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A t=E\V OF THE MEMBERS Or;' UNION No. 75, ORAND RAPIDS, MICH.
LAlWR. DAY, 1896.
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MAGNETISM.
~Y L. S. Brainerd.
Magnetism is the fundamental prin-
ciple of almost every electrical macllillc,
and a thorough knowledge of the laws . a magnetizing force callable of produc.
and theory of it are, therefore, essential
to the education of every electrician.
In 1820 Oersted, a Danish professor,
dlscov:ered that when a wire carrying
an electric current was brought ncar
a magnetic needle, the i3.tter would
tend to place itself ~t right anglcs to
the conductor. From, this he at once
concluded that there must be a relation
between electriCity and magnetism.
Experiments proved that when ·the con-
ductor was wound into a helix, or clJil,
the magnetic effect was greatly In-
creased; also, that if iron was intro-
duced Into this coil, the magnetism was
wonderfully increased. Later this bei-
ence was greatly developed by many ex-
perimenters, eSlleeially by Profs. Henry
and Faraday. The latter proyed in 1831
that by meanl!l of magnetism mechanical
energy could be converted into electri-
. cal energy. thus proving, the well-known
theory of the dynamo, which to-day
. plays so important a part in the world.
The apparatus used by Faraday in prov-
ing this great principle was simply a
piece of soft iron wound with wire in-
sulated with calico and tied :with com-
mon string. ~'he ends of this wire wen.
so arranged·as to touch each other light-
ly. 'Vhen he passed this iron over the
poles of a magnet and struck one pole
1:10 as to separate the ends of the wh'e
slightly, a spark passed between these' ization, from a commercial standpoint.
ends, demonstrating the prescnt'e of a
current. This simply proved the. prin-
ciple that if any change is produced in
- the magnetic field surrounding a wil'~,
8· current of electricity Wllich r('sistii
that ~change Is produced in ,the wire.
In the dynamo of to-day the I.nagnetic
field Is !!tationary, while the conductors
are caused to move so as to cut the
lines of force, thereby generating a po-
tenti1l1 In these wires depending, among
other things, directly upon the strength
of this magnetiC field, which in its tUl'1l
depends largely upon the quality of the
'Iron in the cores. Wrought iron is far
superior to cast iron for all magnetic
purposes, and some kinds of wrought
iron are better 'tIlan others, a sofr.
dense iron generally being tlie best,
The magnetic circuit has its law
which greatly resembles Ohms' law of
the electiic circuit. In the magnetiC
circ.ult the number of lines of force, or
the flux: per unit area is equal to the
magneto motlv~ force divided by the
resistance, or reluctance, as It is
callt:'d. The magneto motive force
is the ampere turns, or the num-
ber of turns of wire multiplied by
the current in amperes,flowing through
them. The number of lines of force peF
square inch which iron is capable of
carrying determines its permeability,
and Is expressed as 1\ numerical co-
efficient. If a current flows through a
coil without an Iron core there will be
a certain number of lines of fOl'ce pro-
duced in air. This intensity of the mag-
netic force in air is symbolized hy tlle
letter H. Now, if un iron core is intro-
duced into the coil the lines of forcc per
square inch will be grcatly increu!;p,l,
owing to the supcI'iol' magnetic qualities
of iron over air. This intensity of mag-
netil!lm in iron is expressed by tbe letter
B, .and t~e permeability is expressed by
the rntio of H to B, arid is symbolized
by the Greek lettel' 1\1. },~or example, a
certain piece of iron, when subjected to
ing in air 320 lines of force per square
inch, was found to be permeated by no
less than 103,590 lines per square inch,
Dh'iding 103,500, or the value of B, by
320, or that of H, gives as the value·
of the permeability 3!!4, or the Permea-
bllity of the iron is 324 times that of
air.
The permeability, however, decreases
as the magnetization is forced lligher,
owing to the fact that all iron ap-
proaches a state of' saturation. Al-
though actual saturation is nevpr
reached, there is a point beyond which
I I I ",,- B
. it is not desirable to push the magnet-
A good plan; and, in fact, the usual
method of stud,ring the ma~netic quali-
ties of h'on is by means of curves, ill
which' the vaitH's of B are represented
011 tlle vertical lines, and those of II on
the llOrizontal. -Fig. 1 gives a set of four
such curves, known as· B and II curyes,
plotted by Prof. Ewing, in which the
properties of soft iron, hard iron, an-
nealed steel... and glass-hard steel are
given. In the softer qualities of iron
the yalue of B rises very suddenly for
small yalues of H, Imt all soon reach a
point where they bend oyer and become
nearly horizontal. Below this knee of
the curve the iron is far from the state
of saturation, but above it. it is for all
practical purposes saturated, and be-
yond this point a "ery great increase in
the value of H produces scarcely any
increase in that of B. In the soft an-
nealed iron this point is reached, when
the value of II is about 320. The prac-
tical limit of B in good wrought iron is
about 125,000 lines per square inch,
wIrile in the best qualities of cast iron
it is only about 70,000 lines pel' square
inch, or, in other words, for a certain
number of lines a. cast Iron core must
be about one and three-quarter times
as large as a wrought iron core,
In designing an electl'O magnct it is,
of course, essential to know tlle mag-
netic properties of the particular kind
of lroll to be usctl: for if l1'on of Inw
pCl'meabiJit~;- is u!;ed a larger core will
l·(! l'equil'('d in order to obtain the rcqlii-
:,<ite nUlllhcr of lines. 01' it must be
wound with a grt'ater number of turns
of wire to force the n.'tlnired number or
lines through it than would haye becn
necessa1'Y ,\"!tll an ircn of higher )wr-
lllN\uility. Therefore, tlle'permeability
lOctober.
of the iron to be used must first bp- de-
termiiled by a test. ..
In the next article we will consider
the various methods of determining
these magnetic qualities and. calculating-
the windings by means of them.·
,,'HY AN ELECTIUC lUOTOR RE-
VOLVES.
(0, L, Barnes on "Electric Locomotives.")
The action of tlle current in producing
rotation in an electric lUotor is quite
simple. The fundamental fact. is the re-
lation between an electric cutTent nnd II.
magnet. If a piece of iron be surround-
ed by a coil through which tlle current
is passed, it becomes a Illa:o:net. In It'ig.
1 the passage of a CW'fent- througll the
coil of wire al'onnd the iron bar in eithcr
direction, renders the iron a. 'magnet,
with all the weU-known properties of a
magnet. It will attract it'on, and tllc
spaee surrounding it becomes magnetic,
Iron filings will al'l'ange themselves in
the direction sllown by the dottNl lin(,>l
in the figure. One end of the mngu<:!t
is a north pole and the other n sOlitli
pole.
If II. wire, such as CD, be mo\"eu past
either pole of the mngllet, there will be
a tendency for cm'rcnt to fiow in tlle
wire either from C to D 01' (I'om D to C.
according to the chamctcr of the pole
past which it is mO\'ed and to the lai-
l'ection of the movement. If tll~ enils
of the wire CD are joinNl hy a conduc-
tor, so there is a cOllll'lete circuit, a car-
rent of electricity will ftow tllroug-ll tile
circuit. This circuit may be either a
simple Wire, as sbown uy till' line CEFD,
or it may be the winlling's on machines
enauling the cnn'ent to produce me-
clinnical work, or it may be electric
lamps producing light. 'rIte e8sential
feature is tllat there sball he a complete
path fl'om C to D for thc current to flow;
no matter how 'complicated that circuit
mny be.
The reason why there is n tendency
for an electric current· to flow in the
wire CD when it is move,'l in the vicin-
ity of a magnet is 1Iot Imowu, There are
several theories, nil more or les's ill-
"oIYed, and dependin,:; upon pUl'e~ as-
sumptions as to the natlll'e of un eie('-
tric cun'ent. For all pmctical pm'poses
FIG, I, PRODUCTIO~ OF CURREXT,
it matters not what the 1'eaS011 is; tl)(
fact tllat cUl'l'ent flows wlien thet'e is n t
t:lectric prcssure in a closeu circuit. 1;
the important thing, :l1ld it seryes :11
useful pm'poses to lwu\'.' th,lt CUl'l'l'Jl'
,toes fiow, nllu that its direction a ll(
amount are nlways the same umler .sir!!
iln r circlllllstn nee!;,
Tlle intenSity of the clectric Pl'l'S:'ol'l'('
01' elcctl'o-lIloti',e force, IlCJlelltl~ H! ",;
the vclocity of l'evolution of the ",'In::
 October.]
and upon tbe strengtb of tbe magnets,r
and tbe quantity of current depends up-
on the electro-motive force and upon the
amount of the resistance in the circuit.
Other thin:;s being equ:ll, the current
tbrough a long small wire, 01' greater re-
sistance, wlll be less than tbl'Ough::t
short thick one, or a less resistance.
Having seen that when a wire is
moved in the '\'"icinity of P. magnet :In
electric pressure is produced which will
cause a curreut to tiow in ::t closed cir-
cuit, one can easily conceive of mauy
ways in whicb a current of electricity
Dlay be generated by combinilll; magnets
and wires so tllat there will IJe a rela-
tiyemotion between them. In order to
mru,e n continuous flow, the relative
FIG" !.-ELEME1'lTARY DYNAMOS.
mqtion must be continuous; and if the
current is to be uniform, the motion
must be uniform"
Two electro-magnets :Ire shown ill
Fig. 2, in which -the nOI·th pole of one
magnet Is nenr Ule south pole of the
other, and the magnetic field between
tbe two lies in approximately stmi~ht
lines between the two magnets, ~IS iudi-
cated by the dotted lines. If the wire
CD be uioved acmss this field anll it s
euds be joined, as by the dotted cir-
cuit CEFD, a curr~ut will flow in this
circuit. The wire CD may be made to
revolve around the wire E F, passing in
fl"Ont of one pole and then in front of
tbe other pole, as in Fig" 3. The current
in the circuit will Ilass in one direction
when tbe wil."e is passing one pole, and
11\ the Qtber direction when it is passing'
the otber pole. The connection between
this elementary nlTa\lg-~'l\ent and the dy-
namo is easily recng:uized. In the UYllll-
mo a ma[;-flt'ti{' lipId is pl"oduced by elec-
tro-magnel;; (;Hncd ""Held poles," and a
('onsidel",ible Ullillbel" of wires similar to
the wire CD are placed upon an U'"llIa-
tUI"e so that ther revoh'e in fl"Ont of the
pole" F.::.ch illdiYillual wire produces
FIG. I.-MAGNET,;:: CURnENT"
em'rent fil"St in one direction and then
in another dil"ection, as explained ahoyc;
but_ If thel"C he many ",h'es there will al-
ways be the same number in fl"Ont of tire
north or positive pole :lUd the salhe IlUllI-
her in fl'ont of the south or lIe:.:ath·e
pole, so that the toLal or resultant ~lction
is pra('ticnlly uniform and llIay be made
to produce a continuons cUlTent. Snch a
machinc is the common dyilallo or wo-
tOl·.
A dynamo tt'ans!orOlS meehnnical into
electricnl encr:.:y, and a motor trans-
forms electrical into mechanicnl energ-y.
The two operntions moe reyersible, and
may he effected in the same machine; a
dynalllo lllar he lll,efl :IS a motor or a
ll!(\ttll' way become n_ dynamo. A ma-
THE ELECTRICAL WORKER.
cbiue is a motor when it is driven by a
current of electricity, and it is a dynamo
when it is driven by llwchanicnl power
aUll produces nn electric cmTeut. If a
DlotOI" ue driren by an cnginc it can de-
liver a CUlTent of electricity which is
able to opemte other motors or electrical
apparatus or lights. A simple form of
electric machine is shown in Fig" 4,
whkh is tile general form of the elec-
tric motor. In this there moe two pro-
jections of steel, Hand G, which al:e
made electro-lIla:;nets by the current go-
ing through the wires wound around
them from nny source of electricity, such
as :t battery at I and J. '.fhese magnets
ha,'e poles facing toward urulll, K, re-
volving on a shaff. Tile poles G anll H
are called the "salient" poles; tbe poles
~l and Pare calleu the '"consequent"
poles. The magnetic flow or field is
:;hown by tile dotted lines. On the peri-
phery of tbe drum are alTanged wires in
the slots shown" As the drum is re-
yol\·ed there will be a tendency tor elec-
tricity to tiow In the wires. In order to
get a current of eleetl"kity from these
wires it is necessary to mal,c :1 complete _
cit"cuit. As each of the win's in the
slots passes in front of a pole a pres-
sure or electro-motive force will be gen-
erated, and its directiou will depeud up-
on ,rhcther the pole is a north or a south
pole.
The pressure of electI"o-Dlotive force
generated in the wires Illo\'ing in front
of the positiye 01' 1I0rth field poles ,viii
be in one dIrection, while those in front
of tbe neg-aih'c or south poles will be in
the opposite directioil" 'l'i1c"ct'ore, if two
such winos be connected together at one
end of the arllla ture, the fn'e terlllinals
of the wire at the other end of tile arm-
ature will ha \"e the SUIII of the electro-
Illoth'e fOl"CeS geuer:tted in the_ two
wires. Tile wires so <."Onnected can be
considered as a turn of a single wire, in--
stead of two separate. wires, and this
turn DIlly be connected in series with
other tlu'us, so that the resulting elec-
tro-moth'e force is the sum of tbat in all
the turns and all the wires so connectetl.
It is customary to conllect the coils of
an armatUl"e so that the eleetro-motiye
fOI'ee given is that obtaillel1 from half
tile colis in series. The other half of thl)
colis is connected in parallel with tIle
first half, so that the CUlTents 1l0wing ill
the two hah'es will unite to giYe a cm"-
rent in the extel·nal· circuit equal to
twice the em'l"ent in the two armatur<.:
circuits or paths.
It is eyiUent that as tile armature re-
volves wires which were in front of the
positiYe pole will pass in front of the
negative pole, and that in ordl'l' to maill-
tain tile electro-motive force it will be
necess:u"y to challgp. the connections
from the armnture winuing- to the ex-
ternal circllit in such a way that all tile
wires between the two poi1lts of conll',"c-
tion will have their electro-lIlotive forces
in the proper direction. The- cOllllection
-to the armature must therefore be maul'
not at fL delinite IJoint in the :ll"lIIature
itself, lIut at a deJinite point with ref-
m"ence to the field lllll!!ncts, so that all
the wires between two 'point,; or contacts
shall alwnJ"s sm;tain the same relation
to the field magnets.
For this purpl'!>e a device known us ::t
"commutator" is proyided. 'rhe COIllIlIll-
tator is IlInlle up of U lllllllber of ;;e~­
ml'nts, :IS shown at A, in Fig. G. which
are connected to the armature winllinb".
3
On the comnlUt:l.tor nre sliding contacts
or brl!shes, which bear 011 the segments
and are joined to an exh'rllal cIt-cuit,
wal;:ing a continuous patll through whiclJ
cm"rent lIlay tio\\'. As the cOlllmutator
re\'olyes, the different seglUents cOllie
undel' _the brushes, so t1wt the relative
position of the armatm-e wires between
tbe brushes is dependent on the posi-
tion of the brusbes. The armature
wires whicll connect the brnsllCs are
those sustaining the desired definite po-
sition to the field magnets, so that tbe-
cUlTcnts from the armature at all times
fiow properly Into the external circuit,
altho\l~h iildividual armature wires car-
ry currents first in one direction and
then in the other direction, depending on
the character of the pole in front of
which they way be moving"
On two-pole machines there are two
brush· holders, each containiug one or
more brushes" On the four-pole machine
thCl'e lllay be either two or four brush
holders, and on a six-pole machine either
two, four or six brush holders.
A single path of the current through
the cowllIutatol' and armature winding
is shown by the a,"rows on I,'ig" 5. The
bl"Ushes B anll C are placed on the top
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M
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FIG" ~.-ELEMENTARY DYNAMOS.
s~de of the commutator to make them
more accessible, and this gives a pecu-
liar but simple fil'mature winding.
For the sake of simplicity, the bat-
teries I and .T, of Fig. 4, are not used on
common forms of generators or motors,
but the curl'ent that flows frOID the
armature tbron~h the cODllllutator is
made to flow throngh the eleetro-llia~­
nets: either in whole or iu part. If all
the armature ClUTt'nt 110ws :1ronnd the
electro-m:lg-nets or fields 01 tile mach inc,
it is .a "series" machine; if on:yn part
of the clUTent is used in this way it is
n "shunt" Dlachinc': that Is, some of the
current is "shunted" throng-h the fields.
'Sometimes both the shuuf and - series
windings are usp.d, and in th:lt case tile
nmchlne Is called II "compound wound"
machine" Such a lIl:lehine has n lar;:e
,,,ire thl"on;..:h which the lila iu currl'llt
}lasses, and a fine wire tlll"ough whi:;h
the shnntetl cm"rent Ilows. Fi;:.;) shows
how the (,OIlllllut:ltor anti tile fields arc
t"onllec-ted, and how the Cl.U-rcut flows
fl'O!H the wires in the UI'llI:1 tlll"e tlll'ougit
the eonullutator in a- series Illilchinc.

If the current dellvered by a dynamo
I connected together. No current flows be-
does not flow In the desired direction, it
! . can be reversed by shifting the wires in
the binding posts or by throwing a
switch. If the motor does not revolve
In the desired direction, it can be made
to do so by reversing the connections to
the armature or fleld-coils; so that, with-
out knowing which way a current of
electricity Is to be generated, any prac-
tical man can make a motor revolve in
a proper direction by simply changing
the connections.
It Is natural that a machine which
gives out electric energy when driven by
an external power, n:1ll, when electric
energy is. deUvered to It, reverse its ac-
tion and give out mechanical power and
do work. This is nQt II. logical reason
why a motor revolves under the intlu-
ence of an electt'ic cUITent, but it is a
natural inference which assists in com-
prehending the fact.
