THE CAMERON COUNTY PRET^R
ESTABLISHED BY C. B. GOULD, MARCH 1866.
VOL. 37.
Capital and Labor.
DISCOURSE DELIVERED BY REV. G. E.
KNOLLMEYER, RECTOR OF ST. MAT
THEW'S CHURCH, ELDRED, PA., IN
EMMANUEL CHURCH, EMPORIUM, PA.,
SUNDAY, NOV. 16TH, 1902.
"Many shall run to and fro and knowledge
Khali be Increased."—Dan, XII. 4.
No one in this present age needs to
be informed that capital and labor are
each striving for the mastery. Capital
has held its own with but little loss,
while labor gradually straggling up
wards, strives to gain the upper hand.
As a natural expectancy, popular dis
content has manifested itself and to
such an extent as to demand a reason
able consideration of its causes and
significance Among working men
whether in the city or country organic
efforts have been inaugurated to pro
tect, better and benefit themselves.
We might undeniably say this is true
of capital with all of its combines. In
the case of capital, the numbers slowly
increase. 70 per cent, of the wealth of
this country is in the hands of less than
200,000 men, out of a population of
70,000,000 No longer do we count the
organic aggregate number of labor ad
herents by the thousands but by the
millions. Men see this unequal divi
sion; they also see at times an enforced
economiejdespotism ;so discontentment
arises and political platforms heralded
the issues to simply stir up the unset
t!ed minds. The pressadds materially to
the(inovement by disseminating knowl
edge of the principles involved Dis
contentment utters itself in many
strikes and riots. Millions of employes
have been in strikes this year and
thousands of establishments have been
affected. In the years 1881 to 1886, in
clusive, 1,323,203 employes struck for
higher wages, affecting23,3o4 establish
ments Very few of those obtained
their demands but to-day the number
of adherents number five or six tines
as many and are getting the advance
us a general rule. New York, Pennsyl
vania and other states have had to call
out their militia more frequently than
ever before. 10,000 men were thought
to be necessary to guard 147,000 and
their dependents, which swelled the
number to 500 000. Nor is this only true
of this country. France, Austria, Russia,
especially the latter, have used exten
sive measures to put down riots.
The argument that hours, wages, and
prices of food show the people to be
twice as well off as twenty or thirty
years ago, and so they ought to feel
s itisfled, is met by a counter argument
that men who once considered §50,000
a fortune and sufficient, now are worth
ten or twenty times as much and can
not be satisfied. The time has come
or is fast approaching when brother
betrays brother to prison. St. Paul's
exhortation "to use the things of the
world without their abuse" is lost
Money can buy anything, even to a
man's soul "yet what does it profit a
man if he gain the whole world and
lose his own soul."
The working man realizes in a meas
ure that he is better off, possibly twice
as well off, but when he considers how
men are getting far above where lie
hopes to stand, he desires more to be
like (hem. The first Indians who
traded with Columbus and his follow
ers were more 'satisfied with a few
j ards of cloth and some trinkets in lieu
of little value given, than the mechan
ic of to-day, who owns his own house.
Is it greed that makes man desire more
and narrows him to unreasonableness.
Or hit not rather in the fact that a
great change in the circumstances
which surround men themselves has
taken place and broadened their ideas,
or in the wordsofourtext: "Many shall
run to and fro and knowledge shall be
increased."
The educational feature of the
present age is an influence often for
gotten in this respect. When we think
that only three hundred and fifty
years ago some of the nobles of Eng
land to whom we owe so much, wore
less informed than the average laborer
of to-day, not knowing how to read or
write, we see at once the value of the
increased advantage of knowledge.
Out of twenty-six barons who signed
their names to the Magu Charta onjy
three wrote their names and twenty
three made their marks. Peers and
nobles of rank were given voice in the
English parliament, even though
they could not read or write, simply
by the plea of the benefit of the acts.
