rises above a conversational
tone. When it has pleasant things to
say it is a pleasant voice to bear. but
in a cruel mood it holds a cash which
hurts and penetrates and forebod‘ea
trouble. ’
An lndultriai Soldier of Fortune.
.There was never anything about
Farley to indicate the lust for excite-
ment, nothing to suggest the manner
'01 man who had been shot at a hull-
dred times;
time and again. and who has spent
much of his time in avoiding carc-
fully laid plots to kill him. Yet two
-hullets have found their way into his
anatomy at dillerent time and a net-
work of scars tattoos his skill. Under
his short. dark hair are many little
white marks where clubs. missiles of

hronght‘hlood it used to be his lus-
tom to take out the first car in a.
six-11a snaps" . Al Cleveland Farley
figured in a bad strlllo, and likeulso

at St. Louis and Scranton and at, hSa'lm,

sawxllls opportunity and he seized ”it llllh'anoisco sills Pitt'l‘ln'fih- 3‘“ be hi:

Determined to become a strike a -

sometimes of tile opinion that Water- .
ltation to meet every new emergency

1 91.211 Farley decided to s‘pe‘clunze 011 bur\' was the Vomit. There one night

street car strikes. He worked 'out
his plan. and, that he might prepare
himself for his new. business from the
bottom, he gave up detective work at
$4 a day and became a conductor on

' the Atlantic avenue line in Brooklyn

at $1. 60 a day. That joh undersiood,
he became a motorman. an oiler in
the engine-,house a fireman in the
powerhouse an inspector. and finally
landed in the office
ily, for the management knew his
plan In two years he felt that his

He shifted read 1

a great mob. In the early evening,
sweeping a supine police force aside,
tool: possession of the city Twenty-
one motormen and conductors “ere
dragged from their cars in the main
streets and most of them went to the
hospital Than the throng rushed for
the car barns and closed doors blocked
their rush. Just at its height a car
sailed along the main street with the
bleeding motorman and conductor in-
side.

for a time there was consequently;

who has been assaulted ,

the telephone wires and rolpys of 1119. 1

any hard-pressed lieutenant

Farley hall pulled them out of a

udelphia as rector of the Church at
the Covenant. but in 1886 he was re-
called to New York to the rectorchip
of the Church of the Atonement.
where he remained until he joined the
Reformed church

 

his recruits signed an agreement do
rlinitoly undertaking to assist in break:

it was late one nlght that the lo‘
cal union decided on a declaration 01
war. and daisided that the employee
should come out at four o'clock next
morning. Several hours earlier Far-
ley had éathored within easy distance
a clinician: force of substitutes. neg
looting no detail as to their housing
or [coding or any other necessity
the campaign. At the moment oi the ,
strike a man was ready to fill nearly.° °°I°Ck when fire broke out in
”every deserted post. The conditions. ICcntral 310‘?“ 3 tenement house, on
especially on the subway. were strange East "3'" street
to many of the imported hands. and The tire was in the “009‘? store 0‘.

iTheresa Spillln and by this
liners wore ten chlldren,
whom are living.

 

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FIRE 1N NEW BRITAIN.
NEW BRITAIN AugnSt 12. --Many

 

more or less bungling,

 

wlilh’lm Tutnell Sabine p. 1).. at 1119'

was one of the ill-st rectors to leave 1

He was married in 1868 to, Maria '
union.
nine oi! 1

John H Violin and the damage is es- '
with one so ‘iimated at $600 The tlrelnen fought ‘ .

Tho'Advanlzago
10f‘I-iboral
NWspapor ”

.1 A . .MVertl‘sing
is Apparent ' '“f' .,
to the
“Management
«WhiohisAli-ve

mite

Opportunities.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

of families were driven into the streets
in scanty attire this morning at 2
the... .

rious accident. but on the whole ‘0 keep "19 ““1135 away from 3 WW ‘ '

there was remarkably little lntei‘rup-lganon 0” tank in tho rear of the, .

i ~21

The building is an old structure,al1d " 1,

tlon to the normal trunlc, and wllhlu 51"” l“ ”“3 ”It: 1Vere successfulr
three days it was generally recog- “MOW" the llamas melted the spout
nized that the strikers were beaten. 0“ "‘3 tank.

During this period the commander- I
inchlet and his stat! made theirll“ 011' department circles it is stated

l‘
headquarters in a little back room it “70“” ““9 been one 01 the worst '
in an uptown oillce building. occupied dwelling Muse lirea in this history of . ,
mainl: by theatrical managers llerc' “‘9 C“! if the flames women-.5 .

sat James Farley at a roll-top desk '0 communicate t0 parts of, the build-
irom tell o'clock on Monday night un~l mg 0m“? then the store ’
til Thursday evening. except for 10111
hours sleep and a single flying jour
My 01 or the railways with whose tor-
tun a he was entrusted. all“ this tlme

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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ford
RAILROAD
i'I‘IME TABLE

to Effect“, June 23. 1013.