Perhaps the simplest way to explain
the cause of the movement of an elec-
tric mot-or, when supplied with a current,
Is to 'compare the action to the well-
known.attraction of unlike poles or mag-
nets and the repulsion of like poles. Un-
like poles are north and south; like poles
FIG. a.-CONSEQUENT POLE MOTORS.
are two north or two south. In any mo-
tor the currellt tilrough the field causes
a north or south pole to be maintained,
and the current through the armatUl'e
and brushes causes an opposite polarity.
These constantly maintained unlike
poles attract each other and pull the
armature around on its axis.
It has been explainel! that if a motor
be driven by a' belt au electro-motive
fOJ:ce Is produced and the machine acts
as a dynamo. It is also a fact that an
electro-moth'-ef-orce is produced wheth-
er the power for driving' the machine is
obtained from a belt 01' from the elec-
tric current-that is, whether the ma-
chine be driven as a dynamo or as a
motor. In a dynamo, however, the Cllr-
rent flows out In the direction in which
the electro-motive force is acting. In a
motor the electl'o-motive force produccd
has a direction opposed to the direction
of the flow of CUl'l'ent, This may be il-
lustrated by the following expel'iments;
Two similar machines are driven in-
dependently at .GOO l'evolutions and g'ive
an .electro-motlYe force of 100 volts. Sim-
THE ELECTRICAL WORKER.
ilar terminals of the two machines are
tween the machines because the two
pl'essures are the same and are op-
posed in direction. It now the lIeIt be
thrown off from one machine its speed
will begin to fall, This Will lower its
eleCtro:.motive force below that of the
other machine, or dynamo, but will not
change the dir~ction of the force, There
wiii now be a differcnce of pressure in
fa,'or of the machine which is driven,
and it will now send a cUlTent through
the other machine and run it as a motor.
The speed of the motor will continue to
fall until the difference in pressure or
electro-motive force between the two
machines is just suffi~ient to cause the
flow of enough current to keep the mo-
tor running a~alnst whlltever frictional
l'esistance Ilnd othel' resistance there
may be_ The electro-motive force gen-
el'ated in the motor which is against or
counter to that of the cunent in the cir-
cuit, is called the "counter elecu'o-mo-
tive fOl'ce,"
In order to determine how fast a mo-
tor will run without doing work nnde/'
any given pressUl'c, it is not necessary
to know anything about the. dynamo that
fm'nishes the pl'essUl'e, The pressure
alone Is sufficient to determine the speed
of the motor. For instance, if a motor
will give a pressure, of 500 volts when
running free at 100 revolutions, it will
always run at about 100 revolutions
when not doing wm'k on any electric cir-
cuit where the pressUl'e is 500 volts,
This description of a motor or dynamo
carl'i~s with it all of the fundalllental·
the-ory of electl'ical gl'ncl'lItors and mo-
toes that it is necessary for a mechanic
to knoW! in order to take reasonably in-
telligent care of elecu'ic locomotives.
I!'urther useful knowledl!'e must be at-
tained by studying' the different types of
electric motors and dynamos,These
other types all h:tve the same fundumen-
t.'ll theory, even when the constl'liction is
quite different. It has been the aim in
tlevising these electl'ic locomotives to ad-
here as closely as possible to a uniform
type for all sizes, so that when a me-
chanic has once l;-:l'asped the fundamen-
t:.d design of one size he will be fllmiliru'
with the other sizes,
FACTS AND FAN"CIES AnOUT X-RAYS.
The unh'ersal interest uroused by the
announcement last December of 1he dis-
covery of a new kind of rays ha:;;, so
far as the populai' fancy is concerned.
largely subsided. No better evidence of
this fact is at hand than the contents
of the daily press. The papers that were
formerly filled daily with all sorts of
fabulous accounts of what was being
done here and thtre now scarcely men-
tion any wOl'k along that line at all,
But it is since the popular Interest has
suhsided that many of the most iml)Ol't-
ant investi~ations have been carried on,
both in this counu'y and in Europe,
This discovery, like all othel' new dis-
('overies, has brought to the fl'ont a
"faker" sui generis. He pres~nts him-
self in Illany forms, il'om the tellow on
the stl'eet corller with the "X-ray illu-
sion, who, by an in~cnious arnUl.~ement
of mirl'ors, for a small consideration· nl-
lows the spcctator to view his hand
through (around) a brick or a block of
steel, to the quack doctor who goes up
and down the countl·y diagnosticating
: [October.
gout, rheumatism, muscuiar and ·nervous
diseases or curing consumption and
diphtheria by a simple application of the
",Yonderful X-ray,"
A generally prevailing misconceJ)tion
of the funilamental facts that 'haye ·been
ascertained by the investigators 'In Eu-
rope and America enable tllese impostors
to till'ive. A brief statement ht!re ·of a
few of these facts, often presented, but
stiU litHe understood by Veople il!. geu-
eral, may not be amiss. ,;
. 1. The X-rays themselves are invisi-
ble. A screen of especially prepared
substances is necessary to render them
"isible. . .
2. The objects themselves are not seen,
but only their silhouettes or .shadows,
3, The Investigations of the best au-
thorities in both continents haH: shown
repeatedly that the X-rays possess no
more, if,. indeed, as much, germicidal or
curative power as ordinary sunlight
4, That ill general nothing- can be seen
or photographed in the body except t!lC
bones, a few. hard tissues, calcareous de-
posits Ol' foreign subst..'lnces, such as
glnss or metals, All the deeper and
softer parts are invisible.
5, Even tlle hopes of many of t lie' mo!';t
conservative inyestigators have been fur
more realized, It is not possible to pen-
etrate' by any method ret 'known . the
thicker parts of the bo(ly with sutllciEml
intcnsity to be of any pracHcal import-
ance, The field seems to bave been
quite thoroughly explored, and so fa'r as
any practical al}plications (If the ray are
concerned, we might say it is almost
wholly limited to the location of· fUl'eibn
bodies (glass, lTetals, mincrals, etc.,.
fl"aCtlll'CS and malformations of the
bones in the (lxtremities of the body,
Many phenomena of intercst to the
theoretical physicist prescqt themselves,
but with Oul' present facilities, and as it
now seems, with any that we mny have
the llses above mentioned are tile extf'ut
of its pmcticnl apjllication,-Joseph F.
Smith in "'estern Electrician.
PltESEXT AND 1'1~OSP)';CTIYJ<; ·WORK.
Cleveland, O,-It is authorHativl'ly an·
nounced that the works of the Bmsh Co.
are about to be removed fl'om this city
to Lynn, Mass,
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Jasper, Ind,-The .Taslwr Electri(
Lig-ht Company has been gl'auted a fran·
chise to construct and opem te an clec·
. tric light plant.
St!, Paul, Minn.--·The American Te1e
graph and Telephonc COlllvauy il:~s ap
plied for a long distance telephone fruD
chise in this city and ~Iiuncallolis,
Des Moines, la,-The Harrison Tel. Co
will begin worl{ soon on the construe
tiun of :i. telephone exchan~c in this cit:
for the Mutual Telephone ·Comp:my.
St. Louis, Mo.-Thl'. J{eycs lln<1el
ground conduit bill bas been Sif'l1t'(l b:
the )Iayor, but there al)pe:u·s to be som
hitch yet about puttiug the wires uuum
gl'ound,
Staunton, III.-This eity is building-
n111nicipallighting plaut. Br~':llI &Huu
phl'cy, electrical en;!ill('crs, Turue
Building, St, Louis, llre superintemlill
the construction of the plant.
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Chicago, Ill.-The Chicago Edison Co.
has sold $1,200,000 worth of bonds in
England.
Cripple Creek, Colo.-It is proposed to
constlUct an electric line from this city
to Canon City at a cost of $1,250,000.
Winona, Minn.-The work of con-
structing ,the telephone line between
'Vinona and Rochester, 1\Iinn., has com-
menced.
Meridian, l\Iiss.~·A telephone line con-
necting this city with Livingston, Ala.,
is assured. Kearly all the 'stock has
been subscribed for, and Capt. Gallagher
is preparing to consh'uct the line.
Niles, 1I1ich.-'1'he Uilliland Telephone
Company of this city and the Central
Telephone COlllpany of South Bend, Iud.,
have combincd and will connect a circuit
of Michigan and Indiana cities with tel-
ephones in competition with the Bell Tel.
Co.
Qunkertown, Pa.:-'York is progressing
rapidly on the Quakertown and Easton
Electric Railway. The road will pass
through Richlandtown, Pleasant Valley,
Spl'ingtown and Riegelsville. 'rhe dis-
tance from Quaktertown to Easton is
about seventeen miles.
Chicago, Ill.-The North Chicago Elec-
tric Railway Company will extend its
, lines iu the northwestern sectiou of the
city and has 1iled its bond amI formal
ncc~lltance of the ordinance, recently
sIgned by the Mayor, giving the com-
pany the right to extend its lines~
Helena, Al'li.-The Postal Tel. Co. is
making al't'angements for establishing
au ofiice iu this city. A cable will lie
laid across the )[jssi'sippi Hi,'er within
the nE'.xt kw weeks, and from here lines
'will go out all thl'ough the State and
into Texas and the Indian Territory.
Saginaw, Mich.-The Valley Mutual
Tel. Co., which will operate in thrE'e
cities, Bay City, West Bay City and
Saginaw, l\Uch., is said to be ready to
commence construction. It has secured
the necessary fl'~1Dchise and has sold suf-
ficient stock, and been guaranteed
enough subscribers to assure Its success.
Wo,RIi.lXGlUEN'S BRYAN CLUB OF ST.
LOUIS.
Editor "Electrical Worker:"
The Viorkin:;:men's Bryan Club, which
is a non-partiRan organization, has now
a memhership of O"el' 2,OOU, cow pORed of
nearly as many Uepublicans as Demo-
crats, and meets every Tues.lay eveuin~
at OO! ~Iarl;:et street. In addtion to this
central club, ",m'd clubs have been 01'-
ganizetl in all tile wards in the city. so
that the number of St. Louis working-
'men who have eurolled t11eir names in
Bryan clubs already numher over 2,500,
:llId hundreds are jOining each meeting
night.
Last Saturday night the working-men
of St. Louis held n mass meeting :It the
South Side race track, whleh was ad-
dressed by the Hon. ,rillinm .T. BI'ynll
niter his speech in the Auditoriulll.
There were fully 3~,OOO people present
to greet the next President of the United
THE ELECTRiCAL WORKnrt
St.'ltes, and it is doubtful if In all his
tl'avels he met a more enthusiastic 'au-
dience.
The Cenh'al Bryan Club has issued the
following
ADDRESS
To the lVorklngmen of St. Louis:
Are you in fnvor of l\Iark Hunna,
who bl'oke up the Seamen's Union'/ Who
disorganized the railway unions of Illi-
nois and Ohio? Who disrupted the
Miners' Unions of Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania? 'Vho fonght the il'On moulders' .
organizations of the West? If not, join
us.
Believing that the issues of the present
Presidential campaign, so far as they
etIect workingmen, can best be present-
ed to you by YOUl' fellow-workmen, and
,,,III be better nllpreciated by yon in a
short, concise form, we give our own
reasons for supporting 'Yilliam J. Bry-
an for President of the United States.
I.-THI~ FIXA~CIAL QUESTION.
The leading Issue is the money ques·
tion. BI'yan advocates free coinage of
silver.
Silver was demonetized in 1873
through bribel'y of Congress by Wall
street and English bankers.
"The Bankers' )lagazine" of August,
1873, published the notice that EnglislJ
bankel's had contributed $iiOO,OUO to
send Banker Ernest Seyd to America.
In the "Congressional Uecord" April
0, 1872 (p. 2,3(4) is reported that the
committee of Congress on Miut nnl1
Coinage had suilmitted the bill demonet-
izing silver to Banker EI'nest Seyd, who
had altered it to suit himself and other
Enl,dish bankers.
F'nrther than this, Congressman Gil-
bert Dc La Maetyr testified that he had
seen the original dmft of the bill de-
monetizing siiYer, and that it was in the
hanuwritiug of Banl,ct· El'llest Seyd.
These are facts easilJ' verified.
Do you suppose 1i:lfglish bankers sent
a $500,000 slush fund into this country
for the benefit of working people? Or
do you believe it was a bribe to Con-
gress for the benefit of English bond-
holders and theil' Wall stl'eet agents?
Following the demonetization of silYer
came the evils of a restricted rll'JIletary
circulation. business failure;;:, dosing of
factories, idle workmen anJ reduced
wages, culminating in the great railroad
strike of 1877.
It is claimed by the gold standard peo-
ple that under free COinage silver mine
owners nnd foreign silver owners will
dump a lot of silYer into the country's
mints worth G3 cents and have it coined
into 100 cents.
If this were entirely trne, so much the
better. There is no snch thing as in-
tel'llational mOfiey; they would have to
sllend their silver dollar~ here to make
the difference, and this would bring' a
I:I·e.'ltet· demand for' the American f'lrm-
Cl'S' and mechanics' prollncts, open up
factories now closed and gh'e wot'k to
thousands now idle.
The American workingm:ln does not
spend his vacation in Europe, and
American money is good enough for
him,
Speculntors could not gamble in
money with fI'ee coinage of silver amI
gold flS they do now in gold alone.
A yote for free silYer is a vote against
foreign banlwl's and 'VaH stt'eet- Shy-
locks.
n.-INCOME TAX.
Thollsands of so-called capitalists are
professional Shylocks; their money is
invested to escape taxation; it is never
invested in any· legitimate business; it
gives employment to no workingman;
it benefits none but the owners, causes
stagnation in business, closes factories
:wd mines and Is a curse to the com-
mon people. '£he income tax law was
created that this class of blood-suckers
should pay their proportionate share of
the public expense. The law' was de-
clared unconstitutional by the Supreme
Cow·t, through influence of monopolists,
and the question is now befol'e the peo-
ple-the highest tribunal of the land.
A. vote for I!. graded income tax is a.
vote against plutocracy.
11l.-NATlONAL BASKS.
The national banks of this c,ountry
form a huge combined money monopoly,
using the credit of the country to plun-
del' the masses. It bribes our Congl'ess,
debauches our State Legislatures, and
rules or 11lins the business community at
its pleasure. The farmer cannot move
his crops, the mechanic caunot be em-
ployed, except upon terms that national
bankers dictate. Within its sacred pre-
cincts, under the sanction of your la ws,
nre concocted schemes of wholesale rob-
bel'y that woult! land a private individu-
al in the penitentiary. It has hitherto
uefied any and every law enacted, and is
now daily violnting the usury law of
e,-ery State. It has become a rendezvous
for the worst criminals in the world-
those criminals who hold a perpetual li-
cense to leg-ally 1'01> The people. It fos-
ters and fattens mOllopoiies, trusts and
combines.
A vote against the national banking
system is a vote against monopoly.
William J. Bryan, candldate for Pi'esi-
dent of the (.lnited States, has an-
nounced himself ell theSe three ques··
tions as fllvoring the free COinage of
silver, in favor of an income tax law,
aud against the national banki!lg sys-
tem.
The above arc cardinal principles
fought for uy workingmen who wish to
better their condition. Therefore, set-
ting aside, for the time being, all dif-
ferences of party affiliation, we organ-
ized the "'orkingmen's Bryan Club of
St. LOllis, pledging ourselves to vote for
Willi.1m J. Bryan for President, that.
tl1(,se principles may be gained, tbat the
pioJto..;rats and mOlley Shylocks may bEl
f'.)i'ceu to takE: their hands from
tile throats of the workingmen,
eense strangling .industries; that
our factories, workshops and mines
may be opened up, an era of
prosperity to all; that mechanics and la-
borers may not be forced to tramp the
countl'y ill search of work, or starve in
a land of nlentv: that irHe plutocrats
may no longer revel in luxury at onr ex-
pense and gild their vices with wealth
wrung fl"om the sweat of the wage
slave's face.
Are you with us?
If so, attend ow' meetings every Tues-
day night, ut No. 004 Market stt'eet (Mu-
sicians' Headqnarters), or send your
name and address to the Corresponding
S\~cI·etary.
Remember, membership costs nothing
but what you are willing and able to
contrihute.
K 1". GHEYSOX, COI'resp(,ndlng Sec-
retary, G147 Columbia avenue

OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE
NATIONAL BROTHERHOOD Of ELECTRICAL
WORKERS.
PUBLISHED MONTHLY.
J. T. KELLY, Publisher and Editor,
904 Olive Street, ~t. Louis, Mo.
IEIiTIUtCD AT THE po ...orf'ICEo AT ST. LOUIS. 110 •• "S
aECOND-CLA • • MATTER.
EXECUTIVE BOARD.
H; W. SHERMAN, GRAND PRESIDENT,
1 Bau.,r Plac." Roch.,sler, N. Y.
J. T. KELLY, GRAND SECRETARY,
904 Oliv., Str.,.,t, St. Louis, Mo.
JOHN HISSERICH, GRAND TREASURER,
4OZ7 Cottag., Avenue. St. Louis, Mo.
F.J.ROTH,
1041l'arallel St"""t, Atchison, Kas.
, J. H. MALONEY,
Care Western Union :reI. Co., Laredo, Tex.
P. H. WISSINGER,
'141 W. Fayette Street, Baltimore, Md.
,~. COLvIN,
ZS8 Lincoln Street, Allston, Mass.
A. F. IRWIN,
425 Geaty Street, San Francisco, Cal.
aU_SCIIIPTION, $1.00 PER YE'(R IN
,AS'THE ELECTRICAL WORKER reaches the men
who do the work and' recommend or order the
material, its value ,as an ,advertising medium can
be readily appreciat.,d.
St. Louis, Mo., October, 1896.
W. N. GATES, - SPECIAL ADVERTISING AGENT,
Z9 Euclid Avenue, CLEVELAND, OHIO.
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The telegraphers' strike on the Cana-
dian-Pacific has ended in a compi'omise
iu which, 'however, the, men, have wou
the main point'they \yel'e contending for
-recognition.
The Van Buren street (Chicago) push
of labor skates are working quite a con-
fidellee game on l\fark Hanna. Billy
Pomeroy will get his roll before election
day, and the fact that he will not be able
to deliver the goods will not bother him.
