If you read "Portrait of a Silver Lady" you will learn
that carbines could be ordered from WP's stores dept.
and probable also SP. WP & SP did not like each
other.
--- rrhistorian <rrhistorian@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all
>
> I have a question about "riots" between competing
> railroads - often at
> the construction of junctions. Does anybody here
> know if riot had a
> different use in the late 19th century than it does
> today? For
> example, could this have been an exchange of shouts
> and jeers - or was
> their out-and-out violence?
>
> It is hard to imagine any rivalrious construction
> crews being
> motivated to violence at the present.
>
> Best,
> Tom Cornillie
>
>
> >
> > Another Chicago Tribune article about the same
> spot dated July 12,
> 1897 (almost 110 years ago!!!) reported when the
> Chicago, Hammond
> > & Western did finally get to building though the
> area the Suburban
> Electric (later West Towns Street Railway) was
> building into La Grange
> > at the same time. The newspaper report is not
> really clear but the
> CH&W and SE construction forces got into a riot
> involving about 300
> > workers from contractors for both lines. The
> article reports the
> scene of the conflict was in Hill Grove Avenue, east
> of the Burlington
> depot.
> > It later stated that the two companies had been
> battling over ROW
> and that the "Bad feeling had been engendered by
> recent condemantion
> > proceedings in the County Court in which the CH&W
> officials got the
> better of their rivals (by getting a ROW from SE for
> $7000 instead of
> > the $9000 the SE was willing to sell it for).
> > It sounds like the actual issue was who was going
> to have to install
> and maintain the crossing between the two companies
> as they cross
> > at right angles.... the ROW would be the section
> that the two lines
> parallel each other.
> >
> >
>
>
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