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Newspaper
Pittsburgh Dispatch
Location
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1891
Page
12
Visitors tour the Monongahela barge exhibit showing a gearless Westinghouse motor in a car truck, steam heating coils, and a massive dynamo. Officials and supply men discuss electric railways, with delegates to tour cable and power works and a banquet awaiting at the Monongahela House.
The Westinghouse Electric Company dominates the Street Railway Convention displays at Monongahela House with a full exhibit of its system. A focused tour of the Pittsburg works on Garrison alley and Duquesne way is urged for visitors to see steam-powered facilities and complete motor systems including the first single reduction motors.
Rival electrical systems clash for dominance at a Monongahela House convention. Edison General Electric leads with a full exhibit including a track and motors. Tests show varying efficiency across Westinghouse Thomson Houston and Edison systems, highlighting the feeder innovation pivotal to modern street railway work.
At the Street Railway Convention the Thomson-Houston Electric Company showcases a vast electric system history. Key figures include Professor Elihu Thomson, Professor Houston, Charles J. Vanderpool, and W. H. Knight, with headquarters at Monongahela House Rooms 192 and 193 ready to meet visitors.
The article highlights the shift to feeder wires for distributing current over wide areas, reducing gear use and noise, and increasing useful work by the railway company. It notes Pittsburg systems’ satisfaction, Minneapolis–St Paul’s 50 percent earnings rise after adopting electricity, and promises surprises at the Edison parlor tonight.
A long list of Allegheny County bankers voices unanimous in endorsing re election of Judges Kennedy McClung and Porter to Court of Common Pleas No 3. The appeal argues for competency and integrity beyond partisan lines and urges voters to support the trio. Names from Park Bros. & Co to First National Bank appear among signatories.
Paris reports the Senate tariff committee endorsed a 25 franc per 100 kilo duty on salted meats including pork ham and bacon rather than 20 francs. The Chamber of Deputies had already acted. The Society of Wine Merchants also protested the high tariff on wines urging Senate changes to the Deputies' bill.
Errvart Oct 20 extremists left Socialist Congress renounced ties and the programme advanced rapidly. Resolutions call for Socialist literature for youth and a general evada Tecum and statistical bureaus. The congress rejected schooling for oratorical agitators. Berlin report says moderates expelled and Liebknecht could join a new party. A seven member committee to organize the new party was named.
Constantinople reports a major battle imminent in Yemen as fresh troops are dispatched. General Ahmed Feize Pasha leads the Seventh army corps toward Sana, with resistance anticipated from Beni shar and Hausseyn tribes in Barath, Fl Charah, Erthail, and Mareb near Aden.
Str. Petersburg reports Trans Baikalia governor orders all Hebrews within 100 kilometers of the frontier relocated amid alleged Russian invasion of Pamir lands. Exiled families to be moved to districts assigned to their race as a security measure. Opening scene in Ireland shows William O'Brien at Kilkenny convention urging Irish reunion and condemning Parnellites. Placards blamed O'Brien for murder of Tmel.
Right Hon. Arthur J. Balfour, newly appointed Parliamentary leader, told his Manchester audience that government policy toward Ireland owed much to fortune rather than the merit of ministers. He credited having good working men behind him as a major stroke of good luck.
Advices from Almeria in Andalusia report widespread flooding from Sierra Nevada torrents. Albox, 40 miles northeast of Almeria, faced heavy damage and residents sought safety in church towers and elevated places amid rising waters. The Arch bishop of Aix faces trial for disobeying government travel orders, risking fines and imprisonment. In Cork, Redmond supporters begin canvass after Parnell era split.
A Massachusetts girl Mary E. Cutler proves farming on a nineteen acre tract near Holliston can pay. She raises vegetables for nearby manufacturing villages, supervises workers, hires laborers, keeps accounts, and drives a brightly painted wagon to market drawn by healthy horses. She owes much of her success to her own energy and method.
A local farmer Miss Cutler reports strong harvests with three acres of tomatoes two of gnngses one and a half of cucumbers and four of potatoes plus asparagus beets turnips spinach peas and beans. She maintains an apple orchard, berries currants and a greenhouse near Kate Sanborn’s Abandoned Farm. In the West, the daughter of Congressman-elect Baker owns a 140 acre Lincoln area farm, works it herself and owes nothing.
The article recalls Governor Campbell in Ada and Findlay, Ohio, facing glassworkers who refute his claim that Ohio glassmaking fails due to Belgian labor. Workers cite Belgian-born citizens as naturalized Americans and show wages and training in Findlay. The piece notes the campaign’s shift from prophecy to affirmation and the political stakes for Democrats.
The New York Post notes only ruins remain of Ole Bull's 1852 Pennsylvania venture. About 300 Norwegians were settled on 12,000 acres in Potter County to form Walhalla New Bergen New Norway and Oleans. Poor farming, forest clearing failures, and a ruined castle left shanties and scattered remnants at Oleona Valhalla New Norway and New Bergen.
Prof Holden of Lick Observatory with Prof Weinck of Prague photograph the moon using a powerful telescope. The image highlights Mare Crisium a great plain 281 by 355 miles with peaks around 11 000 feet. The project aims to create an extensive lunar map costing 5000 dollars.
Yonkers N Y October 20 A rumor of bank distress caused a bank run with deposits flowing out by about 20000 depositors totaling around 200000. Officers denied trouble but long lines remained as Getty president of the bank spoke to reassure the public.
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