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Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-12-20
THE DAILY OILREvIEW
j. HI MCCOY, Editor and proprie or
WHY'S AND WHEREFORES.

The Oil City Derrick explains
in 4 short editorial why the price
of oil was cut the other day i've
cents a barrel at one clip. Tne
Derrick beautiful description IS
told so pathetically that it made
us weep as we read it. In fact'
we could not finish the heart-rend-
mo beautiful and sad account
without weeping so hard we had
to read in sections. We have
finally read it all and have to a
certain extent overcome our emo
tions. If the oil producers before
finishing this article, just when
they get down this far in this ar
ticle, will take warning and get
some support to hold them up
and a few pans to gather the salt
water in that will flow from their
ewes before they read the Der
rick's touching account OF the
decrease in the price Of oil, but II
YOU will not do this then read
and take the consequences. Here
is the reason oil came down live
cents a barrel:
The new regulations fixing
the price of Kansas oil, ac-
cording to gravity, are also
directly responsible for the
lower price marked for the
output of the older sections OF
the Pennsylvania field where
an inferior grade of petrol
cum is produced.
Holy smoke! Of all the expla-
nations for cutting the price OF
oil we submit this one takes the
whole buckwheat cake. The fix
ing of the price of Kansas oil by
gravity" is a very old chestnut
that is worked by the Standard
Oil company to run out opposi-
ton. Where it has opposition the
gravity" of the oil goes away
up; where it has a monopoly the
gravity goes down. When the
Scio field was opened up the
Standard had opposition, and ii
discovered the Scio oil had a
Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-12-20

to fill the unexpired term. W..
B. Woodruff and f. O. Bower
made application for the office
The ballot resulted: Woodruff D.,
Bower 2.
Finance Committee-The fol-
lowing bills were approved by
the committee and ordered paid {:
Oil Review, printing, $51.75; VIM.
Powell company. material, $l4.oo !;
Mrs. F. E. Brooks, janitor SER
vice, 81; Crescent Supply COM
pany, material, So; Lynn Kirt-
land, insurance premium, 1910.
There being mo further bust
ness Council adjourned until
Tuesday evening, January 3.
Cutters have just received a
fresh shipment of Malaga grapes,
bananas, oranges and nuts.
12,19-3t
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-20
PLANS FOR SUBW4Y DAY.
To Haze Municipal Holiday
Speaking at City Hall.

Alderman DouI yesterday. at conference with
the Rapid Transit Commission. outlired plans for
celebrating the subway opening. celebration
first advocated by The Tribune The plans are
subject to change. President Orr OF the commits
sion. promised its co cooperation, and G. r. Seward
said the Chamber OF Commerce would give all the
aid IL could.
The plan lie 10 hold the celebration the day before
the subway is opened for public business August
Belmont. president OF the Interborough. told the
aldermen that rs would give them ample notice at
least month before the day Sc. fof the opening
He told them he intendei TO the full car sys-
TEN in operation Tor last six weeks before one
passenger is accepted.
1t is planned 10 make the day a municipal holiday,
to have a platform with speakers at the City Hall
and at The Bronx Borough Hall. to decorate the
City 41SH Park and to have fireworks dis
pay IN Manhattan and Inc Bronx at night. Bishop
Fotter Is 10 be invited TO the speaking at the
CITY Hail lie Is 10 be followed according 10 the
programme, by Mayor Mcclellan. August Belmont
ana one or Two members OF the Rapid Transit Com
mission AT the city Hall station of the subway
mayor Mcclellan will start train full of invited
EueSts, lie Mayor Is TO be asked pilot the train
TO n aariem Az the stations along the route are
20 De thrown open TO the public. and the train will
travel slowly, so that all who care may see IT,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-20
Many HOLES IN ASPHALT.
One Hundred DefectiUe Points Re
ported to President .4hearn.

