The Pinkerton Labor Spy. 147
As a matter of fact Mr. Robert A. Pinkerton resides in New York City, and Mr. Goldwasser's meeting him in Denver was simply due to the fact that Mr. Pinkerton must have happened to be in that city on a brief visit. However, the Denver post office authorities delivered Mr. Goldwasser's letter to the office of the Pinkerton Agency, where it was turned over to Manager James McParland for reply.
Manager McParland wrote Mr. Goldwasser a letter telling him that as Mr. Robert A. Pinkerton resided in New York, he had referred his letter to the New York office of the Agency for attention ; and furthermore, that the Denver office was not in a position to give him the information he required.
And Mr. McParland did, indeed, send Mr. Goldwasser's letter to General Manager Bangs of the Pinkerton Agency. He did more. He wrote Mr. Bangs a letter on the subject of Mr. Goldwasser's inquiries, dated Jan. loth, 1905, and incidentally gave his honest opinion of Governor Peabody.
In the course of this letter Manager McParland stated that Mr. Goldwasser evidently wanted the information in question for the purpose of writing an article for some magazine or journal ; and if tlie Agency gave him any data, he would undoubtedly point to the Agency as authority for his article. Mr. McParland insisted that it would be very undiplomatic to implicate the Agency in this controversy, and therefore counselled that Mr. Goldwasser's request be refused.
However, the main interest attaching to Mr. McParland's letter is where he tells General Manager Bangs that the maneuvers of the Peabody administration were fully approved by a great number of prominent