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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1900
Page
2
President Truesdale reviews the just-passed year and ticket costs rise. Weather delays sewer work. railboard list shows freight and passenger engine assignments and crew rosters for January 4 with multiple names, times, and routes including north and south divisions and specific engines and personnel.
M H Cahill is added to the central office dispatchers in Lackawan Na He comes from Akron Ohio where he previously served as a dispatcher for the Baltimore and Ohio.
W H Truesdale, president of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, notes 1899 was highly prosperous for U S transportation, with coal mines hitting higher outputs and prices sustaining profits. He says all railroad sectors gained, tariff shifts may rise rates, and 1900 holds promise for railways and the anthracite coal trade.
The Pennsylvania company faces a $500 000 cost to replace stock tickets as required by youth programs. Old tickets will be burned this week and new Stromberg form tickets will use Safety paper. Delaware and Hudson railroad is noted in the context.
Vin Mariani is recommended worldwide by the medical profession for thirty five years as the most reliable effective and agreeable tonic and stimulant. It is said to prevent grip and is sold by all druggists. Substitutes are refused.
The Lackawanna Railroad switches to plain white safety ticket stock with a walter mark and a simplified design for through trip and local traffic. Annual passes drop signatures, while other lines keep colored paste and familiar formats. Lackawanna remains plainer than in prior years.
The Central Railroad of New Jersey showcases extensive freight handling in New York and vicinity. It lists piers on the North river, large warehouses in Manhattan at West Fifteenth Street and Harlem River locations, Palmer dock and Grand Street in Brooklyn, Bridge Street package warehouse, and multiple freights at various piers, plus a major Jersey City yard. The line operates switch engines cranes and vessels for bulk and unconsigned seeds deliveries.
Work has been stopped on the South Side sewer because of extreme cold. It will likely not resume until early spring. Donahue and O'Boyle, contractors for the North Malin avenue Providence road and Philo street sewer, will also order work ceased on that improvement today or tomorrow.
Onlookers watch a dramatic haul as a 9 foot 7 inch long shark with a 6 foot 7 inch tail and eight fins is captured near Drunkard Lodge eight miles from the Cape lights. The crew uses a lasso to reel in the voracious monster after a tense tug of war. Six herrings remain undigested in its jaw.
A fragment notes gossip about Miss oe, claiming she stays busy giggling and avoids playing or singing ragtime. The dialogue implies she is seen as always occupied and unengaged in performances. The source mentions Chicago Times and an era vibe.
Patrick Forxin, who once suffered a hand injury at Stroudsburg on the Lackawanna line, returns to work as an extra passenger engineer. The Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad plans a massive reservoir to supply water for engines and shops, located five miles southeast of Galesburg. The facility will run 2.5 miles long, 1500 feet wide, 20 feet deep with a 445 million gallon capacity.
The article explains bullet trajectory and forces acting on projectiles, including charge, gravity, and air resistance. It notes typical drop at 200 yards, bayonet effects at 360 yards, extreme ranges, and the need to adjust aim for wind and rifle idiosyncrasies. It emphasizes practical training in marksmanship.
A Portland coast scene unfolds as a coaster at J H Blakes hears chatter about a shark lasso and a three masted fisherman's boat nicknamed odd looking. Captain Rickett sails from this port and prods near Commercial wharf amid local banter and curious activity at Widgery's wharf.
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