The Merchants Association has taken up the
question of defective pavements and submitted q
report to Borough President Ahearn giving tho re-
suit Of an investigation by its committe. city
conditions. Nearly ons hundred defective points
are noted IN the report.
The party making ths inspection comprised John
c. Eames, chairman w. A. Marble, w R wilcox
and Frederick B. DeBerard. In the case of the in
the limits OF the specifications were recorded In
the case Of the later inspections note was made
or any holes except those that notably bad
minor defects not being recorded.
I'm Broadway. Seventh-ave and the Boulevard
the condition OF the pavement between the tracks
is almost uniformly bad. very little proper pave
ment being observed" says the repcrt This is
noted in but few instances for the reason that the
Jurisdiction OF this pavstaect in IN controversy be-
tween the city ana tbs street railway companies"
The committee also sage that by far the greater
number of defective places were due to openings
which had been mads in the pavements for various
purposes and the failure thereafter to comply with
the requirements of the law as TO repaving, So far
it able to observe the complaints as to fail
ure on the part OF paving contractors to maintain
properly the surface of the asphalt pavements were
well founded
AS whole. however the asphalt pavsments. the
committee believes far care OF the part OF
contractors is conceine1 TO be in pretty fair
condition, notably so on tho East Side of the city
In a letter to the borough president the commit
tee says:
v,s1n beg 5c Fespefptfny TO sggges: thar the
sons who desire permit TO open the surface of the
streets. deposit OF sufficient amount to pay the
cost OF its restoration should If applied by yoI in
All cases. enable you to secure promp. repair OF
the streets. We informed. however. that the
city mas now at it, cermand proper street repair
ing pant, wherewtth such repairs as are necessary
may be made, anc that possibly the DELAY in maxi
Ing these repairs is due to that fact
In the case Of the specific complaints made by
the Merchants Assoca ton. President Ahearu or
dered the CHIEF engineer TO cause Inspection to be
nd IN f,a
a peremptory order will be to the repair COM
pany to repair the paveme2,s within forty-eight
hours. In Of failure 10 SO do President
Ahearu promises to have the repairs made by other
contractors at the expense OF the derellct company
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-20
I" MOTHER JONES" TALKS.
Tells Beef Strikers They WiU Yin
If Not Weak Kneed.

.alother Jones'" the labor agitator, addressed the
local beef strikers yesterday. and greeted
with chesrs- She said she expected to go TO Chi
esgo 10 aid the striking butchers there. Mother
Jones" ADDRESSED the men Boys and Broth
ers." She said in part:
want &c tell you that a play at
more war than a hundred men. Because you are IRE
with you In your mighty strike for eruancipa don
causes Which provoke them. It was the strikers of
Ss ina! oyea h G TSa aRa lea to the
You alone can break this strike II you con-
weak kneed fellows among you. victory viii b.. be
yours. "sca1 meat Is n1t az 70 eat a ana d Iae
eDoaah 90 marry a 'scab." They the traitors,
nv 10 poison youT minds against your leaders.
No leader under heaven can sell you cut uniess
believe that next November you win march to
s;1t fottenness The senate is made up of trust
Inag14Ates. DO TO more begging TO the Legislature
sou 30 not. you wiz hDd that you are up against
the baiiot. With it you can squech Roosevelt and
Roosevelt could settle the beef strike by telling
the hackers that he proposed TO t2Ae over me
Mt Is being Charged high prices for rotten meat
that has been In the companies boxes 10Y ten
months. They working of .heir stale stock
The police decided that little more trouble was to
be expected from the beef striker. The only vio-
lsnee reported, however. was agains. a strike
bres ker Fred Wilson. who came here from BaltI-
more several weeks ago. He assaulted by row
dies at Forty-sixth-st. and Frst-ave. he was on
his way 10 work IN the SchwarzsciIild & SuZberger
plant. He badly treated that he did not go
&c work. although he refused to have an ambulance
called and went home ms assaI.apIs. more OF
whom, the police believe, are members OF the slk
ing union. escaped
In the evening. Captain Lantry Of the East Fifty
station took mos of his men away from
the strike centre The few wagons still sent out
Nv United Dressed Beer Company ana SchWarZ-
schiid e Sulzberger were still guarded by mounted
and bicycle policemen. but no violence against
them attempted.
The strikers appeared &c continue IN hlgn spr-
Sta and they said that MANY Of the non-unloH WORK,
me recently employed becoming disguised
with the butcher work. which was at times decld-
edly unpleasant for those not used to II, ana were
quitting their places. IT evident that the
number y cattle slaughtered in the tWo big plants
1yas Ear below the normal average. Large quaint
fies on meat 1t was said. stir remained ia the re,
frigeratoIs. however, and most orders were hlIed
from this stock.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-20
AVERT COAL STRIKE.
Question of Check Weighmen Re
fered to Judge Graz.

