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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-09-06
CITY SCAVENGER

A. b. BRIGGS CLEANS PRIvY VAULTS
and cess pools: no odor. Improved
pumps used. A. BRIGGS. Proprietor.
Leave orders 100 North Main avenue:
or Eickes' drug store. corner Adams ana
Mulberry. Telephone 6040.
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SCALP TREATMENT.

MRS. L. T. KELLER, SCALP TREAT.
ment, 50c.; shampooing. 50c.: facial
massage, manicuring. 25c.; chiropody. 7ol
Quincy.
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BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY


500 INVESTED IN PROGRESSIVE
speculative investments averaged SIS
profit monthly. Dale & Co., 10 w. 18th
street, New York.
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HELP WANTED-EEMALE

~~~--~~-~~-~-|~---~~--~
WANTED-A GOOD GIRL FOR GEN
eral housework. Call at 142 Franklin
avenue.
PROFITABLE HOME WORK FOR
men or women, day or evening, Sc to Sl2
weekly, no canvassing or experience
needed plain instructions and work mail
ed on application. BRAZILIAN MANU-
FEATURING COMPANY, New York
city.
wANTED-ANEXPE NURSE
girl TO assist in second work. Must
have reference. Apply 535 Monroe ave-
nue..
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FOR SALE OR RENT.

FOR SALE OR RENT - S-ROOM
house at Dalton; minutes from station,
or will exchange for property in any
town between Scranton and Great Bend.
20S Mears Building.
THE FREAR FOUNDRY AND PLOUGH
works for sale or rent. Inquire of w.
II. Patterson, administrator Eighth
street, West Wyoming Pa,
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RAILROAD TIME TABLES.
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD

Schedule In Effect May 40, 1898.
Trains Leave Wilkes. Barre a. Fol.
lows:
7.30 a. M, week days, for Sunbury
Harrisburg, Philadelphia. Balti.
more, Washington, and for Pitts.
burg and the West.
lo.l5 a. M, week days. for HazIeton.
Pottsville, Reading, Norristown.
and PHILADELPHIA; and for Sun.
bury, Harrisburg, Philadelphia.
Baltimore. Washington and Pitts
burg and the West.
5.l2 p. m daily, for Sunbury, Harriss
burg. Philadelphia, Baltimore
Washington, and Pittsburg and
the West.
600 p. M, week days. for Sunbury.
Harrisburg, Philadelphia and
Pittsburg.
J. r. WOOD, denI Pass. Agent
b. HUTCHINSON. General Manager.
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HELP WANTED


WANTED-MAN OR WOMAN OF EN-
ergy and business ability to travel for
established firm. $50 a month and all eX-
penses. p. w. Ziegler & Co., 225 Locust
street. Philadelphia, Pa.
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BOARD AND ROOMS.

TWO FRONT ROOMS TO LET WITH
board. The Aldine 40 Adams avenue.
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MISCELLANEOUS

LATEST FROM PHILIPPINE IS
lands. Greatest Naval Battle. Shoes
all blown to pieces and landed in Net
tleton's Shoe Store, Washington avenue.
Ladies' fine button shoes, russell and DON
COLA, cost $3.50. at $l.t9; ladies' fine ST.
shoes for CSC. Ladies Cxfords. cost $1.So.
for 81. 40; So. 90 shoes for $l.9S. etc.
BAUERS ORCHESTRA-MUSIC FOR
balls picnics. parties, receptions. we'd
dings and concert work furnished For
terms a6 dress r. ]. Bauer, conductor,
III Wyoming avenue, over Huloetts
music store.
MEGARGEE BROTHERS, PRINTERS
supplies, envelopes, paper bags, twine.
Warehouse. 130 Washington avenue,
Scranton, Pa.
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MONEY TO LOAN.

-~~S-~>~~~~~-~~--~-Oc
MONEY TO LOAN-ANY AMOUNT ON
mortgage. Stark, attorney Traders
Bank Building.
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JOS. KUETTEL, REAR 511 LACKA-
wanna avenue, Scranton, Pa, manufac'
turer OF Wire Screens.
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FOR RENT

FOR RENT-FIRST CLASS UPRIGHT
Fischer piano. Inquire Immediately.
F., 1886 Washington avenue.
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FOR RENT-BRoAD OYSTER HOUSE
Penn avenue. Stark, attorney, Trad
ers' Bank building.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-25
MAYORS WIFE.

