Q. Do you remember of any citizens calling at the office of the Union Depot hotel, and advising against moving the trains that afternoon?
A. No citizens called on me with such advice.
Q. Did any of the civil authorities?
A. I never saw any civil authorities of the city of Pittsburgh, except the mayor, for about ten or twelve minutes, and then I sent for him to come, during all the time I was there.
Q. When did you send for him?
A. About midnight, on Saturday. He met Colonel Quay, and I think the first word he said—I think he said: "If Hartranft had been here the troops would not have been ordered out. Why didn't you do like you did before—telegraph him, and then there would not have been any trouble." I said to him: "I think that if you get out there you can stop this thing now." He said it was beyond his power, and he made some remark I did not like very well, and I turned on my heel, and left him in consultation with Colonel Quay.
Q. Can you remember that remark?
A. No, sir.
Q. The substance of it?
A. No; not well enough to testify to under oath. Colonel Quay and he kept up some considerable conversation.