The Board of Cancellation of the Anthracite
Strike Commission at It's meeting yesterday
took action which it is hoped will avert the
danger OF a strike in the coal regions, by re-
ferring to Judge Gray. of Delaware. the whole
question of the check weighmen.
The checkman for the miners was provided
for in the award of the Anthracite Coal Strike
Commission. it being agreed by the commits
sion that he was to be paid for by the
miners. The representatives of the miners
union contended that the company should de-
duct pro rata share from all miners to pay
the checkmans salary. while the operators
contended that they could only deduct from
such miners gave them q legal assignment.
The question was finally made a grievance and
brought to the attention of the board Of con-
Citation. No agreement reached till yes
terday because of differences in the wording OF
the statement to be made to Judge Gray.
Another grievance considered was that made
bv the Pennsylvania Coal Company against it's
employees at the Barnum colliery, Pennsylvania.
The men struck because. they say, the scales
are not in good working order. The men assert
that their checknan found that the scales
weighed about one thousand pounds short in a
car of three tons. This shortage would make a
difference in their earnings of about 81 10 on a
full shift OF seven cars. Superintendent May OF
the company asserts that the scales are in good
order.
1t was resolved that the men must return to
work before there was any consideration of the
ence it should be submitted to the board of con-
Citation
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-20
4 POOLROOM FOR WOMEN.
Police So Cali BroadsUay Place
That Then Raid.

An alleged womans pooiroom in a BUILDING IN
Broadway. Thirty-sixth-st.. the heart OF
the theatrical district, raided yesterday De-
fore the last race at Saratoga had been run. me
evidence was obtained by a young woman delec-
tive, Miss Mary Young. She had made a NUMBER
OF bets there she declared. Captain Cottrell OF the
West Thirtieth-st. station with two detectives VS.
tied the place yesterday. and stationed themselves
in the hall leading into the apartments where the
alleged poolrooyn was said to exist. Miss Young
had been in the apartments for hour or two
when a We left the Then captain
CotLrell and the others went m. The captain told
the twelve or fourteen women that the place was
about to be raided. He asked most of them 10
leave the place. one jumped her feet and ex-
claimed: This is astounding. L came her to buy
powder" The police found powder on a
centre table. the kind some women use for powder
ing their faces. The police say the powder was
used for blind" The place fitted up as a
living room. One OF the women players. the po-
lice say, has baby at home only six weeks old.
The woman arrested the proprietor said she
was Mrs Annie Smith, a housekeeper. She was
taken TO the station and put In a cell. a charge
tered. Her baby four months old was put in the
cell with her. The child howIed when the raid
made
In the apartments the police say they got racing
sheels ana charts and banfro1 of SO from the
severely
Mrs Smith.
u was IN that place Just before the police got
m said the young woman. 81 was going away
early because / WIS anxious about my own baby:
H., feel awfully sorry tor Mrs Smith; because !
the place has been closed. for the tracks will
be cpen here again. and can go there and do my
Miss Young said the racing information for the
pIsce was obtained by sending of the women
q bulletin board
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-20
NEW CUT IN STEEL VAR.
Reductions of Pittsburg Company
Net by the Trust.

The P1ttsburg Steel Company. having gone slight
ly below the reduced prices fixed wire products
day or two ago by the American Steel and Wire
Company the latter yesterday met the Pittsburg
company's concession. the cut prices quoted job
bers applying also to retailers ordering carload
lots. This the only active move announced yes
terday in the steel
Reports that the Lackawanna Steel Company
has made prices steel beams and plates s. a
ton lower than the pool figures denied yester-
day by officers OF that corporation. who added
that they ala not have in contemplation any whole
sale slash!rg OF prices The Lackawanna corpany's
new structural plate mill Buffalo is yet
in operation. but is expected TO be opened within
the next few days.
Although the various steel pools, except the rail
association. have not been dissolved reported
yesterday from Pittsburg. their existence is threat
ened. for the United States Steel Corporation. from
all accounts. is in mood 10 retaliats vigorously
any association In any OF the pools which may
decide to make prices lower than the pool sched-
ules. Pacific utterauces have come from John W.
Gates. Saratoga. but the trade here stu believes
that the United States Steel Corporation regards
the Republic Iron and Steel Company's action in
the billet conversion incident as the move which
caused the rate war. and that. II opportunity Of
fers. IT will make telling counter move.
The steel thus far has not affected the Eastern
Bar Iron Association the !Sut and Bolt Assoca-
ton, both Of which has this week reafHrmed their
present schedule of prices. Rogers Brown q Co.
in their weekly summary OF the iron and steel sit
uation. say:
The prospect of a wide open market for practi-
cally all iron and steel products except rails should
IN the natural order lead 30 freer buying and much
broader consumption Temporarily, however buying
in all lines is likely to be checked until 1t IS seen
how low prices can co. There - notable similar
ity between the present conditions and those At
tending the revival three years ago. some or the
most experienced buyers making contracts for
pig j on well into next year. In some cases re-
9uirements have been covered as far ahead as
July. 1895.
United States Steel shares were weak again yes
terday, closing at the lowest OF the day. with the
common one-half point and the preferred seven
eighths under the final prices OF Thursday.
An effort is being made dspress these
shares, apparently for the benefit of the large
sending 10 Wall Street lying kilograms annouuc
ing extensive reductions In the working forces In
some OF the Steel Corporations mills One such
telegram. received yesterday from small town in
a Central Western State. gave the location of
plants which had laid off half OF their employees
towns In which the United States Steel Corporation
ha mills.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-20
CHEAP DRINK CASE IN COURT.
Summons for Proprietor of an Herb Extract
Company-N. Y. Fruit Exchange Acts.

