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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1895
Page
4
A 1895 Scranton appeal highlights high health and growth. It cites elevation 740 feet, population figures, 20,099 registered voters, and $750,000 in school property. It touts cheap electric power, urges new industries, and notes the county craze and its harmless intent.
Two plans for Lackawanna county redistricting reach the Harrisburg committee. One keeps the First District, creates a Second with 600 Republican gain and shifts nearly 1,200 Democratic votes into a Third. The Connell plan redraws city wards into three districts with specified ward groupings. The county vote tallies show party splits that favor Republicans in several districts. The Fifteenth district concedes new nominees Jordan and Codding after Wright’s supporters lose, while harmony returns among Republicans. David Martin’s political fate appears nearing an end.
The article discusses United Mine Workers strategy to leverage anthracite labor, Lexow Parkhurst public dispute over reform and accountability in Albany politics, and broader church and social aid debates. It highlights tension between reformers and politicians, calls for accountability, and critiques charity approaches to poverty. It also references Chinese settlement talks and a Harrisburg anti-Quay movement amid ongoing public policy struggles.
A labor interests union aims to seize the anthracite market through organized strategy after failing in open conflict. United Mine Workers emissaries proselytize among regional workers while skeptical miners weigh the risks of cooperating with the opposing side. The piece also chides steamship firms for inadequate lifeboats as a grim aside.
An editorial from February Chautauqua questions whether churchgoers should wear their best clothes and if fashionably dressed congregants alienate the poor, noting a critique that fine attire can imply spiritual superiority while some piety is shown in clean dress.
Carbondale Chronicle reports Captain Delaney’s measure to enlarge the salary and duties of the public buildings custodian, facing opposition from General Gobin who argued holes in the bill but Delaney remains confident. Also covered are the New Charities Measure creating a state department of charities and correction with a superintendent and inspectors, and the Good Roads bill to spend 5 million on outside-city roads with a new township committee and county road engineer.
The Carbondale editor hypes a proposed 400 square mile Anthracite County formed from Lackawanna Wayne and Susquehanna areas. Locals eye Hazleton as potential county seat while Carbondale weighs impact and naming. Public interest hinges on Harrisburg news and local figures like Jim Sweeney.
Robert Watchorn, retiring chief factory inspector, hosted a dinner at the Hotel Wendig in Philadelphia for his successor James Campbell of Pittsburgh and a small group. T.V. Powderly, former Knights of Labor head, joined the party and was noted at the event. Powderly plans to practice law in Scranton after a Washington visit. Senator James Vaughan is expected to become a popular member of the upper house, viewed as approachable and courteous.
The notice proclaims the 1895 lace imports now open for inspection. It highlights England Germany and France as represented and hails a line of Point de Venise with Net Tops and Fine Black Laces as unsurpassed.
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