A. Our Point Brook stable was burnt—that was after we started our works again.
Q. Can you estimate the damage to the Pennsylvania Company?
A. No; other people could tell you better about that.
By Senator Yutzy:
Q. Was there any disposition manifested on the part of your men, to go in to the furnaces and run them, if you would permit them?
A. I don't know of any such; no sir. Of course, we would only have been glad to have them run. If they run them at all, they must run under our protection.
Q. Was there any disposition, any offers made on the part of your men to go in and work?
A. If we would protect them. Oh, yes; if we would protect them after two or three days. The first day, they stated, they were afraid of men striking outside. We labored with the furnace men by night, talking with them, trying to get them to stay. They said they were afraid. The following Tuesday, they got more or less over the fear, and they did go back, if that is what you mean.
Q. Did your men say who made the threats against them—of who they were afraid?
A. No; it was that some men would come to their houses and tell them so and so—tell their wives so and so, some men either told their little girls, and that kind of thing. We could get very little information from them.