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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1900
Page
8
In hot conditions at Camp Mawkine, Lt Neldon Bigelow leads Company KE from Honesdale as the guard and band prepare for reveille. Dust thick, tents battened, and a looming storm prompts quick preparations while officers drill and inspect battalion routines.
In Gretna Pennsylvania August 7 under intense sun the First brigade of the Pennsylvania National Guard faced inspection by Brig Gen Sweeney Ripple Stewart and others. Governor Stone and Gen Miller observed brief inspections then retired to shade. Subsequent regiments followed with mixed drill results and heat exhaustion among soldiers. Col Thomas Potter of Philadelphia ill and placed in Atlantic City by special car with Bright's disease noted as underlying condition.
Preparations for a vaudeville entertainment at the Chatauqua auditorium on Thursday night proceed rapidly under Third tenth auspices. Indications point to a very successful affair with a programme including Lieutenant Clem ent and Adjutant Quasterysh Savini. tenting and invitations are being arranged.
The page lists the locomotive yard and personnel schedule for today Tuesday Aug 7 for the Wild Cats South and Summit lines with names such as A J McDonnell Colvin Devine Bays Singer Bartholomew Carmody Burkhart Maenn Wall Doudlean Frounfelker Nichols McLane Stack and others in various time slots and routes.
The Lackawanna Iron and Steel company mill plans to resume operations Monday after weeks of idleness. A Wyoming breaker site at Port Bowkley, owned by Lehigh Valley Coal, was destroyed by fire this morning. Officials believe a spar from a passing engine may have started the blaze, with losses around £26,000.
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