The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-12-03
TOPICS OF
THE TIMES.
GleaningS Made by the Reporters
on Their Rounds.
BUSINESS CIRCLES DULL
The Boom Looked For Alter the Full
Time of November Failed to Mater
ialize-COmplaintS on All Sides.

1t was expected that the pay distributed
by the Philadelphia q Reading Coal &
Iron Company on Saturday would give
business circles in the town boom, but
that result did not materialize It was
the first pay day in several years on which
the employees received full two weeks
pay, but the business men say the effect
was little different to the results of other
pay days.
The streets were thronged with people
during the early part of Saturday night
before the rain fell, but the stores failed
to attract them. The great majority of
the promenaders seemed bent only on tax
ing fresh air.
The police and constables also antici-
pated big rush Of business on account
of the full pay, but they, too, were disap.
pointed, Taere were very few drunks
upon the streets and they succeeded in
getting through the night without Great
ing disturbances As one of the results
the dockets of the justices showed blank
pages day and there is surprise in all
quarters.
The accepted explanation for the out
come is that the times have been so hard
the full two-week pay was but drop in
the bucket to most people and the out.
look for the last month of the Year is so
gloomy they are enforcing economy until
some tidings for the opening of the new
year can be received. There is certainly
very depressed condition of affairs
| in the town and the adoption
of the three.quarter time schedule
at the mines in no way improves
the picture When hundreds of people
walk the sire cts on the night of pay day
and the Monday following and there is an
| absence Of baskets and bundles it is very
| clear evidence that mOuey is very tight
| The business men, however, are bracing
themselves on the hope that the next pay
which will be for the last two (full) weeks
| Of November, may create little boom.
As usual on Mondays succeeding pay
| days Tax Collector Seaman had his hands
full this morning catching people who
were getting out of town without paying
! taxes. He caught several. The most
! noteworthy case was That of young, well
dressed Pole who was stopped at the
| Lehigh Valley depot He did not plead
poverty, but witluuJ smile told the
| collector that he was not "a resident of
the town; that he came here from Cum
| bola Saturday night TO buy clothing
and was on his way home The
Tax Collector smiled with pardohable
pride as he told the young man that he
was glad to hear thai the Shenandoah
| market had become so attractive that it
| could draw people from such a distance,
but with the next breath the Collec or
| winked his other eye and the ar yious Pole
was told that he would have to pay the
| taXCy.
The young man walked up and down
the platform until the train bound for
Pottsvllle arrived, when he picked up his
| trunk and put it in the baggage car.
Scanlan stepped forward and pulled the
trunk out of the car. The waiting pas
sengers gathered in groups, expecting tc
see tussel. Inc young man walked NJ
to the collector aud asked, What you
want /" The crisis had come, but the
clash failed to materialize. The young
man walked away to seek the advice oi
friends and left the collector in posses ion
| OF the trunk