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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-26
For Ladies Only.

II is patent to all thinking people
that ladies require on account of their
peculiar organism and functions REM
edies quite different from the sterner
sex. While the FEMICURE LIVER
PILLS act directly and pleasantly up
on the Liver, Kidneys. Stomach and
Bowels, they at the same time Won
derfully regulate and strengthen the
functions and organs peculiar to the
sex. They relieve Constipation, Head
ache, Dizziness, Indigestion, Torpid
Liver Billiousness, Faintness, Irregu-
larities, BackachS Bad Complexion,
etc. A pill a dose. 25 cents. Sold by
Carl Lorenz, druggist, AIS Lackawanna
ave-, Scranton.
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ing last which was quite largely at
tended and proved a perfect success In
every way.
Rev. r. w. Young will preach pa
triotic sermon to the p. o. s. of A. on
Sunday, July at IL p. m. in the Meth
odlst Episcopal church. All neighbor-
ing camps are cordially invited to at
tend.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Bonno and
daughter Maggie. of Scranton, visited
at G. Dailys Sunday last.
Frank Stanton has begun digging his
cellar on Woodlawn park.
Harvey Singer has moved in the d.
Smith tenement house.
DR.. Edward f. Smith and Mr.. Myers
of Ashley, are visiting at d. Smiths.
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Burial of Edward Vannan.

The funeral of Edward Vannan, who
was instantly killed on the gravity road
was largely attended at the home of
his parents yesterday afternoon. Rev.
Charles Lee conducted the service and
two selections. were rendered by quar-
tette composed of Professor A. P,
Thomas, Bert Dix, w. d. Evans, and
Raymond Hockenberry. Many floral
tributes were given, roses and bouquets
of flowers. The pall-bearers were:
George Spanle, H. c. Butler. Samuel
Vail, Isaac Hollenback, Dominic Bar
rett and Andrew Mitchell.
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Funeral of Ella McDonourb.

The remains Of Ella McDonough
were followed to the grave yesterday
afternoon by a large concourse of
friends. The service was held in st.
Rose church, conducted by Rev. w. A.
Nealon. Many beautiful floral tri-
butes were offered by friends and
schoolmates. The flower bearers were
Henry and Frank McKenna, Patrick
Hajkins, Frank Feeney and Martin
Farrell, of Jermyn. The pail bearers
were John Walsh. Thomas Gordon,
Christopher Quinn, Anthony Hughes,
William Gordon, James Toolan, James
Judge and James Nealon, of Olyphant.
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~~o~O~~N~N~~~v~ >~NNo~~>o~-~r0NIc
THAT SALEAT SAMTER'S
After two full days work with store closed all of yester
day. moving asserting marking and pling the stock bought
of Christian of which the facts and we'll
the sale of that stock early this morning
and will be continued until sold which predict will last
long, this partial schedule of prices given below
1y considered.
To Repeat: The stock comprises the highest brands
the trade namely THE Stein Co.,
and "Afred Benjamin & Co.," Of New York. another
Such when found garments like "You
man." Dunlap and Knox in hats; like Burt" shoe
like Dent gloves all of which guarantee for the best
and most reliable.
ss,s!e ST.. p.. $1,000
Mems Fine cn''' sssy SID %o5;:1 Mt c ss $780, sooo
Men" Blue Serge ss s1 Fef F. sis 9ss:ss Hss $780,
r' Checks and Mixtures former gs%s Rsss So ss sG' s %
A" Woo: BLACK Rough E FG5a assa Gv Fss s"s $3.50 ,oo
Blue Serge Suits Rqse Nj e59?ss HgG"ss S. s1ss S15
~ ~ samters sae e...~...~.~~~ 500
Imported Clay "': ND ssa ss sss sfs S SIT; ST; and $40
"' 1isTs @ S NJ C e5 Esg s: c S;a s. s" s"a $1,000
Famous makes ass sss:sS 1 eS s7 S and So
The King make TEs:Tssesf Fn @ % t6 s a sst sgs custom
Ba"i" Co make Ps's s95 e5asas Bsssd Yass Ras soo
...-.9 %oU
FancyS max
Mr. Christians SaHs sa%s st sgs ss 81 Price So and $3.50
Genuine "Knox" land Finest
stnwEa Exactly
AS we have always been most prominent in the trade
purveyng Chidrens Outfits the mothers expect
this SALE bargains for their boys WELL and to that end
have been made in stock furnish goody
portion Juvenile greatly reduced prices mindful of
the fact that shall be sensitive shopper would be
if there should be the least disappointment
SAMTER BROS.
Gf%%%snns" Corner LaaWmna and Penn Avenue
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Athletic Sports at AIumniPark,

