The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-06-26
GENERAL NEWS
Of INDUSTRIES

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The permanent starting Of the Law
renee colliery yesterday was an occa-
sion of more than local interest. Space
was recently given in this department
to an excerpt from the Truth relative
to the engine which ia now In usa In
the engine room OF the Lawrence. This
engine is interesting by reason OF the
fact that it was built by William Cooke
& Co., then OF Scranton. ia 1853 and
was used for hosting purposes ut the
old Stafford Mine shaft, where Will
liam Connell hoisted the first Car Of
coal, using the Cooke engine. That
the engine was a good one 10 proved by
the fact that it is now again drafted
into service in tho Lawrence collery,
which has capacity of 800, 600 tons
yearly. In connection with the finely
equipped "William A." collieEy the
Lawrence makes two collieries oper-
attd by Mr.. Connell on his Ola Forge
and Ransom township property.
The combined capacity of these
breakers is over 700 900 tons
yearly, coal being supplied 10 them
from property of about 750 acrss owned
jointly by Mr.. Council and th4 Lehigh
Valley Coal company, Extended de-
Scriptions have been printed in The
TRIBUNE concerning the equipment OF
William A. colliery. The Lawr0ncs is
fully Gs finely equipped, and the two
colleries, taken in conjunction, make II
pair surpassed by few If any pairs in the
anthracite region.
Tue williams Palace Car company,
capitalized at $1,000. 600, will, it is an.
nounced, begin thD construction OF cars
IN St. Joseph. Mo-, to compete with
the Pullman and Wagner companies
There is large saving Of weight in the
Williams car. According to state
ments given out, the berths will be
built little longer than those in the
Pullman and Wagner cars, and about
the same width. They will be arranged
in about the same msnnor, with upper
nnd lower tiers, The rack upon which
the mattresses will rest will be made
Of aluminium. inclosed in case Of
wood, and will fold up in tho same
manner that an accordion does. and BE-
deposited In the wall of tho car in Il
spree Of one aud one seVeu-elghths Of
an inch thickness. Upon these frames
will rest mattresses made OF cloth and
rubber, which will TO iaflIted with air
Immediately before being put in use,
In.thg summer chilled air and in the
winter warmed air will be used.
0Qite breeze has been stirred dur
ing the past few days by another revi
val of the rumor that there was under
contemplation q scheme to complete
the old South Mountain railroad. This
road, it will he rememb bered. is already
graded from Harrisburg through Lin
glet0wn. Dauphin county; Jonestown
and fredericksburg. Lebanon couaty,
up to Portland, Northampton county.
Culverts were built and abutmsntS for
bridges erected, but never comDleted,
as the Reading claimed 1t had Il 93-year
lease Of the lines, which are better
known as the Pennsylvania. Portland,
Poughkeepsie and Boston aud the Diu-
phin and Berks railroads, BY opinion
OF Judge Mcpherson, handed down
last October, this lease was declared
invalid and that the right belonged to
James March, o contractor of Lebanon.
Parties interested in the movement to
complete the road state that forty-two
miles Of fnished road have bo9n pur-
chased from Portland southwark for
Mr.. March, and that further work will
be begun aud pushed to completion.
No information is obtainable as to the
projectors Of this alleged revival. Some
persons claim that ex-President Nc
Leod has finger in the pie.
Another brilliant railroad scheme is
formulating in the vicinity of Pitts
burg. Recently charter was granted
at the state department at Harrisburg
for new line of steam railroad to b5
known as the Allegheny and Mouonga-
hela railroad. II escaped general at
tention. but some sharp eye has since
discovered that this new limo is to be
the final link connecting Pittsburg
with the Shenango and Lake Erie road
for the lakes, and with the Beech Creek
for the east. When the line is COM
pleted, Pittsburg will have new and
direct short line to the Atlantic sea-
board and the local capital that is in
vested In bituminous coal properties in
the western part Of the state will, it is
thought, experience boom.
Unless somebody at Washington i!
doing a tall quantity of lying, Presi-
dent Cleveland is endeavoriug to pla-
cate his former lieutenant, ex-SecretarJ
Whitney. This he proposes to accom-,
plish by restoring coal 10 the free list.
The plan is to remove the duty OF forty
cents ton, now placed upon bitumin.
Gus coal and shale by the German bill,
when that measure reaches the house.
II there Is any one thing which Mr.
Whitney is believed to desire in tariff
legislation it Is free coal, which would
open the manufacturing market moi
only of New England, but Of the entire
country TO the cheap product Of the
Nova Scotian mines, in which Mr..
Whitney and other friends of Mr..
Cleveland are reputed to own a cou.
trolling interest. The Mckinley duty
on coal of rs cents ton is sufficient tt
protect the domestic market against
Nova Scotia Goals. The proposed duty
of 40 cents ton is insufficient, it ia
claimed, to do this If the wages of the
miners are not to be reduced. The
present labor cost Of mining coal il
Pennsylvania, West Virginia. Ohio o,
Alabama Ia such that when the coat o.
transportation is added it will not pay
the producers to ship coal for mapufsc
turing purposes to points further
north than New York Mr.. Whitney