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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1900
Page
2
Pennsylvania Railroad expands equipment base and rail union history. A mining institute building to be erected at Freeland and the New Coal Brook breaker are noted alongside D L and W daily board items.
The Pennsylvania Railroad will issue 9 million dollars of car trust certificates to be redeemed at 1 million per year. Proceeds will pay for equipment under construction and new cars. The company ordered over 5 thousand freight cars last year and expects more from the Ballro m company as it expands. Existing outstanding certificates include 10 million in rolling stock, 87 thousand in equipment, and 2 million in car trust certificates.
The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen formed in Oneonta New York in 1883 with 19 members originally known as the Brotherhood of Railroad Brakemen until 1890 when the current title was adopted. The grand headquarters are in Cleveland and the order has 82 lodges across the United States and Canada. Members include conductors brakemen and various yard and switch workers. The group aims to unite railroad workers promote welfare and protect families through benefits while favoring harmonious relations with employers.
An immense new breaker named Coal brook rises at Carbondale to process 6000 tons daily, aiming as the world’s largest. The plan closes Racketbrook Nos 1 3 and Powderly mite breakers, laying off about two hundred workers. A vast storage plant with near half a million ton capacity shields surplus output. Lackawanna railroad workers train in new lamp and hand signals to start next month, adopting standard signals across roads to reduce clashes for itinerant operators.
Republicans have carried the city in an article fragment listing election officials and voters. Names include C Callahan inspector, J T Falrenholt register, A H Bhoplind inspector, and W E Davis with other clerks and registrars noted.
The Republican ex sheriff Frank H Clemons runs unopposed for select council in the Seventeenth ward. District officers are listed with names and vote tallies for judge of election inspector of election and register of voters across First Second and Third districts.
P. J. Langan and T. T. Morris were re-elected to the school board and to the common council respectively. They are Democrats.
Democrat Daniel W. Vaughan wins the Edward Frable seat on the select council by a small plurality over Republican G Bresser. The vote details list judges, inspectors, and registers of voters for each district, including W Hamman and J Langan among officers.
Three district tallies in the Twentieth ward list John Gib bens with 46 votes for school controller and Michael Cusick for common council. The report names election officers across districts including judges of election inspectors of election and registrars.
Democrat John J. McAndrew defeats Republican John J. Payne to win the select council position. McAndrew currently represents the ward. The report lists district election officials and voter registers for First and Second districts with names like Nelly Bunnell and Rees R. Thomas among others.
The election resulted in no change of political complexion as the Republican majority holds the city council, common council, and school board. All governing bodies remain under Republican control with no shifts in party representation.
Vacancies were filled yesterday in all odd numbered wards, as Cornell now studies the city layout and names new officials.
This old ad argues health depends on clean blood and promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as America’s greatest medicine. It mentions using the tonic to purify and vitalize blood and claims benefits against dyspepsia described as a chronic condition treated by a husband.
In even numbered wards the council results leave twelve Republicans and nine Democrats before, and eleven Republicans and ten Democrats after. Re-elected members include Ward 2 Morris V. Morris and Ward 4 William V. Griffiths among others, with several new Republicans and Democrats joining the body.
The board members elected yesterday include George H. Shires R A L Francois D re elected Henry J O Malley D A B Eynon B new member Daniel I Phillips B Patrick Golden D 7 Denis J Roche R Dr John O Malley D new W A May ER Jacob Schaefer R re elected Peter Neals D Anthony Walsh D re elected B T Jayne BR T J Jennings D re elected Elias E Evans R O B Schriefer R re elected F 8S Barker ER P J Langan D re elected Louis Schwass R John Gibbons D re elected Edward J Leonard D
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