Thursday, May 2, 2013

One More Time . . .

The country is addicted to oil, and so it would seem is Gossipsat least, to Standard Oil and its depot on southern edge of the Hudson waterfront. Earlier this week, Gossips published this news item, which appeared in the Hudson Evening Register on July 12, 1892, reporting that activity had begun at the Standard Oil depot. The first barge had arrived to deliver its cargo.


The next day, July 13, 1892, the Hudson Evening Register reports that a second oil barge, the J. B. Sands, has made a delivery to the Standard Oil depot. 


On July 19, 1892, the Hudson Evening Register reports that Standard Oil now has a new delivery wagon for moving oil from the "repository" on the waterfront to local customers.


On September 3, 1892, the Hudson Evening Register reports that the steamer M. Martin took sixty barrels of kerosene from Hudson to Newburgh. In the statement "The Standard Oil Company's depot there makes large shipments of oil daily," it is not entirely clear if there refers to Newburgh or Hudson, but since the item seems to have been picked up from the Saugerties Post, it is probably the case that there is here--in Hudson.
  

3 comments:

  1. The sad truth about this crooked city is that we still may not have enough evidence to divert the plans of the forces that run it, and who run us.

    I discovered the following today from the last writings of Calhoun (which I've turned into a question):

    What mechanism of government can be devised to "prevent any one interest, or combination of interests, from using the powers of government to aggrandize itself at the expense of the others"?

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  2. Class action, you know, with pitch forks and kerosene.

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  3. Didnt 'tar & feathering" take place in front of the old court house ?

    Then put on a horse and run out of town?

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