Now after the application of steam to
the improved printing press, intelli
gence of the world's lite, thought and
action are cast abroad within a few
hours of events, and in each house
hold the press more or less molds the
ideas of its people. No longer does
isolation blind with ignorance the
self-centered little hamlet.
The press has meant the enlighten
ment of the many, for the first and
only time in the world's history. The
total number copies of papers issued in
this country in IH9O, including dailies,
weeklies, tri weeklies, semi-weeklies,
monthlies, etc , is estimated at three
oillion, three hundred and sixty-eight
million or fifty-four copies to each in
habitant. What the circulation is now
would indeed bo wonderful to know
as this is a literary epoch in the world's
history. With such an immeasurable
amount of popular intelligence, there
is given the lower classes, the same
htlmulusa* was given the upper classes
in tin) 10th century An energetic de
hire for literature not especlall'/ of Iho
lassie of Shall spell - , Huron, ltnphn« l
<>r An £ do. hut tie literature .findus
try that which is neir.-t the lift, uf
the people.
Travel is Mtother educational Influ
ence. The ancient crusade* vividly
could not it give Kiimpu new unit
are working men. How' true U our
text here: "many shall run to and fro
and knowledge shall be increased."
How different when we saw but a few
years ago, men and women who had
never been outside of their own com
munities, living on their own narrow,
prejudical traditions. "There were
villages in England in the 19th century,
in which the inhabitants incited their
dogs to attack any stranger whose
curiosity led him to visit them." Add
to any man's knowledge and you add
to the world in which he then lives.
Russia has especially realized this in
the education of her peasantry. Now
the little education they have already
obtained has caused no little amount
of rioting, restlessness of mind, in fact
it has incited the Russian authorities
to restrict the advance of education
among the lower classes, in the words
of Count Tolstoi, we find an order to
-fleet, that"gymnasia,higli schools
and universities will henceforth refuse
to receive as pupils the children of do
mestic servants, peasants, etc." But if
such a reaction can take place in Rus
sia, here it cannot. We educate as one
has well said, "our own masters." We
cannot turn bac', ' " iwledge will in
crease Popular wants will be more
aud more in evidence. They will
mold and change by remolding con
stantly. What was good once is no
longer good, it must be better The
multitude of people here in our own
land have tasted of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil and have
become aware of their nakedness.
The masses of the people now will
never be satisfied until their wants are
supplied with the increased fullness of
modern civilization. Public libraries,
schools, art galleries, museums, parks,
newspapers, etc., all have tended to
elevate the"common people"to a level.
The workingman has twice as much
money today in his pocket as his
father, but because he knows ten times
as much, lie wants ten times as much,
the same as the capitalist—and so his
discontent. The circumstances in a
workingman's life are often molded by
conditions under which he works.
There was an age of homespun, where
individual competed with individual.
This was mutual as each knew the other
as a fellow workman.
Then this organization extended by
degrees into a factory made up of many
men, but controlled by one So the
factory became part of a larger system,
the town itself was appropriated by its
manufactuersandsoon until to-day we
find many factories and systems join
together and known of as "a combine."
01 course the mutual relation between
employer and employee was estranged
as the industry grew. Each new stage
lias developed with it a growing ani
mosity, while invention has caused dis
turbed industry and required a more or
less extended readjustment of labor.
Thousands are thrown out of employ
ment but ultimately invention adds
much to this present world machine and
ten thousand find employment. True
those who are thrown out are obliged to
have to learn something new and this
obliges once again apprentiseship. But
where one loses, ten gain, finding easier
w.ork and better wages, after a pre
scribed time. It is just here that the
workingman wishes protection in some
way ;he fears that he will learn someday
that his work, the strength and skill of
his hands have been made useless by
the invention of some new machine.