Tor repentance in sack Goth and ashes.
For this great national sin of commission
by ignorantly violating that most sacred
instrument. the constitution Of the United
State, and as a proof of that act Senator
Vest quotes Chief Justice fancy. who ha=
been held back number for sixty-two
years upon political economy. since his de
cIsion upon the bred Scott case. which
sent the black man into slavery who was
free born in a northern state. This deci-
sion was rendered in the SOS. just after the
passage of the fugitive slave law This
decision caused the whole north to con-
dcmn fancy. But Senator Vest says in
the chamber of the senate the other day
that any attempt on the part of our ma
tional congress 10 hold any part Of the
West India islands Will be unconstitution-
al, and quotes the fourteenth amendment
to the constitution as proof that the
amendment includes al persons born in a
territory as citizens. But this great SEN
ator is mistaken. for that same constitu-
ton excludes Indians and Cinnamon from
citizenship. l will now quote Mr. Pomeroy
in his instructions on the constitutional
laws Of the United States. published years
He points out the perfectly obvious futiity
of the fancy doctrine, by showing the
rule by which this country has annexed all
the Russian American territory and alb
sorbed the islands of value in the Gulf of
Mexico and actual possessions scattered
throughout the Pacific coast. extending al
most TO the continent of Asia. He SAYS
tho congress has full jurisdiction over al!
territories acquired by treaty or arms. and
can hold them at will until such territory
shall become qualified for self-government
o. annexation. and he says there is no lin
il as to when these territories shall be
formed into a government. II may run
from five to ten years
Senator Vests anti-coloniaI resolution
Will be read with interest for al least two
reasons. il is the first speech OF the
kind introduced in the Fifty-sixth congress
and the first forma, attack upon the pres
ident's policy since the closing Of the Span
ish-American war and the settlement OF
the question At Paris by board of com
missioners. Senator Vest is well skilled in
making the worst side of a bad question.
This speech Of the senator may he adopted
as an outline Of the Democratic party :
P"itS III iNV upon me question or eXpan-
sion and annexation Of the Spanish pos
sessions. The growth of the United States
from 1905 from very small beginning. Of
an area Of $4,000 square miles and a popu-
lation Of 5,00a 90 inhabitants 10 an area
of 3,N0.oo0 square miles and a population
( of S5.eo90o0 inhabitants. This growth has
/ been made in ninety-five years. and the
people OF the nation are standing fairy
and sauarely as President WiIus-p McKin-
ley's hackers in every right action. Very
truly yours l. WILTON.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-25
cHs5 :IN THE FORMATIVE PERIOD- THE MHS OPP

burn will md someone n help burn It.
wichita was now AZ ths incoming of the
tide. and on the crsst O sNsI.las Nsvs va
sieefuily did ride.
About this time Kansas Took header
and voted for the prohibition amend
nent.- Men differ as - the effect on
wiehita's fortunes by reason Of this
change. bur. in my judgment. 3 change
in Theory without a change in ''prae-
dee derives US Of the premise from
which to argue John Peter 81. John ton
whose bosom most prohibiiionists expected
70 finally rest. prior 70 Growers eiectioa
in iSSD said: you people (Syichita'sl have
carried on he most successful rebellion
against the constitution IN the history %
our government Concedlng that St John
vas correct. " cannot say what the real
effec, has been on the financial condition
o: Wichita by the liquor law.
This brings me. accarding 70 my cAro-
rology. to the shore Of the ~nood . aaS n
sight OF the white caps 50 soon % 70.
over Wichita and enguIs X: to the Wild
billows whose spray dsmpened and r.
frsshed everything within an hundred
miles. and attracted the greedy from he
Atlantic coast. Challenged the admiration
OF ail beholders and ar the same tine made
our rivals ''as fua Of envy AZ Wichisa's
greatness as CereeruS vas al Prosperins's
beauty" SO many things crowd Tor space
that this sketch : TOO long Fer one pSper.
and VIII ~ finished al a future time
think q Is a truth that untu 1879 N,
local organizations we're mere c1anes.
building With a selfish. pccgniary. direct
and immediate end ana that the uphui-a-
ing OF Wichita as a commercial city.
railroad center. large distributing polat.
did not enter INFO the mind OF hu; one
man. viz. Colonel NJ. N Murdoch. CoieneI
Murdoch stood between the Two farioae
factions. and was appointed postmaster as
the only rlsn that both ends would trust.
