Q. Did you communicate these facts and your apprehensions to the city officials, any of them, of Pittsburgh?
A. No, sir.
Q. Or the county officials?
A. No, sir; I only talked with parties who were interested in the same manner that I am myself and others, perhaps, I am well acquainted with, in the same line of business, by fortifying in the way of getting in plenty of raw material. I was so certain it would come to pass, that I advised it all the time.
Q. Did you gather facts enough to enable you to determine when this strike would probably take place?
A. Yes; I had a very good idea when it would come. I do not know that I could see that my idea was so clear upon that, that I could fix the hour or perhaps the day, but I think I could have named a time of ten days that it would have occurred within that time. I could have done that, perhaps, twenty days before the strike occurred.
Q. Did you, in any conversation with these railroad men, have any talk with them about the wages they were receiving, and whether it was adequate for their support?
A. Yes; that was talked about considerably.
Q. In the business that you are engaged in you employed a large number of laborers?
A. Yes, sir.