Visitors tour Carnegie steel works in Braddock and Homestead
A party including officials from Glochlana Gas Coal and the United States entered the Carnegie Steel complex. They viewed iron and steel processes at Duquesne works, Andrew Carnegie guiding in Homestead and McKeesport visits, with demonstrations at the Edgar Thomson and Angela mills and a luncheon en route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Carnegie
Porter
United States
Carnegie
Plate Mill
Yresterday
Irradiation by gas display awes Pittsburg visitors at Exposition
The Pittsburg Exposition in Machinery Hall drew 2000 visitors from South America as gas fired stands and Roman candles lit four 60 foot plumes. Senor Palvano and ex-president Caamano of Ecuador met officials while the Great Western Band led a militia escort through Smith to Mechanic Hall. Engineers from Thomson Houston and H. K. Porter showcased equipment as Bolivian consul Melchor Obarrio praised American shipping costs. Delegates, staying for a business visit, commended Pittsburgh's industrial display and education prospects for their youth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Abbott
Carnegie, Phipps & Co
Potter
Homestead Mills
Braddock
W. F. Draper
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Philip G. Roeder
Cleveland
Finzburg Committee
Speska
South America
Monoela House
Glass Works
D.C. Ripley & Co
South Ninth Street
Thomas Evans Glass Company
Senor Zecarra
Peru
Pittsburg
Machinery Hall
Monongshels House
Exposition Building
Court House Tower
Great Western Band
Eighteenth Regiment
Oo Penny
Smith Street
Sixth Street
Penn Avenue
Mechanical Hall
Senor Palvano
United States
Washington
Senor J. M. P. Caamano
Ecuador
Ho Ko
England
H. E. Porter
den Syivus
Alleheny
Hunt
Court House
Alleghen County
Pescios Water
Thomson-Houston Electric
Giana
Aibeeenin
Hindley & Co
H. K. Porter & Co
Rolley Steam Ringer Var Fire — Company
Wilson, Inger & Co
Penn & Taylor Wire N Company
James Rees
Pitteburg Automatic Hagise
Pitteburg Automatic Hagise "Ooms A
Warner Safe Company
D. Pley & A. Seereren
Cu Glass
Thomson International Oieteg Company
West Penn Cen
W. Baird Mary, Oliver & Roberts Wire Company
Reng Fiano Cover Company
Hyatt ’S Gynotee
Senor Melchor Obarrio
Consuleral
Bolivia
New York
London
Hamburg
Yale College
Scott
Wi Nicholson
Daniel Lyon
Bessemer
Baltimore and Ohio
Delegates visit Tarentum and local mills from West Penn depot
After breakfast the delegates and Pittsburg escort depart from West Penn depot Allegheny around 9 am by special train to Tarentum to see the Pittsburg Plate Glass Works. The return route via Allegheny Valley Railway includes Porter's Locomotive Works Crescent Steel Works Harmey Binns Co shovel works and A French Spring Company mills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
West Penn
Allegheny
Tarentum
Pittsburg Plate Glass Works
City
Allegheny Valley Railway
Porter's Locomotive Works
Crescent Steel Works
Forty-ninth Street
Oes Shovel Works
Harmey, Binns & Co
Es Street
A. French Spring Company
Twenty-first Street
Auction sale of 12 Westley Richards guns at port store
Surveyor D C Barr advertises for sale on the 26th inst of 12 Westley Richards double barrel breech loading guns at the United States Appraisers store in Garrison alley and Penn avenue. The sale targets weapons whose owners did not pay the federal duty, a matter of interest to sportsmen and dealers as the season winds down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. C. Barr
Westley Richards
United States
Garrison Alley
Penn Avenue
Sam
Hither and Thither at the Rail Yard
The fast East line ran long last night with a full travel crowd and two private cars for Archbishop Ryan and party, Miss Drexel relatives, and others who returned home. Rev James Nolan and 25 others depart to attend the Catholic Congress in Baltimore. Adjutant General Hastings and Attorney General Kirkpatrick head to Philadelphia. Witkin L Sloan leaves for New York for a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archbishop Ryan
Drexel
Shilds
Alexander Matchett
Far Street
James Nolan
St. Peter's Church
McKeesport
T. L. White
Baltimore
Hastings
Kirkpatrick
Philadelphia
Witkin L. Sloan, Esq
New York
Allegheny Poor Board Awards City Supplies
The Supply Committee of the Allegheny Poor Board met last night and awarded contracts for flour and feed to Mc Naugher & Son and seat evens mao & Son, groceries to Reymer Bros worth & Dewhurst and John Flatalag pie, hardware to George Eisenbois and Eisenbele, with Sam receiving allocations.