There was less politics and more real bas-
iness In his appointment than ever since
displayed. lie placed the posieffice vhere
Tanners store Is on Main street and the
factions shook hands ard went home "a
whet butcher knives Tor the next engage
mcnt
IN tho second paper on this subject vii
be given the unity al Wichita under the
banner OF Harmony; Unity. Strength.
Success" CONTRIBUTOR
December :, ises
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walk As there were no city takes levied
IN those days. the income from various
divers and sundry places paying all ex-
penses. the loss was not mourned over.
INote-In this connection It may
be remembered that in those hal
cyon days. ere the tsmpesiuous
storm burst IN fury DER our de-
fenseiess head, ii wsss our proud
boast to the incoming sucker that
There were no city Iaxes.'1
To return TO our mutton: in 1877 Ia 1879
things moved Sow - slow Acres OF
lots had been sold for taxes: no one wanted
any. The foreclosure of mortgage on the
Occidental hotel. the prior failure OF the
First National bank. the tendency 10 move
toward and on Douglas avenue the freeing
of the toH-bridge. and other lesser things
parslyzed North Main street and for a
season Main street was 'GoIdsmith's de-
serted village The fortunes OF Main
street have been as the waves Of the SEA
at highest and lowest tide. The depression
or Douglas avenue has been great bur Il
it had eGualed Main streets depression.
Main street would have been snnihilsted.
In 1879 the FRISCO railway pointed Wich-
itaward but had Winfield and Wellington
in view. A Business Mems league vas
called. and every human in the county
was for the bonds. The vote supposedly
vas for a railroad from St Louis 10 Wich-
tia, and one fork to Viola township and
one to Nj. Hope. The railroad got as far
as Wichita and stopped. II then appeared
that the railroad intended - go on. The
vote was insepsrabIe; Wichita stood pat"
on three lines or no bonds: and he result
was mo bonds" Two men of all others
claimed the crown for the Frisco road-C.
Wood Davis and Colonel JocelyR-but
Colonel NJ. NJ. Murdoch Jim Steele. A. W.
Oliver NJ W. Levy. Colonel Milton Stew
art. y. A. English. Ct al. We're round
about tina, time and did some work. There
is legend that after the road was built
and the usual excursion 10 the business
men who did nothing toward securing the
railroad was had the Chamber Of Com
merce at st. Louis gave 3 banquet. and
cne-half Of the said business men drank
out OF the ''finger-bowls," under the belief
thai ii was pineapple sop" and one man
swore that it was the lattest champagne
he ever tasted.
Mind YOU. now I wasn't there
/ only solemnly state
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-12-25

To my mind there was one main figure in
Wichita, and that was Grieffenstein; otn-
ers had an avocation, Dutch Bill' played
''rcunce" the devil among the taiIors
and smoked an admixture of tobacco and
perique-and dellberated. Douglas avenue
was his business. 1t was his first born. .
the apple Of his eye" and all the ends AT
which he aimed were Doug.as avenue. The
iron-gray German was a wizard, who rub
bed MS 'snow-bli1d eyes, touched his en-
chanted meerschaum- wand, and in the dis
sewing circling clouds Of ascending smoke
beheld visions Of a future Douglas avenue
akin TO ne streets that the geni of Alad-
din's lamp created at his call He was not
a talker, but thinker. In fact he was a
Sworn enemy to long speeches,
And never given to repartee;
His elaboration was long.
His conclusion sure and strong"
Monticello The Hermitage. and Grey
stone have each had their pilgrims. but
Grieffenstein's old home, on South Water
street. was to the Douglas avenue men
Strawberry Hill p" and thither on Sunday
afternoon the cavaliers of the avenue went
to plan the weeks campaign.
On the. then, wide-open porch, surround
ed by Jim Stee,e, y. A. English, Jim Nc
Cullough. c. F. Gilbert, Colonel Mcclure
Fred Daily Charley Thompson NJ W.
Levy. Sol Kohn and Bra Morris the chief
tain sat and blew the clouds" heaven
ward and listened. and on the morrow gave
his deductions.
Greiffenstein. in the pre-grasshopper day,
was always in evidence when the tocsin
sounded 10 summon Douglas avenue to
battle for the supremacy of the "half-
section line over Central avenue and
North Main street; then his step wa.
quicker, and the smoke rolled high
There was glory on his forehead.