The Honesdale high school team and
others Interested in field sports will
have their field day at Alumni park
on Thursday, July l. There will be a
Yariety of field sports, and suitable
prizes will be awarded to the winners.
Among the events will be half mile
bicycle race, one mile race 44O yards
run, throwing the hammer, putting the
shot, 10C yards dash, running high
jump, running broad jump, 22O yards
dash and a one mile relay.
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CLARK's SUMMIT.

Rev Mr.. Saueel. of Dalton, will
preach in the Baptist hall here at 1880
next Sunday evening.
Miss Avis Cole, of Scranton, is visit
ing her aunt. Mrs. Elmer Gregory.
The Willing Workers held social
In the Baptist hall on Wednesday even
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MIR, Crittenton's Work,

Announcement had been made that
)r. Crittenton would address the
bung people on Thursday evening
the Presbyterian church. The
|urch was well filled with a large
bAber of the young listened to the
Est evangelist, who urged them to
(nber their Creator in the days of
yOutl
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lLOCAL AND PERSONAL NOTES.

sward Burke, of Niagara Univer-
is home for the summer vaca-
xpy Lathrop is suffering from an
of muscular rheumatism.
Sarah White. Of South Main
is visiting friends in Bingham
Ernest Bedell and son Robert
ying the hospitality of friends
bryville.
lame MCGOWAN, of Scranton.
& her cousin. Miss Name Coo
College street.
Mrs. William Kelly, of One
merly of this city, are visit
DIS in town.
ace Churchill. If Elkdale, who
the guest of her cousin, Miss
of Belmont street, has re-
me.
fers. OF Montrose, who has
ing her cousin. Miss Matte
L yesterday for a visit with
Scranton.
drew Histed and daughter
visiting in Factoryville.
L. Peck returned from
University yesterday.
a Lotus is visiting friends
hd Harnden will leave today
4 with friends in Great Bend.
izzie Bean and daughter, OF
lldge. were visitors at the
Mrs. James Thompson this
rlhomas Morgan and children,
Z, been visiting in Aarat, have
home.
Matte Hards, OF Lincoln ave-
I'VE tea Thursday evening in
of her cousin, Miss Jeffers, OF
pc, Those present were Mrs.
Dnnacolt, Misses Huring. Irene
Giles, Rashleigh, Deeths, Bo-
pliers and Hards.
Ind Mrs. j. B. Shannon, Misses
and Maud Miller. Mr.. and Mrs.
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Painful Accident on Belmont Street.

AS John Evans was fastening down
Belmont street yesterday noon the
young son of Mr.. and Mrs. e. T. Corby
Bumped down from the rear end of a
wagon on which he was riding and ran
directly in front of the bicycle. He
was truck with great force and was
badly injured. The rider was thrown
with much violence to the ground, but
escaped without serious injury.
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CARBONDALE,

ITseaders will please note that adver-
tisements. orders for job work, and
items for publication left at the estab-
lishment of Shannon 6 Co, newsdealers,
North Main street, will receive prompt at
tention; office open from a. m. to 10
y. MI
The herald., 1897-02-14