Combination also tends to attract the
workingman to bigger and brighter ad
vantages. The farmer's price of wheat
is regulated by market, yet his help de
mands better hours and wages. Not
obtaining it they goto the city and
find employment at far better hours
and wages The fact that wheat can
be sent from Chicago to England at a
cheaper price per bushel, than English
farmers can raise it,hascompelled thous
ands of farm-laborers to seek city em
ployment. Everybody, laborer anil cap
italist alike,desires readjustments so as
to benefit himself. It is selfish. The
moral question is seldom advocated in
the interest of all; the good of one
another as brother to brother is not the
sentiment in comparing capital and
labor or labor and capital. The relig
ious view which should over shadow
all, including as it does the moral, is a
mocked standard. St.Paul's exhortation
"to use the things of this world as not
abusing them" seldom receives any con
sideration. Man in the use of this
world'sgoods.yes the world's life itself,
is essentially unchristian and selfish.
But the honest workingman of today
wants work not as a favor but as a riylit.
I Call a man moral and Christian who
; gives a man in dire necessity unjust
i wages reaping the harvest of plenlful
! ness for himself. In the general pros
I perity 200,000 or less reap the harvest,
| all of these simply enormous, and in
j the face of it all workingmen are prac
| tieally standing still, or worse off.
, Hut his wants are increasing with his
I intelligence. Not that he is poorer,
j but for the amount of toil and labor,
in the receipts, there is a great dispar
ity or unoqualness. Says Ssth Low:
, "There seems to bo an absolute im
provement in industrial conditions
hut can we certainly say that this It-is
| been relative?" "That the condition
: of the wot kiiigman in this country has
materially improved isstoutly debated,
i but tin? question whether there lias
been most wonderful material progress
t in gwtnl is not debatable." "A
miner knows,nays Strong, a . > -i >lo„i»;
"thai u carload of eoal fin ho milled,
made r.-uly for in irket, and lotdeJ in
one half tli«• time that it required tea
yi'.iM uxo, hut hi > wa am not doubl
ed 1 Nor do h ill s m i'i tiii' everv
b m ! v oafht to rwwive^nequ ii appor
tionment lui! simply his j.i-t due, an I
this* iuIU nisi* Itcu above want Si's
Mro . -. ' ihi' •mum/I in r tHd of weilth
from I Shut., |s»!» wus j1,7H1,700,n > t
bovci;> rirlt ken, in.t r« . vliig tii.ir
due h ii* • tburetoi*« iuo ouitiot li*ul
111 Ito 660 Amorii'.iut r. in. J mualiv
"Liberty and Union, One and Inseparable." —WEßSTEß.
EMPORIUM, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20,1902.
from |1,000,000 to $20,000,000 respect
tively. If a man worked 547 years and
received SIOOO.OO a day an wages never
taking a day oflfhe would just be worth
what some of our millionarics are worth
without any amount of labor in return
for it. Most of these are like the lilies.
"They toil not neither do they spin."*
Yet it is saidDurliam miners hew coal
in seams one foot ten inches to two
foot thick, lying on their back for hours
thinly clad while the water trickles
down upon them. That such men are
broken down at 50 is not strange Nor
is it strange that 80,000 miners in 1892
struck against a 7k per cent reduction.
Children in New York work 12 hours a
day for §I.OO a week. Women work
ing 12 hours in a sweat shop have been
known to make 52 cents. Yet a fruit!
market,says Eliz.Stuart Phelps, has no I
trouble in filling a sl2f>.oo order for I
choice fruit. In the tenement houses,
says Bishop Huntington, "revelations
have laid bare mutliplied horrors
of its population, where 41 out ol'every
hundred families live in a single room,
and where the poorest pay more rent
than the richest for each cubic foot of
space and air 3819, in New York, died
and were buried in the pauper field too
poor to live or die'decently, while two
banquets costing SIO,OOO and §50,000 re
specttively would have given lood to
all and much in return. What are the
conclusions. Wealth is often a well
earned reward and poverty sometimes
a well deserved penalty,but when once
people have received these by inheri
tance they are generally unlit persons,
in their actions. The one is just as dis
contented with poverty as the rich heir
is with his money. To those poor who
have bsen educated, and agitate a bet
ment as their just due tiiere cannot be
given an indifferent ear. Miseries of all
kinds,even in animalsappeal more ten
derly today to our sensibilities than over
before. Education has made a man look
higher; it is a move upward not down
ward. Life has more possibilities born
with intelligence, and in this struggle,
realization is the goal to bo obtained.