New York City has more horse-car
lines ,at present thall all the other cUies
in the United States corubilled. The city
has probably been so busy dictatillg the
til;.:mcial policy of the United States that
it has not had time to improve its own
street railway services. After the elec-
tion in No\'embei', howevel', it will be
relieved from its position as finallcial
dictuter, nnd call look ufter horne im-
provement.
AU the labor pupet's pulJIished in the
United States, with one or two excep-
tions, Ut'e fot' Bl'yan ant! free siivei', and
tmdes unionists feel the same wuy al-
most to a man. '1'0 a certain extent the
presellt c.'llnpaign is a light hetweell or-
ganized capital and organized lahor, and
THE ELEcTRICAL WORKE;R.
is so regarded by the entire press of the
country. If Mark 'Hanna wins in this
electioll, after his treatment of orgall-
ized labor; if the trnsts, syndicates' and
money sharks will be successful, it will
almost be useless for organized labor or
the reformed forces of this country to
ever again attempt to improve our con-
dition through the ballot.
One of our press secretaries accuses
the editor of expressillg his political
opinion in the "'Yorker," Party politics
, have always been excluded from the col-
Ullms of the "'Vorker." This does not,
however., exclude the discussioll of eco-
llomic subjects, for it a labor paper call-
llOt discuss any of the great ecollomic
questions of the day simply because po-
litical parties have taken a stand on Olle
side or the other, it is about time to dis-
contillue the publication of such a paper.
Our correspolldent would have us pass
resolutions advocating certain measures
or refol'ms, but just as soon as some
party adopts those measures ill its plat-
form, OUl' lips must be sealed and we
canllot advocate them allY longer, be-
cause forsooth it would be party politics.
Is it by followillg such a course that the
English Trades Ullionists have secured
the passage of so many favomble lawsJ
Ne:lrly every trade oi'gallization in the
United I:)tates has' gOlle Oll record in fa-
vor of free coinage ,of silver. The
AOVANCE.
American Federation of Labor has' so
expressed itself in three cOllvelltions-
Chicago, Dellver and New York. "'Ve
favor the free and ulllimited coinage of
silver at the ratio of 1(; to 1."
'I'his question was laid before one of
the great political parties, only to I>e
rejected. The other gi'eat party having
'torn loose from 'Vall street, ana the
political boses, carne out squlll'ely in fa-
vor of the free. coinage of silver, and
we canllot consistelltly see how we call
now refraill from lJdvocatillg that which
our orgallization alld all other organiza-
tions, as well as all the I.'Teat statesmen
of our coulltry have advocated in the·
past, when there is a chance to put in
force that which we have by resolutions
advocated for years.
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There are responsible positions in
every city which our members could se-
cure if better qualified. 'J.'hey have the
pl'actical kllowledge llecessary, but lack
ill general educatioll alld technical
kllowledge of their ti·ade. City electri-
cialls m'e being appoillted iu differellt
cities, yet very rarely from the ranks of,
OUl" members, simply because they are
llOt qualified or at least this lack of
qualification is used against them. The
educatioll needed to qualify a large num-
ber of our members for responsible and
lucl"ative pOSitions call easily be acquired
by a. course of horne study at a very
small expellse. ThCl'e are a number of
good schools that give illstruction by
mail, and among them the COl'l'espond-
enee School of Technolvgy, Cleveland,
0., tak(;s high rank. This I5chool offers
special inducements to members of our
organization, which, wi11 be fm'nished on
application, and also makes the follow-
ing propositiC'n:
To Lodges of the Brotherhood:
'Ve offer a course of six lectures, one
each month, commencing in November,
1S96, for $24, for each lodge, for the eu-
tire course, provided a sufficient llumber
[October.
of lodges agree to take the cours~ ttl
warrant the expense of lJre)larin~ samt!.
Each lecture to be mailed on l'cce)J>t of
$4.
The lecture consists of I!! to 16 pages
of typewrittell mattei' and dirigra.llls,
The subjects to be those especially inter"
esting to you-such as wiring c~lcula­
tions, plans, rules, etc., and to be illus-
trated by many examples. Whoever you
might appoint as lecturer would read
the lecture [llid put tlie exu.liiples on the
blackboard. Each lectm'c would take
about one hOUl' to delivCl', and the, e'l1-
suing discussion wonld occupy pro~ably
from one hom' upwards.
If you desire such a series of lectures
please write us promptly. ' ,
THE CORRESPONDENC1~ SCHOOL.
OF 'l'ECHNOLOGY,
Cleveland, 0, '
WHAT .WILL THE, HARVEST HE.?
The present is llO ordinary, political
campaigll, in which the sucl:'css of, the
ticket meallS the placillg in power ont'
of two parties with llO l\1ore essential
difference than there is between tweedle-
durn and tweedle-dee. 'For years the
great masses of the people have been
dissatisfied with both the old parfies"
alld as a protest against them the Pop-
ulist party came illto e.... istence. 'The
fUlldamenal prillciples of the' Populist
party ha \'e been indorsed by all the
great labor organizations of the' country
in their cOllvelltiolls 01' by a'refel'imdum
\"ote_ The year of gmce 18913 opened ·the
same as previous yt!ars, with little to
eheer the hearts of the working;, people.
The pal·ty in power, through its reIu'e-,
sentati\'es in ottice, had betrayed the'
trust placed in it. It was cOllceded that
the rival party .would ue successful this
year, for since 1872 the party ill power
always suffered defeat at tHe :(ollowfug
election. So it was the Republican' par-'
ty's turn to suck 'the public pap' after
a fast of foul' years. The party met in
com'ention. The result is knowu to all.
A new dictator h,ad arisen in the politi-
cal field. A platform had been prepared
before the cOllvention met. ]~uough of.
colored delegates were bought. t6 secure
its adoption, and the other del€gates, ali
of whom in the past, c\'en the ,chairman
of the conyentioll and the Pre~ideiltinl_
nominee, had raised their'voices ag-ainst
the chief pianl~ of tlie platfol"nl 'adopted,
scrambled ill to the band wagoll, saYe,tlle
noble few from the Far "Ve-st, Who
walked out, and thus the campaign of
1SDU opened. ' , ",
The Democmtic pal'ty lU~t in Chicago.
,The same emissaries from the 'bankers,
trusts,' and syndicates who had eOll-
trolled the St. Louis convention, tried to
control this cOllvention ulso, for in' the
past· the essential planl;:s or both parties
were w~'lttell by the same rua8~~rlJa~dl'
and wIllie the voters shouted to); one 0)'
the other party, the bankers and monop-
olists sat 011 easy seat, kUl)win:l: that .no
matter which side WOIl, their -interests
wei'e protected: They met a surprise
Ilarty, howe,-er, in Chicago they had not
expected. The great 'Vest and South
were there determined for once to deal
the cards. 'l'hey had llrotited by Popn-
iistic teaching during- the past four·
yeal's, and wbile not then preparcd to
go the full limit of the Populist plat,'
form, adopted its most importanfplanks,'
and as ii: a. watchi:ul Providence 'had
 October.J
taken compassion' on the peopie of the
United States, a hero arose in the hour
of need to lead them on to victory.
When the Populhit party met in St.
Louis all tluit it could consistently do
was to indorse the nomination of 'Ym.
J. Bryan, which it did with a cheer that
almost raised tho roof from the audi-
torium hall. The Free Silver party,
which was in sCISsion in St. Louis at tile
same time, also nominated Bryan, so
that he became tlle standard bearer of
three great part.ies or one new party, for
the Democratic pm'ty of the past as rep-
resented by the party in power, has
Joined hands with tlle' Republican party,
whicll shows 'how little difference there
was between those parties in' the past,
while the reform force of the United
States are united in a new Democracy
reprclScnting .}'ouug America,
1.'lIe campaign is drawing to a close,
No 'citizen can rem:lin neutral no more
than he could in 1861. The issues at
stake are just as great now as then, "re
are making history. "'iII a futme Gib-
bons datc the decline of the American
Republic from 18!:J6? It rests with the
Amerlc:tn yoter to say on i'lovember 3,
'I'he capitalists of tho Enst to-day, de-
spise the common people. In their inner
souls they say and feel that the wealthy
should rule, They feel that the vote of
the humble citizen should not be as im-
pOl'tant as their own-that he should, in
faCt, vote as they tell him, 01' not vote
at all., In this campaign they control
the press, the pulpit, and with unlimited
money ,at theh; command expect to bri1.>e,
coerce" or intimidate enougil voters to
control the election, And tilen wlmt"t
It does not requit'e a prophet to answer,
, J. T,K.
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PO'VER "S. REF'OR~[.
In the autobiogT(1pily of the late
Charles Biddle of Philadf>lphia, who was
present when the Declaration of Inde-
, pendence wns read in tile courtyard at
Phlladelpbia, is this interesting state-
ment:
"'I'here were very few respectable peo-
ple present. l\fost of the wealthy citi-
zens of New York and Pililadelphia were
opposed to it,"
If the people of the colonies had waIt-
ed' for the wealthy and powel'flll to de-
clare their independence of Englaud,
they would haye waited until the crucl,
of dOOD!. If the plain people, in defiance
of the abuse, the sllrieks and insults of
the wealthy and powerful, had not
fou:;ht, sacrificed, Imngp.rcd, thirsted
nnd gone naked to win independence
the hnttle of freedom would neT'er haT'e
been fought.
'We refer to this historical fact with
regard to the wealthy people of colonial
days 110t as a, reflection on wealth, but
as ,an, illustratiun of the tight that is
},OW being w:u;etl, ami of cv('ry fight
thnt has, ever belm wag-cd 01' eyer will
be waged in beltnlf of political 1'lI'ol:'ress
and refl'lrm. 1'he people who profit by
the existing- ortll'I', who., enjoy wealth,
power :1nd prh'ilt"g'o under it, invariably
struggle and use their wealth and pow-
er to maintain it. This is the law of na-
ture, and hence is the law of society :llld
politics,
The sharp members of society sbape
pOlitical ends to theh' advallta!!,e, ana'
having- so shaped them, m'e determined
to keep them 80, and denounce al\ wllO
try to cll:wge them as disturbers and
THE ELECTRICAL \VORKER.
revolutionists. TlIey use the name of
lil.Jerty and justice to oppose both,
'I'lwse powerful elements are pedect-
ly willing that the forms of equality and
justice shu\1 exist after they al'e adopted,
as long as tl.J.ey J..ta\'e tile sul.Jstance of
power and PI'Otit, They ;Ire willing that
all shall po~sess the inalienable right to
the lJursuit of haPlJiness, as 10llg as they
hog the happiness.
But, as sumeone has said, "the right to
pursue happiness implies the right to
catch up with it now and then," Pros-
pet'ity, wllich means social happilless,
lias got out of reach of the plain people
of this countl.'y and the political move-
ment led by BI'yan means that they
are determined to catch up with it,-St,
Louis Republic,
ADVICE TO PRESS SECRETARIES,
'I would like to ask No. G1 through the
""'orker" if it is sti11 in existence, I
see their UaUip. enroUed on pnge 15 of
the "Worker," so I tako it for granted
they m'e still a\iYe, but we are not no-
tified to tIt.lt effect by their press secre-
hu'y,
BI'others of No. GI, at your next meet-
ing kindly call yow' press secretary oyer
and pinch him a few times to see if he
is alh-e, If you tind lie sti11 breathes,
pla(;;e a sIteet of paper 1.>efore him, place
a pen in lIis hand, a bottle of ink on his
desk and alSk him if he wi11 do his duty
by writing a few lines to tIte "'Yorker"
to I('t the brothers know that No. Gl is
still in the ring.
I haye repeatedly tried to hear from
some of the members of No, Ul, having
written twice to Bro, "'oodis and tlll'ee
times to Bro, Tubmun without receivinl:'
an answer from either. It seems to me
fit election of officers the brothers should
try and elect someone for press secre-
tal'y who would do his duty, A press
secretary is an important officer, as I
know the boys all lik..e to heal' what is
going on throughout the country, as weU
as improving our joul'l1al and lllnking it
interesting to read, If the press secre-
tary neglects his duty let some member
of his union' wI'ite to the "Journal" once
a month. 'l'hel'e are unions that al'e sel-
dom or neyer repI'esented in the "Jom'-
na1." "'hy thus'! Pick up courage; let
liS hear from you if only a few lines,
,Ve will be glad to see your union repre-
sented, anyway,
in conclusion, I will say without enter-
ing into a diseussion on politics, cast
your votes soliuly for "'. J, BI'yan for
President of the United States, Think
ot the past, then pause a moment, and
think of the future, What ,vill it be if
McKinley or any g-oll1bug is elected?
With best wishes for No. GI, I will close.
A. l\IcF ARLANE,
Chicago, Ill.
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A. 'V, Kingsley, a lineman in the em-
ploy of the Home (N, y,) Electric Light
Cimpany, was instantly killed on ~ep­
tember Ii, wllile handling :1 li\'e wil'e,
He had been eng.lged in connectillg a
residence with the circuit, thel'e being
no current Otl, A little nftel' 3 o'clock it
'terrifiC stonu came up, and he sought
shelter, After 1he storl11 II ad passed, he
went nt his worl, again. In the mean-
time the clllTent had heen turned on at
the power hou~e, and when Kingsley un-
dertook to cut the wij'o to lllak.e the con-
nection, he dropped dead in bis tracks.
7
,A DESERVED TRIBUTJ.:.
The fo\1owing from the Philadeiphia
"Leu"cl''' is a deserveu t"ibute to a mud-
est, e';rnest toiler in the field of tele~ra­
pity:
By awal'lling one of Its important
prizes to Patt'ick B. Delany fOl' lIis sys-
tem of high-speed ,telegraphy, the Franl~­
lin Institute has given that invention 3n
indorsement that carries contidence with
it, for the institute is composed of men
of high attainments and sCl'llpulous in-
tegrity. It dol'S not bestow its favors
lightly, and before awal'ding such a
prize as the Elliot Cresson Gold :Medal,
these scientitic experts must be satis-
fied that th~ inyention is practical and
useful. It foHows, then, that in the
judgment of men who ought to know,
Mr, Delany has given to the world a
method by which from 1,000 to 2,ooU
words a minute may be telegraphed.
::lhould the gOT'el'llment adopt it, the
question of postal telegraphy would Oe
greatly simplified, if not soh-ed. If, on
the other hand, one or all of the great
telegmph companies should adopt it anu
begin transmitting cOl'l'esponuence at i\
cost low enough to induc:c the people to
use til is method largely, the effect on the
postal service would 'he ,"el'Y serious, a:5
"lqumo.Id AIUO aql UA\OP lll;> PlnoA~ It
branch of the ser\'ic!)-,tile leHer lUail.
The Amalgamated "·00d-"'or1;.e1',;" In-
tel'lltliion,ll Union bas placed the Quincy
Showcase 'Works on the unfair list, and
c:111s attention to this in a recent circu-
lar.
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The American Federation of Labor has
issued a call for a convention of mu-
sicians to meet in Indianapolis ou Octo-
ber 19, to form a national union under
the banner of the American F<>ueratioll
of Labor.
Ou January 1, 189G, the totui mile:lge
of steam railroads In the United States
was 1i9,821, and the mileage of street
railways 15,9;)6. 'I'he total capitalization
of the steam l'~i)l'o:tds Is about ~5,lS0,-
000,000 in stoN;S, and $5,600,000,000 in
bonds, and of ti,e street railw:1Ys $828,-
000,000 in stock and $5:!5,000,OOO in
bonds.
The boycott against the Detroit ~.tove
'Vorli's has been removed, the company
haYing come to a satisfactory settle-
ment with the polishers and mounters,
reinstating all the old hands and lettin~
the new lllen go. Jewel stoves and
ran~es are tile leading brands made by
this company, and they are now plaeed
on the fail' list.
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The Unit!):} Gut'ment 'Workers of
America recolllmend the,fo\1owing firms
to the patronage of all who desit'e to
purchase union overalls and cheap pants:
Sweet, Orr & ,Co" Newburgh, N, Y.
Hamilton, Cal'hartt & Co" 'Detroit,
:\!ich,
C, B, Cones & Son ~ffg, Co" ID(lianap'
olis, Ind.
The Grove Mfg, Co" Oshkosh, Mich,
H S, Peters, Dovel', N, J,
Piel'son & Son, ~04 East Fortr-thil'!l
street, New York.
The abo\'e firms place the union labC'1
on all goods manufactured by them"

FROM OUR UNIONS.
UNION NO.1, ST. LOUIS, MO.
St. Louis is decidedly in the swim.
There has been more good union 'work
done in the past month than eyer be-
tore. The electrical workers have done
their share. The trouble that has ex-
isted heretofore to an alarming extent,
. of stubbornness and' petty jealousy,
secms to be giving way to reason and
debate, not as it was, rule or ruin. By
this harmoni.ous action, the work as-
Signed to committees; has been effectu-
ally assisted. Although not accepted as
the paramount union, we l1ave had Lo-
cal Union No.1 recognized as a body
of mechanics that employers think to
their advantage to choose from, and so
far no complaints haye reached us of
any of the boys not giving satisfaction.
I have a "kick" to register against the
editor of the "Electrical Worker." I
claim that as editor he has no privilege
to use the editorial columns to express
his political opinion, but must confine
himself to the organizations that have
established and' are keeping it, up as
their official joul~a1. If a desire arises
.to express himself for any party, he can
do so in the coI'respondence columns,
and not editorially. There are members
who belong to both sides of the politi-
cal question, and as this is-II. free coun-
try, have the same rights. Our editor
has 'oyerstepped his bounds, but must
not be condemned for his fervor. I,
for <me, think he sincerely believes
every word he' has published is for the
good of the order, and in his zeal he
has overdone it. 'Ve are union men,
congregated to assist and protect each
other in a business way, and each have
a voice in the manner of procedure.
