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Newspaper
Scranton Tribune
Location
Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1899
Page
2
The juice pressed from grapes ferments and its acid crystallizes as cream of tartar. It is refined to pure powder and used to make Royal Baking Powder. Cream of tartar is healthful, while imitation powders use poisonous alum that harms health.
Live news from the industrial world reports the Delaware Lackawanna and Western to install electric haulage at Cayuga soon. Shan and Hampton Mines are being prepared for resumption. Lackawanna shops are busy. Lehigh Valley surveys a new line. Bradford Central names a new president. locomotives and freight cars are being produced to meet rising demand.
Select Councillman John J. Shea of the Twelfth ward yesterday became a member of the lat of chief detective and especial claim agent F. O Keefe of the Delaware Lackawanna and Western railroad company. The selection of Mr Shea by Mr Keefe is a good one. He served on the police force under Mayor Ripple and during Fen. John S Kelley district attorney was county detective and later deputy United States marshal for this district, which position Clarke Vaowry now holds. Mr Shea was yesterday receiving the congratulations of his friends.
Operations at the Sloan and Hampton mines of the Delaware Lackawanna and Western Company have not yet resumed. Carpenters have been repairing shafts and installing new machinery for several weeks. Work will resume as soon as possible and the mines will run to meet coal demand.
The Lackawanna railroad plans to relocate many engineers, firemen, conductors and brakemen by changing their residences. A forthcoming order will halt current trip passes and require workers to live within commuting distance or pay mileage. This will affect several hundred families but is deemed more convenient for operations.
A Lackawanna, Lackawanna and Western company visit shows a bustling car shops and yard with workers repairing and building cars and engines. Cabooses on the Utica Division will feature painting as a notable project among ongoing overhauls.
Bradford Central Railroad directors increased board size at a Towanda meeting. A. F. Chapman resigned as president. George H. Adams elected president and William H. Kimball named director. Adams is cashier of Seventh National Bank of New York. Kimball is its president. Early line developments toward Canton expected soon.
The Lehigh Valley railroad surveys propose a new east side track from Penn Haven toward Glen Onoko to bypass the current west side route. The project includes tunnels, such as through the Ox Bow, and spans the river area with several miles of new alignment. Officials say the extensive changes will cost thousands but will shorten the route and remove dangerous curves while easing congestion from Mahaney and Hagleton regions.
General Manager Russell of the Dela pany is in New York. J M Daly, superintendent of transportation, left yesterday for a business trip to Buffalo. The Central Railroad of New Jersey carried 45000 to New York last week, the Delaware Lackawanna and Western 24000, and the Lehigh Valley 0 000. The D L&W local car shops have adopted a one hour a day shift until next spring. Winter conditions were estimated to require calling off two hours a day due to early darkness.
Mrs N Y Leet and her guest Miss Nash escaped unharmed when frightened horses bolted along Wyoming Avenue yesterday afternoon. The coachman John Evans controlled the pair but the carriage struck another vehicle, breaking the pole in the collision.
Sadie Wiseman a former inmate of the State Industrial School for Girls at Trenton New Jersey now at Joseph's Hospital Paterson New Jersey gave an ante mortem statement detailing beatings and punishments by Mrs Eyler the former matron of the school. She is awaiting a serious operation with uncertain outcome.
Page 6.1 reports activity as fire crews pour in with bandsmen housed at Conway and Pullman sleepers. Philadelphia’s fifty-two delegates arrive at 3.30 pm via Jersey Central led by Bill Harper and the William Penn Hose company prepares to march today with sixty five men. Active Firemen’s Association, Taylor Hose, and Hand-in-Hand Engine company will arrive in full Philadelphia numbers.
Today’s program includes two business sessions of the convention an illuminated run by central city companies an Asphalt dance on Wyoming avenue and the arrival of incoming companies. Officers will be elected and a site for the next session chosen papers on fires and safety will be presented by listed fire chiefs engineers and physicians of Philadelphia Scranton Reading Pittsburg and Lock Haven with the Nay Aug Crystal Phoenix and Hook and Ladder companies displaying apparatus in an anticipated spectacle.
A grand dance at the plaza will crown a race starting from distant points and ending at Wyoming avenue. Evergreen arches and arc lights brighten the area as the judges award prizes. The ball, a let-ye-all-come affair, will draw thousands with Fros. J. Frank Siegel directing dancing and the Lawrence band providing music.
The article lists arrival times and quartering locations for fourteen fire companies including D and H, Morris Hose, Alert Fire, and Allen Fire, with stations in Norristown Philadelphia Shamokin Pottsville and other towns, showing times from 1.30 pm to 10.20 pm and multiple inns and quarters. It names clubs such as Westminster Great Central Philadelphia Shamokin Lewisburg Bloomsburg and Bethlehem, noting guests and assignments in a dense, period-voice roster.
The Gazette reports that Hiram Maxim and Joly C. Moelgges of the United States have been granted naturalization certificates. Maxim's certificate is dated September 16. The date for Moelgges is unclear in the text.
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