Twice before in modern times has there
been a deep and widespread discontent
on the eve of the Great Reformation,
and an the eve of the French Revolu
tion. One freed from spiritual despot
ism, the other from political despotism;
today we seem to be entering on a
third to the end of enforced economic
despotism.
It is not traveling along christian lines
because man does not act as brother to
brother. Tiiere is no love deep seated
and widespread, but only here and
there social feelings have existed. The
organic efforts of capital and labor
stand as two armies arrayed against
each other. Working man and
capitalist defy the action of one an
other,but Christ standing in their midst
says today as of old, "A new com
mandment I give you that ye love one
another."
E. G. Coleman Resigns.
Mr. E. O. Coleman, of this place, who
has been Secretary of Climax Power
Manufacturing Company ever since the
organization of that Company, lias re
signed his position. Mr. Coleman has
been closely confined for fourteen years
and feels that he should have a rest
from active business cares. He retains
his interest in the Company, which has
been very profitable and will now en
joy the fruits of his labors. Mr. Cole
man, who is very popular with our citi
zens, wiil continue to live in Emporium,
we are pleased to learn.
The Bachelor Girls Club.
The Bachelor Girls Club has been
royally entertained by .Miss Brydo Tag
gart last Thursday evening, by the
Misses McDonald Saturday evening and
by Miss Jettie Wiley Monday evening.
Wo learn that a new member has been
recently welcomed into the C!nb. The
dear creature is a first cousin to an im
portant factor of the Meat Trust and is
popular with all the Bachelor Girls.
At present this fair new member is
I the guest of Miss Nina Bryan.
"Tacky Party."
The C. S C. will give a "Tacky
Party "in the City Hall on Thanksgiving
evening. Admission, adults, 27 cents
and (in costume) 17 cents; children
under 12 years, 17 cents and (in cos
tume) 7 cents. "Promenade" at nine
thirty prompt. A prize will he award
ed the "tackiest" looking lady and the
"tackiest" looking gentleman.
Furniture Vaiv.
I). C. Hayes has purchased and added
to his livery atables the furniture wagon
used by the Mankey Manufacturing
Company. Parties intending to move
will save time and expense by engaging
I >avid to superintend the work and do
it up in short order.
Killed by Car*.
J <l)i> B. Hlellov, a D.iß lis horseman,
was killed at .Yltoon.t, on Sunday, lie
was returning front the west with a car
load of horses and was struck by a de
t te'i.id e i'> lose while leaving the train.
His h 'id was c und <r th« wheels
and or nlied.
Assembly llall.
The Pitlladalphl i and Frio Klr i Brl
g »d« 'if Hen ivo, I' < , h tvn issued In
vitations tor Ih twentieth ball, to
t ik» rn u»tf«4lvinn Kve., NOV.
.Mill Musi by I .-. li!er' Williitmsporl
orchestra.
Emmanuel Church.
Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, No
vember 27th. Morning prayer with
Office and sermon at 10:00 a. m.
Barnby's Anthen "O Lord, How Mani
fold are Thy Works," will be used.
Baptist Church Notes.
Preaching morning and evening by
the pastor, morning subject; "Pente
costal Power;" evening; "Troublesome
Thoughts." Bible school at the close of
morning worship, C. E. Crandell, Supt.
Y. P. S. C. E., 6 p. m., B. Olmsted,
President. Prayer meeting Wednes
day evening 7:30. We are studying
''The Epistle of James." Bring your
Bibles. All welcome.
Check Sharper.
On Nov. Bth a man giving his name
as J. Mendelson, agent for Messrs.
Marks & Strauss, manufacturers of
ladies', misses' and childrens skirts,
New York, called at the store of 11. A.