As I am on record as a kicker, I wiLl
again let loose and this time it is to
caution the brothers against one Rob-
ert G. Smith, who came to St. Louis
and under pretense of hnving once been
a member of the N. B. E. 'V. of A.he
succeeded in getting into the good
graces ot Bro. E. T. Moore of No.1,
from whom he stole five dollars. Also,
took one dollar from :lDother brother,
:who was kind enough to tell him
(Smith) to go to his (the brother's)
. pocket and take one of two half-dollar
pieces that were there.' He. did not stop
there, but defrauded the lady he was
boarding with out of a gold watch and
seventy-five cents. '.rhe lady asked him
(Smith) ,to forward the watch to her
sister and gaye fifty cents to pay
charges. Said Robert G. Smith re-
turned shortly after leaYing with the
watch and reported the charges as sev-
enty-five cents. Thereupon the lady
. ga~e the additional twenty-five cents.
Such characters should be crowded off
the earth. They do the craft more
harm than a person would think at first
glance. Therefore, brothers, brand him
(Robert G. Smith), if ever you meet ...im
\ and impress upon his mind that honesty
Is the best policy.
Labor Day of 1800 will be long re-
membered by all who were in St. Louis.
Anyone not knowing the great extent
of territory covel'cd by the city and
seeing the number of men in the scp-
arate parades would think tbat .none of
the male population lIut the aged and
amicted were at home. The Trades and
THE ELEcTRiCA-L WORKER.
Labor Union had a large turn out. The
banners flying, designating the several
cI'afts, were numerous, and when min-
gled with Old Glory, was a most charm-
ing sight, and one that tended to cre-
ate great enthusiasm. The picnic was
a success and ran well into the night.
The Building Trades Council, as a
body, had no parade, but the tin, sheet
iron and cornice workers, plasterers
and electrical workers resolved to show
themselves, and did so in good style.
'I'he tinners were decked out in tin hats
and canes, with here and there a lad
carrying a miniature tool box and sol-
dering pot. The bunner, being lUade of
tin, was, decidedly the work of an ar-
tist, and blended well with a number
of other smaller displilYs. The plas-
terers dressed in dark suits with brown
hats were a very attractive body of
men, and numbered pretty well up in
three figures. 'I'heir bunner siding up
with Old Glory attracte9 many com-
ments which were very fayorable.
The Electrical 'Vol'kers, with Bro.
Chas. De)Iarr as marshal, Bro. S. Ches-
ter, assistant marshal, and one hundred
strong, were not far behind the best
of them. As to attractiveness, they
took the cake. Quite a number of the
young ladies on the route lost their
hearts to some particular member of the
Electrical 'Yorkers, and if mutters cul-
minate as indications are now, there
will be a number of weddings for the
old bachelors to shake their feet at and
afterwal'ds go to theh' lonely quarters
and bemoan theil' misfortunes.
Everything at the picnic went off as
smoothly as if it had been oiled. There
was notlling that could displease the
most fastidious, and everyone retired
well pleased with their day's sport. H.
'V. Steinbiss, secI'etary of Building
Trades Council, was the busiest wan
on the grounds, and the success of the
-undertaking is O.\ving to a great extent
to his efforts.
The month past has been one of mis-
fortune to a few of the brothers. Bro.
Walter Canning, who took out bis trav-
eling card some time ago and hied him·
self to New York, where he was to have
had a permanent job, but owing to the
union's fee of $25 being too much for
his depleted exchequer was returning,
and when a little below Nashville,
Tenn., was going from one coach of
the train to another as the train ran
onto a curve. The lurch threw Bro.
Canning to the ground, and when picked
up it was found that his skull had been
fractured and two ribs broken, which
penetrated his lung. The railroad sur-
geon tl'epanned his head and set the
rihs, fearing that his injuries were fa-
tal, but at last accounts Bro. Canning
was doing better than expected, and
had so far recovered as to write a long
letter to his wife, whom he left here
to follow as soon as he earned sufficient
money for the trip. Mrs. Canning was
almost distmcted until the letter ar-
rived. She is much more resigned now.
The accident occ\lh'ed Tuesday, Sep-
tember 15.
Bro. Louis 'Villiams can only kick
with one leg now, but hopes to be able
soon to use both, as ·he Is improving
rapidly from a brol,en leg received
Wednesday, September 16, about 3:30
p. m. ,,'bile worldng at the University
Club, a carpenter very carelessly struck
(October.
the fourteen foot stepladder Bro. Wil-
liams was on, and knocked him 01I,
which made Bro. 'Villiams so angry
that he jumped on his broken limb anil
dl"Ove the bone through the tle»h. We
hope to see Bro. ,,'jlJiams nt. the meet-
ings again soon. The club menlbers arc
very much worked up o'l"er the manner
of the accident.
.The saddest of all is yet to come.
Bro. J. C. Myers of Kenosha, 'Vis., but
a membel' of No.1, while wOl'kiugfor
the East St. Louis Electric Ligllt C()m-
pany, was ordel'ed to 1'l'pll.ir a wire on
Main street, between :Broad way and
Railroad avenue, about u p; w. Satur-
day, September 19, and by some means
received a shock 'which threw him from
the p01e, causing hillI to fall to the cin-
der walk, about twenty-eight feet, strik-
ing on the left side of his head, from
whicb he died in about twenty minutes.
The Electl'ic Light Company did their
duty, inasmuch as they had the body
pl"Ollerly taken care of, and telegraphed
to the relatives, receiving an answer
fl"Om Kenosha, '''is., that the brother-
in-law would be duwn to take charge
of the body. A number of the brothers
of No. 1 Yisited the remains and' ex-
pressed a willingness to 0.0 all they
could, but the relatin!s needed no11 eli),
but expressed themseh-es well· pleased
.to see such fraternal feeling existing.
. Everything points to the admntuge
of organization and the llossibility of
needing assistance; we Cllllnot say h,?w
soon au accident may happen. .As we
all know, 'thel'e ar,e many every diy,
and who knuws but he. wuy be the
next. Therefore, brothers, keep your
dues paid Ull and attend the meeting,;
that you lllay add to the general oiscus-
sion your own opinion. ,,Also be in bell-
efit if misfortune overtake~ you.
'I'he Committee on Realling Room
have secuI'ed the quarters ft>rmel'lyoc-
cupied by the Building Trades l)uuncil,
Room No. 14, 218 North Eighth street,
and secured prices on chairs :llld fur-
nishings. Now, shOlild any of tbe
brothers dl"ift into St. Louis, they will
be able to find some of the boys around
the l'oom, and emilloyers will find a
board with names and addresses of the
unemployed, and call make theil' pick.
Hoping to see the day that there witl
be no capable electrical worker outside
of the N., B. E. "T. of A., and a-lways
ready to do my utmost to furtller the
object of organizi:"o. labor, I remaiu' the
same old kicker,
W. S. PEEBLES, Press Secretai"Y~
UNION NO. G,SAN l~RANCISCO, CAL.
''Sixteen to One and Bryan" is -the
watchword with a great waIn' of the
boys. They seem to think t-Ilere is a
scarcity of silver, and I believe they
would li\;;e to have somC', thinking·, per-
haps, Mr. Bryan would, by his election,
show them an easier road to prosperity
than by climbing poles. ~rhere are nlso a
few of us who think ~-[cKinley aJld
sound money, with protection, will give
us a chance to climb {lo1es and earll
good hard 100-cent doHnl"s, and ·since
soft sih-er and llard g-olll is tlle question
at present, news not ;;old is at a pre-
. mium, so your humble sen'ant, the Pres~
Secretary, considt'rs ilis pOSition serioll~,
as the brothers haye scanned the pages
of the two last "Workel's" vel'Y .closely
 6ctober.J
and tailed to .fi.nd any news from No.6,
so something has to be done.
Well, Brothers Hush and Manning
have beeil camping over in l.\Iill Valley,
about twenty miles from Frisco, and a
.lovelier place for a month's ,acation
than Mill Valley is cannot be found in
California. And as those popular brotn-
ers ha,eLocal No. U very much at heart
and care more for the society of its melU-
bers than others, they concluaed to make
an·angements for a pI·ivate picnic for the
members of No.6. 'rhe invitation was
tendered at the first regula.r meeting in
AUb'11st and was accepted, and a commit-
tee was appointed to notify the member!"
what Sunday it should take place. 1'he
brothers, with the assistance 01' Brother
Gray (who, by the way, is constable of
the Valley), went to work and erected a
dancing platform, crected tents for the
accommodation of the members' fami-
lies, and furnished a band of music, and
everything being re(uly, the comruittee
was ordered to notify the members to
come over ~unday, ~eptelllber Uth, and
If convenient, bring lunch. 'Vell, it was
a surprise, the way they turned out,
'I'hey all stayed at home except six. The
reason why was never explained. The
day was lovely, but perhaps, the uay be-
(ore being the fifth, the explanation lllay
be foimd ill that; but those who uid go
enjoyed themselves anu danced with the
10v~ly girls of the valley until we nearly
missed the lnst boat for.home.
Sunday, September 13(h, the Knights
of the Hed Branch heW a picnic at ~hell­
moulld Park, Bem·kley. Some of the
members wcnt ovel· to see James Cam-
eron, the challlpion cliwuer of the Pa-
cific Coast, as well as champion tug-of-
war man of the Coast, take part in a.
great international tug of war between
the Knights of the Hell Branch aud the
Spring Valley Wate\"\\'orks of ~an I~ran­
cisco. Brother Cameron was anchor
man for the Knights, who defeated the
Spring Valley in BU seconds. The prize
was :I. haM-banel of beer,
Brothel' Bentley conte:,;ted in the fat
men's foot race, and came in thil·d, Too
tat. - mansions on ey-ery side, with from two
. No. G can boast of more aU-round ath-
letes in every profession than any other
10C<11 In the countl·y, We have two of
the greatest reel dancers this side of the
ltocky ]!,fountains-BI·others Bentley anu
Cameron. They inYClltcll and patenteil
by thcmselvcs a dance, It is naIfied
"Tim I"linnigan," and held in great es-
. teem by ·all lincmen.
que of our new membel's, ·Brother
Hhys, set a splendid example for No.6.
He got loncsome, and in his sorrow his
mincl wandered back to those cold win-
ter nights, and a repetition stared him
in the face, He laid tile matter before
his swectheart; she agrced he was right,
and now the two m·e one. We wish them
luck.
Brothel' Barnhardt is back to worl;:
again. lie was eight weeks on tile sick
list, but is now ail right,
a gang for thc Phone came in frolU
the country the otll('r day, 'l'hey expect
to go out in a few days,
On a phonc pole on Buchanan street,
yon could observe a Ulan working with
a fen:>rish haste to COllllllete his t.lsk,
and as his lllassiYe fOl"lH swung frOB)
CI·OSS-lll"lil to CI·oss-m·m thc pole tremuled
under his mighty weight. The hom· was
;) ll. Ill. The lUan was Atwood.
One of li'dsco's oid lincnlCn came bad;:
TltIt ELItCTRICAL WORKER.
from Oregon the other day, where he
has been on a prospecting tour of the
gold nlines, His name is Joe Clink. He
has clinkers on his face.
Brother Slone has been laid up with
blood poison in both hands for two
months. Just got well and went to work
the other day. 'l'he second day, coming
down a pole, he sprained his ankle, He
has hard luck, He says this is an un-
lucky year. Hc is a new member and not
entitled to sick benefit, We hope hi,;
luck will change soon.
A. C. JOHNSON,
Press Secretary,
UNION NO.9, CHICAGO, ILL.
As this will be the last edition of the
"'Vorker" until after the election, it is
Jl(x:e,,:':llry to impress on your minds the
power that there is left with you in the
ballot, which you should never fail to
use, as it is a sacI·ed right, and aU law-
abiding citizens should not fall to take
ad vantage of it, and Yote fOI· his inter-
ests, and should all laborers do thi!':, we
will declare a second Independence for
ourselves and thereby the nation, If,
on the other hand, the money power is
allowed to win, we will be compelled
some time to declarc our independence
otherwise thnn through the ballot, nnd
at the same time have great difficulty
in making an existence until- that time
shall haye arrived. Brothers, this is
the most important election since 1800,
as this fight is 110t sectional, uut is with
the whole people. The class of pcople
who have handled the Government af-
fairs fOI' the last twenty-five years have
drifted so far from the people that pro-
duce everything, that it is nearly im-
possible to make a bare liYing, much
less save 01' lay up anything for the
future, Under the cond.ition of things
. at the present time, a man with a posi-
tion is lIOt more than a mile from being
a tramp, as there are about one-half of
our men out of employment, and this
holds tmc of aU tradcs, while you can
look around in evel-Y city and see great
to six cal"l"iages -of every description
standing around, with coachmen
dl·essed up like monl;:eys, and yeu ask
who liY-es thel'e. Oh, that man, you say,
is worth two 01' four millions of dol-
lars. Did you ever stop to think what
a sum a million was, and how long it
would take to earll it? Well, If you
should happen to get lj:5,000 a year and
worked for that slim for just 200 years
and say-ed it all, you would have just
onc Ulillion dollars. John Sherman has
been in Congress fOl'ty years at a salary
of $5,000, pel' year, except the time he
was in thc Cabinet, for which he re-
eeh'ed $8,000, and he is quoted at $12,-
000,000. Just think of it. Class legisla-
tion lind thievery only made it ll()ssible
to do this . . Now, who did these people
rob when they robbed the Govern-
ment. They surely robbed thc lahor-
el'S of the nation, for labor produces
all wealth. Now, when you have a
chance to bettt>r YOUl· condition and
. make it impossible for a man or set of
. men to accUlnnlate sueh SUIllS, for your
own sake :and humanity at large, Yote
fOl' 'V. J., HI·yan, and Jet Americans rule
Amel·ica.
I trust tbnt all the Electrical 'Yorkers
thr(mghout the luud have studied this
question, and I hope that ali will cast
9
their ,ote as all Americans should, for
their own country and for their own
people, and thereby in 1896 emancipate
the white slaves_ C, D. HATT.
UNION NO, 17, DETROIT, l\IICH.
The members of No, 17 congratulate
Bro. J. T. Kelly, our editor, on the im-
proved style and for.m of the last jour-
nal. The columns under the head of
"Present and Prospective Work" are a
splendid feature, as a traveling brother
will know the best part of the country
to head for. The electrical subjects are
very instructive, and in the editorial de-
partment we are all given some good
advice. I hope all brothers will heed it.
We consider the "Electrical 'Vorker" a
"splendid trade journal"; may its shud-
ow never grow less.
Labor Day was celebrated here in
gl'eat style, 'I'he brothers were out in
force. 'Ve had two tine 11oats, each
drawn by fOUl' hOl"!~es, and fixed up
with polelil, wh'es, lamps, telephones,
and, in fact, almost evcrything in the
electrical business, and, although we
did not get til·st prize, still the judges
and tbe dally press ull gay-e us honor-
able mention. Both the Committees on
Parade and Amusement in OUl' ullion
are to be congl'utulaTed 1)21 the wny they
conducted atIairs_
'.rhe special games for prizes ul/(ler
the auspices of No. 17 were too DUlllei'-
ous to mention sepurately here, so I will
simply give thc names of the prize win-
ners, some of whom WflU three or four
prizes apiece: F. Campbell, '.r. Forbcs,
D, l\IcKay, D, Confuc, J, n. Fm·ues, 1',
Armst!'('ng, G, Harrison, C, Lupwol'th,
G. Beamer and T. "'orden, all good
union men and true,
Bro_ Hclll'Y IIntt 01' Philadelphia was
at our meeting, antI ga,e· us a speech,
and some advice, which he il': well nble
to do, as he has been all o,er this great
country and has come in contact with
every kInd of people. Bro, Jamcs Run-
klc and Heury Hatt went to Ohio hi
September on business, but are now
back with us again, .
In l\iellloriam.
Whereas, Our eRteemed and worthy
bl'other, Bert Henry bas been removed
f,.'om our ranl.s hy the will of tile ;\'£ost
High, and that whilst we bow .,in hum-
ble submission to the will of Him who
doeth all thing-s well, we do not the less
mOUl'n the loss of our beloved brother,
and with great sorrow It becomes our
duty to record his death; therefore, be it
Resolvcd, That wc extend to his rela-
tives our heartfelt sympathy in this the
hour of their affliction; be it fUrther
Resolved, That a copy of these reso-
lutions be sent to his relatives; also a
copy be spread upon our minutes, and
sent to our official journal for publica-
tion, and that our charter be draped in
ruourning for thirty days.
G. H, BEAMER.
GEO. E, HARRlSO~,
PH IN A RlISTltOXG,
Committee.
We were mnch pleased with the let-
ter last month from the pen of Bm. C .
D. Hatt of No.9 on the sih'er question ..
lIe handled it wcll, and as thi;. will be
the last journal before election, I would
call attention to another great issue in
the silver platform and favol"(,o by Mr.
BI'yan-the income tax law, Tee tax",:-
to-day are levied on the poor, out of all
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proportion to what they are on the rich,
and if it lieeps on we will haye condi-
tions here like in France when the aris-
tocracy ruled with a rod of iron, and
fiercely fought attempts to make them
pay taxes on their great fortunes. The
common people bore the burden. Now,
see ·what OU1· aristocracy did in this
country two years ago, when an attempt
was made to have them pay an income
tax. 'I'hey fougbt the In.w bitterly and
brought such pressure to bear that the
Supreme Court declared the law uncon-
stitutional. Justice, indeed! And now
the burden is growing heavier than
ever on the stooping ,shouldet:s of the
poor. What will be tbe outcome? In
France it ended in·n bloody revolution.
The people rose in their might after be-
ing' gl'G'llnd dow-n -beyond endurance,
and the gutters ran ,red. Will history
r~peat itself in this country? Let us
hope not, and it will not if we elect for
our chicfs men who believe in equal
rights to ll,ll, special privileges to none.
Union men and brothers, don't forget
that ·thefree coinage of. silver at the ra-
tio of 16 to 1 was indorsed by our great
mother, "the American· Federation of
Labor."
And now, all sister locals, No. 17 giyes
you aU a hearty handshake until after
election. !1,r,y tbe best man win.
DAN E. ELLSWORTH,
Press Secretary.
UNION NO. 19, CHICAGO, ILL.
