Resumed Operations

New York, 1895

Sohmer's big piano factory at Astoria has resumed full operations again and about two hundred hands are back at work. The factory since the holidays had been run on half time.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 10, 1895, p. 8.


What Do Office Grabbers Care About Public Opinion?

Though the Commissioner of Jurors bill has been denounced by Republicans and Democrats, and the press of both parties, yet William J. Youngs and Assemblyman Vacheron last week continued their desperate efforts to have it passed in the Senate. They could not, however, induce Senator Childs to assist them in the passage of a measure so unpopular throughout the county, and the bill is practically dead. It seems almost incredible that two men who think that they are shrewd politicians, could be so blind to their own future as to insist upon forcing through the Legislature a bill after it had been condemned by the whole people, and especially by the members of their own party. — Long Island City Herald, Republican.

—Reprinted in The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 10, 1895, p. 8.