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“Daily Except Sunday:” Blue Laws and the Operation of Philadelphia Horsecars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Harold E. Cox
Harold E. Cox
Affiliation:
Associate Professor of History, Wilkes College
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Abstract

The uncertainties of predicting and mitigating social reactions to business innovation are amusingly demonstrated in this study of an early public-relations crisis.

Type
Research Article
Information
Business History Review , Volume 39 , Issue 2 , Summer 1965 , pp. 228 - 242
Copyright
Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1965

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References

1 DeBow, J. D. B., Statistical View of ihe United States … (Washington, 1854), pp. 375, 396.Google Scholar

2 Reports of the Several Railroad Companies of Pennsylvania Communicated by the Auditor General to the Legislature, January 22, 1863 (Harrisburg, 1863), pp. 31–34, 213–17. Covers the reports of the railroads of Pennsylvania, including the horse railways, for the year 1862. This series, continued annually, with varying title, is invaluable in the study of the development of the rail transportation of the state.

3 Acts of Assembly and Ordinances relating to Philadelphia Passenger Railways and Steam Railroads within the City Limits, with a Digest of Pennsylvania Decisions relating to Passenger Railways (Philadelphia, 1884), pp. 50–55.

4 Spiers, Frederick W., “The Street Railway System of Philadelphia, Its History and Present Condition,” Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Fifteenth Series, III-IV-V (1897), p. 17.Google Scholar

5 A full discussion of this dispute will be found in Cox, Harold E., “Jim Crow in the City of Brotherly Love: The Segregation of Philadelphia Horse Cars,” Negro History Bulletin, vol. XXVI (1962), pp. 119–123.Google Scholar

6 Lippincott, Horace M., Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1926), p. 25.Google Scholar

7 North American and United States Gazette (Philadelphia), October 31, 1865.

8 Opinion of Hon. John M. Read of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in Favor of the Passenger Railway Cars Running on Every Day in the Week, Including Sunday (Philadelphia, 1867), pp. 17–18.

9 Ibid., pp. 16–17, 19.

10 Ibid., pp. 19–21; Spiers, op. cit., p. 18.

11 North American, July 9, 1859.

12 Ibid.

13 Ibid., July 11, 1859.

14 Spiers, op. cit., p. 19.

15 North American, July 16, 1859.

16 Ibid., July 18, 1859.

17 Ibid., July 19, 1859.

18 Ibid., July 15, 25, 1859.

19 Ibid., July 25, Aug. 1, 1859. The newspaper for August 1 contained a full and colorful description of the proceedings which pointed up the large number of immigrants present at the meeting, many of whom did not speak English.

20 Ibid.

21 Ibid., July 18, 1859.

22 Ibid.; Commonwealth v. Jeandell, 2 Grant's Cases 506.

23 Spiers, op. cit., pp. 19–20.

24 North American, July 25, Aug. 8, 1859; Spiers, op. cit., p. 20.

25 North American, October 30, 1865.

26 Spiers, op. cit., pp. 20–21.

27 Ibid.

28 Sparhawk et. al. v. Union Passenger Railway Company, 54 Pennsylvania State Reports 401.

29 Spiers, op. cit., pp. 20–21.

30 Opinion of Hon. John M. Read, passim.

31 North American, November 11, 1867.