No. 19 has no numerical increase to
rcpo,·t, and 1_ want to know whether it
is McKinley or whetber it is Bryan that
Is doing it. I heard one say the trim-
mers were scared of their jobs, but he
!l'TlQke through his. hat; another, that
we needed better organization, but he
was a cronk; and a third, that a bird in
the hand was ·worth two in the bush,
and :I..wirl:! man did -not throw good
money after bad, and once bit, twice
shy, and a burnt dog dreads the fire,
aIld when we asked him wherefor he
told us what we knew, he replied be-
cause we ajipeared not, as yet, to haye
,.i been told enough.' And so, not to make
him madder, we turned away to say the
poor guy had lost his wits entirely.
Just to think of a fellow clahning that
the character of the previous sen-ice, or
the steadi'ness of the cunent, or the
profit·of the cit·cuit, or the brightness of"
the lights, have anything to· do with
the number of new customers, when
everyone knows that it is l\IcI{lnley
who is going to make the boom for the
workingman and that Bryan would
starve the lot of us in a year, and that
it is Bryan who is going to break the
collar that is strangling the laborer, and
tbat McKinley would pull it in another
hole: So it is no oue ill the world· but
Brvan and McKinley, and I shall a1-
ways admire (from afar) the devotion
,tbat thcse two gentlemen command
from Dlany of our brothers, who, to
break the coll~n· that is· strangling the
laborer of the States, or to get the boom
for the workingman in general, gladly
pay the opportunities of leal'llilll{ their
trades and of holding a job fl'om the
boss.
BI'o. 1\Iallow, our Vice President, was
hurt by the cnrs. but is nhout n;,:'nin.
Our By-In w COlllmittee still repOI'ts
progress, :I.nd fl.·om the number of times
'tHE ELECTRICAL WORKER.
It takes to report, there must be a lot
of it. _ work usually requires.,
Our delegate to the head of the City
Light declares the civil service averse to
its men being "led into politics," and
our charter is to have a frame with a
glass in front.
Where is No. 5's Press Secretary? I
do not think It is right to give me all
the work of inquiring for him. He is
liable to get used to it. Someone else
please ask as well. There are ID:lllY
who would like to hear from our sister
in New York.
DUNCAN PEARCE,
Press Secretary.
UNION NO. 22, OMAHA, NEB.
Our State Fair has come and gone. Al-
though- the exhibits were gooll, the ·Fair
was not the financial success it was
hoped to be. The street illumination
dm'ing Fair week, with thousands of col-
ored incundescent lamps and hundrells
of arc lights, was a credit to the city.
The County Court House was illuminat-
ed with about two hundred incnndcscent
lights, and was decorated with buuting
and hundreds of tlags in Ak-Sar-Ben col-
ors, red, green and yellow, and over the
north entrance hung the· Union coat of
al·ms, ·Illuminated by 150 miniature
lamps, which·' was one of the lllOSt at-
tractive deSigns in the city.· The City
Hall put in about 300' additional lights
this year, making a total of about soo.
'.fhe "Bee" building, Boston Store -and
New York Life put up displays similar
to last year. The Millard Hotel, Nebras·
ka Telephone Company, Continental
Clothing Company and Kiplinger's cigar
store are worthy of mention, as their dis-
plnys were attl·active. A number of the
stores had lights in their show windows
with the Ak·Sar-Ben colors, which had
a pleasing effect.
Our display in the civic and military
parade, September 1st, in which each
Dlember carried 3. cane bearing three
lights of the Ak-Sar-Ben colors, which
were operated by Ii switch, which threw
on the lights alternately,attmcted a great
deal of attention and a good lllany cheel·s
along he line of march. The "'Vorld-
Herald" gave us a great puff, and "Cap-
tain" Caster his due- amount of crl'llit
next morning.
'.fhe Ak-Sar-Ben parade September 3d,
consisting of twenty floats, repi·esenting
gods and goddesses of ancient mythol-
Ol!y, was the finest ever witnessec. in the
city, and did great credit to its l,rornot-
ers, the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben.
'Ve expect that work will be slack in
the city for a time, as the rush for the
Fair is oyer, although we understand the
Nebraslm Tel. Co,. which has a gang
working in 'Yestet·n Iowa at present,
will extend their toll lines in Nebraska,
which, we hope, will make worl( for a
number of men this fall.
Browning, King & Co. are remodeling
theii." store and putting in lights similar
to those In their l:uge Eastern hOllses.
- The Western Union expects to send
out two or three gangs SOlin,
Our members h:n"e worked ni:;hts "nn
Sumlays· ;.:ettiug ready for tbe Fair, mul
are glad it is o\'cr, so thcy can haye
some time for themsch;es.
The boys who win'(} and put up tlJ(!
COlltillelltnl sign desel"\'e special credit
for the time they took in wiring and PUI'-
ting up the sign, as the work was donc
(October.
in a little more than half the .time such
. '
Bro. Caster is improviug and will prob-
ably be able to gQ to work again in :t few
weeks. '
PRESSSEC'Y, NO. 22.
UNION NO. '27, BALTDIORE, :UD..
·We are not suff~ring near so much
with heat in Baltimore as we are with
po\'erty or business depret,sion. It.seems
that everything works wheel Within a
wheel, and the big wheel has stopped
for want of current, necessitating the
stopping of all the rest of them, and tile
big_ wheel is the Political Wug. Tiley
al·e all talking about silver and gold, amI
they· are all advocating iheir personal
profits.' Some are (appa!.'ently) sympa-
thizing with the POOl' workingman, .1
would like to know what has proJl)pted
the rich lUau to interest himself so much
about the poor workingman. Boys, it is
uot you':"'it is your vote and your influ-
ence. I hope the ri:;ht way will be
adopted, and I thiuk work will be more
plentiful fOl' us all.
'Some of om· boys ha,'e left town_ in
search of wOl'k, althoogh they only lost
a few dUl:s. 'I'hey saw no prospects aull
came to a quick decision. what. tbey
would do. 'Ve wish them much success.
The proposed raih'oad trom Baltimore
to Washington seems to be progressing
very slowly, and I thinl~ they llavepost-
poned cOllllJleting it until the spring of
1897. They have been going to erect
poles and string wirt:s so many times,
that we don't pay any attention to such
rumors any more.
CHAS. P. 'I'AYLOR,
Press Secretary.
UNION NO. 34, BROOKLYN, N. Y.
1t has been some time since No. 34
contributed a letter to the "'Vorker," for
reasons that are too numerous to: men-
tion.
'Ve are having very bunt times here
at the prcsent. No. 34 men cannot get ·a
job on theil' car<Js, and if they want to
work they must go to New YOI·k City
aud put up .$2:';.00 and join No.3. This
does not include outside men. Just wbat
we predicted some tillle ago has come to
pass, and No. G has been swallowed up
and devoured by No.3, and Billy Ivory.
can now flap his wings and· crow. This
copld all haYe been avoided had we been
gmnted the privilege of working accord-
ing to our clmrtel', and maintaining our
Local as a mixed union. _
The E. B. can see, their mistake now,
when it is nearly too late to mend the
111~each. I would ad,'ise out-of-town
brothers to keep away from N·ew York
and Bl·ooldyn unless tbey wish to pay
$:!5,OO to No.3 to join.
We had our picnic hm·e on the 27th of
August, anll, while we (Jill Ilot l!;t\'(i :1.
big crowd, we cleared 0\11· expen",('s -all
right, and will haye a few dollars tf) put
in our treasury ,,,lwu we are all settled
fOl' tiel,ets. .
'Ve had a pole-clilllbil1~ contest. . Fll'~t
prize, gold Ulcdal; s('(·olld l)l·ize, 11;1 ir ot'
n.ickel-platcd 8pm's. I"il'st prize won b~·
,V Ill. 11, )lcDonald, tiuw 5'1 secunds;
Chus. Kin:;, second prizl" ·i:iG secollrJ:=:,
There were three :~j-foot sticJ,s plac(;d
100 feet allart, and (,:1ell man had t •.I
)lush 11 button on to)! of earh :llld mOll1lt
Hud leave the pole at least fonr feet :from
tile grollnd,
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Hand-line throwing coni~st came next".
Geo. Schaeffer, til'St prize. sih-er llledal;
'Vm. H. 1\lcDonuld, second prize, nickel
pliers. Shoe rD.ce, Chas. Cheeks, pair of
shoes. No second pl·ize. Qunrter mile
run, won by i'll". Thos. Kelly, p"ize $2.00
In cash.
-We had a .ery good time, and pxpect
our next picnic will be a success finan-
. cially.
We are .ery much pleascd to say t!lilt
we had a .isit fl'om Grund President H.
\V. Sherruan. At one meeting he ga VI!
us the authodty to again become a mixed
LocaL - E. W. LATHA.i\I,
Secretary I.'ro
, Tern.
UNION NO. 35, BOSTON, MASS.
I do not wish to enter into any politi-
cal contro.ersy through the columnR of
the. ··Electrical 'Vol'ker," but it surpriscll
me to heal· some of ollr bl'otbers .ud\·u-
cating the gold standal'd with such ff~r­
vency, when it is plain to be seen that
our most inveterate enemies are enlisr.elj
in that same cause. It seems to be an
act of self-destruction that auy working"
man sbould advocate a cause that hm;
for its chief engineer one of the most
ra~lcal oppressors of labor that could ex-
ist. Who was it that reduced the wa;{I'S
on the great lakes from $4.83 a day -to
$1.25? Who destroyed the Lake ::lea-
men's Union? '''ho wus it thnt stood by
and watched the coal and iron ·miners
and their fumilies star.e? I will an-
Rwer-l\IARI\: HANNA. Who are his
aidl$: Sud! !!tcu as Perry Belmont, J. D.
Rockefeller, and the house of Roths-
chill!s, builders of trusts and monopolies.
. It I could see my way to uphold such a
coterie of workingmen's friends, I do
not think that I eould look a working-
DlaD in the fllce without a blush of
shame.
I have jllSt recei.ed the l'eport of Car-
roll D. 'Vright, and according to Ilis fig-
ures each wage-earner of America pro·
duces wealth to the amount of $1,888 a
year. He-receives in wages $34i, leav-
ing a balance of $1,;)41 to the .1l0nopo-
lists, for surely se,·eral 1lI0nopnlists ap-
propriate this difference between wealth
produced lind wealth paid in wuges.
Now, in my estimation, t;uch figures
must be astounding to the worliingman
who understands them, and then to think
that they wiII be so foolish us to destl'ov
their freedom for the sake of such ralli-
cal capitalists, il nlmost makes one wish
that he had ne\"cr been born. Brothers,
arouse YOUl'seh'es to the situation, aarl
remember that if 'Vm. J. Bryan is de·
• feated, it is a defeat for organized Inbor.
. E. COLVIN,
Fourth Grand Vice President.
SPOI~I-~S FRO)I THE HUB.
'l'he reallers of the "Journul" are con-
villced that No.3;) is without a press
secretary. 'Ve ha\-e a press secretary,
but he don't ))rcI"S worth a cent,- from a
journalistic standpoint. I tnke it for
granted that be is on an Arctic expelh.
tion, with a view of decorating the North
Pole (I)r any otllel' pole witil a. yellow
tinge) a brillinnt white. The knowinj!
ones claim that our ":,:cniul Dnn" is in
Charlestown in the midst of the political
g-ale. which at pI'esent Swcel)~ the Bun-
ker Hill district at a ratio of 16 to 1.
Bro. Colin Chisholm. a de,·oted student
ill :x ray;" has been applying this new
invention on everything with a trace of
THE ELECTRICAL WORKER.
suspicion of containing anything worthy
of experiment. In the COUl":!;e of his ex-
l1austive study, his rays penetrated one
object wortlly of his special attention,
anll as a result Bro. Cl1isholm pays two
boal'd bills, and is com'inced ti!at the
road of the single man is macadamized
witl1 misfortune. 'Ye wish you succpss,
and muy joy be yours.
Labor Day parade in Boston surpassed
all previous records. It is estimated
tlla t fifteen thousand l>articiva tell. It
lll:u'ks an epoch in the histOl'y of union-
ism in the hnll not to be forgotten. This
displuy, the bone und sinew of Boston
and vicinity, was witnest;ed by a Yust
mnltituile, who cheered the pamders us
they wended their way through the yari-
ous streets to the music of fifty bunds
that took part in the grand event. 'Ye
bincerely l!Upe that tilt: pagealltry of the
working forces may prove an ollject les-
son to those who are not of the union
folll to lose no time to apply to their re-
specth·e tmlles uuions and become mem-
bel's of tl1is grand movement, so that in
18U7 our numbel' will be increased f01·ty
per f:ent. Go •. ,,'alcott, .Mayol· Quincy
and other notubles, appeared on the
scene in order to take in the situation,
and expr~ssed their SUllll'ise at the fine
showing made by the different cratts.
All the Boston dailies were in el"idence
the following .mol·ning with praise-
worthy comments on the' massive
strength of the lallor force.
1\11'. Geo. Cameron of the N. E. 'I'. Co.
was no doullt surprised at the showing
made by Locnl ~o. 3a, and would not
follow the example of GOY. 'Valcott or
Muyor l~uincy in congratulations, but at
once evinced a disposition to thin out
our ranks, and as n. ret;ult dit;charged
thl'ee men tile following morning. Cl1ina
is not. the only country in the world that
can boast of producing a cheap labor
"Li Hung Chang." His doctrine of im-
portell material "if cheap" is tuking root
in Boston to an alatming extent. It
woul.! be well for this country if the
Pullmans, the Plants, the Fricks, anll
the Camel'ons, who espouse his cheup
lallor agitation, would emigrate to the
tlowel'y kingllom, as there will be no
room for such curiosities 011 tllis con-
. tinent ill the course of a few years.
'Ye are going to have our annllal dance
cume off eurly in January. 'Ye bope
that all the brothers will take an active
part and mal,e this the grandest event
in our existence as an organization.
LINElIAN.
NOTICE.
'Ve, the ullllcl'signell, wish to bring to
pnulic notice, anll more especially to the
Wonlens of Sing ~ing and Auburn pl'is-
ons, where electricity is used in dcaling
death to IIlm'derer>:, tliat in case of fail-
m'e of the current to do its work, to send
the c-olldclllllell to Bostun, and between
the l'<:I:1t!;wain chair used in clipping
callIe f01' the N. l~. 'l'el. Co. and the iron
11ll1lp IJil>:t>: of the Boston Electric Co.
insta liht llCOIlS death is guamutecd.
KILLEll & CO., Boston.
e~TOX . XO. 3G, SACHA~IEX'i'O, CAL.
I failell to aPllear in lasl month·:;:
",,'url,pl'," it llcing State Fair tiUlC. Hnll
we were all lwpt lll"etty busy. Thillgl!
are not as liYelv in Sacl"HlJlento ns a
lllontl1 ag-o, hut \ve cannot complain, as
pretty nC:l1"ly all the boys are wOl·king.
11
The Pow.:!!" jlcl)ple are doing nothing at
preserit. The Yuba Ditch Compan:r are
cross-al"Jlling for the city business, aull I
g-uess it will be a race to see who gets
the street lighting' for next year,
I hu"'e a ",ery sad accident to report.
Thomas O'Brien, a lineman in tbe em-
ploy of the Sunset 'l'elephone Company,
met death in a tragic manner last week,
being electrocuted by coming in contact
with a live wire. O'Bricll, togHher with
Bws. Erwin and Hornstein, were en-
gagecl in putting in a telephone wire in
tI'e buillling on the northwest corner of
Sf!venth and J sU·eets. O'Brien with
the wire in hand, climbed a tel~pholle
pole on the west side of Se",enth street,
about forty feet north of J stl'eet, to con-
nect with the main wire. Half way up
he deposied the free end of the wire 011
the tin-covered awning which sunounlls
the bulldillg, and, still retaining' the
wire, continued his ascent. 'Whell he
reached the cross arm hl' Ie;! neu ovel' to'
make the connection, awl in doing so
his body rcstell upon a lin~ wire, the
jOint of. which hall not he",.!} IiI'opel"ly ill-
sulatecl. This wire belongs to the Capi-
tal Uas Company, is a vP.t·,· 01.1 one and
is spliced in I>cveml l.lace~: At tllc 'jOi'lf
witn which U'Bl'ien's body ea ....h! ill cull-
tact, fully three-quurters of an illClt o)f
the wh'e protrudes from its wl·apllill;';s.
It was upon' this joint tIlI\t (j'Hricll's
body rested, the be:U"t be In'' uil'Cl"i\-
over tite exposed pOl'Uon of tl1e ';vit·e. A's
lie touched tite jOiIlt, the circuit '\':1:>
cOlllpleted. aud 1,000 YO Its, aitcrnatin;.:
currcnt, passed tll"ough hit; holly, shoe!;,-
inl; him to \lenth. Bru. Erwin. W'10 W~:~;
S[:!UUilig on the a wliing; h(,llea f.h ("}-~ri~j!.
hcarll the latter utter' one pierdll'! C',' v;
and, looking up, saw his f;uruP;I •• loll
clurcmhg the pole in the grip (If de.. "ll.
A tiny lllue flame was pl:lying about the
jOillt, and a second later O'BI'!e:1°t; clG!:h-
ing was ig-nited. En.-in itW::L1l,tt·j 1,)
pull the uui:ul"tuna te l'lnn fr.HI: t'.le r,(.le,
Imt thp. llloment lIe toudl(·'l1 tl;e l:fe!('ss
.ilody, he recei;'cd a seVCl'e: shod:. Imt
tinally succeeded in loosc1\il.J~ !Iis ~ ...ath
gTip anl! laudi)]g him.on II:" awn!l:;;.
O'Brien was a native of Brc)ol;I.l"il, 1\.
Y., nnd 37 years of age. He eawc to
Sac/"amento sevel'al days agoo, and had
just stal·ted to work for the Sunset 'l'ele-
phone Com;):U1~·. ~ollle of tile boys l1ere
say he formerly bdonged to a locnl in
Philadelphin, und if so. we would lil~e
to hear if tiley I;:now 'anything of his
relatiyes, liS he hall no relath'es on the
coast that we kllOW of. R. M.,
Press Secretary.
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UNION NO. 3S, CLEVELAND. 0.