Zarps & Co., at this place and after dis
playing his samples and taking an order
purchased from Mr. Zarps a ladies coat,
presenting a SSO check in payment.
Mr. Zarps accepted the check, gave the
sharper the change and deposited the
check in bank. Imagine Mr. Zarps'
surprise when the check was returned
marked "forgery." We understrand
this same chap played the same game
upon a Montgomery merchant.
Old Land Mark Burned.
Last Saturday afternoon a house own
ed by J. S. Wiley estate and located
near the homestead, was destroyed by
fire. It was occupied by Mrs. Haskins
and family, who saved the furniture.
It is said that the house was the oldest
in Cameron county and was occupied
many years ago by the late Col. A. 0.
Noyes. A wag at our shoulder says
that the land upon which this house
stood was located by James G. Blaine's
grand father and that he lived there
once. If Francis J. Chadwick were
alive he could tell us all about it and no
doubt would connect it with Peter
Grove and bis indian fights.
They Will Come Home.
John Morris, Esq., for 27 years a resi
dent of this county and employed as
mine boss at Cameron mines arrived in
Emporium yesterday, his first visit in
several years. Mr. Morris is employed
as Supt. of Clearfield and JCush Creek
Coal and Coke Company, at Glen Camp
bell, Pa. Since leaving here Mr. Morris
has been constantly in the mining busi
ness in Pennsylvania and Virginia, at
the same time being a member of the
Pennsylvania Examining Board. He
is well posted on the coal measures of
this county. It is hoped that he may
conclude to remain in Cameron county
and accept his old position at Cameron
mines. We w<?re pleased to meet our
old time friend and greatly enjoyed his
visit to our sanctum, accompanied by
Mr. John Cummings, of this place.
Death of Forrest Garrett.
The remains of Forrest Garrett, who
was struck by Buffalo Express on the
night of Oct. 22d, while going to his
home from this place, whose death oc
cured at the Williamsport Hospital,
Friday, Nov. 14th, were brought here
on Saturday and were taken to the resi
dence of his sister-in-law, Mrs. A. E.
Wheaton on Third street. Funeral ser
vices wereconducted on Sunday by Rev.
O. S. Metzler. The interment was
made at Sizorville. Mr. Garrett's injur
iet were more serious than at first sup
posed and his death was a surprise to
m any. Ho is survived by four children
who with a large circle of friends mourn
his loss. His ago was about 53 years.
The children were all present at the
funeral: Walter, of Texas; Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Phalen, He novo and Earl
and Gertrude, of Gardaau.
Fatal Accident.
L. P. Whalen, who carne to Cameron
from Smethport to work on the stone
work at Cameron railro td bridge mat
with a fatal accident last Thursday
noon. One of the guy ropes on tho der
rick broke causing tha arm of tho der
rick to fall, striking the unfortunate
man on top of his he id, crushing his
1 skull. Dr. Smith was called but tho in
jured man died[{«vithiu a few hours.
His remain* were prepared for burial
by undertaker La Bar and Hhippod to
Smethport, on Friday, whore It is said
a wife rt sides.
Tho Fort AI legally Argus, in speak
lag of deceased, says:".Mr. Whalin
was a member of (lie Hcandivaiiian
Brotherhood of America and was an
I honored m.ruber of the Htoau Mas ins'
and Bricklayers union No 2 J, of t'ii->
i borough, a delegation of win 'i attend
•'d his fuller i at <m Ihportoli Hund iv
lie is survived by one br »"h <r, Jo'ri \
t Whalin, at Wall >•,N« '• Tho r«st of
hi* relatives i.wiidn in Swad »n Che
| young man wa highly r- ■«,«• •( lin th-i
eoinuiuulty where he was known."
The Home Taper.