until the oil fever struck the place, and
then Mr.. Trafton, seeing himself sur
rounded on every hand with the imple-
ments of the oil wells, decided that as it
had come he might as well try it on his
property.
This is what Mrs Trafton said: 'I
think that so far as residence property is
concerned, the place is spoiled. 1 should
not want to live in it longer than 1 have
to. We might just as well have wells
in our own yard as all around us, and
we intend to sink three wells. 1t would
not have been SO bad had not our next
door neighbor stuck up derrick right
in front of our window. We have pack
ed the curtains away and are going to
see what the outcome will be. Many
things have been spoiled thus far. We
I think we have the incest home around
here and believe that people feel sorry
| for us. 1t is too bad"
The next door neighbor is Mrs. George
Hill, who lives at No. 40 Bonnie Brae
street The base of the obnoxious der
rick referred to by Mrs. Trafton extends
over the front walk and access to the
front door is difficult. Mrs. Hill smiled
ruefully as she looked on the work of the
carpenters, and said: 1--WE are going to
lease for awhile. We are driven out.
Temporarily we prefer to live away from
it and are going to close the house. The
dirt is what am getting away from"
| Vegetation has been affected by the
oil, one instance being grove of orange
trees which have been destroyed.
| FRUIT DESTROYED.
! Miss Sadie Brymer of No. $50 Metcalf
street. is authority for the following:
1--WE had the place in oranges before the
oil came. But soon after it appeared we
had to cut them all down. The condi-
| - ~ ou tln do
ger of fire very great. Considerable
damage has been done to the house, and
the noise and smell are very annoying
| A HOME DEvOURER.
| D. S. Brown, who resides on Fourth
| street, near Lucas avenue, thus deliv-
cred himself on the oil question: " THE
| great local industry began it's career
| in a comparatively small way, being
| modest enough in it's babyhood to de-
YOUR only tine humblest homes, placing
| it's asthmatic engines close to the chin
neys of struggling artisans and sinking
| it's sump holes only under noses thai
were believed to be already broken by
| poverty. Naturally enough, when the
| smoke, CRIME, noise, and dirt began tc
! reach out like the arms of a devil fish
| graphing with favored localities, anC
f! finally running it's Shiny arms under
| houses whose foundations are built o1
! brick and stone, then we begin to heal
protests and objections. One of oul
great religious dailies exclaims against
! the great local extending it's feelers
any further out toward 'sweldom,' say
ing there is now great danger to homes
which may have cost $4,000.
Further back in the path of this wei
oiled besom of destruction, the com
planning cottager was told that if he
didn't like to eat, drink and sleep ir
crude petroleum, it was his privilege tc
move! The taxes he had paid, the streets
| he had graded, the lawns he had planted
The herald., 1897-02-14

hold of this evil some way and remedy
it.
IF the oil men are allowed to raise oil
at all in this locality it should be made
as unobjectionabie as possible, bat they
don't do that There have been a few
people who have made money and they
were those who owned broken lots,
are only a few isolated cases of this
kind. When the oil fanatics strike a
balance they will find that oil is not a
winner"
THE SCHOOLS MOLESTED.
Mrs. ]. H. Marshall of No. 225 North
Union avenue was extremely caustic in
her remarks concerning the situation: ::
I'm case they find oil down in the
gully west of this street they will
begin wiring across this street You
know they are pumping half a dozen
wells from one pumping station now.
/ l signed petition this morning to
prevent such wiring. The nuisance has
got to the schools now, and there is a
shameful condition of affairs around
the Union avenue school, as we'll as on
burlington avenue. The wells are so
near the street that one cannot pass
without being spattered with the filthy
stuff. We have put $1,000 in improve
ments around our property. We were
made to put down cement sidewalks
and make other Improvements, and now
we can get no relief from the nuisance.
The city officials need combing over.
Property has decreased in value, and
can't be rented
Mrs. j. w. Hunsacker of No. 2O9 Union
avenue said: 1.-The oil has been a great
damage to property. People have not
built here as they would have done ha d
not the oil come. Two years ago this
was promising section, but that is not
true today"
b. w. Griffith, teacher in the Union
avenue school, said: "The noise caused
by the sharpening of the drills and the
work OF the machinery is very annoying:
SO is the smoke. The sump-holes are
dangerous to the children running
around, and the city ought to be COM
PEELED to have them fenced around"
Mrs. Mendenhall of No. 174 BurIing-
ton avenue said: 1--WE thought before the
oil came that we could not stand it, but
1T has come and we are making the best
of it. My son said as long as every one
else was sharing in it and it was all
around us, we might as we'll reap some
benefit, too, and so he leased the ground
for we'll. The only thing we have to
be afraid of is the great danger of fire."
THE PLACE rs SPOILED.
AT the northeast corner of Bonnie
Brae street and Ocean View avenue
commanding a splendid view of the ver-
dant fields to the west, stands the pala-
tial residence of j. P. Trafton. The house
is surrounded by magnificent lawn
and the observer is impressed with the
beauty of the place. But this is bound
to be irretrievably ruined. The oil vein
has extended this far, and even now a
derrick is in course of erection in one
corner of the yard. Next door. and so
close to the parlor window that 1t can be
touched, another derrick is being reared.
| This is a good demonstration of what oil
| has done to destroy beautiful property.
There was no finer place ca the street
The herald., 1897-02-14
DoHENY'S SUMP HOLE