Anarchists Plan Lafayette Hall Demonstration Promised Free Entry
Herr Fricke leads preparations for a Lafayette Hall rally with 3000 translated circulars and a pledge that admission will be free. Police monitor the Anarchists as speakers include B Kupterburg and Harry Brown. a three-scene tableau event follows a German address and the French national hymn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herr Fricke
Toe DisPaTen
Allegheny
Fricke
City
McAleese
Chicago
Pittsburg
Lafayette Hall
Sasm
B.kupterburg
Harry Brown
Coal boat demand stirs speculations on syndicate sale
Coal operators rush to secure boat bottoms raising questions about a syndicate sale. Work on the Clarion river says orders are steady at full price after earlier discounting. Kimberland & Co shipped boats with fertilizer to West Virginia farmers, now offered at 509. Jenkins notes yearly buying patterns and warns that a sale would reduce future boat availability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Work
Clarion River
Kimberland & Co
West Virginia
Jenkins
Three Young Inebriates At Braddock In Whisky Incident
Three nine year old boys James Bradley Charles ONeill and Samuel Benson took a jug of whisky from a hogshead and drank to the point of insensibility. Two physicians aided their revival. Paynes of 249 Second Avenue faced Alderman Reilly for selling liquor without a license and was held in $500 for trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Braddock
James Bradley
Charles O'Neill
Samuel Benson
Paynes
Second Avenue
Reilly
Lizzie Werk
Payne
Self-Education Through Chautauqua Talk at Christ Church
George E. Vincent of the Chautauqua Assembly spoke on Self-Education at Christ M. E. Church Pittsburg. He argued education ends only with life and urged a prescribed study plan and system to collect and arrange facts, praising the Chautauqua method for fostering thought and improving social conversation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Vincent
Christ M. E. Church
Penn Avenue
Eighth Street
George E. Vincent
Chautauqua Assembly
Pittsburg Chautauqua
First Trip Through New Free Lock No 8 Opens to Travelers
The steamer James G Blaine left Monongahela wharf for Morgantown on its first run through the new free Government lock No 8 above Greensboro. Colonel W E Merrill rode the Adam Jacobs to inspect the lock and proclaims it in good working order. The Blaine carries passengers eager for the historic voyage with a band aboard and Captain Adam Jacobs at the helm. A 50 gun salute will greet the Morgantown landing and a jubilee will follow as boats run between the two cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James G. Blaine
Monongahela
Morgantown
Free Government
Greensboro
W. E. Merrill
Adam Jacobs
Aone
Blaine
Peter Donaldson
Morgan
Police officers donate to widow of late James Ford
Police officers received October wages yesterday and each member contributed two dollars for the benefit of the widow of James Ford the former chief clerk in the Bureau of Police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Ford
Bureau of Police
Man Buried by Sudden Cave-In at Allegheny Site
At about 3 pm William Glassburner was digging in the old Marine Hospital foundation on Preble avenue Allegheny when a bank caved in burying him. Fellow workers rescued him and a physician determined serious injuries. He was taken to his nearby home for care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Glassburner
Old Marine Hospital Foundation
Preble Avenue
Allegheny
Glassburner
Excursion to Baltimore on B&O Railroad
The B&O Railroad will sell excursion tickets to Baltimore good to stop at Washington DC for 3 dollars round trip from November 7 to 12 inclusive with return no later than the 16th on account of the Catholic Congress. Trains leave Pittsburgh at 8 am and 9 20 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Washington, D. C
Catholic Congress
Pittsburg
Exquisite Chinese service on display in Pittsburg windows
Pan American delegates and Pittsburgers are urged to view the fine display of a China service in the windows of French Kendrick & Co., opposite City Hall. Priced at 1600 dollars, the item is praised as exceptional Pittsburg enterprise and hoped to grace a local millionaire’s table.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania Railroad Excursion to Washington D C
The Pennsylvania Railroad will sell excursion tickets daily until November 12 to Washington D C at 80 for the round trip. Tickets are good to return until November 16 with a Baltimore stopover in either direction. A Pullman Parlor car will run from Union Station at 8 00 a m Saturday November 9 through to Baltimore. Sleeping and day coaches on night trains available. Seats and berths at Union Station and 110 Fifth Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Washington, D. C
Baltimore
Union Station
Fifth Avenue
Watches and jewelry contract awarded to Pittsburg jeweler
The Industrial Watch Club of the West inghaushouse Airbrake Co Allegheny awarded its watches and chains contract to Henry Terheyden a Pittsburg manufacturing jeweler at 530 Smithfield street. He will supply gold watches and gold chains for ladies or gents at unmatched prices and advertises a broad stock of first class jewelry. Also notes bargain fabrics and suit listings from local merchants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westinghouse Airbrake Co
Allegheny
Henry Terheyden
Smithfield Street
Pittsburg
New Railroad Line Opened Through Confluence to Oakland
