The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-06-06
GENERAL NEWS
OF INDUSTRIES

L. Lowris Bell, who has just received
the second assistant postmaster gen.
eralship under Mr. BisSell will, as soon
Rs be is released. accsps the position of
general traffic manager OF the Jersey
Central railroad, Mt n salary exceeding
IS, 900 per year. Mr.. Bell is one Of the
most thorough and efficient railroad
officials in the country and was speci-
ally elected by Mr.. Wanamaker during
the latter's incumbency of Mr.. Bissells
place, to reorganize and develop the
railway mail service.
The capacity of all the anthracite
oollieriss has been estimated for the
year 1894 at 233, TAT tons per dav Of ten
hours each. The output for 1898 was
the largest in the history of the nnthra-
cite coal trade. being 43. 0Sg, 557 long
tons, So that If the collieries conld he
worked to their full capacity for 800
days a year the output would run mp
10 $1,000, 600 tons. This enormous
amount does not ipclu 10 that coal con-
sumed at the mines in raising steam for
the engines
To the opinion of the Stakeholder the
traffic experiment which Coke Bros. &
Co. are now making by running their
own cars over the Lehigh Valley 70
tidewater will be watched with keen
interest by the trade generally. Coke
Bros. 81 Co. have long been regarded by
the trade as most Independent "lres
lance, and it ia believed the present
contract with the Lehigh Valley, which
gives them the use of its tracks from s.
connection with the Delaware, Sus-
QuehaDna and Schuylkill Coke Bros.
d Co.'S own road to tidewater, will
increase their power as factor in the
anthracite trade. The firm cannot,
under this arrangement, he discrim-
mated against, and it remains with
them to say whether prices shall be
maintained and the restrictive policy
continued. Ga the surface it certainly
looks ss though Coke Bros. 81 Co. now
held the whip hand, and they unques-
tionally will be given more considera-
lion by the larger producing companies
than ever before.
hO " uuS SlASula pllJoS LOE dulDT3
cite coal to the line and city trade. Just
issued by the Reading Coal and Iron
company. shows an advance in the
prices of hard white ash coal Of 5 cents
per ton for broken, egg and stove, while
chestnut siZs remains unchanged. Sha.
inokin egg is advanced % cents per ton
and stove cents, while chestnut coal
has been marked down cents, and
Tor the Lorberry coal an average ad-
vance of about 10 cents has been
made. The Lehigh Coal and Naviga-
tion company has advanced the prices
for its broken and egg coal Is cents per
ton, and for stove coal cents, while
chestnut sizs remains unchanged.
The Pennsylvania railroad prices have
been uniformly advanced Is cents per
ton for broken, egg. stove and chest
nut sizes, making it's new prices about
the same as those of the other compati.
tive companies. The Pennsylvania
circular prices have heretofore been
lower thau those Of the other com
panies.
The Consolidated Steel and Wire
company. Of Allentown, formerly the
Iowa Barbed Wire works, recently
gave large order for steel billets to
The Bethlehem Iron company. The
billets were formerly manufactured
for the Allentown company by the Car
neeie company. Tho steel mill of the
Bethlehem Iron company is now work.
ing on the order. The billels are made
of soft steel and are four inches
square. The new automatic billet
iraln of the company is used in their
manufacture. The operation of 1t is
an interesting and wonderful sight and
vast saving of time and labor over
the old system. The manufacture of
the billets is a new departure for the
Bethlehem Iron company. 1t is .the
first time the company has gone into
the market for such orders. The sue
cess of the undertaking so far has been
tlattering and the company has shown
lis ability to turn out other work with
rs much skill and finish a5 it does steel
rails. Bethlehem Times.
This is the sensible manner in which
the Wilkes-Barre Times disposes of a
silly rumor: "A report is current,
though the origin is rather ambiguous,
that delegation from the striking soft
coal miners is on the way to Wyoming
Valley with the object Of inducing a
sympathy strike among their anthrac.
ite brothers, II the rumor be true the
committee will simply be out the
amount of railroad fares and hotel
bills. The anthracite miners are Just
now beginning to get taste of pros
perity which they are entitled to and
Of which they allowed themselves to
be robbed by the bituminous men dur
ing the last strike, and they are not
going to fall into the same error sec
ond time"
Now that the new Wilkes-Barre and
Eastern railroad. or "Panther Creek
route" as the newspapers persist in de-
scrlbing 1t, ls open 10 passenger traffic,
1t may not be uninteresting to note
that by this road Wilkes Barre ia the
same distance from New York city as
Scranton is by the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western. This means a
saving Of at least eighteen miles in dis
'hhOo NHu ALolO iudu Hdil du uOuT III
time. The grades on the road
are also easier than on any
other. The Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western and the Wilkes Barre
and Eestern cross Mt Strouds-
burg, and the distance from Wilkes.
Barre to Stroudsburg over the new line
is sixty miles. This newly constructed
railroad Is an extension of the New
York. Susquehanna and Western, the
present terminals of which are New
York city aud Stroudsburg There are
llineteen statiNns hatmaan thia citv md