Q. As this strike finally did take place, there was no general understanding on all the roads that it should take place on each railroad on a certain day, that you found out. It did not actually take place on the different roads on the same day?
A. No; I do not think the strike became general throughout the country until, perhaps, three—it may have been four—days after its first commencement. The first general demonstration was on the Baltimore and Ohio road.
Q. You heard nothing in any of these conversations of any fixed day after the 27th of June—any date named?
A. As I said early in my testimony here, I do not know that I could fix the hour or the day, but I think I could have named the time within ten days, from the information I had in talking with the various employés, and that was, to wait until the payments had been pretty generally made on all the roads throughout the country—that seemed to be the time.
By Senator Yutzy:
Q. Did the railroad strikers in Allegheny City, on the Fort Wayne and Chicago railroad, show any disposition to destroy property or commit any violence or illegal acts except stopping the trains?
A. No, sir; there was a great effort made upon their part to preserve all property—railroad property and private property.
Q. They made efforts to prevent the destruction of property?
A. Yes, sir.
Q. Private property and railroad property?