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Ben Courter recalls the old one-horse dinkey of the Camden Horse Railroad Company on South Second street, and the night in the '90s when driver "Joe" Hackney and his horse carried a posse of armed Kaighn Point citizens up and down Second street chasing a runaway steer.
Harry J. Schaefer, a 22-year-old silk spinner, was shocked to death by a broken live wire on Tenth street above Market in Camden while spectators were afraid to free him.
South Camden news items from October 14, 1895: the Camden Horse Railroad Company took the summer cars off the Broadway line, R. H. Comey took out a permit for an addition to the dye works on Jefferson street, and Mayor Westcott gave two men five days for congregating at Eighth street and Kaighn avenue.