'Yell, I sCllrcely know what to s:lY, hlH
as No. 38 will h:1'-e to he represcn!e,j.
and it is left to me, althongh I thh:l;:
there are brotlJel's in No. 38'\\"1.10 coul<1
till this position much better than I eau.
Cleveland lml"it:d another mnl·tH 011
Sunday, September 27tl1. Thos. 'Evans
was shot by a scab some time ugo at
the Brcwll Hoi.st strii;:e. anll h:ld linl!cred
for months, and at last God saw 'fit to
relieve him of his pain, anll, nltbougl1 it
wns a stormy day, there wm: a '· ..·1·.;·
lar.::-e fuueml. It was estitunted that >'..-
(II)!) union men. with bands, accomp:lIlipt!
the remains to their last resting' l'l:'(·t~.
TIll'n~ is vel".\" little work in Cle\·e':lllG
at pre,,;ent. The Home 'l\·lcphoue (~o. ;"
layin.l! conduit at present. nn!l it is ex-
peeled that they will lJe neediul! H"f'H
noxt slwing, but as they have been I"~'O

years in starting, it is bard to say to
what extent they will Imild.
Bro. Botsford of nO. 1 is in Cleveland
at present.
Ob! about tbat banner-I promised to
let you know. Well, we turned out on
Labor Day and made quite a show, bllt
WI': were not in It. 'Vhy, therl' wt!rt!
unions there that a mllitut·y company
\vould do well to take example ft·um. If
tbere bad been a dU:len banners, they
could have been descn'ingly distributed,
IRA MISNER,
Pt;ess Secretal·Y·
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UNION NO. 40, ST. JOSEPH, !\IO.
Well,' hel'e goes for; a mighty effort.
No. 40 is in good shape;' and all members
are employed at present~ The St. Josepb
I.igbt and 'l'raction Co. has al)()\lt tin-
isbed putting in their new tracks "n Ell-
mond street and Frederick aveuue, au'}
will soon commence to move the trac.k~
between their car sheds and I(ing Park.
Tbese tmcks are at present on the side
of tbe l'oadway, and will be moved to
the cen.ter. The new telephone exclHmge
of the l\iissouri and Kansas Telephone
'Co. is fast nearing completion, aUlI tce
company expects to occupy its neW
puildlng before' cold weathe!'. Bro. , in announcing, has left the bospltal for
8nodgrass is very busy at present. His
specialty is inside wiring !IntI Ulolor
work. Hc is figuring on puttinl;;' in an
isol:ltl'd plant for a business firm in this
.City. Bro. Martin is pushing tbe new
Telepbonc Co. (Harrison) ri:.;ht along,
and is getting a good share of the Im!;!-
ness. Bro. Scott is kceping the 0111 com-
pany (Bell) in good shape, and is evi-
dently onto"his job.
The long-dra \Yn-out contest for t~e Ilo-
sition of City EleCtrician is settled at
last, IIiI'. W. C. Stewart ,having szcUl'ed
the plum. No. 40 did her bcst tv get a
Union mall into the position, but for
reasons given below we failed. About
the first actiOli of Ml', Stewart was a
very pleasing-one to the boys. It was
tbe promotlon~of-Bro. W. E. norton tl)
the' position pf engineer, at a salary ot
$80.00 per month. It is our opinion that
Mr. Stewart could not have found ::t 1'101'e
,capable man for the place. The race tor
City ElecU~ician should be a Il'SSOIl to
the members of No. 40, and every other
eleCtrical Union. The greatp.st dmw-
back for any of om' <"andidates was 'in
their neglected education.
We. recommend the. Correspondence
Scbool of Technology of Clevelat.d, O.
This school offers the opportunity to any
brother to obtain a technical education
at a very sUlall cost. It is a good thing.
Push it along. ' opened, and then every muscle was
'Ve notice in our last "'Vorker" wbere
a brothel' said something about Murl,
HanJ1~ snliling over the election. I"1'om
tbe history of tbe man, it is cX!lctly
wbat he would do, for he always smiles
after gaining a victory over. Union la-
bor. Bl'others, wouldn't.it be nice to see
, Mark Hanna .with a Cabinct portfolio in
• bis hand and a broad smile on his face?
I guess nit. ED McCARTHY,
Pi'ess Sccretary.
UNION NO. 41, PHILADELPHIA, PA.
I will open the switch once more, but
'w"ith a Slight drOll of potential, '\vhich
arises from the fact that ::\0. 41 is not
very busy at present. It seems, for
some reason or other. that the "biz" is
gradually on the decline here. 'You do
~HE ELEC'fRiCAL WORKE:R.
not hear of Rny big work going on' any-
where. Certainly nere and there are
small jobs, which last two' 01' three
weeks, and then comes a layoff for just
as long, and on these "rush" jobs we
are compelled to work beside linemen
and cal'-penters, who call themselves
wiremen, and, in fact, more non-union
men than union men get work on these
jobs, because they offer themselves for
:j;:.l per day. Every week a kick is made
about this, and it is talked over, but no
great effort is made to supprcss it (save
by a few officials of No. 41). Witb what
members we have we could easily pre-
vent this if they would only stick to-
gether more. That is, to say "No," lind
'at the salllc time mean \t.
'Ve added a new light last meeting
nigbt, Bro. Frank P. In:ine heing duly
illi tia ted. ' borne out by eyidencc-Mt'. FaslSett ap-
Bro. 'V. H. Etter of No. 53 paid us' a
visit some time ago, but founa us with
a big debate before the house, conse-
quently we could not devote as much
time to thc visiting brothel' as we would
have liked. But, COllle again, one and
all. 'Ve are 'not likely to have sucb a
serious question soon again.
Bro. Broadhurst, I take great pleasure
Atlantic City, where he will build up
his health, and soon appear among ,us
aga.in. ' proudly carried "Old Glory" before us
Bro. W. Jack 'Marland bas resigned
his position as recol'ding secretary, and
BI·O. E. H. B. Chew as delegate to Build-
ing 'l'radcs Council for reasons best
known to themselves. Bro. Chew was
then electt.'I.l recording secretary, and
Bro. Ed l"l':lnks was elected delegate to
the Building 'l'rades Coqncil, and subse-
qucntly elected vice president of that
council.
I do not wish to say much more about
politics, in yiew' of the fact that I feel
verfectly safe in predicting a big ma-
jority fOI' l\lcKiuley and Hobart, and by
the time you hep.r from No. 41 again
you will all know bow it went.
There goes a good thing. My light is
out. D. S. LOCHER,
Press Secretary.
UNION NO. 45, BUFFALO, N. Y.
Haying missed connection on my last
two letters. I will h'Y and makc 11ll.for
it in this and future communicatiolls.
No. 4& still lives. Herald it to the
world!
On the 9th inst. the Wesrcm Union
and Trolley boys, all members of 45, met
on the Enst Side grounds tu ('n~a:;l' in a
g-ame of baseball. Loud talk nrod high
bets were indulged In until the game
strained and every trick knowu 10 ball
playel's was put into use, both si(le;;
swearing- to win 01' liie in the tr~I1cb, Up
to the eighth inning fortune favorer} the
'Yes tern Union; more bets were made
and more loud talk was hurled at the :11-
most dist;omaged trolleyites. But in an
unlucky moment the \Vcstem UnIon
pitcher fell to the ground, gaspjll~ for
breatll, the bottom having dropped out
of him. Brother John l~ass('tt WllS cho-
sen to succeed him: Loud shout,; rent
the air. "We have tile game! t'Hn~ up!
'Vho can stand before thc lightnin,~ boltA
of this mighty Jo,'e?" roared the West-
ern Union men. But therc's nn cdw to
every yell. and soon tnt:! ball wal; bein~
cbased frOID 'point to point, :U1d the '1'1'01-
leyites cheered faintly at tirst, then, en-
{October.
couraged by the addition to their score,
went to work with a will and kuoclwl}
Mr. Fassett out of the box, winning 1be
game by a score of 7 to 11. ,
Crestfallen, weary and SOL'e, the 'West-
crnites wended their way lo their se,'-
eral humble habitations, ,'vline the: ~ft'ol­
leyites to a man rcmained on the gl'()unli
and partook of the good cheer whieh
they had won, and finally joyfnlly ,'re-
paired to their homes, where, arounll the
evening table, they told their familie:; the
story of their "famous victory."
Tbere is an impression in the minds of
members that BreI' Fassett is a better
orator than a ball player, and, furtbl'r-
lllore, there is a rumor afloat, wbicl! yo\U'
cOl'respondcnt is compelled to take cog-
nizance of and repeat hel'e, that :'1r. FalS-
sett tbi'ew the game. This rU1!10!' is
pearing in a new suit of clothes a few
days a f t e r . ' ,
Labor Day has come and gone, nn,d I
am happy to say that the Electrical
'Vorl,ers were not missed from the grand
parade. One hundred and six men wert:!
ill om; rank!!, and a bettct' sllowin; was
never made by any body of inch in this
city. Our fiag was curried by Brothr.r
Love, who asked for the honor. He' is
the oldest member of our local, 'and' a
veteran of the Civil "'ar, alJd as bl!
no one doubted that, should occasion de-
mand, he would fight again as fiercely
for the 'flag he lo\'es :m well as he did
when his blood was warmer and his step
more elastic.
Our new banner, which, by the way, is
one of the handsomest in tlIe State. was
intrusted to the htmds of Brother ~1ar­
shall. No better hands could have waved
it aloft; no heart truer to thi' principles
of our brotherhood walked beneath or
followed it than this sturdy stalJdard-
bearcr. Long may be live .to wave the
standard of ow' order whenever the foe
a ttucks liS.
'
Last, but not least, is BI'Other Theo-
dore Liesinger, who acted as our Grand
Marshal. Never, since the days of Von
Moltke or Ney, has a marshal shown a
more dignified front or ,marchcd with a
greater soldierly bearing than this gen-
ial brother. His words of command
were cleat'-cut and decisive; his eagle
cye detected the laggard, and woe to him
that lost the step. He is a born generaf,
and should Uncle Sam eyer need.n gen-
eral of a division, 45 will r-ecommelld
him to a man.
"re have been exceedingly fortunate_lUI
to health and accidents. "rehave' but
one member: laitI up, that being Bt'other
'Villiam Hoffman, who fell from a step-
ladder last week and fmcnu'cd his rigllt
leg in two places. Hc is at present able
to get around on crutches, but will not
be able to resume work for some time.
The Niag-arn Falls power line is mov-
ing slowly, but will be completed hy No-
vember 1st, as their contt'ucts call for
the delivery of 1,OOO-borse power on that
date. '
\Vork in tbis city is scarce. yet many
are coming here seeking it, I would ad-
vise the brothers that -it is only spend-
iug' car fare for nothing.
The l,OOO-horse power to be -deUvt:'red
on Novemher 1st will nil he taken bv
the trolley line. By sJlrin~ 'othei' p(l~.'e·r
will be received. and the m:luy('han)!('s
from steam to elcch'lc plants will glvc
work to a large number.
 October.]
I note that Brother Locher, Press Sec-
retary ot the QWll;:er City, winds up his
otherwise interesting letter with a po-
litlcal harangue, which had better been
left: out, and then remarks: '"It Is not
lily intention to get mixl'd up in a politi!
cal discussion." Brother Locher is, not
qualified to -teach the entire Brotherhood
of Electrical 'Yorkers what has caused
tbebard times, or their duties as Ameri-
can citizens 'as good as himself. Wheth-
er the "crown of thorns and cross of
gold" is forgotten, Brother Locher, from
his Republican nest, is not a competent
judge. We have heard of paid emis-
S:lrjes among tl!.e raih'oad br-otherhood.
Is Brother '1~ocher sucking the tcat of
the Republican fund in ·Philadelphia? If
so,he has no space entitled to him in
the '"'Vorker" tor that purpose. 'Vhen
he speaks of Mr. Bryan's "brilliant ora-
tory a,nci taldng figures of speech" he
only pays the same compliment that mil-
lions are doing every week, as they be-
lieve him to be honest and sincere.
It Bl·er Locher wants to enter further
',into the subject in the "'Vorker," we
w!ll give him plenty of it, but not in our
, capacity as Press Secretary.
W. H. KELLY,
Press Secretary.
UNION NO. 66, HOUSTON, TEX.
As I have been elected Press Secretary
of No. 66, I will now endeavor to let the
brothers know that we are still holding
a high hand. '£hings hm-e been runnin~
vcry smoothly Intely, all brothers being
at 'work, but there Is no demand for allY
more men ut present.
The Labor Unions of Houston celebrat-
ed Labor Day in grand style by having
a parade in the morning, and nem·ly all
were represented by a decorated tioat,
and in the evening had a grand picnic
and dance, along with other contests and
prizes, at Forest Park. It was largely
·attended1 and everybody seemed to en-
joy themselves in grand style. No. GG
was represented in the parade with a
suitably decorated float.' On the front
end we had a ))ole with an arc lamp and
hood complete. On the rear end we had
a telephone pole, cross-armed and eyery-
thin~ complete, with an improved long-
distancc telephone on one side, while on
the othel' side was a local telephone. 'Ve
also had incandescent lamps distributed
in suitable places oyer the float, with
.. call bells, motors, fans, ·wire, and many
other articles connected with the elec-
trlcill business. The float was followed
by fourteen electrical workers dressed
in ,miform, wearing' white sweaters and
gray caps, making n very creditable ap-
pearance in the parade.
This being the first. time the Electrical
'Yorkers had ever made a display on La-
!Jor Day, it made a fayorable impression
upon the people. 'Ve wish to return
thanks to snch of the contractOJ:S and
mauagm·s in Houston as were enterpl·is-
ing enough to tUl"llish us with materinl
and :tp)lllmtus needed· for decorating our
. float.
'Ve are SOi·I'Y to say there are some
contmctors in Houston wlto are so blind-
ed by prejudice that they cmmot see
any advantage to thelllseln~s in forward-
ing the endeaYOl·s of their workmen to
make a cretlita ble dislliay of the elec-
trical business. Howe,-er, we are ;;Iad
to note tUllt the Electrical 'Yorkers of
HOllston have attracted the favol·aLle at-
THE ELECTRICAL WORKER.
tent ion of many of the best people' of
the city. The members of No. titi all de-
selTe creclit for the interest they took in
the geneml Labol' Day celeul"tltion.
The mellluers of No. uu are a unit in
the li<upport of fJ·ee silYer. They at·e all
men of intelligence, who read and thinl;:
for themselves, ami fail to see where
prosperity can come to the workin;; peo-
ple tilrough a gold stllndal'd and COll-
tra'-!ted cUrl·ency. I see Texas classed
in some of the gold standnl'd vapers as a
doubtful State. If some of them woulll
send a correspondent hel·e who would
tell the truth about tl1e real sentiments
of the people on the sih'er question, the
ollly thillg that would remain in doubt
would ue whetiler Texas would send her
old-time 100,000 lllajority tor silYt'r ur
make it more. 'l'l1e people of Texas are
alive 011 this subject, alld will lie heard
fI·om in Novemuer.
'Ve were pleased to see Bro. Perry
'Vood with us on Labor Vay. He is an
old member of No. U(j, but is now work-
ing in Galveston, anu transfen·ed his
memuership to No. 71 of that place. Bro.
Paxton, another one of our old members,
who is now manager for the S. 'V. '1'. &
T. Co. at Yocum and Victoria, was o,·er
to see us a few days ago.
W. V. FISK,
Press Secretary.
UNIO~ NO. (li, QUINCY, ILL.
The first thought that strikes us in
looking O\·er the ""'orker" is, "'Vhy are
not more Unions reprcsented~" "'hat's
the matter, Bro. Press Secretaries? ,r)JY
don't. you all say a little, any way? I
often think, in reading' o\"er the letters,
If I could write like some of the Press
Secretaries can, I would gi"e Bro. Kelly
enough items to keep liim up late nig-l1ts
setting tYP0. Some of tl1e Press l5ecre-
taries write like ex-newspaper men, and
know how to exprc.ss their tlJoughts
llluch better than We do. So let's hear
from all.
News Is scarce with me this time, as
I have been unable to leaye the house
on account of rheumatism for about
three weeks. But tl1e boys are very
good about coming in. l50me of tlJem
come every day, which shows a kindly
feelillg.
The other brothers are all working, as
far as I know. Bro. A. B. Otis went to
Clayton to wOl·k. Tl1ey :ire putting in a
light plant. Hope he will get u good job.
He Is a good fellow. Bro. Dasback is
trimming the commercial circuit fOl· the
Empire Light and Power Co., in place of
your humble sen·ant, while laid up for
repairs.
Local Union No. Gi turned out on La-
uor Day and made a good showing. ~'hey
looked fine, with hats, shirts, pants and
belts aiil;:e. Each carded a llobby cane.
and we had a Hne new uanner. BI·O. A. B.
Otis w.as marshal, and aU ·kept in lille
and kept step to a T. All Labor Unions
wm·e out, and made a :.;ood showillg;, the
parade ueing several blocks long. In the
afternoon all went to Balllwln Park amI
enjoyed themselves till a late hour. 'l'berc
was a large crowd and everything went
01'1' smoothly. Bro..Jns. Dolan lool;:s
about till·ee inches taller and six incht's
bigger around since he cnrried our new
b:lllneJ·. It's all ri~bt, Jim; we would
have lil;:ed to have that honor ol1l'sch·es.
C. H. McNE)fEE,
Press Secretary.
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,UNION NO. 69, DALLAS, TEX.
It is with great pleasure to lIle that I
lItH'e the op)Jortunity of informing our
grand ··Joul"IIal" that Dallas hIlS at last
closed the circuit, and is in good fellow-
ship with her brothel· workel·s; and, too
lIluch praise l':lJmot 1:J., glyen to Bro.
Courtlley fOl· tile grand and noule worl,
which lie did, that No. 00 might live and
prosper in Vallas, 'rex. 'Virh Ems. l5.
