The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-30


will occupy, will cost 81, 100000. 1t will
be fire proof, five stories high and be
constructed of steel, brick, granite and
terra Gotta.
MINOR INDUSTRIAL NOTES:
Fixed charges of the Jersey Central |
are about 100000 month.
The furnace of the Temple Iron COM
pany' at Temple, Pa. has. resumed |
blast
The Superior Steel company, of Pitts
burg, has put up building for the pur-
pose of tempering steel.
Gross earnings for thirty-seven roads |
Tor the third week of October show net
decrease Of $165.O27, or 2.64 per cent
Gross earnings of seventy-four roads
Tor the second week of October show a
net decrease of 1850, 316, or 4.26 per cent.
Aldace f. Walker is quoted as saying
that he will not accept the presidency
of the Sante Fe while he is the receiver.
The plantof the National Bolt, Nutan
Rivet works, limited, of Reading, Pa,
which was closed down for short time,
Is now in full operation.
The Pennsylvania Steel company, of
Steelton, Pa, has started furnace No.
II, of the open-hearth department, for
lllG 81 lilIle. lUe has CdDd-
city of fifty gross tons.
General Passenger Agent Edwards, of
the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton,
has instructed agents to take coupons
| from mileage books of travelling sales
men in pay for excess baggage.
Predictions of an early advance for
| Bessemer pig and for steel billets re-
main unrealized, with the outlook indi-
eating nothing favoring materially
| higher quotations until February.
The Chesapeake and Ohio will build
an electric light plant at Richmond, Va,
| to supply its storage batteries. which
aroused onits passenger trains for light
ing them, and which are proving a great
success.
The N. & G. Taylor Co., tinplate man
ufacturers of Philadelphia, are running
eighteen stacks The demand for it's
plates during the latter part of Septem-
Der compelled 1t to run up to 10 o'clock
at night.
The gross earnings of the Missouri
Pacific the second week of October
reached little over $500,O0O and came
within $4,000 of it's high water mark.
The Toledo, st. Louis and Kansas City,
in the second week, earned $35,S1S. and
increase this year of 1929.
H. E. Collins e. Co., of Pittsburg, have
received a contract for the iron build
ing to be erected for the keystone Roll
ing Mill company; also to erect for the
Philadelphia company, at Murraysville,
Pa, two buildings, both to be con-
structed of iron and steel.
The plant Of the Beaver Falls Steel
works, of Beaver Falls, Pa, manufac-
turers of cast steel, which has been run
ming single turn since March | of this
year, has started up on double turn.
The firm reports the outlook as fairly
good, and hopes to run double turn all
winter.
Never in the history of the east-and-
west lines has there been so large II
movement Of empty cars eastward to
seahoard points to be loaded with west
ern business The billing shows that
west-bound tonnage is 40 per cent.
larger than In October, 1893, and largely
of the higher class freights.
The decision of Judge Field, of Louis
Vile, in damage suit that the Pullman
company is not common carrier; and
therefore not responsible for damages,
as it did not control the running of the
trains, Is looked upon as an important
one for that company, If the decision is
sustained by the higher courts.
There seems to be but small hope that
. the eastern freight question can be ar
ranged for the better, at least at the
present time. General managers and
general freight agents who have re-
,, turned from the meeting at Cleveland
, say that no efforts were made to
strengthen the east-bound pool, and
this, under the present condition
amounts to the practical cessation OF
all efforts to keep up the pool.