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so gar“ bplfi its his) mlglffllltll. .
the exact 11111111511 at ex on important
point. Q‘l‘ders ‘u’i‘sre issued without hes-

fresh batches of men from Boston
or Chicago being sent to strengthen» 1.
whose
forces needed relief. As long as the
strike lasted Farley was absolute dea-

pot of the lino 1101 mm the president ooura noawau: TO new veal: '

oi the company venturing. to intul'terc A. M.--1: 20!. 6' 141163: 41:, 9!: '13,
with his plans or to offer ‘a suspec-
tion. He had not been called in non
subordinate or an adviser. but had

contracted to break the strike.

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course in the strlkobroaklng school: crowd and got away with them. Stup-

was completed. so he graduated him

self and began to look for clients. AtE

liirst be supplied small sounds of
strikebroukcrs.
companies and took a larger and still
a larger part in the management of
strikes. in Providence, ll 1.. he at

ping the car, he shouldered his way
through the booting and howling
hundreds to the door of the barn

Then he suppliedEOrderlng the doors to be opened. he

bade the weakened motor men run
the car in. and as the doors were
opened. the crowd surged iorw.ard

tallied rank as a sirlkebrcaker gen-11ml met Farley

moi 11ml absolute power. After that
ill-1101111! work under no limitation.
When barley was on the ground the
pwsideut of the railroad was his aub-
mdlnntn. ’

Railroads Paid Him Retainers.

llut. strike or on strike. his busi-
nous 11ml good all the leer round.
Nam companion paid him a culled com
for the privilege of first; second or
third call when his aeriiceu were in
quired. Two months 5.11511 the New
«York strike in 1009 he was palll101.000
ll Guy 1111 n rolnlner. and another occa-
sions his two was 810.009 for the privi-
logu of culling upon him. although it

devolution that a nettleuu-ul mulls ll.‘

uunocoausry to invite him toiho accuc
of impending trouble.

1.11111 9.111: saw him at Waterbury,
(loan. during the violent 1111111111111
1901, remembers how. while can. the
windows of which worn covered with

wire screens as a protection «1111111:
0.11ng «loom, ours rolling to the ocular
and then off again 10 the. four points
or lilo complain. ll man. all: ice: in
height. broildulhonidorsd' and raw
boned. some. down the dime steps
from the trolley company‘s main onion
in “10‘ square and carelessly shoul-
dorm] his way through the angry
crowd. ilehind him there was a mur-
mur or unwed nurses ahd threaten“
of knowicdllc of which his colorless
lace gave no sign. incision suggested

. ill ovary more. however careless. was

we. .3

a,» ,,.

confirmed by the firm sweep of his
law. All he wont lovard the track
to give directions to the silent young
man 111 the rumor his voice was clear
not low. its had noted no words.
and as he turned he lit a cigar and
closed llll Mariachi mouth
{nor it. That rayon sinuous 1111011111
black rg‘wwnm _ ‘ Wall

“This is company property," he
said, In his conversational tone. "The
man that steps on it will he shot "

'l‘hat ended the attack

Farley always stood ,by his men
when they were in a light place. At
Richmond. tor inauncc. he tough:
his way through a inch to rescue two

of them who had boon attacked by.

overwhelming odds.
How Farley Worked.

The strike in 10015 on the elevated"
'and underground railways of New

York afforded an excellent illustra-
tion of Farley’a methods. Some time

hoioru the actual trouble hogan tho"
intolilcurougll Rapid Transit company"
recognised that 1: couilict was lncvitu '
able. They telegraphed for tho strike-
in a secret interview ‘
withhim set forth the problem. which“
included the supply of skilled lilo-f

breaker. and

thrown. electricians and powerhouse

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LOVIE’R’S

PLACE

WASHINGTON. Aug. lt.-——Tho Mo-
nlla. one of the old Spanish vessels
captured by Admiral Dewey in the Bat-
tle of Manila 1,811.13 is to be sold, it a
purchaser can be found who will pay
more than 310,090 for the vessel: The
ship is 209 loot long. of 1.750 tons. and
it is now at
lb? More island Navy Yard. California.
The vessel torsome time has been

has a speed of 10 knots.

used as ll prison llllip.

 
 
 
 
 
 

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Vacation

operators. as woll all ticket sailors."

car cleaners. and other less techni-
cailv equipped workmen Everything
was to be ready in three weeks. (in
leaving the conference Farley lulled
instructlofill to his agent: all over tho
Milton. end advertisements appeared
forthwith announcing vacancies tor
trunnion to work at good wages.
There was nothing in them announce:
moms to indicate the peculiar nature
oi the job. At each local headquarters
applicants were put ulrough a sac:
cecal/on of tests. the last cl them in

eluding the vital question whether 1

they would be willing to work it tron
bio broke out on the line. The select
all men then came under the scrutiny
of Farley himself. who Visited the can
rim agencies and used his judgment
in making the dual choice. At this:

point thine w n no longer any coll-i

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