V. Claibol"llc, president; J. H. Leach, vice
president; l!'. G. l\lontgonwry, recording
secrdary, and G. H. Eagan, financial sec-
l·etary. we expect to ;;row and prosper
as no other local hus in the ::ltate of
Texas. At our last nleeting (we meet
on the first and third Satul"lIIlY), we
added two lIew lig-hts to our cireuit, and
J'l'("eived one a)Jplication. 'Ye now stand
with eighteen as bright lights as Dallas
U1I01·ds, and expect to add many more
before the winter is o,·er.
Bl·O. J. W. !(ane of No. GS dropped
into our city. He found work and will
prouably remain for some time.
Tl1ere is no great amount ot work go-
ing on here, but nearly all of our boys
are tindlug something to do.
Eugene V. Debs gave us a lecture on
September 28, in the City Hull, which
was packed to its utmost. He spoke in
beh::tlf of labor organizatiolls, and the
cul.dition of the mal'ses of our people.
In lllY ophl.ion, he is OU'! of the ablest
wen ow· COUll!l',) affords.
OHAS. TROTTER,
Press Secretary.
UNION NO. 73, SrOKA~ji], WASH.
No. 73 is ready to show hei~ Jig-his
aA'ain. 'Ye iustalll"G tlnotue.!~· new li'g-ht
la-st 1L.<.d illg ui~ilt (Bro, B. C. Cownn),.
who, I tl1ink, will proye a very bright
light..
Bro, l\fcGuirc hus hone to QuiA'ley, ac-
companied by Bro. Youn:~.Bro. McGuire
has cha)":.:"e of 'n constl·uction gang oyer
there. Tj\ey arc building eigllt miles lIt
line for power; ,"cry heavy wires aud·
lots of them, Th.ey expect to be four
months on tIl<.' jou.' Our boys arc all
worldng, and en·ryone jumping side-
wass. 'Vlth slack to pull and the Ii'nlit
Fair to wire for tifty or seventy-five
arcs, aud n,1 1,lJ,,)wing how mlmy inc::tu-
descent lights, tOA'etl1er with something-, •
lil;:e 100 or 150 arcs on the streets for the
occaSion, besides finishing up the fifty
new city arcs we are just gettil1~
throug-h with, the outside men have
enough to do. The inside men- are kept
husy - ou ncw installations and deCOr:l-
tions fOl' the Fair season, and the tele-
phone men m·e installinA' new phones t\l
the extent of their capacity, so yon sec
we haye no I;:ick about work.
Our Ih:ht station Is taxed to a hig-her
dc::ree than it has eyer been hefore. awl
wi·n run to its ~realest capacity this fall
and winter. -We have been installing- :1
lllonocyclic alt{,l·nator this last ye:n·,
with a capacity of 13,000 1(\-candle pow-
el· incandt'scent lamps, and arc cutting'
all the su1:Jurbs onto it, leavill'g the J~fli­
son for the center of the city.
.The c::tllacity of our li~l1t pl:mt hel"~ is
as follows: December 31, IS9:;, ill(·au-
descent, 11,S30 la lllPS, since wllich t it'H'
the incandescent capacity has h0.ell i 11-
creased 3,000 lights. l.'he ar(~s arG a h:ird
lll·oblc,m to fi~Ul'e ont, uut hy the Litll of
October tHere v:ill he allllrOxil1iatelr 40n,
uesicles the pow(~r to rnn :;tro:,et cars ;jll
auont iwcntl llliks or roau twenty win-
 14
utes apart, to the amountt ot 408,582
miles In '95 (and this 'figure has been
greatly increased this year), besides pow-
er to run eight miles ot road tor othcr
companies with cars twenty minutes
apart, so you see we bave no baby plant.
I have. not got the exad horse power of
the plant at hand to-night.
News is scrace, as ~very.one is working
and no time to kick, except Bro. Hensley
Ell, who says he has nev-er received Ii.
"Worker" since he became a brother.
You gave C. Millspaugh credit for being
a brother in your last issue. Please cor-
reet, tor be is·not. T .. T. KILBURY,
~ress SeCl·etary.
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UNION NO. 75, GRAND RAPIDS,
MICH.
Well, boys, as'I was mixed up in the_
dance at Reed's Lake on Labor Day, I
did not get around to write last month,
so thought I would start in early this
month and let you know that No. 75 is
still -alive and prospering. Everything
is quite dull here in our little "Valley
City" at ptesent. - A number of tbe boys
have lett here to seek greener pastures.
A great many of the boys who were dis-
missed from the Citizens' Telephone Co.
are now employed by the Bell people.
Quite a number of the boys are working
.in Muskegon, Mich. They are putting in
a' "four-hundred-subscriber exchange,
Bro. Wade having charge of the pole
gang. He has not forgotten us. He and
his best girl mude us a very pleasant
visit Sunday last. Come again, Billy.
The Dew Citizens' .Telephone Co. have
cut the boys' 'wages down $10 a month.
but I can assure you we are not leaving
'0. stone untur'ned to' get back to our old
smn!1nrd again.
'Ye hud a gay time .J.Jabor Day. There
were a great many "Letter Carriers"
here, from all parts of the United States.
The Electrical Workers, though small in
number,.compared .. ",ith. other organiza-
.tions, brought forth applause when they
came forward, their badges and display
on wagon being the neatest ever seen
here..
Allow me to congratulate our marshal.
Bro. Joe Aldridge. on the magnificent
way he conducted the boys during the
parade.
We were very mu.cb pl('ased with Bro.
Daniel Ellsworth's letter froUl No. 17
last month. Daniel, send us down a bag
Of Pingree potatoes for the winter.
. Bro. McIntyre has left the, employ of
. the Citizens' Company and has taken
charge of the construction work for thc
Valley City Electoral Cable Company.
With his new tower wagon and his little
gang he is tbe proudest man in town.
'We should like yery much to hear
.frpm the boys that nre out of town and
esppcially from our past president, J. C.
Crowley, Jr.
. Since the Citizens' Company bas cut
wages; Bro. Aleck. McLelland has be-
gun to economize, too. I just stepped in
and be sat reading the ev-ening press by
the li~ht of an old; tallow candle. I
said, "Aleck, what's that?" He said.
"That's one candie powel'; the highest
voltage wc can alford this winter."
Let me say for the benefit of all men
who tal;:c an interest jn bl"OtherJy or-
;'::lIlizations, never be too hasty in con-
. demning a membcr. If a mnn does fi
.wrong, do not }:(>cp pllshin:; him down,
but, on the contl"Ul'y, try and help him
THE ELECTRICAL WORKER.
up. Never let a grievance over outside
alfaks intel'fere with your duty. Al-
ways remember the old maxim, Do unto
otllel'S as you wisll to be done by.
DOUBLE NELSON.
"SILVEH." BATT.
When a strike is on,someone will al-
ways say they 4id not go at it right.
The strike of our lives is on now, and
while the iron is hot "strike it." Gen-
eral George Washington, pioneer of tree-
dOD;l in this American nation, had, by
authority of Congress, to banish 15,000
Tories to Nova Scotia after the revolu-
tion, to avoid any further contlict with
them or their artistOCl'Utic ideas on free-
dODl. It General 'Yashington was alive
to-day and could see the international
marringe mart running at full blast at
a naval station (Newport, R. I.), what do
you thinl;: hc would suy? "Banish them,
titlcs, chattels and ~1l. They only serve
as bacteria or disease-breeding . gerllls
against our. institutions." 'I.'he relics of
monarclly, who hav-e not been tl'ans-
formed into full tled:;cd Amcrican citi-
zens, rest heavily on our Eastern shore,
and so belittle our institutions that a
native born scarcely knows whether hc
li\"cs in America or Europe. '1'he Illinois
Lcgislat.ure passed a resolution con-
demning this titled :iristOCl'Ucy mixing
with am' institutions, but that is all the
legislation that has been done. D. O.
Mills, who has a !lon-in-law in New
York (Whitelaw Heid), who downed the
printers in a strike and also downed
Harrison by being Imt on the ticl;:et as
Vice Pl'esidcnt in lSU2, says it is the
same as secession to . declare for free
coinage. He was a war cOl"l'espondent
for Horace Greeley on the "Tl'ibune,"
~nd we ~ill see ho\y near he is right.
The veteran abolitionist, Horace Gree-
ley. in 1808, said: "Rome having ab-
sorbed the then civilized world and hav-
ing, by the introdbction of toleration of
slavery, degraded labor and uiscouraged
industl"inl progress, the working. of
mines ;lIld the discovery of the precious.
metals ncal"ly .ceased, while the luxuri-
ous tastes and the habits of the wealthy
impelled a continual importation of silks
and spices from India and China, which
took but gold and silver in return. The
circulating mcdium . of exchange and
payments being thus insensibly drawn
away and not replaced, the Homan Em-
pire languished under a gnawing dearth
of money, and a steady decline in prices,
as fixed, property constantly depreCiated
in yalue. Hence labor lacked employ-
ment, since few chose to plant or bUild.
Population, wealth and prosperity all
declined under the influence of labor in
shacl.les. A destitute conditinn existcd
till the Fifteenth Century. The discov-
ery of America by Columbus, and the
consequent rapid' and vast increase in
Inoney wrought a great and suduen rev-o-
lution, the energies of the civilized lID-
wonted stimulus, and a return of pros-
perity came."
Don Pedro B. Chisem, whom President
Porfirio Diaz of Mexico, rcgards as one
of his ablest fellow-citizens, lJas lived in
the State of Sonora, Mexico, for thirty-
seven years, though he is a nath-e of
Schenectady, N. Y. He Raid recently:
":Mexico is prosperous, and it is diffi-
cult for one who bas lived there of late
years to listen patiently to those who
denounce the 'Country as one wh.ere
[October.
workingmen are badly off. :Consider
that money -is a commodity and the
staple for excllange. Make' money
scarce and you ma~e mer<:l,1alldlse che;lp;
make money plentiful aiid yOU' establisb
paying prices for merchandisC:-labor
.valuable, wage scale bU9yant,. c~ntent- .
ment sovereign.
"There is no poverty i~ Sonora. Min-
ers there earn $10. a day in gold, which
they hasten to change for $iS in silver.
'Workmen on farDls earn fl'om$3 to $7
a day, it skillful, and own property. The
.Indian or peon' laborer lives in abod.e
.houses, but he is not ambitioUs and.his
hours of labur are only tour a day at
long intervals.
"Our financial system is sound; and the
monetary unit stable. "1'here m'e no pan.- .
ics. Under our financial. system manu-
facturers . enjoy a high degree of im-
munity from foreign competition, and it
makes l\Iexico's wealth. Everybody
there ·has money in his belt. l\Iex:icu
gets along very well without England."
Samuel l\1cCl'acken, for one year '. a
foreman on the Mexican Centl'ui Rail-
road, building telegraph lines, says ·Mex-
ico don't want this country to bavefree
coinage. 'I'hey have tO'o good· a thing of
it themselves, und ,""auld prevent any
more ambitious Americans fronl coming
that way. John Thompson,gruduate of
Lynn, member of No. 1:1, .delegate to Se-
attle cOIl\'ention U. O. L. fr.,oJn Denver,
gets $1()0 a month in )Iexicoand board,
l"I~nning the same gang 'McCracken left.
'He got what the other felloW 'qUit. for,
a raise. Hanson, a man who drew a
$750 check for the month of SelJtember,
'S7, on the Santa Fe Raill"oad, is there
and owns a raih'oad; He dre,,' this
check for construction work for. that
company. Why don't they 'Stay herf.l.
Not money enough {or.ambijiousp·eop,e.
Pl'esident Diaz in l;1 special. m.essage
to a New York paper Sal's: ""'e .never
had in Mexico such prosperous times'as
now, Factories al'e building' and gen-
eral trade is good. Our money ~s not an
intcrnational one, but it is all the better.
It has to lJe spent at home, 'wnere ·~e
benefit by it." . .
Is that not enough fl'omthc' highest
authority in Mexico? . Boss Shepberd,
who transfOl'med "'ashington . from a
l\Iaryland slave mart to the beautiful'
city it now is, lives at a Chiiianna; and
.is in the push or he would not stay there.
HENRY. HATT.
Bryan, O.
Jackson, Tenn., June 27, 1806.
Mcssrs. Hamilton, Carhartt &. Co;:' .
Gentlemen-Your blank order sIieet"tc·
ceived. Although we appt'eciate it as' it
g"rcatly facilitates sending you the prqpcr
Size, it is unneccssary to remind us that
we need your goods, for w.e u[l1!!'ccillte
t11at more eyery day, as there is a con-
stantly increasing demand· for the Gro.--
hurtt brand. Our railroad trade' claim
it is the Quly band of goods, on t11e mar-
ket that gives perfect satisfaction. We
ha\'e now discunled all other makesnnd
will do all in our power to put 'the's\!
. goods whcre they belong,' viz.: On the
pel'Son of every workingman in this eity.
'l'hanking you for "our aS5=istali'ce' iii
advertising these gOO;ls, which we hear
of nearly e"ery day, we beg 'to remain,
Vcry respectfully,
W. P. ROBERTSON &' SONS.
 October.]
Directory of Local Unions.
(Sccreta:ies will please furnish the necessary in-
formation to make this directory complete. Note
that the tilJl~ and I·[ace of meeting, the name of the
President. tbe nameS and add"esses of the Record-
ing and Financial Secretaries are required.)
No. I, St. Lonls, 1'Io.-Mects every Tue_day at
s. e. cor. 21st and Frankliu avenue. F. P. Kinslev.
Pres., lSOI Morgan st.; W. S. Peebles. R. S., 5147
Wells ave.; J. P. Casey, F. S .• 2,02 Spring av.
No. 2.l'IUwankee, \Vis.-l'd=ts Ist-and 3d Sat-
urdays at n. w. cor. 3d and Prairie sts., 3d fioor.
M. j. Q1Iirk, Pres., 117 27th st.; j. W. Peterson, R. S.,
450 9th st.; Geo. Poehlman, F. S .. rH. 2~~ st.
No.3, Den"er, Col.-E. L. Lay,ne, Pres .. 1011
19th 51.; Geo. P. Manning, Sec.,I63J Lawrence st.
No.4, New Orlenns, Ln.-1Ieets 1st and 3d
Tuesdays at Carond.. l"t aud Perdido sts. j. Mc-
Gregor, Pres.,llll Rouss"au st.; C. M. Hale. R. S.,
6.~ st. Mary st.; R. B. joyc". F. S .• 331 S. Bassin st.
No.5, New York City, N. Y.-Meets e\'ery
Thursday at 85 E. 4th st. John F. Bergeu, Pres.,
S28Henry st .. Brooklyn; R. J. Baker, R. S .. 98 Henry
sl .. Brooklyn·; 1\1. E. lJergen, F. S., 515 Henrv sl.,
Brooklyn.
No.6, San F"auelseo, Cal.-Meets 2nd and 4th
W.,dDesdays at Forester's Hall, 20 Eddy st. D.
K.,efe, Pres.,318~ Clemelltilla st.; R. P. Gale. R. S.,
10:» I..arkill 51.; A. F. 1m'ill, F. S .. 425 Gearv st.
No.7, Springfieltl, l\lnss.-!IIeets 1st and 3d
Woodnesdays at room 30, Thealr., Blk. Wm. Gregg,
Frcs., 138 Patton st.; Jos. lIIcGil\Tav, R. S., '190
Che~tn .. t st.; G. 1'. :llcGilvray, F. S., City Hotel.
N". 8, Toledo, O. - Meets every Tuesday at
Fri.,ndship Hall, cor. Jelferson and Summit sts.
P. Crowley, Pres .. 51:! Vauce 5t.; J~s. Burns. R. 5"
1118Broadway; W, Welsh, F. 5., 1907 Cherry st.
No.9, <!bicago, 11l.-!lleds e ...ery Saturday at
18~E. 1I1Adlson st. C. D. Hatt. }'res., 5930 State st.'
L. Christenson, R. S., l(l.l.J S. In'ing ave.; C.
Beach, I'. S .. J91 N. State st.
w:
No. 10, Indianapolis, Illtl.-l\teets 1st and 3rd
Monday at 29}5 W.Pearl st. John lIerry, Pres., care
of headquarters Fire Dept.; E. Bussell', R. 5., 80
'\\? Ohio st.; E. C. Hartung, F.S., Rooms5-7 Cycle·
I rama Bldg.
I No. 1.1, Terl'c Haut", Ind.-1reets 2d and 4th
Tuesdays at 8th and !\lain ~ts. C. D. Updegraff,
I Pr"~., 529S. Ni~th st..; 1\1. Davis, R.S., 918K 9th st.;
W. H. Schaffer, F. S., IH N. Bth st.
I·i No. 12, 1':"ao",1l1e, I"(I.-:.\(,,et every Tuesday
at cor. 3rd and Sycatnore st. Harry .... isher Pres .•
I
ZOO Clal'k st.; A. L. Swanson, R •. S., 1054 Water st;
A. N. Grant, F. S., 20Z Clar~ st.
I No. 1.4, l\lcmphis, Te"". - Chas. E. Rlake.
i PI·CS., 7U Mulberry st.; J. A. !lIyles, Sec., 207 De
Soto st.
No. 15, Phll:l<lelphia, Pa.-11.,ets every Tlles-
day at 711 Spring Garden st. E. G. noyle, Pres .•
Penn. Farmers' Hotel. 3d aud Callowhill sts.; l!:.
Hennessy, R. S., 1518 French st.; Chas.1'. l"ang,
F. S., 8..'9 Race st.
N". 16, Lynn, lUass.-1Ieet at General Elec-
tric Band Room, 9~ South st. Jas. Robson. Pres.,
46 W. Neptune st.; C. W. Perkius. R. 5., 6 Allen's
Court; E. J. Malloy. }o'. S., 86 Cottage st.
No. 17, Dctroit, l\Iich. -Meels 1st aud 3d
Thursdays at Trades Couucil Hnll, 224 Randolph
st. 1'. H. Forbes, Pres .. 11~ 13th st.; F. Campbell,
R. 5.,405 Abbott st.; J. G. Forhes, F. S., 7~5 !lIil-
waukee 8\', 'V.
