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...things right in the boiler-room. Stockholders will be asked to approve a $9,000,000 note issue. They will also be asked to approve of a voting trust. While the trustees have not been named, they will probably include representatives of Lehigh Valley Coal Corp. and Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Coal Co., two big Burns creditors who desire to see Burns have good management at least until its bills are paid...
Last Spring a Lackawanna County jury convicted him, his cousin Harry C. Friend and others of conspiracy as a result of the slot machine graft. Edward Miller, racketeer, had testified that he paid $4 per slot machine for protection, that Friend kept $1 and passed the balance on to "City Hall," that his monthly payments averaged...
...Lackawanna (whose line, capitalized at the high figure of $440,000 per mile, is one of the best-built and most scrupulously maintained main lines in the country. On its comparatively short stretch [New York to Buffalo] are to be found two remarkable railroad formations: the 2,230 ft. Tunkhannock Viaduct, largest concrete bridge in the world; and the 3-mi. Pequest Fill, largest railroad embankment in the world...
...Henry Moeller became captain of the Lackawanna Railroad's river barges. In 1903, he became captain of tugs for the Hamburg-American Line. In 1920, he retired and went to live in Hoboken where he often sat in the back-room of Meyer's Hotel, drinking beer with other old captains. Last week he died. His daughter obeyed his request to place, under the dirty, salt-stiffened pilot coat in which Henry Moeller was buried, the purple silk umbrella which he had carried on all his voyages, short or long...
Chesapeake & Ohio-Nickel Plate, Hocking Valley. Pere Marquette, Erie. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, Bessemer & Lake Erie...