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...place of tarnished gilt and outworn elegance, smelling of twilight, was to be left to the bludgeonings of the real-estate auctioneer. The inextinguishable appeal of extinguished gallantry wrung the hearts of the human interest writers who briefly noted the fact that Steinway & Sons, famed piano manufacturers, were to move from the old place to a new building* uptown...
...could perhaps be our Moses if she had patience and penetration. But she is impatient of the sluggishness of organized women to move toward any definite object, and she frets over their impotency. She is not able to forget that the General...
...night last week, the Corporation smuggled maintenance men into a power plant for the purpose of restoring it and supplying power for the pumps in the mines. The strikers got wind of the move and, 800 strong, marched to the plant. A pitched battle ensued. The police fired. A miner named Davis fell dead. The crowd, maddened, "saw red," charged. The police fled, but not before they had been pummeled, mauled, kicked, clubbed and otherwise battered. The maintenance men successfully effected their escape...
Troops in war accoutrement from Halifax and Toronto arrived to guard the coalfields; but no move was made by them to check the rioters, whose activities spread to Sydney, the nearest large town. Women and children joined in the fray, numerous stores of the Corporation were completely emptied of their stocks, some were burned. Military reinforcement was expected...
...other troops in protecting foreign life, property and the essential public services. Machine guns cleared the streets and, after dark, armored cars patrolled the thorough- fares. Meantime, a general strike had been ordered, numbers grew from a few thousand to a quarter of a million. Those Chinese against the move were terrorized into submission. All Chinese were exhorted to "assassinate foreign police," "assassinate foreigners connected with the law courts." The general situation grew worse as each day passed. The strike spread to Changsha and Nanking, capitals of Hunan and Kiangsu. Sniping tactics were bgeun. Officials from Peking arrived, opened...