Master Mechanic to Succeed Fitzgibbon as DL&W Superintendent
The Tribune confirms T. and Lloyd will become superintendent of motive power for the Delaware Lackawanna and Western railroad, starting Monday. Henry Monkhouse will not be appointed. Lloyd is highly regarded among Chesapeake and Ohio railroad staff and is described as fair and civil to workers.
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Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Lackawanna Road
Spencer
Dunmore
the Tribune
T. & Lloyd
John W. FitsGibbon
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
FitazGibbon
Henry Monkhouse
Chicago and Alton Railroad
Lloyd
United States
Chesapeake and Ohio Company
Locomotive Workers Seek Troch Reinstatement in New York Talk
The Sam Sloan division grievance committee plans to meet with Lackawanna president Truesdale over Engineer John Troch. If Truesdale cannot attend, M Joseph E G Russell and E G Russell arrive to confer with the committee on adjusting company and union differences.
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Sam Sloan
Brothershood of Locomotive Engineers
John Troch
New York
Truesdale
Lackawanna Railroad
Troch
E. G. Russell
J. M. Daly
Tivision
A. C. Salis- Meesis
Russell
Daly
Miners' Inspectors Declare Spencer Mines Safe in Dunmore
A group including T. R. Young and James M. Thompson toured the Spencer mines at Dunmore and certified them safe. They testified before Justice Krother, swearing the mines at the current working point are in good and safe condition and that the maps and plans were approved by the foreman.
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Dunmore
T. R. Young
Pennsylvania Coal Co
James M. Thompson
Harry EB
Wyoming Coal Co
Daniel Jones
Legcett’s Creek D. & H. Coal Company
Levi Emanuel
Patrick Mulderiy
John Beamish
E. W. Thompson
Justice of the Peace
Krother
County of
Lackawanna
A. D
F. M. Spencer
Del aware Lackawanna Western Board for Today Schedule
The 1900 schedule lists workers for the Del aware Lackawanna and Western board on Friday March 23 with shifts for WILDCATS SOUTH SUMMITS and PULLER and PUSHERS. Names include J Rowe C Townsend F D Secor J Burkhart W apene A W Sa m E McAlister J Brock Fitzpatrick R W Peaking Matthelomie P Singer G Frounfelker W Nichols McLane Houser Beavers.
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Wildcats
South
J. Rowe
C. Townsend
P. Singer
Unclear text fragment with locomotive and schedule notes
A garbled passage references times such as 11 30 a m and 1 p m and mentions South of a location, Magovern, the Wildcats, engines and names J O Har Lalsar Warfel Masters. The fragment lacks coherent events or context to form a full item.
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Pameusverath
Magovern
Wildcats
Habia Fa. m
J. O' Har
Lalsar
Ww. D. Warfel
J. E. Masters
Multiple Industrial Updates From Scranton Area Mines and Mills
New spike mill at Green Ridge iron works is in operation. Hampton colliery advances teardown of company houses to clear space for a coal storage site. Scranton Railway Employes Beneficial association endows a bed at Scranton Private hospital for injured workers. Jenkins & Powell Dunmore silk mill began operations with Mr Hartman in charge and about fifty girls employed under A M Wilson who appoints William Groves as trainmaster and H C Bomberger as assistant. Broad Mountain near Glen Onoko yields rich ore prospect from Miller & Derrick with yellow ochre vein eight feet wide and metal paint ore analysis 45 to 79 percent. Long Valley Coal Co civil engineer and crew open a drift two miles south of the Long Valley plane. seam thirty two inches thick with full mine features, five and a half feet high.
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Green Ridge Iron Works
Hampton
Delaware Lackawanna and Western Company
Scranton Railway
Beneficial Association
Scranton
Jenkins & Powell
Dunmore
Hartman
A. M. Wilson
Lebanon
Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company
William 58. Groves
Reading
H. C. Bomberger
Harrisburg
Glen Onoko
Miller & Derrick
Long Valley Coal Company
Towanada
Long Valley
Bedford's Purchases Signal Telephony Expansion
Vice President A. P. Bedford of the Lackawanna Telephone company has bought substantial stock in Citizens' Telephone of Honesdale and was elected president at its recent reorganization. He also acquired Wyoming Telephone of Tunkhannock, asserting purchases are personal. Long distance links via these firms are anticipated. Lackawanna’s exchange may move to the Republican building.
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A. P. Bedford
Lackawanna Telephone Company
Citizens’ Telephone Company
Honesdale
Bedford
Wyoming Telephone Company
Tunkhannock
Carbondale
Dickson City Damage Suit Highlights Borough Defense
In Dickson City a damage suit arising from street flooding was defended by the borough on grounds that exceptional weather caused the event and that even if a conduit caused the water to divert, liability fails due to a mistake in judgment. The opinion was delivered per curiam with other local decisions noted and adjournment set for Pittsburg. Adjournment followed a governor dinner for judges on April 14 at the executive mansion.
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Dickson City
Commonwealth
Plymouth Township
William Street
Pittston
James Hughes
Lugerne County
Gallagher
Burke U Hasleton
Patrick Moran
Busquehanna County
Solomon
Rodgers
Council Deadlock in Olyphant Borough Chairman Race
Borough council members face court action next Monday to show cause for removal over failure to organize within ten days. In a bid to avoid disbanding they held a special meeting Wednesday to again vote on Gallagher and Van Sickle for president, each receiving six votes on sixteen ballots as the deadlock continues.
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Olyphant
Lke
Gallagher
van Sickle
A Railroad Social by Elm Park Class
Professor Buck's Elm Park Methodist Episcopal class held a railroad social in church parlors. Members and visitors toured from Scranton to New York with Conductor Carter and Newsboy Ackerl y guiding the trip. Stops along the route featured scenery and fishing at Water Gap. Refreshments in cafe cars accompanied a most enjoyable excursion.
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Buck
Elm Park Methodist Episcopal Church
Scranton
New York
Carter
Newsboy Ackerly
Water Gap
Superior Court Decisions Include Pressman Case
The Harrisburg session of the Superior Court on Wednesday handed down multiple rulings, among them an affirmation of the local court’s finding in the case of John Pressman versus the borough of Lackawanna.
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Harrisburg
John Pressman
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Fitzgibbon
G. Frounfelker
W. H. Nichols
McLane
Puller
Beavers
south—Houser
New Lackawanna Telephone Company
Atlantic Refining GO
Norfolk
Old Point Comfort
Richmond
Washington
Virginia
North Carolina
OLD Dominion Steamship CO
North River
H. B. Walker
J. Brown
Gen. Poss
Orient Leader
Washington Ave
Pilsner
Warmth Street
Scranton, PA
Moosic
Rush ‘Ale Works
Laplin & Rand Powder Co
Repauno Chemical Co
Exet’s
Tves
Tribune
Mount Pleasant Coal
Comeatlo
RO i Grag Gee Ee
Co Mall
Mount Pleasant Coal CC
Densten
Spruce St
Temple Court Building
Connolly
Wallace
Scranton’s Shopping Center
Connolly & Wallace
Europe
Washington Avenue
Roa
Third National Bank
Capital
WM. Connell
Henry Belin, Jr
William H. Peck
Council
Atlantic City, N. v
Morton
Atlantic City
N. J
Sea View
Ocean End
Virginian Avenue
N. R. Haines
Administratrix Sale
Marwood Jordan
Vine Street
Dickson Works
Bitterbanner & Co
Grace M. Seely
Elm Park
The
Suburban Electric Light Co
Arc Lighting
Gog Connell Building
Davidow
Lackawanna Avenue
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