The New-York Fruit Exchange has take7 a hand
In the crusade against the manufacturers and
vendors OF cheap ana dangerous drinks Some of
the work of the State Agricultural Department in
hghting the danger OF blood poisoning from Fast
Side "iuxuries" was described in The Tribune YES
terday.
Magistrate Breen. IN tho Essex Market court.
yesterday had before him on summons Jacob
Goldsteln, Of No 542 East Twelfth-st pronrieto-
OF the In!yersat Herb Extract Company.
Representatives of the Fruit Exchange submitted
to the court samples gathered by the inspertors
from various East Side drug and confectionery
stores, ana soda water stands They contain the
court was told. mainly tartaric acid. beet root
sugar ana colorlng matter of deleterious nature
Inc court was told that cases being made o,It
against more tha? a score OF small manufacturers,
and tina. the District Attorneys Office IS about 10
take cogniZacce Of the ieea! manufacture and
trafhc. The perGl-y for each violation of Sector
3i3 OF the Penal Code. which covers these ca SEES lie
a fine OF $500 or one years imprisonment or both
Ihe case against Goldstein was adjourned until
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-20
MAY CALL OUT TRANSFERS.
Chicago Packers Ordered to Equip Buildings
with Fire Escapes.

Chicago. Aug 1s-Recording Secretary shanahan
of the ps cking house transfers union declared to
DAY that IN his opinion 1t would be necessary to
call out strike all teamsters connected with de-
livery to and from retail markets in Chicago. He
said ne believed this would have to be done to win
the strike.
President Donnely Of the butchers organiza-
lion, announced that labor leaders will be sent
tomorrow to Kansas City, st. Paul and St Jo-
seph to report local conditions TO the strikers there.
Donneuy Will himself go to East st. Louis, and
then 20 Indiana, where ne will meet President
Mitchell Of the miners organization, and expects
20 receive financial support.
Corporation Counsel Tolman has given to Mayor
Harrison opinion declaring the packers at the
stoekyards have no legal night to house men in
their packing houses. He says that the packers
are not violating any provision OF the ordinance
regulating lodging houses, for the that they
are letting lodgings Tor hire. The opinion
does hold. however. that the regulations calling
for fire escapes and exits in buildings where large
numbers of people are housed have not been COM
pied with. and suggests that three days be allowed
The packers In which e begin the alterations IN
their buildings, or 10 find quarters for the
men. The Mayor sent the opinion to Chief of Po-
lice ONein, with instructions 70 that the
packers obeye6 the law.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-20
POOR FORTIETH- ST!
No Help IN Sight Until Monday
for impaired Waste.

With an ever increasing desire make the theory
that anticipation is greater than realization At to
any and every case. tie Department OF Public
WORKS has a"ain postponed the paving of Fortieth-
ST.. and now says that the work will surely be
started on Monday. 1t understood few DAYS
ago that the Scilian Asphalt Paving Company.
that mas the contract for paving the street. would
begin this week. but when n Tribune reporter
called at the company's office yesterday he was
told that the company would not start the work
uIit tne cur ping mad been set by the city or, in
otEer Woros, II was necessary to have the usual
n1rnoer OF contractors divide up the work
Leief II was learned at the Department Of Pub
lie WORKS Ita, that gang of men would be put to
Worh To- the curling next Monday, although
according TO Commissioner Dalton II was the duty
OF tne conlpanN which is putting up The public IL
praFF ~ sSsee the curbing which II had torn up
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-20
GOES DOWN HALF n CENT
Retail Beef Dealers Promise Still
Further Reductions.

