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Reading Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1062 words) |
 | Its Philadelphia terminus was at the state-owned Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad on the west side of the Schuylkill River, from which it ran east on the PandC over the Columbia Bridge and onto the city-owned City Railroad to a depot at the southeast corner of Broad and Cherry Streets. |
| The Port Kennedy Railroad, a short branch to quarries at Port Kennedy, was leased in 1870. |
| The Port Reading Railroad was chartered in 1890 and opened in 1892, running east from the New York line near Bound Brook to a new port - Port Reading - on the Arthur Kill near Perth Amboy. |
| The Histoical Society of Berks County - The Reading Railroad Massacre (3293 words) |
| Reading's citizenry were strongly sympathetic to their strikers and unemployed, the Chief of Police estimating as the storm gathered that "some two-thirds of the city seemed to sympathize with the men." |
| On the night of the Reading Massacre, labor radical leaders in Chicago were actively exhorting a gathering of 6000 to seize and harness The Strike's hitherto spontaneous momentum. |
| Another mistake that tends to inflame the history of all this is that the Reading Railroad brought in armed members of the infamous Pinkerton Detectives, apparently because railroad executives had used Pinkertons in the hard coal region's labor troubles. |
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