The local paper should be found in
every home. Children who can be
taught to appreciate the home paper
should not grow up in ignorance. It
is said to be the stepping stone of in
telligence in all those matters not to be
learned in books. Give your children
a foreign paper which contains not one
word about any person, place or thing
which they ever saw or perhaps ever
heard of, how could you except them to
be interested? But let them have the
home paper and read of people whom
they meet and places with which they
are familiar and soon an interest is
awakened which increases with every
weekly arrival of the local paper. Thus
a habit of reading is formed and those
children will read the paper all their
lives and become intelligent men and
women, a credit to their ancestors,
strong in the knowledge of the world as
it is to day.—Ex.
R. Seger's Store Burglarized.
Last Saturday night R Segcr & Com
pany's tailoring establishment, located
opposite Methodist church was burglar
ized and a quanity of custom made
clothing stolen. Chief of Police Frank
Munday investigated the matter and
traced the thief to Cameron, where he
disposed, ro some Itilians, nine pairs
of pants. Policemen Munday recover
ed the pants and returned the same to
Mr. Seger. The thief, who was a negro,
made his escape, but first dressed him
self in a new suit of clothes. A negro
answering the description was arrested
at Buffalo on Tuesday, while in the act
of pawning two suits and an overcoat,
and committed to jail for sixty days.
No doubt it is the same chap.
Collision in Emporium Yard.
Railx-oad people were considerably
stirred up on Tuesday when it became
known that Buffalo Express due here
at 11:50 had collided with a switch en
gine and a freight train a short distance
above the Portage bridge. The parti
culars as near as we can gather them
are as follows: The switch engine was
coming down the hill and when near j
Jackson's the engineer saw that the
Buffalo Express was due within six
minutes and dropped two signal caps.
Arriving at the siding just above the
yard a freight train prevented the
switch engine taking a siding. A flag
man was sent bach to flag the rapidly
approaching passenger train, the engi
neer of which made every effort to stop
the train upon the explosion of the
signal cap but the train was going at
such a rapid rate that the train just slid
into the switch engine, jamming it into
the freight train, wrecking three cars,
smashing the passenger engine and
switch engine. All was excitement
and every one expected to find some
of the passengers killed or fatally in
jured, but while all were more or less
bruised and shaken up none were fatal
ly injured. The following passengers
were injured:
J. C. Gault, Olean, injured on right
arm and abrasion of chin.
J. F. White, Emporium, bruised fore
head.
Mary Tait, Sizarville, left eye bruis
ed.
Kate Tanner, Sizarville, right eye
injured.
Murray Joseph, Olean, bruised fore
head.
Louis I'oppenburg, lip cut and teeth
knocked loose.
The following employees were in
jured:
Newton Douglass, express messenger,
j ankle sprained and muscles bruised.
J. F. Thompson, postal clerk, right
! hip bruised.
J. F. Connelly, conductor, point of
elbow and back injured below right
shoulder.
Ralph Goodman, surpervisor, Olean,
1 elbow and muscles of arms bruised.
S. G Smith, Olean, slightly injured.
J. W. Ostrander, baggage master,
left elbow bruised and sliver in back.
Dr Smith, the company surgeon at
this place, was promptly on the ground
and was kept busy plastering and
fixing ui> the injured. Taking all into
consideration, it was a very fortunate
accident.
It took several hours to clean up the
wreck before the train could come into
the upper depot and return to Buffalo.
I air and Supper.
The ladles of Ht. Marks Church will
hold a fair in the basement of the
Church beginning 'l'm >day evening
Nov. -•"> and continuing until the 29.
Snoper will , fj |
beginning with Wednesday. '''lie
public are i sjiect fully invited.
lots lor Sale.
I Have kiirne d«Htlrable hiiilillllg lots
for *ale at a bargain. 90>tf.
C. J. GIHIMMOt Mil.
TERMS: $2.00 —$1.50 IN ADVANCE.
WEATHER REPORT.
(Forecast byiT. B. Lloyd.)
FRIDAY, Showers.
SATURDAY Showers.
SUNDAY, Fair.
BRIEF riENTION.
Why not prepare now for the winter
by purchasing yonr wearing of N.
Seger. The old reliable clothier.
All constables are now game wardens
and any violations of the game law of
the state should be reported them.