There was luster in his eye
How many times since
Those halcyon DAYS
When flowers blOom'd in all our ways"
has the image of this generous faithful
man come before me in Board of Trade
councils. The absence of some men create
a feeling that power has departed. To my
mind, in after years, the absence of the
reviled Big Four" from Board meet
ings created this feeling. CThis may be.
however, the lingering Douglas avenue
bias. Douglas avenue men had brains.
ideas, courage but on one occasion Dutch
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Bills absence on account of sore
threat. ''milled," stampeded Douglas ave-
nue. men ike Texas steers crossing the
Big river below the bridge
Greiffenstein was the Henry OF Navarro;
his meerschaum plume. as the banner. was
followed trustingly and blindly. Some men
are a battalion: Greiffs nstein was bril-
gade- His calm. silent presence was the
presage of triumph.
"One blast upon his bugle horn
Were worth d thousand men,
Greiffenstein was statesman. The plac-
ing OF the Ioil-bridge stock in the hands
of II. c. Day, y. McClees. ct al, North
enders," deprived Main street of voices
which but for dividends hoped for"
would have made them as enemies 10
block and the location of the postoffice. the
Eagle office. county offices, court house. in
it was sagacity: the removal of the land
office 10 Douglas avenue was the storming
of the heights of FL Caney
Charley Gilbert and James r Mead, with
large interests both ncrth and south, were
neutrslized.
The north end was w c. Woodman.
I.ank Moore, Al Thomas and j. c. Fraker,
leading brigade of neutrals and students
in private economy
The north end, with Central avenue as
the main artery east and west. with capital
in hand could have placed the Santa Fe
depot at the corner of Fifth and Central;
the big bridge across the river at Central
avenue. and forever shut Douglas ave
nue. out on the first heat. The south end
had ,ess cash. but more faith and courage
Its friends were unit, and this unity
characterized the Board Of Trade" in
after years, and study of men shows that
the Board of Trade was dominated by
Douglas avenue men. Though it was con-
cealed. generally the Board of Trade
was selected on Douglas avenue before
the annual meeting. This was not chance
but design. Greiffenstein was statesman:
he was not politician. He read the fu-
ture. and felt that only increasing labor
could conquer the natural advantages of
the north end. The location of the Diver
Imboden mill on Douglas avenue was a
fixed fact before Woodman and Lank
Moore knew the mill was on foot
Greiffenstein, Sol Kohn. Morris Kohn. NJ.
w. Levy. n. A. English A w Oliver.
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SOME oI-1cK READING

\ case recently came up in Wichita over
,he loss of = book. A woman claimed she
borrowed Oliver Twist one evening that -
simply took it from a room in boarding
house read IL that night and returned II.
The book cauld not Doe found and the
owner suspected the woman Who said she
rad replaced It. The authorities VINO were
working on the case did not believe that
Oliver Twist could be read in one nigh..
However. a test was made. By Swimming.
= page could be read in a few seconds.
less than minute. The time taken 20 read
one page was multiplied by the number
Of pages in the book. and me total was
divided into hours. showing Jhst ths book
could be skinned in a night There are
many instances IN sown where Ben HBr
i1as been read in night. and one instance
wherein the reader did not put down QUO
Vsdis untn IL was finished.
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IA WICHITA HOBSON-:A G %HG KISSED THE


patient died. or. at least, the physicians
thought him dead. \ shr0ud was wrapped
about ilim and he was placed in coffin.
The lid was laid on the coffin. but be-
cause Clark's old comrades desired 10
take last look at him on the following
day, when the body would be placed in
the home cemetery. the lid was not fas-
tened. Carefully the coffin with its con-
tents was placed on Two chairs in a room.
The door was closed and the watchers
retired for the night in an adjoining room.
About midnight a great noise was heard
in the room where the corpse had been
placed, and sensation followed. In con-
sternation. the persons in the house
rushed to the door and beheld the corpse
sitting upright, with the coffin or its
side near ny. Frightened at what ap-
peared 10 them a ghost, the attendants
flew from the room and told what uhey
had setn. They Immediately returned
with others and found the body prone
on the floor. but with evidences of life.
Careful nursing and stimulants turned
the tide for Clark. and death was robbed
Of its victory.
when l appeared to myself" said
Clark, ''to be dying, the experience was
a very pleasant one. l seemed 10 be en-
trey free from trouble and 10 be passing
into a new realm. When 1 began 10 re-
cover consciousness l found myself in
what seemed to be a coffin. but | at once
knew l was not dead. because my feet
were cold and l was hungry. l knew
if l were in heaven | would not be nun
cry, and if L were in purgatory my feet
would not be cold.