rels of oil were set free and found lto
way into Doheny's sump-hole. The
danger of this place is obvious to even
the most thoughtless.
On Bonnie Brae street, just north Of
Ocean View avenue, another sump-holo
is forming. Here there is depression
in the ground which. until the advent OF
the oil, was filled with grass and trees.
The grass is a thing of the past, ana
pedestrians are likely to be forced to
wade through crude petroleum within
very short time.
SUMP- HOLES GALORE.
At the corner of Douglas and Court
streets, where score OF more derricks
are punched together, are eight sunp
holes, which for filthineSs cannot be
beaten Just across the street, in sort
of canyon is another vast cesspool.
There are tousands of such places all
,over the district, and the number is iu-
'creasing each day.
That they are dangerous to health
and even life is very evident Many Of
these holes are as much as eight feet
deep. Children play on the Drinks OF
them, and should child fall into tho
nasty mess fatality would result.
Recently the council was advised to
place extra fire apparatus in the re-
gion, owing to the insecurity Of the
place. The firemen realize the great
danger of serious connagration. but
are powerless to prevent it; 1t 10 bound
to come sooner or later.
The oil men have all along contended
that the oil would not ignite unless
heated, but proof that this statement is
false may be found in the fire which
swept portion Of the oil district early
last June. This fire originated in y
sump hole off Metcalf street, near which
some boys were burning trash, and be-
fore the fire could be checked many
houses had been destroyed, entailing Z
loss of thousands Of dollars.
The herald., 1897-02-14

thus. The f1end has made its way
through the sewers into the heights of
swelldom and even so far away as Fig
ueroa and Adams streets the nuisance
has been manifested.
Within day or so after the recent fire
in the oil district the streets from Tenn
pie street south to Adams street were
full Of the OIL This was due to the fact
that in order to prevent the spread Of the
flames hundreds of barrels of oil had
been released from the tanks and sent
gushing through the streets. For days
the gummy substance, mixed with water.
welled up through the man holes and
clean white cement walks were plaster
ed with it. Foolish children delighted in
dabbling in the stuff and as a result
when they went home the carpets were
sure to suffer irreparable damage
Along Washington street, the gutter on
the north side was converted into great
sump hole and many crossings were
made impossible.
THE EXODUS
But the dirt and ruin wrought to per-
sonal property, by no means is the worst
result of the fondling of this infant
industry" Deserted houses, placarded
with For Rent" or For Sale" are as
thick as flies in the derrick community
The wording of these signs often time is
painfully pathetic. And the owners
great desire to sell at any cost is evident
In the language used, which betrays a
story of ruined hope.
On Lakeshore avenue, nailed to
fence. appears this sign: WANTED to
buy, any kind of a house to move away"
This shrewd speculator evidently knows
the locality to be good market in which
to purchase a dwelling at price which
will yield good profit.
Every day there is line of furniture
vans pulling through the streets of the
pest region, laden with the effects of
some unfortunate who can no longer en-
dure the nuisance. 1t is no unusual sight
to see two and sometimes three houses
on rollers, being moved to some place
out of the blighted district.
Cottages that were once comfortable
homes have been sold at sacrifice and
are now used as pumping houses 9th
ers, rendered untenable by reason of
their environments, and useless, as en-
gine houses, are barred and boarded,
and small boys have added to their de-
facement by singing rocks through the
window panes. Lawns have been torn
up, the greensward being supplanted
by pools of the black substance and piles
of greasy timbers. Access to many
houses is most difficult and the whole
scene is one of filthiness and misery, not
eQualed anywhere else in California
The herald., 1897-02-14

of oil. OF course there Is something
else besides oil in the hole, but the wa
ter does not hurt the oil. There Is a
cover of the black product two inches
thick all over the surface of the water.
This has been a very valuable well to
Doheny, and at the very least 1000 bar
rels of oil have been drawn from the
place. AT the end of each month the oil
is pumped from the pond, mixed with
other oil and marketed.
THE OBVIOUS DANGER.
The oil man goes on the theory that
''all is fish that comes to his net" and
this sump hole is in sort of gully at the
corner court and Metcalf streets, and
is fed by the drippings from the numer-
Gus wells around it. During the big
fire in the oil district thousands Of bar
The herald., 1897-02-14
OvER.COMPEJITI0N
Reasons Why the Industry Has Not Been
r1Ore Profitable

