W. J. Grambs
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- Apr 3, 1894The Streetcar Strike at Rainier AvenueElectric rail workers refuse to accept a 10 percent wage cut after a winter of working for starvation wages.Rainier Avenue, Seattle, WA
- Apr 4, 1894The Rainier Avenue Rail StrikeElectric railway workers face a wage cut to keep the line running as the receiver demands concessions.Rainier Avenue, Seattle, WA
- Apr 18, 1894The Receiver Cut Their Pay 2 Cents an Hour. A Judge Made Him Put It Back.When the Rainier Avenue Electric Railway's court-appointed receiver trimmed motormen's wages from 20 cents to 18 cents an hour, the crews — months behind on pay, with houses in Columbia City bought out of their own wages — took him to court and won.Seattle, WA
- Jun 20, 1895The Night a Streetcar Powerhouse Fire Left Half of Seattle DarkA pre-dawn blaze at Fifth and Pine gutted the Consolidated Street Railway plant, destroyed nearly all its cars and dynamos, crippled three lines, and blacked out everything north of Pike Street.Seattle, WA
- Jun 21, 1895A Powerhouse Fire Couldn't Keep Seattle's Streetcars Down for LongFlames destroyed the Consolidated Street Railway's power house and dozens of cars before dawn, but borrowed dynamos and quick repairs had the lines running again by morning.Seattle, WA
- Jun 24, 1895The Streetcar Empire That Ran Out of Track: Griffith's Realty CollapseA Seattle street-railway magnate's tangled web of notes, mortgages and second-mortgage bonds is handed to trustees — with $360,000 in property and a trail of debt.Seattle, WA