The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-25
MINE, MILL AND RAILROAD.

Probably the most expert mine Of
fetal in the Wyoming coal region, ac-
cording to the Philadelphia Inquirer,
is James b. Davies, the general super
intendent of the Plymouth Coal COM
pany. Mr.. Davies has charge Of the
important operations of Haddock,
Shohk G. Co., at Plymouth and Luzerne
borough, and he is credited with having
saved a large portion of the town of
Plymouth from destruction threatened
by cave-in of the Dobson colliery.
which was operated without regard to
proper care of the surface. He was the
first to design a culm separator on q
large scale, and the refuse from the
coal at both the breaker and separ-
ator is washed into the old workings
of the mines for the purpose of render
ing them secure from collapse. In ad-
dition to his ability Mr.. Davies is re-
nowned for his fearlessness and there
has not been disaster for many years
where he has not been foremost in the
work of rescue.
Superintendent Bowers, of the Della
ware and Hudson collieries in and
around Carbondale, received a telegram
Tuesday afternoon instructing him to
put the mines under his charge on
three-quarter time until further
notice. This is in part due
to the increase in orders owing
to the approach of winter weather
hand has greatly decreased of late from
the short time worked at the mines.
The Hallstead colliery of the Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western COM
pany at Duryea, that was flooded about
month ago, will be in readiness to
resume operations three weeks hence.
The water in the first vein has all been
pumped out, and a force of workmen
are at work this week removing the
large Worlds fair pump to the second
vein, 3OS feet below the first. The pump
will be in position in few days, and it
will take all of next week to pump the
water from this vein. The debris will
then be cleared away, and the mine
will be ready to resume operations.
One great annoyance in the present
method of lighting trolley cars is that
every time the trolley slips off the car is
left in darkness. According to the
Buffalo Express, q system of lighting
cars by electricity has been devised by
w. NJ. Miner, the electrical engineer of
tn American Manufacturing and En-
gineering company, New Yark and a
demonstration of it was recently given
as installed in car in Hoboken, N. ].
The visitors were conveyed in the car,
and in running over the line the trolley
circuit was frequently broken in order
to show the value of this system in
always keeping the car illuminated
wheter the trolley wheel is on or off.
The system consists in the use of a
o1 ctp ho nf civ T0pnn l6Cnn-
Macrae storage cells, which are used to
light duplicate set of lamps should
the trolley come off or the motor cur
rent give out or be interrupted in any
way, the battery being switched on
automatically when the motor circuit
is broken. A trolley-current is passed
through an electromagnetic, which COM
pletes a circuit through incandescent
lamps connected in series in the usual
manner The same current also passes
through the storage battery, keeping it
charged.
A late electric device, according to
the same authority, is chair to run
on trolley wire. A man can sit in this
chair and fly through the air at the
rate OF thirty miles per hour, pro-
vided he does not slip his trolley, in
to grief The trolley chair was origin
ally invented for the purpose of ena-
bling judges to follow a horse race
around the track. Richard E. Sherman,
of Chicago, is the inventor. The inten-
tion is to suspend the car upon wire
three-fourths of an inch in diameter,
No. 16 copper wire being used to carry
the current at 40 volts, and the sup
porting wire being suspended from
wooden poles at the side of the track.
The car is made of wood and Is of sufli-
cient size to accommodate two persons.
The motor is placed under the seat
and is controlled by braking device
operated by the feet The armature
carries upon its shaft a wheel belted to
another wheel mounted upon the shaft,
which also carries the wheel by which
the car is suspended.
There is no longer any attempt to re-
strict anthracite tonnage to the recent
ly made limit, says the Philadelphia
Press. A number of the trading COM
panies have given orders to work full
time and from this time on the great
producers will compete with each other
in sending large amount of coal to
market, rather than in restricting the
output. 1t is said the new order OF
things, which New York people expect
will develop into a coal war, was begun
by the Lackawanna, but the Lacka-
wanna says the Lehigh Valley was the
first offender The result will be tc
make much lower prices. For a long
time it has been evident that the an
thracite trade needed some radical
treatment to get it into shape. 1t is now
likely to have it. The result may be
1lnnlea SAINT for n time hut in the end II
will be beneficial. The latest agreement
to maintain a certain allotment of ton
mage was rather more formal than the