People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1893 — American Railway Union Organized. [ARTICLE]

American Railway Union Organized.

Chicago, June 21.—The American Railway union, the new organization of railway employes, held a meeting at Uhlich’s hall, 27 North Clark street, Tuesday evening. A constitution was adopted at the afternoon meeting. The officers are: President, Eugene V. Debbs, of Terre Haute, Ind.; vice president, George W. Howard, of Chicago; secretary and treasurer. Sylvester Keliher. The object of the organization is to obtain the cooperation of all railway employes in the country, no matter of what station in the service, and by so doing protect themselves from railway corporations.

The street railway company which owns the lines in the City of Mexico has a monopoly of the funeral business there. It runs special funeral ears, white for children and black for adults. No hearses are used. Mourners ride to the cemetery in a richly-up-holstered special car. Wedgewood’s investigations of the action of light on chloride of silver were begun in 1802. Daguerre’s experiments began in 1824; his invention of daguerreotype plates was made public in 1839, when a pension was granted him by the French chamber of deputies.