No. 18, Kaasas Clty.l'lu.-Meets every Friday
at 1015 WalIlut st. C. H. Anaws. Pres., 612 Wall st.;
'T. W. Curpby, R. 5 .. ,16 Delawar., st.; J. H. l.ynn,
F. S., 1632 J elferson st.
No. 1.9, Chicago, IH.-Meets 1st aud 3d Tues-
days at 6512 Coll~::l''' Grove av. F. Conklin, Pres.,
7UZ2 S. Chicago 3\'.; T. J. Prendergast. R. S .. 7119
s. Chicagoav.; J. Drouiu!; F. S., 9~ Anthouy avo
No. 21, '''heeling, 'V. Yn.-Meets 1st and 3d
Tuesdays at Tra.des AsselUbly Hall. H. F; Wyse,
1'r.,5., Box 111; C. I... lillery, R. S., Box ill; W. J.
Clark, F. S., McClure House.
. No. 22, Omaha, Neb. - Meets .,very Friday
at l"abor Temple, .1; Douglas st. J. W. Wallers,
·pp(s.,2?ll Pie,ce 51.; 111. J. ('l1rran, R. 5., 1814 St.
Mary's av.; M. T. Castor, P. 5.,422 S. 18th st.
No. 23, St. 1"",,1, l\Jillll.-1Ieets 2d and ~th Fri·
days at Labor Hall. 3rd aud Wabasha sIS. Jno.
U'Donnell, Pres .• 4th and Wabasha sts.; Thos.
O'Toole. R. S., 333 F. 6th st.; F. Volk, F. S., 175
W. 6th st.
No.2", l'llnnenllOlis, l\linn.-1\leels 1st and
3rd Wednesday6 at 34 and 36 6th sl. S. Goo. Heilig.
Pru:, 18 9th st.; L. R. Sleveus. R. S .• 18 Western
av.; A. Aune, 1;. S .. 3129 I.ougfc:llow a\".
No. 25, ])11lnlh, l\Jilll1.-1Ieet. 2d alld 4th
Thursdays at NOn! 6 Bal1ning' B1k. J. D. Uayes,
Itres .• care of Crowlev Elect. Co.; L. P. Runkle, R.
S .. ·IHE.lst sl. N.; Jis. F. Owens, 1-'. S.,~H E.lst st.
. No. 26, 'Ynsliillgfon, I). C.-Meets every Fri·
day al i;Zi 7th st. N. W. III. O. iipr!ng, Pres .. -liR
Central I'ower Station; S. III. Wilrler, R. S .• 5H Jd
sl. N. W.; R. F. 1Iletzel, F. 5.,50') 11th st. N. W.
rHE ELECTRICAL WORKER.
No. 2'7, Baltimore, Mfl.-Meets every Monday
at Hall. cor. Fayette and Park avs. I'. H. Wissin-
ger, Pres .. in W. Fayette sl.; M. Y. Wright, R. 5.,
1427 Asquith Sl.; F. H. Rllssell, F. S., HOS Asquilh
st.
No.28, Louisville, l{y.-l\Ieets 1st and 3d Tues·
days at Beck Hall. 1st sl. near Jeffersou Cah'in
Beach. Pres .. 1020 W. Market st.; Ed. Herpt, R. S.,
607 Magnolia st.; Jno. C. Deibel, F. S., 418 15th sl.
No. 29, Atlanta, Gn.-!\Ieets .,verv SUllday at
61~ AlaDama st. Geo. Foster, Pres .• "100 Walker
st.; D. J: Kerr, R. S .. 114 Richardson st.; G~o. Ray·
m.,r, F •.S., III Rhodes st. .
No. 30, Cincinnati, O.-1\1eets 1st and 3d Mon-
days at 136 E. Court st. W. Williams. Pr.,s., 605
Broadway; H. C. Genrich. R. S .. .JZO E. 5th st.;
J. F. Harmuth, F. S., ll58 Vernon st., Clifton
Heights.
No. 31, Jersey City, N. J.-l\Ieets 2d and 4th
Thursdays at 116 Newarkav. Thos. Watson. Pres ..
513 Jersey av.; F. J. Anderson, R. S., 73 Sussex st.;
T. I.., Jones, F. S., 36 Wayne st.
No. 32, Paterson, N. J .-Meets 1st aud 3d !\Ion·
days at ~erman Union f!all. J. F. Colvin, Pres.,
963 Madlson.av.; Jos. lIIaner, R. S., 348 Grand st ..
~4tif::;;ilt~~';.~.s,paterson, N. J.; John Kalil', F.S.;
No. 33, Newark, N. J.-Meets every !\Ionday
.,vening at No. 58 Williams st. W. J. Curtis. Pres.,
12 Beach st; J.!\I. Eder, R. S .. ISO Market st.' W.
E. Rosseter, F. S., 175 Sbennan avo ' No. 67, Qnlncy, lll.-D. 11. Mallin.on, Pres.
:r:'0' .3", Brooldyn, N. Y.-l\Ieets 2d and 4th
Fndays at Pelers' Hall, 360 Fulton st. E. W.
Latham, P~es.,151 Gales. av.; G. III. L.,ggelt. R. S.,
281 AdelphI st.; G. C. Pa11le, F. S.,151 liates av.
No. 35, Bo~tOll, l\lass. - Meets 1st and 3d
Wedn.,sdays at Well's !\Iemorial Hall. 987 'Vash-
ington 51. 1\[, Birmingham, Pres .. 69 Dustin st.
Allston; E. Col\'in, R. 5 .. 258 Lincoln st .. Allston;'
R. H. Bradford, F. S .• 6 Temple st.
No. 36, Sacral~~ento, Cal.-Walter Ross, Pres.,
lqJOG st.; R. A.FISk, R. S., 1324 3d st.; Gus.Flan-
nlgan, F. S., 1930 K st.
No. 37, Hartford, Conn.-Meets 1st and 3d
Fridays at Central Uuion I..abor Hall. 11 Central
Row.. III. F. Owells, Pres .. 63 Hawthorne st.; D. F.
CronIn, R. S., 49 Windsor st.; C. E. Dyrne, F. S., 16
John st.
No. 38, Cle"elan(l, O.-:lfe.,ts every Thursday
at Room 10. 158 Superior sl. C. A. }-Inv",;. Pres:,
Lake Shere House; Tom Wheeler. R. 0.. , J7l! Frauk-
lin av.; J.~. Suloff, F. S., 28 Norton st.
No. 39, PI'ovidence, R. I.-Meets 1st and 3d
Moudays at Phcenix lJIdg, 15. Westminster st. H.
B. Kelly, Pr.,s., 19'=;0 Westminster st.; :-'1. I... Carder,
R. S., 40 Wilson st.; G. D. Higgins, F. S., 8 Car-
pent.,r st.
No. "", St. JoseJ.lt, lUo.-Meets every :\Ionday
at north·west corner 8th and Locust sts .. "nrock-
aw's Hall." R. ll. ~lartin, Pres., 1';02 N. 3d st.;
w,,? Dorsel, ¥. S .. li08 Calpoun st; J. C. Schneider,
F. S .. 803 S. ~tb st. , 3<1 Fridays. J. llcGora11. Pres.; Ed. Cannon. R. S.,
No •.U,l'hllndcll.hin, Pa.-lIIeets e"cryThurs-
day at n. e. cor. 8th aud Callowhill sts.; Geo. A.
Neal. Pres.,_3626 Wharton ~t.; E. H. II. Chew, R.
S.,2953 N. 15th st.; W. C. FIsher, F. :i., 28.H Park
avo
No. 42, Utica, N. Y.-IIIeets 2d and 4th 'fues·-
days at room 5, Western Union Bldg. L. S. Ward
Pr.,s., room ~, \\:eslern UII!on Bldg.; E. S. Allen:
R. S., room ~, "estern Ulllon Bldg.; C. Richard·
son. F. S., room 5, W.,stern Union lIIdg.
N'!.. 43, Dayton, O.-J. J. McCarty, Pres., care
of FIfth St. R. R. Co.; I... O. Williams, R. S., 1~35
W. 3d st.; F. n,eWitt, F. s .. 42Q E. 2d st.
No. 44, Uochestcr, N. Y. -- J. C. Guerinot,
Pres .. 120 Campbell st.; H. 'V. Sherman R. S. 1
Bauer pl.; j'red Fish, F. S., 12., State st. ' ,
No. 45, Bllffalo, N. Y.-Meets 1st and 3rd Sat·
urdays at 512 Washington st. ·Frank Hopkius,
Pres .• 81 S~~n st.; J. O'Connell, R. S., 614 Fargo
av.; C. E. StlUSOlI, F. S .. 21 Terrace sl.
No. 46, Rca(ling, Pa.-Lucinn Bownlau Pres.'
Harry Weidner, R. 5., 2Z5 Pearl st.; W. S. H';ffman',
F. S., 109 Peacb st.
No. 48, I~t. ""n,.ne, Ind.-Chas. !\Ioore. Pres.,
10 Clinl,?u st.; 1'. I.yckholtu, R. S., G. B. Taylor,
F. S., 13 Douglas avo .
No. 49, Bloomington, 11I.-Meets 2d and ~th
Mondays at Trades Assembly Hall. C. F. Snvder,
Pres., I1.'?x 101~; W;5=. GOl·er. R. S., 409 S. I..ee st.;
W. F. Wllty, F. S .. ~33 N. JlIalll st.
No. Gl, Scrnnton, Pu ..-Jas. Harding, Pres .. 601
Meridian st.; P. Campbell. R. S .. lZlO Irving av.;
Ruben Robins, F. S., 1223 Hampton st.
Nn. G::, "·ilkcsharre, ra. - 'V; B. Coe, Pres,
HI X. Iti,:er st.; W. F. Barber. R. S .. 415 Wyoming
av., \\t. Pittston. Pa.; B.l'I. Lewis, F. S.,AJuerican
Tel. and Tel. Co.
No. 53, lInrrisbul"J.:', Pn.-C. A. Swager, Pres.,
115)<5 :lIarket st.; Jas. Emminger. R. S., 25 N. 15th
st.; C. Andersou, F. S., ~b Summitt st.
No. 54, l· ... orin, Ill.-l'teets 1st and 3rtl "'ed-
nesdays at 301 !\Iain sl. H. Scheare~. Pre"., 219
'V. Jefferson st.: Barn' DIlUIl, R. 5 .. l..·QS~ l'l.:oria;
L. C. Crawley, F. S., 11~ Washington fit.
15
~th
No. 57, Snlt Lake City, Ulah.-:\feels 2d aud
Wednesdays. R. IlIayr. Pres .. 2.N W.lst South
st.; John Polaud. R. S .. 2U \V. 1st South 51.; E. Mill.
F. S., 15 W. 1st South st ..
No. 58, 'Vest Snl.p.rior, Wis.-M.,.,ts 1st and
3rd Wedn.,sdays at rooms 3 and ~ 1602 3d st. R. F.
Pfleger. Pres., Superior Water, Light & Power Co.·
G. C. nehl, R. S .. 405 Hug-hitt a\·.; H. Burdett"',
F. S., 1819 Banks avo
. No. ii9, )'ncl"cah, l{Y.-J. B. Eretts. Pr.,s., ::S-o. 2
Engin., Hon<e; W. S. Nelson, R. S .• 220 S. 4th st.·
W. 11.. Koeneman, F. S .. 220 S. ~th sl. '
No. 60, Sau Auto"lo, T .. x.-!lfeets 1st and 3d
Saturdays, !\Ieyers' Hall, Alamo Plaza. 1'. I.. Rasp.,
Pres., 215 Powder-house st.; E. Kul!Jlt,all, R. S.,
m Salina st.; C. A. Davis. F. S., 215 Tra"is st.
No.61, Los Ang.,It'''' C:oI.-\Vm.Tubmau, Pres.
Station 2; Chas. Viall, R. S .. Stetioll5; C. P. Loft-
hous-e, F. S., 7~6 Sall Julian st.
No. 62, }{nlamuzoo, l\Jich.-A. D. Ayres. Pres.,
5.H S. Burrlici.;; sl.; L. llellman, R. S., ~O Pine st.'
G. E. 'rifft, F. S., 32~ Sarah st. '
• No. Ga,.Tu11l1'!" J;'la.-Theo. GUnn, Pres .. Pt.
'lampa CIty; W. F. Crofts, R. S., lock box l(H.
Arthur D. Henry, F. S., box 220. '
N? 66, Houston, Tex.-Meets .,very Monday.
].W.Howarll.Pres.. lil3 Houston av.: S.T.Sikes,
R. S.,.808 1\lcK.,e Sl.; F. A. Peters, F. S., 9O"i Pres-
ton avo
1120 ViII': s~.; S. L. Pc;\·ehou,:. R. S .. HI.3 Spring
st.; W. F. ,\ agller, F. :S., IHI Ch.,stnut st.
No. 68, Little Ituek, Arl<.-C. J. Griffith. Pres.,
15th and Rooker st.; G. W. Wilson. R. S .. 826 :llar·
shall st.; W. N. Dragoon, F. S., 1813 W. ;~d ~t.
Xo. GD, Unllns, Tex.-:'rfeets 1st and 3n.:~ Satur~
..
day at I..abor Hall. S. D. Claiborne, ",e~ HI :SaIl
Jacinto st.; F. G. lIolltgOlllcty, R. S., j~ ~:)i1itl5
st.; Geo. Eagan, F. S., 107 S. ~iurphy s~.
No. 70, 8cheJlcchuly, N. Y.-l!cet~ 2d and 4th
Tuesdays at Trades Asscllibly Uall. <;or. Centr"
aud Stale S15. F. Lit •• ndcrf, Pres .• Crane st.,
n.a. ~·leasan.~: (~~tl .•~lill~r, l~. S., 32 Eliis st.; 1. D.
Belttng, F. S., 620 VIlla roau.
No. 71, Gal ...,stu", Tex. -- :li"ets 2d aud 4th
Wednesdays. J.T. P"yue. Pres., 13H CenU'" st.·
F. J. Schaller!, R.S., 2514 Churcb st.; G. L. Gar:
rett, F. S.
Nu. 7::, J)nll"iUe, J!I.-G. M. Girton, Pr.,s., 319
Frankliu st.; jas.1lerrilt, Sec., CRre of Ant. T~1. I'<
Tel. Co. .
Nco. 13, SI.ek ..."." ""ush. - !\!eels lst·and 3rd
Thursday. at ()jiver Hall,3.36~ Riverside av. C. C.
Van luwegcu, l'res .• 1.5(» Boon av.; T. H. l>enter,
R. S .• box b35; Gus. l'agel ,F. S .• Box. 6.)5.
No. 74, ),'ull Uh'er, .3la~s.-lleets .,very ~.rou·
day al_ cor. 1Iaiu and Bedford. sls. W. 1. "'hite,
Pres .• ~9 !;OWCll st.; .las. :'!urphv, R. 5., 10) 4tb st.;
Thos. Bailey, 1'. :;.,1.3:' Snell st,
:Xo •• .1, Grautl It~il'jds, llich.-lJeets 1st and
Clarendon Hotel; Geo.Higgins, F.S., b3I'leasant st.
No. 78, Snsinnw, !,Ileh.-Jas. Hodgins Pr.,s.
1309 Jaues st.; Robt. Crawford, P... S., HS Gage st.;
Chas. ROSS, F. 5., P. O. box 225, ~. S.
No. 79,·.Austin, 1.'ex.-l'Ieets c:verv Thursd3'·
night at IIInccab.,,, Hall. J. L. Vorkiuler, Pres:.
lZlk> tian Jacinlo st.; B. Y. Lovejoy, Sec., 109-al
E. 7th st.
No. 81, F't. 'Vorth, Tex.-G. E. Moffett, Pres., _
213 N. Taylor st.; R. G. Wright, R. S., IOJ W. 1st,
st.;_ .Martin Doscher, jo'. S., 10.; W.lst st. .. =~
PUESEN~' ANn pnOSPECTIYE WOI~K.
Milwaukee, "'is.-The new electric
roau (,Olllte<:tilll; )lilwaukee, Hncille HIllI
Kenoslm, 1l0W ueillg built, is said to ue
olle of the best cOllstructed electric lines
in the country. Tl.w road ued is rock
l,allasted, and is as good as :iny steam
railroad.
The Postal Telcgl'aph Company has
secllred control of the telegl':lph lincs of
the CheS:lllCnke, OhiO aud l;outhwcsterll
system, hCl'etofoJ'c operated by tlw
,,'estel'll Union Company. The Systelll
COYCl'S 400 llliles of railway, 1.;-,00' miles
of wire, :md GO ottices, anll is
Ull athli-
tion to the Postal Cowpany's faeilities
of cOllsidl'J'aule il!lvortanee. The Postal
Company al;;o reel'ntly acqnirpd the lincs
of the Yazoo and ~fissisippi YalJey ·Hail-
road, Which, lil,e the Ches:I Ill''' ke. Ultio
a 1111 Southwcstel'n Hailt'oaJ, is ill the
Illinoiti rail way systt'llJ.
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R.uoms I and 2, Turner Build/nit, Hamilton Carhartt & Co., Detroit, Mich.
. ST. LOUIS.
M. JACOBS &. SON, SOLE AG£NTS FOR GENEVA, N. Y'.
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THE CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY,
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Soiid Gold. $1.00 ~ach . CLEVELAND, OHIO.
.Roll~d Gold, SOc each.
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J. T. KELLY, Orand Secretary,
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227 TO 257 S. CLINTON STREET,
G:H!CAGO. SHULTZ BELTHlG C{)MPANY, ST. -lOUIS, MO,
Agents ill nil PrillciplIl CHie~.
New York: Greeuwich and Thnmes Streets.
Antwerp: 33 Rue 1I0tldewyus. NEW YORK, N. Y., 225 Pearl St., A. B. LAURE~CE, !\fanager.
London: 79 Coleman Street. Bos'rON, MASS., 164Summer St., GEO. T. KELLY, Manager.
Paris: -16 Avenue de ilretcuil.
Berlin: Engel Ufer I. PHIL.umr.PJlIA, PA., 129 N. Third St.,. lAS. GARNl!;"TT, Manr.gn.