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Newspaper
Philadelphia Times
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1902
Page
2
The Baltimore and Ohio and Cumberland Valley railroads push freight through Chambersburg with upgrades including double tracks and new yards. Gould eyes Pittsburg links, charters flow, and Western Maryland traffic shifts as coal flows and route rights reshape eastern rail competition.
Erie stock moves to a new high of 674 percent with 1200 shares traded. The rise prompts street talk as officials say they do not share the fervor and may oppose city holdings of 45 000 shares. General Wagner may push a sale upon returning from Europe.
Special to The Philadelphia Times notes consideration of consolidating all Gould roads under a single system. The report highlights the strength of the leading lines and emphasizes potential strategic efficiencies and control. Further details and implications were not available in the excerpt.
A Canadian reader recounts a long illness blamed on indigestion, noting relief after switching to breakfast foods like Grape-Nuts. He describes persistent pains, hospital testing, and eventual improvement after changing diet and relying on the product for meals, praising its effects.
New York August 7 details of the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Co purchase of control of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Road were announced in a circular to shareholders. St. Louis and San Francisco offers 150 dollars per share for preferred stock with 1.50 quarterly dividends, and 250 dollars per Chicago and Eastern Illinois common share for trust certificates with 5 dollars semiannual dividends. Holders have until September 15 to deposit their shares. The Frisco Road is believed to hold a large majority, making success likely.
Secretary Root rules that military business bids will be opened to the lowest bidder with equal conditions. The Central Pacific will receive two-thirds of such work when conditions are near equal, while competing roads share the rest.
Maps filed with the New Jersey Secretary of State detail routes for two proposed streetcar lines in Atlantic City with double track on Route No 1 from Maine and Caspian to the boardwalk area via Rhode Island and Arctic avenues. A second route starts at Arctic and South Carolina, crosses private property to Tennessee, then Atlantic avenues, while a third forms a triangular circuit via Winchester Albany and Chelsea avenues and Filbert Street.
The Philadelphia and Reading Relief Association reported July expenditures of 18 332 40 for member benefits including accidental and natural death and death after service. Disability costs were 8 332 40. Total deaths 15 with 7 from accidents and 8 natural. New cases reported 738.
Reports from Knoxville and Guthrie detail major railroad contracts and mortgages. Mason & Hodge and Walton & Co. secure a roughly one million dollar Knoxville Lafollette Jellico project. The St Louis and San Francisco Railway records a 1.54 million mortgage for new engines and cars. Mayped Jones buys Arkansas Valley and Western stock to push a Red Fork Enid line. New York Central is rumored to absorb Thousand Island and St Lawrence steamboat firms.
The report notes extensions from Brownsville Junction to Adair Run by Monongahela Railroad and Wabash route planning through Bedford and Somerset for Gould’s Pittsburg Cumberland Valley line. A new Schuylkill River bridge north of Fi bert street is slated to open Monday August 18 and train connections adjust between Reading Terminal and Williamsport.
At 8 30 yesterday morning the Western Union Telegraph Company sent its last message from Broad Street Station marking the end of wires from that location.
Operators cut instruments and left the building as Western Union workers removed wires and Postal wires were laid. Postal operators moved into the old Western Union office and the new system began. Cassatt issued a thirty day notice to end the Western Union lease on July 7 and Western Union must remove poles and wires by November 30. The company plans to rewire statewide and run independently of the Pennsylvania by then.
The Western Union Telegraph Company has started wiring along the Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad between Butler and Pittsburg. Rumors say the Goulds may have an arrangement with the railroad, suggesting a possible Wabash route through Pennsylvania from Pittsburg with wiring extending toward Beech Creek and then east.
The Wilkesbarre Lace Mill strike ends after a lengthy conference between striking workers and Superintendent Doran. A compromise is reached after six weeks idle caused by Doran’s refusal to discharge five girls whose relatives remained in mines against the Miners' Union order. About eleven hundred workers walked out.
An Altoona report states the Humane Society will press cruelty charges against Patrick Logue for four years of confinement. The horse has remained in the stable with only limited movement and injuries after a harness break incident.
The coroner holds two mine rioters in connection with a fatal clash at the mining site. Witnesses from the workers claim foreign agitators threaten violence to deter returns to work and mark workers with permanent injury.
The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company sent two cars of armed deputies to its Anchor washery in Heckschenville Valley as workers prepare to resume operations. Union support is strong and strikes are feared. a crisis is expected this week. Pottsville leaders and miners from the region met with District No. 9 officials F. J. Richards and Terrence Ginley to discuss relief fund distribution.
President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers calls for a direct appeal to President Roosevelt for pardons for the miners jailed in West Virginia after Judge Goff's habeas corpus decision. He told AP the appeal should be made at once.
In Summit Hill on August 7 a crowd of foreign strikers tried to force workers from non-union mines to quit. Clashes occurred though no open violence reported as the town swelled with demonstrators and tension rose amid the labor standoff.
Foreign strike leaders say about forty were compelled to return home after injuries. They vow to remain determined to win the strike and use peaceful efforts to keep non union men from work. Lehigh Coal and Navigation Co ships small loads daily from collieries No 4 and No 12.
In Fair Haven and Westville the trolley strike remained unsettled with improved mood after a mediation board conference with the mayor. The board may offer services tomorrow to mediate or, if needed, investigate and report to the governor. A fifteen-member Chamber of Commerce group presented strikers demands for union recognition and reinstatement of discharged workers. Passenger service remains halted, with only stages and carriages operating.
Forty tapestry weavers at C H Masland and Sons on Ambler and Westmoreland streets struck yesterday after a 10 percent raise and a demand to protect a learner kept from idle looms. In Omaha a police squad guards non union workers at Union Pacific shops to prevent inter union clash.
In a bitter dispute within the Junior Order of United American Mechanics in this state the loyalists issue a sweeping circular declaring the insurgents defamatory and asserting their own control of funds and charters. They warn of a forthcoming quo warranto decision in Philadelphia and pledge to restore assets to loyalist councils while urging members to obedience and lawful conduct.
A petition was filed in Chicago alleging Chandler liabilities exceed 1 million dollars while assets are under 75 thousand. The debtor trades as Chandler & Co and as Chandler Steamship Company. The document seeks a declaration of bankruptcy.
The Knights of Columbus held their annual outing in Obionba Teeokea, Cleveland, on August 7. Details of events and activities were reported from the gathering, highlighting community involvement and local participation.
President David Starr Jordan of Stanford University reports that a U.S. Fish Commission surveying party found 453 distinct fish varieties in Samoa's Apia Bay. He notes this is the first thorough exploration of coral reef fish life and expresses elation over the results.
At the Interstate Conference of managers for the National Children's Home Society in Warsaw Indiana the Indiana chapter urges Sunday schools statewide to donate eight cents per scholar to fund a parsing to serve as a rescue station at Westfield in Hamilton County The conference includes representatives from Iowa Ohio Michigan Kentucky Illinois and Indiana and features various addresses and reports
The Marine Review and Marine Record announce a consolidation effective with the August 14 edition. The two papers will publish together as Marine Review and Marine Record from Cleveland, with the merged title continuing the former Marine Review’s lineage.
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