About four years have elapsed since
oil was discovered in what has since
become known as the coil fields" Be
fore the days of the derricks, the sec
ton of the city referred to was filed
with comfortable homes, many of the
residences being Of real architectural
beauty. and correspondingly valuable
But, alas! many of the owners of these
beautiful homes literally lost their
heads" when Mother Earth gave forth
her black, oily treasure. Wells were
shot" in the front and back yards. In
many instances two wells, and even
more, were sunk upon lots of fifty feet
EACH Shafts arose at the front door
and at the kitchen windows When a
man struck a good flowing well on the
edge of his lot his neighbor, anxious to
share in the prosperity, would sink an
other shaft as close as possible to the
rich well. And so the furore went on.
The effect was that the wells, soon after
they began to produce, started on
gradual diminution, and before run
ming many months dropped to such a
small flow that it was no longer profita-
BILE to pump them.
THE ONEY ALTERNATIVE
Then the only resource of the owner
was to either abandon the we'll or pull
The herald., 1897-02-14

them, and whAe they might have plenty
of it on their property, the ordinance
would preclude them from boring, thus
they would bear the nuisance without
the revenue and consequently we have
cut it down to 1900 feet, and the same
trouble will be found. I don't see what
can be done. 1t looks like hopeless
case. The city can prosecute the oil
men for allowing the oil to run into the
park. The city can force them to clean
up the streets and the property, and to
cover up the sump holes. 1t is not legal
to create a nuisance even if it is legal to
bore for OIL"
w. D. Campbell, the curio dealer, who
lives at 1922 Ocean View avenue. wants
the sump-holes done away with. 1.-THE
cesspools ought to be covered up" said
he. ''After boring, the unsightly der
ricks should be taken away l under
stand that in the eastern oil districts
they have strong steel tripod to which
a block and tackle may be attached.
Such a contrivance would be the thing
to use here after the well has been bored.
Then, there ought to be something done
to prevent the scattering Of oil all over
the strets. Smoke consumers should be
used also, as sometimes the black smoke
pours out SO that one cannot see the
houoao
The herald., 1897-02-14
Devastation and Generalization Marked
by the Derrick

recently heard to offer to give the entire
production of his wells, providing the
mortgage was paid off and the property
returned to him in three years unin-
numbered. 1t is believed that many
people in the business today would
into the ground and call it square. The
heaviest plunger in the field, who posed
as an oil baron and millionaire. is now
under cloud of bankruptcy. His wells
are in the hands of receiver.
WHAT A BALANCE!
The only people who have uniformly
made a profit out of the oil develop
ment are the large consumers; that is
to say, the owners of steam plants, such
as factories and railways. These in
dustries have been enabled to reduce
their fuel bills by one-half, owing to
the low price of the crude oil. The main
beneficiaries have been the wealthy cor
porations. But it is safe to say that
for every $40 taken from the ground
in oil $1,000 worth of real estate values
have been destroyed Certainly the
small operators are going to quit heavy
losers, and If any producers are "ahead
of the game" it will be some corpora
ton or combination of producers, which
may come in and monopolize the field
or corner the market.
The profit from the oil wells has not
been distributed among the citizens gen.
orally, but the destruction of property
is uniformly distributed over all living
in that section Of the city. Had the
entire oil field in the city been possessed
by few men, and had those men put
down few wells, the expense of sinking
them would have been minimized, and
undoubtedly the product of the wells
would have been prolonged, thus rem
dering it a profitable enterprise. The
entire deposit might have been drawn
off in time with less than a one hum
dredth part of the expense which has
haen incurred
The herald., 1897-02-14

nue., and who owns a great deal of prop
erty around the oil belt, said: THE oil
wells have got around me so now that
they have ruined what property l have
left in the Mob Hill tract for residence,
and they might as well take it all. Prop
erty has deprecated, and it is impossi-
BILE to sell it for residence purposes. The
gas and smoke are decidedly unhealth-
full.
THE oil business has cost me s25, ,0OO
I lost $4,000 on one piece of property alone.
"The property holders went before the
council when it was discovered that oil
was upon us, and proposed an ordinance
limiting the operations to- within 1000
feet from the park. We found that the
people on the edge of that limit We're
opposed, as they had the oil in front of