It is a mistake to imagine that all
men stand on equal footing. A lot of
them have had their legs pulled.
There will be a shooting match for
turkeys, ducks and geese at Sizerville,
next Tuesday. All sportsmen are in
vited.
The weather will soon be cold and you
must have cloths that will keep you
warm. N. Seger will fit you out at a
very reasonable figure.
All Smokers smoke the 'W. H.
Mayer" hand made cigar, the best five
cent cigar on the markot. Be sure you
ask for it 24-tf.
We cordially invite all friends of
education to attend our mothers meet
ing at the High School Room, on Fri
day afternoon, at3:3o o'clock. Mothers
don't forget.
The right kind of an ad doesn't have
to have tho position of honor the top
of the column to attract attention. It
is like a house set 011 a hill and cannot
be hid.—Printer's Ink.
With regret we learn of the defeat of
Brother Mullin of the Emporium PRESS
for Member of Assembly by a measley
little plurality of 79. Cameron county
should bo ashamed of herself. But
newspaper men are never appreciated
—until they are dead.—Smethport
Miner.
The oldest tulip popular tree in the
State, which stood in Chester county
near the Goshen meeting house, was
cut dowu the other day. It was 212
years old, and 130 feet high, and it
measured fifty feet from the lowest limb
to the ground. The diameter was (51
inches and it cut up into 9,000 feet of
sawed lumber.—llarrisburg Telegraph.
The man who asserts that the rich are
becoming richer and the poor are be
coming poorer in this country, does not
know what he is talking about, or he is
a demagogue. The official figures show
that aggregate deposits in tho savings
banks of this country have nearly
doubled in seven years. And these de
posits represent the savings of the com
mon people in this wonderful era of
general prosperity.--Ex.
Council Proceedings.
Special meeting, Borough Council,
November 14th, 1902.
Present: Messrs. Balcom, Ilousler,
Schweikart, Nelson, Cummings, Mur
phy, Marshal. Absent: Messrs. How
ard, Straycr.
Resignation of Mr. Ullrich, as engi
neer of Electric light plant accepted.
Moved by Mr. Balcom, seconded by
Mr. Schweikart, that John McDonald,
be elected engineer. Moved by Mr.
Cummings, seconded by Mr. Murphy,
that Charles Cummings be elected engi
neer. Vote taken, and Charles Cum
mings declared duly elected.
VETO MESSAGE.
Returned without my approval, for
the reason that Charles Cummings, is
not a mechanic, a machinist, an engi
neer, or an electrician, and does not
even pretend to be.
My duty to tho taxpayers of this bor
ough will not permit me to be a party
to an action that places a SIO,OOO elec
tric light plant, the property of the
borough, in the hands of any man who
is absolutely without any experience
or knowledge whatever, as either an
engineer or an electrician.
We have a first-class plant, doing
good work and giving satisfaction and
I am unalterably opposed to taking any
chances of its injury or destruction by
allowing a man to attempt to run it
who is utterly and completely without
mechanical or electrical knowledge.
The idea that obtains in some quarters*
to the effect that any one can run an
electric light plant, is one that will cost
this borough a pretty sum of money if
It la to becomo prevalent in the Com
mon Council.
Signed:
13. O. UAKDWIXL, Burgess,
Emporium, Pa., Nov. lfi, 1902
Mot Supper.
The ladies of St. M irk's Church Choir
will serve a hot supper next Wednesday
evening, in b iHuiietit of church. ->« p.
per 2S cents Those desiring a good
I meal and a plrasam time should aot
I fail to attend.
Nexi Tuesday the rummage sale imd
pastrj ■ de commence*.
Enforce the Law.
Our "UU' -rs should enforce wore
rigidly the law relative of b: y. 1» , en
thu siUt-walka of the Borough. The
uomptntn'.B ar. ut.uie. %>%ut utul ifaiw
.trrestN were luude and lines imposed
It would put a stop to the nuisance
NO. 39.