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Newspaper
Washington Star
Location
Washington, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1903
Page
6
Unprecedented flood sweeps the Delaware Valley with rivers rising to record levels. Bridges on the Delaware, upper Musconetcong, and feeders collapse while hundreds of homes flood. railroads face severe disruption with multiple lines washed out and schedules wrecked.
A meeting of about fifty Washington business and civic leaders formed a committee to press Lackawanna Railroad and General Manager Clarke for a suitable early morning train between Washington and the cement works at Newville. The goal is to have workers reach the plant by seven o'clock, with a Scranton visit planned to secure official support.
An observer at Phil Upshurburg says a railroad connecting Washington and Phillipsburg could attract workers from the Fogerpal plant currently east of town. If a train is secured, hundreds of daily passengers may relocate to Washington, boosting housing demand and local trade in a boom unseen for over a decade.
The Hackettstown Board of Trade held a banquet at the Hotel Arlington celebrating the Lackawanna Leather Company. Nearly 100 banquet covers were sold, with speakers including Jaden Morrow and Rev J O Chromanta tepie. The event featured leather guest cards and a New York orchestra playing patriotic tunes.
The Warren County GOP held a noon adjourned convention in Belvidere to nominate candidates for the Assembly and coroner. Val Wildrick of Blairatown was unanimously chosen for Assembly, with delegates arriving slow due to flooddamaged rail service. Chan Amerman won for Assembly at 86 to 5, and Joseph D. Vann of Hackettstown was nominated for coroner. James Givens faced renewed support as a burnt offering for Assembly.
Two German men were found dead in mud in a field near the Edgar firm south of Mononke chunk on Monday afternoon. They had been seen with a Gypsy group near their camp last Friday, stayed in a cabin in Henry Brandmelon patch, and were drowned by rising water overnight. James King collected the bodies and entrusted Undertaker Snyder to bury them in Belvidere cemetery.
At Belvidere court a group of four young men from the Port Murray area admitted a heavy drinking spree led to by Turner. They consumed 72 bottles of beer under hotel shade then slept in a hotel shed. A two-dollar bill found on the floor and tobacco left behind tied Mowder to the alleged theft. The jury found them not guilty of larceny. Tiger, age ten, was noted as having received liquor. The court criticized hotel privilege but accepted the verdict.
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