For tie FIRST time PROBABLY since the present beef
vtrike began small retailers OF beef in this city
reduced their prices onehalT cent yesterday. ana
predicted further reductions from now on. Aoun-
sant SUNNY and relatively Ugh: demand were the
reasons assigned for the reduction. According to
the schwarzschiId & SulzDerger Company. meat
IS now as low SIS at any time IN the last five
sears Good beef Frederick Joseph, vice-presi-
sent of the company told 2 Tribune reporter, may
row be bought at from To 81 cents. There is
more beef indeed than will be consumed
Sc far as could be learned no union delegation
called at the offices OF the Society for the Pre-
syertlCn Of Cruelty Animals yesterday 10 protest
ugainsf The alleged inhumenity in Strengthening
FL was said there that John p. Halnes, the presi-
uenf OF the society. was out of town, and TO one
would speak for him in his absence.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-20
FEWER RAILS, LOWER PRICE.

Philadelphia Aug. 1.-THE Pennsylvania Railroad
win order only 10000 tons of steel rails this year.
This has been decided by the management, ana
the order will be given by President Cassatt upon
his return from Bar Harbor the first or next
month It is the purpose of the management to
keen the order this year far within the given
last year.
The company ordered 7ooVo tons last year and the
GREATER portion has not been used. The rails that
have not been used Will be kept until next
year and distributed with the new order: The
price to be paid has not been given out put II is
nrce in effect last year That was SIS a ton
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-20
SOLDIERS SHOOT SOLDIERS.
Fatal Result of Quarrel Between Regulars
and Ohio Guardsmen at Athens.

Athens, Ohio Aug. 19-Regular army soldiers.
said to be members OF cavalry troop connected
with the First Brigade at Camp Armitage. near
guard OF patrols made up of members of Company
u. 9th OHIO National Guard. Cleveland. and one
killed ana three wounded. the latter all
being National GuardsHen. Ths regulars escaped
without any casualties far as is AnOwn.
The suardsman killed Corporal Charles
Clark. whose home is at Warren. where the COM
pany is located. He was twenty-one years old and
a machinIst by occupation.
The regulars who used pistols. scattered for
camp. and OF them have been apprehended.
Fifteen minutes after the shooting General Dick
in command of the National Guardsmen. and tho
regular army Officers had declared the town under
martial law. and hundreds OF regulars now
patrollRg the streets to prevent further trouble.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-20
JOIN IN FIGHTING STEEL TRUST.
Other Concerns to Aid the Pittsburg Com
pany in It's Contest
IpY TELEGRAPH TO TIE TRIBUsE.l

Pittsburg Aug. 19.-It is announced here that the
Republic Iron and Steel Company has said it will
go hand In hand with the Pittsburg Steel Company
in its fight against the United States Steel Cor
poration, also that the Tennessee Coal and Iron
Company has expressed willingness TO lend a
hand
The steel corporation has about eighty thousand
tons OF billets on hand which IL had manufactured
Steel Company. but the order went to the Repubiic
Mills at a cut OF 81 The corpora ton. in TAX
ing over the Clarion Steel Company. thought it
had also taken its orders The Pitts burg Steel Com
pany refused 10 shift orders the tion
and allowed Il to make billets as long as IL wanted
The amount OF stock not called for Will reach
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-20
ELECTRICITY'S MYSTERIOUS WORK.
Two Men Killed and Many Persons Shocked
in Pittsburg.

Pittsburg. Aug. ia mysterious condition to-
night in the electric lighting system along the
Penn-ave. district caused the death Of two men
and the severe shocking OF ten fifteen persons.
The dead are George Ryan. twenty-eght years old.
of Pittsburg and John Hook. twenty-five years old
OF Allegheny. Both men were killed while trying
to turn the electric light Ryan at No. 1918
Penn-ave.. and Hook at No. LOO Penn-ave
Many persons in the district were shocked at
about the time that Ryan and Hook were
killed, but all will recover No explanation OF the
cause OF the trouble be secured from the cleo
trio light company tonight