The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-24
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS.

ROADS nave compromised tnelr CROSSING
dispute at Allentown.
The Davis & Thomas Co.. of Cata-
sauqua has Just been chartered to
manufacture iron and steel.
The Leesport furnace, which has been
idle three years, has started up. giving
employment to about sixty men.
The Delaware and Hudson company
proposes to extend its Adirondack
branch thirty miles from North Creek
to Long Lake.
Rabbi j. Leonard Levy, of Philadel-
phia, has started coal yeards to supply
the poor with fuel at cost. A bucket
is retailed at cents. The usual price
at this season of the year Is s cents
bucket, The work is constantly on the
increase. In the brief period of opera
tlon. nearly $4,000 buckets of coal have
already been sold
A doubt as to the reelection of
President Harris, of the Reading rail-
road, has been dispelled by the
official announcement from the Read
Ing Office that proxies representing
300, 900 shares had been received in sup
port of Mr.. Harris, and that proxies
representing from $4,000 to 10000 shares
more were in sight 1t is further stated
that since the stock books closed fully
$50, 900 shares had become disfranchised
by reason of transfers, leaving about
$4,000 shares that are entitled to vote.
That President Harris will secure a
large majority Of these there appears
to be no longer any doubt among the
best-posted men on the street.
Philadelphia Stakeholder. "The be-
lief is now general that despite oppo-
sltion, the present Lehigh Valley man
agement will be maintained In power.
Handicapped as it has been during the
last few years 1t has, however, been
able to accomplish much good for Sc
curity-holders. The so-called protec-
tive committee in opposition to the
present management makes the an
nouncement that public meeting of
stockholders will be held in this city
this week, when it Is contemplated to
fashion a ticket to be voted upon at
the ensuing electlon-a ticket which it
was further stated will include several
members of the present board of direc-
tors. 1t is significant in connection
with the opposition that City Treasurer
McCreary, who was somewhat active
at the beginning of the contest, has
withdrawn from further participation
in it,"
Philadelphia Inquirer: 1.-THE COM
panies are maintaining tdewater
prices firmly, and are even getting
few orders at the new circular, but
considerable quantity of coal is being
peddled out by middlemen who pur-
chase largely before the advanced
prices were establisher. The individu-
al operators are not doing much. Com
plant Is made by customers of the Le-
high Valley that they find great diff
Guilty in getting deliveries over the
Reading tracks, as much as three
weeks being required to get coal
through. The Lehlgh Valley, Lehigh
| Navigation and shippers over the New
Jersey Central have practically sus-
pended mining operations for the year.
The Reading will work three days this
I week, as IT has not yet filed its quota
for the month. The New York compa-
MES are generally arranging to OBJ
serve the allotment strictly. The ag-
gregate output however, continues in
excess Of the actual consumption"
1T might be supposed" says the New
York Sun, that railroads which bear
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show by their titles what points they
connect, but there are many exceptions
in this respect and some of them are
surprising. The st. Louis and San
Francisco railroad, for instance, might
be supposed to run from st. Louis to
San Francisco. Actually it runs 327
miles west of st. Louis. The Mime
apolis and st. Louis railroad would APP
pear to run from Minneapolis to st.
Louis. 1t actually runs from Mime
apOlis to Angus, Ia, about half way to
St. Louis. The Omaha and st. Louis
railroad does not run from Omaha 10
St. Louis, but from Omaha to Pattons-
burg, Mo. ST. Louis is 267 miles further
east. The Toledo, st. Louis and Kan
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it is more generally called runs from
Toledo to st. Louis, which is the west
ern terminus of the road. Kansas City
Is 1926 miles away. The Toledo, Peoria
and Western railroad does not run from
Toledo to Peoria, but from the Indiana
state line to Warsaw Ill. The New
York, Chicago and ST. Louis railroad
(or Nickel Plate as 1t is universally
called does not run from New York tC
Chicago and st. Louis. 1t runs from
Buffalo to Chicago, and a passenger
upon it coming east and landing a.
Buffalo would be over 400 miles from
New York, while a passenger upon h
llgoing west and handing at Chicago
l'would beS0O miles from st. Louis. Tht
Philadelphia, and Erie railroad run!
from Sunbury, Pa, to Erie. The Penn
sylvanla. Poughkeepsie and Bostor
railroad is ninety-six miles long, from
Slatington, Pa, to Campbell Hall, OF
the Ontario and Western. The For
Worth and Denver City railroad Il
wholly in Texas, does not touch Denve
City, and does not run into Colorado
These peculiarites in railroad nomen
clature are supplemented by another
} All 1.-THE coal-carrying roads running lati
! tudinally in the eastern states have a
part of their title the words, IAN,
Western" Here are some of them
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
the New York, Lake Erie and Western
the New York, Ontario and Western