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What Ed Jewett did relate


The opening of the Frisco was ''rnanns"
restoration In the language of Colonel
MurdOck.lin Palnsenesis. who said:
yet. anon. in brighter strains OF destiny,
The Star Of Empire beckOns on happy
throng.
Kansas Pa.ingenesis."
Twas in this hour of hope that the odd
Board OF Trade" was placed on a founda-
ton The raven of dOub, was hanlshsd:
the croaker was an unciean thing; on
double Eagle wings We sosrsd To
heighths sublime We adopted the German
proverb: There Is no fish 50 small but
II expects TO become a whale" The man
with money. time. brain. voice was ex-
pected 70 devote a portion 10 The advance
ment and upbuiiding of wichita. lie who
hung back and held his purse was voted
as a Wichita curse The >tingy man was
a marked man. and was pointed out as a
negative lesson 10 every newcomer.
Colonel Milton Stewart WAS president Of
the Board OF Trade the first meeting the
writer attended. Al this meeting Judge
Thomas B. Wall and the writer paid Sio
and became members Of the board.
The glucose factory was tackled. u had
no capital and was frowned upon. Suhse-
quently. in 1881. the creamery craze"
struck Kansas. II had a representative
here. and he worked the town the rag
ged fringe OF a frszel.' ana the -hoys
FIRST learned the meaning OF douale-liabiiity
on corporate stock The creamery was
built. mortgaged. foreclosed 10 DIR. HofI-
mans father. I, af,erward was burned.
Subsequently jim Jones. who worked On
a farm n Sl5 per month. got new suit
OF clothes and went OF on a visit and re-
turned as a graduate in the art Of building
waterworks. He got a franchise and sold
out 10 Colonel Lewis and built the house
where the widow OF Mr.. Roach now Hyess
sold out for se5.0o0 and wen, 20 Msmnhis
Tenn. and worked thai town A bold
schemer Jones vas qusrtered-oak. hand
rubbed. done in oil and waxed. He fIed
his contract with the city. but he made a
contract that was a jewel. and :hls vas
learned as the DAYS and mon.hs went
speeding by, when wooden mains were rot
ting and bursting. Thus We learn that
they who ha' ma sense. bat money 10
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Jim Steele. Billy Mcclure. Colonel Nc
Clure. Jim Mccullough and host of
small frey made the Douglas avenue
crowd. In after years Douglas avenue was
"a power ard through it all the same
spirit dominated the selection of men
and characterized the measures adopted.
Twas Douglas avenue that located the
Missouri Pacific depot 1onIy it stopped at
Second street instead of the avenue; it
located the City building and the postoffice.
Douglas avenue debated three days as to
whether or not il would fight the court
house bonds. IL is A matter of deep regret
that the court house bonds were not de-
feated. and a location selected having some
regard TO the convenience of business men.
Time was when court twice a year resem-
bled q general muster" but the court
house Of Sedgwick is place OF business.
even as a bank or store.
There is legend that Dutch Bill" and
" A. English drove odd Ben from
Wichita 10 Emporia TO catch Tom Peters.
of the Santa Fe road. and secure the Santa
Re to Wichita This drive was made in
single buggy and made with three stops.
The trip was successful. and N a. English
received from Tom Peters guaranty for
a life pass" In Is the railroad COM
pany repudiated the pass" English sued
The road and recovered. (See IS Kansas
1l0) There were many who claimed that
English had no more to do with it than
many others. The depot, was put on
Mead's land but English had a life pass.
English either had much TO do with the
location or he ''hoodooed' Tom Peters
Meads land was so situated as 10 give
him such double pull that the north end
lost a good fighter on north location. In
other words. he had 'iead-pipe cinch, -
and did not worry on location. When the
cepot was first located il was heap
way from depot to the Douglas Avenue
and Occidental hotels and the ''old Daily
house" corner of First and Water and
Southern hotel missouri Pacific ticket of
flee on Main street,. The business men
demanded sidewalk to the depot One
was built from Lawrence avenue 10 Fifth
avenue. fronting English's land. After
some tax sale proceedings and an iniunc-
lion suit. the city presented English with
a receipt in full. II seemed that the coun-
Gil neglected to do everything in regard
10 the business except to build the side