The evening world., 1894-04-20
TWO THOUSAND TONS.
That's the Sales Record So Far for
1.-THE Worlds" Cheap Coal.
Fight Against the Combine Receiv-
ing Hearty Support.
How the Tariff Has Helped the
Anthracite Barons.

Up to the close OF business last night
the total sales Of $3.50 coal made
through the agency OF THE World"
amounted to 1874 tons. This represents
n saving to consumers OF 81, 45s. which Is
certainly an important consideration to
the users OF coal for domestic pur-
poses.
The present offer holds good only until
May /. and persons desiring to put In
a Winter supply OF twenty or thirty
tons should do so Immediately. All
orders, for which cash will have been
received before May /, will receive atten-
ton, and deliveries may be made In
May or June for coal paid for before
May 1.
The terms upon which THE World"
supplies customers in this city and
Brooklyn have been repeatedly stated.
Owing to the bad condition OF the roads
in the outlying districts OF Brooklyn,
however, It has been found necessary to
make a change In the rates for that
district.
An extra charge Is. therefore. made
Of 80 cents per ton for deliveries Of coal
through "phe Worlds" Agency in
Greenpoint. East New York. Flatbush
and Bay Ridge. The limit for $3.50 per
ton delivery in Brooklyn Is the Manhat-
tan Beach Railroad on the North. East
New York avenue on the east. Prospect
Park and Ninth avenue to Green
wood Cemetery and Twenty-ffth street
on the south.
When 1t Is remembered that a very
large proportion of the anthracite coal
sold In the New York market Is pur-
chased by small consumers for house
hold use. II will be seen what an enor-
nous tribute is levied every year by the
coal monopolists upon the poor people
OF this city. who are least able to bear
this tax.
THE World" by its offer to supply
cut down this tribute by rs cents a ton,
and II the fight which has been SO sue
cessfully inaugurated against the COM
bination receives the hearty support Of
the public, the retail dealers In this city
and Brooklyn will all be compelled to
come down to the prices at which THE
World' is furnishing coal to the people.
This Is the great result which 1t Is
] Thep Wor Sy h fne aPresdy
shown repeatedly how the public has
patiently allowed itself to be robbed by
the coal barons, and how merciless the
latter have been in exacting the last
cent from their victims.
One of the most successful means of
extortion In the hands OF the anthracite
coal consprators in the past has been
the duty OF rs cents a ton on bituminous
coal, because 1t has prevented this kind
or coal from coming into active compe-
ern markets.
The total output of coal in the United
States was l67 600 900 gross tons In 1893
OF which only 100000 tons was an
s shf; All the rest are bituminous Or
The combination can put the price OF
coal as high as 1t pleases. provided only
II Is not so high that manufacturers will
prefer to use soft coal bringing 1t from
ne west or from Nova Scotia. where
They cannot cheaply bring 1t from
the West. The cost OF transporta.
ton Is too great. They canno,
import IT.; the tariff prevents. There
Is no tarin on anthracite coal
all there is in the world that can be
economically used here. There is anthra.
cite coal In England, but the cost of min.
ing and transporting 1t here would be SC
great that there might as well not be any
can he used TO compete with that owned
by the combination, and the managers
OF the anthracite pool are wise men and
know their business. They do not want
counterfeit projections. they want rea
protection. There Is no foreign anthracite
coal that can compete with theirs, SC
anthracite coal IL on the free list There
Is foreign soft coal in Nova Scotia thai
can be imported to compete with them
and they demand a duty of Is cents a