LIST OF CHARACTERS

Buck Foley, a walking delegate.
Tom Keating, a foreman.
Maggie Keating, his wife.
Mr. Baxter, President of Iron Employers' Ass'n.
Mrs. Baxter.
Mr. Driscoll, a contractor.
Ruth Arnold, his secretary.
Mr. Berman, junior partner of Mr. Driscoll.
Mr. Murphy, a contractor.
Mr. Bobbs, a contractor.
Mr. Isaacs, a contractor.
Connelly, Secretary of Iron Workers' Union.
Nels Petersen, a "scab."
Anna Petersen, his wife.
Pig Iron Pete, a workman
Johnson, a workman.
Barry, a workman.
Mrs. Barry.
Jake Henderson
Arkansas Number TwoMembers of
Kaffir Bill"The Entertainment
SmokeyCommittee."
Hickey

THE WALKING DELEGATE


Chapter I

ON THE ST. ETIENNE HOTEL

The St. Etienne Hotel would some day be as bulky and as garishly magnificent as four million dollars could make it. Now it was only a steel framework rearing itself into the center of the overhead grayness—a black pier supporting the grimy arch of heaven.