duties faithfully and fearlessly during this critical and exciting episode in the history of Scranton, as the testimonials of thousands of the citizens gave him written assurance afterwards.

For several weeks after this lamentable occurrence in Scranton, idle men gathered in groups and discussed the situation, deploring the affray of August 1, while in the lower end of Luzerne County, at Wilkes Barre, Plymouth, and Nanticoke, the vexed question of capital and labor was dangerously discussed for a time. The presence of the militia, followed by regular troops, stationed in Providence for a month, brought wiser counsels to bear in this region, and from that time until now have produced those harmonious relations between the workingmen and their employers that now happily exist.

THE THIRTEENTH REGIMENT.

The long strike, while it accomplished no real good to anybody, and defined no policy for future agencies, brought into being the Thirteenth Regiment Infantry, Third Brigade, National Guards. The genius of our people is not military, and nothing but the necessity of military power, made apparent by the events in the summer of 1877, developed this regiment.

On the 14th day of August of this year the Scranton City Guards were organized by the union of Company A, Captain Bryson; Company B, Captain S. C. Merrian; Company C, Captain H. A. Courson; Company D, Captain E. H. Ripple, under the command of Major H. M. Boies and Adjutant F. L. Hitchcock.

In October, 1878, the regiment was organized upon the foundation offered by the battalion of the Scranton City Guards. The original officers of the regiment were:

Field and Staff-Major H. M. Boies, Commandant; First Lieutenant F. L. Hitchcock, Adjutant; Captain H. A. Kinngsburry, Commissary.

Non-Commissioned Staff.-H. N. Dunnell, Sergeant-Major; S. G. Kerr, Quartermaster-Sergeant; G. H. Madox, CommissarySergeant; W. W. Ives, Hospital Steward; M. D. Smith and Edward Brady, Principal Musicians; and John J. Coleman, Bat

talion Clerk.

Line Officers.

Company A.-Captain, A. Bryson, Jr.; First Lieutenants, D.

Bartholomew, H. A. Knapp; Second Lieutenant, William Kel

low.

Company C.-Captain, A. H. Courson; First Lieutenant, J. E. Brown; Second Lieutenant, L. A. Watres.

Company D.-Captain, E. H. Ripple; First Lieutenant, J. A. Linen; Second Lieutenant, Samuel Hines.

Subsequently other companies were added to the battalion, which was then organized into a regiment, composed of young men of Scranton, Stroudsburg, Honesdale, and Factoryville, whose character for sobriety, integrity, and every manly element compares favorably with any other regiment within the State. The regiment went into camp for instructions and drill at Long Branch, N. J., in August, 1879, and in Lebanon, in July, 1885, for seven days, where its appearance and demeanor were highly commended by all. At two inaugurations it has appeared in Washington, eliciting admiration by its soldierly bearing and its gentlemanly deportment. The following are the officers:

Field and Staff.-Colonel, F. L. Hitchcock; Lieutenant-Colonel, E. H. Ripple; Major, H. A. Coursen; Adjutant, C. C. Mattes; Quartermaster, John P. Albro; Surgeon, H. V. Logan, M.D.; Assistant Surgeons, A. J. Connell, M.D., C. L. Frey, M.D.

Non-Commissioned Staff.-Sergeant-Major, E. J. Dimmick; Quartermaster-Sergeant, A. P. Bradford; Commissary-Sergeant, L. M. Horton; Hospital Steward, Edward Evans.

Line Officers.

Company A.-Captain, L. A. Watres; First Lieutenant, George F. Barnard; Second Lieutenant, M. J. Andrews.

Company B.-Captain, William Kellow; First Lieutenant, H. R. Madison; Second Lieutenant, W. S. Millar.

Company C.-Captain, James Moir; First Lieutenant, William B. Henwood; Second Lieutenant, Charles W. Gunster.

Company D.-Captain, George B. Thompson; First Lieutenant, William A. May; Second Lieutenant,

Company E (Honesdale).-Captain, Henry Wilson; First Lieutenant, W. H. Stanton.

Company F.-Captain, Roger L. Burnett.

Company G (Factoryville).-Captain, Charles W. Depuy; First Lieutenant, E. O. Smith; Second Lieutenant, Abel D. Gardner.

Company H (Providence).-Captain, J. B. Fish; First Lieutenant, W. B. Rockwell; Second Lieutenant, Charles T. Weston. Company I.-Captain Burke, of Parnell Guards.

A large armory has been erected in Scranton for its accommodation.

Company H, Captain J. B. Fish, of Providence, has also built a substantial stone armory in the Second Ward, for the use of the company and for public purposes.

AN INDUSTRIAL POINT.

Scranton is one of the best industrial centres in America. It

is a great railroad centre. Over sixty trains a day come and go over the roads passing through it, carrying at least one thousand passengers,-the DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA AND WESTERN, the Erie Railway, the Philadelphia and Reading Company, and the Delaware and Hudson. The Lehigh Valley and the Pennsylvania Railroad are already making towards the valley, and are within a few miles of the centre of the locality. The Pennsylvania Coal Company and the Bloomsburg Branch of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western road may be mentioned.

While the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western is one of the best constructed roads in the United States, it is also the shortest route between New York and Buffalo, being 44 miles shorter than the Lehigh Valley, 31 miles shorter than the New York Central, and 14 miles shorter than the Erie. Nearly half a million of persons a year arrive and depart from its railroad depot.

This magnificently-equipped road of four hundred and nine. miles of double track, reaching from the lakes to the sea, managed with singular ability and success by its president, HoN. SAMUEL SLOAN, and his able and judicious superintendent, W. F. HALSTEAD, gave the first impulse to Scranton as a village in 1856, and now fosters and gives greater encouragement and vitality to the business interests than any other factor operating here. Its army of fifteen thousand men, along the main line and branches, and all others, all attest to the excellence of its general management.

Three of these companies pay out over twelve million of dol

lars per year, besides vast sums of money being paid by its other business interests. About forty thousand tons of anthracite are mined and shipped each week from this vicinity, aggregating some 12,000,000 tons as the output for this year, thus illustrating the importance of Scranton as a great business

centre.

This company has twenty-one collieries, employing 6086 men, and mined in 1884, 2,025,530 tons of coal.

Over one hundred million pounds of freight come to this city over three railroads every month, while about thirty million pounds of freight are dispatched from here.

Our railroad facilities place us within five hours' ride of New York or Philadelphia, within eight hours of Buffalo and Oswego and Saratoga, and within ten hours of the capital of the country, indicating how accessible we are to the great business and fashionable world, and to the best markets in America; so that our own markets can be stocked with the early luxuries of the South, while the late productions of the colder North, with every variety of fish from the sea and the rivers of the South as well as from the lakes and streams of the North, with all the outcome of Eastern manufacturers and the growth of our Western prairies.

Aside from the millions invested in Scranton by the various railroads and coal interests, over twenty millions are employed in manufacturing interests.

THE INDUSTRIES OF SCRANTON.

THE DICKSON MANUFACTURING COMPANY.

Early in 1855 the anthracite coal business of the Lackawanna Valley had assumed such proportions that it was deemed necessary that a shop for repairing mining machinery and doing what little new work was needed should be started in the then southern portion of the Lackawanna coal region; and consequently, in February, 1856, Thomas, John A., and George L. Dickson, Maurice and Charles P. Wurts, Joseph, Benjamin, and C. T. Pierson, came to Scranton from Carbondale, and began the erection of foundry and machine-shops, under the name of "Dickson & Co.," and in May of the same year ran the first