| "...Quarters were assigned to the
Governor and his staff in three comfortable cottages belonging to the
Carnegie Company, adjoining the Carnegie hotel on Eighth avenue, and
opposite the main entrance to the steel works. General Snowden
and his staff had been patronizing the hotel cuisine, previously
sacred to the discriminating palates of the Carnegie officials.
An odd incident temporarily deprived the General of this
accommodation. One morning the head waiter, having formed the
opinion that the troops were helping to take the bread out of the
mouths of the working men, informed the proprietor that he could not
be instrumental in conveying the staff of life to the mouths of
"the enemy" and resigned on the spot. The head cook
followed, and the underwaiters and cooks went out with their leaders.
When the officers arrived for breakfast and found that there was
nothing to eat, the air was made blue with profanity. The
boycott was one which all the military force of the commonwealth was
powerless to lift. After this, General Snowden had his meals
prepared and served at headquarters by a colored cook drafted from one
of the regiments. Young women who could be relied on not to
indulge in a sympathetic strike were installed in the places of the
cooks and waiters who had deserted from the hotel."
(Source: Burgoyne, Arthur G. (1892).
The Homestead Strike of 1892, 138-139. Pittsburgh, PA:
University of Pittsburgh Press.) |