The Baltimore and Ohio launches the Confluence and Oakland Rail road with ceremonies from Pittsburgh to Friendsville. Notable attendees include J Dawson Callery Major James B. Washington and Colonel Crawford. Towns along the route celebrate with bands, bonfires, and speeches. Plans to extend 17 miles to Oakland aim to boost lumber and iron ore traffic for national export.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Confluence and Oakland
Baltimore and Ohio
Pittsburg
J. Dawson Callery
Pittsburg and Western Road
James B. Washington
Pittsburg and
Connensville
T. N. Galiecher
Dr. Rolson
William Armstrong
Confluence
W. T. Manning
J. Bayard Henry
Confluence and
Oakland
Joseph A. Crawford
Yough Manor
Richard H. Clay
A Rr
Ghar - Henry
Henry C. Boyer
Frank 8. Lewis
Richard H. Morris
Philadelphia
Bunting
National
Lanner
Confluence Schools
Mr. Henry
W. H. Koontz
Somerset
Friendship
Summerfield
Crawford
Henry
Saree
Port
Jonas Frazie
Friendsville St
Captain Friend
E. W. Bartlitt
General Koontz
Chip House
Youghto
Yough Land Company
Youghiogheny River
Friendsville
Georges Creek
Salisbury
Colonel Crawford
Yough
Selbyport
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Manor Lands
Beer Park
Cresson
United States
Children of
Efficient overcoats offered near Grant and Diamond corner
A sale advertises handsome overcoats made from imported chinchilla English kersey or cheviot in olive and box coats. The garments are well made with trim details and express-for wear at a bargain price of 11 dollars at the corner of Grant and Diamond opposite the new Court House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant
New Court House
C.C
Cor
Grant and Diamond Ats
The
Bargain Dress Fabrics and Goods Advertisements
An assortment of retail ads lists Kersey or stylish cheviot textiles at cut prices, with bargains on broadcloth and trim fabrics. It promotes Park Institution’s term, men’s wear from Broken Bros in New York, Parker’s Balsam and Ginger Cure, Klein's Silver Age wine, Baeuerlein Brewing on tap, and various wholesale clothiers across Pittsburgh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broken Bros
New York
Sailor's
Sixth
Liberty Streets
Pittsburg
Armstrong dedicatory parade plans issued for Thanksgiving
A committee meeting tonight will finalize marshals and procession details for the Armstrong dedicatory event. Trades unions move large contingents to honor a key figure. printers, builders, and miners are among groups set to participate, with November 28 expected as a standout day for organized labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Typographicsl Union
E. T. Plank
Indianapolis
Nex
Te T
Camp No
Gas supply failure shocks Philadelphia streets
A gas outage disrupted breakfast routines and caused anger at the Philadelphia Company offices. Officials blamed unexplained stoppage and automatic safety valves that failed to reopen, with gas wells showing irregular flow and a Robinson township well described as a failure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Exchange
Philadelphia Company
Mark
Robinson Township
New Charge Added Against Dr Rylance
A new allegation of profanity is added to charges against Dr. Reylance rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church. Accusers claim he swore in church during service and also swore when trunks were misplaced after a trip. Dr. Rylance declined to comment on the accusations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rylance
New York
Reylance
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Rylsace
Family Row Lands Couple in Jail After Night of Violence
John Powell and his wife of Brownsville avenue near South Fourth street were arrested after a quarrel that lasted most of the day. Mrs Powell had just been released from jail, and police found her badly beaten with damaged furniture and a lamp explosion fire extinguished by neighbors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Powell
Brownsville Avenue
South Fourth Street
Delegates Leave for National W C T U Convention
Mrs A F Bryce corresponding secretary of the W C T U of this county has left for Chicago to attend the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union Convention meeting November 8 to 13 as a delegate at large from Pennsylvania. She heads a large delegation from several counties in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. F. Bryce
Chicago
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Pennsylvania
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Ene Zzae
Zaenaee
Ouver Iron and Steel Works
South Eleventh Street
Crest Mills
American Iron and Steel Works
Jones & Laughlin
Twenty-seventh Street
B. F. Jones
Ormsby Station
Virginia and Charleston
Homestead
Steel Works
Carnegie, Philps & Co
United Several Mills
Annie Laurie
McHeesport
Youghloghesy Junction
John B. Schlosser
Hotel Schlosser
Ma Geerse
Fl. Anderson
Maemport
Marty
Elretvic
W. Dewees Wood Company
Eet
W. D. Wood Y
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
J. Carnegie
C. M. Schwab
Edgar Thomson Steel Works
Carnegie Brothers & Co
St. Thomas Band
Edgar Thomson
West Pens
Morrow
Anarchists
Haymarket
Carpstone
ZICH
Jen
Herr Most
Most
J. G. Blaine
Ake
Bones & Burl
Boenetts
Pilsner Beer
Pitesirn’s
Wood Street
Oakland, Md
Maryland Iron Mountains
North Ot
Parker
Crumrine
Bane & Basserr
Klein
BB & B
Bocos & Bux
Baeuerlein Brewing Co
Liberty
Hanch's
Fifth Ave
Wrst
Iron City
Horne
Prerssena
York
Parka
JOS. Horne & CO
Miss Willard
Dr.c.mclane
Price
Draggista
Fleming Brothers
Geo
St. Louis
Jyharwr
A. Whiteley
Third Ave
Pittsbera
Apahzi
Jos
West Virginia and Ironton Railroad Company
Ohio River
Big Sandy River
Ford Procter
T Lawrence Bank
Pittsatre
John Hoerr
Light Third District
Ompkinsville
New York City
L Selacks
Inwood Street
Frankstown Arenas
Martland Street
Poon Arenee
Eens Avenue
Joel
Grandview Avenue
Omaha Street
Peter
Lepeng
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