relationship between TMER&L Co. and workers (including the city's powerful "sewer Socialists") for many years to come; the company would not be unionized again until after a 1934 strike. During this period, Payne continued to promulgate expanded streetcar and interurban services in the region, including a controversial 30-year extension of their franchise, a deal cut with Milwaukee Mayor David Rose and the Milwaukee Common Council under what some considered corrupt circumstances. He also engaged in real estate development, such as the 1897 "Payne's Park Addition" to North Milwaukee, fed by expanded streetcar lines running past what has been described as "two miles of vacant fields" and ending a few blocks past the street Payne had named after Villard in 1892. Death He died on October 4, 1904. References Attributions Further reading External links |- 1843 births 1904 deaths 19th-century American railroad executives 19th-century American merchants 20th-century American politicians Burials in Wisconsin Businesspeople from Wisconsin Northern Pacific Railway people People from Ashfield, Massachusetts Politicians from Milwaukee Republican National Committee chairs Theodore Roosevelt administration cabinet members United States Postmasters General Wisconsin Republicans